It's our birthday episode! One full year (give or take a few weeks) of talking tables and we're celebrating by doing an episode where we talk about our feelings about sanity mechanics.
On the topic of sanity mechanics, Cole's been checking out Darkest Dungeon 2 (0:04:10) and has found this new one has more interesting interpersonal connections. Also, it's less about treasure hunting and more about restoring the hope of the world.
Then, of course, we spend a decent while talking Tears of the Kingdom (0:14:59). Marley, who doesn't own a Switch, has been watching four different let's plays and loves seeing how people learn the game. Cole, meanwhile, has been passing the controller between their fiance and himself and has been really enjoying the new mechanics... and fish people.
(We also very briefly talk about what would be our dream TotK tabletop game and our hopes for how this game will inspire future TTRPGs.)
Then, onto tabletop games!
Marley has been checking out Wreck This Deck (0:25:50), a game about defacing playing cards and summoning demons. His big takeaway is that it feels legitimately occult in a really interesting way.
Cole has been checking out Starforged (0:37:45) in preparation for a potential let's play we might do... It's a scifi hack of Ironforged which gives you and opportunity to create your own galaxy to exist within. And, as Cole learned a little too late, it has an app which streamlines that relatively crunchy process.
In preparation for a writing thing, Marley has been checking out Skyrealms (0:44:25), a system-less setting set on floating islands in a sea of mist. It's also a coloring book? With Adventure Time vibes? It's reminded him how much he loves almanacs and the subtle connections that world-building books can have.
Then, we reply to an excellent email from listener Laurie about how two different systems Vaesen & Darington Press's Candela Obscura approach santity mechanics (0:51:26), using it as a springboard to talk about our feelings about sanity mechanics in general.
We close with Cole shouting out doing shout-casting with Swordfish eSports & ML eSports, and maybe getting back into twitch streaming??
Marley has also released a Lasers & Feelings hack of complicated 4x strategy games, Explore! Exploit! Expand! Exterminate! which he did because he thought was funny.
Featuring Marley (@Mynar_Lenahan) and Cole (@IceColeBrew).
Produced by Marley, as well.
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