A podcast about role playing games and the weird wonderful people behind them!
Here we talk to the people who helped create theses marvelous games we enjoy so much and get to know the weird wonderful being they are.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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78 Matthew Orr (Wet Ink Games)
Episode 78
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 • Duration 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!
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!
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76 Scott McDonald
Episode 76
Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 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.
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75 Alex Kobayashi
Episode 75
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 • Duration 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!
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74 Pawel Klimczak
Episode 74
Friday, June 14, 2024 • Duration 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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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
73 Nicholas Cardarelli (Raised on DnD)
Episode 73
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 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!
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72 Jeremy Pillopow (Black Magic Craft)
Episode 72
Friday, June 7, 2024 • Duration 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.
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71 Jason Morningstar
Episode 71
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 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...
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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
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!?
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