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Weird Games and Weirder People

A podcast about role playing games and the weird wonderful people behind them! Here we talk to the people who helped create theses marvelous games we enjoy so much and get to know the weird wonderful being they are. Weird is the new wonderful!

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01:52:54

86 Camilla Zamboni

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/08/28

Camilla Zamboni (she/her) teaches Educational Game Design as well as Italian language and culture at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). She focuses on innovative, reflective, and radical pedagogy, particularly at the nexus of language learning, open educational resources (OERs), analog game-based learning, and tabletop game design. Camilla regularly presents at conferences in US and Italy, and she is currently editing a volume on creating micro tabletop role-playing games for the classroom

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01:36:25

85 Erica Lowe

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/08/06

Owner-Erica Lowe Broken Brain Games LLC and Co-founder of Dice and Dish Podcast. Writer on Edrenas Tower (DCC Zine), RagnaBorg (Mork Borg Zine), Temple of Grimbog (5e), and Chambers of Agony (Shadowdark/Mork Borg Zine). 200 RYT-E Yoga Instructor.Listen up and get weird with Erica Lowe https://www.brokenbraingames.com/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes! If you would like to support the show, leave a

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01:38:18

84 Banana Chan

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/31

Banana Chan is a Cantonese Canadian game designer, writer and publisher living in the US. Her latest work has been on Forgery, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition. They won Dicebreaker Awards' Game Designer of the Year 2022 and 2 Silver ENnie Awards in 2022.I had the pleasure and honor to meet Banana during Gary Con 2024 and it was amazing. We played a board game she developed and talked a little bit about games,

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01:29:42

83 WF Smith (Prismatic Wasteland)

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/25

W. F. Smith, also known as Prismatic Wasteland, is a blogger and game designer, author of Barkeep on the Borderlands, making Prismatic Wasteland RPG, and creator of many other amazing things! He comes to the show to talk weird!Prismatic Wasteland, the blog, is one I've been visiting and coming back to for years, and it's been around for a long while. We even talk a little bit on the show about how the blog culture changed over time but is still on of the most reliable ways gamer and

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01:23:38

82 Justine Jones

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/19

Justine Jones is a self taught illustrator living in Philadelphia. Her influences come from comic books, video games, mythology, and folklore. She has done work for Wizards of the Coast, Kobold Press, and many small publishers. She makes Magic the Gathering card pieces of art, and her unique style also appears on our award winning adventure Halls of the Blood King, and many other amazing creations.I am fascinated by Justine's work. The attention to detail, the otherworldly and yet familiar

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01:57:26

81 Courtney Campbell

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/16

Courtney Campbell is a game designer and artist, creator of the Hack & Slash blog, author of many great posts about gaming, and the game designer of many RPG books, including more recently Sinless, a new take on cyberpunk dystopias where the players are faced with really hard hitting questions.I've been following Courtney's work from afar for a long while. I think he wrote some of the best OSR and adventure gaming posts out there, and I even have the zines he published compiling some

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01:33:36

80 Alex Damaceno (Gnarled Monster)

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/10

Alex Damaceno, also known as Gnarled Monster, is the creator of Beyond the Borderlands zine series, Archon Ruins, Dungeon Reavers, and a lot of more stuff! His art and cartography is known for its unique style and use of bright colors. And he is also a awesome friend, and cool person to hang with!We met in person recently and had the best of times hanging out. So inviting him for an interview for the show was only natural. We talked art, creativity, process, how he came up with some of his

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02:18:12

79 John Wick

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/05

John Wick is not only the legend who inspired a multi-millionaire Hollywood franchise, but he is also the legendary game designer of Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, Orkworld!, Cat, Wield, and so many others! He is also famous for his writing and opinions he shares on his YouTube channel. We don't agree on a lot of things, but we agree to disagree and I love it!In this chat we talked about D&D, it's many versions, whether if any of them is an RPG, we talk about how it is to be much

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01:58:12

78 Matthew Orr (Wet Ink Games)

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/07/02

Matthew Orr is a TTRPG creator and co-owner of Wet Ink Games. He likes to read about history, about animals (especially cryptids), and he loves comics (but not superhero comics). He has an obsession with bleak 1970s sci-fi movies he can't quite explain. All of this seems to show up in his games. He makes games, publishes games, and help other do the same! I recently had the honor and pleasure to collaborate with Wet Ink Games on a project and it was one of my favorite experiences ever! I, of

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02:01:11

77 Dan Algstrand

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/26

Dan Algstrand is the fantastic Artists, Art Director and Graphic Designer who worked on titles such as Kult Divinity Lost, The One Ring, Mutant Year Zero, and many other titles. Dan is a freelance graphic artists rumored to have worked on pretty much all Swedish RPGs, he is a member of the fantastic Stockholm Kartell!In this weird and wonderful chat we talked about his work as a graphic designer, how is his process, influences, and way he things about art and games. We talked also about his

