Games We've Been Playing
01:40  - Roots of Old Kalduhr
08:14 - Classic Mastermind campaigns

​Topic
14:40 - Having a successful CfB Session One

Media Recommendations
01:02:03 - Skeleton Crew
01:05:14 - Severance 
01:07:06 - The Troop


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For this episode, Alex and Jason reflect on PAXU 2024. Later, they each discuss some of their favorite pieces of horror media from 2024. Enjoy! 

The Between is coming to BackerKit on September 24th! Alex Rybitski sits down with creator Jason Cordova to talk about the game, its mechanics, and the crowdfunding campaign. Follow along with the campaign here.
Time Codes
01:45 - What is The Between?
02:59 - The Mystery System
05:10 - The Chicken or the Egg?
08:04 - The Between's Gothic Emulation
12:17 - The Playbooks
18:52 - The Play Cycle of The Between
21:10 - The Day Phase
21:57 - The Night Phase
24:10 - Character Backstories in The Between
25:50 - What are the Janus Masks?
28:40 - Revealing Character Backstories
36:07 - Character Width vs. Depth
38:08 - The Fun of GMing the Night Phase
43:25 - The Unscene
50:28 - A Talk about XP in The Between
51:11 - The BackerKit Campaign Details
55:23 - Book One
57:19 - Book Two
59:36 - Book Three
1:02:47 - Other Materials in the Backer Kit Campaign
1:07:55 - A Note About Previously Published Material for The Between
1:08:13 - A Little Preview of Something New for Backers
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Discussion
01:30 - The Factotum
Media Recommendations 
29:57 - Sherlock (again) 
30:38 - Downton Abbey 
31:52 - Batman Caped Crusader 
33:30 - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 
34:40 - Pride and Prejudice (2005) 

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Discussion
02:15 - The Explorer playbook


Media Recommendations
43:25 - Sherlock (2010)
43:44 - Bridgerton
44:10 - Apocalypse Now!
44:24 - The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries
45:10 - Ain’t Slayed Nobody actual play of The Between


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Discussion
01:35 - The Undeniable playbook

Media Recommendations
34:04 - The portrayal of Dorian Gray in Penny Dreadful
35:15 - Hellraiser and The Hellbound Heart
36:22 - Memoirs of a Geisha
37:00 - Castlevania Netflix series
38:43 - Bad Times at the El Royale
39:10 - Monkey Man

Games We’ve Been Playing
01:30 - The Between game with a homebrew Mastermind 
08:00 - The Between actual play campaigns


Discussion
12:40 - Design Diary: Reflecting on our 4-day Pizza Time! writing binge


Media Recommendations
41:50 - Dark Harvest and Maggie’s Grave
43:50 - Ted’s Caving Journal


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Games We’ve Been Playing
01:45 - Near Enough to Hell
08:05 - A God Must Feed


Discussion
15:43 - Design Diary: Pizza Time 


Media Recommendations
51:25 - The Resolution  and The Endless 
53:42 - Fallout TV show
58:01 - Disco Deathtrap 
01:01:03 - Delicious in Dungeon


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Discussion
01:60 - The American playbook
Media Recommendations
37:00 - Deadwood & Justified
38:37- The Light Sublime trilogy

Games We’ve Been Playing
02:33 - Shadow Society
05:07 - Dr. Murdoch


Discussion
09:04 - The Mother and the Orphan


Media Recommendations
44:59 - The Autopsy of Jane Doe
45:40 - Scully autopsies in The X-Files