The World of RPGs

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• Pierre-Louis is from the channel Est-tu game? and the masterclass videos (in French) are available here. The comedians he mentions are Les Appendices. French games mentioned are Inachevés, Deux Étés (also available in English), and Donjons et Chatons (which is also available in English and which we talked about in the France episode. The game from Québec is Zombie Apocalypse Party Pooper.
• Caroline's game is Once Upon a 1 Shot.
• David uses a couple of channels which you can find on his linktree.
• Robert runs Dream Pod 9, the new edition of Tribe 8 run with the Blades in the Dark system is Tribes in the Dark. There's currently (Sept/Oct 2026) a Heavy Gear bundle on Bundle of Holding.
• Louis-Joseph's indie material is available here. If you want to learn more about the folklore, here's the Wikipedia article on Chasse-Galerie. The indie-collective from Québec is here. His events are at La Chope Gobeline. Other indie RPGs from Québec Louis-Joseph talks about are Sleepless and Speed Heroes.

Further publishers or games from Québec are Omnik, Fate of the Norns, and Wendigo Workshop. Older games or defunct publishers are Studio Mammouth, the games Mechanical Dream, Courant Fractal, and Bûcherons & Loups-Garous. Right now (September 2026) there's a crowdfunding for Lonely Timbers/ Tire-toi one bûche.

The interview with the two Davids is on Polishing RPGs.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

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The campaign for TTRPGrimoire is here and runs until June 27th 2026. Other games that Mike enjoyed in the past are Bluebeard's Bride, Alice is Missing, Blades in the Dark, and the Avatar: the Last Airbender RPG. Mike's itch.io is here, and the games mentioned in the interview are Golden Mart, Alebrijes, and And the Crops Withered. Games that the TTRPGrimoire chapters connect to include D&D 5th Edition (no link without money from Hasbro ;) ), 10 Candles, The Quiet Year, and The Ground Itself. 

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

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• Lien is from the actual play Stuutjes & Draken. She mentions the creations of Helden op Papier.
• Nils is one of the organizers behind Tales of Bruss'hell (Instagram). Their main website is here.
• Max' games are here. Dedicated Linktrees exist for Baron Steampunk and Nukla Dawn and a podcast here and here (in French). 
• Thomas is one of the organizers of Day of Dungeons and he works in the game café Nooi. He also mentions other Belgian projects such as Bolwerk.
• Alexander works at Nexus Games in Herentals.
• Erlend wrote Ambrosia. We also talk about FOOB's work Vreemde Tijden, Monsters & Magiërs, and Schimmen & Schaduwen.
• Quentin wrote games like La Couvée, Anime Was a Mistake, and Vivere.

The game shops mentioned that I visited are Ludotrotters in Brussels and Outpost in Antwerp. Another Francophone game designer can be found here. Other Belgian game projects are Dungeon Alchemist, D&D Belgium, D&D Gent, and Game Master Worlds.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

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In general, a good overview of French RPGs can be found on French Wikipedia. A major repository of French language games is Guide du Rôliste Galactique. These are also sources for looking up the mentioned French games, especially those not in print anymore.

• Julien and Ryan are from the podcast Rôle'n Play. They mention French games like Rêve de Dragon, Pavillon Noir, Dies Irae, and Chroniques Oubliées: Contemporain, specifically the adventure L'Héritage Greenberg, and Cats the Conspurracy.
• Laura talks about the publisher Black Book Editions, and French games such as Wuerm, Polaris, and Terres d'arran.
• Mathieu is from the cannel Rôliste TV and in addition to games already mentioned above, he talks about  Avant Charlemagne, Empire Galactique, Dungeons and Kittens, KNIGHT, and I mention translations of In Nomine, Nephilim, and Agone. He talks about the convention OctoGônes, which happened just the weekend before this episode was published. If you want to read up on the person behind the "French Satanic Panic", you can find here on Wikipedia.
• A is part of the channel Blanket Fort and the Cats the Conspurracy session they ran in English is here. The prize-winning games A mentions, though not from France, are Wilderfeast and La Collection Max Brown. The game I talk about in which you play insects is called La Plaine des Bourdonnements, you can find a French article about it here.
• Locus Solus has his itch site here, the games available on Lulu here, and the podcast he co-hosts is called Otium. The game by Melville he mentions is here. Belonging Outside Belonging is a reference to a game system originally published in the game Dream Askew/ Dream Apart, which I also mentioned in the intro of Part 1. The Japanese-themed game is L'empire des Cerisiers.
• Linou and Cédric are from Dirty Clean Crew. Cédric also worked on Noc. Older French RPGs mentioned are Thoan, Bloodlust, Heavy Metal, and Bitume, also the author Croc and the publishers Siroz and Multisims. Another creator mentioned is Yno. You can find the convention in Kaysersberg here.
• Yannick is working on the game Biashara. Concerning Afro-Caribbean culture, he mentions the fighting style danmyé.
• Secrets of the Masquerade has her website here. The game Partient 13 is here. The shop I visited in Bordeaux is Jeux Descartes. As she says, Liège is not in France, but perhaps a hint to the next episode.
• Thomas has his itch site here and an overview of French indie games available in English here. You can find Dragonfly Motel here. His English blog posts are here. The old French language indie forum is called Silent Drift.

Other larger French publishers include Arkhane Asylum and Studio Agate.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

You can find the show notes in Part 3!

You can find the show notes in Part 3!

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• Sky is the host of Dutch Dungeons. The Dutch publishers of D&D5E material he mentions include Project Epos and Mythemakers.
• Cara is part of the Dutch20 community, which also has a (Dutch) article about Dutch Dungeons here. Conventions she mentions are AnimeCon, Spellenspektakel, Castlefest, and Fantasy Fest.
• Henk ran RuneQuest Daily for a while, which you can still find as a Google Group. The Dutch horror novel he mentions is Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. (link leads to English version). The Utrecht game stores include The Joker, Neverneverland, and Subcultures. Renaissance faires mentioned are Castlefest and Elf Fantasy Fair, which has changed its name to Elfia.
• Frank hosts Queeste on his writer website.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

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• Anel and Arystan are from the game club Dice.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

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• Michele is from the W.A.R.S. gaming club, which also participated in the Malta Comic Con.
• Għar Gremxul is the nom-de-plum of a Maltese game designer and also the name of his website. He mentioned an Is-Saflenin Solo Stream. The possibly oldest Maltese TTRPG though is The Government versus the Trees. You can find The Maltese Bestiary here.
• Fleur is part of The Wanderer's Tome.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş

Disclaimer: All links are to the websites or social media presence of RPG publishers, creators, gaming stores, gaming clubs, or actual play channels. I take no responsibility for the content behind those links. I received no compensation for linking to any of these pages.

• Nana and Daniel  are from the channel Falha Final and play Tormenta a lot. 
• Fred has a Patreon for Superseeds, which you can also find on DriveThru RPG. You can find his proposal for Vampire: the Masquerade here and for Shadowrun here.
• Ygor worked on Tagmar and Millenia (links to Portuguese Wikipedia).
• Diogo's material on itch.io is here, he also runs Old Skull Publishing, and has the Weird Games and Weirder People podcast. The press release about Diogo working for World of Darkness is here.
• Cezar's material on itch.io is here. His Twitter post about Brazilian games everyone should know is here.

In the outro, I mentioned the Rascal Article about the Streetfighter RPG. You can find another historical overview of games in Brazil here. An academic text about the history is here.

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş