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This solo tabletop role-playing game is a direct sequel to the award-winning Thousand Year Old Vampire! So You’ve Met a Thousand Year Old Vampire is a game about a regular (or not) person meeting an ancient, dangerous, intriguing being. This vampire may be driven by hunger, love, art, anger, despair, fear, the need to fill its years with meaning, or none of the above. That’s where you fit in. But how you fit, exactly, is what can only be learned through play.  Are you a friend, a lover, food, or something else? 

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So You've Met a Thousand Year Old Vampire on Backerkit https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/tim-hutchings/so-you-ve-met-a-thousand-year-old-vampire

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This episode was pre-recorded and released on September 9, 2024. Watch live every week on Twitch at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

Here are the games I'll be looking at in September 2024, and interviewing their creators to find out more on Not DnD. I've created a list of solo games to consider for your October spooky season!

So You've Met a Thousand Year Old Vampire?

Wreck This Deck

ION

Heart Our Brilliant Ruin

More information about this month's episodes https://www.enworld.org/threads/not-dnd-trpgs-to-consider-for-halloween.706462/

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Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. Each week EN Publishing’s @tabletopjess interviews the creators behind different tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D! You can watch the live recording every Monday at 5pm ET / 10pm BST on YouTube or Twitch, or catch up with the podcast platform of your choice by searching 'Not DnD'.

SAKE (Sorcerers, Adventures, Kings, and Economics) is perfect for players who want to experience the thrill of adventure while managing their own domains, trading, engaging in large-scale battles, and playing with magic and gods, all in one game. SAKE is a point-buy system where EXP, which is used to buy skill ranks, abilities, HP, spells etc., is gained through gameplay events and the personality traits of a Player Character. Find out more on this weeks episode of Not DnD with creator Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav.

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Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710384861/sake-sorcerers-adventures-kings-and-economics  

Webpage: https://sake.ee/

Basic Rules in DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/26322/seventh-son-publishing-llc

Basic Rules in Itch.io: https://rainer-kaasik-aaslav.itch.io/

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This episode was streamed live on June 24, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is an original rules-medium 2D6 system for investigation-oriented adventures in any time period between about 1850 and the present day, with a bit of a supernatural twist. The game features investigation mechanics that let players take initiative, use their characters' unique strengths to find clues, and deduce conclusions themselves.

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Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anim/eureka-investigative-urban-fantasy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheAgencyofNarrativeIntrigueandMysteryPatreon

Free demo: https://animttrpgs.neocities.org/

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/anim-ttrpgs

Discord: https://discord.gg/T6RQRs4dkN.

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This episode was previously recorded and aired on June 16, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

At The Gates is the core rulebook for a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game inspired by Japanese RPG video games. The game uses Storypath Ultra, which is is an update to the existing Storypath system by Onyx Path. The system uses D10s, and seeks keeps the focus on narrative, story-built play, and action-adventure.

Danielle Lauzon will be joining us on Not DnD today to share more about the game!

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Link: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/onyx-path/at-the-gates

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This episode was previously recorded and aired on May 27, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

In this solo TTRPG, you play as a character who attempts to gain control over their story, despite the wishes of the Author. Players use a deck of tarot cards to draw Scenes prompts, then modify these prompts to change the course of your story. At the end, no matter the story, the Character will confront their Author.

Samantha Leigh from Blinking Birch games will be talking to us today on Not DnD about Death of the Author.

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This episode was previously recorded and aired on May 13, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

Last Fleet is a PBTA tabletop roleplaying game where you play brave pilots, officers, engineers, politicians and journalists struggling to hold the human race – and themselves – together under unbelievable pressure. The game focuses on action, intrigue and drama in this high-stakes situation.

The game provides support to create your own evocative setting, or you can play out of the box as the survivors of the Interplanetary Commonwealth. 

Find our more in this weeks episode of Not DnD as we speak to creator Joshua Fox.

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Link: https://blackarmada.com/product/last-fleet/

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This episode was previously recorded and aired on May 13, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

A preview of what's coming later this month from Not DnD

Action-Heroes is a cinematic toolkit role-playing game with a D6 dice pool system. The game encourages collaborative play in a group that give players the tools to play characters that are larger than life doing explosive action that roots them as the center of their world. There are no classes in the Action-Heroes RPG, and characters are built using pools of points that allow players to customize their characters to the ideas that they have in their heads. Join Jessica as she speaks with Christopher Helton to learn more.

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Action Heroes on DriveThruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/433788/ActionHeroes-Cinematic-RolePlaying?affiliate_id=1082

Christopher Helton on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/dorkland.bsky.social

Dorkland blog https://dorkland.blogspot.com/

Discord https://discord.com/invite/2e4RgkutsM

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This episode was live streamed on April 22, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing

Lethe is a TTRPG that uses a unique mechanic for collaborative storytelling; rather than players building their character in advance, the GM builds each player character. Players start with a blank character sheet that they fill in as they perform certain actions. Eventually the player’s abilities become better known and they start to uncover their missing memories. As the game progresses, players will have to decide if their memories line up with who they want to be.

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Get Lethe https://crowdfundr.com/Lethettrpg

Chris Legge on the web https://crlegge.carrd.co/

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This episode was pre-recorded and released on April 15, 2024. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing