Weird Games and Weirder People
A podcast about tabletop role-playing games and the creative people behind them. The host interviews designers and creators who have helped bring these remarkable games to life. Each conversation explores the personalities and unusual minds that shape the RPG hobby. The show celebrates the weird and wonderful side of game design and the community around it.
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132 Laureen Blank is always trying to push boundaries
Lauren Bilanko Owner of Twenty Sided in Brooklyn, NYC with her partner Luis Chato. Twenty Sided is a community space that hosts events and carries a wide selection of curated games, bringing people together for over a decade.Founder of Studio Bilanko and Mystic Aether, Lauren release her first mass produced game called Reverie in OCT of 2025.Check out Laureen's work!https://twentysidedstore.co
131 John Baltisberger wants to make more games about hope
John Baltisberger is a multi-award winning author and game designer of speculative and genre fiction and gonzo games. Known for his brutal splatterpunk, occult musings, and innovative prose, John has written sci-fi, fantasy, horror, poetry, nonfiction, and romance.When not writing fiction, John edits, writes, and designs games like the Wandie-winning Odd Gobs and the Ennie-winning Obscure. He is w
Hodag III - The Reckoning
Hodag returns for the 4th time for his 3rd interview! Hodag is a game designer, illustrator and community fomenter! He is also a good friend and a wise guy!We talked about our journey in the TTRPG space, our passion for comedy, games, and a lot more! Including the very important concept of Creative Self-Care!Check out Hodag's work below!https://hodagrpg.itch.iohttps://nofoesnotraps.wordpress.c
129 Alexei Vella has always been obsessed with monsters
Alexei Vella is an artist, illustrator and game designer located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the creator of They Feed on Fear, Liminal Space and many other games, including TTRPGs, Skirmish games and a lot more!Check out his work on the links below!https://alexei-vella.itch.iohttps://theyfeedonfear.comThank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder People!Please subscribe to the show to
128 James Pozenel has always been the nerdy outsider
James A. Pozenel, Jr. is an independent TTRPG author and the creator of Netcrawl RPG, a game where players step into the roles of powerful computer-simulated avatars. He also publishes under Horse Shark Games, with titles including The House of the Red Doors, Enchiridion of the Computarchs, and the Scions of the Computarchs series. In addition to his original work, Jamesfreelances for Goodman Game
127 Jon Davis believes weirdness is the opposite of conformity
Jon Davis is a games writer most well known for In the Light of a Setting Sun, HAMMERS, and CRIME WAVE. Jon lives in Tennessee with his wife, two cats, and a dog, and spends most of his days thinking about cowboys.https://sivadssanctum.carrd.co/Get the new In the Light of a Setting Sun - TOMBSTONE EDITION!https://sivads-sanctum.itch.io/in-the-light-of-a-setting-sun-tombstone-editionThank you for l
126 John Kordosh is wisely zen about creative output.
John Kordosh is a writer, illustrator, and game designer. He's also an amateur tarot reader. He thinks storytelling can save the world. He is the creator ARKOS and The Forest Primordia, and has a cool pattern you can support!https://heavycrown.itch.io/https://www.instagram.com/johnkordosh/https://www.patreon.com/johnkordoshThank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder People!Please subs
125 Bob Brinkman devours books like they are Tic Tacs
Who is Bob Brinkman? An author, fire-breather, swordsman, singing pirate, and retired Las Vegas performer… Bob is the living embodiment of fossilized change.Bob is a friend and a scholar, who has many things to teach us! Get weird with us!https://sanctum.media/blog/Thank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder People!Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!SUPPORT THE SHOW
124 Daria Rose believes we liver in a simulation
Daria Rose LeFevre, a trans tabletop RPG author from the Midwest. Co-author of Beetle Knight and creator of the Troika City Career Catalog and Creature Capture Cards.Creature Capture Cards: https://huskinbee37.itch.io/creature-capture-cardsMy Blusky: https://bsky.app/profile/hodagsoup.bsky.socialCheck out their new Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52197427/creature-capture-cardsTh
123 Daniel Harila has an obssessive need to create
Daniel Harila is a freelance artist and writer from Norway. He started drawing monsters when he was 3 years old and couldn't stop creating even if he wanted to. He had a long break from roleplaying games during his late teenage and early adult years, pursuing punk music and various endavours in creative arts all at the expense of his own financial stability, and loads of other crazy things lik
122 Evey Lockhart readily became obsessed with RPGs
Evey is a tired trans mom, trapped in the thrashing remains of terrible empire. She writes poetry, stories, and ttrpg books.Check out Evey's work!https://violentmedia.itch.io/victorys-planet & ALSO https://violentmedia.itch.io/pony-noir-molasses-burnsocial: https://bsky.app/profile/violentmedia.itch.iostore: https://violentmedia.itch.io/Thank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder Pe
121 Tiger Wizard leveled up becoming a dad
Andrew Bellury, Tiger Wizard, is back on the show! He is an artist, game designer, podcaster, musician, and a great dude!We have a great chat about how has his life changed since he became a father, how was it to be nominated for an Ennie Award, what's going on with his work, and a lot more!Check out Tiger Wizard's Patreon: patreon.com/TigerWizardThank you for listening to Weird Games and
120 Miska Freeman can't do small talk
Miska Freeman is a full-time TTRPG cartographer and game designer from Finland. He founded the indie publishing label Ironspine Press in 2006 and started publishing TTRPGs mostly in Finnish. In 2015 he started creating maps and Miska's Maps was born.He is running Pathfinder 2E, Coriolis, and Delta Green campaigns.www.miskasmaps.comwww.ironspine.comThank you for listening to Weird Games and Wei
119 Levi Kornelsen enjoys the freedom of not charging for stuff
Levi makes games, useful accessories for use with games, tools for designing games, and talks a lot of theory. Almost all of his work is non-commercial, free or pay what you like, and almost all is open license or public domain.Levi's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/levikornelsen.itch.ioLevi's Itch: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/Thank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder People!Please s
118 Astrolich got Mork Borg as a wedding gift
Astrolich is a Mork Borg dude, game designer, and artist!Co-founder of Rivethead Games, and co-author of Farewell to Arms REDUX!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rivethead-games/chymoushttps://rivetheadgames.com/Thank you for listening to Weird Games and Weirder People!Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!SUPPORT THE SHOW!If you would like to support the show, leave a revie
117 Christopher Helton was influenced by nerdy parents
Nonbinary game designer and former critic, social commentator and reviewer of things. Former Editor/Writer of things for Bleeding Cool and EN World, and the founder of the Dorkland! blog! )Please note that they rarely update my blog anymore).Check out Chris' work below!https://dorkland.itch.io/adventures-in-the-unknownhttps://dorkland.itch.io/action-heroeshttps://bsky.app/profile/dorkland.itch.io
116 Ben and James play RPG with the same group since the 4th grade
Ben and James, creators of the Land of Eem TTRPG (Exalted Funeral), graphic novel series Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous (Random House) Goo, and the Dungeoneer Adventures Series (Simon and Schuster). All set in the Land of Eem.Check out Ben and James links!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/land-of-eem-beginners-rpg-for-kids-underlands-expansionhttps://landofeem.comThank you for
115 John "Hambone" McGuire has grown older but he is not sure he has grown up
John "Hambone" McGuire, from somewhere in the swamps of Jersey, is a RPG Writer, and Publisher at Ham & Egg Publishing. He is the co-creator of 321RPG, and Zombie Braineaters, as well as co-host of The Vintage RPG Podcast.He is currently funding Days of Future Fairhaven a 3PP for Weird Heroes of Public Access!Back it now: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/321action-rpg/days-of-future-fairha
114 Francesco Nepitello always wanted to create something
Francesco Nepitello is a veteran in the creation of board and roleplaying games, and is known especially for his creations based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Together with Marco Maggi, his long-time partner in game design, they are specialised in the creation of gaming media with strong narrative elements.This was a great conversation! Francesco is an absolute great designer and very wise in wh
