[Q&A] Michael Low (Luna Uni: A Writing Game for Classroom Use!)

[8:02 PM]Michael – LuckOfLegends.com: Sure! I’m Michael – you can find all my socials and links at https://bio.link/michaellow.1

[8:02 PM]Michael – LuckOfLegends.com: I’m a long-time teacher and designer who’s been using games to teach writing for the past three years at LuckofLegends.com.

[8:02 PM]Michael – LuckOfLegends.com: I also have an ongoing podcast/play-at-home game series at StoriesRPG.com – you can find it here: https://link.chtbl.com/gigacityStories RPGStoriesRPG is the play-at-home, listen-and-learn game that helps people of all ages tell amazing tales together. Each season, we explore a new world, create characters, and go on epic adventures – and provide play-to-learn, coloring book, choose-your-own-adventure games to help listeners of all ages

[8:03 PM]Michael – LuckOfLegends.com: I make games that teach and teach using games, and Luna Uni – my current KS – is my move to put that into the hands of both those who want to write their own worlds together AND educators who want to inspire joy and academic mastery in the classroom.

[Q&A] Joel Vreugdenhil (Star and City)

[7:33 PM]Joel in a good mood today: Hello! I’m Joel, a TTRPG author who started self-publishing at the beginning of 2022, mostly making home-brew before that! I’m currently running my first Kickstarter (Star and City), a dicepool game with a new strange setting that I’ve been working on for a long time, the first edition of the book was the second game I ever released. (done)

[Q&A] Adam Collins (Deadline)

[7:33 PM]Van Diesel: My name is Adam Collins and I’m a producer for THA Games (www.thehumbleapproach.com). I’ve been making board games and RPGs for about 8 years.

[7:33 PM]Van Diesel: We have a new project out on Kickstarter right now that is called “Deadline”.

[7:34 PM]Van Diesel: It is a game where players take their turn once per day and before the “Deadline” for the day

[7:34 PM]Van Diesel: The game features an instruction manual, player’s handbook (character sheet & reference guide), a map, and custom 3d printed markers.

[7:36 PM]Van Diesel: The goal of the game is to find the Captain as a party and eliminate them before the day counter runs out. The map is unrevealed as players start and only gets revealed the next day after they take their turns.

[7:36 PM]Van Diesel: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thehumbleapproach/deadline-2KickstarterAdam CollinsDeadlineA multi-day RPG style game where players make one move per day.

[Q&A] Colin Le Sueur (We Deal in Lead)

[1:05 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): Hi everyone, I’m Colin Le Sueur (he/him). I’m a TTRPG designer, originally from Canada but now in the UK. My TTRPG history started in the ’90s with AD&D 2e and TMNT and Other Strangeness. I was a massive fan of the Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft novels but fell out of TTRPGs before D&D 3rd Edition came out.11

[1:06 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): Decided to get back into playing about 8 years ago, with D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder. I eventually started DM’ing again and decided to package up my campaign as a D&D 5e module, The Howling Caverns. This was my take on Ravenloft, but with a slight Cthulhu mythos edge.1

[1:09 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): Now I write, design, and illustrate my own systems like Runecairn (a Norse fantasy Soulslike TTRPG) and We Deal in Lead, a weird west TTRPG heavily inspired by Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. WDIL is built on Cairn, a lightweight D20 roll under system descended from Into the Odd and Knave. WDIL focuses on a strange post-post-apocalypse world, a mix of weird west, fantasy, horror, and science fiction, The Drifted World.

[1:10 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): Players take the role of weary gunslingers exploring a world that’s moved on, armed with artefact guns forged from magic and iron. From the Drifted World, they travel to other worlds through lost slip doors, portals that bring them to other times, dimensions, or realities.

[1:11 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): These doors allow WDIL gunslingers to venture into other systems and settings and the game was designed with this interoperability in mind. An order of gunslingers could find themselves in the Norse fantasy world of Runecairn or the city of Bastion or the strange mall of Liminal Horror.

[1:14 PM]Colin (By Odin’s Beard RPG): The hardcover is now available, which includes an introductory adventure, and new adventures are on the way. I’ve published an SRD for the core rules (https://lead.byodinsbeardrpg.com/srd), along with a 3rd party licence for hacks and adventures. As well, the core rules of WDIL are released with a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, allowing anyone to make their own stuff for We Deal in Lead.

[Q&A] Marc Tassin (Cool Name Goes Here)

[8:03 PM]Endroren: I’m Marc Tassin, the founder of Mechanical Muse. We’re the publishers of the World of Aetaltis fantasy campaign setting for Fifth Edition. Aetaltis is a classic fantasy game world that has everything that made fantasy roleplaying popular, reimagined for today’s games and gamers. Most recently, however, we funded a Kickstarter for Cool Name Goes Here RPG (often referred to as Cool Name RPG or CNGH). For CNGH we’re creating a brand new fantasy RPG system from scratch—and then we’re giving it away to the world for free. We’ve lined up an all-star team of Consulting Designers to help create the system, and we’re using feedback and ideas from the community to help guide our design decisions. We’re also bringing everyone along for the ride with regular live Design Journal streams and live Q & A sessions. It’s a unique way to demonstrate what’s best about the RPG community. Done!

