Game Designer Workshop Episode 22: Cry Novel
RPPR’s most innovative GM, Bridget, and Fae have released the first chapter of their kinetic novel, Cry. It’s about “a road-tripping story about two cryptid-hunters. Follow the exploits of Lorelei Loveless, destitute witch, as she travels the countryside and comes face-to-face with the weird, the wild, and the forgotten.” I talked to them about how they came up with the idea, the challenges they faced making it, and what they have planned in the future.
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RPPR Episode 175: Itch.io
News: RPPR B-Sides Volume 5: Gaming Gains is now on sale! Get 20 exclusive actual play episodes featuring a Caleb mini-campaign, Red Markets, Delta Green, and more! Also, check out the trailer for our upcoming new podcast, Night Clerk Radio! Don’t forget to check out Best Pal Brigade as well.
Synopsis: Itch.io is an indie game storefront that has recently expanded to physical games like RPGs and card games. As a competitor to DrivethruRPG, Itch.io has attracted a variety of indie tabletop games, including ones that you can’t find on DrivethruRPG. Kyle from Best Pal Brigade, David, and I talk about the tabletop PDF marketplace and review a bunch of games:
- Crash Pandas: A one page game about street racing raccoons
- Beneath a Cursed Moon: A PbtA game inspired by Castlevania
- Dusk to Midnight: A sad mecha RPG
- Dead Halt: A 90s themed weird fantasy hotel dungeon crawling game
- The Flux: A new playbook for Masks the RPG
- Beam Saber: A Forged in the Dark mecha RPG
Shout Outs
- Pop Team Epic: It’s on Netflix! Watch it!
- Locke and Key: A weird mansion with magical keys that grant strange powers. A series on Netflix
- Cells at Work: an anime about cells in a human body, at work
- PAX South Raillery Special: Some of the RPPR crew play weird xbox games
- False Knees: A funny webcomic about birds
- Kipo and the Age of Wonder Beasts: a fantasy anime series on Netflix
- Nos4A2: a horror series about vampires and a psychic on Hulu
Song: Nightfall Aboard by New Gaia
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Skills in RPGs – Episode 174
News: We are working on a new podcast called Night Clerk Radio, where we review vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Our website is live with a trailer. We plan to launch soon!
Synopsis: Skills in RPGs are an important element but many games don’t get them right. Many games have too many skills while others have no skills at all. Caleb and I talk about good and bad skill systems in RPGs and how it has changed over the years. Caleb also brings up real life skills, like rhetoric, versus their in-game equivalents.
Shout Outs
- Red Thread: A book about mazes and labyrinths. Excellent if meandering.
- The Testaments: A sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale
- Pagan Autogeny: An indie video game about exploring a dead MMO.
- Oblivion Song: A comic about rescuing people from alien hellscapes
- Japanese Video Game Obscurities: A book about weird video games
- How To: The XKCD creator explains how to do various tasks
- Medical Police: A sequel series to Children’s Hospital. Very funny!
Song: Harps and Dreams by Indreba
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