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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: Ad-absentia Players and Their Characters

Sometimes players have to leave the game and be ad-absentia for a few weeks at the time and sometimes they leave their characters behind so they can come back and retake the session. That happens more often than not in long term campaigns. What should happen to those characters? In this episode Vickey Beaver, Jim…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: Alexander Argyopoulos and 12 Realms: Bedtime Story

Although not many people think about countries like Greece a country with a board game tradition, some companies are keen on setting a stepping stone and bring some excellent games to the table of as many as possible. Mage Company has been doing that since they released Wrong Chemistry a few years ago and then…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: The Thunder Plains Controversy

Apologies for the problem at the start of the podcast. Using new software and still getting used to it, didn’t hear the problem until it was too late. Recently a massive outrage exploded onto the Internet on the back, of Bruce Cordel’s game The Strange and a recursion within the game, the Thunder Plains, that…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Interview Room: Sleepers with Ben Counter

Sleepers is a conspiracy horror game published by Death Spiral Games and written by Ben Counter, veteran of many Warhammer novels. This game has been in development for a number of years and puts the players in the shoes of agents with super powers who have just woken up after a long slumber and a…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: The Next Great American Game with Douglas Morse

The Next Great American Game is a documentary movie conceived and brought to life by producer and director Douglas Morse. In this documentary, we’ll follow Randall Hoyt as he pitches his game, Turnpike, to  publishers in order to get it published. As you can imagine, that is a task easier said than done and in…
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