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Sinopsis
Modifier sits down with designers of all stripes and looks at what it takes to make a great game! With a focus on homebrewing and otherwise modifying existing games to meet your storytelling needs, these interviews dig deep into how changing the rules enables better storytelling. Hosted by Meghan Dornbrock.
Episodios
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83. Sig: City of Blades
23/10/2020 Duración: 43minJason Pitre is back with more Sig, this time a Forged in the Dark reimagining titled Sig: City of Blades. Here us chat about this new take on Sig, life in the Hellyear 2020, and the online incarnation of Metatopia!
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82. Brinkwood (It's a Metaphor)
16/10/2020 Duración: 47minBrinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants is a Forged in the Dark game about Robin Hood vs Vampires, created by Erik Bernhardt. Come join us as we talk about eating money, making deals with the fae, and fighting for justice.
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81. Princess World with Kevin Petker
06/03/2020 Duración: 46minPrincess World, be Kevin Petker, is a PbtA game about cooperative world building, storytelling, problem solving, and being girls who rule. We chat about how the game evolved out of a request from his daughter into this clever, colorful, collaborative adventure.
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80. Descent into Midnight
05/03/2020 Duración: 01h15minRich Howard, Richard Kreutz-Landry, and Taylor LaBresh are the design trio behind Descent into Midnight. This aquatic PbtA game about community and emotion defies genre, so we make a bunch of ocean puns and get really heartfelt about stuff.
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79. Burnout with Tracy Barnett
12/12/2019 Duración: 01h02minReturn guest Tracy Barnett is here in friend capacity this week for a heart-to-heart with Meghan about burnout, asking for help, and where they are right now in that journey.
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78. Into the Heart with Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor
26/09/2019 Duración: 58minGrant and Chris are back, and things have only gotten weirder. Below the Spire lies the Heart, an ever-changing district of chaos and horror where you really shouldn't be going. You're going anyway? Of course you are. We talk about why that's a terrible, terrible idea. (CW: Body horror)
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77. The San Jenaro Co-Op with Dyer Rose
25/07/2019 Duración: 43minDyer Rose is a member of the San Jenaro Co-op, a creator-owned group that makes RPGs together. Dyer fills me in on how the structure works, what games they have in production, and what industry issues they're trying to address with their approach.
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76. Quietus with Oli Jeffery
13/06/2019 Duración: 43minQuietus is a melancholy horror RPG that uses the Blades in the Dark system to tell heart-wrenching narratives in a one-shot. Game designer Oli Jeffery shares how he utilized the system to take full advantage of the genre.
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75. Afterlife: Wandering Souls with Liz Chaipraditkul
25/05/2019 Duración: 43minIn Afterlife: Wandering Souls you play as a Wanderer collecting memories of your life and discovering who you were when you were alive. Liz Chaipraditkul talks about discovering your character over the course of the game and how the mechanics evolved to support this unique and affecting player experience.
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74. The Orpheus Protocol with Rob Stith
17/05/2019 Duración: 01h07minThe Orpheus Protocol is an RPG as well as an actual-play podcast. Creator Rob Stith takes us through the evolution of the game and how running an AP as a living playtest has affected his process.
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73. CAPERS Noir with Craig Campbell
06/04/2019 Duración: 52minCraig Campbell of NerdBurger Games is here to talk about CAPERS and CAPERS Noir - a superpowered gangster game and its mysterious supplement - that utilize playing cards to enhance the play experience.
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72. Going on a Zine Quest with Aaron King
21/02/2019 Duración: 38minAaron King chats about what a zine is and what RPG zines offer to the gamespace. We talk about format, function, and selling out with Kickstarter's Zine Quest.
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71. Doug Geisler Will Help You Beat the Boss
21/02/2019 Duración: 49minLong-time union organizer Doug Geisler was trained to help people using role-playing, and now his new role-playing game will train you to organize a labor union so you can Beat the Boss! We talk about learning through narrative and failure.
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70. More Kittens with Cheyenne and Stentor
07/02/2019 Duración: 50minThe Glittercats are BACK with More Kittens! Cheyenne and Stentor take us through all the new new new to be found in this supplement to Laser Kittens - new cards, new playsets, and new kitten games! So much modifying, where do we start?
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69. Worldbuilding Through Character Creation with Aaron and Jeff
10/01/2019 Duración: 01h03minHosts Aaron Catano-Saez and Jeff Stormer of All My Fantasy Children are here to celebrate their addition to the network and to have a real NICE chat about how they build the world of Fantasy one character at a time.
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68. Design and Redesign with Jason Morningstar
28/12/2018 Duración: 53minJason Morningstar is here to talk about Fiasco In A Box, among many many other things. We chat about redesigning your own work versus redesigning that of someone else, as well as how to know when it might be time to pass the reigns. We talk about game formats, zero-prep RPGs, and social responsibility in game design.
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67. Aviv & Eran's Crystal Heart (A Savage Worlds Setting)
07/12/2018 Duración: 50minAviv & Eran, the team behind webcomic Up to Four Players, are here to talk about their original Savage Worlds setting: Crystal Heart. We talk about their creative process, with game writing and comic drawing acting as supports and influences for the other, and about the emotional range of stories that Crystal Heart with Savage Worlds allows players to tell.
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66. The Games Collection at SVA Library West
30/11/2018 Duración: 54minThis week we're on location at SVA'S Library West where Instruction & Periodicals Librarian David Pemberton and Circulation Manager Christopher Bussmann share with us what goes into building and maintaining a library's game collection and how games librarianship affects the games and the players.
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65. Turn with Brie Sheldon
16/11/2018 Duración: 59minBrie Sheldon returns to talk about Turn, their game about shapeshifters in a small town. We look at destructive & deconstructive approaches to PbtA, as well as why the small-town setting is so integral to the play experience.
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64. Dana & Hamish Cameron are Dinosaur Princesses
13/11/2018 Duración: 55minDana & Hamish are here to discuss making Dinosaur Princesses an approachable and fun game for players and GMs of all ages and skill levels. From its core of cooperative play to fun coloring-book elements, Dinosaur Princesses is about all kinds of friends supporting each other's creativity.