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| 88 Reynaldo Madrinan - Break!! RPG | 04 Sep 2024 | 01:37:43 | |
Reynaldo Madrinan is the co-author of Break!! RPG, a blogger and a really passionate game designer. Break!! is inspired by anime, manga, classic role playing games and NES era video games. The game’s skeleton will be familiar to anyone who's slung a d20 before, but the game's eclectic mix of inspirations will provide you with a very different fantasy experience. The games simple rules still allow for interesting options in play. Perform elaborate, collaborative stunts in combat or use the Battlefield features to your advantage. Or why not charm, intimidate or talk your way through a challenge using Negotiation. The 470 page book is loaded with diagrams and infographics to make learning, and using, the rules as simple as possible. It’s also be punctuated with full-color art to bring the Outer World and its exotic inhabitants to life. Check out Reynaldo's links! https://x.com/NaldoDrinan Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/. | |||
| 87 Mike Shea - Sly Flourish | 29 Aug 2024 | 01:06:48 | |
Mike is the writer for the website Sly Flourish and the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, the Lazy DM's Workbook, The Lazy DM's Companion, Fantastic Adventures, Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot, and a number of other books. Mike is a co-author of Forge of Foes and Fantastic Lairs. Mike has freelanced for a bunch of RPG companies, including Wizards of the Coast, Kobold Press, MCDM, Pelgrane Press, and others. He's been playing RPGs since the mid '80s, and writing for and about RPGs since 2008. BACK THE CITY OF ARCHES: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-city-of-arches-a-high-fantasy-5e-rpg-city-sourcebook Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/. | |||
| 78 Matthew Orr (Wet Ink Games) | 02 Jul 2024 | 01:58:12 | |
Matthew Orr is a TTRPG creator and co-owner of Wet Ink Games. He likes to read about history, about animals (especially cryptids), and he loves comics (but not superhero comics). He has an obsession with bleak 1970s sci-fi movies he can't quite explain. All of this seems to show up in his games. He makes games, publishes games, and help other do the same! I recently had the honor and pleasure to collaborate with Wet Ink Games on a project and it was one of my favorite experiences ever! I, of course, jumped on the opportunity to invite him for an interview and we had a great chat! Oh, and he interviewed me too BTW! Check it out: https://youtu.be/sPzN0A1UQzc In this interview we talked about Wet Ink Games, we talked about Jinagshi, which is getting reprinted and expanded with new scenarios (including one I wrote), we talked about his hair not being cut by other for 20 years, we talked about inspirations, routines, history, biology, and we talked about Narrative Voice in RPGs, which was super interesting! So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Matt's links! wetinkgame.com VOTE FOR ME (or whoever you prefer) FOR BEST PODCAST HOST on the CRIT AWARDS! And vote for the your other favorite creators from our hobby! https://www.critawards.org Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Tetrapod Zoology blog - https://tetzoo.com/Lawrence Watt-Evans Ethshar books - http://www.ethshar.com/ | |||
| 77 Dan Algstrand | 26 Jun 2024 | 02:01:11 | |
Dan Algstrand is the fantastic Artists, Art Director and Graphic Designer who worked on titles such as Kult Divinity Lost, The One Ring, Mutant Year Zero, and many other titles. Dan is a freelance graphic artists rumored to have worked on pretty much all Swedish RPGs, he is a member of the fantastic Stockholm Kartell! In this weird and wonderful chat we talked about his work as a graphic designer, how is his process, influences, and way he things about art and games. We talked also about his collection of beers, the importance of community, exercise, other artists creators and creations, and so much more! Listen up and get weird with Dan Algstrand! Check out Dan on Twitter: https://x.com/algstrand VOTE FOR ME (or whoever you prefer) FOR BEST PODCAST HOST on the CRIT AWARDS! And vote for the your other favorite creators from our hobby! https://www.critawards.org Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: | |||
| 76 Scott McDonald | 20 Jun 2024 | 01:40:01 | |
Scott found his father's 1st Editon Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide at age 8 in 1983, and his path was set. He moved on from D&D to Car Wars, Gamma World, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Starfinder, both playing and game mastering, untill settling on Mörk Borg and its ilk during the pandemic. Now he is finding out the ups and downs of crowdfunding and self-publishing as he attempts to bring his own post-apocalyptic vision into the world with Wasteland Degenerates! We talked about bugs, about game design, about post-apocalypse fiction and games. We chatted about how our boring normal lives intervene in our work, and how it somehow helps shape it. Check out Scott's Links! Back Wasteland Degenerates: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/scott-c-mcdonald/wasteland-degenerates VOTE FOR ME (or whoever you prefer) FOR BEST PODCAST HOST on the CRIT AWARDS! And vote for the your other favorite creators from our hobby! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Updating soon! | |||
| 75 Alex Kobayashi | 18 Jun 2024 | 01:23:59 | |
Alex Kobyashi is a passionate creator who seems to can't stop making games. He is the creator of The Black Sword Hack, Rats in the Walls, Extinction, Cursed!, and many other great games! In this chat we talked about the many great things about being a full time game designer, and the many and things about being a full time game designer. Alex talks a lot about "being lazy" despite his impressive production, and how he values structure and routine to help him work. We talk a lot about process, routines, his fascination with history and reality as a source of inspiration that is stronger and weirder than fiction. We also chatted about not taking notes, about the influences of the Soviet Union on his life and country, and a lot other weird and wonderful topics! So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Alex's Links! DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/fr/publisher/12338/livres-de-l-ours VOTE FOR ME FOR BEST PODCAST HOST on the CRIT AWARDS! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Alejandro Jodorowsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky Adam Curtis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis Chris McDowall: https://www.bastionland.com Breathless System: https://fari-rpgs.itch.io/breathless-srd Stoneburner: https://fari-rpgs.itch.io/stoneburner | |||
| 74 Pawel Klimczak | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:50:00 | |
Pawel Klimczak is the game designer and a publisher of Slav Borg, a Post-Soviet, Semi-Fantasy Role-Playing Game. He is also a journalist and a musician interested in the intersection of the social conditions and art.
I immediately backed Slav Borg when I saw it on Kickstarter. It had cool looking post-apocalyptic cars. It was inspired by Mörk Borg, an incredible game I love, and it drew from a topic that interests me a lot, which is the the culture from other countries that did experience socialism and now live under something else. And this is one of the themes explored in the book as well.
In this chat we talked about many interesting topics which include all the origin story of Slav Borg, the love/hate relationship Pawel has with cars, how he loves bikes, art, process, creativity, mental health, influences and all sorts of weirdness. It was very cool and enlightening.
So listen up and get weird with us!
Check out Pawel's links!
https://slavdom-studio.com/https://discord.com/invite/Tn6MWNVnTphttps://www.instagram.com/slavdomstudio/
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You can also support me buy buying one of my games!
Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers!
Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs
Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira
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Stuff mentioned in the Episode:
Skinamarink: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21307994/
BattleTech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech
Gaijin Blues: https://gaijinblues.bandcamp.com/album/gaijin-blues
Ranger of Shadow Deep: https://modiphius.net/collections/rangers-of-shadow-deep
Frostgrave: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/177354/frostgrave
Planet Smasher Games: https://planetsmashergames.com
Johan Nohr: https://nohr.se
Dragon Quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest
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| 73 Nicholas Cardarelli (Raised on DnD) | 12 Jun 2024 | 02:02:43 | |
Nick Cardarelli is a Professional Dungeon Master and the host of the Raised on DnD podcast. He has created dozens of original tabletop role-playing game adventures for several different game systems. Nick has been a gamer for over 30 years and has used TTRPGs to connect with his family, friends, and co-workers. I've been a guest on Nick's amazing podcast for a few times and he is always bringing in amazing guests and talking about great things concerning parenthood, games, and talking to amazing gamers and creators about the stuff they make. On this episode we talked about his history with gaming, RPGs, D&D, the Satanic Panic, his weird stories, the podcast (of course), his work as a game designer, and about gaming with kids, being a parent, and a lot of other wonderful and weird things. Nicholas has a lot to share and he does so generously. Listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Nick's links! https://startplaying.games/gm/cardarelli/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_&_Other_Strangeness Satanic Panic: https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/feature/dnd-satanic-panic Critical Role: https://critrole.com Stranger Things: https://www.netflix.com/br/title/80057281 Paranoia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game) Elfquest: https://elfquest.com | |||
| 72 Jeremy Pillopow (Black Magic Craft) | 07 Jun 2024 | 01:58:07 | |
Jeremy Pillipow is a Canadian hobby YouTuber, artist, and game designer. His YouTube channel is full of tutorials on how to craft terrain, and many other things too, as Jeremy learns in public, sharing lessons, mistakes and, more importantly, constantly encouragement and quite a bit of wisdom. Jeremy also recently published a Skirmish game inspired by TTRPG as well called Idols of Torment, and we talk a bit about the game, and how RPGs influence his work. The episode main themes are crafting, making mistakes, making do with what you have and a lot of hand on wisdom that works perfectly for making terrain and objects, but can be also applied to game design, and other forms of art as well. It was a very cool episode and I learned a lot from Jeremy. I hope you do dot. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Jeremy's Links! www.blackmagiccraft.ca Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Microwave Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_Massacre Adam Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Savage | |||
| 71 Jason Morningstar | 05 Jun 2024 | 01:38:33 | |
Jason Morningstar is perhaps the iconic Indie RPG Game Designer in my mind. He is the legendary creator of Fiasco, one of my favorite games of all time, which continues to inspire me to this very day. He also created many other masterpieces like Night Witches, Durance, Skeletons and many others. He is also an educator, and, more importantly, he is generous, kind, and supportive with other in our community. This chat was only supposed to last for 1 hour but we managed to stretch it to a little over 1 hours and a half and I with we could have gone for another 2 hours, but I had to go. Good news is Jason enjoyed the chat and is willing to come back! We talked about process, art, creativity, curiosity, the constant impulse to find novelty, the search of the weirdness in the mundane. We talked about other games, creators, and art that inspires us. Jason also shared lots of stories and pieces of wisdom we can all learn from, which I am always seeking. This is one of my favorite episodes. I am a big fan of Jason's work. It was an honor to talk to him about it. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did so... Let's get weird with Jason Morningstar! Check out Jason's work! https://www.patreon.com/bullypulpitgames Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: City of Winter: https://heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/city-of-winter/?v=19d3326f3137 Apocalypse World: http://apocalypse-world.com Kerbal Space Program: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com Valheim: https://www.valheimgame.com BFF!: https://heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/bff-best-friends-forever/?v=19d3326f3137 LARP Patterns: http://larppatterns.org/index.html | |||
| 70 Goblin Archives | 30 May 2024 | 01:59:53 | |
Goblin Archives is a game designer and educator, creator of Liminal Horror, and fomenter of the fantastic (and horrific in a good "horror is cool" kinda way) community of players and creators around it. He thrives on collaborative work, and in this episode this becomes a theme that we explore deeply. Liminal Horror is a fantastic gem of a game of Investigative Horror that uses the framework from Cairn and provides it's on set of tools and structures to create very instigating scenarios. This fostered a dedicated community of creators and a steady flow of modules and supplements that keep the game going and always full of ideas. We talked about many great topics involving game design, mental health, creativity, inspiration, gaming, weird and exciting experiences. It was truly a great episode. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Goblins Archives' links! Games: http://goblinarchives.itch.io Newsletter: https://goblinarchives.substack.com Liminal Horror Library: liminalhorrorlibrary.com Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Will Wright Teaches Game Design and Theory: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/will-wright-teaches-game-design-and-theory Joshua Domanski: https://unenthuser.itch.io Disco Elysium: https://discoelysium.com | |||
| 69 Fellipe da Silva | 28 May 2024 | 02:06:42 | |
Fellipe is curious brazilian designer and illustrator. He had done a little bit of everything in design and enventually started to design its own RPG material and games where he tries to make than as light ans silly as possible. He is the creator of Forgotten Ballad, an adventure game inspired by the OSR and the Legend of Zelda series! He is also developing The Way, a new weird take on fantasy adventure gaming that I am excited to see him develop in the open! In this chat we talked about this, about making games, about this constant drive to be creating things. We also talked about parenthood, about trying to be the best people we can be, and how our interest, passions, and hobbies end up influence our game design process. This was a wonderful episode and was very insightful! I hope you learn as much as I did! Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Fellipe's links! https://coolway.ink Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Akira Toriyama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Toriyama Boat Games: http://bloatgames.squarespace.com NieR: Automata: https://store.steampowered.com/app/524220/NieRAutomata/ Rancore - Respeito é a Lei: https://youtu.be/s6cqEBP87A0?si=ujssqzv2PKFovwy- | |||
| 86 Camilla Zamboni | 28 Aug 2024 | 01:52:54 | |
Camilla Zamboni (she/her) teaches Educational Game Design as well as Italian language and culture at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). She focuses on innovative, reflective, and radical pedagogy, particularly at the nexus of language learning, open educational resources (OERs), analog game-based learning, and tabletop game design. Camilla regularly presents at conferences in US and Italy, and she is currently editing a volume on creating micro tabletop role-playing games for the classroom called Roll for Learning. She is also a game designer and translator: her latest projects are Planétes, a language-learning ttrpg created with Alessia Caviglia, and Folk, a ttrpg to explore folklore created with CampfireRPG. Itch page: https://czamboni.itch.io/ Teaching / professional website: https://czamboni.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ CHECK OU FOLK GAME JAM https://itch.io/jam/folk-game-jam- Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/. | |||
| 68 Joseph Goodman | 23 May 2024 | 02:01:55 | |
Joseph Goodman runs Goodman Games. He has written a number of RPG titles, including DCC RPG, DragonMech, and many dungeon crawl adventures. His best work, though, is mentoring the amazing group of creators who have come to publish their work through Goodman Games. Joseph is also well known within the DCC RPG community as the Dark Lord, but in a very dear way. I had the pleasure to work with Goodman Games a few times, but I've always been an admirer of not only their work with games, but especially in the way they ciultivate creativity and community. In this chat we talk about many great topics, including game design, doing business as a game, creativity, nature as inspiration, the famous Appendix N, and parenthood. This was a fantastic chat, Joseph is always very generous with his wisdom so I recommend you listen to this one closely! So, listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Jospeh's links! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Dinosaur Planet: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/dinosaur-planet-broncosaurus-rex/ DragonMech: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/dragonmech-pdf/ Appendix N: https://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/03/26/what-is-appendix-n/ Watch Life in Color with David Attenborough: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036559 50 Fantastic Functions for the D50: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/50-fantastic-functions-for-the-d50-pdf/ Howard Andrew Jones: https://www.howardandrewjones.com Harold Lamb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lamb Algernon Blackwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood Carcassonne: https://www.zmangames.com/en/products/carcassonne/ Puerto Rico: https://www.riograndegames.com/games/puerto-rico/ California Extreme: https://caextreme.org | |||
| 67 Brian Colin | 21 May 2024 | 01:52:46 | |
Brian Colin has been working in the industry since his first exhibit in Gen Con's art show 2017. He is a sculptor, graphic designer, and product developer who is best known for Vast Grimm. Founder of Creature Creation, he is also the creator of many other weird things! I remember the first time I saw Vast Grimes maw cover! What a cover. And Vast Grimm visuals continues to be super rad! Brian's writing, art and design mix up so well in this series, as he continues to create more and more adventures and supplements for this weirs heavy metal sci-fi RPG built on the chassis of Mörk Borg! We chat about many cool things, such as his journey from comics to RPG creator. How the lesson he learned on the way helped shape his work. We talk about art, creativity, influences, mental health, and about the WEIRD! I loved it! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Brian's links! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Vast Grimm: https://vastgrimm.com Creature Curation: https://creaturecuration.com Infinite Black: https://www.infiniteblack.com Gamehole Con: https://www.gameholecon.com World of Revilo: https://creaturecuration.com/revilo-rpg/ Limithron: https://www.limithron.com (Limithron's interview: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wgnwp/episodes/56-Luke-Stratton--Limithron-e2i6p65/a-ab5dghb) Knock! Magazine: https://www.themerrymushmen.com/shop-tmm/ Vast Grimm: No Safe Haven: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/01035a5b-3edd-469c-b4fc-5affd615d1f4/landing Over the Troll Bridge: https://creaturecuration.com/product/over-the-troll-bridge-rpg/ Untold: https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Hub-UTD01TCH-Untold-Adventures/dp/B076KRJDQG Rory's Story Cubes: https://www.storycubes.com/ | |||
| 66 Tim Hutchings | 16 May 2024 | 02:05:47 | |
Tim Hutchings is an award-winning artist and game designer best known for his game Thousand Year Old Vampire. He is also the creator of A Collection of Improving Exercises, Our Vacation, and many other games that explore the frontier of RPGs, games, and art. He's a soon-to-be-former university professor and closing up his art studio to focus on making games full time. I love games that do things in very unique ways that tie well with their themes. That explore spaces that haven't been explored or that look at old things a very different angle. Tim's games do all of that! Combining that with his academic background and knowledge, I knew there could be a lot we could learn from him in this episode. And that's what set out to do here, to explore a little bit of how Tim's process work, what inspires his work, what kind of weird things he is into and that kind of thins we love here. This was a tremendous episode. Tim shared a lot of wisdom, and made quite a few great jokes! Enjoy it! Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Tim's links! https://thousandyearoldvampire.com Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Book of Hours: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/ Cultist Simulator: https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/ Balatro: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/ Inscryption: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1092790/Inscryption/ John Company: https://wehrlegig.com/products/john-company-second-edition | |||
| 65 Lin Codega | 14 May 2024 | 01:21:01 | |
Lin Codega is an entertainment journalist who co-founded Rascal--a worker-owned, alternative tabletop roleplaying game news outlet. They previously wrote for io9, Polygon, and MIT's Immerse magazine. They also make games, and a lot of other weirdly wonderful things we talk about in this episode! The first time I met Linda as at Gen Con, and my friend Richard said I should meet them, talked about het work a bit and them I went to talk to Lin. She made a bunch of interesting questions and I answered them, but my autistic brain got the best of me and I didn't ask anything back! Well, on this episode I try to rectify that talk to Lin about a lot of interesting topics, ranging from punk culture, the important of community, how our unfinished projects are not failures, but lessons we learned along the way, and a lot more! This is a short episode, and I do pride myself of longer and deeper episodes, but Linda managed to pack a lot in this short interview and I am sure you will love it as much as I did. Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Linda's links! Rascal: https://www.rascal.news Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/uFH7b4wN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Rapscallion: https://magpiegames.com/collections/rapscallion/products/rapscallion-quickstart-1 Moth Eater: https://stone-soup.ghost.io/exclusive-preview-motheater-by-linda-h-codega/ The Spear Cuts Through Water: https://www.amazon.com/Spear-Cuts-Through-Water-Novel-ebook/dp/B08MPV7Z6Q Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Abernathy-You-Are-Kind-ebook/dp/B0BY41XXJQ Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547604/fifty-years-of-idungeons-and-dragonsi/ Pauline Kael: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael | |||
| 64 JP Coovert | 09 May 2024 | 02:03:09 | |
JP Coovert writes and illustrates whimsical TTRPG zines every month. He also makes videos that teach and encourage creators to make cool stuff for their tabletop roleplaying games. He creates complete games, one-shot adventures (some that can be strung for an campaign, others thematically to each game), toolkits, guides, and so many other wonderful things. I honestly think JP's Patreon is one of the best bangs for your buck in the entire industry. He mixtures creative writing, good game design, whimsical ideas, wonderful illustrations, in a portable and affordable format. What do you want more? And it's all pretty much system neutral and easy to adapt to your favorite game. And if not, he has a bunch of his own games you can play with ease. I loved hanging out with him again (we hung out at Gen Con 2023). We talked about his work, his constant output of great stuff, his hobbies besides RPGs, making art, comics, writing, and so much more. It was a truly inspiring chat. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out JP's links! Monthly TTRPG zines: https://www.patreon.com/jpcoovert Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/uFH7b4wN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Gen Con: https://www.gencon.com Akira Toriyama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Toriyama Dragon Quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest Dragon Ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball Chrono Trigger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger Lampblack & Brimstone: https://lampblack-brimstone.itch.io Adventure Anthology 1: https://necroticgnome.com/products/adventure-anthology-1 Adventure Anthology 2: https://necroticgnome.com/products/adventure-anthology-2 OZR: https://ozmodeuz.itch.io/ozr Zedeck Siew: https://slowlorispress.com | |||
| 63 Cassi Mothwin | 07 May 2024 | 01:47:05 | |
Cassi Mothwin is a multi-award winning tabletop RPG designer and illustrator. When she’s not working on her own projects, she’s usually reviewing or exploring other indie tabletop games developed by her peers. She enjoys video editing, video games, and reading a lot of genre fiction. Cassi body of work is pretty impressive and she has been doing this for only a few years. But not only that, she explores themes and avenues of play, multimedia, interactivity. It's really fantastic, creative and inspiring. And that's exactly how this episode went, as Cassi shared her journey, her inspirations, her past and future projects, the games she has been enjoying, and a little bit of her unique and wonderful weirdness. So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Cassi's links! All her links are here: https://cassimothwin.com/cassi-mothwin-links-copy/ Tangled Blessings - Expanded: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/950b3b58-719b-43f5-a632-85096629464c/landing Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/uFH7b4wN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Fallout - New Vegas: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22380/Fallout_New_Vegas/ Fallout (TV Series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12637874/ Whiskey Rabbit: https://linktr.ee/whiskeyrabbitart Spencer Campbell: https://gilarpgs.com Hell Whalers: https://brewisttabletopgames.itch.io/hellwhalers Rascal: https://www.rascal.news Stardew Valley: https://www.stardewvalley.net | |||
| 62 Craig Hatler | 02 May 2024 | 02:13:01 | |
Craig Hatler (he/him), @tezrak on most socials, bis the IT Help Desk Manager for a small historically black university in Raleigh, NC, USA. He has been playing #TTRPGs for over 30 years & have been developing/designing for over half that time. He has created a modular system and setting, both released as Creative Commons, allowing others to create with his work collaboratively. I confess I didn't know much about Craig's work before the interview, and he helped me out when a guest had to cancel. He was on my list of future guest but the opportunity presented itself and here we were. And it was great. Craig is a knowledgeable guy. He played and sutdied a lot of games, and seems have what I like to call "designer eyes", that ability to take things apart and figure out how they work and how they can be used for other stuff. We talked about game design, inspirations, our strugglers, pixel art, other games. It was a really fun, insightful and educational episode! I hope you an learn something new with this one. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Craig's links! https://linktr.ee/tezraktheimpslayer Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/uFH7b4wN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Apocalypse World: http://apocalypse-world.com/ Spirit of the Century: https://evilhat.com/product/spirit-of-the-century/ Fate Core: https://evilhat.com/product/fate-core-system/ Sorcerer: https://payhip.com/b/JDT8 The Shab-al-Hiri Roach & The Roach Returns: https://bullypulpitgames.com/products/roach Dead Cells: https://store.steampowered.com/app/588650/Dead_Cells/ Raul Voulpato: https://www.artstation.com/raulvolpato | |||
| 61 Andrían Mejía | 30 Apr 2024 | 01:31:15 | |
Adrián Mejia was born and raised in Quito, the city that he loves and hates. He wants to see more latines in Fantasy, both as characters and players, and tell stories he doesn't see elsewhere. He is the lead director of the Koboa project, a South American Fantasy setting for D&D, Pathfinder and other fantasy ganes, and is hoping to get a few more projects underway as he keeps experimenting with game designs he finds interesting. The first time I saw the vibrant colors and unique characters of the Koboa ads I was immediately interested and started to follow Adrían. As a fellow RPGLATAM creator, I was excited to have Adrían on the show to talk about his project, his journey, his inspirations, and that's what we did. We also talked a lot about being Latin Americans making games in the international market, we talked about RPGLATAM, about colonization, about social justice, and many other things that is almost impossible not to talk about when we talk about LATAM. It was a delightful chat, full of great ideas, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did. Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Adrían links! GET KOBOA: https://koboa.backerkit.com/ @latinerd on socials Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/uFH7b4wN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Freaks and Geeks: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193676/ Bill Waterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson Animorphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs Gambiarra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71vBCE7eh00 Severance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/ Everyone is John: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/271276/Everyone-is-John Open Veins of Latin America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America One Hundred Years of Solitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude The Alchemist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel) Disco Elysium: https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/ The Good Place: https://www.netflix.com/title/80113701 | |||
| 60 Onslaught Six | 25 Apr 2024 | 01:26:23 | |
Onslaught Six is the head honcho of Tidal Wave Games, who make the game SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY... and other TTRPG stuff. You can find out more about him on his website at onslaughtsix.com or his games at tidalwavegames.com I love games about scoundrels and thieves with good hearts, so I was instantly interested in Onslaught Six's game, so when we talked about the interview I was quickly excited! This chat proved I was right! We talk about many cool things, share ideas, personal stories, and a lot of wonderful weirdness! Listen up and get weird with us! Tidal Wave Games: Personal: @onslaughtsix everywhere Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hvc2ng3u (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry_II:_The_Knight_of_Diamonds Ghostbusters (role-playing game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(role-playing_game) The Lethal Weapons: https://www.tlw80s.com/ Midnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_(role-playing_game) The King's Dilemma: https://www.amazon.com/Horrible-Games-HG012-KD1908-Dilemma/dp/B07V5THHK6 Mu Body is a Cage: https://snowttrpg.itch.io/my-body-is-a-cage Henry Rollins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKG6N1WujQ LSD Emulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD:_Dream_Emulator | |||
| 59 Otavio Lessa | 23 Apr 2024 | 02:00:53 | |
Otavio Lessa is an Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Educator with +25 years of experience in Entertainment Content, Operations, Communications, and Business. Worked with brands and franchises like Warcraft, Call of Duty, Diablo, Gundam, Digimon, Godzilla, Magic The Gathering, Twitch.tv, and Amazon Prime. Currently, he is the President and Co-founder of Mind's Vision, a professor of entertainment business at Full Sail University, and a marketing consultant for video games and entertainment startups. Otavio is a fellow #RPGLATAM member, and Mind's Vision is a publisher which has been focusing on bringing some of the best TTRPGs from Brazil to the international market. They begin with Legacy of Cthulhu, but many more followed. Currently, Mind's Vision is crowdfunding Infaernum, a brutal role-playing game that approaches a theme that might be sensitive to some people. In this fictional world, one or more players roleplay characters who experience the last days of all things as doomsday comes near. We talk about Infaernum and many other amazing Brazilian games in this episode, as well as about his work on the many cool fields he had experience with, the extensive collection of weird horror movies from all over the world and a lot more! It was a very insightful episode! I hoper you enjoy it. So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Otavio's links! www.minds-vision.com ˆBACK IT NOW! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hvc2ng3u (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Legacy of Cthulhu: https://www.minds-vision.com/products/the-legacy-of-cthulhu-collectors-edition Vampire - Alone in the Darkness: https://www.minds-vision.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-vampire-alone-in-the-darkness-pdf Fire in the Sky: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106912/ Without Warning: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081764/ Communion: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097100/ | |||
| 85 Erica Lowe | 06 Aug 2024 | 01:36:25 | |
Owner-Erica Lowe Broken Brain Games LLC and Co-founder of Dice and Dish Podcast. Writer on Edrenas Tower (DCC Zine), RagnaBorg (Mork Borg Zine), Temple of Grimbog (5e), and Chambers of Agony (Shadowdark/Mork Borg Zine). 200 RYT-E Yoga Instructor. Listen up and get weird with Erica Lowe https://www.brokenbraingames.com/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/. | |||
| 58 Jordan Dube | 18 Apr 2024 | 01:59:39 | |
Jordan Dube is the owner & operator of Goosepoop Games! He is greatly involved with the community: running game meetups and conventions as executive director of his local game group in Portland, ME, performing clarinet in a swing band, writing video game review articles, and climbing rocks at the rock gym. Formerly a UX designer, programmer, sound engineer, and Army clarinetist, Jordan uses his diverse knowledge to create accessible and approachable games for players of all types. Connection and supporting others is Jordan’s passion and he uses Goosepoop Games to pursue these values. I am always interested in people working on making the community better, more welcoming, more accessible, and who would imagine they are also seeking new ways to make games, and dabbling with themes like philosophy, meditation, mindfulness. So Jordan work was super interesting to me instantly! In this episode we talked a lot about exact those interests, we exchanged a lot insights, jokes, and very deep personal things. It was amazing, it was fun, and very educational! I hope you love it too! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Jordan's Links! goosepoopgames.com Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hvc2ng3u (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Brindlewood Bay: https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/brindlewood-bay.html The Gauntlet: https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/ Writing Is Designing: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Designing-Words-User-Experience-ebook/dp/B082J3Z8R1 The Design of Everyday Things: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B06XCCZJ4L/ref=sr_1_1 Living with Complexity: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Complexity-Press-Donald-Norman/dp/0262528940/ref=sr_1_1 Leadership and Self-Deception: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out-Box/dp/1576759776 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience: https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202/ref=sr_1_1 | |||
| 57 Harley Stroh | 16 Apr 2024 | 02:02:05 | |
Harley Stroh, legendary RPG writer, Skate Punker, and an incredible Judge (or GM for the non-DCCers out there)! Author of moderns classics like Sailors of the Starless Sea, Doom of Savage Kings, Blades Against Death, Journey to the Center of Aereth, Tower of the Black Pearl, Peril on the Purple Planet, and more recently, the impressive The Music of the Spheres is Chaos, a massive boxed-set adventure with a spinning dungeon map! His work in the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG line is super inspiring, and his adventures are some of my favorites of all time! I've been a fan of Harley since I bought my first printing of the limited edition gold skull DCC RPG that came with Doom of Savage Kings, a very pulpy, and open-ended adventure that set very high standards for what I would expect of adventure for now on. I played this adventure so many times, and continue to do so, and I am always impressed how different every time can be. Anyway, in this chat we talked about many things, from how sneakily weird Harley actually is, how he tries to write amazing adventures just to keep up with the fantastical art created by Doug Kovacs, how he runs his finger over his keyboard while writing, and so many other weird and wonderful things. I loved to have this chance to talk to him for almost 2 hours, it was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Harly's work below! https://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/harley-stroh/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hvc2ng3u (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Aleph Null Publishing: https://alephnullpublishing.gumroad.com/ The Hobonomicon: https://sites.google.com/site/hobonomiconcom/ DCC RPG: https://goodman-games.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/ Goodman Games: https://goodman-games.com/ Doug Kovacs: https://dougkovacs.com/home.html Sailors of the Starless Sea: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/dungeon-crawl-classics-67-sailors-on-the-starless-sea-2/ The Green Knight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9243804/ | |||
| 56 Luke Stratton / Limithron | 11 Apr 2024 | 02:00:32 | |
Luke Stratton, or Limithron as he is known throughout the seven seas of the internet, is an artist, game designer, producer, and so many other things. He is the creator of Pirate Borg, as well as Limithron's Guide to Naval Combat for 5th Edition D&D! He was with me on both Game On Expo and Gary Con, so we get to talk a little bit about those. Luke and I had the chance to bond over the course of 2 weeks, as we both attended Game on Expo as Guest/Panalists, and went to Gary Con afterwards to relax among like minded gamers! I am very glad I spent that time with him and I am glad we could talk about that and many other things on the show. We delved into his creative process, his effort to keep the passion for pirate stuff alive, the influences he had while working on Pirate Borg, other artists that inspire his way to work, and many other weird and wonderful things. Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Luke's work below! https://www.patreon.com/posts/limithrons-table-41712155 https://podcast.limithron.com/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/X22bfuqp (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Meshuggah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshuggah How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy: https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Science-Fiction-Fantasy/dp/158297103X Dawn Among the Dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Dead_(1978_film) On Stranger Tider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Stranger_Tides Sean McCoy: https://seanmccoy.substack.com/ Johan Nohr: https://nohr.se/ DCC RPG: https://goodman-games.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/ Shadowdark: https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark Into the Odd: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/into-the-odd/ Troika!: https://www.troikarpg.com/ Ultraviolet Grass Lands: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/uvg-2e Midsommar: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772262/ | |||
