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Kickstarters are a really important part of TTRPG publishing and some companies depend on it. Shades of Vengeance is one of said companies with more than 50 projects on their backs. How do they do it?   This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   When Ed Jowett started 6 years ago, he probably didn’t know he would have 50 Kickstarter projects under his belt in this period of time. And yet, here they are and they are doing very well at it.   To add spice to the sauce, they help other creators get going and also work on ezines, comic books and card games.   In this interview I managed to ask him a few questions (with the help of my cat) and find some information about his current Kickstarter about to end soon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/the-era-zone-2020?ref=profile_created   Hope you enjoy the show!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine production

A Blessing and a Curse brings an interesting way to create new magical items with relevance. But is this book worth getting. Endzeitgeist tells you about it! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Please support Endzeitgeist Patreon: http://bit.ly/Endzeitgeist You can buy A Blessing and a Curse from here: http://bit.ly/2T2mYcG A Blessing and a Curse is an introduction to and tutorial into a philosophy of item creation that aims to make magical items a puzzle for the players to solve when part of their toolbox to improve the experience of using powerful magical items in your games. You may find that some of your favourite campaign items fit the pattern expounded in this document. A Blessing and a Curse aims to help you make more of these memorable items yourself, with enough starter elements to generate thousands of such items and 6 examples to spark inspiration

Something Wicked is the latest release from Frenzy Kitty Games, one of the very few (if not the only) #TTRPG in South Africa. Does this Pulp Horror game have enough to offer? Let’s ask the author! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine You can buy Something Wicked from DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/sthingwicked There is far, far more to this world than meets the eye... a darkness that exists just beyond the light of the world that most of us know and observe. It is there, on the fringe of reality, patiently lying in wait... The tales of evil beyond our comprehension that have been whispered for millennia around the campfire. The urban legends about dark rituals, blood sacrifices and secret societies. Terrifying rumours of witchcraft and black magic being used to raise the dead and summon demons under the light of the full moon. All of these stories are true. Evil

#Chaosium’s line Editor Dr. Lynne Hardy is a true expert on the matter of finding gaps and holes in stories and #RPGs, and thus, she knows a lot about our topic: Reality vs. Verisimilitude. This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Whether it is a Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction or any other genre, we deal with things in-game that are totally impossible and yet, they are accepted as realistic. Trouble is that more often than not people mean verisimilar rather than realistic. And that difference means a lot. When we say realistic we are imposing a series of norms and laws of physics, society, biology, etc. that correspond with our world’s. When we say verisimilar, we mean that they make sense, that they feel real event though they are not. So how and when should we stop reality to justify verisimilitude? What are the boundaries and how does it get implemented? Hope

The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our podcast. Endzeitgeist’s Patreon: http://bit.ly/EndzeitgeistYou can buy Gibbous Moon from here: http://bit.ly/31UFvKP This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine A short Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible adventure for 3rd-level PCs by Ennie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst Months ago, the necromancer Dunstan Wymer was gored by a wereboar and infected with lycanthropy. Almost driven insane by the realization of what he had become after awaking amid the gore and viscera of his companions’ eviscerated corpses, he has since shunned civilization instead seeking o

101 Cursed Items bring us exactly that thanks to Zenith Games. This is a review from Endzeitgeist.   The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our podcast. Endzeitgeist Patreon: http://bit.ly/EndzeitgeistYou can buy this book from here: http://bit.ly/101curseditems This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine 101 Cursed Items presents a litany of memorable and engaging curses to use in your game. Each curse and drawback enhances the story and mythos of your campaign, providing additional challenges without seeming unfair. The curses and drawbacks within range from goofy to punishing to campaign threatening, but they ar

This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. Sensitive topics can be dealt with in #RPGs and Chris Dias, from Dias Ex Machina has a game, Amethyst, that claims to do that. So having a game that helps you deal and bring those topics to the table in the safest possible way and without being an insensitive edgelord is very welcome. Hope you enjoy the show! You can buy the game here for 5E: http://bit.ly/Amethyst5E Here for Fate Core: http://bit.ly/AmethystFate Here for Savage Worlds: http://bit.ly/AmethystSW Here for 13th Age: http://bit.ly/Amethyst13thage Here for Pathfinder: http://bit.ly/AmethystPF1 And for other Dias Ex Machina games: https://www.diasexmachina.com/   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Tantrump is a protest political game designed by Mike Selinker and Liz Spain that tries to breach the gap between gaming and protesting like all good pieces of art should do. Tantrump is a game that is likely to offend and elate in equal measures and I do hope it will get a reaction in you. Either because it offends or makes you happy, it will have done part of its job. And if it entertains you as a game too, then all the better! This is the first time we do video interviews in the channel and, as you can probably tell, the quality of the image is not great (thanks Skype!), so any advice would be very, very welcome. This has also been released as a podcast and you have the link to the episode a bit lower down, so if you want to take this on the to rather than watch, you can do that too. And you can find hundreds of interviews too! Hope you enjoy the show! Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: http

The Hero’s Journey has been a love of mine for a long time. It is a tried and tested formula that renders good results. But do people use it to maximum effect?   In this episode I spoke to Phil Harris, game designer and university lecturer on the Hero’s Journey, and we dig into the use of the Hero’s Journey as a framework more than a set formula. Hope you enjoy the show!

