Podcast appearances and mentions of Cat Tobin

Welcome back to Life Virtually, the podcast for Online Service Providers! In this episode, Ellie is joined by Cat Tobin, owner of a Creative Agency and co-founder of the Society of Virtual Assistants Ireland (SVAI), to dive into the world of business awards! Cat and Ellie share their insights as founders of the SVAI Awards and discuss entering business awards in general, covering: Why You Should Enter: Discover the powerful benefits of participating in business awards and how they can elevate your business profile. The Impact on Your Business: How winning or being nominated for awards can enhance credibility, visibility, and reputation within your industry. Solidifying Your Reputation: Understand the strategic importance of awards in establishing yourself as a trusted leader or innovator. Choosing the Right Awards: Practical tips on selecting and applying for awards that align with your business goals and values. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Insights and strategies for dealing with imposter syndrome, a common challenge among entrepreneurs and business owners. Drawing from their experience with the SVAI Awards, Cat and Ellie provide actionable advice on preparing standout submissions and navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. Whether you're considering your first award entry or aiming to refine your strategy, this episode offers invaluable insights to help you succeed. **Useful Links** Learn More About The SVAI Awards 2024 HERE. Connect with Cat on Instagram HERE. Connect with Ellie on Instagram HERE. 

Sed muy bienvenidos a este trigésimo séptimo podcast que Arturo Losada nos locuta para exponer y presentar las oscuras bambalinas del rol. Hoy hablaremos de todo lo que supone preparar una presentación/entrevista con el poker de Ases que estuvieron con nosotros en las Shadowcon, Cat Tobin, Gareth Raider Hanrahan, Robin D. Laws y Keneth Hite. De eso y mucho más hablaremos en el día de hoy... Music from #Uppbeat: The horseman by nigth drift License code: XGUNKD5PG9ROKUS6 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Lets good times roll by RALicense code: YUHJBIKTMVWNODBV

Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020 Presented by Cat Tobin, Will Sobel, JR Blackwell, Christopher McGlothlin, Maz Hamilton. You're an RPG designer now! That's great, but now how do you get your awesome game in front of players who will appreciate it? How do you position yourself for future projects? Basically, how do you get your name on a game to mean something? Our panelists grapple with this sticky problem!

Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020 Presented by Cat Tobin, Becky Annison, Sharang Biswas. How to Design !More! !Drama! into your RPG! Some of the most satisfying role playing experiences come from the dramatic outcomes of emotional connections between player characters. We look at ways for tabletop and LARP writers to design for deeper character relationships and dynamics, to provide a structure for GMs to bring more of the good kind of drama to their RPGs

Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020 Presented by James Wallis, Cat Tobin, Kieron Gillen, Jacob Jaskov. We all know how certain games feel in play and how they make us feel, but as designers and critics we don't have a set of words to describe it. Do we need an experiential vocabulary of play, and what would one look like?

One of our favorite publishers is Pelgrane Press. Geek journalist extraordinaire Ben Riggs sat down with Pelgrane co-owner Cat Tobin to see what the publisher of 13th Age and Dracula Dossier is up to!

Cat Tobin, co-owner and CEO of Pelgrane Press, returns to the podcast. We discuss the future of tabletop role-playing games as an industry and as a hobby. The conversation delves into the phenomenon of watching people play TTRPGs online. Cat also lets us know how Pelgrane Press is handling the changing nature of the RPG hobby and what new RPGs they are releasing soon.

