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Mark Diaz Truman is the ENnie award-winning co-founder of Magpie Games, a co-founder of the Indie Game Development Network, the designer of Cartel and Our Last Best Hope, and the co-designer of Urban Shadows, Zombie World, Root: The Roleplaying Game, Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, and more. Since 2011, Mark has led tabletop game projects that raised over 12.5 million dollars on Kickstarter, and he has served as a developer on many award-winning roleplaying games, including Firefly, 7th Sea: 2nd Ed, Masks: A New Generation, and Bluebeard's Bride. He currently manages a team of more than ten full-time creators and support staff as CEO of Magpie Games.It was a true honor to talk to mark, to bond over our weirdness and to even brainstorm a game togther! You will love this chat!Check out Magpie Game!magpiegames.comThank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People!Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or join the Weirdos' Cool Club! It will help keep the podcast going! It will help me pay collaborators! It will help me do this work more often and better! I will really help! https://buttondown.com/old_skull/archive/join-the-weirdos-cool-club/You can also support me buy buying one of my games!Kosmosaursgot released in print, and it is my RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers! Get your copy right here: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/kosmosaurs-pdfGet other games of mine on Exalted Funeral: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/search?q=Diogo+nogueiraOr buy anything at DriveThruRPG using this link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=338514Or buy something from my itch store: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.ioSUBSCRIBE TO WEIRD TALES FROM THE OLD SKULL!The place where I share ideas, discoveries, weirdness, and the things I am developing, like new TTRPG books, zines, illustrations and a lot more. Lets get weird!Check out our latest post: https://buttondown.com/old_skull
We all know that feeling. You're running a game, and it's just not matching up with the time you want it to take. But how do you fix that? That's why we're having a conversation with Justin Ecock, from the Terrible Warriors podcast. He's had lots of experience making games fit into the amount of time slotted, both for his podcast, as well as conventions, and even doing events at restaurants! Se we have a talk around different tricks and tips he's learned over the years to help make his games come in "on time"! For more about the Terrible Warriors, visit the website at https://www.terriblewarriors.com/, or follow them on Twitter @dicewarriors ! d20 Network podcast of the week: The Court Games family of podcasts Court Games -- https://courtgamespod.com/ Crimson Gold Agonies -- https://cgapodcast.com/ Fortune and Strife -- https://courtgamespod.com/L5RFnS/?sfw=pass1642386019 Game of the Week Steve S: Noirlandia -- https://makebigthings.com/noirlandia/ Justin E: Our Last Best Hope -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/107734/Our-Last-Best-Hope?affiliate_id=2018399 Steve G: Tales from the Floating Vagabond -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/60/Reality-Cheque/subcategory/5726/Tales-From-The-Floating-Vagabond?affiliate_id=2018399 As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs! You can reach us at meandsteverpg@gmail.com On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast On Twitter @AndRPGs on TikTok @meandsteverpgpodcast Join us on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW We are proud members of the d20 Radio Network! http://www.d20radio.com/main/
As our heroes hit new lows, we turn our gaze across the country to another small town beset with its own horrors. The Bondelgrob menace is spreading, and all you can do is try to survive. Special thanks and credit to Maps 'N' Quests' What Lies Within for the central mechanic we used for this game. Credit also to the incredible Our Last Best Hope and No More Room in Hell, two other games that inspired the framework for this session. Join us in our Discord! https://discord.gg/4FK8MqVgPD Join our Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/mysterycounty Find us on Instagram and Twitter! @mysterycounty Rashawn Nadine Scott - Maisie Grey: @rashawnscott Jeff Murdoch - Allen Linik: @jmurdoink (Instagram), @jsmurd (Twitter) Erin Rein - Tanis McLanis: @thaterinrein Tyler Samples - Daylynn Meergan: @tlrsmpls
Space Games! In Games in Schools and Libraries 126 Donald and Chris get extra spacey as they talk about games they have brought into the library to support 2019 Summer Reading and the Moonrise Grant. More Space Games. Space is big! Space GamesSpace BaseGloom in SpaceTerraforming MarsRover ControlGravwellSilent Death / ArclightRoll for the GalaxySurvive Space AttackExodus FleetStar Trek CatanCosmic EncounterSavage Worlds - The Last Parsec RPGStarfinder RPGTraveller RPGFate/Fate Accelerated RPGFiasco https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/fiasco-playsets/ Untold Adventures AwaitUnplayed Space GamesLupo The Space AdventureThe ExpanseMoonsHorizons PeriorbisCosmic FactoryMoon MinerFirst MartiansAlien ArtifactsOne Night Ultimate AlienOur Last Best HopeExodus: Proxima Centauri. Exodus: Edge of ExtinctionScorpius Freighter Bits from our Moonrise Grant escape room. Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game GeekKathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.comThe ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System.
