Protect The Child Episode 5: Post Mortem

About this episode

The episode discusses the insights and experiences from playing Protect the Child, focusing on its design and thematic elements.

Smallest Salutations! Protect the Child has been put to bed and it’s time for us to debrief in this post mortem! Listen in as we discuss what we love about this system and where we felt some friction. Where does PTC differ from its “Forged in the Dark” engine and how does that benefit its design? What did we take away from this game’s juxtaposition of monstrosity and parenthood? All these questions and more are answered in this post mortem! We have a Patreon! Check it out if you want to support us and this podcast! https://www.patreon.com/TinyTablePodcast And if you want to see more from Mint: https://mint-rabbit.itch.io/ https://theresattrpgforthat.tumblr.com/ As always, if you have any TTRPGs you want us to try out, please email us at tinytablebusiness@gmail.com or contact us at any of the socials below! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tinytablettrpg/Tumblr - https://www.tumblr.com/blog/tinytablepodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tinytablettrpgYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnpc2lwtvgEEYVHL3WoxU-Q

People in this episode

Host: Tiny Table

Topics covered

• post mortem
• game design
• parenthood
• monstrosity
• TTRPG systems

Keywords

• Protect the Child
• post mortem
• game design
• parenthood
• monstrosity
• TTRPG
• improv

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, Mint, TTRPG

Books & works: Protect the Child

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