#84: Beach Episode
I. Dear Reader,
I’m on vacation this week - the first in a very, very long time. I’m really enjoying the rest. But. That said, I still managed to put together some interesting links for my dear readers though!
Hoping you all get some rest as well,
Thomas
II. Media of the Week
A video review of Thirsty Sword Lesbians on a new tabletop-focused Youtube channel, the Gaming Table.
Cesar Capacle has been doing flipthroughs of indie games and the latest one is about The Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard by Amanda P, a solo game about going on a quest that is full of challenges to your code of honour.
Evan Torner gives an interesting, personal lecture about the development of indie roleplaying games.
III. Links of the Week
Polygon writes about how one of the stars of Raised by Wolves, Abubakar Salim, was performing on an Actual Play stream while shooting the show.
Vincent Baker wrote about the Otherkind dice mechanic (which powers Psi*Run) that he first discussed a decade ago, I believe. It’s a really cool system and I’ve been working on a horror game that uses it because I love the idea of assigning dice (and thus choosing what goes wrong).
Kickstarter announced some paid positions on a community council that will act as a kind of representative sounding board for their new ideas. No idea if it’ll be genuine but something to keep an eye on.
Some newsletters that readers might be interested in:
To Do It, Do It is a new one that features recaps of the games that Shane has played or ran. This week, there is Fate of Ctulhu and the girlfriend of my girlfriend is my friend.
Across RPGSEA also started a newsletter recently featuring news, mini-interviews and other interesting resources for designers.
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