2023 Year End Bonanza

Transcript

Hello and welcome to the Dice Exploder 2023 end of year bonanza! I love me a good ranked list of movies on an end of year movie podcast, but ranked lists are bad and this show’s about RPGs not movies, so you get this instead. It’s me, Aaron King of the RTFM podcast, Lady Tabletop of the Alone at the Table podcast, and Sharang Biswas of winning tons of Ennies this year and being a games academic, and the four of us (plus a half dozen other special guests) are here to tell you about a bunch of cool games shit we played, read, and listened to this year.

Hope you had a great year in games! Come on down and listen to ours.

Our picks:

Aaron’s games

GREED by Gormengeist

Undertree Temple of the Elf Gods by Happy Chthonian

Crush Depth Apparition by Amanda Lee Franck

Audrey’s games

Void 1680 AM by Ken Lowery

Wreck This Deck by Black Armada Games (Josh Fox and Becky Annison)

Extreme Meatpunks Forever by Sinister Beard Games

Sharang’s games

Fight With Spirit by Story Brewers Roleplaying

The Silt Verses by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova

The Broadcast by Jason Morningstar and Lizzie Stark

Sam’s games

Eating Oranges in the Shower by Hazel Anneke Dixon

Barkeep on the Borderlands by W. F. Smith

Exiles by em acosta

Game adjacent things

Aaron: Grog the Frog by Alba BG

Audrey: Roleplaying Games Enter the World of Ballet in a Unique New Performance by Linda Codega

Sharang: The Dungeons & Dragons players of Death Row by Keri Blakinger

Sam: The Ink That Bleeds by Paul Czege (here’s an excerpt from the Indie Game Reading Club)

Thing we’re proud of

Aaron: RTFM, Speedrune, and Aaron’s annual list of favorite books

Audrey: Behold: A Game

Sharang: Winning 3 Ennies: Judges choice for MOONLIGHT ON ROSEVILLE BEACH and Best Rules/Best Family Game for AVATAR

Sam: you’re lookin at it

Picks from friends of the show:

Ray Chou: Decuma

Thomas Manuel: