Who's Got Your Attention At The Table?

Who's got your attention at the table?

At Dragonmeet in December, I played a game of galactic (2nd edition) by riley rethal with a group of five other players, none of whom I'd met before. I've played galactic before with Merely Roleplayers, and played a few other games in the same style, but with this group I noticed something I've never noticed before about cooperative roleplaying games.

This player wasn't missing everything. When I established a detail or an event, that seemed to sink in. It was only the other players' contributions they kept missing.

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Indie TTRPG designers: look over here!

Are you a TTRPG game designer who would like an example of play for your game but have no means to produce one? Or maybe the Actual Play example on your itch page is one of you and some friends, and you'd like to feature someone ELSE playing your game? I'm streaming one-shots of indie games, and I'm looking for games like yours to play!

My name is Taylor, and I've been streaming TTRPGs on Twitch for a little over two years, focusing on one-shots and indie games. My favorite thing is introducing guests and viewers to games they've never heard of, and watching them fall in love.

You can submit your game here: https://forms.gle/etgkDNfQopuxsrhTA

2023 year of social networks that are social like sitting on the sofa together quietly being in each other's company, not social like a networking event. Down with the town square, up with the cosy den. Hang out with me on Storygraph and Letterboxd and Duolingo and let's absorb each other's updates and respond with the online version of a moment of eye contact and a half smile

Marta emailed me one day and said "hey I like Merely Roleplayers, can I be on it?" and now she's joined our main campaign (which already had a rotating cast of 12 PCs) and is killing it in our current arc. Shoot your shot people!

Meet Harper: student, realmwalker, Searcher. Harper’s not about that supernatural life, but weirdness just seems to stalk her like a shadow.

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COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Ellen as Jess Butterworth, the Spooky

Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Marta da Silva as Harper, the Searcher

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

Mother Goose's book: preserves stories; seems to have its own prescriptive opinions about the 'correct' form of those stories, but does allow Tim to make his own decisions about which stories to preserve and which to leave walking the world

The Stepmother: voraciously (indiscriminately?) devours stories to empower herself at their expense, trapping and torturing them in a screaming amalgam; inserts herself into stories, warping them to her own ends

The Stepmother is kind of the extreme horror version of how corporations treat stories - as IP, fodder, something to consume and recombine and change to enrich themselves (if it's Brennan, the villain is capitalism). So could the book be contrasting that with curation? The responsibility to record the truth of the story, and the curator's choice of which stories/versions to include?