Rach interviews April Walsh about her game currently in playtest called Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Timecodes:
0:42  - Read a Sitch on Safety Tools
12:15  - Open Your Brain to Thirsty Sword Lesbians
21:27  - Act Under Fire with a Scoundrel as she faces the United Empire

Find out more about TSL here:
https://www.evilhat.com/home/thirsty-sword-lesbians/





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Rach interviews new and seasoned designers about their newest PbtA designs while she's at Metatopia 2019.
Be warned, these game designs are not yet finished and not publicly available. Feel free to follow the designers and hear more!

Show Notes:
Noel Warford: An Angelic Bureaucracy
Twitter: @360noelscope
Itch: Noelwarford.itch.io

Joie Martin: Follow Me Down
Twitter: @drowningmoonrpg, @smallglassworld
DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/12039/Drowning-Moon-Studios
Itch: https://drowningmoonstudios.itch.io

India Weston: Heartwood
Twitter: @HeartwoodRPG
Email: HeartwoodRPG@gmail.com

Alexi Sargent: Checkpoint Midnight
Twitter: @ClovenPineGames
Itch: https://cloven-pine-games.itch.io 
Checkpoint Midnight Mailing List: Bit.ly/CheckpointMidnightList

Amr Ammourazz: Between the Margins
Twitter: @ammourazz

Marissa Kelly: Airlock
Twitter: @MagpieOfficial

Timecodes
00:01:20 - History and development of Trophy
00:11:15 - Trophy Dark
00:13:51 - Trophy Gold
00:21:05 - Trophy Loom
00:25:17 - Kickstarter details

Links
Trophy Kickstarter Campaign

Rach interviews Josh Fox of Black Armada Games about his game Last Fleet, which is on Kickstarter NOW!

Timecodes:
3:50 - Read a Sitch on Better 1st Sessions
9:48 - Open Your Brain to Last Fleet
18:03 - Act Under Fire with Florence the harried engineer

Find the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackarmada/last-fleet-rpg-lastfleetrpg?ref=dzx517

Black Armada Games can be found here:
https://blackarmada.com/

Rich interviews Vivien Feasson about his game Libreté, which is on Kickstarter NOW!

Timecodes:
02:58 - Read a Sitch on the frequency of tests or rolls in a PbtA game
09:39 - Open your Brain to Libreté
18:57 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Libreté

Find the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmdk/librete-an-rpg-of-lost-children

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2019, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2020.

Timecodes:
01:23 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2019
05:31 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2019 
16:04 - Rich talks about reskinning PbtA games for Star Wars
33:33 - Rich gives some tips on how he reskins PbtA games for new settings
37:42 - Rach talks about adjusting Monster of the Week for different tones
45:46 - Rich and Rach's 2020 Gamer Resolutions

Rach interviews Sam Tung and Sam Roberts about their action-packed adventure game Escape from Dino Island!

Timecodes:
04:11 - Read a Sitch on running and playing low-prep games
12:56 - Open Your Brain to Escape from Dino Island
23:27 - Act Under Fire

You can buy the game here:
https://samnite.itch.io/escapefromdinoisland

Rich and Rach interview Rich Howard and Richard Kreutz-Landry about their game Descent into Midnight, which is coming to Kickstarter in early 2020!
Third game designer Taylor couldn't make the recording, sadly.

Timecodes:
3:27 - Read a Sitch with Richard talking about being brave as an MC and trusting your players
9:33 - Read a Sitch with Rich H handling surprise  player-created pregens at cons
15:48 - Open your Brain to Descent into Midnight
31:59 - Act Under Fire

Check out the game here:
https://descentintomidnight.com/

The Masks episode of Whelmed Rich H mentioned:
https://crashingthemode.com/podcast/2017/6/21/masks-ap-relations-episode-01

During Gauntlet Con 2019, Rich moderated a panel with his co-host Rach and expert MCs Marissa Kelly of Magpie Games and Phil Vecchione of Encoded Designs.

Rach interviews Mikko Karttunen about his Renaissance-era PbtA game featuring intrigue, character drama, and a little bit of magic

Timecodes:
02:09 - Read a Sitch about player-driven game play
10:36 - Open your Brain... to Blightburg
21:23 - Act Under Fire with Rach 

Purchase Blightburg here (affiliate link):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/280214/Blightburg?affiliate_id=78493