Hello everyone! Did you know PARTIZAN launches today??? how exciting!!! Did you know it's going to launch like 5 minutes after this episode hits your feed?? WOWWEEEEE
As a gift to our audience and because these episodes go hand in hand, we're making this Clapcast free for everyone! If you'r...
2019-12-19 21:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, as you'll hear me say the second you hit play, I fucked up and made one last pre-PARTIZAN Drawing Maps update. (Also, it's fun to use the red moon placeholder art that Ali made one last time.)
This week's is revisiting Kesh (who I worked some additional details out for, ...
2019-12-16 06:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Welcome to the final pre-PARTIZAN episode of Drawing Maps. I’ve got a lot to go over today, as this is a very exciting update that will fill in some final worldbuilding details about the setting of PARTIZAN. Because of how dense this is, and because this post co...
2019-12-09 00:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Welcome to another episode of Live at the Table! Today, we'll be playing Anomaly by Carter Richmond, which you can find right here on itch.io. Join Sylvi, Keith, Janine, and Austin as they put on their lab...
2019-12-07 23:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Welcome to another episode of Live at the Table! Today, we'll be playing Anomaly by Carter Richmond, which you can find right here on itch.io. Join Andi, Keith, Janine, and Austin as they put on their lab ...
2019-12-07 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, and to yet another Live at the Table catchup stream! Today, we'll be playing Anomaly by Carter Richmond, one of OTHER Discord moderators. Join Sylvi, Keith, Janine and Austin as they put on their lab coats and examine the unexplainable...
Hey everyone! Welcome to the penultimate entry in the pre-PARTIZAN Drawing Maps series. Next time, we're going to go over a couple of big where-and-when things: We'll get into the calendar (why are we playing in the "Perfect Millennium?" What were the other millennia? How are days and months trac...
2019-11-25 02:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Live at the Table catchup shows continue! Today, we'll be playing Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern by Takuma Okada, who happens to be one of our very own Discord moderators. Join Al...
2019-11-24 01:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, and to another Live at the Table catchup stream! Today, we'll be playing Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern by Takuma Okada, who happens to be one of our very own Discord mo...
2019-11-23 21:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's one more clapcast for you! Hot and ready to listen and laugh!! And there will be TWO more clapcasts next month!! wahoo!!!!!!!!!
Also, if you're at our $5+ tier, we're planning on doing a live at the table TOMORROW!!!! Keep your eyes on your email or our twitter 👀👀ð...
2019-11-22 21:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
[One sheet of letter size paper, black, white text, secured to a telephone pole in a column. Bluff City.]
For each of the cliffs tumbling toward the water there are those that are steeper. For each stretch of marshland beyond the city there is a span that is wider. On some wint...
2019-11-20 23:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Drawing Maps is normally for Friend tier patrons and above, but for this special entry, I wanted to make sure everyone who supports us could join in.
If you aren't familiar with it, then Drawing Maps is the series I do which shows some insight into my g...
2019-11-17 19:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostJoin Ali, Keith, Andi, and Austin as they take your questions on tabletop RPG impostor syndrome, campaigns that lose their momentum, making a pre-written campaign your own, and, of course, mecha anime.
A transcription is available for this episode 2019-11-12 20:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
[Two sheets of letter size paper, yellow, secured to a telephone pole in a column. Bluff City.]
What’s the biggest animal you can think of?
Don’t WORRY about it. We CAN transport it
LIONS. We can transport them.
ANTELOPE. We can transport them! ...
2019-11-06 01:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Join Art, Jack, Janine, and Austin for another episode of Tips at the Table! We take your questions on what goes into a interesting character class, how to plan out detective stories, what sort of motivation to give NPCs, and dealing with anxiety at the table! &nbs...
2019-11-04 04:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Here's a brand new Clapcast, ready for you, ready to go, ready to play, lets go go go.