Recorded at GenCon 2020 Online Hosted by Jason Walters and featuring Brian Dalrymple, Jennifer Ward, and Cat Tobin. This panel was hosted by Indie Press Revolution as part of GenCon 2020's online panel selection on behalf of the panelists. Brian Dalrymple- https://www.facebook.com/AdventureGam... Jennifer Ward- https://www.facebook.com/crazysquirre...https://twitter.com/csgamestore Cat Tobin- https://twitter.com/CatTHM

Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on October 10th, 2020.  Our friend and editor of the show, Edwin, is involved in the Midderland 5e setting Kickstarter! The book is a setting and bestiary for the “green-hued dark-fantasy” based on middle England. Edwin did the 5e conversion for the setting and Ennie Award winning artist, Glynn Seal is the primary author, artist, and layout artist. I've seen the 11 page teaser PDF and it looks really quite cool. You can get a PDF for $25, $35 for a POD softcover, and $45 will get you a hardback with an amazing fold out map. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/midderlands-setting-and-bestiary-for-fifth-edition/description There is a PDF “taster” available here: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Asryxq7YIiBZhtYMcbTPSbPWDiKf9Q?e=0fsfef Good Friend of Jackson Elias and all round awesome guy Paul Fricker has a new scenario for Call of Cthulhu out in the Miskatonic Repository called Full Fathom Five, a reference to Shakespeare's Ariel's song. It is set on board a whaling ship in the Pacific ocean in 1847 and involves a series of deaths or murders on board. Some of our own illustrious members, past and present, have played this as playtesters including Keepers Dan & Chad, Editor Max and a whole slew of other people we know and love. It looks really fantastic, so go and check it out. You can get the PDF at DriveThru for $6.99 Mork Bork and the Swedish Kartel are releasing an LP! Putrescence Regnant is billed an “ear-shattering, rot reeking bog crawl for Mork Borg.” A little more info was leaked with the cryptic announcement at the Mork Borg Discord server of which we have a screenshot in the show notes. Cyberpunk Red, Mike Pondsmith's iconic dystopian sci-fi RPG, finally has a release date and a price point! Cyberpunk Red will come in at $60 for the physical book and $30 for the PDF, and should come out on November 19th and Nov 14th for the digital. Thanks to a data dump at the R. Talorisian website, we know the book has 457 pages and 211,000 words and 143 individual pieces of art! Murph is excited about this one. Brett Kramer's Sentinel Hill Press has finally re-released The Dare, that fantastic CoC scenario that we all love, and updated it for 7th edition! You can pick it up at DTRPG for $14.99, and that price will be discounted from the eventual price of a physical book that is also coming out soon! Congrats to Brett for getting this all wrapped up! Sunken the gm-less RPG using Trophy Dark, of which I am a backer, is at the printers! I'm really excited about this and can't wait to have this book in hand, because the PDF was absolutely gorgeous. Arkham Relic Hunt from Squamous Studios, something else that Dave and Murph have backed, is about to ship out within days of this recording. Children of Fear, a new Call of Cthulhu campaign set in classic 1920s mentioned way back in 2019 is finally getting some updates from Chaosium! Lynne Hardy's campaign across Asia will come out early 2021 and is 416 pages long. The cover was released through all of their social media outlets.  A DG hack of Cthulhu Dark called Cthulhu Deep Green has been released on DTRPG and it looks really quite cool. The latest scenario that was just released and is called The Linear Men. You can get both of these from DTRPG and both have a POD option that at the time of recording was $12 & $15 each, so a pretty good deal. And I'm a sucker for Cthulhu Dark clones and so I've already bought Deep Green and it is pretty awesome. The Discord MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  Sponsor We want to thank Noble Knight Games for returning to sponsor our show. Has the COVID got you hunkering down at home? Are you looking for an online store with a huge selection of new and out-of-print games and game books?

Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on October 10th, 2020.  Our friend and editor of the show, Edwin, is involved in the Midderland 5e setting Kickstarter! The book is a setting and bestiary for the “green-hued dark-fantasy” based on middle England. Edwin did the 5e conversion for the setting and Ennie Award winning artist, Glynn Seal is the primary author, artist, and layout artist. I’ve seen the 11 page teaser PDF and it looks really quite cool. You can get a PDF for $25, $35 for a POD softcover, and $45 will get you a hardback with an amazing fold out map. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/midderlands-setting-and-bestiary-for-fifth-edition/description There is a PDF “taster” available here: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Asryxq7YIiBZhtYMcbTPSbPWDiKf9Q?e=0fsfef Good Friend of Jackson Elias and all round awesome guy Paul Fricker has a new scenario for Call of Cthulhu out in the Miskatonic Repository called Full Fathom Five, a reference to Shakespeare’s Ariel’s song. It is set on board a whaling ship in the Pacific ocean in 1847 and involves a series of deaths or murders on board. Some of our own illustrious members, past and present, have played this as playtesters including Keepers Dan & Chad, Editor Max and a whole slew of other people we know and love. It looks really fantastic, so go and check it out. You can get the PDF at DriveThru for $6.99 Mork Bork and the Swedish Kartel are releasing an LP! Putrescence Regnant is billed an “ear-shattering, rot reeking bog crawl for Mork Borg.” A little more info was leaked with the cryptic announcement at the Mork Borg Discord server of which we have a screenshot in the show notes. Cyberpunk Red, Mike Pondsmith’s iconic dystopian sci-fi RPG, finally has a release date and a price point! Cyberpunk Red will come in at $60 for the physical book and $30 for the PDF, and should come out on November 19th and Nov 14th for the digital. Thanks to a data dump at the R. Talorisian website, we know the book has 457 pages and 211,000 words and 143 individual pieces of art! Murph is excited about this one. Brett Kramer’s Sentinel Hill Press has finally re-released The Dare, that fantastic CoC scenario that we all love, and updated it for 7th edition! You can pick it up at DTRPG for $14.99, and that price will be discounted from the eventual price of a physical book that is also coming out soon! Congrats to Brett for getting this all wrapped up! Sunken the gm-less RPG using Trophy Dark, of which I am a backer, is at the printers! I’m really excited about this and can’t wait to have this book in hand, because the PDF was absolutely gorgeous. Arkham Relic Hunt from Squamous Studios, something else that Dave and Murph have backed, is about to ship out within days of this recording. Children of Fear, a new Call of Cthulhu campaign set in classic 1920s mentioned way back in 2019 is finally getting some updates from Chaosium! Lynne Hardy’s campaign across Asia will come out early 2021 and is 416 pages long. The cover was released through all of their social media outlets.  A DG hack of Cthulhu Dark called Cthulhu Deep Green has been released on DTRPG and it looks really quite cool. The latest scenario that was just released and is called The Linear Men. You can get both of these from DTRPG and both have a POD option that at the time of recording was $12 & $15 each, so a pretty good deal. And I’m a sucker for Cthulhu Dark clones and so I’ve already bought Deep Green and it is pretty awesome. The Discord MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  Sponsor We want to thank Noble Knight Games for returning to sponsor our show. Has the COVID got you hunkering down at home? Are you looking for an online store with a huge selection of new and out-of-print games and game books?

Recorded at Metatopia 2019 Presented by Jason Pitre, Cat Tobin, Amanda Valentine, Lauren McMannon, Camdon Wright. Everyone should have a chance to create and publish games. Unfortunately, there are many structural barriers keeping unrepresented voices from coming to the table. In this roundtable discussion, our panelists discuss ways that established publishers can support new voices through information, promotion, funding, and education.

Pelgrane Press has been a referent in the world of #TTRPGs for a very long time. They keep producing some amazing work and have some iconic games in their catalogue. But, who’s behind? That would be Cat Tobin! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   I got together with Cat to ask about how she runs Pelgrane and the ethos behind the company, including their approach to diversity, social justice and safety for everyone around the table.   With giants of the RPG world like Ken Hite, Robin D. Laws, Rob Heinsoo and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, they have produced game powered by the Gumshoe system (Trail of Cthulhu, Ashen Stars, Bubblegumshoe, Cthulhu Confidential, The Esoterrorists, Fear Itself, The Gaenan reach, Mutant City Blues, Night’s Black Agents, Timewatch and The Fall of Delta Green), there is a big responsibility on her shoulders! Hope you enjoy the show!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Recorded at Metatopia 2019 Presented by Christopher O'Neill, Adriel Wilson, Cat Tobin, Misha Bushyager. Role playing as a HOBBY continues to evolve and mature. Has role-playing now gotten big enough to be considered a MEDIUM? Join us for a lively and passionate discussion on the concept that role-playing has become more than just games, but a medium - a channel for communication, information, and entertainment. In this panel, we will look at whether role-playing is a medium, and if so, what that means for our hobby. The panelists all represent different aspects of designing and publishing role playing games and bring diverse and interesting points of view around the topic.

