About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of mini-games in tabletop role-playing games and their distinct gameplay mechanics.

What year did the first “mini-game” appear? We don’t know either, and I refused to look it up. But it sure wasn’t our original TTRPG; Afterlife. The best thing about mini-games is you can use them in any system because mini-games have completely different rules/gameplay than the larger rule system. Or at least they should in our opinion. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

People in this episode

Host: 2HGM

Topics covered

• mini-games
• TTRPG
• gameplay mechanics
• rule systems
• game design

Keywords

• mini-game
• TTRPG
• gameplay
• rules
• game design

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Afterlife

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