Summer Series Firebrands - What We Have Learned

It's a super-sized episode as Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2022, and we bring the podcast to a close. Timecodes: 0:01:23 - Read a Sitch about 2022 gaming highlights 0:35:14 - Open Your Brain to our stray thoughts about PbtA games and play 0:52:08 - Act Under Fire - our closing thoughts You can find Rach on Mastodon (it's a social media site - google it!) She's @[email protected] You can find Rich on Mastodon, too. He's @[email protected] Thanks so much to all of our wonderful guests over the years! Thanks to you, our listeners, too. Happy Holiday and Happy New Year!

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​Rach and Rich reflect on their Summer Series of Firebrands games.  Timecodes: 0:00:53 - Our First Impressions of Firebrands 0:05:58 - Which Firebrands games did we try out? 0:08:27 - What aspects of Firebrands most surprised us 0:14:11 - Which aspects we found underwhelming 0:23:49 - Advice we offer for first time Firebrands players 0:28:57 - Our Highs 0:34:00 - Our Lows 0:37:20 - Final Thoughts on Firebrands and PbtA boosts#toggleFormOnEscOrEnter" data-boosts-adding-class="boosts--adding" data-boosts-deleting-class="boost--deleting"> boosts#expandForm click->chat--room#fixBoostOffset" aria-label="Add a boost" data-boosts-target="label" data-chat--line-target="boostFormLabel"> 

Rach and Rich bring on Rae Nedjadi to talk about their game Apocalypse Keys, which is crowd-funding on Kickstarter until October 11, 2022 Timecodes: 0:02:40 - Read a Sitch about The Promise of a Move 0:11:56 - Open Your Brain to Apocalypse Keys 0:22:09 - Act Under Fire Check out Apocalypse Keys on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/apocalypse-keys Find Rae's website here: https://www.swordqueengames.com/

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This seventh episode of the series features Rae Nadjadi, creator of ​Once More into the Void. Timecodes: 00:01:30- Setting Up 00:07:53 - The Challenge 00:18:46 - Playing the Games Find Once More into the Void here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/once-more-into-the-void

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This sixth episode of the series features Tristan and Pete, creators of ​Superstars: Racing Icons. Timecodes: 00:03:52- Setting Up 00:12:27 - The Challenge 00:22:39 - Playing the Games Find Superstars: Racing Icons here: https://feelingfickle.itch.io/superstars-racing-icons Follow Tristan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/feelingfickle Follow Pete on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Pete_Volk

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This fifth episode of the series features Andrea of Plotbunny Games, creator of ​Miss Bernburg’s Finishing School for Young Ladies. Timecodes: 00:06:02- Setting Up 00:17:33 - The Challenge 00:26:09 - Playing the Games You can find Andrea's itch store here: https://catcurious.itch.io/ She tweets here: https://twitter.com/this_curiouscat Plotbunny Games website (in German) is located here: https://plotbunnygames.com/ Andrea generously agreed to share her Firebrands Games research with us! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KB0-b2K1APeVg8j5pD7Xct1A2XyeKemgael-AIT0-7c/edit?usp=sharing Wikipedia article on Mädchen in Uniform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4dchen_in_Uniform

Rach and Rich bring on Adam and Thryn of Furtive Shambles to talk about their game Ryne, which is funding on Indie Go Go until August 21 Timecodes: 0:01:45 - Read a Sitch about PbtA and Actual Play 0:16:11 - Open Your Brain to Ryne 0:28:57 - Act Under Fire in a land of ice seeking something hidden away Check out Ryne on Indie Go Go: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ryne You can find Furtive Shambles here: http://furtiveshambles.com/

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This fourth episode of the series features Cole, creator of ​Thy Words Inspire, Thespians. Timecodes: 00:02:14- Setting Up 00:08:09 - The Challenge 00:15:22 - Playing the Games You can find Cole's games here: https://magicole.itch.io/ They tweet here: https://twitter.com/TheMostMagiCole Cole's Twitch stream group can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/rollplusbond

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This third episode of the series features Jason Price of AlwaysCheckers, creator of ​A Complicated Profession. Timecodes: 00:02:31 - Setting Up 00:07:06 - The Challenge 00:20:20 - Playing the Game BOTH A Complicated Profession and the +1 Forward podcast are nominated for ENnie awards. Public voting for the winners of our respective categories (and many others) is live at the time of this episode's publication and ends July 24th. Please go vote for us! https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2022/ Find Jason's games here: https://alwayscheckers.itch.io/