Tabletop RPG industry myths and mistakes are tackled on the podcast today by Pelgrane Press CEO Cat Tobin. What is the RPG industry like? How do you get a job in the RPG industry? How do you self-publish content for existing company products? We touch on all of those topics and more. We also discuss how Cat was introduced to role-playing games and how she began working for Pelgrane Press. Plus she gives us a window into what she does in her role at Pelgrane Press.

Dames and Dice interviewed Cat Tobin, co-owner and manager of Pelgrane Press. Playing in various RPGs since her college days, Cat has seen a lot of different and unique games and people in the gaming world. She brings an insight to the world of gaming and writing and sees a potential in roleplaying games thatContinue reading "Dames and Dice: S1E06"

Recorded at Metatopia 2018 Presented by Jim McClure, Kenneth Hite, Cat Tobin. This panel is designed to help you establish the best way to present your game to consumers. From Elevator pitches, to focus points, to mechanical highlights, we will cover what is most important in getting people to buy into your game. Attendees should be prepared to discuss their game project as part of a group, and have an elevator pitch pre-prepared. The panelists will then help each individual attendee to hone their presentation.

Recorded at Metatopia 2018 Presented by Steve Segedy, Christopher Badell, Mark Richardson, and Cat Tobin. Once you've created a game, what are your options for getting it out into the world? Come ask questions and find out about printing, distribution, and fulfillment options for independent designers and small publishers. We could also include discussion of Kickstarter, BackerKit, contracts, licensing, etc.

Campus Crier Have you guys seen The Birch on Facebook Watch yet? It’s a great horror story available exclusively on Facebook, and it’s produced in partnership with CryptTV, (who have a channel on YouTube). There are five episodes so far; each is about 18 minutes long. I like the way they are telling the story. Episode 1 introduces our main character and sets up the world she lives in. Episode 2 suddenly introduces whole new characters, (without explanation at first), but then we learn that this is the origin story of the monster. Episode 3 returns to the world of our main character, but we relive events from Episode 1, but from the antagonist’s POV… which was cool. Episode 4 is more of the monster origin, and then Episode 5 is back with our protagonist as her story advances from where we really left off with her from Episode 1. It probably sounds confusing as I describe it, but it’s plays really well on screen.  Robin D. Laws, Lynne Hardy, and Cat Tobin recently attended The Kraken convention, where they panelled the “Investigative Roleplaying Masterclass.” The panel is now available on YouTube; it’s a really great panel on structuring an investigative role playing game scenario. We highly recommend this video for anyone interested in writing an investigative adventure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLO-wjBOBNc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0t7besCI_4Uc-hwUSv1nk8VsJIfrERZ2gBQbsCV7kfUCkA9P8RsMNmZ9E A Cold Fire Within and Berlin the Wicked City have both been released in the special leatherette edition both featuring gold stamped covers. They are available through the Chaosium website only for $90 and $95 respectively. There is also a very favourable review of Berlin The Wicked City that has been released over on RPG.net. The conclusion sums it up: “Berlin - The Wicked city doesn't just present a new, impossibly alluring setting for original Call of Cthulhu adventures, but comes out as a treatise on how to write sourcebook/adventure books. It is well-targeted, thoroughly researched, evocatively written, and as useful for gaming purposes as a supplement can be. It will soon rake in the awards and be hailed as a classic; there's no doubt about it.” Good friend of the show, and all around nice guy Dean Englehart has released the next segment in his popular Convicts and Cthulhu line called Ticket of Leave #15, Death Knells. It is written by Dean and Geoff Gillian and is available right now for free at the Cthulhu Reborn site. AuZtralia is an adventure/exploration board game by Stronghold Games for 1-4 players set in an alternate reality 1930s. Following the Restorationist war, the northern hemisphere lands lay poisoned and starvation was the norm. Intrepid adventurers set out to explore and settle new lands. Little did they know, after the war, the surviving Old Ones and their remaining loyal human armies made their way to the outback of Australia to lick their wounds. Riches from the land, mixed with darkness and insanity await you in the outback. Will humanity prevail or will the Old Ones wreak their revenge?  MU Discord server invite link >> And thank you so much to Sean for editing this episode! (Not Max, as we say repeatedly during the episode. Thanks to Max for editing other episodes that are not this episode.) Random Crier mentions Field Gun Competitions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnDqlVPnelU https://youtu.be/PoOeplWAJwU Graham’s Card Catalog Spotted an episode of the 'Small Arms of WWI' YouTube series you might like to watch. It covers the first semi-automatic rifle to enter full military service.  Quite the 'steampunk' gadget, goes into the background and how the rush nature of the design limited it to only being handed out to those best able to use/look after them. Although if pre-war plans had worked out you would have seen the classic 19thC 'two lines of infantry' using these things. And it looks like the designers of the Garand rifle might have...

