What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline?

About this episode

Yochai, Brad, and Sam review a tabletop game and discuss modern OSR game mechanics related to player character death.

Yochai, Brad, and Sam review What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline? by Matthew Morris, and answer a question from the mootsack. Mootsack: How do modern OSR games handle a vacuum after PC death? 19:00 Mootsack 36:00 Main Review Season 5, Episode 10: What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline? For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com  or ask on our discord server . Check out our Patreon Tiers  for more ways to support the show ! Thanks to Bobby McElver  for the show's music and bumpers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Yochai Gal, Brad Kerr

Guest: Sam

Topics covered

• OSR games
• game reviews
• PC death mechanics
• listener questions
• tabletop gaming

Keywords

• OSR
• game review
• tabletop
• PC death
• listener questions
• mootsack

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Books & works: What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline?

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