⁠⁠⁠⁠Support this show!⁠⁠⁠ Huffa is a game designer and art historian. You can find her work at: https://huffa.itch.io/ Between the Skies @ Exalted Funeral Show Notes: 03:06 - Introducing Between the Skies 11:50 - Working with Exalted Funeral 15:45 - The joys of playing without systems 40:00 - How does this relate to old school d&d? 48:63 - Art hist…

⁠⁠⁠Support this show!⁠⁠ Joshua McCrowell is the designer of new tarot-based dungeoncrawler His Majesty The Worm, published by Exalted Funeral. He's also the current editor of Knock Magazine, the OSR focused anthology zine that has quickly became a fan favourite, and a blogger at riseupcomus.blogspot.com where he talks about everything from how to a…

⁠⁠⁠Support this show!⁠ Mint is an rpg designer and blogger from New Foundland, Canada. She runs There's a TTRPG For That, an rpg recommendation blog on tumblr, which has lists for all kinds from the general to the very specific, "games that are grunge" to "two player games" to "games where you don't need to write anything down". She's currently wor…

⁠⁠Support the show!⁠ Prismatic Wasteland aka WF Smith is the prolific blogger behind prismaticwasteland.com and the creator / writer of Ennie award winning fantasy adventure, Barkeep on the Borderlands. He's also running a game jam where participants create their own pub or tavern, which is live as this episode comes out and runs until August 15th …

⁠Support the show!⁠ Tom McGrenery is an RPG writer and translator from Hong Kong, who publishes under the banner, Porcupine Publishing. He's contributed to products like Feng Shui and Night's Black Agents as well as designed his own games like his hack of the Drama System featuring brazilian layabouts and swashbucklers, Malandros. In 2020, he trans…

Support the show!⁠ Jay Dragon is a queer disabled game designer behind such games as summer camp horror game, Sleepaway and the pastoral fantasy indie darling, Wanderhome. Jay is the editorial director at Possum Creek Games. As of publishing this episode, they print version of Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast has come out. It's a project of immense scope…

Because of some travel, instead of an interview, something from the patreon feed makes it way into the main feed. This is a round-up of 2023's answers to the question, "What is something you're trying to do better at the gaming table?" Enjoy!

Support the show! On this week's episode, I talk to Sidney Icarus, a game designer of, among other things, the scifi horror game, Decaying Orbit, published by Storybrewers Roleplaying, which won the 2023 ARPIA Game of the Year. But I first heard of them as the fantastic host of the now-concluded Hard Move, a wonderful podcast where every episode, S…

Support the show⁠! On today's show, we're talking ship with Sebastian Yue, a game designer, writer, and editor. Apart from their own self-published games and DMs Guild modules, They work full-time at Hit Point Press which is best known for various very succesful third party D&D 5e products like Heckna and Humblewood. They've also contributed as a d…

Support the show! Today, we're talking to Graham Walmsley, the celebrated game designer behind tabletop RPGs like Cthulhu Dark and A Taste for Murder, larps like Will That Be All, and lovecraftian scenarios for games like Trail of Cthulhu. He's also the author of two non-fiction books called Stealing Cthulhu about telling lovecraftian stories and P…

⁠Support this show! This week, we're talking to Nico MacDougall and returning guest Tan Shao Han about The Awards, an alternative tabletop RPG awards project. Show Notes: 03:56 Introductions 13:31 Being a judge 16:09 The process of picking a winner 21:30 Who should be a judge? 25:36 Infectious Enthusiasm 27:59 Tyranny of Numbers: Breaking down subm…

Support this show! Today we're talking to Max and Aaron from RTFM. Maxwell Lander is a game designer, photographer, visual artist, and also musician with an album of dungeon synth. Aaron King is a game designer whose works including Patchwork World Sixth Edition. They are both the co-hosts of RTFM, an RPG book club podcast. Show Notes: [00:02:49] W…

Support the show! Today, we're talking to Quintin Smith aka Quinns, who has been reviewing boardgames for more than a decade with the iconic show, Shut Up and Sit Down. Then about 3 years ago, Quintin joined People Make Games to cover everything from Roblox's relationship to child labour to the battle for ownership and control of Disco Elysium, fro…

Support the show! On this episode, we have Hannah Schaffer and Evan Rowland, the two creators behind indie game design outfit, turtlebun. They've published games like Questlandia, Noirlandia, Damn the man save the music, Mud: a golem memoir, and many more. You can find more about those games at turtlebun.com. Evan and Hannah also co-host a podcast …