113 Dyer Rose doesn't feel a lot of full range emotions
Dyer Rose (@BasiliskOnline on most online places) is a professional GM, Map Maker, and Game Designer! I first started noticing his work when we were having similar ideas for games, and then I started following him for the great work he does. He has found his space as a professional GM and talks about his weird experiences with that, and more, on the show!Check out Dyer's Links below!Map Patreon: h
112 Jay Dragon lives with different center in life and in the world
Jay Dragon is lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games and editorial director at Possum Creek. She's best kmiwn for her work on Wanderhome, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and Sleepaway.Support Jay's work at: patreon.com/possumcreekThank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People!Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!SUPPORT THE SHOW!If you would like to support the show, lea
111 Josh D is cursed with encyclopedic knowledge about the expanded universe
Josh Domanski is a writer, designer, occasional actual play host, best know for his work with the Liminal Horror system.Check out his work at:https://unenthuser.itch.io/https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/Thank 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'
110 Mark Diaz Truman grew on the weird and wonderful New Mexico
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,
109 Kyle Jameson expresses himself out of obligation
Kyle is a human being experiencing this life in Northern Minnesota. He has a lot more creativity than artistic talent, but he is doing the best he can with what he has. Kyle says he is more interested in the experience of doing something creative than the results. He is currently focusing on supplements for the Weird Heroes of Public Access RPG under the moniker of Vampyre Cinema.Weird Heroes of t
108 Jim Pinto has never shown his true identity
jim pinto is a nearly 30-year veteran of the gaming industry, having written roleplaying games, board games, card games, a novel, comic books, and even screenplays. He's even won awards for writing, graphic design, art direction, and one dog show. His career includes roles in art, design, production, publishing, and writing, covering nearly every aspect of game design. In this chat we talk abo
107 Philip Reed has worked on EVERYTHING (almost)
Philip Reed loves to create stuff and things, from roleplaying game supplements to music to whatever sounds fun at that exact moment in time. He can often be found working when he should be sleeping. He has been doing this for more than 30 years, and chances are you have played something he had his hands on. I feel in love with his work through Frag, and I've loved his presence since he was su
106 The Daniel Kwan you see online is who he really is
Daniel is a multi-ENnie Award winning Canadian podcaster, game designer, and cultural consultant. You might know him as the co-host and showrunner of the Asians Represent! podcast. As a freelance narrative designer, some of his notable works include Candlekeep Mysteries, the Ultimate Micro-RPG Guide, Avatar Legends, Dark Archive, and the Tian Xia series. As a cultural consultant, he has worked for
105 Penny Melgarejo draws in the dark!
Creative force of the dark pits of hell, Penny Melgarejo is an illustrator, tattooist and sometimes a writer of RPGs from Madrid, Spain, and his works in the RPG scene includes covers and several illustrations for Gallant Knight games, Necrotic gnome, Old skull publishing, exalted funeral, Blackoath entertainment and many more. He usually self publish underground fanzines and is the mind and hands
104 Chris Airiau always wears different weird socks!
Chris Airiau is a game writer in France who publishes modules for Mothership RPG, The Lost Bay, and Cloud Empress as 5 Million Worlds Press, and is soon to release their own transhuman space adventure game, 5 Million Worlds RPG: An Avatar's Primer. We talked about his work, his process, inspirations, and weird stories and experiences in our lives!Let's get weird with Chris Airiau!Check out
103 Alkis "Fern" is really into supernatural stuff!
Alkis "Fern" is writer and game designer from Athens, Greece, with a particular interest in all things weird, occult, and paranormal. He is currently funding Hellborn - Descended, an action horror RPG set in a modern city in hell, where you play as demons seeking their own objectives!Check out Alkis's links below!https://bsky.app/profile/studiohexttrpgs.bsky.socialhttps://www.kickstarter.com/proje
