Weird Games and Weirder People

Philip Reed loves to create stuff and things, from roleplaying game supplements to music to whatever sounds fun at that exact moment in time. He can often be found working when he should be sleeping. He has been doing this for more than 30 years, and chances are you have played something he had his hands on. I feel in love with his work through Frag, and I've loved his presence since he was su...

Daniel is a multi-ENnie Award winning Canadian podcaster, game designer, and cultural consultant. You might know him as the co-host and showrunner of the Asians Represent! podcast. As a freelance narrative designer, some of his notable works include Candlekeep Mysteries, the Ultimate Micro-RPG Guide, Avatar Legends, Dark Archive, and the Tian Xia series. As a cultural consultant, he has worked for...

Creative force of the dark pits of hell, Penny Melgarejo is an illustrator, tattooist and sometimes a writer of RPGs from Madrid, Spain, and his works in the RPG scene includes covers and several illustrations for Gallant Knight games, Necrotic gnome, Old skull publishing, exalted funeral, Blackoath entertainment and many more. He usually self publish underground fanzines and is the mind and hands...

Chris Airiau is a game writer in France who publishes modules for Mothership RPG, The Lost Bay, and Cloud Empress as 5 Million Worlds Press, and is soon to release their own transhuman space adventure game, 5 Million Worlds RPG: An Avatar's Primer. We talked about his work, his process, inspirations, and weird stories and experiences in our lives! Let's get weird with Chris Airiau! Check o...

Alkis "Fern" is writer and game designer from Athens, Greece, with a particular interest in all things weird, occult, and paranormal. He is currently funding Hellborn - Descended, an action horror RPG set in a modern city in hell, where you play as demons seeking their own objectives! Check out Alkis's links below! https://bsky.app/profile/studiohexttrpgs.bsky.social https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Kalum is a London-based TTRPG designer (Magic of Inventorying, Rosewood Abbey) and podcaster (The Rolistes Podcast, RPG Academy Film Studies). We talked about his experiences in building TTRPG communities, and the creative process of his games! Check out Kalum's work! https://rolistespod.com/ https://rolistespod.itch.io/ https://bsky.app/profile/rolistespod.itch.io https://www.kickstarter.com/...

Pelle Nilsson is the Swedish game designer behind Mörk Borg, focusing on streamlining the old game systems from the 70s. He has published a couple of other rpgs, among them  Barkhäxan  and  Ut mot skären .  Check out Mörk Borg: https://morkborg.com Thank you for listening to  Weird Games & Weirder People ! Please  subscribe  to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to suppor...

Diogo Nogueira is an artist, graphic designer, and game developer. Creator of Old Skull Publishing, he creates games for you to play more with less. Among his games are Primal Quest, Kosmosaurs, Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, Screams Amongst the Stars, and others. He is also an award-winning designer of the Halls of the Blood King adventure. Oh, and he makes this podcast! Check out all his link...

Luiz Eduardo Ricon is an author, educator, screen writer, game designer, content creator and media education specialist. Creator of the first fantasy ttrpg based on Brazilian History and folklore, published in 1992. He his publishing a lot of stuff through Hexplore Publishing, his indie label, such as adventures, supplements and other stuff for games such as Old-School Essentials, Shadowdark, and...

Nate Treme is an artist, graphic designer, game designer, and educator based in Louisiana. He is also the creator of Highland Paranormal Society, and the author of so many RPGs, adventures, settings, and so much more. Nate mostly produces content through his Patreon, where you can support his work and receive wonderful material, even in physical format sometimes. We talked about his work, his proc...

Christopher Drellow is a writer, artist, designer, musician and programmer living in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. He is kickstarting the book version of Glumdark right now. This is an amazing resource for Dark Fantasy gaming, and each page is bursting with ideas! Check it out! https://www.glumdark.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/glumdark Thank you for...

Eduardo Carabaño is a game designer from Spain, creator of Settlers of a Dead God, and a super creative and inspiring creator. We talked about creative process, his passions, his influences and a lot more. Settlers of a Dead God is an incredible setting and supplement for OSE and other OSRish games with information for playing insectoid characters exploring the colossal carcass of a god. Get Settl...

Huffa is a game write and art historian. Her most recent book, the Between the Skies, Collected Hardcover Edition, is available from Exalted Funeral. This is both a game and an incredible and extensive toolkit for weird fantasy TTRPGs, helping you create not only NPCs, Locations, adventures, but also full worlds! It's really well made, and worth every penny! Get Between the Skies here: https://www...

