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In this week’s episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Chris about his DM PC, Disney movie monarchies, and the wonders of extremely crunchy combat sessions. Spoiler warning for The Emperor’s New Groove, I guess? Although it’s not the topic of the episode, this is the first time that Jake and Chris have chatted about the campaign they played together since it wrapped up, so it comes up a few times. Sorry about that.

Here’s the link to the publisher’s website for the Pathfinder system that Chris used to run this game. All this talk about really crunchy combat gave us the idea to try the even crunchier Genesys system which you’ll hear all about on next week’s Flashlight episode.

Here’s the d10000 table that we roll on in this episode. Chris also recommends Dungeon Fog and PCGen as tools for running your campaign.

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In this week’s Flashlight, we explore Dungeon World and chat about Powered by the Apocalypse-based games! Reilly gets some serious firepower, Jake approves of biblical plagues, and we both struggle to recall basic facts about modern American history.

Here’s the link to the publisher’s website for the Dungeon World system, and here are the other Powered by the Apocalypse systems we discuss:

• Apocalypse World launched this whole style of TTRPG.
• MASHED is a PbtA game set in the Korean War.
• Saga of the Icelanders is a PbtA game set during the Norse settlement of Iceland.
• Thirsty Sword Lesbians is basically exactly what it says on the tin.
• Spirit of 77 is a PbtA game set in 70s movies, we think? Again, neither one of us knows very much about modern American history.
• The Warren is a PbtA game about intelligent rabbits.

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In this week’s episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Prim about sharing narrative control with your players, hitting dragons with sticks, and the joys of being a deeply adversarial GM. Very light spoiler warning for Fullmetal Alchemist. Will Jake ever get on board with a TTRPG system that doesn’t let you roll big chunky handfuls of dice every couple minutes? Prim makes a compelling case for Dungeon World.

Here’s the link to the publisher’s website for the Dungeon World system that Prim describes. (We’ll also be talking about this game system in next week’s Flashlight episode.)

Prim also mentioned the podcast Friends at the Table and the TTRPG system Stars Without Number as excellent resources.

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In our very first Flashlight, we explore the worldbuilding game Microscope! Reilly shows off his voice-acting abilities, Jake is very enthusiastic about a curse, and we both realize we much we rely on the randomness of a dice roll to drive a story forward. Throughout this episode Jake used a very squeaky whiteboard market to track our decisions, which Reilly had to edit out from the audio. Thanks Reilly!

Here’s the publisher’s website where you can buy Microscope for yourself.

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In our very first episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Mike about building a vibrant and realistic world for your campaign, NPCs who just want to be messy, and the importance of learning AutoCAD. Spoiler warning – especially for Annihiliation but also for 3:10 to Yuma and maybe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Does Jake’s mic discipline get any better as the season goes on? Stay tuned to find out.

Here’s the WorldAnvil page for Mike’s campaign. Click through to zoom in and pan around on the world map we discuss in the episode.

Here’s the Planet Map Generator that Mike used to build the world. On next week’s Flashlight, we’ll be talking about a very different tabletop game that’s all about worldbuilding.

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