Table Chatter - Interview With Annalise and Tony from The Rook Room

Last year Greg spoke with Annalise and Tony from The Rook Room , a company in Iowa that specializes in board game based events and pop ups. With their library, they run all sorts of board game and RPG based events. Annalise and Tony get into how the business came to be, how they run events, and running a business that includes selling puzzles with art from local artists.

The Rook Room can be found at their website , on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter @TheRookRoom.

Live.Love.Die.Remember. - One Shot

Live.Love.Die.Remember. is a game of Death, War, Tragedy, Hard Choices. Listener Discretion is advised.

Ben and Greg do a play through of Ray's (of insert quest here) RPG Live.Love.Die.Remember. The game is GM-less, where each player plays the AI in a mech suit, growing to love their pilot as a war rages and a final battle draws ever closer. Is love worth sacrificing a chance at peace?

Live.Love.Die.Remember. is made by Ray of insert quest here. The game is available on Ray's itch.io page.

Ben - Siphono (AI), piloting an experimental biological interface mech, Ah-En-Mah (A Cephalopod/Arthropod Style Alien)

Greg - VIII v2.84 (AI), piloting a mobile weapon frame, Leopold Gabor (Human)

Red Markets - Exit Stage Right Part 2

Exit Stage Right is on their first score. But when they make it to the llama farm, things are not quite what they expected...

Jason - GM

Adam - Clank - A hippy motorcycle mechanic who just has his dog Ratchet, Clank is very technically minded and good with land based vehicles.

Ben - Moses - The team's hacker, a former Tragedy Tracker, Moses is very skilled with computers and computer programming. He is curious in investigating but willing to do anything to keep his family safe.

Dan - Squirrel - The team's sniper and security expert. A great eye, a great shot, and a great locksmith. He was a... "Security Consultant" and "Fixer" pre-Crash.

Ethan - Jesus' Son - A tweaked out rich boy who probably shouldn't be here, but needs money for heroin. But, hey, at least he is a highly skilled yachtsman...

Greg - Asterius - The cowboy Cow Boy cow-boy, Asterius is a cosplaying cowboy, astride his horse Pegasus and wielding a giant axe, The Reaper. The strong, silent type.

Laura - Sunshine - A former investigative journalist, using their skills with making and forming contacts to be the team's face.

Call of Cthulhu - Salvation at the Devil's Courthouse Part 2

The investigators continue to look into the missing reporter. They are short one investigator as Walter had to leave, but surely a PI and a photographer will be able to find out what happened at this church with no concerns...

Salvation at the Devil's Courthouse is a scenario by Andy Headley (and edited by our own Laura), and is available at DriveThruRPG.

Ethan - GM

Ben - Todd Woodhams, Private Investigator

Dan - Wendel Cokes, Photographer

Trophy: Dark - Tomb of 10,000 Dreams

A pair of delvers, seeking fortunes to better their lives, go deep into the woods. But they take their dreams with them, and the cursed forest is where dreams go to die...

Trophy: Dark is a grim game of exploring a cursed forest with likely doomed player characters, using a simple dice system where the more ruin you accrue, the worse things get until you are lost. The game was made by Jesse Ross. A base version of it, with the Tomb of 10,000 Dreams scenario, is available in Codex - Dark 2 on DriveThruRPG. The full book for Trophy: Dark, along with it's sister game Trophy: Gold and setting materials in Trophy: Loom, are available for preorder on Backerkit. More info on those are available at Trophy's website.

Content Warning: This game features scenes of body horror, graphic injury, economic uncertainty, and broken dreams. Listener discretion is advised.

Ben - GM

Dan - Vero, a Leech, an expelled apprentice looking to establish his own estate

Greg - Casien, a Sellsword, a retired soldier hoping to win the heart of the heir apparent of Nahaneh