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In this episode, I talk to Tim Denee, a Wellington-based graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer. His graphic design work has been recognised by the Best Awards, Tokyo Design Week and the International Society of Typographic Designers. He's also the co-author of We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa, which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.
Through Old Dog Games, he's published free RPG products like a hack of Band of Blades for playing in the Warhammer old world and last year, a hack for Twilight 2000 to play Andor. And recently, he's partnered with Evil Hat to release Deathmatch Island, a battle royale adaptation of Agon, and crowdfunding now, Blades '68, an expansion for the seminal Blades in the Dark. 

Tim’s personal website: https://timdenee.com/ 
Old Dog Games: https://www.olddog.games/ 
Blades ‘68 crowdfunding: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/c7788a1e-2f1c-4525-bc66-2a99b84ebae9/landing 

Show Notes:
Austin Powers
Mad Men (TV Show)

Games Mentioned
Deathloop
Dishonored
Mythic Bastionland

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As per annual tradition, I'm once again joined by Quinns from QQuest to talk about the year and forge our bond in the fire of podcasting.

Show Notes:
Fastaval, the larp festival in Denmark
Last year's 2024 year in review

Games Mentioned
The Tribunal
The Straights Are Not Okay
Tacklebox
Mythic Bastionland
Gradient Descent
God’s Teeth / Delta Green
D&D
Draw Steel
Daggerheart
Magnus Archives
Old Gods of Appalachia
The Silt Verses
Old School Essentials / Dolmenwood
Cain
Pirate Borg
Fabula Ultima
The Between
Masks of Nyarlathotep
Eternal Lies
Pirates of Drinax
A Nocturne
Apocalypse World: Burned Over

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In this episode, I talk to Aaron Lim, a game designer from Malaysia. His work includes sad village-building game An Altogether Different River, very sad journey game Itchaca on the Cards, and tragic mecha game Spectres of Brocken. He's also the organizer of Playtest Zero, a fortnightly RPG playtesting community that's been going on since 2021. 
Aaron Lim on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ehronlime.bsky.social
Aaron’s itch page: https://ehronlime.itch.io/

Show Notes:
Playtest Zero FAQ
My article about visiting Malaysia for the Asian Board Games Festival
Only Yesterday (1991)

Games Mentioned
Ithaca on the Cards: Second Expedition
Microscope
Big Grave Fashion Fantasy
Desperation
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales

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In this episode, I talk to Asa Donald is one-half of Backwards Tabletop, the publisher of the Backwards Universe of American horror games and Rust Never Sleeps, a solo mecha game. Their current project is Spine, a dark solo RPG about losing yourself in a book. 

Asa Donald on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/backwardsttrpg.bsky.social 
Spine (Digital): https://backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine
Spine (Physical): https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/68ec499e9e0b692d084d6b6c

Show Notes:
Asa’s series on Bookplay and interviews with other designers: www.backwardstabletop.com 
Pale Fire by Nabokov

Games Mentioned
You Will Die In This Place
Normality
Wisher Theurgist Fatalist
Harvest
Wreck This Deck (and Wreck This Book)
Seven Part Pact
The Sun’s Ransom
Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast

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Today, I’m talking to Allen Varney, who runs the Bundle of Holding currently, which I think everyone listening to this had heard of. Before that, he worked as a freelance writer, editor, game designer for TSR, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, FASA, and more. He was the lead designer for Paranoia XP, the 2004 edition of the game from Mongoose, and wrote a ton of articles for house magazines like Dragon. 
Bundle of Holding: https://bundleofholding.com  

Show Notes:
Space Gamer magazine
Warren Spector

Games Mentioned
 Steve Jackson's Man-to-Man Fantasy Combat (also Car Wars, Ogre, and more)
Toon
Paranoia
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (Dracula Dossier, Darkening of Mirkwood, Eyes of the Stone Thief)
Primal Order

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