| 55 Denis McCarthy | 09 Apr 2024 | 01:57:01 | |
Denis McCarthy has been illustrating and making stock art for indie games since 2016. He has work on multiple tiles in the Indie and OSR community, having a style characterized by an attention to history and architecture. He also sells a lot of stock art, which features in innumerable products, including my own! I've met Denis in a trip I made to Gen Con one of those years ago while I spent some days in NYC before the convention. We talked about art, games, design, life, and everything else. I had the chance to do this another time since them, and well, in this episode as well. Denis is not only an artist but also a scholar. He studies a lot and know what he is talking about, as you will hear in the episode. We talk about many of our favorite influences, Denis praised GURPS, he shares some meditation techniques. It was great. Very insightful guest! So listen up, and let's get weird with Denis McCarthy! Check out Denis' work! instagram.com/gwythaint.ny Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/X22bfuqp (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol 1: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/416741/BX-Advanced-Bestiary-Vol-1 Evlyn Moreau: https://www.instagram.com/evlynmoreau/ (she is on this episode too: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wgnwp/episodes/05-Evlyn-Moreau-e29i5lb) Scrap Princess: https://www.instagram.com/toiletworldultra/?hl=pt Jim Ward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Ward GURPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS BLUEHOLME™ Journeymanne Rules: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/208800/BLUEHOLMETM-Journeymanne-Rules Blood & Treasure 2nd Edition Rulebook: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/189591/Blood--Treasure-2nd-Edition-Rulebook Old-School Essentials: https://necroticgnome.com/pages/about-old-school-essentials Heimat Der Katastrophe: https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/ Dolmenwood: https://necroticgnome.com/products/welcome-to-dolmenwood Dinosynth: https://bandcamp.com/discover/dino-synth Gustav Doré: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9 Henry Clark: https://www.harryclarke.net/ Henry Justice Ford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Justice_Ford David A. Trampier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Trampier Russ Nicholson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Nicholson | |||
| 54 Zac Goins | 04 Apr 2024 | 02:10:21 | |
Zac has written for dozens of publications, including entries in D&D 5e, Mork Borg, Mothership, OSE, Vast Grimm, his upcoming work on Primal Quest, Zweihander, and the Hannibal RPG, and more. In another realm, he is the President of Tabletop Fanatics, one of the Directors at World of Game Design, and a co-host of the Geeks’ Cant podcast. Zac is one of those person you wonder "how do they make it all?", and now I am having a chance to pick his brain on this chat, and work with him on a Primal Quest adventure! It's amazing. This was a wonderful and weird chat. Zac does not think he is weird, but he is definitely one of us, and I am glad he is. He shares a lot on this episode, and hopefully you will learn as much as I did. So listen up, and let's get weird with Zac Goins! Check out Zac's links! https://www.facebook.com/xzacklee/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Cubicle 7: https://cubicle7games.com/ Modiphius: https://www.modiphius.net/ Stockholm Kartell: https://www.stockholmkartell.com/ Zweihander Reforged: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zweihander/zweihander-reforged-edition Vast Grim: https://vastgrimm.com/ PUBG: https://pubg.com/en-eu/events/7th_anniversary Atlanta (TV Series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4288182/ David Cronenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg Andrew Gaska: https://roguereviewer.wordpress.com/ On Writing: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816 | |||
| 53 Michael Low | 02 Apr 2024 | 02:08:28 | |
Michael is the mind behind Luck of Legends, where he teaches writing using games like Stories RPG - which is also his creation, a play-to-learn literacy game and podcast. He coaches teachers, runs after-school programs, writes curriculum, and zealously preaches the gospel of re-designing learning in and out of the classroom. We have been following each other's work on twitter for a couple of years or so, and I've always been interested in gaming for kids (I think it relates to me really hoping my kid gets into tabletop gaming), and having wanted to work as an educator as well, and seeing the potential RPGs in special have to teach us, I saw Michael as a must have guest for our weird show! And just like the rest of us, he is a weirdo and we talk for quite a while about gaming, learning, creativity, community, the celebration of being weird and so much more. It was a wonderful chat! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! So listen up, and get weird with us! Check out Michael's work! https://luckoflegends.itch.io/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Story RPG Podcast: https://www.storiesrpg.com/ Starsworn: https://pineberrypaper.com/collections/starsworn Luna Uni: https://www.luckoflegends.com/lunauni TTRPG Safety Kit: https://ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com/ Banner-ships of the 10,000 Stars: https://hessan-yongdi.itch.io/banner-ships-of-the-10000-stars TTRPG Talk: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpgq_T7E8VB-zoMeIVHOVDJUAjbskaMgS The City of Dreaming Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Dreaming_Books Twelve Forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Forever Hilda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_(TV_series) Infinity Train: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8146754/ THE AWARDS 2024 | |||
| 52 Anthony Meloro | 27 Mar 2024 | 02:03:30 | |
As the original creator of the Mystic Punks, Anthony Meloro has been writing TTRPG zines and materials since 2016. Never satisfied to stay within one genre, Meloro continuously taps into his effervescent knowledge of trash comics, video games, punk rock and, DIY culture to create his work. An educator, a father, a game designer, a MYSTIC PUNK! In this chat we had the opportunity to talk about art, creativity, education, fatherhood, game design, being outsiders, and so much more! We also really got into talking about the great game that is Mystic Punks. We talked about the history behind the original zines, how it evolved, who are all the amazing creator working with him to make the game even greater, and a lot more! BTW, MYSTIC PUNKS in funding right now! Back it to save the universe! Mystic Punks Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game This is a great episode! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it! So let's get weird with Anthony Meloro! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: BEING UPDATED SOON! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game | |||
| 51 Irvin Morales | 19 Mar 2024 | 02:18:00 | |
Irvin Morales is a Game designer, content creator at Role Per Second YouTube channel, and CO-CEO of KoboldCon, a convention in Mexico that promotes the indie TTRPG movement in LATAM. I am very happy to receive my friend and fellow RPGLATAM creator Irvin for a great chat about his journey in the TTRPG world, beginning as a player, becoming a GM, event organizer, store owner and then game designer. We also talked about the unique realities of the hobby in Latin America, especially Mexico and Brazil, going even into how the organized crime can have an impact on gaming. If you want to know a little bit more about our unique and weird worlds, check this one out. It was an incredible chat. We had a lot of fun! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Irvin's links! https://linktr.ee/rolepersecond Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: T | |||
| 50 Rafael Balbi | 14 Mar 2024 | 02:40:12 | |
Rafael Balbi is a Artist, Graphic Designer, Game Designer and Podcaster from Brazil who digs into game design theory in TTRPGs, dynamics of play and gaming systems. Creator of the Oil Fantasy playstyle and lead of a popular hexcrawling westmarches campaign called Biergotten, using a d&d b/x retroclone. Me and Rafael are long time friends, we had a blog together for a while, we wrote an Adventure for DCC RPG Brazilian edition, and we just love hanging out and talking about games. In this episode we talked a lot about Game Design theory, we disagree a little, and agree a lot too. We also talked about how is the TTRPG community down here in Brazil, we mentioned some of our problems, some of our good stuff. We also discussed some of his projects, like the incredible podcast and his deeply researched and playtested Hexcrawl focused RPG. It was a weirdly wonderful chat, I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. So listen up and get weird with us! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: WILL UPDATE AFTER I COME BACK | |||
| 49 Justin Sirois | 12 Mar 2024 | 01:44:45 | |
Justin Sirois is a novelist and game designer as well as the founder of Severed Books and now Severed Toys. Severed Books publishes fiction, games, accessories, and RPG modules. Since 2012, we've published a lot of fiction, had a project optioned for TV/film, expanded into tabletop gaming, and have run over 30 successful Kickstarter campaigns. Collaborations include: Stockholm Kartell, Aaron Draplin (Draplin Design Company), The Dead Milkmen with Andrew Ervin, Head Lopper's Andrew MacLean, Ax-Wielder Jon's Nick Pitarra, and meta horror legend Brian Evenson. www.SeveredBooks.com and www.SeveredToys.com Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Beneath The Media is the Message | |||
| 84 Banana Chan | 31 Jul 2024 | 01:38:18 | |
Banana Chan is a Cantonese Canadian game designer, writer and publisher living in the US. Her latest work has been on Forgery, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition. They won Dicebreaker Awards' Game Designer of the Year 2022 and 2 Silver ENnie Awards in 2022. I had the pleasure and honor to meet Banana during Gary Con 2024 and it was amazing. We played a board game she developed and talked a little bit about games, and the possibility of this interview, which finally happened. In this chat we talked about her amazing work, about the processes of making games, about the weird and the important relationship it has with the mundane, and a lot of other weirdness! Listen up and get weird with us! Check out Banana's links! Back Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall Reprint and New Hauntings now! Banana's Socials: @bananachangames and @readwritememory on Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, Threads. Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/. | |||
| 48 Billy Blue | 07 Mar 2024 | 02:02:05 | |