While I'm here, let me give you a run down of upcoming updates:
Tips: We recorded an episode this past week that'll be released this Sunday! We're also caught up on Tips up thr...
2019-11-01 23:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! After over twenty months of waiting, we're finally returning to the baseball diamond with our game of Primetime Adventures! Join Austin as the producer, Art as Frankie "Beanball" Bianchi, Sylvi as "Lou-Ellen Llewellyn," and Keith as "Keith" as they finish out the fina...
2019-10-30 03:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
[Three sheets of letter size paper, pink, secured to a telephone pole in a column. Bluff City.]
THE ALBATROSS CASINO is OPENING SOON!
But! What if you DON’T KNOW ANYTHING? WOW!! What a missed OPPORTUNITY that would be ($$$)
If...
2019-10-29 15:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, hope your weekend is going well! I've got the next (but not LAST) pre-PARTIZAN Drawing Maps update for you today. Please enjoy these 1700 words and 70 minutes about Stel Apostolos, one of the most complex (and, for me anyway) conflicting group in the Divine Principality. They ...
2019-10-27 02:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! After over twenty months of waiting, we're finally returning to the baseball diamond with our game of Primetime Adventures! Join Austin as the producer, Art as Frankie "Beanball" Bianchi, Sylvi as "Lou-Ellen Llewellyn," and Keith as "Keith" as they finish out the final two ...
2019-10-23 23:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, Austin here! Hope your weekends are going well!
Jack and I have been dying to put some more time into Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind, the spiritual successor to one of our all time favorite games, King of Dragon Pass, a game that has been hugely influential on ...
2019-10-20 20:47:21 +0000 UTC View PostJoin Ali, Andi, Austin, and Dre for the latest episode of Tips at the Table! Today, we're answering questions about exploring identity in play, doing the 'right' amount of prep, decision paralysis, sandwiches, and more! We also talk about sandwiches for AWHILE and if...
2019-10-18 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here it is, the FINAL Hieron clapcast. Say goodbye to Hieron and Jack's amazing spring clapcast jingle!! HEADS UP that this clapcast will have some (very minor) spoilers for the Spring in Hieron epilogue!
Because this is our final Hieron send off, its open for everyone t...
2019-10-14 22:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, unfortunately we're going to need to cancel tonight's Live at the Table due to unforeseen circumstances. Schedules allowing, we'll be back later this week to check out another game! As a reminder, if you have game suggestions, you can use 2019-10-14 00:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, Austin here!
As we begin to spin up our Live at the Table engines again, I thought it would be a good idea to once again reach out to y'all to see what games you'd love to see us play in this format. So I put together 2019-10-13 20:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, hope you're having a great Saturday so far! First up, reminder that we'll be recording Tips at the Table in just about an hour, live for all Hacker tier backers and above!
For now, though, here's another Drawing Maps update! Today, I dig into how I'm going into detail ab...
2019-10-12 20:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Welcome to the Tips at the Table for August 2019. Join Jack, Keith, Janine, and Austin as they answer your questions about how to deal with a player leaving a game, the music that has inspired them, how to decompress at the end of a heavy session, and more! &n...
2019-10-11 16:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello again and welcome to the third in this season of Drawing Maps updates. Today, we'll be looking at Stel Orion and Beam Saber's "corruption" score, which is in some ways a minor element of faction creation, but in others helps set the tone not only for the faction in question but the game on ...
2019-09-30 05:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Welcome to another look into my notes as I continue to prep for Season 6, which now has a name: PARTIZAN! Listen above as I dig into a major breakthrough I had w/r/t the aesthetics of this season. This is less a Beam Saber specific thing and more general insight and workflow discuss...
2019-09-18 06:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Austin here with another Drawing Maps update! This is continuing in a series of experimental, non-streamed Drawing Maps updates, and if you like this, please let me know! My plan is to do five of these over the next few weeks as I prep to start recording Season 6 proper, so there's ...
2019-09-08 01:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post