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01:40:01

76 Scott McDonald

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/20

Scott found his father's 1st Editon Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide at age 8 in 1983, and his path was set. He moved on from D&D to Car Wars, Gamma World, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Starfinder, both playing and game mastering, untill settling on Mörk Borg and its ilk during the pandemic. Now he is finding out the ups and downs of crowdfunding and self-publishing as he attempts to bring his own post-apocalyptic vision into the world with Wasteland Degenerates!We

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01:23:59

75 Alex Kobayashi

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/18

Alex Kobyashi is a passionate creator who seems to can't stop making games. He is the creator of The Black Sword Hack, Rats in the Walls, Extinction, Cursed!, and many other great games! In this chat we talked about the many great things about being a full time game designer, and the many and things about being a full time game designer. Alex talks a lot about "being lazy" despite his impressive production, and how he values structure and routine to help him work. We talk a lot

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01:50:00

74 Pawel Klimczak

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/14

Pawel Klimczak is the game designer and a publisher of Slav Borg, a Post-Soviet, Semi-Fantasy Role-Playing Game. He is also a journalist and a musician interested in the intersection of the social conditions and art.I immediately backed Slav Borg when I saw it on Kickstarter. It had cool looking post-apocalyptic cars. It was inspired by Mörk Borg, an incredible game I love, and it drew from a topic that interests me a lot, which is the the culture from other countries that did experience socialism

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02:02:43

73 Nicholas Cardarelli (Raised on DnD)

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/12

Nick Cardarelli is a Professional Dungeon Master and the host of the Raised on DnD podcast. He has created dozens of original tabletop role-playing game adventures for several different game systems. Nick has been a gamer for over 30 years and has used TTRPGs to connect with his family, friends, and co-workers.I've been a guest on Nick's amazing podcast for a few times and he is always bringing in amazing guests and talking about great things concerning parenthood, games, and talking to

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01:58:07

72 Jeremy Pillopow (Black Magic Craft)

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/07

Jeremy Pillipow is a Canadian hobby YouTuber, artist, and game designer. His YouTube channel is full of tutorials on how to craft terrain, and many other things too, as Jeremy learns in public, sharing lessons, mistakes and, more importantly, constantly encouragement and quite a bit of wisdom.Jeremy also recently published a Skirmish game inspired by TTRPG as well called Idols of Torment, and we talk a bit about the game, and how RPGs influence his work. The episode main themes are crafting,

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01:38:33

71 Jason Morningstar

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/06/05

Jason Morningstar is perhaps the iconic Indie RPG Game Designer in my mind. He is the legendary creator of Fiasco, one of my favorite games of all time, which continues to inspire me to this very day. He also created many other masterpieces like Night Witches, Durance, Skeletons and many others. He is also an educator, and, more importantly, he is generous, kind, and supportive with other in our community.This chat was only supposed to last for 1 hour but we managed to stretch it to a little over

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01:59:53

70 Goblin Archives

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/05/30

Goblin Archives is a game designer and educator, creator of Liminal Horror, and fomenter of the fantastic (and horrific in a good "horror is cool" kinda way) community of players and creators around it. He thrives on collaborative work, and in this episode this becomes a theme that we explore deeply.Liminal Horror is a fantastic gem of a game of Investigative Horror that uses the framework from Cairn and provides it's on set of tools and structures to create very instigating

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02:06:42

69 Fellipe da Silva

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/05/28

Fellipe is curious brazilian designer and illustrator. He had done a little bit of everything in design and enventually started to design its own RPG material and games where he tries to make than as light ans silly as possible. He is the creator of Forgotten Ballad, an adventure game inspired by the OSR and the Legend of Zelda series! He is also developing The Way, a new weird take on fantasy adventure gaming that I am excited to see him develop in the open! In this chat we talked about this,

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02:01:55

68 Joseph Goodman

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/05/23

Joseph Goodman runs Goodman Games. He has written a number of RPG titles, including DCC RPG, DragonMech, and many dungeon crawl adventures. His best work, though, is mentoring the amazing group of creators who have come to publish their work through Goodman Games.Joseph is also well known within the DCC RPG community as the Dark Lord, but in a very dear way. I had the pleasure to work with Goodman Games a few times, but I've always been an admirer of not only their work with games, but

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01:52:46

67 Brian Colin

Weird Games and Weirder People ·

2024/05/21

Brian Colin has been working in the industry since his first exhibit in Gen Con's art show 2017. He is a sculptor, graphic designer, and product developer who is best known for Vast Grimm. Founder of Creature Creation, he is also the creator of many other weird things! I remember the first time I saw Vast Grimes maw cover! What a cover. And Vast Grimm visuals continues to be super rad! Brian's writing, art and design mix up so well in this series, as he continues to create more and more

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