Billy Blue is a RPG artist and game designer. His clients include, Gallant Knight Games, Philip Reed, Gaming Ballistic, and Yog Du games. He also recently released his own RPG called TLD RPG, a rules lite Dark Fantasy RPG in which he works on integrating his art and writing into a single thing. And we talked a lot about exactly that on the podcast. How to integrate Art and Game Design. We talked about the bless/curse of writing, illustrating, doing layout and everything in a book. We mentioned a lot of other creators whose work and creativity inspires us. Honestly, we talked a lot about art, creativity, process, etc. It's an episode in which these themes come up a lot and I think that's really great. It can be very inspiring and useful to other creators. We had a great time and I hope you do too! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Billy's links! TLD RPG
Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: TLD RPG: https://4c8deb.myshopify.com/ FÄNGELSEHÅLA: https://diekugames.com/fang/ Dieku Games: https://diekugames.com/ Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Calvin and Hobbes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes Gallant Knight Games: https://www.gallantknightgames.com/ | |||
| 47 Lex Mandrake (Dank Dungeons) | 05 Mar 2024 | 02:10:35 | |
Lex Mandrake is an rpg content creator who writes games and supplements, produces videos, and composes music under the moniker Dank Dungeons. I had the honor to work with Lex in AZAG, and had a great time hanging out with him at Gen Con 2023. But besides that, we have been talking and getting to know each other for a while, and this conversation is basically just friends hanging out. In this chat we talk about his work as a Game Designer, Musician, DungeonTuber, old music equipment, B Movies, Dreams, Soundscapes, Comedy in RPGs, Terror Vision, Ghostbusters RPG, Invisible Sun, influences and a lot more weird and wonderful things! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Lex Mandrake's links: https://linktr.ee/dankdungeons Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FrEmabnw (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Jorphdan's Jocular Junction: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1HvISVLDqwUOzmviTRECw Terror Vision: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dankdungeons/terrorvision?ref=d4m7y1 Plex: https://www.plex.tv Mr. Vampire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Vampire Between Two Cairns: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2042709 Tangerine Dream: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream Zorro RPG: https://www.gallantknightgames.com/zorro/ Invisible Sun: https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/invisible-sun/ MiniBX: https://lucasrolim.itch.io/minibx The Legend of the Forgotten Ballad: https://coolwayink.itch.io/forgottenballadpamphlet Horoscope: https://horoscopezine.itch.io/ Sorcerer's Enclave: https://www.squarehex.co.uk/products/the-sorcerers-enclave-late-pledge-option-preorder Bananachan: http://www.gameandacurry.com/bananachan/sample-page/ Bob Worldbuilder: https://www.youtube.com/c/BobWorldBuilder Encounters of the Spooky Kind II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_of_the_Spooky_Kind_II | |||
| 46 Matthew Morris / ManaDawn | 29 Feb 2024 | 02:00:40 | |
Matthew Morris, aka ManaRampMatt has been playing roleplaying games for nearly a decade and has been creating and publishing games and supplements since 2020. He is obsessed with Mausritter and any other Into the Odd based game. Outside of the gaming world he is a husband to an amazing wife, father to two little and cute kiddos, and pastors a rural church community. Matthew loves history, theology, fantasy, adventure, and lots of weird little things in those realms. Matthew's work and enthusiasm for the hobby are contagious! I had the honor to collaborate with him in a few occasions and I can't wait to do it again. His most recent work has just been kickstarted and is called Tomb of a Thousand Doors brings a community built mega dungeon to the acclaimed Mausritter RPG! Oh, and he just launched a Patreon with Hush Lashbrooke to release more Mausritter content regularly (check it out: https://www.patreon.com/TinyTails) On this wonderful chat we talked about coffee and his relationship with it and creativity. We talked about how he is a man of christian faith and how that affects his life and the life of other around him. How he seeks to be a beacon of light and positivity, and how that is important in a world that is constantly blasting us with negative information 24/7. We talked a lot about gaming, RPGs, influences, artists, and all that wonderful weirdness we love! So listen up and get weird with us!
Check out Matthew's links: My Twitter is: @manarampmatt Tiny Tails: https://www.patreon.com/TinyTails Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kR3rzcqN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Tomb of a Thousand Doors: https://manadawnttg.itch.io/tomb-of-a-thousand-doors Rewall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia J. R. R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic Brad Kerr: https://brad-kerr.itch.io/ Ahimsa Kerp: https://knightowlpublishing.com/about-us/ Goblin Archives: https://goblinarchives.itch.io/ The One Ring RPG: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/the-one-ring/ Indiana Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones The X-Files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files Ancient Apocalypse: https://www.netflix.com/title/81211003 Ben Milton: http://questingblog.com/ Into the Odd: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/into-the-odd/ Lost Pages: https://lostpages.co.uk/ Mausritter: https://mausritter.com/ | |||
| 45 David Blandy | 27 Feb 2024 | 01:51:34 | |
David Blandy is an artist who makes rules light, flavour heavy games. David formed the Copy/Paste Co-Op with friend and illustrator Daniel Locke last year to make weird games for weird people in a weird (profit sharing) way. Some of his work includes Eco Mofos, Lost Eons, Babel and much more! I'v been talking to David over Twitter for a while now and I am always impressed by the depth and width in his work. In this chat I had the opportunity to talk to him a little bit more about it, and about how he, as an artist, explores not only the medium of TTRPG, but music and other mediums to express himself and experiment. This is one of those episodes you can hear we are just having a great time chatting exploring the weird. We talked influences, we talked favorite creators, he studied Kung Fu in a real freaking temples, folks! This is wonderfully weird! We had a great time chatting, we go deep, we get weird! So get weird with us! :) Check out David's links! https://eco-mofos.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/ive-been-dreaming-of-ttrpgs-fire Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kR3rzcqN (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Erol Otus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol_Otus New School Revolution (NSR): https://newschoolrevolution.com/2020/01/19/what-is-the-nsr-part-1 Wu-Tang Clan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Tang_Clan Asheron's Call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call Carlydraws: https://linktr.ee/carlydraws Elite Dangerous: https://store.steampowered.com/app/359320/Elite_Dangerous/ Magic Realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism Luke Gearing: https://lukegearing.blot.im/ Akira: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/ Alien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise) Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise) 2000 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AD_(comics) Outer Rim: Uprising: https://outer-rim-uprising.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/ Star Trek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek KRS-One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRS-One Hideo Kojima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima Hayao Miyazaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki Vaults of Varn: https://vaultsofvaarn.com/ Wet Grampa: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/de/product/286302/Wet-Grandpa?affiliate_id=338514%E2%81%A0 Evey Lockhart: https://violentmedia.itch.io/ | |||
| 44 Daniel Sell | 22 Feb 2024 | 01:23:35 | |
Daniel Sell is the founder of Melsonian Art Council, a publisher of the finest TTRPG books, creator of Troika! The Science Fantasy RPG, and someone who is always lifting other creators up. I've been following Daniel's work for a long while, since the days of Google + or something. I religiously bought all the Undercroft zines he released and fell in love with Troika! the movement it was released. Since then, Melsonian has not disappointed and has put out some of the most creative adventures and setting of the Indie RPG scene, and continues to do so. In this chat, me and Daniel talk about his journey as a creator and publisher, how he is always learning new things, the development of Troika!, what he has in stores for the future, how he would love to have supernatural experiences and even join a cult! It was a great and fun chat. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Daniel's links! BACK SWYVERS NOW: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melsonia/swyvers?ref=2oflki Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our first post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/welcome-to-weird-tales-of-the-old Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/DerxXftu (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Troika!: https://www.melsonia.com/troika-26-c.asp Swyvers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melsonia/swyvers?ref=2oflki Italian Horror Movies: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050926336/ A Dictionary of Symbols: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Symbols-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1681371979 The Complete Magician's Table: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Magicians-Tables-Stephen-Skinner/dp/0738711640 Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_Fantasy_Role-Playing_Game Gene Wolfe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe Jack Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance Tékumel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9kumel Hârn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A2rn Dark Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun Baruch Spinoza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza | |||
| 43 Luke Gearing | 20 Feb 2024 | 01:42:50 | |
