I. Dear Reader
This week, I’m excited about the indie games bundle for Palestinian aid. It’s got a 1000+ games (about 300 ttrpgs) and they have already raised $150k of their $500k target. The bundle is a huge community effort with the co-operation of itch.io – like the bundle for Racial Justice last year. Please contribute. The highest contribution is something like a thousand dollars? Though the minimum is only 5$!
If you do buy the bundle, a good way to browse the games you’ve purchased is through this site which was initially built for the Racial Justice bundle last year.
If you like PbtA, there’s games like Sagas of the Icelanders, Moonpunk, Fight Item Run, Home Again and Shoot N Loot.
If you like GM-less games, check out An Altogether Different River and Cobwebs and many worldbuilding games like Smoke Fuel and Fire
If you like solo games, there’s a lot of games inspired the Wretched like Operation Swordbreak as well as original work like the Magus.
If you like OSR, there’s lots of stuff for Troika! like Liquid Science Doom and Moonshot as well as original games like Robots and Ruins and The Corruption of Pelursk
In solidarity,
Thomas
II. Listen of the Week
A lovely review of Ultraviolet Grasslands by someone who played a campaign in the setting. I’m prepping to run a one shot set in the UVG setting so this was extra fun to watch.
III. Links of the Week
Only tangential to tabletop games but this essay on the “Game Mistresses” and their interactive fiction games in the 1980s is a wonderful read.
On lyric games, what they are, and why they’re interesting: A Game Without Players Can Still Be Played.
On a related note, Liber Ludorum has an article looking at “meta” games.
Vincent Baker returns to answer more of your questions about Powered by the Apocalypse games.
POCGamer writes about four anime that could inspire your next fantasy campaign.
A review of cyberpunk game, Hard Wired Island
A review of ARC, a game where the apocalypse is on the clock.
On Gnomestew, some good advice for players: “play the game being brought to the table by the GM.”
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