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Fandible Actual Play Podcast

An RPG actual play podcast, with geek and pop culture commentary

Jesus Post Gen Con 2018 Report

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So about a month ago, The Fandible Podcast was honored to be nominated for an ENnie in this years Gencon. When we first heard the news, we were elated. Screaming out in joy and performing victory dances that I am sure had some sort of rhythm. And then we realized… wait, does that mean we need to actually head to Gencon?

So began the mad scramble. Out of all the Fandible crew, I was the only one with the open schedule (and the vacation time) to head off to Indiana and possibly get an award. A responsibility I took with a heavyweight and incredible glee.

Then, the planning began. Trying to find an open hotel room in Indiana, figuring out which lucky dice bag to bring with me, and deciding what gifts to give to fans both new and old. Which was when we came up with the idea of the Fandible Goodie Bag. A little baggie full of Candy, Cards, and a CURSED DAVID DICE! Because if they like the good, they will have to accept the bad.

Eventually, it was the day. The plane ride there was uneventful, followed by a boring trip to my hotel room to unload my stuff. Things really got interesting however with my LYFT ride to the Convention center. Where I met Jeffrey who was a fellow geek who played Dungeons and Dragons with his sons. Plus, he plays a Dwarven fighter. This alone was a good enough reason to receive the first Fandible Goodie Bag.

When I finally arrived, I played the first game of the day. THE LINE. A RPG based heavily on a mechanic called patience. It did, however, allow for a lot of sidequests involving social interactions with fellow geeks on THE LINE. And, I have to say, the epic level reward was totally worth it.

I went to two notable events that day. The first was Gencon Insights. This was where various influential people in the geek community have  TedTalk-style presentations on a topicoff their choice. One of them was a wonderful talk by Shanna Germain, who you may know as Co-owner of MonteCook games and creator of Predation. She spoke about Creative Empathy which I suggest you check out once it becomes available on the Gencon Youtube channel.

Then I headed down to a local pub to hang with the creative team of Monte Cook Games and cypher system fans to discuss our love of the system and play goofy party games. This was also where I got to meet up with Darcy Ross, Monte Cook, and Bruce Cordell (Who I asked for forgiveness for the drunken shenanigans of our Strange games!)

And it’s where I finally got to meet fellow Podcast creators Aser and Megan from the Redacted Files podcast.

On Friday, I began the day with games. Becuase… games. First was the Pathfinder 2nd playtest where I got to play a goblin alchemist with a love of explosions. The game seems to have more tactical options in combat then its competitor D&D. Do I like it more then D&D? I’m not sure. I think I need another play session or two to really get a feel for it. I can say, however, that it is different enough that I think fans could possibly like both.

The next highlight was Doomseeker. A beer and pretzles game of Fireslayers seeking the greatest doom. The point, as you can guess, is to fight bigger and bigger monsters until you die heroically while hopefully getting more points then the other Fireslayers around you. There is also a gambling mechanic where you bet whether you or the Fireslayers around you will survive a particular combat. No we’re not talking about the same kind of wagering when online gambling in Texas.  The game also allows for you to play cards to help or hinder the other players of the table. Gambling and violence – the perfect Dwarven game if there ever was one.

From there was a chance meeting with John Arcadian of Gnomestew and Andy Hopp of Muthaoith Creations to discuss what we love about gaming and also work on our Charlies Angels’ poses.

Followed by a fantastic Pre-Ennies dinner with Darcy ross, John Arcadian, and the rest of the Gnomestew crew.
Finally, it was award time. I would like to to say I wasn’t nervous, but then I would be a liar, and I leave those deception skills for use behind the GM screen. As you probably heard by now, we didn’t win the award for Best Podcast. Sad, but I can’t say the actual winners didn’t deserve it. Both Fear of a Black Dragon and Miskatonic University are fantasticpodcasts, and you should go check them out if you have the chance. After the ENnies ceremony, many drinks were had! No need to go into specifics of what happened there… okay, honestly, I don’t remember what happened there.
Then came Saturday. Free from the stress of the ENnies, I allowed myself to just be a geek at a convention. The biggest highlight was getting to play Planet Mercenary as a player. I got to roleplaying a Queltro Engineer whose had a fire-team team named after the Chippetes. Sadly, death wasn’t a stranger to them. I learned there was a reason to offer payment for a job AFTER the job was done.
After that, it was time to head to the show floor and BUY ALL THE BOOKS.