Once more, the business minds of the League (plus returning special guest Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press) meet to discuss the nuts and bolts of making RPGs! In this episode, Josh (@rabalias), Jay (@jayciles), Mary (@newsmary) and Cat (@CatTHM) talk about all things art: planning it, commissioning it, working with artists, dos and don'ts, how art fits into your production timeline, book layout integration, and more. Links: Cat's Active Women pinterest board: https://pin.it/t4enhn2a5lescz Claudia Cangini's portfolio: https://www.behance.net/claudiacangini Anna Landin's portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/annalandin Adrian Stone's portfolio: http://www.stoneadrian.com/ Jason Pitre's artist contract template: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9waegf45qt8deyw/Contract%20Template%20for%20Artists.docx?dl=0

Recorded at Metatopia 2018 Presented by Brian Neff, Darren Watts, Cat Tobin.  There are a lot of people who will say that full-time jobs don't exist in the Gaming Industry. That is wrong. There are tons of ways to make a career out of making games. It involves working long hours and probably being underpaid, but they exist. Here's how to look for them, and how to prepare for them.

On the final episode of Backstory, designer and publisher Cat Tobin talks pushing things forward, leaving things behind, and publishing original Irish language RPGs! Talk to you later, heroes. Cat's Twitter Pelgrane Press #Feminism The Erotic Art Games Anthology Alex's Patreon

Pelgrane Press is a phenomenal company devoted solely to the production of role-playing games. The company's products are universally stunning, from 13th Age to The Dracula Dossier. How does Pelgrane manage to put out such consistently amazing material with only one full-time employee? An interview with co-owner Cat Tobin plumbs the depths of the Pelgrane paradox.  Ben’s book on RPG theory is finally available for purchase! Encounter Theory lays out Ben’s theory of adventure design. It also has 14 playplans to help you design better adventures, and an entire 5E adventure applying his ideas, along with commentary about why he wrote adventure the way he did. Check it out here!  Like Plot Points? Support it on Patreon at the $2 level, and you’ll get a sneak peek into Ben’s book about the sale of TSR to Wizards of the Coast! This chapter concerns TSR West, an effort by TSR to open an LA office devoted to producing comic books, an effort that failed rather impressively. It is the product of a dozen interviews with professionals from comics, gaming, and Hollywood, and as far as I can reckon, it is a tale entirely untold until now.   Buy Ill Met in Lankhmar for Kindle here! To let us know what you think about this episode, email us at plotpointsemail@gmail.com! Find us on Twitter @PlotPointsPod! Give us a review on iTunes to help the show grow! Audio courtesy of 50 Breaks! Image courtesy Pelgrane Press.

