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In this episode, I I am talking to Jeremy Strandberg, who is an instructional designer, software trainer, and. game designer. He's the creator of Homebrew World and Defy Danger, two RPGs you might have heard of from the Dungeon World scene. He has a blog called spoutinglore.blogspot.com and he is the designer of Stonetop, an iron age fantasy game of adventure and community.

Games Mentioned

Storming The Wizard’s Tower

Dungeon World

Dungeons & Dragons 4e

Harvest and Grand Guignol (which were featured on a previous episode)

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In this episode, I talk to Zach Cox, founder of Soul Muppet Publishing.They are also the designer or co-designer of sad adventurer game Best Left Buried, sad Arthurian gunslinger game Inevitable, and sad vampire game Paint the Town Red. They also worked at Rowan Rook & Decard for a while. But the big news is that the scifi sad space cowboy game Orbital Blues (that they co-created) is getting its own month-long crowdfunding event at Backerkit, with both Soulmuppet and other designers making supplements and adventures for the game.

Orbital Blues month: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month

Outlaws and Corporations: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/568d3a57-1379-4b32-9f67-0044b6d9066d/landing?ref=discover_email_landing_pages

Soul Muppet's website: https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/

Games Mentioned

Cataphracts

BECMI

Stygian Library

Gardens of Ynn

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In this episode, I talk to Gabriel and Le, filmmakers and VFX artists based in Canada. They run the Youtube channel, Weird Place, which has a very cool series about games and game histories around the world as well as actual play, video essays, guides and more. They also make games: they funded and released Fluff n Fury last year, a cyberpunk rpg where you play chromed up teddy bears, and this year for Zinemonth, they're crowdfunding Residue, a solo scifi survival game set in a weird non-Euclidean world.

Residue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdplace/residue-rpg

Weird Place on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@weird_place

Website: https://www.weirdplace.net/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weirdplace.bsky.social

Show Notes:

Is it a Borg? (video)

Horizons Fellowship

A Tale of Two Sisters (movie)

Blue Planet

The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and Animal Crackers (movie)

Games Mentioned

Fluff N Fury

Two Hand Path

Delta Green

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In this episode, I talk to Tim Denee, a Wellington-based graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer. His graphic design work has been recognised by the Best Awards, Tokyo Design Week and the International Society of Typographic Designers. He's also the co-author of We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa, which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.

Through Old Dog Games, he's published free RPG products like a hack of Band of Blades for playing in the Warhammer old world and last year, a hack for Twilight 2000 to play Andor. And recently, he's partnered with Evil Hat to release Deathmatch Island, a battle royale adaptation of Agon, and crowdfunding now, Blades '68, an expansion for the seminal Blades in the Dark.

Tim’s personal website: https://timdenee.com/

Old Dog Games: https://www.olddog.games/

Blades ‘68 crowdfunding: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/c7788a1e-2f1c-4525-bc66-2a99b84ebae9/landing

Show Notes:

Austin Powers

Mad Men (TV Show)

Games Mentioned

Deathloop

Dishonored

Mythic Bastionland

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As per annual tradition, I'm once again joined by Quinns from QQuest to talk about the year and forge our bond in the fire of podcasting.

Show Notes:

Fastaval, the larp festival in Denmark

Last year's 2024 year in review

Games Mentioned

The Tribunal

The Straights Are Not Okay

Tacklebox

Mythic Bastionland

Gradient Descent

God’s Teeth / Delta Green

D&D

Draw Steel

Daggerheart

Magnus Archives

Old Gods of Appalachia

The Silt Verses

Old School Essentials / Dolmenwood

Cain

Pirate Borg

Fabula Ultima

The Between

Masks of Nyarlathotep

Eternal Lies

Pirates of Drinax

A Nocturne

Apocalypse World: Burned Over

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In this episode, I talk to Aaron Lim, a game designer from Malaysia. His work includes sad village-building game An Altogether Different River, very sad journey game Itchaca on the Cards, and tragic mecha game Spectres of Brocken. He's also the organizer of Playtest Zero, a fortnightly RPG playtesting community that's been going on since 2021.

Aaron Lim on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ehronlime.bsky.social

Aaron’s itch page: https://ehronlime.itch.io/

Show Notes:

Playtest Zero FAQ

My article about visiting Malaysia for the Asian Board Games Festival

Only Yesterday (1991)

Games Mentioned

Ithaca on the Cards: Second Expedition

Microscope

Big Grave Fashion Fantasy

Desperation

Zhenya’s Wonder Tales

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In this episode, I talk to Asa Donald is one-half of Backwards Tabletop, the publisher of the Backwards Universe of American horror games and Rust Never Sleeps, a solo mecha game. Their current project is Spine, a dark solo RPG about losing yourself in a book.

Asa Donald on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

Spine (Digital): https://backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

Spine (Physical): https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/68ec499e9e0b692d084d6b6c

Show Notes:

Asa’s series on Bookplay and interviews with other designers: www.backwardstabletop.com

Pale Fire by Nabokov

Games Mentioned

You Will Die In This Place

Normality

Wisher Theurgist Fatalist

Harvest

Wreck This Deck (and Wreck This Book)

Seven Part Pact

The Sun’s Ransom

Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast

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Today, I’m talking to Allen Varney, who runs the Bundle of Holding currently, which I think everyone listening to this had heard of. Before that, he worked as a freelance writer, editor, game designer for TSR, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, FASA, and more. He was the lead designer for Paranoia XP, the 2004 edition of the game from Mongoose, and wrote a ton of articles for house magazines like Dragon.

Bundle of Holding: https://bundleofholding.com

Show Notes:

Space Gamer magazine

Warren Spector

Games Mentioned

 Steve Jackson's Man-to-Man Fantasy Combat (also Car Wars, Ogre, and more)

Toon

Paranoia

Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (Dracula Dossier, Darkening of Mirkwood, Eyes of the Stone Thief)

Primal Order

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