[Q&A] Randall Hampton (Little Game Masters)

[7:38 PM]randall_hampton: Hello all! Im randall Hampton. I’m the author and illustrator of The Little Game Master series of children’s books, and creator of Little Game Masters. a TTRPG built for kids age 5 and up. I have been playing ttrpgs for over 30 years, have been making games and running games for over 20, and have been building worlds, stories and games for kids for the last 5! I have worked with quite a few companies in the TTRPG space including Take This, Jaspers Game Day, Wyrmwood Gaming, and other table top game companies.

[7:38 PM]randall_hampton: I have been illustrating characters for people in the ttrpg space for as long as I can remember, and it is in fact one of my favorite things to do. I love drawing peoples characters.

[Q&A] Martin Ouellet (Crime-Fighting Luchadores)

[7:36 PM]DocTriton: Hi! My name is Martin Ouellet, from Headcheese Productions. I’m a small TTRPG creator. I’m here to talk about Crime-Fighting Luchadores, my first physical zine!

[7:37 PM]DocTriton: It’s presently in the middle of its campaign on Kickstarter. The game is a tribute to El Santo movies, Scooby-Do, The Venture Bros, Batman 66 and other serials.

[7:38 PM]DocTriton: In it, you’re playing a team of super-powered masked wrestlers hunting down classic monsters and battling them in epic wrestling matches!

[Q&A] Andrea Casuras & Nathan Heard (Mythcraft)

[7:35 PM]Andi (She/They) – MythCraft: Hello! My name is Andrea Casuras and I am the COO of QuasiReal Publishing! I am also a voice actor in the Power Word Fail DnD Podcast and the World Weavers DnD Live AP. We are here today to talk about our upcoming ttrpg kickstarter MythCraft that goes live tomorrow! Fun facts about me, I have my PhD in Chemistry, I own three fluffballs that I love dearly (2 dogs and a cat), and I have been playing ttrpgs for just 2 years now! I will let Nathan introduce the game (done)

[7:36 PM]Nathan H: Hi! I’m Nathan, lead game designer for QuasiReal. I’m also a voice actor in the Power Word Fail podcast and the dungeon master of the Sanity Damage podcast! I have a master’s in fantasy fiction writing and have been playing TTRPGs for almost 20 years now. MythCraft is a new TTRPG that emphasizes character customization. Players get to choose new features every time they level up, leading to nearly endless possible combinations. The world history of MythCraft spans four distinct supereons, from ancient/pre-magic to your classic epic fantasy, to post apocalyptic, to sci-fi! Campaigns are designed to last for multiple in-game decades, allowing you to really see the legacies that your characters create. (done)

[Q&A] Tammiro Levi (Gargoyle 74)

[7:33 PM]DMgargoyle: I’m Tammiro Levi – an old dude currently living in Israel with my family and pets in a tiny house on the countryside and I’m the co-author of Gargoyle 74! ; First of all, its 3 AM here and I’m not native to the English language (actually picked it up as a kid from old Iron Maiden / Sabbath albums…) – so apologies in advance if It takes me time to answer questions or answer them in an absurd mischievous way! but than again -chatting about RPGs in the middle of the night?! I’m game!

[7:33 PM]DMgargoyle: Gargoyle 74 is first of all a retroclone. A wild one or an odd one – still a retroclone of the white box version. The guys from lake Geneva and the twin cities did the heavy lifting throwing rules at what at its core is “make believe” mixed with war-games and achieved a quality more associated with Art i think , we tried to use those skeletal rules to create a certain vibe…with heavy emphasis on FAST tempo and inspired by pulp fiction writers (which I’m a sucker for). all those seemingly (a lot of) small tweaks are meant to achieve that as a whole and basically the motto is “no fluff included” and that the system should “disappear” during play. It came out last month and I’m overwhelmed by the warm welcome it received since, so more content is already on its way soon. what more? ahh! the game

[7:34 PM]DMgargoyle: Gargoyle 74: Undead can’t die (unless the cleric bless their remains) , age matters, mechanical dwarves and other races playable, hexcrawl rules, solo guide lines, slot based inventory, treasure tables fitting to pulp fiction, simple rules for characters to create magical items at lower levels, different monster lore and probably much more

[Q&A] Grant Dalgliesh (HarnWorld)

[7:30 PM]Grant Dalgliesh: My name is Grant Dalgliesh

[7:31 PM]Grant Dalgliesh: I am the son of Tom Dalgliesh who first published HârnWorld in 1983 and still works on it today (with me). I can explain what Hârn is in fairly short intro.

[7:32 PM]Grant Dalgliesh: A medieval world with fantasy elements designed specifically for role playing / gaming 40 years ago.

[7:32 PM]Grant Dalgliesh: It has a way for almost any type of RPG campaign to be blended in.

[7:33 PM]Grant Dalgliesh: 40 years and still expanding, yet always consistent and believable.