A guest episode on the feed today as I share with you something from the folks over at Playing at the Hearth, the podcast from the Open Hearth gaming community. It's a nice, welcoming online place where people from all over the place get together and play games. It's like having access to a convention all year round. If you'd like to join, head ove…

Support the show on Patreon In this round-up episode for 2023, every single one of my guests sounds off about one game that they want to recommend to you! [00:02:05] Judd Karlmann recommends Into the Odd, The Between, and As The Sun Forever Sets [00:05:55] Lowell Francis recommends Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition [00:08:27] Jahmal Brown recommends Legacy…

Support the show on Patreon Evan Torner is the Associate Professor of German Studies and Film / Media Studies at University of Cincinnati. He's the Director, UC Game Lab and has a co-edited volume (with William J. White) entitled Immersive Gameplay: Essays on Role-Playing and Participatory Media. He's also co-founder and one of the editors at Analo…

Support the show on Patreon The is the second in a series of special episodes meant to teach some of my favourite indie RPGs. Tune in to hear Andrew Gillis, designer of the stunning Girl by Moonlight. In Girl by Moonlight, you play a group of magical girls resisting an oppressive society. It explores the heartbreak of denying who you really are, an…

Support the show on Patreon Josh Fox is the award-winning designer of Flotsam: Adrift Amongst The Stars and Last Fleet. He's the co-designer of the highly influential GMless mystery game, Lovecraftesque alongside Becky Annison. And the two of them together run Black Armada Publishing, a UK-based publisher which has been putting out inventive rolepl…

Hello! A cross-post in the feed today. This in an episode I did with Sam Dunnewold for his podcast, Dice Exploder, where every episode is a deep dive into a single RPG mechanic (usually) from a specific game. I talk about the Secondary Mission roll from Band of Blades which is a very cool mechanic that I love to think about. It basically inspired m…

Support the show on Patreon The first episode in a series of special episodes meant to teach some of my favourite indie RPGs. Listen in to hear Rae Nedjadi, designer of Apocalypse Keys, teach you how to play his game. In Apocalypse Keys, you play OMEN-class monsters working for an organisation named DIVISION tasked with holding back the apocalypse.…

Support the show on Patreon Layla Adelman, who goes by the handle pandatheist in RPG spaces, is a rpg designer, writer, and serial twitter thread writer. She's one of the co-designers of the Illuminated Worlds system for Critical Role's Darrington Press. This is the system which powers Candela Obscura and potentially other unannounced games. She wa…

Support the show on Patreon Dave is a youtuber, reviewer and game designer. His Youtube channel, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews, currently has about 180 videos and more than 25,000 subscribers. He's also got a great newsletter where he publishes written interviews game design luminaries. Links to all of this stuff will be in the show notes. He's desig…

Support the show on Patreon Christopher Chinn is the blogger behind the long-running and well-loved Deeper in the Game blog. He's probably best-known for the Same Page Tool. But started in 2007, the blog has 15 years of thoughtful and insightful writing and advice on RPG design and play. Show Notes: 01:17 - Introducing Chris 02:54 - The origin of t…

Support the show on Patreon Emily C. Friedman is an associate professor of English at Auburn University and director of 18thconnect, a website dedicated to scholarship of the 18th century. Though an 18th-century literature scholar and critic by training, Emily is now one of the foremost chroniclers of the phenomenon we call actual play. She teaches…

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm talking to Becky Annison, the co-founder of UK-based design company, Black Armada Games. She's the award-winning designer of When the Dark Is Gone, part of the Seven Wonders anthology from Pelgrane Press. And is probably best known for the high drama werewolf game, Bite Marks, and GM-less mystery gam…

Support the show on Patreon This week, we're talking to Paul Beakley has been involved with the games industry since at least the mid 1990s. He's a Game Chef finalist, a Golden Cobra honourable mention, and an official designer/adventure module writer for games like Deadlands, Earthdawn, Mutant Chronicles and more. He's also been writing about game…

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm chatting with Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt, who are the co-hosts of Team Up Moves, a podcast about playing and discussing superhero tabletop RPGs. I'm a big fan of the podcast and so I reached out to the two of them. Apart from RPGs, Fiona is a front-end software engineer by trade who worked at G…

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Tan Shao Han, a TTRPG designer, writer, and cultural consultant from Singapore. He's contributed words to various Paizo Pathfinder books, including Lost Omens: Impossible Lands, new Dagger Isles supplement for Blades in the Dark, and other games like Monster Care Squad and ARC. He's the …

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Indrani Ganguly who is the marketing manager for Hunters Entertainment, the publisher of Kids on Bikes, Alice is Missing, among other games. She is also the co-founder of Desis n Dragons, probably India's largest community of tabletop roleplayers. Of which, I am a humble member. Indrani …

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Jahmal Brown aka Mad Jay Zero. Jay is a podcaster, designer and rockstar GM. His podcast Diceology features interviews with folks from the RPG scene as well as fun recaps of his various games in Last Week in Gaming. As a game designer, he's contributed words to books like Pathfinder's m…

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Lowell Francis the writer behind the Ennie award winning RPG blog, Age of Ravens, which you can find at ageofravensgames.com. He's the co-designer of the fantastic Hearts of Wulin, a PbtA game of wuxia melodrama. He is also the Gauntlet Gaming Community Manager and co-host of Gauntlet P…

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Judd Karlman, the podcaster behind Daydreaming about Dragons, my personal favourite source of GM advice. Every episode of his podcast has two parts: table techniques, where Judd talks offers techniques to play roleplaying games, and inspiration goat, where a real goat recommends media t…

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Marx interviews Thomas Manuel about games journalism, the synergy or dissonance between being a playwright and being a game designer, and about his games The Spider and the City, Hypercity, and Depths Unfathomable. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Thomas Manuel on Twitter Thomas Manuel on I…

Marx interviews Cezar Capacle about Push and philosophies of game design, I Guess This Is It and minimalist story gaming, and how to publicise oneself in a post-Twitter world. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn, whose game Tapestry is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate …

Marx interviews Michael Low of Luck of Legends Games about games in the classroom, education in games, and about the choose-your-own-adventure colouring book RPG training manual Starsworn. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn, whose game Tapestry is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Pa…

Marx interviews James Davey of Gem and Eye Games about The Midnight World, a game about mental health, world-altering powers, and terrifying gods from other dimensions. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard, whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d…

Marx interviews Thomas Eliot of Sixpence Games about Fear of the Unknown, a one-shot game of building towns and investigating horrors. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard, whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Fear…

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Marx interviews Jeremy Gage of Have You Played This, whose podcast Draw Your Dice is an educational podcast exploring how to make TTRPGs. This week’s sponsor is By Odins Beard RPG whose game We Deal In Lead is available for pre-order now! Or, check out the Other Worlds game jam on Itchio. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie…

Marx interviews Iko of The Lost Bay Podcast, a podcast focusing on indie TTRPG zines and their creators. This week’s sponsor is Elijah Mills whose game Campfire is out now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi The Lost Bay Podcast on Twitter The Lost Bay on Itchio The Lost Bay Podcast official …

Marx interviews Chris and Wes of Spooky Bell Games about Beyond Deep, an adventure and locale for Mörk Borg set in a mining company town. This week’s sponsor is Gamenomicon whose game Goblin Market is on Kickstarter now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Beyond Deep on Kickstarter Chris on T…

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Marx interviews Tanya Floaker about Lo! Thy Dread Empire, a narrative wargame about undead workers fighting capitalist death cults in the ashes of a dying world. This week’s sponsor is Grumpy Bear Stuff whose game Daily Dread is Kickstarting in August 2022 in as part of Zinequest 4. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod…

Marx interviews Ben Wallis, a.k.a. ThatGamerPriest, about Broken, a duet story game telling the story of the breakdown of a relationship. This week’s sponsor is Grumpy Bear Stuff whose game Daily Dread is Kickstarting in August 2022 in as part of Zinequest 4. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-F…

Marx interviews Alex Roberts, creator of Starcrossed and For The Queen, larper extraordinaire, and former host of the podcast Backstory. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Alex Roberts on Twitter Alex R…

Marx interviews Adrián Mejía, an Ecuadorian creator creating Koboa, a Latin American-inspired setting guide featuring creators from many cultures across South America. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi…

Marx interviews Diogo of Toca do Coruja, a Brazilian translation team working to bring indie TTRPGs to Brazilian Portuguese speakers. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Diogo on Twitter Toca do Coruja o…

Marx interviews Argentinian game designer and scene organiser Misha Panarin, about her LatAm Breakout project Cantrip, and about introducing people to new roleplaying games. This week’s sponsor is Anthropos Games, whose game Heterodoxy is available from June 2022. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via…