The final picture isn’t a book but art prints. From a studio called Broken Dice games. They were selling art prints to help finance a RPG they are working on called Naudan Chronicles. And, after looking at the Gorgeous art and seeing how passionate they were about the world they were creating, I had to buy some prints. Plus, that Stone Gollum art will look really good on my wall. I wish them all the luck on their project and will probably back them when they finally get their Kickstarter going sometime next year.

So that’s my report on my first GenCon! I can assure you all it won’t be my last. I can say yearly trips to GENCON will probably be a Fandible event from here on out.

Beasts of the South

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“Follow the stars to the north, the winds to the east, the sea to the west, and the beasts to the south.”

She’d learned the words as a child, but two weeks ago they had taken on greater urgency.

“Follow the stars to the north, the winds to the east, the sea to the west, and the beasts to the south.”

Two weeks ago, she’d turned thirteen. Two weeks ago, she’d been released to pursue her birthright.

“Follow the stars to the north, the winds to the east, the sea to the west, and the beasts to the south.”

A simple children’s song was actually a message. Directions, for those clever enough to follow them. For the far-flung members of the clan to return home.

Her name was Miral. Long ago, her parents had been of the Lukoheda clan. Now it was her turn.

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Finding a wandering clan in the steadfast was much more difficult than her rhyme had made her believe.

“Stupid parents, leaving in the first place,” she muttered, kicking a discarded metal scrap laying along the side of the road. What road she was on, she couldn’t say. Map reading had never been one of her stronger skills. Who needs a map when you have an ancient poem to guide you?

But turning around wasn’t an option either. Even if she hadn’t been terribly lost. She’d made a commitment. And if she went back on that commitment now, the clan would never accept her. No, she had to find the Lukoheda clan, or die trying.

She took out her canteen. It was nearly empty.

Before she could take a drink, she heard a snarl behind her. Miral turned to face the creature that was eyeing her for lunch. It was a small beast for making such a fierce noise, only coming up to her knees. She could see its ribs through its patchy fur. It was weak, but it still had very sharp teeth.

“Hello,” Miral said, trying to keep her voice from squeaking. If she wasn’t mistaken, this was an aubernese herder. Their scouts would go out into the wilderness and herd their prey back to the pack to feed everyone. But was the best way to avoid becoming a quick snack to make herself bigger or to fall down and play dead?

The beast began to circle her, then growled again.

“The beast,” Miral whispered to herself. She glanced up at the sky, orienting herself. The moon was still low on the horizon. Meaning the beast was pushing her south.

“Sure, I’ll go this way,” Miral told the beast. “It’s just where I wanted to go anyway.”

The beast snapped at Miral’s heels again and she jumped off the road, into the dark forest. With only her rhyme…and a fierce beast to guide her.

“Follow the stars to the north, the winds to the east, the sea to the west, and the beasts to the south,” she chanted over and over again as she marched through the forest. The tall canopy overhead blocked the light of the moon, leaving the forest floor in near darkness, but that had never bothered Miral. Or her beast companion either.

After an hour of chanting, Miral’s voice was growing hoarse. She needed water. But every time she stopped chanting, the beast began to snarl again.

“You like music, huh?” Miral rasped. “Okay. 200th verse, same as the first.”

The beast kept pushing her south, until she reached verse 211. Then it veered sharply east, darting ahead of her. After walking a few steps, it paused and looked back at her.

“I’m supposed to follow you south,” Miral said.

The beast snarled.

“Okay, okay, we can go east.” She took a few steps towards the beast, who began to walk east again.

“Follow the wind to the east,” Miral repeated to herself for the 212th time. “I’ll call you Breezey. That way I’m still on the right track!”

Breezey didn’t offer an opinion on the new name, just kept trotting forward. She didn’t know exactly how long they’d been walking or how far they’d gone, but she knew the aubernese herders were very territorial creatures…over a small area. Either they’d actually been wandering in circles, or Breezey wasn’t taking her home to meet his family.

“So where are you taking me, Breezey?” Miral asked. But just as she did, she heard a faint sound cutting through the night sounds of the forest.

“Water!” Miral cried out. She ran past Breezey towards the sound of a running river. She broke through the edge of the trees to find a cool silver ribbon of water cutting through the steadfast. She dropped to her knees and drank directly from the rushing current. The cold water splashed at her nose and numbed her tongue, but nothing had ever tasted so good.