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld The nuclear furnace that baths us with live giving rays has belched out a wave of death. A crew of three are all that stand in between Earth and certain destruction. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Dr. Childers Cube (John Holt) the radiation sickness expert Doctor. Dr. Franklin Cortez (Chris Diercksen) brilliant engineer and conceptual designer of the Allen. Lt. Cmdr. Red Roberts (Ken Breese) experimental space pilot and veteran of clandestine space wars. The Mission: The Crisis - A solar flare is racing towards Earth and will shear away the atmosphere. The Limit - An experimental solar sail ship is the only vehicle that could be capable of reflecting the brunt of the wave. The Plan - Get in the path of the wave with enough distance from the Earth to safely deflect the flare for its duration. The Assets: Repair Drones Turbo Octo Boosters Metallic Fabric Foil Find Chris on twitter @c_diercks and check out his theatrical group Team Awesome Robot. Find John on twitter @LordJoho Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end." — Stephenie Meyer The nuclear furnace that baths us with live giving rays has belched out a wave of death. A crew of three are all that stand in between Earth and certain destruction. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Dr. Childers Cube (John Holt) the radiation sickness expert Doctor. Dr. Franklin Cortez (Chris Diercksen) brilliant engineer and conceptual designer of the Allen. Lt. Cmdr. Red Roberts (Ken Breese) experimental space pilot and veteran of clandestine space wars. The Mission: The Crisis - A solar flare is racing towards Earth and will shear away the atmosphere. The Limit - An experimental solar sail ship is the only vehicle that could be capable of reflecting the brunt of the wave. The Plan - Get in the path of the wave with enough distance from the Earth to safely deflect the flare for its duration. The Assets: Repair Drones Turbo Octo Boosters Metallic Fabric Foil Find Chris on twitter @c_diercks and check out his theatrical group Team Awesome Robot. Find John on twitter @LordJoho Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
Immediately following our session of The Play's The Thing we got a chance to sit down and speak the creator of the game! Mark Diaz Truman has authored The Play's The Thing, Our Last Best Hope, Urban Shadows, and Cartel. His many writing credits includes the 7th Sea and he's the co-founder of Magpie Games. We dive into Mark's evolution of game design, how he got into the business, and respond to the challenges that players face when considering a game like Cartel for their gaming group. Follow Mark on twitter: @trumonz And consider supporting us today through Patreon: Patreon.com/terriblewarriors
“Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect.” ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R. In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer. Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist. Brouge Craklin P.H.D. (Ken Breese) military historian. The Mission: The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north. The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember. The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun. The Assets: Employee Manual for Site X 3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum Find D on twitter @mxnurd Find John on twitter @LordJoho Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.” ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer. Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist. Brouge Craklin P.H.D. (Ken Breese) military historian. The Mission: The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north. The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember. The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun. The Assets: Employee Manual for Site X 3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum Find D on twitter @mxnurd Find John on twitter @LordJoho Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
Supplementary Our Last Best Hope This is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of Our Last Best Hope by designer by Mark Diaz Truman. Purchase a copy here at Magpie Games. Recommended number of players: 3-5 players, Play time 3-4 hours on average. Our Last Best Hope is a GMless game where your characters are on a mission to save the planet and/or humanity. There are additional missions and hacks available in supplementary books and downloads. We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
This episode features Mark Diaz Truman the owner of Magpie Games, a company that has made such amazing games as Our Last Best Hope, Masks, and Bluebeard's Bride. During this interview we discuss Mark's on-again off-again past with RPGs, his personal designing philosophies, and the details of what it is like to run the largest RPG kickstarter ever in 7th Sea. http://thirdact.pub/games/reflections/
In the year 2020 the earth is threatened by her closest neighbor: THE MOON. An intrepid band of earth's greatest scientific minds is dispated with a desperate plan just crazy enough to work. Brilliant Cosmic Ecologist Joy Worth (Phoebe Stonebraker,) Engineering wunderkind Logan Murphy (Tyler Davis,) the world's foremost expert on sociology Crispin Nugget (Brad Pike,) and the President/World's fastest doctor Steel Johnson (James D'Amato) are OUR LAST BEST HOPE.
In the year 2020 the earth is threatened by her closest neighbor: THE MOON. An intrepid band of earth's greatest scientific minds is dispated with a desperate plan just crazy enough to work. Brilliant Cosmic Ecologist Joy Worth (Phoebe Stonebraker,) Engineering wunderkind Logan Murphy (Tyler Davis,) the world's foremost expert on sociology Crispin Nugget (Brad Pike,) and the President/World's fastest doctor Steel Johnson (James D'Amato) are OUR LAST BEST HOPE.
Boa noite! Os financiamentos coletivos são o assunto desse Journal do Aventureiro, que traz as informações do Our Last Best Hope, Fate e Numenera.
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