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Today, we're talking to Graham Walmsley, the celebrated game designer behind tabletop RPGs like Cthulhu Dark and A Taste for Murder, larps like Will That Be All, and lovecraftian scenarios for games like Trail of Cthulhu. He's also the author of two non-fiction books called Stealing Cthulhu about telling lovecraftian stories and Play Unsafe about techniques for being a better player of tabletop games. This year, he's got two new games out, Cosmic Dark, a sequel to Cthulhu Dark about corporate employees in space, and Darkenwood, a GM-less game about a nightmarish forest.
Show Notes:
01:41 Introducing Graham
03:07 Starting with Lovecraft
12:08 What is weird fiction?
16:55 All the cool stuff in Cosmic Dark
26:24 Rules, advice, setting
39:22 Infectious Enthusiasm: Lumberjills by Moira Turkington
41:50 Tyranny of Numbers
43:44 RePlay
46:25 All Advice is Advice for Myself
The Indie RPG Newsletter
Making a TTRPG Career (w/ Sebastian Yue)
The Awards (w/ Nico MacDougall and Tan Shao Han)
Reading The F**king Manual (w/ Max Lander & Aaron King)
Meeting Games Where They're At [w/ Quinns]
Games That Make You Cry In A Panera (w/ Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland)
Bonus: Open Hearth's Games of the Year 2023
Best of 2023: Games Recommended By Guests
What We Get From Studying Games (w/ Evan Torner)
Teaching Games: Girl by Moonlight
How To Run A Publishing Company: The Black Armada Story (w/ Josh Fox)
Bonus: Discussing Band of Blades on DiceExploder
Teaching Games: Apocalypse Keys
Reading 1000 RPG Books (w/ Layla Adelman)
Reviewing Games on Youtube (w/ Dave Thaumavore)
15 Years of Deeper In The Game (w/ Chris Chinn)
Actual Play, Actual Work (w/ Emily Friedman)
How To Summon Demons With Cards (w/ Becky Annison)
Reading Indie Games At The Club (w/ Paul Beakley)
All Superhero RPGs, All The Time [w/ Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt]
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