The Coriolis Effect

Happy Christmas! There is no normal episode this week, because it's Christmas Eve today and we are with our families, rather than arguing over our mics. To make up for our absence on your feeds, here is a bonus show. People enjoyed the peek into our deign process that we released a month ago and asked if there was more. There is - this second hour of discussion from our very first design meeting follows on from where the last bonus episode finished, as we are talking about talents. We had of course discussed the idea on the phone previously, and by text, but this was the first time we actually sat down at a table together to talk about the games principles and start to get into the nitty gritty of mechanics. At that point it was an adaptation of Forbidden Lands, so you will hear a lot of chat in that context. Over the years (Patrons have just received playtest version 6) it has moved away from its Forbidden Lands roots while remaining a Year Zero Engine game.We hope to be making a big announcement next year a

00.00.40: Introductions00.03.00: Thank you to our new patron: Jeppe Mulich00.05.12: World of Gaming - Electric State on Kickstarter; Matt Colville's Monster Fighting game MCDM RPG; R Talsorian's multi dimensional game Shadow Scar; Doug gets a staring fooled in Outgunned, Dave is guesting on Raldanash's Walking Dead Universe discusion00.45.20: Dragonmeet report 00.54.10: Article: Mechanical Depth01.24.33: Next time and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Sorry, chapter markers wrong in this episode, use these timing instead00.00.40: Introductions00.02.13: Thank you to our new patron: Andrew Rackley00.05.12: World of Gaming - Four Borg! Even simpler than Mork Borg, New Free League website with proactive advice for starting to play; oh no! The Adventure Time RPG dumps its Yes And system for a 5e ruleset; Dragonmeet; Magnus Seter's new book00.36.44: A Forbidden Lands approach to Mass Combat01.06.43: Next time and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Not only are some people building worlds with the hardcopy of the latest Alien supplement that has arrived on at least a few doorstep, but we speak to a woman who had a brilliant idea for building your game's world (better) with magnetic modular terrain. Plus loads of news from Free League and the world of gaming!.00.00.40: Introductions00.01.54: World of Gaming - Building Better Worlds hitting doormats in physical editions: Walking Dead final version out; Electric State RPG announced ; Blade Runner RPG Fiery Angels on pre-order with immediate PDF! Invisible Sun returns to Kick... um Backerkit; Nightfall's Musketeers vs Cthulhu has three days left on Kickstarter; Scoundrels of Brixton review. Comic-Con report. 00.46.21: Interview - Annabelle of Modular Realms, join her Discord to see user's creations, or follow Modular Realms on Instagram or Facebook01.30.01: Next time and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Pu

We are sorry we missed our usual episode last week. Our intention had been to record an episode during MCM Comic Con London, but we ended up working too hard to make too few sales to do anything other than eat and sleep of an evening. Normal service will be resumed next weekend, and will include some Comic Con related content.To make up for our absence on your feeds, here is a bonus show, actually something that was a Patreon exclusive when we first shared it three and a half years ago. We hope to be making a big announcement next year about a kickstarter for our Tales of the Old West TTRPG. We have a number of ducks to get a a row first, but to whet your appetites here is a recording of our very first design meeting. We had of course discussed the idea on the phone previously, and by text, but this was the first time we actually sat down at a table together to talk about the games principles and start to get into the nitty gritty of mechanics. At that point it was an adaptation of Forbidden Lands, so you wil