102 Kalum (RPG Roliste) is contextually weird!
Kalum is a London-based TTRPG designer (Magic of Inventorying, Rosewood Abbey) and podcaster (The Rolistes Podcast, RPG Academy Film Studies). We talked about his experiences in building TTRPG communities, and the creative process of his games!Check out Kalum's work!https://rolistespod.com/https://rolistespod.itch.io/https://bsky.app/profile/rolistespod.itch.iohttps://www.kickstarter.com/proje
101 Pelle Nilsson is Very Into True Crime Documentaries
Pelle Nilsson is the Swedish game designer behind Mörk Borg, focusing on streamlining the old game systems from the 70s. He has published a couple of other rpgs, among them Barkhäxan and Ut mot skären. Check out Mörk Borg: https://morkborg.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,
100 Diogo Nogueira (Old Skull Publishing)
Diogo Nogueira is an artist, graphic designer, and game developer. Creator of Old Skull Publishing, he creates games for you to play more with less. Among his games are Primal Quest, Kosmosaurs, Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, Screams Amongst the Stars, and others. He is also an award-winning designer of the Halls of the Blood King adventure. Oh, and he makes this podcast!Check out all his links
99 Luiz Eduardo Ricon (Hexplore Publishing)
Luiz Eduardo Ricon is an author, educator, screen writer, game designer, content creator and media education specialist. Creator of the first fantasy ttrpg based on Brazilian History and folklore, published in 1992. He his publishing a lot of stuff through Hexplore Publishing, his indie label, such as adventures, supplements and other stuff for games such as Old-School Essentials, Shadowdark, and
98 Nate Treme (Highland Paranormal Society)
Nate Treme is an artist, graphic designer, game designer, and educator based in Louisiana. He is also the creator of Highland Paranormal Society, and the author of so many RPGs, adventures, settings, and so much more. Nate mostly produces content through his Patreon, where you can support his work and receive wonderful material, even in physical format sometimes. We talked about his work, his proc
98 Christopher Drellow (Glumdark)
Christopher Drellow is a writer, artist, designer, musician and programmer living in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. He is kickstarting the book version of Glumdark right now. This is an amazing resource for Dark Fantasy gaming, and each page is bursting with ideas! Check it out!https://www.glumdark.com/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/glumdarkThank you for lis
97 Eduardo Carabaño - Settlers of a Dead God
Eduardo Carabaño is a game designer from Spain, creator of Settlers of a Dead God, and a super creative and inspiring creator. We talked about creative process, his passions, his influences and a lot more. Settlers of a Dead God is an incredible setting and supplement for OSE and other OSRish games with information for playing insectoid characters exploring the colossal carcass of a god.
Get Sett
96 Huffa - Between The Skies
Huffa is a game write and art historian. Her most recent book, the Between the Skies, Collected Hardcover Edition, is available from Exalted Funeral. This is both a game and an incredible and extensive toolkit for weird fantasy TTRPGs, helping you create not only NPCs, Locations, adventures, but also full worlds! It's really well made, and worth every penny!
Get Between the Skies here: https://ww
95 Humberto Tramujas - Oldmoon
Humberto Tramujas is a Brazilian Game Designer, and author of the upcoming Oldmoon, a weird fantasy RPG which asks the question "how would the Middle Ages look like in an extraterrestrial world?"
Pre-order Oldmoon here: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/oldmoon
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94 Joshua McCrowell - His Majesty the Worm
Josh McCrowell is an up-jumped RPG blogger and editor-in-chief of the Knock! gaming magazine. He haunts Virginia, USA where he rattles chains and wears ragged sheets. His partner, two cats, and a dog are frequent victims of his ghoulish antics.He has written small games for his (kind and indulgent) friends for years. Previously, Josh self-published a game about halflings not having adventures call
93 Zachary Cox - Soul Muppet Publishing
Zachary Cox is the JellyMuppet (they/them) and serves as the Director of SoulMuppet Publishing. They are the moon-obssessed creator of Paint The Town Red, Inevitable and Best Left Buried, and one of the co-creators of Orbital Blues. Zach is a seasoned RPG creator and producer, who makes ideas into books. They dabble in everything from printing, distribution and product and project management.
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92 Andre Novoa - Games Omnivorous
Andre Novoa is the driving force behind Games Omnivorous. He has worked on ENNIE-winning games like Mausritter, Frontier Scum, Putrescence Regnant or the Hexcrawl Toolbox. He is also my friend and one of the most creative people I know! In this episode we talked a lot about creativity, inspirations, the role of music in his work and a lot more!
Check out his amazing work!
https://www.instagram.co
91 Marcelo Saravá and Guilherme Vicino - Insania
Marcelo Saravá and Guilherme Vicino, both from Brazil, have united their forces to create a really weird board game, and in this episode we talk a lot about how they did that, what were their inspirations, and how they managed to accomplish what they set out to do.
Check Insania out: https://get-insania.sievert.games
Insania Pre-Launch page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insania/insania
90 Brendan LaSalle
Brendan J. LaSalle is a staff writer for Goodman Games who has been writing and publishing in the game industry since 2002. He has written for Goodman Games, Fat Dragon Games, Troll Lord’s Games, Legendsmiths, Savage Mojo, Pandahead Publishing, and Hand Made Games, among others. He has written many adventures and RPG source books, including the award-winning Age of Cthulhu: A Dream of Japan. His m
89 Trevor Stamper
Trevor Stamper—Trevor has had aspirations of being a Not-Quite-So-Dark Master for numerous years, tormenting players in home campaigns on at least two continents. At the age of 10, Trevor was launched into an AD&D game with his friends on Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. But once he moved to England, he lost touch with the game and explored other classics—Indiana Jones, Twilight 2000, Ga
88 Reynaldo Madrinan - Break!! RPG
Reynaldo Madrinan is the co-author of Break!! RPG, a blogger and a really passionate game designer. Break!! is inspired by anime, manga, classic role playing games and NES era video games. The game’s skeleton will be familiar to anyone who's slung a d20 before, but the game's eclectic mix of inspirations will provide you with a very different fantasy experience.