Luke Gearing is the renowned writer and game designer behind some of the best weird fantasy adventures made in the last years! He has been making TTRPG stuff for a long while and is tackling bigger and more challenging projects lately. His works include Fever Swamp, The Big Squirm, The Isle, many others, and now Sawyers, a urban fantasy heist game that promises a unique way to play! BACK SWYVERS NOW: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melsonia/swyvers To be honest, I am a fanboy of Luke. His adventures have a very unique weirdness to it, a creativity that's hard to match, and a way to play that is just fun for both the Referee, who is has no idea what's is going to happen, and for the players, who have many options to follow, but always with a good guidance and motivations to play the adventure to its fullest. Wow! In this chat we talked about the many years he has been working with TTRPG, honing his skill. We talked about how he has some issues with the "game designer" term and prefers to just be a "writer", how he is usually not that interested in new systems and mechanics. We talked about his many influences, both in terms of works that shaped the way he creates, and artists who shaped the way he approaches his process. It's a great chat, we go deep, it gets personal, and it's wonderfully weird! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Luke's links! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our first post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/welcome-to-weird-tales-of-the-old Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hy97jQYV (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: D&D B/X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set Stars Without Numbers: https://sine-nomine-publishing.myshopify.com/collections/stars-without-number The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages: https://www.amazon.com.br/Golden-Rhinoceros-Histories-African-Middle/dp/0691217149 Warhammer 40K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000 Airplane Mode: https://www.inc.com/jordan-harbinger/how-noah-kagan-uses-airplane-mode-to-be-productive-how-you-can-too.html Spinal Catastrophism: https://www.amazon.com/Spinal-Catastrophism-Secret-History-Urbanomic-ebook/dp/B08BSZV4YF Steve Albini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini Jack Spice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spicer Cthulhu Dark: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/341997/Cthulhu-Dark Call of Cthulhu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game) Psycho Raiders: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/165748/psycho-raiders Mindfulness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mindfulness Zen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Salvia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum The Art of not Being Governed: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Not-Being-Governed-Anarchist/dp/0300169175 | |||
| 42 Jim Miller | 15 Feb 2024 | 01:56:57 | |
Jim Miller is the founder of Crit Hit AZ, a convention focused on tabletop gaming in Arizona, and is now Co-Director of Tabletop Games of Game on Expo, happening on March 15th to 17th in Phoenix. He is also a game designer and community builder, and, like all weirdos, a lot more than all of that. I got to know Jim a long time ago, back when I was publishing my first games. Jim was super supportive of my work and the first photos of people playing my games on conventions are probably from Crit Hit AZ. Gratitude, Jim! <3 On this chat we talked about Jim's work as a community builder, how he is focusing on bringing tabletop games, and especially TTRPG to communities that might not have access to them most of the time. We also talked about his work with Game Design, parenthood, the lessons he learned in life, mental health, ADHD, Anafantasia, and a lot more. It was a very interesting and insightful chat. I hope you enjoy it as much as we dit! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Jim's links! Game on Expo: https://www.gameonexpo.com/ Crit Hit AZ: https://www.instagram.com/crithitaz/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our first post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/welcome-to-weird-tales-of-the-old Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Hy97jQYV (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Puppet Master (series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_Master_(film_series) Tabletop Gaming Association of Phoenix: https://tgaop.org/ Anafantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia ADHD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder Synthwave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave The Secret of NIMH: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH Evercade: https://evercade.co.uk/exp/ Gamehole Con: https://www.gameholecon.com/ Mausritter: https://mausritter.com/ Lizard People: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory | |||
| 41 Megan Goins and Terry Azamber | 13 Feb 2024 | 01:48:31 | |
Megan Goins and Terry Azamber and new game designers with their first project being funded on this year's Zinequest. The project is called Terra Arcis, a captivating single-player journaling RPG game in which the players are invited to go on a harrowing trip into the beautiful and deadly kingdom of fairies. I got in touch with Megan and Terry through Zac Goins, and he told me how they got into Solo Journaling game by playing my "Lost in the Deep" journaling game about being the last survivor in an expedition to reclaim the lost home of the dwarves, and being new creators in the scene, launching a Kickstarter in the middle of Zinequest, a super busy month, all of that, would be really interesting to explore in the podcast. Well, not mention the theme of their game, Terra Arcis, which is super weird and explored in a unique way in this game. By the way, if you are into weird and the supernatural you are gonna enjoy this one! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Terra Arcis Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terraarcis/terra-arcis Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our first post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/welcome-to-weird-tales-of-the-old Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/gtGWj722 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Lost in the Deep: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/lost-in-the-deep Old English: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Old-English-language Black Dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore) A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk: https://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Guide-Faery-Folk-Llewellyns/dp/0875427332 Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett Daughter of the Forest: https://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Forest-Sevenwaters-Trilogy-Book/dp/0765343436 | |||
| 40 Brandish Gilhelm / Runehammer | 09 Feb 2024 | 01:37:34 | |
Brandish Gilhelm / Henkerin Ferinale, also known as Runehammer, is the game designer, artist, and content creator behind, well, RUNEHAMMER. A powerhouse of TTRPG design and guidance, he is the creator behind Index Card RPG, Viking Death Squad and more recently Skull & Crown! Brandish also has an amazing YouTube channel where he not only talks about the amazing work that he does, but about TTRPG in general, and how to CREATE THINGS! Brandish is constantly sharing his wisdom and knowledge of games and game design, and we talk a little bit about this too in this chat. But not only that, we talked about his journey as a creator, his life and story of overcoming a difficult bump in the road, how he almost died and how that changed him forever. We also touched on the various weirdly wonderful topics we normally talk about on the show, but what really makes this one special is the wisdom Brandish shares. So pay attention to that. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Runehammer's Links! https://www.runehammer.online/ https://www.youtube.com/@Runehammer1 Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our first post: https://open.substack.com/pub/diogonogueira/p/welcome-to-weird-tales-of-the-old Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/gtGWj722 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Bronze Age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age Mjolnir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir Caral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caral Lost Cities: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366494/ House of Leaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves Boxing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing The Hobbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit Chrono Trigger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger Savage Sword of Conan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Sword_of_Conan Mike Mignola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mignola Edgar Allan Poe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe | |||
| 39 Richard Ruane | 07 Feb 2024 | 01:58:48 | |
Richard Ruane (he/him) is the creator of the award-winning game Moonlight on Roseville Beach. He was nominated for the IGDN Groundbreaker Award for Best Setting for Barrow Keep: Den of Spies in 2021 and Dark Designs in Verdigris in 2020. He's previously contributed to Codex, Eat Trash Be Free, and Sunken. I am so glad to have Richard over. We met a few years ago when I traveled to the US and we tried to organize an TTRPG meet up in NYC, and basically only a few people showed up. Since then we'v been in touch and we've been talking and watching each other grow from apart. My wife has actually also worked with him, as she translated Barrow Keep to Portuguese. On this chat we talk a little bit about his journey in the TTRPG space, his fascination for the horror genre, the works and artists that inspired him and that continues to do so, and so much more. I learned quite a few things on this episode and I really want to try Writing Sprints soon! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Richard's Links! Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/gtGWj722 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Writing Sprints: https://thewritepractice.com/writing-sprints/ John Harness: https://john-r-harness.itch.io/ Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Moonlight on Roseville Beach: https://spearwitch.com/products/moonlight-on-roseville-beach Sherwood: https://www.r-rook.studio/p/sherwood.html Barrow Keep: https://www.r-rook.studio/p/barrow-keep.html Ennies: https://ennie-awards.com/ Forged in the Dark: https://bladesinthedark.com/forged-dark Vincent Baker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Baker Mothership: https://www.mothershiprpg.com/ Stephen King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King Slasher Films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film Thriller Genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre) Suspense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense Ravenloft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft Vampire the Masquerade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade Zzarchov Kowolski: https://www.patreon.com/zzarchov Jared Sinclair: https://s-jared.itch.io/ Solar Blades & Cosmic Spell: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/260378/Solar-Blades--Cosmic-Spells Gumshoe System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumshoe_System City of Mist: https://cityofmist.co/ Scooby Doo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo Masks of Nyarlathotep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_of_Nyarlathotep A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to ToonTown: https://vivienxgrimm.itch.io/toontown Playing at the World: https://www.amazon.com/Playing-at-World-Jon-Peterson/dp/0615642047 | |||
| 83 WF Smith (Prismatic Wasteland) | 25 Jul 2024 | 01:29:42 | |
W. F. Smith, also known as Prismatic Wasteland, is a blogger and game designer, author of Barkeep on the Borderlands, making Prismatic Wasteland RPG, and creator of many other amazing things! He comes to the show to talk weird! Prismatic Wasteland, the blog, is one I've been visiting and coming back to for years, and it's been around for a long while. We even talk a little bit on the show about how the blog culture changed over time but is still on of the most reliable ways gamer and creators share their experiences and thoughts. Barkeep on the Borderlands is a supplement he created collaborating with a team of other amazing creators which won a bunch of awards and explores the many weird and wonderful ways to subvert the tired "you start at a tavern fantasy trove". And it does that spetacularly. In this chat we talked about how the weird can be whimsical as well, about the contrast and the mixing with the fantastical and the mundane, about how the RPG media is still new and full of things to explore. We talked about weird games, about story, about structure, about many insightful things. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Prismatic Wasteland's Links: The Barkeep Jam https://itch.io/jam/barkeep-jam https://www.prismaticwasteland.com Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It will really help us! You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Get other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueira Or buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514 Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER! This is super new and I am trying a new thing! I share offers, news, behind the scenes, articles, curiosities, and rants about being me! Fun, right? RIGHT!? Check out our latest post: https://diogonogueira.substack.com/ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Jeshi | |||
| 38 Raul Volpato | 05 Feb 2024 | 01:44:31 | |
Raul Volpato a illustrator and pixel artist working on tabletop RPGs and digital games, and developing his own game, City Noire. I've been fascinated by Raul's art from the moment I saw it on Twitter. I grew up on those old RPG on Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo, and seeing this style of art being used on RPG was something quite new and refreshing for me. It sparked my creativity and until this day I have notes for future projects where I can work on with this style of art to maybe work with Raul again (we collaborated on my Car Combat Business-Card Game Car[D] Battle). On this chat I get to talk to Raul about may wonderfully weird things regarding TTRPG, games, art, illustration, influences, and we even talk deeply about our thoughts on generative AI. We had a wonderful time, we go deep and we get weird! So come get weird with us!
Check out Raul's Links!
https://twitter.com/raul_volp Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/5NyNM8v3 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Pixel Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art GURPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS Final Fantasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy Final Fantasy Tactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Tactics Mike Mignola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mignola Emanuel Melo: https://emanoelmelo.itch.io/ Spencer Campbell: https://gilarpgs.com/ John Harper: https://johnharper.itch.io/ Johan Nohr: https://avgrund-ab.pledgemanager.com/projects/art-by-nohr/participate/ | |||
| 37 Paolo Greco | 04 Feb 2024 | 02:23:06 | |
Paolo Greco is a writer, game designer, artist, book binder, editor, publisher and many other things! They created the Adventure Fantasy Game, Chthonic Codex, Mageblade, Wulfwald, Beyond the Pale and much more. They also created Lost Pages, the publisher who first published both Into the Odd (by Chris McDowell) and Maze Rats (by Ben Milton). I've been a fan of Paolo's work and presence in the RPG space since the good old days of Google +, and miss seeing them around, so this chat was special for me. Paolo's work both as a game designer and publisher helped shaped the way I game and how I make games too. The line of spell books which started with Wonders & Wickedness is probably one of the best books/zine dealing with magic for fantasy games I've ever seen. I love them. In this chat me and Paolo talked about mental health, how that affect our creativity, art and hobbies that we practice or are interested in, works and artists that have influenced us, weird games we played, and many more weird things. It was a great chat, it get personal, it gets weird! The way we like it here! ;) So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Paolo's Links! Get Wulfwald: https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/products/wulfwald-boxed-set Get Beyond the Pale: https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/products/beyond-the-pale-print-pdf Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UTSdtwV4 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Italo Calvino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino The Nonexistent Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nonexistent_Knight Invisible Cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad: https://www.kickassistan.net/p/metal-gods-of-ur-hadad-zine.html Jorge Luis Borges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Fiesta de San Juan: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_de_San_Juan Fighting Fantasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy Atlantis of the Sands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_of_the_Sands Twine: https://twinery.org/ | |||
| 36 Colin Le Sueur | 29 Jan 2024 | 01:40:04 | |
Colin Le Sueur is a tabletop roleplaying game designer, writer, and illustrator. Originally from Canada and now living in the North of England, Colin designs and publishes games such as Runecairn and We Deal in Lead under the imprint By Odin's Beard RPG. Colin's work and dedication to the craft is inspiring for everyone to see. He is constantly developing his work and publishing what he is doing, showing the process of making a game to those who follow him. Runecairn was one of the first solo games I've played and it's one of my favorites! In this chat we talked about his journey as a game designer, his creative process, the works and artists that inspired and continue to inspire him, who he is outside of the hobby, an all sorts of weirdness we love! It was a great chat! So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Colin's Links! https://byodinsbeardrpg.com RUINCARN WARDEN SAGA KS: http://kck.st/3OaSrFC Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UTSdtwV4 (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Cairn: https://cairnrpg.com/ Ravenloft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft Dark Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun Palladium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_Fantasy_Role-Playing_Game TMNT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%26_Other_Strangeness D&D 3rd Edition: https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_3rd_edition Pathfinder: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Roleplaying_Game Footloose: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/ Dark Souls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls Norse Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology Vikings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings Warren Ellis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Ellis Zedeck Siew: https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/ The Dark Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series) Seaman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game) | |||
| 35 Matt Finch | 25 Jan 2024 | 01:33:48 | |
Matt Finch is one of the fundamental figures of the OSR style of TTRPG, his works include OSRIC, Swords & Wizardry, the magnificent Tome of Adventure Design, and the super influential Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (among many other things). He is also the founder of Mythmere Games and is constantly making more and more excellent gaming material! It's hard for me to put into words what Mark's work means to me. I don't know if my work would ever be the same without his. The Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, even though meant to help you play games inspired by the first editions of D&D, the document defined a style of play that is not really system dependent, and thus serves as a Game Design framework to design Old-School style games, without necessarily having to use old D&D-like systems. Well, at least that's how I've been using it! But that is just one of the many incredible things he made and that I adore, and in this chat we got to talk a little bit about all of them. We chatted about what the OSR is for us, why we like it so much, how it is based on open-ended situations and improvisation, future projects, greek mythology, adventure design, and so many other things. It was a great chat and even though we talked about so many weirdly wonderful things in a little over 1 hour and a half, when we were finished I felt I could have asked so many more questions and get som many more wisdom from Matt that now I want a "Matt Finch Returns" episode someday. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Matt's Links! Mythmere Games: https://www.mythmeregames.com/ Matt's YouTube Channel: https://www.mythmeregames.com/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: bit.ly/kosmosaurs Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/BG8AZYVy (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Quick Primer for Old-School Gaming: https://friendorfoe.com/d/Old%20School%20Primer.pdf OSRIC: https://osricrpg.com/ Navajo Nation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation Greek Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology Jack Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance Gary Gygax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax Dave Arneson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Arneson Neil Gaiman: https://www.neilgaiman.com/ Glen Cook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook Bernard Cornwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock Michael Moorcock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock Rifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifts_(role-playing_game) Traveller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game) Call of Cthulhu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game) | |||