Table Chatter - Interview With Annalise and Tony from The Rook Room

Table Chatter - Interview with Annalise and Tony from The Rook Room

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Last year Greg spoke with Annalise and Tony from The Rook Room , a company in Iowa that specializes in board game based events and pop ups. With their library, they run all sorts of board game and RPG based events. Annalise and Tony get into how the business came to be, how they run events, and running a business that includes selling puzzles with art from local artists.

The Rook Room can be found at their website , on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter @TheRookRoom.

Table Chatter - Interview with Erika Chappell on Flying Circus

Table Chatter - Interview with Erika Chappell on Flying Circus

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Greg is joined by Erika Chappell on this episode of Table Chatter! She joins us to talk about Newstand Press and her game Flying Circus, a PbtA game of pilots in a fantasy WWI-ish era going on adventures, from development to release. We also talk about the upcoming expansion/side game Chariots of Steel on tank combat.

You can find Erika on Twitter @open_sketchbook, on sufficientvelocity.com as Open Sketch, on Patreon, and you can find Newstand Press on itch.io and on DTRPG.

Table Chatter - Interview with Terra on Academia

Table Chatter - Interview with Terra on Academia

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Terra stops by to talk with Ben and Greg on her experience in tabletop RPGs, and her research into it in her PHd candidacy.

Terra is found on Twitter @Juju_Munster. For emails, she can be contacted at tgasque@gatech.edu, and has a portfolio at tgasque.me.

A non-exhaustive list of works and games referenced in this episode include:

Janet Murray’s work

Terra’s Master’s Thesis

Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

Ugly Talk

The Drunk and Ugly, Mrs. Frieda’s

Monsters and Other Childish Things

Little Fears

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green

Bertold Brecht, Epic Theater

Gonzalo Frasca, Video Games of the Oppressed

Miguel Sicart, Play Matters

The Dread Gazebo

Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy

Table Chatter - Fallout & Dune

Table Chatter - Fallout & Dune

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Several weeks ago, Greg was contacted by Modiphius to receive review copies of the corebooks for Fallout: the Roleplaying Game and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium. Greg shares his thoughts on the games, along with some other podcast members who've read the books in Dan, Ethan, and Noah. We start by reflecting on experiences with both TTRPGs based on existing IPs and Fallout and Dune outside of these books. Then, we get our thoughts on Fallout: The Roleplaying Game and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium.

We thank Modiphius for these review copies. The books, in physical and in pdf, are available on Modiphius' website (Fallout, Dune), and in pdf on DriveThruRPG (Fallout, Dune).

Noah can be found podcasting with Aaron at Thinking Too Hard About Anime, and solo on Twitter @kamenotaku.

(Brief note: When Greg was speaking on past TTRPGs on existing IPs, in addition to almost completely forgetting two years worth of playing Star Wars Fantasy Flight, he also forgot about our AP playing The Sailor Moon RPG. Whoops.)

Table Chatter - Interview with Erik for Brinkwood

Table Chatter - Interview with Erik for Brinkwood

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For this episode of Table Chatter, Ben and Greg joined by Erik, designer of the game Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants. We get into his work, being part of the San-Janero Co-Op, and the work designing a game of rebelling against an oppressive vampiric society, in addition to sub games and alternative settings supported by the Kickstarter.

The game is still in production but is nearing fulfillment. It can be preordered on Backerkit, or read about the game and its other aspects on the Kickstarter page. You can follow Erik on Twitter @erikthebearik, or find out more about the San Janero Co-Op @sanjenarocoop