00.00.40: Introductions - You're Dead to Me00.09.36: World of Gaming - Building Better Worlds PDFs are here; new Dragonbane announcements; The Lost Mountain saga coming out for Halloween; Cohors Cthulhu kickstarting; New Edition of BRP out in print; ; Essen and MCM Comicon 00.54.47: Article - Women in Historical TTRPG - Dr Emma Southron's History of Rome in 21 Women01.25.15: Next time and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions - Put it on a plate00.03.55: World of Gaming - Evil Genius sue Netflix over Rebel Moon RPG; Mutant Ad Astra finally makes an appearance; NeoClassscal Geek Revival imported into the UK; Household is brilliant; Essen and MCM Comicon 00.39.55: Article - Community content by the word (Steve Weick's blog posts)01.09.36: Next time and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions00.06.01: World of Gaming: Dukk Borg; Pirate Borg; Deathmatch Island on Backerkit 17th October;  and Cohors Cthulhu coming to KS 3rd October; D&D part work; the art in They Grow Up So Fast. 00.41.30: Article - Writing Market Garden for War Stories01.07.18: Upcoming episodes and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions00.03.47: Thank you to our new patron, Keith Rossellini00.04.50: World of Gaming: Dreams and Machines pre-order; Free League will be demoing Zone Wars at Essen; Assassin’s Creed RPG announced; Shadow of the Weird Wizard Kickstarter almost done; Moria Kickstarter 00.27.02: Interview - Interview, Gareth Ryder-Hannrahan01.12.35: Next episode and GoodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions00.06.50: World of Gaming: Modern Vaesen is out; Slaughterville re-thought and relaunched; Coriolis, Wake of the Icons finally in stores; Eat the Riech! Kickstarter00.29.06: Interview - Andreas Lundstrom talks about Windheim and the Horn of Dawn, 01.15.12: Goodbye, and Sagan om Drakar ock Demoner from the forthcoming Dragonbane soundtrackEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00.00.40: Introductions00.04.04: World of Gaming: It’s Gen Con as we record; Ennie Results full list of nominees and winners; Diana Jones award won by Coyote and Crow; Free League announce a Moria campaign for both Ring games; Badgequest, girl-guide/scouts game on Kickstarter; friend of the Show Andreas kickstarts Windheim for DoD/Dragonbane; Slaughterville, YZE game kickstarting (KS cancelled - watch this space); Free League sixth (and ninth?) biggest TTRPG Kickstarter company; writers rates  00.55.00: Vaesen - The Devils is in theDetail01.01.56: Interview - Christopher Brown of Laughing Rogue takes about Slaughterville01.32.31: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stu

00.00.40: Introductions00.02.50: World of Gaming: Pendragon starter set out in the UK; Pendragon fiction coming from my mate Chris November; Cubicle 7 coming out with a second edition of the Laundry Files; Gary’s Appendix kickstarts a third issue with some more words from renowned OSR expert Dave; now Critical Role have found out we are going to MCM Comicon, they are coming too; Dragonbane dropping into people's mail; Modiphious announce Captains Log solo RPG; a new case file and Expansion book announced for Bladerunner. 00.35.01: Interview : Dave Whitworth and Or Tom Murr on Modern Vaesen01.16.00: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blog

00.00.40: Introductions00.06.17: World of Gaming: Ennie Nominations (our names in lights!); Cohors Cthulhu free Quickstart out; Modiphious sending out Dreams and Machines pendants to streamers (the creator doc Dave mentioned is here); Chaosium are about to crowdfund a Call of Cthulhu actual play; Pendragon starter set is out (except UK); Adventure Time RPG; Gangs of Kahabro new year zero engine game from the peeps behind Zweihander (Want to join the playtest? Head to the Zweihander RPG Discord for sign-up details: https://discord.gg/Zweihander); Erik Granstrom blogs the sexy bits that were edited out of the new Bloodmarch books00.46.42: Article - 10 tips for better game design01.06.04: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play rec

We talk to Fiona Howat, MU/TH/UR of the Alien competition at UK Games Expo, and learn her shocking dark secret! 00.00.40: Introduction00.03.34: World of Gaming - Pirate Borg on pre-order, and coming to retail on International Talk Like a Pirate Day; Renegade Game Studios put their foot in it; Diana Jones awards nominees announced; FreeRPG day happened; freelance rates survey (with a sidebar on pay at conventions); UKGE memories00.43.13: Interview: Fiona Howat of What Am I Rolling01.00.26: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    00.00.40: Introduction00.06.11: Thank you to our new Patron: David Morrison, live!00.15.01: Roving reporter Duffy 0019.23: Reporter Pete talks about Camden Games' Shape Invaders coming to a kickstarter near you, and asks a pertinent question about the pitfalls of creating a new system from scratch 00.24.53: Reporter Clint talks about Alien and asks about the    games we are NOT going to play00.33.47: Another, anonymous, reporter asks a question about Free League's business model00.41.44: Reporter Ant talks about Jolly Thinkers' Cheese Thief and asks about the future of TTRPG00.49.41: Reporter (and patron and friend of the show) Craig talks about Games on Demand at UKGE and asks about small press games that have caught our eye and we plug his Lunar Shadow games  00.52.23: Reporter (and patron and friend of the show) Mohamed talks about playing Alien and Death in Space and how our podcast introduced him to TTRPGs   01.00.26: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music i

