37. The Exhumed Skeleton

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Inside The Table: A Tabletop RPG Talk Show

Mynar_Lenahan, IceColeBrew

38 episodes

1 week ago

Cole (@icecolebrew) & Marley (@mynar_lenahan) sit down to talk about the craft of tabletop role playing games in this biweekly podcast.

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Cole (@icecolebrew) & Marley (@mynar_lenahan) sit down to talk about the craft of tabletop role playing games in this biweekly podcast.

Games

Leisure

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37. The Exhumed Skeleton

Inside The Table: A Tabletop RPG Talk Show

1 hour 38 minutes 5 seconds

1 year ago

37. The Exhumed Skeleton

In this episode, we talk about how notions of plagiarism, inspiration, and copyright fit into the TTRPG space. We both watched Hbomberguy’s recent video Plagiarism and You(Tube) so that’s where our heads are at.

But first, Marley has finished Alan Wake 2 (it’s fuckin great), then started and stopped playing Hunt: Showdown after convincing himself he was good at shooters after playing lots of Fortnite.

Then Cole has brief breaking news about a court case in progress about AI art!

Cole also checked out Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, and even found time to learn fighting games…

Then onto TTRPGs!

After reading Mothership last episode, Marley has been on an OSR kick and stumbled across RAD by ¡Hipólita!, a Metro 2033-inspired post-apocalypse TTRPG. It’s everything he wished Mothership was, particularly given how it’s clearly inspired by non-OSR systems. GMs have a lot more agency and it's thrilling to see a modern iteration.

Meanwhile, Cole stumbled across The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri by Momatoes, a generational world-building game set on the back of a living chimera. The game is itself a chimeric mix of Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year, Ben Robbins’ Kingdom, hidden role games, and even those complicated board games where you add up prestige at the end to figure out who won.

Then onto the main topic!

We both recently binged the gut-punch that is Hbomberguy’s recent video Plagiarism and You(Tube), which investigated several popular Youtubers who flagrantly stole their scripts from other creators and didn’t bother to credit them. So we take a moment to think about how that video fits in the context of the TTRPG space. How does hacking an existing game fit into that? How should we approach being inspired by other designers? And how does drawing heavily from an existing IP fit into that?

Also, shout outs to the Ind of the Year Bundle, which has Rad, Planet Fist, and a bunch of games we’re very excited for!

Featuring Cole (⁠⁠@IceColeBrew⁠⁠) and Marley (⁠⁠⁠@Mynar_Lenahan⁠⁠⁠).

Produced by Marley, as well.

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