The games simple rules stil
87 Mike Shea - Sly Flourish
Mike is the writer for the website Sly Flourish and the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, the Lazy DM's Workbook, The Lazy DM's Companion, Fantastic Adventures, Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot, and a number of other books. Mike is a co-author of Forge of Foes and Fantastic Lairs.
Mike has freelanced for a bunch of RPG companies, including Wizards of the Coast, Ko
86 Camilla Zamboni
Camilla Zamboni (she/her) teaches Educational Game Design as well as Italian language and culture at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA). She focuses on innovative, reflective, and radical pedagogy, particularly at the nexus of language learning, open educational resources (OERs), analog game-based learning, and tabletop game design. Camilla regularly presents at conferences in US and Italy, an
85 Erica Lowe
Owner-Erica Lowe Broken Brain Games LLC and Co-founder of Dice and Dish Podcast. Writer on Edrenas Tower (DCC Zine), RagnaBorg (Mork Borg Zine), Temple of Grimbog (5e), and Chambers of Agony (Shadowdark/Mork Borg Zine). 200 RYT-E Yoga Instructor.
Listen up and get weird with Erica Lowe
https://www.brokenbraingames.com/
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84 Banana Chan
Banana Chan is a Cantonese Canadian game designer, writer and publisher living in the US. Her latest work has been on Forgery, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition. They won Dicebreaker Awards' Game Designer of the Year 2022 and 2 Silver ENnie Awards in 2022.
I had the pleasure and honor to meet Banana during Gary
83 WF Smith (Prismatic Wasteland)
W. F. Smith, also known as Prismatic Wasteland, is a blogger and game designer, author of Barkeep on the Borderlands, making Prismatic Wasteland RPG, and creator of many other amazing things! He comes to the show to talk weird!
Prismatic Wasteland, the blog, is one I've been visiting and coming back to for years, and it's been around for a long while. We even talk a little bit on the show
82 Justine Jones
Justine Jones is a self taught illustrator living in Philadelphia. Her influences come from comic books, video games, mythology, and folklore. She has done work for Wizards of the Coast, Kobold Press, and many small publishers. She makes Magic the Gathering card pieces of art, and her unique style also appears on our award winning adventure Halls of the Blood King, and many other amazing creation
81 Courtney Campbell
Courtney Campbell is a game designer and artist, creator of the Hack & Slash blog, author of many great posts about gaming, and the game designer of many RPG books, including more recently Sinless, a new take on cyberpunk dystopias where the players are faced with really hard hitting questions.
I've been following Courtney's work from afar for a long while. I think he wrote some of th
80 Alex Damaceno (Gnarled Monster)
Alex Damaceno, also known as Gnarled Monster, is the creator of Beyond the Borderlands zine series, Archon Ruins, Dungeon Reavers, and a lot of more stuff! His art and cartography is known for its unique style and use of bright colors. And he is also a awesome friend, and cool person to hang with!
We met in person recently and had the best of times hanging out. So inviting him for an interview fo
79 John Wick
John Wick is not only the legend who inspired a multi-millionaire Hollywood franchise, but he is also the legendary game designer of Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, Orkworld!, Cat, Wield, and so many others! He is also famous for his writing and opinions he shares on his YouTube channel. We don't agree on a lot of things, but we agree to disagree and I love it!
In this chat we talked about
78 Matthew Orr (Wet Ink Games)
Matthew Orr is a TTRPG creator and co-owner of Wet Ink Games. He likes to read about history, about animals (especially cryptids), and he loves comics (but not superhero comics). He has an obsession with bleak 1970s sci-fi movies he can't quite explain. All of this seems to show up in his games. He makes games, publishes games, and help other do the same!
I recently had the honor and pleasure
77 Dan Algstrand
Dan Algstrand is the fantastic Artists, Art Director and Graphic Designer who worked on titles such as Kult Divinity Lost, The One Ring, Mutant Year Zero, and many other titles. Dan is a freelance graphic artists rumored to have worked on pretty much all Swedish RPGs, he is a member of the fantastic Stockholm Kartell!