Cat Tobin, Shel Kahn, and Daniel Kwan explain how gaming can make positive change in the world at this seminar from Gen Con 2018! And fair warning, a few cuss words do slip out... To our all our loyal listeners, we have been a bit delayed this month. Ben had a sudden death in the family, which to say the least put a crimp in our recording schedule. We will probably only get two episodes out this month, but will hopefully be back on track in November!  Interested in Plot Points? Back us on Patreon! Let others know about Plot Points to help the ‘pod grow! Review us on iTunes to help others find us.  To let us know what you think about this episode, email us at plotpointsemail@gmail.com! Find us on Twitter @PlotPointsPod! Find us on Facebook!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mtxne6rg2iokdgw/Iconic-S2E13.mp3 This week we brought Cat Tobin, co-owner and managing director for Pelgrane Press, on the show. We had a great discussion ranging from how she was introduced to RPGs to how she became co-owner of Pelgrane Press to what … Continue reading →

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Dramatic Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Cat Tobin is a game designer, convention organizer, and co-owner and Managing Director of Pelgrane Press. She has more than 100 production credits, including Cold City, Hillfolk, and several games in the GUMSHOE, 13th Age, and Trail of Cthulhu RPG product lines.Shel Kahn illustrates for, playtests, writes and educates in tabletop RPGs, videogames, comics and fiction. You can see her art in the upcoming Yellow King RPG, the Six Ages videogame, and in Strange Horizons. Shel Kahn also self-publishes small system-agnostic adventures in her Pocket Dungeons format.

It's Pelgrane Press Week on DSPN Presents! Amazing audio from the makers of 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, Cthulhu Confidential, TimeWatch, and so much more! We've got seven panels of their Gen Con audio coming straight to your ears.This panel: Dramatic Roleplaying Master Class!Thanks to Wade Rockett of Natural 20 PR for this audio!Robin D. Laws designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, which powers such games as The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars, and the upcoming Yellow King RPG. He podcasts weekly on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff with longtime collaborator Kenneth Hite.Cat Tobin is a game designer, convention organizer, and co-owner and Managing Director of Pelgrane Press. She has more than 100 production credits, including Cold City, Hillfolk, and several games in the GUMSHOE, 13th Age, and Trail of Cthulhu RPG product lines.Shel Kahn illustrates for, playtests, writes and educates in tabletop RPGs, videogames, comics and fiction. You can see her art in the upcoming Yellow King RPG, the Six Ages videogame, and in Strange Horizons. Shel Kahn also self-publishes small system-agnostic adventures in her Pocket Dungeons format.

Season 6 of Curiosity in Focus is just around the corner! Fresh out of Gen Con 2018, here's audio from a panel Daniel co-hosted with Shel Kahn and Cat Tobin about saving the world through gaming. How do we translate our experiences as gamers into productive expression, activism & persuasion? Join us as we look at the map, hash out the tactics, & min/max our way out of the darkest timeline. Don't forget to subscribe to the Curiosity in Focus podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and Google Play Music! Leave a review, it really helps us out!  Support the Curiosity in Focus podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/curiosityinfocus and by purchasing the Stay Curious merch line at designbyhumans.com/shop/curiosityinfocus Twitter @danielhkwan Instagram @danielhkwan & @curiosityinfocus YouTube: youtube.com/curiosityinfocus Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocus Follow Shel on social media @portablecity and learn more at portablecity.net Follow Cat on social media @catTHM and learn more about Pelgrane Press at site.pelgranepress.com

Our Origins 2018 debrief! We play a lot of games, had a blast, and also got a fantastic interview with Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press!

DSPN is proud to present the audio from Pelgrane Press' 2017 Dragonmeet Mysteries in RPGs panel featuring Robin D. Laws, Cat Tobin, Simon Rogers, and Kenneth Hite!

DSPN is proud to present the audio from Pelgrane Press' 2017 Dragonmeet Mysteries in RPGs panel featuring Robin D. Laws, Cat Tobin, Simon Rogers, and Kenneth Hite!

