Unwritten Earths Symposium

Nathan and Eppy finally turn in their spring semester homework, discussing where they are at with The Marian and Robin Roleplaying Party Game (and spinners!), and Fair Winds and Following Seas (and music!), respectively. Informed by both formal exploration and input from Scholars over at our Discord, both of these games are starting to get somewhere. Show Notes: Two Hundred a Day "Live" Episode with Emily Care Boss Numberphile "Cones Are Messed Up" (Martini Glass Video) Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (BBC series) Games Mentioned: Remember Tomorrow Bullwinkle & Rocky Role-Playing Party Game Jason Morningstar’s The Skeletons Rogue Trader (2009), but Nathan was probably playing Dark Heresy (2008) And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

No, this isn't about games we don't like; following up on a question from our Wisdom Episode, we talk about the parts of making games that are not fun, from merely boring all the way to actively hate. This turns into a conversation about how we get through those periods, how the unique nature of truly true roleplaying games makes perfection impossible, and harnessing the hate that flows through you for good. We balance that out with an update on something we're loving right now, the incoming artwork for Swords Without Master! Nathan's game Mortal Skein is out! Here's the playtest materials on itch. Show Notes: Great Courses: English Grammar Boot Camp CSS Tailwind CSS Pomodoro Technique Forest Timer App (the tree-growing one) Will Jobst's Plasmodics: Mutant Freaks in the Weird Future Swords Artists: Shel Kahn Jabari Weathers GORAN Simon Roy Big Bluesky Thread of the Swords artists And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

As is tradition on this first day of April, we're going through some of the wisdom we've accumulated as self-publishers over the years, in hopes it'll help out those who are starting their game design journey. We try to address some of the basic questions that you might not know you should be asking, and talk about the core work of finding an audience, benefits and drawbacks of different kinds of conventions, designing your business like it's a game, and starting small in order to give yourself the space to learn and grow. If there's any fools today it's going to be us, but hopefully this is helpful - and if raises further questions, please get in touch so we can continue this conversation! Show Notes: Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State Heart of the Deernicorn itch.io Drivethru Indie Press Revolution Payhip 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars FreeTaxUSA Vast and Starlit And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, we visit the mailroom to field some listener questions! We discuss design rituals that we each have, the experience of having games or mechanics fall flat for us in play, and some potential homework for future episodes. The conversation includes digressions into spinner design, playtesting our way out of mechanics that don't work, and how we approach disappointing experiences as something to learn from. Thanks for all the mail! Shoutouts to: Playtest Tuesday, The Imaginauts, and Paul Czege Games Mentioned: Bullwinkle & Rocky Role Playing Party Game Slugblaster Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game A Sword Points South (a work-in-progress from Eppy) Night’s Black Agents / Dracula Dossier GURPS Wushu: The Ancient Art of Action Roleplaying Imp of the Perverse And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, Nathan and Eppy report back about their "do this with that" homework assignment. Eppy debuts The Marion and Robin Party Roleplaying Game, and Nathan outlines how Remember Tomorrow reconfigures Fair Winds and Following Seas. Then, we reflect on how using other games as the basis of new work (hacks, if you will) can be a really helpful part of the game design process. Show Notes: Eppy plays Swords Without Master with New Edge Sword & Sorcery New Edge's 2026 Backerkit (runs through March 14!) List of Games that Blew our Minds, courtesy of Camilla Zamboni Games Mentioned: Remember Tomorrow Bullwinkle & Rocky Role Playing Party Game PSI'RUN Otherkind Dice And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

