#107: Light Entertainment!

I. Dear Reader,

I really enjoyed this video from Shut Up and Sit Down. The presenter, Quinns, does an extremely enthusiastic and charming video to encourage new players to get into tabletop RPGs. Please send it your friends!

I enjoyed the fine tight-rope of “hey, it doesn’t matter which game you start with as long as you’re excited” and “actually, the choice might matter a little bit”.

Also, it’s very funny!

Hope you have a good week!

Sitting down,

Thomas

II. Media of the Week

Are you interested in VTTs? Here’s like all of them in 20 minutes?

III. Links of the Week

• Two hits from the Indie Game Reading Club:

  • First, Paul Beakley reviews all the games in the Indie Trove bundle at the Bundle of Holding and specifically says nice things about my game, The Spider and the City.

  • Second, Jason Lutes writes about his experiences running an epic West Marches campaign and includes a lot of advice on how to make it happen as well as the pitfalls to look out for.

• On Reddit, someone shares a conversion of 5e’s Ravenloft campaign into Fate.

• For Real Life mag, a long-read on the history of using war games and boardgames to teach war as well as, more recently, less awful things.

• Lowell Francis completes his mammoth task of looking at 60 RPGs that released a decade ago: here’s the final part of the series with links to others.

IV. Small Ads

All links in the newsletter are completely based on my own interest. But to help support my work, this section contains sponsored links and advertisements. If you’d like your products to appear here, read the submission form.

• Sundered Sundries (an aggregation of abominable additions for the ALL MUST BOW cosmic horror setting) ends it’s ZineQuest campaign Wednesday with all stretch goals complete! No better time to back!

This newsletter is currently sponsored by the Bundle of Holding.

• New bundles! There’s a short bundle for Warbirds, a dieselpunk game of air-combat and glory-hungry fighter pilots.

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