Calling Cards (Band-Aids & Bullet Holes) with Lady Tabletop and Seraphina

About this episode

The episode discusses the game Band-Aids & Bullet Holes with insights from guests Lady Tabletop and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez.

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com My first stand-alone print game, Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, goes live on Kickstarter next week on May 5th. I have a lot to say about it, and I'm gonna say a lot of it: May's going to be all episodes about mechanics from other people's games that inspired me in this design. Today I wanted to talk about Band-Aids & Bullet Holes straight up, but I didn't want you to just take it from me all the stuff I love about it, so I'm handing the show over once again to Lady Tabletop and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez. They're gonna tell you about Band-Aids & Bullet Holes through its core mechanic: take a marker, sharpie your character's core traits onto playing cards, then shuffle those up and flip them at each other, high card wins. As Sera says, somehow adding flavor to the classic card game War makes it so much better... Further Reading Band-Aids & Bullet Holes on Kickstarter Socials Seraphina on Bluesky and itch Lady Tabletop on Tumblr and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory , our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer. Join the Dice…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Dunnewold

Guests: Lady Tabletop, Seraphina Garcia Ramirez

Topics covered

• game design
• card games
• mechanics
• Kickstarter
• interviews

Keywords

• Band-Aids & Bullet Holes
• game mechanics
• card game War
• Kickstarter
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kickstarter, Dice Exploder, Bluesky, itch, Tumblr, sporgory, Purely Grey, Travis Tessmer

Products: Band-Aids & Bullet Holes

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