Weird Games and Weirder People

Adam Vass is a tabletop RPG designer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a one-person operation: writing, illustrating, laying out, publishing, and distributing tabletop storytelling games from his house (though they love teaming up with friends for additional help). He is a multiple-time award winner for RPG designs including the stoner metal science fantasy Necronautilus, scumbag retrofuture Cyberm...

Sean F. Smith is a writer, a magician, and a games designer. He's written for critically acclaimed products like Odd Jobs and Moonlight on Roseville Beach, coordinates games for charity in South London as part of the Role Play Haven, and will not say Macbeth in a theatre (not even a lecture theatre). Sean's work has been growing and growing and now permeates lots of my favorite game univer...

Mike Evans is the creator DIY RPG Productions, author of Hubris (an incredibly and wonderfully bizarre weird fantasy setting for DCC RPG), Death is the New Pink, Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, and a lot more! But Mike is a lot more than that also! Mike Evans moved to Rochester, NY in 2013 after his wife received her PhD in Toxicology at Rutgers University and took a post doctorate position at URM...

Johan Nohr is a graphic designer, illustrator, game designer, and pretty must and awesome person! He is the co-mastermind behind Mörk Borg, and his unique style has created ripple in the TTRPG aesthetic as a whole. I met Johan online, on the apocalyptic lands of Twitter, and his work on Mörk Borg quickly got my attention. The way the graphic design and illustration says just as much about the game...

Felipe Faria is a fellow #RPGLATAM Artists, who has illustrated many amazing games and is well known for his black and white ink style that combines the best of old-school style art, comics and mangas. He has worked on titles such as, Primal Quest , Lilliputian: Adventure on the Open Seas , We Deal In Lead , and many more. I've been following Felipe for a few years and I was immediately captiv...

Yochai Gal is the creator of the fantastic Cairn RPG, co-host of the great Between 2 Cairns podcast, and one of the main proponents of the NSR (New School Revolution). His is also a very active voice in the TTRPG space, and if I may add, a very positive one. Yochai is always looking for ways to make not only the amazing games we love more accessible, but the act of making these games more accessib...

Michael Curtis has been working in the RPG industry since 2008 and playing RPGs since 1980. He is mostly known for his work on the DCC RPG line, including such adventures as Frozen in Time, Intrigue at the Court of Chaos, and the DCC Lankhmar set, and for his classic Dungeon Alphabet book and the old-school megadungeon Stonehell. Michael is currently the Director of Product Development for the Dun...

Lukasz Kowalczuk is a comic artist and illustrator whose unique style gives whole new identity to whatever he is working on. He is the artist behind To Hell and Galgenback, the Mork Borg webcomic series, and is the illustrator of the award winning Kosmosaurs RPG, among many other amazing works! I got lucky enough to meet Lukasz online and his style, energy and philosophy quickly draw us closer. I...

Navi is one half of A Couple of Drakes, the duo behind Court of Blades, Dead Belt, and a score of other badass tabletop games. A mother of two young boys, and an avid hobby collector, living in a haunted Victorian house in the Appalachian mountains. I meet Navi and her partner Shawn through Tweeter and was impressed by their enthusiasm and their constant production of thoughtful and unique RPG ide...

Jen Brinkman is the Operations Manager of Goodman Games, but she is also so much more than that. Host of the award-winning Spellburn podcast, co-creator of the Sanctum-Securum podcast and the legendary Brinkmanicon, the spiritual mother of the DCC RPG community, Jen is an inspiration to us all. I met Jen in 2014 when I went to Gen Con for the first time and I was immediately welcomed by the DCC RP...

Nick LS Whelan has somehow gone unpunished for his litany of book crimes. His works include such unwholesome publications as Sanctimonious Slimes Versus Expired Epicures, Miscreated Creatures, and Deadly Dungeons. This rampage of mangled word wrangling will never stop until someone has the courage to take away his keyboard. When not doing words badly, he can usually be found washing dishes, advoca...

Tony runs Plus One Exp , a weird brand that multiclasses in tabletop game design, beard & skincare alchemy & the bardic college of content creation. Our passion at Plus One Exp is help create more sustainable pathways to publication and play. I cannot say enough good things about Tony. He and his channel has been a force for good in the Indie TTRPG community, helping bring awareness to the...

Will Munn is the award-nominated and bestselling creator of Arium, the worldbuilding RPG. He runs the Adept Icarus game design studio and has collaborated on RPGs such as Cold Shadows, Tiny Frontiers, and Zorro, the Roleplaying Game. Willalso serves as a publisher for multiple award-winning and bestselling game designers. All four continental US timezones have been his home, and he'd like to a...

Cezar Capacle is a Brazilian Game Designer, author of the PUSH SRD, Midnight Melodies, Oneironaut, and so so many more. Cezar is a Game Artist, always exploring new ideas, new frontiers and showing us what RPGs can do. He has released more than 20 games, ranging from  games you play while you're asleep  to  tender games about saying goodbye , to tower defense games in which you're a  cow d...

Yeah, that is right! Hodag, the multidimensional illustrator and game designer returns to the show to flood us with his wisdom and ideas! You can listen to the first time Hodag came to the show here: https://anchor.fm/wgnwp/episodes/17-Hodag-e2bt2v3 This episode is then, basically, a bonus episode, but not like other bonus episodes you can basically skip, this one is chock full of wisdom and insig...

momatoes is a Manila-based 2022 Diana Jones Emerging Designer awardee best known for her game ARC, one of Polygon's top indie RPGs of 2021. momatoes creates games that tackle a wide gamut of stories, from the apocalypse to hubris to capybara Capers. Her latest game, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, was just released this November. ARC - Doom Tabletop RPG impresses you from the time you gli...

Marcia B is a prolific TTRPG Blogger, a scholar of old-school style play, and an attentive Game Designer. Her blog has been a reference of RPG theory and analysis, and her game design work is full of insight and useful tools. Fantastic Medieval Campaigns might be one of Marcia's most known creations. This games intends on taking the classic rules of the original fantasy game (OD&D) and pre...

Hodag is a game designer, artists and zine maker of the Indie RPG space! His work is primarily line based and black and white, full of details, references and hidden eggs! I've been following Hodag's work for a while now and we've talked a bit. But not like we did in this episode. Hodag does amazing linework art (and he even talks about his main styles of art, influences and preferences in the epi...

Kelsey Dionne is a new and old-school TTRPG designer who founded The Arcane Library in 2017. Her modernized take on OSR gaming, Shadowdark RPG, funded for $1.3 million on Kickstarter in March 2023. I couldn't believe when I saw Kelsey at Gen Con, just walking through the Exhibitor's Hall like the rest of us mortals! And when I talked to her she knew who I was and about my work. She is incr...

Richie Buzzkill is the producer behind the Full Metal RPG Podcast, which has been around for several years and touched almost every topic about TTRPG you could imagine and a little more. He is also, as he said himself, a Master Procrastinator, and someone who wanted to be an artist but was born with the soul of an engineer. We have been following each other's work for a long while as we almost...

Jarrett has helped create some of the most popular indie rpg systems, modules, and toolkits of the last decade. Primarily a behind-the-scenes person, he has recently started his own company, Space Penguin Ink, with his partner debbie and his cats. He looks forward to making more weird stuff every day! I've been working with Jarrett and getting to know him a little bit better since my first yea...

13th Episode and this is airing on Halloween, the spookiest of days! A day to celebrate horror! And we have a very special guest specially for today, Gavriel Quiroga! Gabriel Quiroga is a Game Designer, artists, barbecue magician, and many other things! He is from Argentina, a fellow #RPGLATAM creator, and he is the author of the astonishing games Neurocity, Warplane and Hell Night! His work also...

12th Episodes! And today we have a very special guest, a game designer that has been influential to my work and to so many other game designers I admire as well, Chris McDowell! Chris is a TTRPG designer in Manchester UK, known for Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland, and the upcoming Mythic Bastionland. He makes rules-light flavour-heavy games and writes at  ⁠bastionland.com⁠ . I had the pleasure...

Wow! 11 Episodes! And to celebrate the double digits, we have double guests! From the Epic Levels music, Mad Dungeon podcast, and the many artistic exploration of them, come Andrew Bellury and Steve Albertson! I had the pleasure to meet both during Gen Con 2023 and I had the best time with them. What I can really say about those two? Known as Tiger Wizard and Dragon Warrior, these artists make mus...

We reached 10 episodes! And for such a special occasion we have a very special guest! Ava Islam, creator of Errant RPG gets weird with us! Ava Islam is a very resourceful creator, from a mixed background and a lot of drive. She created the fabulous Errant RPG, a rules lite procedure heavy fantasy RPG that drinks both from the original well of fantasy gaming, and from the myriad of contemporary tho...