Creative Director & Theatre maker Annette Mees and RPG publisher Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press, tell each other and Mink about their different worlds of Experiential Theatre and RPGs and LARPs, and find out where they rub up and overlap. Place yourself at the table as the podcast falls into a dinner party half way through and the host wanders off for a bit to add three more surprise(d) guests to the show and get everyone more wine, in what I would call an ‘experimental immersive format’ and what others are calling ‘unprofessional’. Some of the games discussed contain unsettling imagery regarding mortality and morality. http://site.pelgranepress.com/ http://storytelling.pelgranepress.com/feminism-a-nano-game-anthology/ http://www.andfurthermo.re/ http://mad-about-the-boy-larp.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-larp.html http://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles/

Recorded at Metatopia 2016 Presented by Melissa Lewis-Gentry, Cat Tobin, Matt Fantastic, Zev Shlasinger. Have you ever played (or made!) a fantastic game, and then wonder why no one has it? Ever wonder why no one other than the Kickstarter backers bought a certain game? Ever make a game, then try to go through distribution and realize you'll lose money selling that way? Not all games are designed for retail sale! This panel will discuss the design choices that see success in a retail setting, and if retail is right for your game. Topics discuss will be graphic design choices and packaging, pricing and 3 tiered distribution, Organized Play and Demoing, and using retail sales as marketing.

Structuring Game Texts Recorded at Metatopia 2015 Presented by Jason Pitre, Robert Bohl, Jay Treat and Cat Tobin. You’ve designed your game, you’ve playtested it, and you’ve decided you want to publish it as a text (either for free download or sale). How do you structure that text so that it will draw readers in and make the game easy to understand the first time, and easy to use as a reference later? You can subscribe to us here!  RSS Feed iTunes   Episode 100: Structuring Game Texts Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (779)

It’s Like DnD 004 - RPG Every Day This episode was recorded on August 15th, 2016 RPG A DAY RPG a Day http://www.brigadecon.org/rpgaday2016/ September 25th - What makes for a good character? September 10th - Largest in-game surprise you have experienced? Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by Greg Costikyan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Roleplaying_Game Apocalypse World by Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker http://apocalypse-world.com/ Urban Shadows by Andrew Medeiros http://www.magpiegames.com/our-games/urban-shadows/ Don’t Rest Your Head by Fred Hicks http://www.evilhat.com/home/dont-rest-your-head-2/ September 13th - What makes a successful campaign. Bubblegumshoe by Emily Care Boss, Kenneth Hite, and Lisa Steele http://www.evilhat.com/home/bubblegumshoe/ Monsterhearts by Avery Alder http://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts/ FALL OF MAGIC Jiffycon by Emily Care Boss http://jiffycon.blogspot.ca/ Fall of Magic by Ross Cowman http://heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/fall-of-magic-scroll-edition/ Sentinels of the Multiverse by Christopher Badell, Adam Rebottaro, Paul Bender https://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/ GEN CON JEALOUSY Andrew Medeiros http://www.northfiregames.com/ Epyllion by Marissa Kelly http://www.magpiegames.com/epyllion/ Fate of the Norns by Andrew Valkauskas http://www.fateofthenorns.com/ ENnie Awards http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/ IDGN Groundbreaker Awards http://www.igdnonline.com/indie-groundbreaker-awards/ Diana Jones Award http://www.dianajonesaward.org/ Eric Lang http://www.ericmlang.com/ Cat Tobin, Pelgrane Press http://pelgranepress.com 183 Days by Sara Williamson and James Stuart http://www.drivethrucards.com/product/144510/183-Days Snow White by Jonathan G. Nelson http://adventureaweek.com/ A Real Game by Caitlynn Belle http://caitlynnbelle.com/?page_id=300 If I Ran The Zoo Con by Leslie Turek, et. al http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/TurekRunCon-4.htm Singularity by Caitlynn Belle and Josh Jordan http://caitlynnbelle.com/?page_id=323 (Josh, so sorry I blanked on your name when we were recording! - Rob) Invisible Sun by Monte Cook Games http://invisiblesunrpg.com/ Star Wars: Edge of the Empire by Dave Allen, Shawn Carman and Jay Little of Fantasy Flight Games https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-edge-of-the-empire/ Burning Wheel Luke Crane https://www.burningwheel.com/ Burning Wheel Codex Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burningwheel/the-burning-wheel-codex/description Hillfolk by Robin Laws http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/hillfolk/ Deliria by Phil Brucato https://www.patreon.com/philbrucato The Gamers Movie by Dead Gentlemen Productions http://deadgentlemen.com/projects/the-gamers-series/the-gamers/ Velvet Glove: Notebook Edition by Sarah Richardson http://www.magpiegames.com/product/velvet-glove-notebook-edition-printpdf/ The Veil: Cyberpunk RPG by Fraser Simons https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samjokopublishing/the-veil-cyberpunk-rpg Cartel by Mark Diaz Truman http://www.magpiegames.com/cartel-ashcan-edition/ Night Witches by Jason Morningstar http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/ SOME OTHER TOPICS Simple Superheroes by Joshua Kitz http://www.composedreamgames.com/pages/simplesuperheroes.php The Starlit Kingdom by Anna Kreider http://browserbeware.com/games/ Fraser Ronald on Book Signing http://swordsedge.ca/2016/03/signage/ Hope Inhumanity by Derek Gour https://hope-inhumanity.com/ PLUGS Our podcast is at http://itslikednd.ca Check out Kate’s blog Bluestockings at http://bluestockings.ca Check out Rach and Rob’s blog ‘Thac0s at Midnight’ at http://thacos.com Connect with us in our G+ Community! Best way to get there is http://itslikednd.ca/g+ or http://itslikednd.ca/gplus Check out Sparkle Dice Alliance at http://sparkledice.com Breakout Gaming Convention is March 10-12! Go to http://breakoutcon.com for more information about the convention! #BreakoutCon Theme music is Gorilla Foot by The Itchy Creeps http://members.shaw.ca/happypuppyrecords/

