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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 Play Unsafe about techniques for being a better player of tabletop games. This year, he's got two new games out, Cosmic Dark, a sequel to Cthulhu Dark about corporate employees in space, and Darkenwood, a GM-less game about a nightmarish forest.

Show Notes:

01:41 Introducing Graham

03:07 Starting with Lovecraft

12:08 What is weird fiction?

16:55 All the cool stuff in Cosmic Dark

26:24 Rules, advice, setting

39:22 Infectious Enthusiasm: Lumberjills by Moira Turkington

41:50 Tyranny of Numbers

43:44 RePlay

46:25 All Advice is Advice for Myself

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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 submissions to the Awards

31:02 All Advice is Advice for Myself

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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] Why start an RPG bookclub podcast?

[00:14:43] What each person brings to the table

[00:28:47] Critiquing RPGs as an artform

[00:41:24] Infectious Enthusiasm: Sagas of the Icelanders, Bloodfeud

[00:45:03] Tyranny of Numbers

[00:50:08] RePlay

[00:53:13] All Advice is Advice For Myself: Prep more, be less?

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