Table Chatter - Interview with Terra on Academia

Terra stops by to talk with Ben and Greg on her experience in tabletop RPGs, and her research into it in her PHd candidacy.

Terra is found on Twitter @Juju_Munster. For emails, she can be contacted at tgasque@gatech.edu, and has a portfolio at tgasque.me.

A non-exhaustive list of works and games referenced in this episode include:

Janet Murray’s work

Terra’s Master’s Thesis

Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

Ugly Talk

The Drunk and Ugly, Mrs. Frieda’s

Monsters and Other Childish Things

Little Fears

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green

Bertold Brecht, Epic Theater

Gonzalo Frasca, Video Games of the Oppressed

Miguel Sicart, Play Matters

The Dread Gazebo

Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy

Table Chatter - Fallout & Dune

Several weeks ago, Greg was contacted by Modiphius to receive review copies of the corebooks for Fallout: the Roleplaying Game and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium. Greg shares his thoughts on the games, along with some other podcast members who've read the books in Dan, Ethan, and Noah. We start by reflecting on experiences with both TTRPGs based on existing IPs and Fallout and Dune outside of these books. Then, we get our thoughts on Fallout: The Roleplaying Game and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium.

We thank Modiphius for these review copies. The books, in physical and in pdf, are available on Modiphius' website (Fallout, Dune), and in pdf on DriveThruRPG (Fallout, Dune).

Noah can be found podcasting with Aaron at Thinking Too Hard About Anime, and solo on Twitter @kamenotaku.

(Brief note: When Greg was speaking on past TTRPGs on existing IPs, in addition to almost completely forgetting two years worth of playing Star Wars Fantasy Flight, he also forgot about our AP playing The Sailor Moon RPG. Whoops.)

Broken Sky - Playtest Part 2

As the Oathsworn continue to investigate the strange goings on in this town in upstate New York, things start strange and rapidly spiral out of control...

Whit - GM

Adam - Fred Camillo, FBI Senior Field Agent

Ben - Neil Cortez, FBI Case Manager

Ethan - Raymond Siccora, New York State Police Trooper

Greg - Teddy Fredericksen, Search and Rescue EMT

Broken Sky - Playtest Part 1

Whit and some friends had made an RPG, and Whit is still working on it. He's running a playtest for us before we launch into a campaign.

In a world similar to ours, things changed when the sky... broke. A shattered sky is seen all over, and magic has now come into focus. Some can use magic, others that were always... affected by magic, called Oathsworn are also users. Using their natural drives, they have unknowingly given part of their souls to their drives, and can affect reality in unique ways. In a world where flora, fauna, and man have been affected, people try to understand what happened and keep the world running.

In this scenario, 4 Oathsworn, a pair of federal agents, along with a state trooper and an EMT, are scrambled to a place in upstate New York near Albany. For, all of a sudden, a mushroom cloud appeared above a small town...

Whit - GM

Adam - Fred Camillo, FBI Senior Field Agent

Ben - Neil Cortez, FBI Case Manager

Ethan - Raymond Siccora, New York State Police Trooper

Greg - Teddy Fredericksen, Search and Rescue EMT

WWW - Territories Part 12

It's time for the main event.  A battle royale leading up to the title match. Who's going to be the champion? Tune in for the season 2 finale of Territories!

Micah - GM

Adam T, Greg, Noah - The various wrestlers of Badlands Wrestling

A Very Special Guest - ...You'll See