Q&A: Monsters, Art, and Quiet Innovation

Season 1, Episode 11: In this episode, we tackle a question from Ethan Yen about creating competitive TTRPGs.  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 10: In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically about monster design, art, and “quiet innovation”.  Appendix N:  https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/rock-paper-scissors---a-method-for-competitive-game-play-design Made Out Of Meat: Health Systems In Video Games Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 9: In this episode, we talk about how we communicate what our games even are, and how we can meld minds with people who run games via the page.  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 8: We were both… ACTUALLY… at Gen Con. Here’s our report!  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode we join our hosts mere minutes after the end of a successful Kickstarter.  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode, we talk everything Plasmodics, a big update on our lives and project, and how we highlight the usness of our games. Find Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future here. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Season 1, Episode 5: In this episode, we talk about shock jocks, graphic design, and studying adventures, and in the middle we design the Born to Die TTRPG! Listen to part two of this episode only on Ko-Fi, on 2/6.  Find the Born to Die RPG at https://worldchampgameco.itch.io/. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/. Appendix N:  ⁠Born to Die⁠ Ali on TikTok Sinix Design Elliotisacoolguy Shannon Swales Struthless Electric Bastionland I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Lancer Kill Five Billion Demons Ten Million HP Planet Hardspace Shipbreaker Good Friends of Jackson Elias

Season 1, Episode 4: In this episode, we chat about IKEA, save points in TTRPGs, and how we research games, and who our “game parents” are.  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/. Appendix N: Baldur’s Gate 3 big Grave Fashion Fantasy Vampire the Masquerade One Thousand Year Old Vampire Blood Borg A Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution Black Mass Mork Borg Vaults of Vaarn

Season 1, Episode 3: In this episode, we talk about companions and how we love to use them.  Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/. Appendix N: Baldur’s Gate 3 Follow  Imp of the Preverse Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future Wastelanders Cybermetal 2012 Big Grave Fashion Fantasy  Cyberpunk 2077 Good Friends of Jackson Elias Eternal Lies Dracula Dossier Night’s Black Agents Mothership

Season 1, Episode 2b Bonus: In this episode, we enter the Therapy-G zone to talk about how to run dungeons while playing digitally! Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!  Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/. Appendix N: Western Kabuki Wolves Upon the Coast Dungeons and Dragons (disrespectful) Dungeon Robber