Yes Indie'd Pod

Hello! A cross-post in the feed today. This in an episode I did with Sam Dunnewold for his podcast, Dice Exploder , where every episode is a deep dive into a single RPG mechanic (usually) from a specific game. I talk about the Secondary Mission roll from Band of Blades which is a very cool mechanic that I love to think about. It basically inspired me to make a whole game at one point. This is an e...

Support the show on Patreon The first episode in a series of special episodes meant to teach some of my favourite indie RPGs. Listen in to hear Rae Nedjadi , designer of Apocalypse Keys , teach you how to play his game. In Apocalypse Keys , you play OMEN-class monsters working for an organisation named DIVISION tasked with holding back the apocalypse. Inspired by Hellboy and BPRD, the players stru...

Support the show on Patreon Layla Adelman, who goes by the handle pandatheist in RPG spaces, is a rpg designer, writer, and serial twitter thread writer. She's one of the co-designers of the Illuminated Worlds system for Critical Role's Darrington Press. This is the system which powers Candela Obscura and potentially other unannounced games. She was an Ennies judge two years. She blogs o...

Support the show on Patreon Dave is a youtuber, reviewer and game designer. His Youtube channel, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews , currently has about 180 videos and more than 25,000 subscribers. He's also got a great newsletter where he publishes written interviews game design luminaries. Links to all of this stuff will be in the show notes. He's designed supplements for the Index Card RPG...

Support the show on Patreon Christopher Chinn is the blogger behind the long-running and well-loved Deeper in the Game blog . He's probably best-known for the Same Page Tool. But started in 2007, the blog has 15 years of thoughtful and insightful writing and advice on RPG design and play. Show Notes: 01:17 - Introducing Chris 02:54 - The origin of the blog (also "rules are for preventing...

Support the show on Patreon Emily C. Friedman is an associate professor of English at Auburn University and director of 18thconnect , a website dedicated to scholarship of the 18th century. Though an 18th-century literature scholar and critic by training, Emily is now one of the foremost chroniclers of the phenomenon we call actual play. She teaches games and actual play in the classroom and regul...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm talking to Becky Annison, the co-founder of UK-based design company, Black Armada Games . She's the award-winning designer of When the Dark Is Gone, part of the Seven Wonders anthology from Pelgrane Press. And is probably best known for the high drama werewolf game, Bite Marks, and GM-less mystery game, Lovecraftesque, on which she's...

Support the show on Patreon This week, we're talking to Paul Beakley has been involved with the games industry since at least the mid 1990s. He's a Game Chef finalist, a Golden Cobra honourable mention, and an official designer/adventure module writer for games like Deadlands, Earthdawn, Mutant Chronicles and more. He's also been writing about games for a long time, across various w...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm chatting with Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt , who are the co-hosts of Team Up Moves , a podcast about playing and discussing superhero tabletop RPGs. I'm a big fan of the podcast and so I reached out to the two of them. Apart from RPGs, Fiona is a front-end software engineer by trade who worked at Google, Twitter, the City of Boston and...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Tan Shao Han , a TTRPG designer, writer, and cultural consultant from Singapore. He's contributed words to various Paizo Pathfinder books, including Lost Omens: Impossible Lands, new Dagger Isles supplement for Blades in the Dark, and other games like Monster Care Squad and ARC. He's the co-founder of Curious Chimeras , a...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Indrani Ganguly who is the marketing manager for Hunters Entertainment, the publisher of Kids on Bikes, Alice is Missing, among other games. She is also the co-founder of Desis n Dragons , probably India's largest community of tabletop roleplayers. Of which, I am a humble member. Indrani is also a dicemaker, an artisan, making...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Jahmal Brown aka Mad Jay Zero . Jay is a podcaster, designer and rockstar GM. His podcast Diceology features interviews with folks from the RPG scene as well as fun recaps of his various games in Last Week in Gaming. As a game designer, he's contributed words to books like Pathfinder's magnificent Mwangi Expanse as well...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Lowell Francis the writer behind the Ennie award winning RPG blog, Age of Ravens, which you can find at ageofravensgames.com . He's the co-designer of the fantastic Hearts of Wulin , a PbtA game of wuxia melodrama. He is also the Gauntlet Gaming Community Manager and co-host of Gauntlet Podcast. He is a comics author (he wrot...

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Judd Karlman, the podcaster behind Daydreaming about Dragons , my personal favourite source of GM advice. Every episode of his podcast has two parts: table techniques, where Judd talks offers techniques to play roleplaying games, and inspiration goat, where a real goat recommends media to Judd and he explains how that media can in...

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Marx interviews Thomas Manuel about games journalism, the synergy or dissonance between being a playwright and being a game designer, and about his games The Spider and the City, Hypercity, and Depths Unfathomable. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Thomas Manuel on Twitter Thomas Manuel on Itchio Thomas Manuel official website Marx She...

Marx interviews Cezar Capacle about Push and philosophies of game design, I Guess This Is It and minimalist story gaming, and how to publicise oneself in a post-Twitter world. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn , whose game Tapestry is available now . Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Cezar Capacle on Twitter Cezar Ca...

Marx interviews Michael Low of Luck of Legends Games about games in the classroom, education in games, and about the choose-your-own-adventure colouring book RPG training manual Starsworn. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn , whose game Tapestry is available now . Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Starsworn on Kicksta...

Marx interviews James Davey of Gem and Eye Games about The Midnight World, a game about mental health, world-altering powers, and terrifying gods from other dimensions. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard , whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now . Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi The Midnight...

Marx interviews Thomas Eliot of Sixpence Games about Fear of the Unknown, a one-shot game of building towns and investigating horrors. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard , whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now . Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Fear of the Unknown on Kickstarter Thomas Eliot...

A brief announcement about the future of Yes Indie'd Pod. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website All music derived from: be quiet from the album Sketches by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License • available from Free Music Archive Support the show The Yes Indie'd Website // The Indie RPG Newsletter

Marx interviews Jeremy Gage of Have You Played This, whose podcast Draw Your Dice is an educational podcast exploring how to make TTRPGs. This week’s sponsor is By Odins Beard RPG whose game We Deal In Lead is available for pre-order now ! Or, check out the Other Worlds game jam on Itchio . Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Jeremy Gage...

Marx interviews Iko of The Lost Bay Podcast, a podcast focusing on indie TTRPG zines and their creators. This week’s sponsor is Elijah Mills whose game Campfire is out now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi The Lost Bay Podcast on Twitter The Lost Bay on Itchio The Lost Bay Podcast official website Jeremy Gage on Twitter Have You Playe...

Marx interviews Chris and Wes of Spooky Bell Games about Beyond Deep, an adventure and locale for Mörk Borg set in a mining company town. This week’s sponsor is Gamenomicon whose game Goblin Market is on Kickstarter now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Beyond Deep on Kickstarter Chris on Twitter / Wes on Twitter Spooky Bell Games on...

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