Humberto Tramujas is a Brazilian Game Designer, and author of the upcoming Oldmoon, a weird fantasy RPG which asks the question "how would the Middle Ages look like in an extraterrestrial world?" Pre-order Oldmoon here: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/oldmoon Thank you for listening to  Weird Games & Weirder People ! Please  subscribe  to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you w...

Josh McCrowell is an up-jumped RPG blogger and editor-in-chief of the Knock! gaming magazine. He haunts Virginia, USA where he rattles chains and wears ragged sheets. His partner, two cats, and a dog are frequent victims of his ghoulish antics. He has written small games for his (kind and indulgent) friends for years. Previously, Josh self-published a game about halflings not having adventures cal...

Zachary Cox is the JellyMuppet (they/them)  and serves as the Director of SoulMuppet Publishing. They are the moon-obssessed creator of Paint The Town Red, Inevitable and Best Left Buried, and one of the co-creators of Orbital Blues. Zach is a seasoned RPG creator and producer, who makes ideas into books. They dabble in everything from printing, distribution and product and project management. PAI...

Andre Novoa is the driving force behind Games Omnivorous. He has worked on ENNIE-winning games like Mausritter, Frontier Scum, Putrescence Regnant or the Hexcrawl Toolbox. He is also my friend and one of the most creative people I know! In this episode we talked a lot about creativity, inspirations, the role of music in his work and a lot more! Check out his amazing work! https://www.instagram.com...

Marcelo Saravá and Guilherme Vicino, both from Brazil, have united their forces to create a really weird board game, and in this episode we talk a lot about how they did that, what were their inspirations, and how they managed to accomplish what they set out to do. Check Insania out: https://get-insania.sievert.games Insania Pre-Launch page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insania/insania Tha...

Brendan J. LaSalle is a staff writer for Goodman Games who has been writing and publishing in the game industry since 2002. He has written for Goodman Games, Fat Dragon Games, Troll Lord’s Games, Legendsmiths, Savage Mojo, Pandahead Publishing, and Hand Made Games, among others. He has written many adventures and RPG source books, including the award-winning Age of Cthulhu: A Dream of Japan. His m...

Trevor Stamper—Trevor has had aspirations of being a Not-Quite-So-Dark Master for numerous years, tormenting players in home campaigns on at least two continents. At the age of 10, Trevor was launched into an AD&D game with his friends on Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. But once he moved to England, he lost touch with the game and explored other classics—Indiana Jones, Twilight 2000, Ga...

Reynaldo Madrinan is the co-author of Break!! RPG, a blogger and a really passionate game designer. Break!! is inspired by anime, manga, classic role playing games and NES era video games. The game’s skeleton will be familiar to anyone who's slung a d20 before, but the game's eclectic mix of inspirations will provide you with a very different fantasy experience. The games simple rules stil...

Mike is the writer for the website  Sly Flourish  and the author of  Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master , the  Lazy DM's Workbook ,  The Lazy DM's Companion ,  Fantastic Adventures ,  Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot , and a number of other books. Mike is a co-author of  Forge of Foes  and  Fantastic Lairs .  Mike has freelanced for a bunch of RPG companies, including Wizards...

Camilla Zamboni (she/her) teaches Educational Game Design as well as Italian language and culture at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). She focuses on innovative, reflective, and radical pedagogy, particularly at the nexus of language learning, open educational resources (OERs), analog game-based learning, and tabletop game design. Camilla regularly presents at conferences in US and Italy, an...

Owner-Erica Lowe Broken Brain Games LLC and Co-founder of Dice and Dish Podcast. Writer on Edrenas Tower (DCC Zine), RagnaBorg (Mork Borg Zine), Temple of Grimbog (5e), and Chambers of Agony (Shadowdark/Mork Borg Zine). 200 RYT-E Yoga Instructor. Listen up and get weird with Erica Lowe https://www.brokenbraingames.com/ Thank you for listening to  Weird Games & Weirder People ! Please  subscrib...

Banana Chan is a Cantonese Canadian game designer, writer and publisher living in the US. Her latest work has been on Forgery, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition. They won Dicebreaker Awards' Game Designer of the Year 2022 and 2 Silver ENnie Awards in 2022. I had the pleasure and honor to meet Banana during Gary...