In this episode, Cole and Marley talk about how to break a TTRPG, because sometimes you just gotta.
But first, Marley has finished off watching the first season of Andor and Star Wars is back, baybeee!
Meanwhile, Cole got engaged, watched Bocchi The Rock!, read Melancholy Her, finished Citizen Sleeper, streamed Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and started a playthrough of Disco Elysium.
And we're not even twenty minutes into the episode!
Cole kicks off tabletop talk by chatting about playing Skelpielimmer's Desperado Playbook in a Blades in the Dark oneshot and had a wild, bloody time playing a gunslinger in Duskvol. Marley audibly gasps at one point.
Cole has also gotten interested in Rathayibacter's [BXLLET>, another fascinating gunslinger game about violence, and the responsibility it brings. Also, the name of the game is aparently a core mechanic?? They will report back on that...
Marley chats about his experience playing AlwaysCheckers' Notorious for last week's episode (which you can watch on our YouTube!). He's come away blown away with the possibilities that random tables can offer and has become a massive Jason Price fan.
He also checked out Mörk Borg, which is worlds away from the games he usually plays. He alternated between being enchanted by the world-building to being kind of underwhelmed by some of the random tables to once more being enraptured in the possibility of owning a monkey in-game. He also wrote a whole copost about his thoughts as he read through the book.
Cole finishes up tabletalk by returning to Sworn by Ghostlight: The Case of the Ebon Wood Effigies by Yuigaron. He's had a lot of fun with the mechanics and seeing how the game uses random tables (including the fantastic ), to build up a murder mystery from scratch. Cole also teases that this may become a future episode/YouTube video for Inside The Table...
Finally, we take some time chatting about breaking games or, rather, how people change existing games to suit them. We discuss aesthetic changes, making homebrew items, breaking games to make them accessible, and The Fail Forward Blog's Three Rules Rule: How much should you break a game before you decide you should just play something else?
Featuring Cole (@IceColeBrew) and Marley (@Mynar_Lenahan)
Produced by Marley, as well.
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