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Rich and Rach bring on Kamala Kara of Far Horizons Co-Op to talk about their shonen battle manga tabletop roleplaying game. Timecodes: 0:01:20 - Read a Sitch about Telling Stories during Combat Scenes 0:05:51 - Open Your Brain to Friendship, Effort, Victory 0:18:35 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Curtis in the championship match You can follow Kamara on Twitter @KamalaKaraA1 You can find FEV on the Far Horizon's itch page here: https://far-horizons-co-op.itch.io/fev

Rach and Rich bring on Dusty De Leon of HellaBigWorks games to talk about their RPG about Small Town Heroics and Big Time Adventures. Timecodes: 0:02:23 - Read a Sitch about Love Letters and Set Pieces 0:06:26 - Open Your Brain to Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour 0:15:16 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Lamar You can find more of Dusty's stuff on their itch page: https://hellabigworks.itch.io/ Find Tendencies on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TendenciesG

Rach and Rich bring on Christopher Grey to talk about his modern gothic RPG Great American Witch. Timecodes: 0:02:02 - Read a Sitch about PbtA and Failure 0:08:25 - Open Your Brain to Great American Witch 0:19:33 - Act Under Fire with the witches Chantell and Plussy going clubbing You can find more of Christopher's stuff here: https://christopher.world/

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2021, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2022. Timecodes: 01:51 - Rich's Gaming Highlights 16:28 - Rach's Gaming Highlights 25:56 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2021 34:23 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2021  42:11 - Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions

Rach and Rich bring on Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and podcaster and game designer Brandon Leon Gambetta to talk about ways to get the best out of a game of Masks A New Generation. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love. Timecodes: 0:12:36 - Masks for players - Favorite Playbooks 0:21:54 - Some Great Basic Moves 0:29:09 - Masks thoughts for GMs 0:41:22 - Challenges to Consider when running Masks Masks A New Generation can be found on Magpie's website here: https://magpiegames.com/pages/masks Find cool Masks playbooks on itch here: https://itch.io/physical-games/tag-masks The Masks fan Discord can be found here: https://discord.gg/Up8MBUe8 Misha: https://twitter.com/BGGameWorks Brandon: https://twitter.com/bleongambetta

Rach and Rich bring on Miciah Dodge to talk about his pulp adventure game Thrilling Adventures! Timecodes: 0:02:24 - Read a Sitch about Playing in The Groove together 0:11:06 - Open Your Brain to Thrilling Adventures! 0:20:47 - Act Under Fire with Curtis and Plussy in the bayou seeking the Jade Bat Check out Miciah's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miciahdodge/thrilling-adventures-tabletop-role-playing-game

Rach and Rich bring on Briar Sovereign to talk about their game about mecha and magic. Timecodes: 0:01:09 - Read a Sitch about using play-by-post to bridge live game sessions! 0:10:00 - Open Your Brain to Armour Astir Advent 0:16:01 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Chantel as they take on some mechs Briar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/weregazelle Briar's Itch store: https://weregazelle.itch.io/

​Rach and Rich reflect on their Summer Series of Forged in the Dark (FitD) games.  Timecodes: 0:05:49 - What aspects of FitD most surprised us 0:13:56 - Which aspects we found underwhelming 0:21:26 - Advice we offer for first time FitD players 0:33:08 - Thoughts on PbtA and FitD connections 0:35:04 - Our Highs 0:40:37 - Our Lows 0:45:30 - Final Thoughts on FitD and PbtA

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This seventh episode features Erik Bernhardt. Timecodes: 00:04:14 - Setting Position and Effect - Long-term play and campaign building for Forged in the Dark games 00:10:55 - Progress Clock on Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants 00:25:59 - The Score - Rich and Rach construct a Fae Patron Find more Brinkwood info at brinkwood.net Or, you can pre-order Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants here: https://brinkwood.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This sixth episode features Jason Eley Timecodes: 00:01:28 - Setting Position and Effect - Using Setting Elements in FitD games 00:08:43 - Progress Clock on Copperhead County 00:19:08 - The Score - Rich and Rach You can find Copperhead County here: https://guitartown.itch.io/copperhead Other FitD games with cool settings mentioned by Jason: Band of Blades, Rebel Crown, Nocturne, Hello World

​Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This fifth episode features Austin Ramsay, creator of Beam Saber. Timecodes: 00:01:31 - Setting Position and Effect - the split between missions and downtime in FitD 00:08:22 - Progress Clock on Beam Saber 00:20:42 - The Score - Rich and Rach play mech pilots! You can find Beam Saber here: https://austin-ramsay.itch.io/beamsaber

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This fourth episode features Ben Nielson, creator of Wicked Ones, from Bandit Camp. Timecodes: 00:01:23 - Setting Position and Effect - making Devil's Bargains 00:11:32 - Progress Clock on Wicked Ones 00:20:40 - The Score - Rich and Rach populate a dungeon level and send some adventurers through You can purchase Wicked Ones here (affiliate link): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/338480/Wicked-Ones-Deluxe-Edition?affiliate_id=78493 Bandit Camp can be located here: https://banditcamp.io/

Rach and Rich bring back Brendan Conway of Magpie Games to talk about Avatar Legends: the RPG, out on Kickstarter now! Timecodes: 0:03:01  - Read a Sitch about Action and Intent 0:11:51 - Open Your Brain to Avatar Legends: the RPG 0:26:27  - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Won against the Dai Li! Find the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/avatar-legends-the-roleplaying-game

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This third episode features Justin Ford, creator of Moth-Light and host of the Hacked in the Dark podcast Timecodes: 00:01:55 - Setting Position and Effect - using flashbacks 00:10:05 - Progress Clock on Moth-Light 00:20:13 - The Score - Theta and Plus One try to liberate a solar core You can find Moth-Light here: https://moth-lands.itch.io/moth-light Hacked in the Dark podcast can be found here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1249355

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This second episode features John Leboeuf-Little and Stras Acimovic, creators of the Scum & Villainy RPG. Timecodes: 00:02:32 - Setting Position and Effect - covering the discussion of the fiction in FitD games, and also the non-finality of moves 00:15:51 - Progress Clock on Scum & Villainy 00:27:37 - The Score - a Scum & Villainy chase sequence You can find Scum & Villainy at Evil Hat's store: https://www.evilhat.com/home/scum-and-villainy/ Stras is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/strasa John is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/worldnamer Their official website is here: https://offguardgames.com/

Rach and Rich kick off their second Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This first episode features John Harper, creator of ​Blades in the Dark, the first FitD game. (we even renamed the segments!) Timecodes: 00:01:05 - Setting Position and Effect 00:09:08 - Progress Clock 00:24:00 - The Score You can follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_harper Purchase games like Blades in the Dark and Agon on Evil Hat's site here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/category/our-productions/ John's older games can be found here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/

​Rach brings on Freddie Taylor-Bell to talk about their game about a community of wayward animals in search of a new home - Briar & Bramble Timecodes: 0:01:16  - Read a Sitch about the ease of transition from player to designer with PbtA games 0:06:28 - Open Your Brain to Briar and Bramble 0:15:00  - Act Under Fire with Rach as Clair the raccoon! Find the Briar and Bramble on Itch here: https://drunkwizard.itch.io/briar

Rach talks with Heather and Aura, the design team behind Extreme Meatpunks Forever. Timecodes: 0:01:10 - Read a Sitch about MC tools in a PbtA game 0:06:32 - Open Your Brain to Extreme Meatpunks Forever 0:16:30 - Act Under Fire with Amber and Crow Find out everything about Extreme Meatpunks Forever the RPG here: http://meatpunksrpg.com/

Rach and Rich bring on Shawn Tomkin to talk about his new game Ironsworn: Starforged​, which is on Kickstarter until May 26, 2021 Timecodes: 0:01:37  - Read a Sitch about oracle-based play 0:14:43 - Open Your Brain to Ironsworn: Starforged 0:24:10  - Act Under Fire with Rich and Rach as they explore a waypoint Find the Ironsworn: Starforged kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shawntomkin/ironsworn-starforged

Rach and Rich bring on Moe Poplar of Ashy Feet Games to talk about his shonen anime-styled Steampunk RPG Shibuyan Knights. Timecodes: 0:01:26  - Read a Sitch about character keepers 0:11:42 - Open Your Brain to Shibuyan Knights 0:17:53  - Act Under Fire with Ramen and Yuzu! Ashy Feet Games: https://ashyfeet.com/ The Gauntlet's Play Aids Folder: http://tiny.cc/TheGauntletPlayAidsFolder