This episode, we're joined by special guest Brandon AKA AshenWorks (@Ashen_Works) of Huntsmen's Hydra (@HuntsmensHydra) to talk about Blades in the Dark and the Forged in the Dark genre as a whole.
But, to start with, Cole is stumbling back into Destiny 2, finding too much story and a crafting system? We also spend some time talking about Lance Reddick, because of course we do.
Then, Marley chats about... doing book layouts in Google Docs? Making a work look nice before writing it has gotten him inspired, and helped him finish a horror game, The Night of the Scarecrow.
Meanwhile, Brandon has been playing the Commander format of Magic: The Gathering, and he's found this hero-focused way of playing has been scratching his character-creation itch and has been inspiring some TTRPG projects he's been working on.
Cole has also been messing around in Google Forms, and Marley takes the opportunity to let Google know where they went wrong...
Then, Tabletop RPGs!
Cole's been checking out Jason Price's Last Sentinels, a game about a doomed mech pilot protecting a ship escaping a besieged planet. We spend some time chatting about tragic games as an interesting alternative to most games, since...
...Marley is talking about a non-verbal Larp he's read about relationship coming to an end, specifically Wiltby Mads Jøns Frausig and Karete Jacobsen Meland. New to nordic larps, Marley found himself blown away by what's happening in it, fascinated by the safety tools, and, at one point, began tearing up a little while reading it.
To lighten the mood, Brandon chats about Zak Barouh's Animon Story, an adorable game inspired by Digimon & Pokemon, that made all three of our co-hosts pause the episode to look at all the cute animals pictures it has in it.
To close, we spend a good time discussing John Harper's Blades in the Dark and Forged in the Dark games, including Austin Ramsay's Beam Saber and Briar Sovereign's The Brightest Things We Know. We talk how we got into it, its lineage in TTRPGs, how it looks as a PbtA game, and how we feel about the stress and trauma mechanic.
Featuring Marley (@Mynar_Lenahan), Cole (@IceColeBrew), and Brandon (@Ashen_Works).
Produced by Marley, as well.
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