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Sisterhood: Nuns with Guns.

What a great title for a game. You’ve already heard Mike, Christina and I talk about this game when we saw it drop on Backerkit. We didn’t have a ton of information on the game, but the imagery and the concept were so evocative that both Christina and I backed it on the spot.

Fast forward to our 100th episode where we talked about wanting to do more interviews and the first interview I knew I wanted to do was with Parable Games. I wanted to know all about Sisterhood. I wanted to know all about the concepts, tones, themes, and mechanics.

So I reached out to Parable Games and Adam Holloway agreed to spend a few minutes and chat with me about Sisterhood, Shiver, and there new upcoming expansion for Shiver that should be crowdfunding on Backerkit as you listen to this episode.

Also make sure you stick around for the end. Adam drops a discount code for Parable Games you won’t want to miss.

Here's that discount code for your listeners: Just go to parable games, enter the code and get 20% off Shiver... SPOOKYEPIC1

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You know that news crawler that pops up in the right-hand corner of your computer screen for those of us two dumb to turn it off. Well, an article popped up that got my interest.

The 15 Best TTRPGs For One-Shot Sessions

MSN pulled an article from CBR that listed the 15 Best TTRPGS for One-Shot Sessions. It lists games like Crash Pandas, Alien, Mork Borg, Blades in the Dark and Dread. It also has D&D listed along with Call of Cthulhu. It’s just interesting to see an article about TTRPGs dropped in a main news media feed and then to see so many independent games getting equal time as D&D is fantastic.

Christina? Does this mean anything for the independent TTRPGs or am I just reading too much into it?

[Kick to Christina]

In other behind the scenes news Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford who until recently were the Creative Director and Game Director respectively at Wizards of the Coast have taken positions with Darrington Press. It looks like both Perkins and Crawford both left Wizards with the intent to retire, but were lured back into the business by Darrington Press.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/chris-perkins-and-jeremy-crawford-join-darrington-press.713839/

What does this mean for Daggerheart…and why the hell would anyone come out of retirement. I can only think of three things that could get me out of retirement, A lot of Money, a lot of power, or a lot of promises. Preferably it would be a combination of all three.

And speaking of Daggerheart the reviews are, well, not encouraging. Seems to be too finicky, lots of math for no reason, and very slow combat. I haven’t played it yet, so don’t shoot the messenger.

Christina, thoughts on Daggerheart?

[Kick to Christina]

What do you think it means that Perkins and Crawford joined Darrington Press?

And that’s it, all the news, you’ve already heard.

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If you’ve followed the podcast from the beginning, you might notice a theme. We aren’t fans of D&D.

Sure, we started with the OGL Scandal and ever since then we have made fun of, complained about, and down right called out Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, and Dungeons and Dragons. But, that’s just business, right? We must actually like D&D I mean everyone does. It’s the grandaddy of all roleplaying games.

Nope we hate D&D.

Just ask us.

Of course, we have talked about the business moves like firing all of their employees right before Christmas or licensing their products to predatory online gambling sites. I’m sure you get that, but outside of the big business moves and the licensing crap why don’t we like D&D?

Well, we’ve got reasons and on this episode Mike, Christina and I are going to lay it out for you.

Mike, when did you realize you hated D&D?

[Kick to Mike]

Christina, you didn’t start with D&D, so how long did it take you to realize you hated it?

[Kick to Christina]