This month we’re celebrating Bridget’s games!
Top left-to-right, we have a veteran furry-porn artist contemplating the design of the God Of Roadkill; The Witch of Dream-away Camp making her presence known; Wolf Knight from Bridget’s Shadowrun games making her usual dramatic entrance.
Far right, we have the setpiece battle from The Demon of Tenjin Bridge, and along the bottom, we have Sweet Valkyrie, Marshmallow Caster, Strawberry Rider and Caramel knight From Dagashi.
Art by Patsy McDowell
We’re trying something a bit different for this episode. Instead of focusing on one movie or show, we are talking about a type of scene in many movies and shows: the diner scene. I got the idea from watching Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories on Netflix. Bridget, Fae, Thad, Kat, and I discuss how we can take this scene and create an interesting storytelling game about it.
Check out Cry by Bridget and Fae!
In this special double feature episode, we cover two cult classics from the 90s: Bound and Deep Blue Sea. One features women who love women who love crime and the other features genetically altered sharks. Bridget and Fae and I talk about Bound, while Richard, Birk, and Aaron and I look at Deep Blue Sea.
Bridget ran a one shot set in the Dagashi universe for high level backers and RPPR cast members at Gen Con 2018. If you wanted to keep up with Dagashi, then this is your chance to find out what happens next.
Bridget, Fae, Maddy, and I tackle an actually *good* movie and one of the best family dramas in years, Thor: Ragnarok! From mods for existing RPGs, to new card games, we have quite a few ideas for the movie. Thank you for your support of this Patreon!
In 1997, John Woo, Nicolas Cage, and John Travolta created a unique cinematic experience called Face/Off. It’s on Netflix and we haven’t done a Nic Cage movie yet, so I thought we should dive into it. A full roundtable of Aaron, Bridget, Richard, Caleb, and I discuss how to gameify some of the elements in the movie. The games we come up with may surprise you!
The 2008 movie version of Speed Racer is a trip and a favorite of many of our cast members. Bridget, Noah, Richard, Thad, and I discuss how the overly-saturated visual chaos and splendor of this movie can be translated into gaming fodder. From civilization building games that explore the cost of building the tracks used in the movie, to using slot cars in a RPG, we have it all!
Bridget wrote some new rules compatible with all RPGs, based on our discussion of Gantz: O to help bring more drama to the game!
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VENGEANCE is a set of optional rules that you can inject into basically any other Table-top Role-Playing Game system.
VENGEANCE recreates that feeling of characters having an emotional breakthrough during a tense battle, gaining a second wind and re-entering a fight as a formidable opponent. You’ve likely seen this hundreds of times in your favorite anime or action movies: despite mounting wounds, the protagonist fights to protect their friends and gains a surge of power, even though moments ago they were near death.
Sci-fi films can be about big ideas, but sometimes that isn’t enough. Infini tries to be about some big ideas but the execution leaves much to be desired. Bridget, Caleb, Fae, Thad, and I discuss the movie and our ideas for mining gaming fodder out of it. Things like random tables for doing stupid things in space, to mini games about pretending to be human even when you’re secretly a goo alien!
Gantz is a hyper violent sci-fi battle royale series popular in Japan. It started as a manga, became an anime, then two live action movies, and now a CGI movie. Gantz: O adapts a story arc deep in the story, appearing over halfway through the main plot. Bridget, Fae, Thad, Richard, and I discuss what we thought of the movie and how it could be turned into a game.
