Play/Test

Guest: Riley Hopkins

• Linksmith Games
• Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined
• Interstitial AP Podcast

Discussion

Riley is a very supportive friend and you should also be friends with them. Kickstarter for TTRPG and keeping yourself accountable. Making games with modular rules or rules you can ignore completely!

Changelog

Schedule and Intent: Changelog episodes will air as they are needed and will post on Thursday night. The Actual Play episodes will be one shots at first, broken up into hour long episodes released on Monday mornings.

Introducing Tiny Game Engine: The core of the engine is that it should handle social encounters as well as combat encounters. TGE should have a few more levers to pull than Powered by the Apocalypse but still be informed by the theme rather than mechanics. The system should limit power creep and should make failure interesting. The goal is to keep any TGE game around 100 pages for accessibility. There will be tools to help you, as a GM, tell the stories the game was made to tell. TGE games shouldn't tie level or advancement to capitalism or violence.

Introducing Hard-Space Hustle: This game is meant to emulate grungy space anime like Dirty Pair Flash, Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star. It's about found families.

Links

• Fate Core
• Apocalypse World
• Masks
• Forged in the Dark
• Genesys
• Dialect

Introbot: Me! Music by: Matt Lee

Guest: Nora Blake

• Dust Wardens
• Halcyon Station
• Facade
• Nora's Medium Piece
• Export Audio Patreon
• Nora's TTRPG Patreon

Discussion

What are Nora's core philosophies when designing games? How some games aren't mean to be played, some games are therapy or poetry. Writing small games. Using just d6's in your game. Making a Stardew Valley/ Harvest Moon TGE game. You can't design games around bad players. Not protecting garbage people in the tabletop community, excusing their behavior and putting them on pedestals. Making the space more welcoming by not clinging onto old white designers who are really shitty.

Changelog

When you try to accomplish something that doesn't damage durability, hit points or stress, your outcome determines the size of a concession the GM is allowed to ask for when you succeed. Previously: The GM would set a durability for you to hit to accomplish everything. It was kind of a drag.

Assist Mechanic: You roll your skill die and give the player you're helping half of that. They can apply that to either their skill or outcome and may choose after they roll. This way they always help no matter what. Previously: The bonus only applied to skill and was applied before the roll.

Armor: Got rid of heavy armor. Adding two difficulty to an attack roll would make almost no one hit. Now you are either Armored or Unarmored and armor just adds 1d8 to the difficulty to hit you. Previously: Heavy armor increased difficulty to the wearer by 2.

Social Armor: You are either Guarded or you are Unguarded. This functions the same as armor but for social situations. Previously: Social armor was based on applicable convictions.

Fate Dice: You can choose to use a Fate die AFTER you have rolled. Previously: You had to replace a die with the Fate die before you rolled.

Minions and Adversaries: Minor enemies just have special abilities or specific boons/fumbles thematic to their role. Previously: Minions and adversaries had weapon boons and fumbles as well as occasionally a special ability.

Next Time On... Tool: Added a tool to let the players hint at something they want to happen next session and get a bonus for it.

Agent: Loses starting armor, corrected mistake not listing Wealth as a job skill.

AI: Gave a swing job skill based on which Avatar you choose.

Space Samurai: Change name to Master. The Master has a 3rd conviction that is their Code. Switched Aetheurgy Job Skill for Craft Job Skill. Previously: They had 2 convictions and that was what the code-bound was cued off of.

Heavy: No longer has Heavy Armor.

Links

• A Knife by RPG Natalie
• Pasion de las Pasiones by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
• Ryuutama
• Savage Worlds
• The Resistance Toolbox
• Ascendancy by Ruby
• The Spire
• Quinn Wilson
• The Song of Ice and Fire RPG
• Witcher RPG
• Exodus by Erika
• Waypoint Article About Colonialism in Games with
  Dia Lacina

Introbot: Mary Foster Music by Matt Lee

Guests

Amr Ammourazz as Nahira the Caretaker
Jack Beckwith as Lexi the Gym Leader
and Alex Flanigan as Keaton the Entertainer

In Which...

Two friends have a weird fallout, to other friends start co-parenting, and a specter of the past comes to haunt Keaton.

Links

• Musafirs Podcast
• Voices at Play
• Variant Roles
• A Horror Borealis
• Cryptid Keeper Podcast
• Coffee Detective
• Alex’s Itch
• Amr’s Itch
• Baited Breath

Music: Matt Lee

https://playtest.simplecast.com/episodes/changelog-james-malloy

Guest: James Malloy

• Stop, Hack, and Roll
• Protean City Comics

Game Graveyard

Fast and Furious Style Racing Game

Discussion

In the meat of this show we discuss at length: How leading someone to a story and letting them tell it will always turn out better than telling it yourself and games that are nothing but a series of open questions.

Changelog

• Changes made to every basic move to make them more narrative and clean them up more.

Decree

"Everyone should record them and their group playing a game at least once and then edit it as if it were going to be a podcast."

Links

Masks

Music: Matt Lee

Guests

Tim Woerner as Guy Dudeman the Enthusiast
Amr Ammourazz as Nahira the Caretaker
Jack Beckwith as Lexi the Gym Leader
and Alex Flanigan as Keaton the Entertainer

In Which...

Tamarack gets tamanapped!

Links

• Musafirs Podcast
• Voices at Play
• Variant Roles
• A Horror Borealis
• Cryptid Keeper Podcast
• Coffee Detective
• Alex’s Itch
• Amr’s Itch
• Baited Breath

Music: Matt Lee