Role Playing Public Radio

<span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span>Party Fowl Board Game Kickstarter is live! In this episode, Caleb, Spencer, and I discuss the creation of Party Fowl, playtesting, duck puns, Metatopia, shipping, and other topics. We also have shout outs in the form of our favorite fictional ducks and of course some anecdotes about playtesting Party Fowl. Song: The Duck by Beleza

Adam Scott Glancy, Pagan Publishing veteran who critiques scenario pacing and mythos use, and Will Schar, game designer and All Roads Tavern podcaster who wrote A Soft White Dam. They dissect a winter Minnesota cult mystery: playtesting headaches, cult mechanics and intersections, setting and weather as horror, hook strength and urgent openings, dream-attack mechanics, trafficking angles, modular campaign expansion, and contamination/ritual ties.

News: Our resident Shadowrun GM, Bridget, has launched her own Patreon. Check it out to support a new game designer. We also put together a LARP version of Puppetland and put it on Youtube. Aaron is streaming on Twitch for Raillery so subscribe to find out when he’ll play next. Synopsis: After running The Reign of Terror for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, I started thinking about how historical settings should be used in RPGs. Bridget, who ran several Fate games set in medieval Japan, and Thad, who is Thad, come in to discuss the topic. We also have shout outs and an anecdote! Shout Outs Down the Rabbit Hole and Fallen Titans: Interesting explainer videos on first wave Youtube celebs. Arcology: A new synthwave concept album by Quine. Damn the Man, Save the Music: A new indie storytelling game about working in an 80s record store. Kitty Horrorshow: Indie vidya game dev, with titles like Haunted Cities and Anatomy. Reign of Terror: A Call of Cthulhu adventure set in the French Revolution. In Which We Live and Breathe: A fantasy cyberpunk indie RPG, currently in development. Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology: some kind video game RPG I guess. Song: Ride Again by Quine

This is our newest RPPR Patreon bonus podcast series, Don’t Cross the Stream! In each episode, cast members like Caleb, Bridget, and Thad review and break down a title currently available streaming on Netflix. We then figure out how gameify it – either by creating new mechanics or random tables or creating entirely new mini-games. We also write up one of our ideas into a PDF you can use!  If you like it, please back the RPPR Patreon to access all of the episodes and PDFs today! Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe is a weird movie. It is ostensibly a Chinese summer blockbuster sci-fi action movie, but it’s more like 3 or 4 movies in one. There’s aliens, kaiju, the Chinese Red Army’s secret archeological unit, an Elvis impersonator who sings about Genghis Khan, dramatic shifts in tone, and undead werewolves (I think).Bridget, Caleb, Fae, Thad, and I all watched the movie and analyzed it for the show. We also figure out how to turn this mess into a playable game. Up next is a playable mini-game by Bridget! Song: Right Place, Right Time by Willbe.  

Aaron spoke with Kyle Carty about the recent Savage Tokusatsu Kickstarter recently. They discuss the genre, the new mechanics for the game and a lot more. If this interview interests you, check out the Kickstarter today! There’s also a free test drive of the rules now on DrivethruRPG.

<span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start">?</span>Sponsor: BPB Games is running a Kickstarter for their latest project, Savage Tokusatsu, a supplement for Savage Worlds that lets you use transforming heroes, kaiju, giant robots, and more! RPPR’s Aaron is working on this project, so be sure to check it out! News: We have a new show for the RPPR Patreon! Don’t Cross the Stream looks at a title on a streaming site and analyzes it for its gameable material. We have 3 episodes online as of this episode. Check it out! Synopsis: I have mentioned the Picaresque genre/style several times over the years on RPPR but I recently realized we haven’t done a full episode on it. In short, it’s about sympathetic outsiders who dabble in criminality, with no real overarching plot. Sounds like more than a few RPG campaigns I’ve been in. Bill and I talk about the genre, how it can be used as inspiration for RPG players and GMs, and more. We also have shout outs and an anecdote! Shout Outs Bridget on Patreon: Our favorite Shadowrun GM has her own Patreon! Help support her game design and podcasting efforts. Delinquent Hamsters: A comedic anime about misbehaving hamsters. Skavenslayer: A Felix and Gortrek novel about bar life and slaying evil rat men. Seco Creek Vigilance Committee: A game about vigilantes and justice. The Ritual: A great horror film about getting lost in a Swedish forest. Funny or Die’s 1986 Lineup: Hilarious sketches about potential Base Raiders characters! Morazan Maru: A wrecked cargo ship from WW2, now a great dive site in the Phillippines Catherine: An oddly intriguing web series starring Jenny Slate Samurai Gourmet: A Netflix series about a retired man rediscovering his love for food and drink. By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan: a storytelling game about reinventing Oscar Wilde plays. Song: Evening Tide by Kulpa

Even though Red Markets is out, Caleb is still hard at work designing new games and fulfilling stretch goals. He gives an update about Party Fowl, a new card game currently in development. Meanwhile I have made a few breakthroughs while working on Ruin. I now have concrete ideas on how a game should work and have made progress on character generation rules. Hopefully I will have playtest rules at Gen Con this year!

News: I am going on vacation later this month, but don’t worry! There will be a lot of podcasts this month. We also have a new system for scheduling online games for the RPPR Patreon using our Discord server. Synopsis: There is an annual contest on the Delta Green email list for writing short scenarios. The Shotgun Scenario contest forces contestants to write the best possible DG scenario under 1500 words. It’s gone on since 2005 and last year had some great entries. Dan, David, Tom, and I read a bunch of them to discuss what we liked about them. We also have shout outs and anecdotes! Shout Outs Dark Season 1: an intriguing and fascinating mystery show on Netflix. Skullsplitter Dice: Very cool dice for the hardcore player. 2mello: A talented lo-fi hip hop producer and DJ. Great tunes! Synthetic Dawn: a new DLC for Stellaris Doki Doki Literature Club: A free and amazing game on Steam. Saying more is spoilers. Play it! Polyhero Dice: Uniquely shaped dice for the discerning gamer. Renowned Explorers: A RPG with roguelike elements. Become Explorer of the Year! Those Unknowable: A Lovecraftian sci-fi web comic. Song: Tracks from the Upwind EP by 2mello

Aaron, Tom, and I traveled down to Texas for PAX South 2018 and we had a blast! I finally got to play True Dungeon and we tried out multiple games that weekend like: True Dungeon: An escape room with LARPing and pog collecting (kind of). It’s got it all! Wild West Exodus: A new weird western themed skirmish game with great models and interesting rules Tokaido: An excellent board game about traveling to Edo, in style. 4 The Birds: a board game about getting your birds in a row (or square). Tonight We Riot: An upcoming video game about fighting The Man. Deep Sky Derelicts: A sci-fi dungeon crawling game, similar in structure to Darkest Dungeon. We also listened to a bunch of great podcasts like: The Bald Knobbers episode of Dollop Blaster Master and Level 26 of I Don’t Even Own A Television Way of the Shadow Wolves on El Chapo Trap House. Song: Spirits Seeking by 2mello

We’ve all been there: After hours of meticulously planning an epic campaign, our players kill the quest NPC and run off after the first shiny thing they see. The cure for this problem may be easier than you think. With your help we’ll create a world from scratch, and then we’ll crowdsource some story hooks with the audience to create a whole campaign of our own. You can steal this adventure and use it in your own game, or steal the techniques and keep your players chomping at the bit. (The map referred to in the panel is included in this post. Click on it to see a larger version) This panel was held at PAX South 2018. Panelists: Adam Davis [Executive Director, Game to Grow], Adam Johns [Executive Director, Game to Grow]