Nathan and Eppy assigned homework off-mic, to discuss some games that showcase thinking about games in a way we never would have, or that made such an impression on us that we've made them part of our toolkits. We discuss what we mean by our minds being blown, then go over our lists. Then, we assign homework for next episode: to sketch out what one of our works-in-progress would look like, if we used one of our mind-blowing influences as a model! We're still aiming to make new games this season, and this was a really productive conversation to help us both along. Show Notes: Friday the 13th: The Series Everything Everywhere All At Once Avery Alder Central Michigan University Press is republishing The Mountain Witch Art & System: Games for Expanded Play Games Mentioned: The Mountain Witch Teen Witch Still Life via Golden Cobra Remember Tomorrow Bullwinkle & Rocky Role-Playing Party Game 1001 Nights Black Sun Deathcrawl Darkpages (Aschan) Apocalypse World (Read a Sitch, specifically) Urban Jungle And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, Nathan and Eppy respond to listener feedback, talk about a recent play experience, and then go through some of the projects we're each working on or thinking about that are not the One Without Master. It's a high-level survey of where we're at, game-design-wise, going into 2026! Check out Soapbox Game Mechanics! It's from All My Friends Are Stories (Patreon), they have some of the games for sale here, and here's the youtube channel. Eppy's episode hasn't been posted at the time of recording, but should be up eventually! Show Notes: At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic (Allentown Art Museum) Bryant Johnson Jennifer Adcock - check out The Price of Coal and Dollhouse D.R.A.M.A. Kenny Omega vs Haruka (age 9) Invisible Man vs. Invisible Stan (TWO invisible wrestlers!) Apple Human Interface Guidelines Games Mentioned: Quest RPG Mork Borg - Bare Bones Edition (the plain text version) Necronautilus Gamma World 7E Prince Valiant Storytelling RPG Five Star Match Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, we sit down with friend, artist, game designer and art director for Swords Without Master Shel Kahn to talk about... all of those things! We touch on the different roles of art in game design, working with abstract imagery, refining your taste as a chooser-of-images even if commissioning original art isn't realistic, and the ways artwork and visual design elements help out the game design endeavor. Art... it's good! Show Notes: The Swords Without Master Kickstarter - funded now, runs through February 13th 2026! Shel's website and webcomics Buy By Crom! The Beguiling Bookstore Elemei (our glyph artist for Swords) Movies: Captain Blood, Don Juan and Troy Games Mentioned: Traveller and GURPS Traveller TORQ Shel’s Pocket Dungeons Wolfspell And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, Eppy brings a discussion of "technological" creative constraints in game design. We talk about what this means in the context of tabletop, how constraints surface through the design, and how we handle them as designers. This builds on our recent episode about design surfaces, and is ultimately another part of a long-term conversation about, well, game design! We also do our final homework for 2025, bringing some holidays from different projects in our back catalogue to celebrate the season. This is our last episode of the year, and we'll be taking a few weeks off over the holidays. See you in 2026, Scholars! Show Notes: Missile Command Box Cover Yar’s Revenge (and many other similar cover + gameplay images) Sorcerer: An Intense Roleplaying Game by Ron Edwards The Shrike Vampire: the Requiem Trial & Terror: Supernatural Victims Unit (free download!) Fantasy World The City of Fire & Coin And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, Nathan and Eppy reflect on the first year of this podcast, talk about how things change in the doing, and discuss how creating a community is part of the overall endeavor. This leads into a survey of feedback tools and frameworks that can be used to reflect on your game sessions and playtests. Thanks so much for joining us! With one year of the show in the books, we're excited for the next. Show Notes: Two Hundred a Day (A Rockford Files Podcast) Clojure/Conj2025 Lovecraftesque Wreck This Deck Roses and Thorns Stars and Wishes Brief/Debrief EARS Debrief And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, Nathan and Eppy report back on their recent work on PET CRIMES, centering on making digital tools for play. This leads into a discussion of the concept of designing the "surfaces" of your game - what are the things (physical, relational, temporal) that you need to design in order to enable someone to play? This is just the start of this conversation, but it feels like a useful framework as we continue to make games in this season of the podcast! Patrons are getting access to PET CRIMES and it's associated digital tools as we develop them. Join them for just $3/month over at our Patreon! Show Notes: One More Thing online playspace (Google Sheet) Eppy's game Vast and Starlit Jason Morningstar's The Skeletons And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this all-homework episode, we each bring an initial sketch of the cards that could drive each of our card-based game concepts. Nathan's "Big Lore" game explores using card decks to reveal things about the game world and guide character progression, while Eppy's "Exploration Legacy" game uses cards to map out geography as well as encounter types for a game that becomes more unique the more its played. This is early-stage concept stuff, so listen in to hear how the vegan sausage is made! Check out our Patreon for a post that includes the images of the cards we describe in this episode (no subscription required!) Games Mentioned: Search for the Emperor's Treasure, by Tom Wham Minion Hunter from GDW Games The Best of Dragon Magazine Games And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

We're moving into the next season of our podcast! In this one, Nathan and Eppy talk about how we're turning from the scholarly side of our project to the instructional side, and how our show homework is changing to match. What this means for our listeners is that you'll be hearing more about new game designs and works in progress, and less research and hunting out arcane gems from other games. Thanks for listening, Scholars! Remember to sign up for the Swords Without Master fixup campaign, coming early 2026. And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