We offer you three new careers for Alien, and get excited about UK Games Expo,00.00.40: Introduction00.04.36: Thank you to our new Patron: grey-nimlet00.08.52: UKGE; Live recording (Sixth birthday spectacular!); 10 tips for better Game design0020.21: Critical Role's Candela Obscura mashes together Blades in the Dark and Vaesen; simultaneous pre-order of Tales from the Lost Realm (TOR) and Tales from Eriador (LoTR); The Walking Dead PDFs now with additions; Mystery Flesh Pit National Park Kickstarter; D&D books price going up00.43.13: Article - three new careers for Alien Colonies01.00.26: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs

It's a War Stories special with Matthew talking about his experience playing a campaign, and Dave talking about his philosophy when writing that very campaign. Plus lots of news from the World of Gaming00.00.40: Introduction00.02.14: Thank you to our new Patrons: Verminlord, Sebastian Schmitt, and Christph Kleschke AKA Laoin00.06.30: World of Gaming: UKGE; Bladerunner starter set wins the best adventure award for UKGE Judges awards; LoTR RPG; 2000Ad buys Tunnels and Trolls; Critical Role have a new Vaesen-like mystery coming out, but using a very different system; Break is an anime RPG that appeal to our patrons; Ronin is Mork Borg in fantasy Japan; Outgunned looks like an interesting cinematic action RPG - can it replace Feng Shui in our hearts? 00.41.52: Article: Using and Abusing History - the first part00.49.17: Interruption: Defining Authentic01.00.07: Article: Using and Abusing History - the second part part01.25.55: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by

Not one, but three essays! A new Talent of the Episode; Drugs in the Forbidden Lands and GMs don't want you to know this simple Stronghold Hack!  00.00.40: Introduction00.03.50: World of Gaming: Dave's Building Better Worlds on pre-order; Dave spills the beans on  Dreams and Machines; Alchemy VTT kickstarts with Free League headlining; FREE Ukrainian Vaesen supplement now in English; Scoundrels of Brixton takes South London to the stars; Blood and Doom FINISHED on Kickstarter; Join us and Johan Noor at UKGE; is Dave going to GenCon00.48.28: Talent of the Episode: Beekeeper01.00.00: Narcotic Herbs in the Forbidden Lands01.08.53: GM's don't want you to know this Stronghold Hack01.22.25: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play reco

We go DnD crazy! And build bases, and talk Star Trek; Picard00.00.40: Introduction00.02.42: Thank you to our new Patrons: Brokenwitch, Ian Stronach, Peter John Newbold (with a sidebar about Picard)00.13.07: World of Gaming: DandD movie review, Lord of the Rings (5th ed variant) released 9th May, LOTR RPG Live Play, Chaosium taking a hybrid approach to AI with Quest Portal Elder, Teminator t2 ks not doing well00.43.37: Essay - Base Building01.11.16: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this episode we Matthew bores Dave rigid talking about the two different dice systems in Year Zero Engine00.00.40: Introduction00.03.02: Thank you to our new Patrons: Richard Turnbull, Gordon Thomas Jehu and Martin Cookson00.09.18: World of Gaming: Walking Dead update; both YZE and Dragon plane licenses officially released; Chaosium are bringing back BRP, under an open licence (ORC); D&D movie; Talislanta what’s all that about ?00.27.28: Essay - Stepped Dice or Dice Pool?00.53.44: Next time, and goodbyeEffekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do? Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere) Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate link Leave a review on iTunes or Podchaser Find our Actual Play recordings on effektap Find essay transcripts and other stuff on Matthew's, and Dave's blogs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★