After a week off (curse you, Pax Pox...), your co-hosts return, this time to discuss pitching Tabletop Games, both to players and to the world at large.
But first, Marley talks about his experience attending PAX Aus, along with seeing panels, celebrities, and talks about the sheer number of TTRPGs he played while he was there...
Cole, on the other side of the planet, talks hanging with AshenWorks and playing fun games in person. They've also been getting into commentating for MLE Esports GG and using Word of the Day to expand their vocabulary. Also, Witch In Mercury is good, so he's been watching that.
Marley starts the tabletop talk with As The Sun Forever Sets by Riley Daniels. It's a Forged in the Dark game that's also a hex-crawl and also set within the world of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds? Marley is facinated by the idea of playing in the dying days of the British Empire of the 1890s, but is also amazed by the mechanical innovations the game makes in the FitD genre.
Then, noted board-game-disliker Marley brings up his most anticipated board game of the past few years: Monopoly: Fortnite Edition. Initially brought in by just the bizarre concept, Marley has found himself bizarrely sold on an adaptation that's more than a re-skin that plays fast and loose with what we know of Monopoly to create... a tactical shooter? It's a deeply fascinating thing.
Cole meanwhile has been checking out GM-less games with astounding art.
First of which is Dialect by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu, which is a game about a community that strived to create their own culture, and the language that remains after a dominant culture assimilates them. Cole found it to be a great introduction to entirely new kinds of tabletop games.
Then, Cole chats about Cantrip by Misha Panarin and Celeste Cruz, a fun Belonging Outside Belonging game about young witches getting up to trouble at a magical school. It reminded Cole of Little Witch Academia and Kiki's Delivery Service and was just a fun, chill time.
Then, we move onto our main topic of Pitching Games. We've chatted with members of assorted TTRPG communities about what sells them on games and how they sell games to other people. Marley also chats about his reflections from spending a weekend seeing tabletop game developers pitching their games at a huge games convention. Then we take a moment to be real with y'all and talk about what interested them about the four tabletop games they discussed on this episode of the podcast...
Featuring Cole (@IceColeBrew) and Marley (@Mynar_Lenahan)
Produced by Marley, as well.
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