At The Table with The Dice Tower - Re-Role

About this episode

The episode discusses RPGs that incorporate popular boardgaming mechanisms and offers tips for starting games.

This time, we continue our discussion of RPGs by suggesting Role Playing Games that share popular boardgaming mechanisms, as well as giving Tom tips for getting a game started. Plus, we have a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops. 00:50 - A Story About Mail 02:22 - Eric at PAX Unplugged (inc. Hot Streak) 06:50 - Gift Guides, Dice Tower West and East 08:02 - RPGs for Boardgame Fans (detailed notes below) 37:55 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror 43:03 - Formaggio 48:35 - Gnomic Parliament 52:13 - Carnuta 54:49 - Magic Number 11 56:54 - Insurrect10n -- Julie's Notes Where to go to get core book pdfs? DriveThruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/ Itch.io https://itch.io/ Cooperative play (yes the overwhelming majority of TTRPGs are cooperative) some extra cooperative leaning Heckin' Good Doggos https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/405426/heckin-good-doggos Teatime Adventures https://www.snowbrightstudio.com/teatime-adventures Dice rolling - Also many many many ttrpgs use dice. Here are some examples D20 - D&D/Pathfinder https://www.dndbeyond.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorCdKoS-xSfI4e05Us81YGA4tHt8CmmaOWNN-9VTcnsAfXS5pBS…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tom Vasel, Julie Ahern, Eric Summerer

Topics covered

• RPGs
• boardgaming mechanisms
• Tale of Boardgaming Horror
• cooperative play
• dice rolling

Keywords

• RPGs
• boardgames
• Tale of Boardgaming Horror
• cooperative play
• dice rolling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DriveThruRPG, Itch.io

Products: Heckin' Good Doggos, Teatime Adventures, D&D/Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, FFG Star Wars, Fate, Beak, Feather, & Bone

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