The Season of Swords is upon us! Nathan and Eppy talk about Eppy's sword & sorcery classic Swords Without Master, how it came to be, how it works, and what's next for the game: a full standalone release, coming early 2026! Show Notes: Swords Without Master is in Worlds Without Master, Issue 3 (for now...) We're pumped to welcome Shel Kahn as our Art Director for the project. And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we tackle our to-be-read piles of recent game acquisitions for our homework, highlighting more recent work that we've both been digging and finding some common themes across different genres and types of game. We then talk about "instructional" and "non-instructional" text in games, what that divide even means, and pursue some questions that that brings up for our own work. Show Notes: Check out the Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 The latest Possible Worlds Games Kickstarter funding 3 new games runs through Friday, 9/26 Games Mentioned: Knight Forlorn (Blackfisk Publishing) Usagi Yojimbo (2nd Edition) (Sanguine Productions - it looks like it's no longer available for purchase) The Price of Coal (Jennifer Adcock) The Crawling Chaos (Plant Smasher Games) Tacklebox/Better Strangers (Possible Worlds Games) 5-Star Match (Leafy Dragon Games) Growing Thylacine (Pidg Sorensen) Necronautilus (World Champ Game Co) Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants (from the Far Horizons Co-Op) Tide Breaker (Nick Butler) God's Gonna Cut You Down (Keith Stetson) And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode Eppy leads off with a hot take about playtesting, leading us to a discussion of the multiple purposes of playtests, playstorming, techniques for effective playtests, and an introduction of a new feature of the Unwritten Earths Symposium Discord: Playtest Tuesdays! Show Notes: Playtest Tuesdays are on the Discord - you do not need to be a Patreon member to join, and we're aiming at short bursts of targeted play for anyone who would find that helpful. The JiffyCon Community site still exists, for posterity! And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we do our game design homework of looking through game ludographies to chase down a chain of influence. It's a fun journey and we end up in very different places for our arcane gems! We also give an update on the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025, coming out soon! Show Notes: You can still late pledge for the 2025 Annual Original Story Now Essay Atmosfear VHS/DVD Games Art & System: Games For Expanded Play is the upcoming project that includes a Dog Eat Dog re-release Games Mentioned: Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin, by Ron Edwards (oh, and it is available auf Deutsch) Champions Now (Hero Games), Ron's take on Champions Gray Ranks (Bully Pulpit Games) Dog Eat Dog, by Liam Liwanag Burke Puppetland by John Tynes (1995 text/2013 edition from Arc Dream Publishing) Burning Wheel (Burning Wheel Gold is the current edition) My Life With Master (Half Meme Press) Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies (Thorny Games) Code of Unaris (Goldleaf Games) Sock Puppets: An RPG by A Smouldering Lighthouse And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we talk about handling multiple ongoing projects as full-time working creative people, and then Nathan brings a game idea for discussion: a game that creates or invokes the simultaneous closed-in-ness and open-ness of sailing. We have some fun ideas for creating slow-burn drama with constrained resources. Have we.... made a game yet? Show Notes: A&E's Hornblower series Tower of Hanoi math problem And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we go to the copyshop to dig up spiralbound games for our game discovery homework, and get deep into the weeds on both format and substance of our picks. Games Mentioned: Black Cadillacs (Steel Toe'd Edition) (here's the Wayback Machine archive of the game page) Tunnels & Trolls, and specifically 7th-7.5 Edition Adventure! Aberrant and Aeon: Trinity Little Grey Cells InSpectres Mechaton/Mobile Frame Zero carry. a game about war. kill puppies for satan Primetime Adventures Nine Worlds Show Notes: Wanderlust notebook that Eppy saw Ashcan Front Tim O’Brien/The Things They Carried/How To Tell a True War Story, Our paraphrased quote “you can’t make an anti-war film” seems to come from François Truffaut And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this laid-back episode we chat about greeting cards and inspiration from non-games for game formats, follow a train of thought about using Valentine's Day exchange as a game mechanic, and check in with each other about how ideas and inspiration from previous episodes are coming together for new game projects. Games Mentioned: Kagematsu Timeline Microscope And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode, we welcome Dread co-creator Nat Barmore to the show, try to surprise each other with Arcane Gems from deep cuts in our collections, and talk about Nat's current projects. We talk about Dread, keeping horror campaigns going in long-term play, and approaching real-world cultural conflicts in game design. Thanks for joining us, Nat! Show Notes: Find Nat at his blog and The Impossible Dream website. We also mention Neverwhere, GLOW (the Netflix series), and the original Storyteller System Botch mechanic. Games Mentioned: Michtim: Fluffy Adventures Urchin Amaranthine: Romance, Vendetta, Forever Kingdom of Nothing Lacuna Part 1: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (second attempt) Don't Rest Your Head UnderWorld HōL And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we talk about our "white whale" game design projects, both those we're currently in pursuit of and those we managed, at long last, to catch. Show Notes: We talk about these Robin Hoods: Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire (1883), Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986), Disney's Robin Hood (1973), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales (1997) Games Mentioned: Imp of the Perverse Swords Without Master Monkeydome And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we give a production update on the Annual 2025 before measuring our shelves for game discovery. Our homework happened to have a shared theme of hidden information, and we end up discussing the idea of "sleight of hand" to create moments of magic in play. Games Discussed: Lacuna Part 1: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (second attempt) Castle Falkenstein Burning Wheel Tunnels and Trolls InSpectres Egyptian Ratscrew/Slap And there's more: The Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025 (still accepting late pledges!) Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we come back from game discovery sabbatical to talk about some esoteric picks from our itch.io libraries, and then discuss how we approach and interact with trends in the larger ttrpg industry, in game design, and in how those intersect for us. Show Notes: We are now recording on Discord, in case things sound different Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008) The Lost Room (2006) (shoutout to Richard Hatem!) Warehouse 13 Games Mentioned: One-Time Journal of Findings in RPG Game Design (Epimas Edition) - Note that this may not be publically available, sorry! Victor’s GMless Oracle by CurseNightGames One Page Dungeons Traverser (unreleased) & The Clay That Woke Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Mythic by Word Mill Games Ironsworn by Tomkin Press 13th Age by Pelgrane Press Nathan's Mech Game Vesna Thaw Solo Wrestling Game - 5- Star Match And there's more: The Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025 (still accepting late pledges!) Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we talk about building rituals in and for play, follow a train of thought about building in "blessings" for each other into gameplay, discuss the joy of dice, and come back from sabbatical to assign game discovery homework. Reminder: The Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025 Kickstarter is live through the end of April! Show Notes: Primetime Adventures Star Trek: Lower Decks Time and Temp Masks of the Mummy Kings Our itch.io storefront And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