Finally satisfied after several minutes, Miral sat back on her heels. “Thanks, Breezey,” she said.

But Breezey had no response.

Miral looked around. The aubernese herder was nowhere to be found. Instead, across the river, she saw several people staring straight back at her, surprised and somewhat amused by the girl drinking so desperately from their river.

“Are you alright, child?” a woman called out across the river. She was dressed in rough, hand-woven clothes. Her skin was rough and weathered from a lifetime spent outdoors. A girl, just a little younger than Miral, stood by her side, also staring.

“I’m fine now!” Miral called back. “I’m just looking for my friend.”

“There’s no one else here!” the girl shouted.

“Well, no people. My friend is an aubernese herder.”

The girl’s eyes went wider. “You’ve seen it?!”

“Yeah, he led me to the water!”

“See, Mom? I told you I hadn’t imagined it!”

“I never said you did, Jo’line,” the woman said. “But your sighting lacked specificity. To see an aubernese herder so far from its native territory is very unusual and requires rigorous observation in order to prove it wasn’t a similar creature.”

“There’s a log that’s fallen across the river not far from here,” the girl, Jo’line, called back to Miral. “Follow me back there. Then you can tell everyone all about our aubernese herder!”

Miral shook her head. “I really can’t. I’m on a quest. I need to find the herder so he can keep leading me toward my people.”

“Who’s that?”

“The Lukoheda clan. It’s kind of my birthright.”

Jo’line grinned. “You did it! You found us!”

Miral furrowed her brow. “I did?”

Jo’line’s mother smiled, the expression cutting deep lines in her weathered face. “Come, child, cross as Jo’line says. I believe you have found exactly where you need to be.”

***

Miral stood in front of the entire Lukoheda clan. She’d traveled with them for six months now. While the clan welcomed all curious travelers to share the steadfast with them, it was only those who were truly dedicated to the pursuit of ancient knowledge that were invited to truly become one with the clan. The fact that her parents had been members, and many of the clan leaders still remembered them fondly, didn’t give Miral any special advantages.

She’d just finished reciting her final project. A treatise on the migration patterns of a subclass of aubernese herders that were rapidly evolving to better survive in a new climate. Breezey, she posited, was one of the first herders to wander outside of its native territory. That’s why he was so thin; he hadn’t fully adapted yet. But in her travels with the clan Miral observed signs of aubernese herder evolution – though she never did see Breezey again.

Amerline, Jo’line’s mother, stood next to Miral. “Miral. Your theories are unusual, but all of the evidence you have collected is sound. We are prepared to accept your findings on this new evolution.”

Miral breathed a sigh of relief. Somewhere in the crowd, Jo’line, her new best friend, let out a whoop of excitement.

Amerline tried to look stern, for this was the most serious ritual of the Lukoheda clan, but Miral had been living under her tent for six months, and had quickly become like a second daughter to her. Her face broke again into the wide smile that had first welcomed Miral back among her people. From one of the many pockets in her handspun wardrobe, she pulled out a handbound notebook and presented it to Miral. “Welcome home, Miral of the Lukoheda clan.”

Special thanks to Maya on Twitter for the story prompt!

For Your ENnie Voting Consideration: Fandible for Best Podcast!

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We woke up to awesome news on July 4th – Fandible is nominated in Best Podcast for the ENnie Awards! We’re absolutely honored to be among such stalwart company, and humbled to be the only Actual Play podcast in the running this year.

It’s been 8 years. 500 episodes. More David-Dice critical fails than we care to count. All leading up to this awesome moment!

ENnie voting is now open and I hope you’ll consider voting for us! You can do so HERE.

If you’re checking out Fandible for the first time, here’s a little more about us and why you may want to give us a listen and a vote:

  • It was 8 years ago this very week that four of us met up at a random gaming meetup in New York City. Dan played a truly creepy Tzimisce. And yet we still invited him to join us when Jesus first proposed starting a podcast.
  • While we started with Warhammer 40K, we’ve played almost 75 different game systems in the last eight years. That’s a lot of dice rolling…and card throwing, and Jenga-tower-pulling.
  • We post a new actual play podcast every Friday – sometimes these are installments in ongoing campaigns, such as Shadowrun, Unhallowed Metropolis, or End of the World, but often they are stand alone adventures as we try systems ranging from Blades in the Dark (fellow ENnie nominee!) to one page RPGs like Honey Heist.
  • In addition, we have two weekly campaign podcasts – the Longshot, which is three years into a Numenera adventure, and the Soloshot, which is a two-person game of Star Wars in its second year.
  • We believe in supporting diverse voices in gaming – starting with the five of us who gather around the table every week. Not only are we a diverse group ourselves, but we support game creators beyond just the traditional big-name designers, and we strive to create diverse characters and play beyond just our immediate experiences in a respectful way.

