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Rach and Rich kick off their first Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Belonging Outside Belonging (BOB) style of PbtA games. This first episode features Avery Alder, creator of Dream Askew, the first BOB game. (we even renamed the segments!) Timecodes: 0:01:19 - Spend a Token... to hear Avery talk about the history and design goals of Dream Askew 0:12:59  - You Also Play As The... person leaning about Dream Askew 0:21:56 - No Dice, No Masters... a demo of Dream Askew's setting creation Avery's talk on Designing in Dialogue With Other Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr0d9nvSEk

Rach and Rich bring on Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club blog to talk about his amazing article called Prep 2.0 (https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/prep-2-0/) and using Clocks in PbtA games! Timecodes: 0:01:35 - Read a Sitch  0:14:28  - Open Your Brain to Prep 2.0 0:20:06 - It's all about Clocks! The IGRC blog: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/ Paul's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/igrc/posts

Rich interviews Sam Sorensen about Rust Hulks, his game about playing space truckers in a grimy science-fiction future. Timecodes: 0:02:24 - Read a Sitch about PbtA game structures and third party supplements 0:14:28  - Open Your Brain to Rust Hulks 0:25:26  - Act Under Fire with Captain Plus One You can purchase Rust Hulks here (aff): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/300564/Rust-Hulks?affiliate_id=78493 Sam's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/headofthegoat

Rach and Rich interview David Brunell-Brutman about his game about 1990's action with Teens with Attitude. Timecodes: 0:01:46 - Read a Sitch about what it means to Play to Find Out 0:13:19  - Open Your Brain to Teens With Attitude 0:23:33  - Act Under Fire with Chris and Lance Find the Teens With Attitude Quickstart here: teenswithattitude.com David's Patreon: patreon.com/davidbrunellbrutman David's Instagram: instagram.com/david.brunellbrutman

Rach and Rich continue Movie Night, our series where we pair a movie and a PbtA RPG and talk about how you can watch the movie and improve your experience with the game. Our third pairing is Star Wars: Rogue One and Impulse Drive Timecodes: 02:02 - Spoiler-less Rogue One plot description 06:03 - Impulse Drive overview 12:38 - Rogue One Spoilery Chat!!! 17:09 - Playbook talk, where we assign playbooks (Archetypes) to significant movie characters 29:33 - Playable scenes from the movie 45:00 - Rach breaks down an NPC movie character with Impulse Drive mechanics Star Wars - Rogue One can be found on Disney+. You can purchase Impulse Drive here (aff): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/279561/Impulse-Drive?affiliate_id=78493 A discussion on hacking Story Games to Star Wars from the Gauntlet forum: https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/t/playing-star-wars-in-story-game-systems/4449

Rich and Rach talk about ways to get in some PbtA gaming during social distancing measures. Timecodes: 00:13:36 - Duet Gaming with a local partner or roommate 00:20:09 - Things to consider with PbtA Games to run them as a Duet Game 00:32:25 - Gaming at home (with kids) 00:38:05 - Gaming Online with video conference rools 00:51:02 - RPG Play-by-Post (on forum or the like) 00:56:04 - RP by Chat (irc, Discord, or Slack)

Rich interviews Brandon Leon-Gambetta about his game currently on Kickstarter called Pasión de las Pasiones. Timecodes: 02:20 - Read a Sitch on using Custom Moves for Places and Situations 14:24  - Open Your Brain to Pasión 26:31  - Act Under Fire with Uno Mas! Find the Pasión de las Pasiones Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bleongambetta/pasion-de-las-pasiones

Rach interviews Kevin Petker about his game currently on Kickstarter called Princess World. Timecodes: 02:38 - Read a Sitch on using MC Moves to color a narrative 10:32  - Open Your Brain to Princess World 16:17   - Act Under Fire with Rachari the Warrior Princess Find the Princess World Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Kevin's Itch store is here: https://kpetker.itch.io/

Rich interviews Robert Bohl about his game currently in playtest called Demihumans. Timecodes: 03:00 - Read a Sitch on  Session Structure 09:13  - Open Your Brain to Demihumans 20:06   - Act Under Fire with Plussy the Orc! Find out more about Demihumans here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/demihumans/ If you're interested in how it's played, check out this amazing AP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6IvtW_iF0&list=PLKn8FqxXQQzeGDNlvJxGDvIrBcsoMJfzP