In this weird and wonderful chat we talked about his work as a graphic designer
76 Scott McDonald
Scott found his father's 1st Editon Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide at age 8 in 1983, and his path was set. He moved on from D&D to Car Wars, Gamma World, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Starfinder, both playing and game mastering, untill settling on Mörk Borg and its ilk during the pandemic. Now he is finding out the ups and downs of crowdfunding and self-publishin
75 Alex Kobayashi
Alex Kobyashi is a passionate creator who seems to can't stop making games. He is the creator of The Black Sword Hack, Rats in the Walls, Extinction, Cursed!, and many other great games!
In this chat we talked about the many great things about being a full time game designer, and the many and things about being a full time game designer. Alex talks a lot about "being lazy" despite
74 Pawel Klimczak
Pawel Klimczak is the game designer and a publisher of Slav Borg, a Post-Soviet, Semi-Fantasy Role-Playing Game. He is also a journalist and a musician interested in the intersection of the social conditions and art.
I immediately backed Slav Borg when I saw it on Kickstarter. It had cool looking post-apocalyptic cars. It was inspired by Mörk Borg, an incredible game I love, and it drew from a to
73 Nicholas Cardarelli (Raised on DnD)
Nick Cardarelli is a Professional Dungeon Master and the host of the Raised on DnD podcast. He has created dozens of original tabletop role-playing game adventures for several different game systems. Nick has been a gamer for over 30 years and has used TTRPGs to connect with his family, friends, and co-workers.
I've been a guest on Nick's amazing podcast for a few times and he is always b
72 Jeremy Pillopow (Black Magic Craft)
Jeremy Pillipow is a Canadian hobby YouTuber, artist, and game designer. His YouTube channel is full of tutorials on how to craft terrain, and many other things too, as Jeremy learns in public, sharing lessons, mistakes and, more importantly, constantly encouragement and quite a bit of wisdom.
Jeremy also recently published a Skirmish game inspired by TTRPG as well called Idols of Torment, and we
71 Jason Morningstar
Jason Morningstar is perhaps the iconic Indie RPG Game Designer in my mind. He is the legendary creator of Fiasco, one of my favorite games of all time, which continues to inspire me to this very day. He also created many other masterpieces like Night Witches, Durance, Skeletons and many others. He is also an educator, and, more importantly, he is generous, kind, and supportive with other in our c
70 Goblin Archives
Goblin Archives is a game designer and educator, creator of Liminal Horror, and fomenter of the fantastic (and horrific in a good "horror is cool" kinda way) community of players and creators around it. He thrives on collaborative work, and in this episode this becomes a theme that we explore deeply.
Liminal Horror is a fantastic gem of a game of Investigative Horror that uses the frame
69 Fellipe da Silva
Fellipe is curious brazilian designer and illustrator. He had done a little bit of everything in design and enventually started to design its own RPG material and games where he tries to make than as light ans silly as possible. He is the creator of Forgotten Ballad, an adventure game inspired by the OSR and the Legend of Zelda series!
He is also developing The Way, a new weird take on fantasy a
68 Joseph Goodman
Joseph Goodman runs Goodman Games. He has written a number of RPG titles, including DCC RPG, DragonMech, and many dungeon crawl adventures. His best work, though, is mentoring the amazing group of creators who have come to publish their work through Goodman Games.
Joseph is also well known within the DCC RPG community as the Dark Lord, but in a very dear way. I had the pleasure to work with Goodm
67 Brian Colin
Brian Colin has been working in the industry since his first exhibit in Gen Con's art show 2017. He is a sculptor, graphic designer, and product developer who is best known for Vast Grimm. Founder of Creature Creation, he is also the creator of many other weird things!
I remember the first time I saw Vast Grimes maw cover! What a cover. And Vast Grimm visuals continues to be super rad! Brian&
66 Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings is an award-winning artist and game designer best known for his game Thousand Year Old Vampire. He is also the creator of A Collection of Improving Exercises, Our Vacation, and many other games that explore the frontier of RPGs, games, and art. He's a soon-to-be-former university professor and closing up his art studio to focus on making games full time.