We’ve curated some of our best content on our New to Fandible page. Want a more specific place to start?

  • Profit of the Lord is part of our Saints of Suffering Shadowrun campaign – set in the fantasy cyberpunk world of Shadowrun, but following the overworked and underpaid emergency personnel who are called on to serve the poor and overlooked.
  • No Room in Hell is an End of the World game, where four hapless friends must try to survive the apocalypse. The game re-sets every session, so these guys never really learn their lesson before the world ends all over again. No Room in Hell is a classic, Romero-style zombie game, that packs a surprising emotional punch at the end.
  • Bubblegumshoe shows off our lighter side, with an adolescent mystery set on Mars!

Thanks again for considering us for the 2018 ENnie Awards! If you haven’t already, be sure to cast your vote now.

Actual Play Adjacent Podcast Recs

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I’ve just returned to work after maternity leave, and that’s given me a bunch of time to start up listening to podcasts regularly again – a sorely missed pastime. While I’m still dipping my toe into some newly discovered actual play podcasts, what I’m really enjoying are several Actual Play-Adjacent podcasts that have recently popped up on my radar. These are all excellent resources for players and GMs of all kinds!

  1. I Am Hear

    I Am Hear is an interview podcast hosted by Tess, the mastermind behind the RPG Casts directory. I Am Hear is dedicated to highlighting women, non-binary people, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community who are active in gaming – podcasters, artists, designers, etcs. This is a feel-good podcast where people just get to share their love of this hobby, from multiple perspectives. You’ll walk away from every episode with something new you’ll want to check out!

  2. Character Creation Cast

    Hosts Amelia and Ryan subscribe to the belief that the best part of any RPG is character creation – and after listening to their podcast, I’m inclined to agree! Amelia and Ryan invite both actual play podcasters and game designers on their show to do a thorough walk through of character creation for their favorite games, or a game they’ve designed. At the end of every arc of episodes, they’ve created a handful of characters I would just love to hear on an AP podcast! After abandoning more than one system because character creation was onerous, I applaud Amelia and Ryan and their guests for breaking down even complex systems into easily digestible processes, and giving some insight and strategy along the way into how best to build a character in that particular system.

  3. LoreMasters

    Technically a D&D podcast, this podcast is filled with bite size bits of GM inspiration that could easily be ported over to other systems. From magical items to NPCs, from the ubiquitous taverns to entire cities, if you’re ever feeling stuck for inspiration, LoreMasters will get your creative mind running. And episodes range from 3 minutes to 7, so even the busiest GM can find time to listen.

Those are the podcasts that are in regular rotation for me this summer – what about you? I have a long commute, so I’m always looking for something new! Share your own recs in the comments.

Surreality and You: A Guide To Making Your Players Go WTF

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In a world that often makes less and less sense with every passing day, the ability to deal with the surreal is not just useful, but almost a survival skill by this point. We deal with the strange, the odd, the nonsensical almost every day in our real lives, and we do our best to process and deal with it. It’s easy to identify the surreal in the world around us, it just feels… off.

But when it comes to our games, it’s often difficult to truly hit the right notes of surreality, without going too far into pure nonsensical territory, or overcorrecting and reducing what was supposed to be a truly memorable moment of high weirdness into just a shrug and a ‘huh, that was odd’ kind of event. Thankfully, I’m here today to help you find that balance.

Now, if I may steal a line from my high school graduation speech: Merriam-Webster defines surrealism as ‘the principle, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations’. This definition is less than useful for our purposes, however. Just throwing ‘unnatural or irrational juxtapositions’ at your players is likely to leave them confused and wondering what you’re on about. And there’s a place for that, definitely, if your story is at a moment where you need to hammer home that nothing makes sense and your player characters are completely adrift in a world of utter chaos and nonsense. But when you want to give your campaign, or just a specific session, a sense of surrealism that doesn’t entirely negate player agency, then it’s time to step beyond simple surrealism, and take a page from my personal favorite literary style: magical realism.