Welcome to the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025! In this episode, we discuss the scenarios in our inaugural Unwritten Earths Symposium publication, design considerations for making these "system-adventurous" scenarios, and the origins of the project. Check out the show notes for a link to the Kickstarter, and thanks for all your support so far! Back the Annual on Kickstarter (live through the end of April, 2025) Check out the preview scenario One Night Only at the Veteran's Lodge. And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

Oops, all Game Discovery! In this episode we do a brief overview of the history of TTRPGS (truly-true roleplaying games), each picking a game to highlight from our birth years in each decade from the 1970s to the 2020s. We delve into some 2010s highlights for Arcane Gems, but this is a good framework for us to talk about our personal game histories as well as chart high-level changes in game design since the beginning. Show Notes: Vincent's Bluesky thread about Dogs in the Vineyard Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition Diana Jones Award Trophy and actual Award website Games Mentioned: 1974 - Dungeons & Dragons 1983 - Palladium Fantasy RPG 1984 - Chill, Marvel Super Heroes, Paranoia, Middle-earth Role Playing 1993 - Amazing Engine: Once and Future King, Chill: The Beast Within 1994 - Wraith: the Oblivion 2003 - Cartoon Action Hour 2004 - Chronicles of Darkness/Vampire: the Requiem, Dogs in the Vineyard 2013 - Myriad Song (Eppy’s Arcane Gems) 2014 - 5th Edition D&D, The Clay That Woke, Mars Colony: 39 Dark (Nathan’s Arcane Gem) 2024 - That Rug, D&D One, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