I love games that do thi
65 Lin Codega
Lin Codega is an entertainment journalist who co-founded Rascal--a worker-owned, alternative tabletop roleplaying game news outlet. They previously wrote for io9, Polygon, and MIT's Immerse magazine. They also make games, and a lot of other weirdly wonderful things we talk about in this episode!
The first time I met Linda as at Gen Con, and my friend Richard said I should meet them, talked ab
64 JP Coovert
JP Coovert writes and illustrates whimsical TTRPG zines every month. He also makes videos that teach and encourage creators to make cool stuff for their tabletop roleplaying games. He creates complete games, one-shot adventures (some that can be strung for an campaign, others thematically to each game), toolkits, guides, and so many other wonderful things.
I honestly think JP's Patreon is one
63 Cassi Mothwin
Cassi Mothwin is a multi-award winning tabletop RPG designer and illustrator. When she’s not working on her own projects, she’s usually reviewing or exploring other indie tabletop games developed by her peers. She enjoys video editing, video games, and reading a lot of genre fiction.
Cassi body of work is pretty impressive and she has been doing this for only a few years. But not only that, she e
62 Craig Hatler
Craig Hatler (he/him), @tezrak on most socials, bis the IT Help Desk Manager for a small historically black university in Raleigh, NC, USA. He has been playing #TTRPGs for over 30 years & have been developing/designing for over half that time. He has created a modular system and setting, both released as Creative Commons, allowing others to create with his work collaboratively.
I confess I di
61 Andrían Mejía
Adrián Mejia was born and raised in Quito, the city that he loves and hates. He wants to see more latines in Fantasy, both as characters and players, and tell stories he doesn't see elsewhere. He is the lead director of the Koboa project, a South American Fantasy setting for D&D, Pathfinder and other fantasy ganes, and is hoping to get a few more projects underway as he keeps experimenting
60 Onslaught Six
Onslaught Six is the head honcho of Tidal Wave Games, who make the game SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY... and other TTRPG stuff. You can find out more about him on his website at onslaughtsix.com or his games at tidalwavegames.com
I love games about scoundrels and thieves with good hearts, so I was instantly interested in Onslaught Six's game, so when we talked about the interview I was quickly excite
59 Otavio Lessa
Otavio Lessa is an Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Educator with +25 years of experience in Entertainment Content, Operations, Communications, and Business. Worked with brands and franchises like Warcraft, Call of Duty, Diablo, Gundam, Digimon, Godzilla, Magic The Gathering, Twitch.tv, and Amazon Prime. Currently, he is the President and Co-founder of Mind's Vision, a professor of entertainment bus
58 Jordan Dube
Jordan Dube is the owner & operator of Goosepoop Games! He is greatly involved with the community: running game meetups and conventions as executive director of his local game group in Portland, ME, performing clarinet in a swing band, writing video game review articles, and climbing rocks at the rock gym. Formerly a UX designer, programmer, sound engineer, and Army clarinetist, Jordan uses hi
57 Harley Stroh
Harley Stroh, legendary RPG writer, Skate Punker, and an incredible Judge (or GM for the non-DCCers out there)! Author of moderns classics like Sailors of the Starless Sea, Doom of Savage Kings, Blades Against Death, Journey to the Center of Aereth, Tower of the Black Pearl, Peril on the Purple Planet, and more recently, the impressive The Music of the Spheres is Chaos, a massive boxed-set adventu
56 Luke Stratton / Limithron
Luke Stratton, or Limithron as he is known throughout the seven seas of the internet, is an artist, game designer, producer, and so many other things. He is the creator of Pirate Borg, as well as Limithron's Guide to Naval Combat for 5th Edition D&D! He was with me on both Game On Expo and Gary Con, so we get to talk a little bit about those.
Luke and I had the chance to bond over the cou
55 Denis McCarthy
Denis McCarthy has been illustrating and making stock art for indie games since 2016. He has work on multiple tiles in the Indie and OSR community, having a style characterized by an attention to history and architecture. He also sells a lot of stock art, which features in innumerable products, including my own!
I've met Denis in a trip I made to Gen Con one of those years ago while I spent s
54 Zac Goins
Zac has written for dozens of publications, including entries in D&D 5e, Mork Borg, Mothership, OSE, Vast Grimm, his upcoming work on Primal Quest, Zweihander, and the Hannibal RPG, and more. In another realm, he is the President of Tabletop Fanatics, one of the Directors at World of Game Design, and a co-host of the Geeks’ Cant podcast.
Zac is one of those person you wonder "how do they