Magical realism is a genre or style (associated especially with Latin America and Latin American writers) that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction. And it’s where things get fun. By taking a magical realism approach, you can still inspire that feeling of otherworldliness for your players, without leaving them entirely adrift and flailing for anything that might make sense. It brings a subtlety to high weirdness that, perhaps paradoxically, makes the weirdness have a greater impact without removing the player agency that is critical to keep them interested in the game, and the story.

Let’s look at some examples: your players step through a strange, glowing doorway. On the other side of it, nothing makes sense: giant fish with pug-dog faces float lazily through the air. Beings made of fire and smoke stroll about, quietly consuming the thoughts of those nearby. Every time you blink, a gong sounds. Everyone’s legs are suddenly backwards, and for some reason everyone suddenly just knows that Ragnar the Barbarian’s real name is ‘Bob’. This is fine and dandy if this is just a one-off effect to show how strange the space between realities is as the players cross a dimensional portal (as you do), but good luck running an entire game constantly having to bump up the weirdness in this way- it’d be exhausting, not to mention that it would likely have the opposite effect than the one you intended: if your players feel like nothing makes sense and no actions they take will have meaningful, or predictable, results, then they’ll lose interest quickly.

Contrast that with this example: the party arrives at a small town or village. It’s, for the most part, exactly what they expect. There’s market stalls and a rickety inn and stables, fields beyond for crops and well-worn roads for travelers such as themselves. But when they step into town, they notice a few things: people regularly reach into the air and pull what look like various small fruits from nothingness. Every day at noon all water in the town turns blood-red for 15 minutes. And the mayor is a phoenix. Now, at first glance, this isn’t so different, it’s still weird, but your players still have their agency. They can still act upon this world and have measurable and predictable effects. They can talk to a villager and give them a copper for their magic fruit to examine. They can try and drink the blood-red water (don’t drink the blood-red water, said the person who pulled a pomegranate out of the air an hour ago). They might have an audience with Mayor Phoenix Firetail the Third, Esq. The strangeness of the surreal aspects around them is not a bludgeon taking away their ability to make rational decisions, it instead works as a way of highlighting the weird aspects of the world around them, without casting them out into a turbulent ocean of irrationality without a life vest. It can be just local color, or it could be tied into the ongoing plot: where are the magical fruits coming from, and is it related to the Tree of Deliverance that a mage mentioned a few sessions ago? What are the things that can be glimpsed, swimming slowly, in the depths of the local well when the water turns blood-red? Is Mayor Phoenix about to burn up and rise from his own ashes, and why should anyone vote for the reborn Mayor Phoenix Firetail the Fourth, Esq.?

Certain games, such as Numenera, The Strange, and Invisible Sun, do a great job of creating this sense of magical realism (and they owe a lot to precursors such as Planescape), but you can integrate them into nearly any other game. Chronicles of Darkness games, especially those that implement God-Machine aspects, are also very good for this kind of approach. But even in something like D&D, which has a certain amount of surreality already baked into the setting, you can slip in a little more strangeness to spice things up. The important part is this: make it strange enough to be notable, but not so strange that the players are completely flabbergasted and at a loss as to what to do next. Don’t set the surreal strangeness apart, bring it into the world around the players as a simple fact of their current reality, and then let them act accordingly. Embrace magical realism, and give your players the kind of weird they’ll love.

Join the Hunt for Castian Saayah – and win a Drive Thru RPG gift certificate!

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To celebrate the end of the second season of the Fandible Soloshot, and the creation of our dedicated podcast feed, we’re hosting a sweepstakes! Entering is easy:

  1. Write a review on iTunes
  2. Take a screenshot of your review before you hit submit
  3. E-mail the screenshot to fandiblesoloshot AT gmail.com

If you’ve already left a review, you’re eligible to enter too! Just take a screenshot of your already-listed review and send it in to us.

All reviews received before July 11th will be entered into a drawing to win a gift certificate to Drive Thru RPG for $66.

Reviews, as you know, help others find our podcast – which will ultimately help the Empire track down the traitorous Castian Saayah. Join the hunt now!