No, it's not a 4-hour episode! After talking about our game discovery homework guided by games we'd be excited to play at a convention (or elsewhere), we dive into how our experiences going to conventions and playing games in specific time slots has shaped our game design. Out inaugural project, the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025 set of time-spanning game scenarios, is coming to Kickstarter soon. Click here to get notified on launch! Show Notes: Double Exposure Conventions Audio Hijack Brain Trust Podcast Games Discussed: Black Mass by Will Jobst (2019) Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game (2003) Polaris by TAO Games (2005) GURPS by Steve Jackson Games The Clay That Woke by Paul Czege (2014) And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this Plus Expenses we talk about:Articulating the Unwritten Earths Symposium and how it gives us productive constraints, repetition is the brevity of the soul, Voyagers!, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, King Con by Stephen J. Cannell, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Samurai Champloo, coming full circle on physical media, preserving obscure media, pulp fiction literally pulping, the Rockford Files is a good show, we’re trying out Ellipsus, setting up stuff outside of free tools and avoiding AI, game publishing is a lot of skills, a thought on another WWWRPG Promotion, some thoughts on a Swords/WWW mashup, shout out to Zine Month, and stay strong out there!. Plus Expenses is a second biweekly show that is normally for our patrons. And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we discuss the arcane gems found within games we would play with our moms, give some updates on what's happening in the discord, and field a great question about productive constraints in design and play. Show Notes: Iron Game Chef: Historical - Summary Iron Game Chef: Historical - Forum Games We Talked About: Zombie Cinema Grey Cells Swords Without Master (in Issue 3 of Worlds Without Master) Dread Apocalypse World Annalise Otherkind Dice Psi Run And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we talk about a Groundhog Day-inspired convention concept, some thoughts on setting design, where we're at with tricking each other into designing a game, and we field some listener questions about where to stay on top of TTRPG happenings and constraints on the design process (more of which we'll be talking about next time). Listeners, where do you find games? Get in touch and let us know! Show Notes: Groundhog Day (1993 Movie) Rascal and the Rascal Announcements page 🧠🤝 Games We Talked About: The Dread Geas of Duke Volku (in Issue 10 of Worlds WIthout Master) Apocalypse World Annalise Chill and its Apparitions supplement And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we do our color-guided homework, explore the realm of rpg fiction written by people who haven't played rpgs (?), and talk about Epidiah "The Night Writer" Ravachol's handwriting strategy. Show Notes: Hobgoblin by John Coyne Witch and Wombat by Carolyn Cushman The CATS method is by Patrick O'Leary, and can be found in the TTRPG Safety Toolkit  Games We Talked About: Necronautilus by Adam Vass/World Champ Game Co (2020) Gamma World (Seventh Edition, 2010) Code of Unaris by Gary Pratt/Goldleaf Games (and here's John Kim's review of it) And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this episode we lay out the template for Coffee & Game Design, assign some homework, delve into the archives for some Arcane Gems, share a war story and field a listener question about promoting our games. Show Notes: Color Contrast Bot on Mastodon Spencer Campbell's Unsung Hero thread on Bluesky Game We Talked About: The Shadow of Yesterday (html page with full text of the game) The Shadow of Yesterday (full text on github) Solar System Hunter: the Reckoning Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game Tunnels & Trolls Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game (Sanguine Games, 1st edition) Incarnadine Press (With Great Power, Serial Homicide Unit TCK Roleplaying (Mars Colony, Hero's Banner And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this Cursed Episode, despite being interrupted by a power outage we talk about some juicy Arcane Gems within our game discovery homework, and talk about our current works in progress. Show Notes: From the Guardian: "‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics" The Ashcan Front Games We Talked About: Acts of Evil by Paul Czege Atlantis: the Second Age (this looks like an updated edition from the one Eppy has - that one is here), by Kephera Publishing The Arcanum / The Atlantean Trilogy, by Bard Games Talislanta, a rich and varied history Omni System was the system developed for the Morrigan Press version of Talislanta And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

Show Notes: Horse Armor (from Elder Scrolls, not World of Warcraft) The box that turns itself off is also called a useless machine Eppy tried to calculate the number of deck shuffle possibilies in The Shrike but it was too many Games We Talked About: The game where you play a sword is Wield by John Wick and Gillian Fraser the d1 RPG The Shrike And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

In this Plus Expenses we talk about: It’s the official “crossover” Plus Expenses, James Garner handing off a baton to a wizard, feelings about ending Two Hundred a Day (but Two Hundred a Day will remain!), actually ending a thing, starting a new podcast: Unwritten Earths Symposium, how Plus Expenses will fit into the new show, the early days of Dread, building our new Discord so it’s a place where people play each others games, the experience of playing THAT game, learning new podcast skills, learning from The Rockford Files, goals for Unwritten Earths, future Two Hundred a Day eps, THANK YOU Two Hundred a Day listeners, hello new Unwritten Earths listeners, the Unwritten Earths Patreon, and pitching the Adventure & Hobbyist Annual. If this sounds good to you, come into the Symposium and let’s teach and learn from each other! And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

Welcome to the Unwritten Earths Symposium Podcast! On Episode 0, game designers Nathan D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol introduce themselves, talk about the Symposium, and then uncover some arcane games from their game discovery homework. Have we designed a game yet? In this episode, we mentioned: Land of Nodd Stories From the Grave the d1 RPG The Shrike And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst