265 - Shadowdark

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Hey, you got modern game design in my old school RPG!
Hey, you got old school RPG in my modern game design!

DM Matt and Vice DM Andy review the brand new Shadowdark RPG system by Kelsey Dionne and published by the Arcane Library fresh off of its $1.3 million kickstarter campaign.  Time to attack the light! 

Download the quick start or purchase the rules for Shadowdark here.

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BONUS - Best of Year Five

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261 - Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game

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With the most money ever raised for a TTRPG, Magpie Games has written an official, licensed adaptation of one of our favorite settings, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra. DMs Rob and Matt discuss the game. Is it a slapdash adaptation to make money off of a beloved franchise, or a ground-breaking, amazing new RPG system, or maybe something balanced in-between those extremes? Hint: it's probably the last one. 

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257 - Dungeons and Dragons the Movie: Wrath of the Dragon God

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We review the Dungeons and Dragons movie! No, not the new 2023 D&D movie with Michelle Rodriguez, or the even the 2000 film with Jeremy Irons, but 2005's straight-to-DvD Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. With the help of some special guests, we listen to the thrilling return of our favorite wacky henchman, Damodar, and meet our new adventuring party of Lord Beric, Mage Wife, Obad-Hai Guy, Apestaff Wizard, and Claxx the Lich. We may have lost $10.3 million and 1:42:59 of our lives, but we collected a lot of cool 🔮Orbs🔮 along the way, and at the end of the adventuring day, isn't that what RPGs are all about? 

Check out Kevin's research here

and Sam's film productions here.

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255 - Actual Prep: New Campaign & Advanced Plagiarism

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DM Matt walks you through prepping for a new campaign using lots of plagiarism and how to prep making new characters and creating handouts to speed through the process with new players. You can support the show on Patreon to gain access to our "Best Starting Adventure" plus the handouts and maps Matt prepared for this new campaign. 

Links: 

Inkarnate

R-N-W

Arcadia Magazine

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254 - MÖRK BORG

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Matt and Rob talk about MÖRK BORG, the greatest metal-inspired, Swedish, grimdark, rules-light TTRPG you've ever seen.

Check it out here!

The Unseen Vaults of the Optic Experiment

Music:

Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Putrescence Regnant - The Floating Basilica
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Gloryhammer - Rise of the Chaos Wizards
Fintroll - Trollhammaren
Electric Wizard - Barbarian
Putrescence Regnant - The Calendar of Nechrubel

252 - Linda Codega, Dragon Slayer

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Award-winning Special Journalism & NFT Correspondent Linda Codega of i09 returns to the show to talk about how they broke the OGL story, how Wizards/Hasbro has breached the "trust thermocline," and what the TTRPG future may look like now that WotC has taken an "L" and released of the SRD into the Creative Commons. 

Cool games that Linda recommends:

Orbital Blues

Apollo 47

Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined and Interstitial - Kingdom Hearts Actual Play

World Champ Game Co.

ARC

Apocalypse Keys

Wanderhome

Mothership

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