Your Character’s Feelings Don’t Matter

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Roleplaying is a wonderful combination of improvisational acting, socializing, and cooperative storytelling to tell a tale of adventure. Story arcs, both from the players and the Game Master, can build a narrative that is exciting in its execution and offers a good time had by all. At the center of the story is the player characters themselves, who they are and who they become. Motivations and histories, often painstakingly crafted by the players, are taken into consideration on the part of the player’s actions. As the story goes into full-swing, the player-characters (the protagonists) are fully living, breathing personas who have wants and desires.

And none of that matters one damn bit.

Dictionary.com defines an adventure as “an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity.” Since every game is an adventure for the characters, there are always any number of hazards in their way. These instances of danger exist to stop a character from succeeding in their quest, from perilous pitfalls to gun-toting grunts, and they wish your character harm. Fall victim to any of these obstacles and that beautiful mélange of character history and dramatic turns will end well before it can run its course.

Role-playing games are predicated on a system of rules, often numeric in representation and ruthless inefficiency. The book from which these rules are laid out is often available to everyone, letting player and Game Master alike learn what the game gives mechanical emphasis to, from high-speed car chases to madness inducing riddles from beyond. It’s often dense at first, but all the manners in which a person’s avatar (their character) can and will interact with the game are laid out to be learned. The rules may reward your personal narrative, but in the end, they only exist to show you how things are going to be. No beautiful story of loss and growth, hardships, and determination, will mean much if you ignore the rules.

Want to make a fragile opera singer in a world of tough-as-nails soldiers? Fine. Feel like pouring your energies into the sad background of sickly saloon owner in the savage Wild West? Go for it. Just know that the rules are there, waiting for you, and if the game doles out deadliness like a poker dealer in Vegas, your narrative won’t matter because you’ll be filling out a new character sheet before the ink is dry on the old one. The cold truth is, stats and mechanics mean more than story.

Your character is the only avatar you have in the game and is the only way you can interact with it, so it needs to be built to survive. If your character can’t endure the dangers of the story because you simply had to play a person with most of their points in World War 2 Trivia and Cajun Cooking, then that character is not long for this world. My advice: Work backwards from the stats and see how your concept fits. Survivability should take precedence over concept, because like it or not, the two-dimensional powerhouse who only speaks in one-syllable sentences and doesn’t even have a last name for most of the game is going to be the only one standing when the smoke and dust clears. In the end, the dice don’t care about your story, and you can’t avoid the dice.

Have examples of what I’m talking about? Disagree and wanna fight? Leave your comments below.

Find New Games with More Seats at the Table!

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Last month, game designers Kira Magrann, Anna Kreider, Misha Bushyager, and Kimberly Lam launched an awesome new RPG newsletter project: More Seats at the Table. This bi-monthly newsletter highlights gender-diverse designers: women, femmes, and those who don’t fit neatly in the gender binary. Two issues have already been released, and it is my favorite new resource for finding games! Every now and then, there are plenty of games being introduced in the public, especially in 666 Casino, new classic online casino games are being made for the entertainment of many people who loves playing online casino.

To quote their Patreon, More Seats at the Table grew out of a conversation between Kira and Anna “about their frustrations with the perception that games by and about not-men are perceived as being only for not-men.” Games like Night Witches or The Watch might get some attention for having a cool concept or mechanics, but ultimately be passed over when it’s time to buy or play a game, because the majority of participants in our hobby are still cishet men. 

What I most appreciate about More Seats at the Table is the blend of new and old content. This is a really exciting time in tabletop RPGs, new games with exciting concepts and mechanics are coming out all the time! More Seats at the Table prominently features Kickstarters and newly-released games so you can get in on the ground floor and brag that you played the new-hotness before it was cool. But! Gender-diverse people have been creating games for as long as there’s been a hobby, and didn’t always have the resources to promote them when they were new, so each newsletter also includes games you may never heard of or had a chance to play, like Steal Away Jordan and Lavender Marriage (that last one is a free download – there’s no excuse for not reading it and sharing it with your friends!).

Summer is approaching. It’s a great time to invest in some new games. Subscribe today to More Seats at the Table to let the new games come to you! you can find something like 21 questions game to ask a guy or girl.

And if you love the work the team is doing, don’t forget to check out their Patreon, funds from which will offset the costs of newsletter hosting plus compensates the team for the work put into creating this awesome community resource.