Rach interviews April Walsh about her game currently in playtest called Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Timecodes: 0:42  - Read a Sitch on Safety Tools 12:15  - Open Your Brain to Thirsty Sword Lesbians 21:27  - Act Under Fire with a Scoundrel as she faces the United Empire Find out more about TSL here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/thirsty-sword-lesbians/

Rach interviews new and seasoned designers about their newest PbtA designs while she's at Metatopia 2019. Be warned, these game designs are not yet finished and not publicly available. Feel free to follow the designers and hear more! Show Notes: Noel Warford: An Angelic Bureaucracy Twitter: @360noelscope Itch: Noelwarford.itch.io Joie Martin: Follow Me Down Twitter: @drowningmoonrpg, @smallglassworld DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/12039/Drowning-Moon-Studios Itch: https://drowningmoonstudios.itch.io India Weston: Heartwood Twitter: @HeartwoodRPG Email: HeartwoodRPG@gmail.com Alexi Sargent: Checkpoint Midnight Twitter: @ClovenPineGames Itch: https://cloven-pine-games.itch.io  Checkpoint Midnight Mailing List: Bit.ly/CheckpointMidnightList Amr Ammourazz: Between the Margins Twitter: @ammourazz Marissa Kelly: Airlock Twitter: @MagpieOfficial

Timecodes 00:01:20 - History and development of Trophy 00:11:15 - Trophy Dark 00:13:51 - Trophy Gold 00:21:05 - Trophy Loom 00:25:17 - Kickstarter details Links Trophy Kickstarter Campaign

Rach interviews Josh Fox of Black Armada Games about his game Last Fleet, which is on Kickstarter NOW! Timecodes: 3:50 - Read a Sitch on Better 1st Sessions 9:48 - Open Your Brain to Last Fleet 18:03 - Act Under Fire with Florence the harried engineer Find the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackarmada/last-fleet-rpg-lastfleetrpg?ref=dzx517 Black Armada Games can be found here: https://blackarmada.com/

Rich interviews Vivien Feasson about his game Libreté, which is on Kickstarter NOW! Timecodes: 02:58 - Read a Sitch on the frequency of tests or rolls in a PbtA game 09:39 - Open your Brain to Libreté 18:57 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Libreté Find the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmdk/librete-an-rpg-of-lost-children

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2019, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2020. Timecodes: 01:23 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2019 05:31 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2019  16:04 - Rich talks about reskinning PbtA games for Star Wars 33:33 - Rich gives some tips on how he reskins PbtA games for new settings 37:42 - Rach talks about adjusting Monster of the Week for different tones 45:46 - Rich and Rach's 2020 Gamer Resolutions

Rach interviews Sam Tung and Sam Roberts about their action-packed adventure game Escape from Dino Island! Timecodes: 04:11 - Read a Sitch on running and playing low-prep games 12:56 - Open Your Brain to Escape from Dino Island 23:27 - Act Under Fire You can buy the game here: https://samnite.itch.io/escapefromdinoisland

Rich and Rach interview Rich Howard and Richard Kreutz-Landry about their game Descent into Midnight, which is coming to Kickstarter in early 2020! Third game designer Taylor couldn't make the recording, sadly. Timecodes: 3:27 - Read a Sitch with Richard talking about being brave as an MC and trusting your players 9:33 - Read a Sitch with Rich H handling surprise  player-created pregens at cons 15:48 - Open your Brain to Descent into Midnight 31:59 - Act Under Fire Check out the game here: https://descentintomidnight.com/ The Masks episode of Whelmed Rich H mentioned: https://crashingthemode.com/podcast/2017/6/21/masks-ap-relations-episode-01

During Gauntlet Con 2019, Rich moderated a panel with his co-host Rach and expert MCs Marissa Kelly of Magpie Games and Phil Vecchione of Encoded Designs.

Rach interviews Mikko Karttunen about his Renaissance-era PbtA game featuring intrigue, character drama, and a little bit of magic Timecodes: 02:09 - Read a Sitch about player-driven game play 10:36 - Open your Brain... to Blightburg 21:23 - Act Under Fire with Rach  Purchase Blightburg here (affiliate link): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/280214/Blightburg?affiliate_id=78493

Time Codes: 02:54 - Games Rich is playing 28:01 - Games Rach is playing 40:31 - Intro of second topic - mini-movie nights! 41:31 - Rach tackles BSG episode 33 through the lens of Night Witches 49:00 - Rich tackles 1981 movie Thief through the lens of The Sprawl