In the last few weeks we have been chatting a lot in Facebook about relationships in games with a lot of people deciding they don’t want to have relationship in games because… erm… dunno… lots of reasons that make no sense to me, but hey… to each their own. Tim Korlewski, author and game designer of wargames and roleplaying games, asked me about it in Facebook and we decided to have a chat about it and see if we could make some interesting talking points about the subject. And here is the episode! Hope you enjoy the show! Check out our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/GMSMagazineYT Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

This quick guide to 10 illnesses that could be used in your game to make things harder for your players in a longer term way, rather than a wound that you can heal in no time with your magic. Please help this channel subscribing to it and leaving a comment. Most of us have suffered from illnesses in the past and we know how terribly debilitating it can be. Sometimes we have to spend a little bit of time in hospital to get them treated. In this video I talk about how some of these could be used and why in your #ttrpg to make the character lives a bit harder. Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: #Roleplaying games: https://goo.gl/XvtHA9Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvKOur #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Game On Tabletop is a fairly new crowdfunding platform that was born out of the desire to cater to the board and roleplaying games community. Is it worth considering? Considering that games have been a huge amount of the money that has gone through the Kickstarter doors, having a business that caters specifically for us, game backers and game creators sounds like a good idea to me. I spoke with Laura Hoffmann, spokesperson for the company and managed to ask her a whole bunch of questions about the tools the platform offers and whether it can offer an experience worth investing in as a board game or roleplaying game creator. Hope you enjoy the interview!

Blades and Blasters is a book created by Seth Tomlinson that funded in Kickstarter in 2018 and in 2019 has seen the light. It mixes science fiction and fantasy. But does it do it well?  As it happens, the book seems to be full of great ideas and with some 14 alien races, technology, weapons, starships and a bestiary, it could be a great addition to my game evenings. Enjoy the interview!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions:   Interviews: https://goo.gl/w5XrbS Review: https://goo.gl/hqx8HW Unboxings: https://goo.gl/hHGCSW Roleplaying games: https://goo.gl/XvtHA9 Roleplaying games unboxings: https://goo.gl/meXcYM For our podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Consent in #Gaming is a new free product from Monte Cook Games about the need to have consensual content and interaction in roleplaying games. This is my review. This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help us by subscribing to the channel and liking/commenting on the videos. #MonteCookGames has a enormous history of writing fantastic #RPG content. Now, Sean K. Reynolds and Shanna Germain have produced a 13 pages #pdf guide about the topic of consent around the gaming table. As can be expected, it has created a fair amount of controversy, so I decided to take a look and record this #review. I have to say, I know #seankreynolds and #shannahgermain, so my view is a bit biased, but the quality of this book and the importance of the content are undeniable. You can download it from here: https://www.montecookgames.com/consent-in-gaming/ Let me know what you think! Visit other G*M*S Magazine videos: Interviews: https://goo.gl/w5XrbSReview: https://goo.gl/hqx8HWUnboxings: https://goo.gl/hHGCSW

Kings of War is raging now in Kickstarter and should be funded by the time you hear this podcast. ¿Should you back it too? In this interview I go in a bit deeper with its author, Ennie winner Marc Langworthy and what the quick start rules misses. Aspects like character creation, magic, powers and advanced features of the rules system. Hope you enjoy the show! Visit the Kings of War Kickstarter here. Visit other G*M*S Magazine videos: Interviews: https://goo.gl/w5XrbS Review: https://goo.gl/hqx8HW Unboxings: https://goo.gl/hHGCSW Roleplaying games: https://goo.gl/XvtHA9 Roleplaying games unboxings: https://goo.gl/meXcYM Follow us on Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Let's Play: Dungeons & Dragons Behind Bars is a documentary by filmmaker Elizabeth de Kleer that takes a look at the inside of some jails in the USA and the effect that playing D&D has on some of the inmates. Truly hope you enjoy this one and please, take a look at the Kickstarter. It is for one of the best causes I have ever seen in the world of RPGs.

Monica and Andrew Marlowe have been in my radar for a very long time  now. I have known them for years and their involvement in the world of RPGs has interested me. But who are they? Well… we are about to find out. From their involvement in RPG Superstar and the Marlowe House games in Twitch, they have been doing a fair amount of work to get RPGs a good name and create content. Monica and Andrew left me wishing podcast episodes could last hours! Hope you enjoy!

Chivalry & Sorcery is a game that saw light of day around 40 years ago and some people decided to fall in love with it. ¿Enough to be at it around 40 years later? Well, this is indeed the case. When Steve Turner, from Britannia Game Design fell in love with Chivalry & Sorcery, he not just decided to play it, but also to keep at it for years and years and eventually buy the license so he could release more versions of the game and go to Kickstarter with the latest one. So I interviewed Steve Turner to ask about what makes Chivalry & Sorcery a game worth investing in. Hope you enjoy it!

Rachel Ventura has been a part of Legendary Games for a considerable length of time and managed the business development. Bu that does that mean? With a successful Kickstarter on its way to publish Ultimate Kingdoms, a compilation of Ultimate books from the company’s catalogue, I wanted to talk to Rachel about the operation itself rather than just about the book. Unsurprisingly, she knows exactly what she is talking about and the interview is quite revealing! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Grimmerspace has taken the RPG world by storm in a Kickstarter project that will be remembered for a long time. But why?  Well, since I happen to know the Grimmerspace authors, Lou Agresta and Rone Barton, I asked them to come to the show and have a chat about the project and the game itself. I won’t take any more of your time. Please do take a look at the project and have a listen to the podcast. I sincerely hope you will enjoy it. This podcast was recorded for G*M*S Magazine.