Exclusive Tome Show audio from the Dragonmeet convention in the United Kingdom features top design talent from Pelgrane Press. Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin, Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Rob Heinsoo, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan talk 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of Delta Green, Seven Wonders, Trail of Cthulhu, and more!Please rate and review us on iTunes, it helps a boat load!Links:The Tome Show on FacebookThe Tome Show on Twitch Support the show, shop below... NOBLE KNIGHT GAMES

Exclusive Tome Show audio from the Dragonmeet convention in the United Kingdom features top design talent from Pelgrane Press. Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin, Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Rob Heinsoo, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan talk 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of Delta Green, Seven Wonders, Trail of Cthulhu, and more!Please rate and review us on iTunes, it helps a boat load!Links:The Tome Show on FacebookThe Tome Show on TwitchSupport the show, shop below...NOBLE KNIGHT GAMES

Exclusive Tome Show audio from the Dragonmeet convention in the United Kingdom features top design talent from Pelgrane Press. Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin, Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Rob Heinsoo, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan talk 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of Delta Green, Seven Wonders, Trail of Cthulhu, and more!Please rate and review us on iTunes, it helps a boat load!Links:The Tome Show on FacebookThe Tome Show on TwitchSupport the show, shop below...NOBLE KNIGHT GAMES

Exclusive Tome Show audio from the Dragonmeet convention in the United Kingdom features top design talent from Pelgrane Press. Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin, Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Rob Heinsoo, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan talk 13th Age, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of Delta Green, Seven Wonders, Trail of Cthulhu, and more!Please rate and review us on iTunes, it helps a boat load!Links:The Tome Show on FacebookThe Tome Show on TwitchSupport the show, shop below...NOBLE KNIGHT GAMES

Dragonmeet comes one more year and things are changing! Things are changing because they’re getting better and more interesting, which is why I thought it’d be a good idea to invite Cat Tobin, one of the organisers and masterminds who’ve put the show together to ask her about the new goodness coming in! This year there is a more comprehensive selection of seminars, traders role playing and board games organised, an art exhibition and a charity auction, this year promises to be really special. Hope you enjoy the interview and it inspires you to come to the show in London!