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On this episode, I’m joined by Quinns from Quinns Quest as we look back on the last year together. 

Show Notes:

Rascal News

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Quinns mentioned Mythic Bastionland, Good Society, Public Access, The Siltverses, Blood Borg

Thomas mentioned Hearts of Wulin and its expansion, Numberless Secrets

Also: Draw Steel, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast, Triangle Agency

Jubensha video on People Make Games

Street Fighter RPG from White Wolf

Mothership Month

Stream where Matt Colville talks about sending Quinns’ Draw Steel

Cain and the week that was all Tom Bloom

Reach out at thomas by writing to notrueindian at outlook.com

On this episode, I talk to Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol. Jim was the co-founder of videogaming website Rock Paper Shotgun, where he worked for many years. He's also the author of This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities. Now, he does things like write the Ludocrats with Kieron Gillen and develop indie games through his company, Big Robot. Marsh is a writer and illustrator who has written about video games at RPS and PCGamer and was former head of creative writing at Minecraft developer Mojang. He's also part of the Crate & Crowbar, a weekly PC gaming podcast, that has more than 400 episodes and we can all agree might be too many.

Their itch page: https://teethrpg.itch.io/

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On this episode, I speak to Elliot Davis, an artist, podcaster and, game designer. He's one of the co-founders of Many Sided Media, a podcast production company behind shows like My First Dungeon, Bitcherton and Talk of the Table. His games include Rom Com Drama Bomb and solo timetravel game, Project Ecco.

He's currently crowdfunding his latest game, The Time We Have, a tragic game about two brothers, one of whom is slowly but inevitably turning into a zombie.

Show Notes:

03:09 - The Time We Have: brothers, using a door as immersion, and other design tweaks

18:00 - Becoming a full-time games person

37:40 - Infectious Enthusiasm: They Came To Play Ball by Adira Slattery

38:50 - Tyranny of Numbers

40:53 - RePlay

43:22 - All Advice is Advice For Myself

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On this episode, I talk to MV Soumithri and Zoheb Mashiur who are cast members of Desperate Attune, a Blades in the Dark actual play set in Uduasha, a Middle Eastern/South Asian inspired alternative to Duskwall. They've now released a free supplement called Sunmirror, which brings a re-imagined city of gods and magic to the table.

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On this episode, we talk to J Strautman and B Marsollier. J Strautman is a bass player, composer, sound designer, game designer, and podcaster. B Marsollier is an illustrator, voice over artist, game designer, podcaster and former antique rug salesperson. They are the co-DMs of the D&D actual play podcast, Planet Arcana. The podcast is fully sound designed and scored with original music by J. Last year, 2023, Planet Arcana received 9 nominations at the New Jersey and Minnesota Webfests, winning 3 awards, 2 for “Best D&D Actual Play” and 1 for “Best GM”.

They're about to launch their crowdfunding campaign for their newest game, A Fool's Errand, a tarot-based game of being fools, dealing with gods, becoming who you are, and saving the world from a second Big Oops.

Show notes:

03:24 - Introduction to the game and its podcast roots

10:55 - Using tarot to build a meddling pantheon

18:57 - Making a fool in Fool's Errand

35: 14 - The setting of the game and the campaign

40:01 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Anamnesis, Rom Com Drama Bomb

42:28 - Tyranny of Numbers

49:58 - RePlay

52:21 - All Advice is Advice for Myself

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On this episode, I talk to Ara Winter, who has spent the last few years playing old and out of print tabletop games. What did he learn from this? Let's find out!

Show Notes:

05:03 - Ara's antique gaming

19:14 - Discussing Bifrost (1977)

33:55 - Discussing Shadowrun 2nd Edition (1992)

48:58 - Infectious Enthusiasm: ⁠Fantasy Medieval Campaigns

50:14 - Tyranny of Numbers

52:08 - RePlay

54:18 - All advice is advice for myself

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Aaron Voigt is a writer, game designer, podcaster and critic. You can find his video essays about tabletop games like They Took Our War, Heart, & Spire on his YouTube channel AA Voigt. He has two podcasts: one discussing Christian media called Bible Boys and one discussing sometimes-bad media called Mortified: The Friendship Quest. He's a first reader for Khoreo Magazine, an ignyte winning and Hugo nominated magazine for speculative fiction from immigrant and disapora authors. Today we'll be talking about his game Detente for the Ravenous which is based on a to-be self-published fantasy novel of the same name.

You can check out the game and the novel here

Show Notes:

02:27 - All about the novel

12:27 - Adapting the novel into a game

16:29 - Digression into history of Christianity in India

20:00 - Religious and monstrous themes in the novel

28:34 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Subway Runners

29:56 - Tyranny of Numbers

31:44 - RePlay

33:02 - All advice is advice for myself

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Huffa is a game designer and art historian. You can find her work at:

https://huffa.itch.io/

Between the Skies @ Exalted Funeral

Show Notes:

03:06 - Introducing Between the Skies

11:50 - Working with Exalted Funeral

15:45 - The joys of playing without systems

40:00 - How does this relate to old school d&d?

48:63 - Art history and RPGs

54:42 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Wanderhome, here there be monsters

57:41 - Tyranny of Numbers

59:28 - RePlay

1:03:18 - All advice is advice for myself


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Joshua McCrowell is the designer of new tarot-based dungeoncrawler His Majesty The Worm, published by Exalted Funeral. He's also the current editor of Knock Magazine, the OSR focused anthology zine that has quickly became a fan favourite, and a blogger at riseupcomus.blogspot.com where he talks about everything from how to adapt tolkien in games to what makes a good social encounter.

Show Notes:

02:22 - Running a game for 8 years

05:39 - Dungeoncrawling in 2024

16:46 - The design of His Majesty The Worm

36:13 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Vermis, Black Sword Hack and Valley of Flowers

38:14 - Tyranny of Numbers

42:05- All advice is advice for myself

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Mint is an rpg designer and blogger from New Foundland, Canada. She runs There's a TTRPG For That, an rpg recommendation blog on tumblr, which has lists for all kinds from the general to the very specific, "games that are grunge" to "two player games" to "games where you don't need to write anything down". She's currently working on a game called Protect the Child, a game of monster babysitters, that is equal parts comedy and queer found family. You can find the Protect the Child playtest server here.

Show Notes:

02:53 - Getting started with Lady Blackbird

10:18 - RPG scene on tumblr

17:03 - Protect the Child's themes

26:44 - Protect the Child's design

39:09 - Infectious Enthusiasm: ⁠Bones Deep, Mothlight, Spectaculars

42:07 - Tyranny of Numbers

44:38 - Re:Play

45:59 - All advice is advice for myself

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