#copperhead county

This week, we're on location at the grand opening of Chance Encounter Games! We hear about the economy of game publishing, the joy of playing your character like you're driving a stolen car, and the impeccable vibes of a cast-iron portcullis. This is the TTRPG store and gaming space that Dante told us about during our interview earlier this season. Thanks again to Dante for letting us record at your grand opening! Also, thanks to everyone who took the time to chat with us:

Allen

Tom

Adam

Parker, who runs the Seattle RPG Variety Society and mentioned a few game systems:

Copperhead County, which uses the engine from Blades in the Dark

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Delta Green

Davi, who gave us a hot take and mentioned a couple game systems in the process:

Dragon Age from Green Ronin Games (whom we'll be talking more about later this season)

The Cosmere TTRPG

Max, who talked about the business model of game stores and mentioned a system and a sourcebook:

Unknown Armies

Monster Overhaul

Brian

In this episode we mention Distant Worlds Coffeehouse - which is a block away from Chance Encounter Games, and a very chill space with excellent food. We also mention OrcaCon, which is an extremely fun gaming convention in Seattle every January. Here's the first part and here's the second part of our experience at OrcaCon.

In the outro, Jake refers to polytopes as "polyhedra". We sincerely apologize for this error. Here are some cool renderings of four-dimensional polytopes you can look at while deciding whether to forgive us.

Thanks to Goblin Society Games for supporting this week’s episode! Go check out their website and take a look at Mukrag’s Compendium of Curios, the HELBINE setting, and all the other cool games and supplements they make. Through July 23, if you purchase Goblin Society Games products on DriveThruRPG, they'll donate 10% of the proceeds to Partners in Health.

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✨ A game I wish more people were talking about.

While I've been working on Unnamed Furry Crime Game, I've been surveying the Forged in the Dark landscape for research, and finally got around to reading Copperhead County, and oh this game is so good. It's not a massive divergence from core FitD mechanics, but the stuff it touches on and remixes are so good. It's been wildly influential in how I've been reworking a lot of FitD tech.

One particular highlight is how Entanglements have been transformed into Troubles. Troubles are an umbrella for problems of all scale (personal, citywide, faction, etc), but are turned into clocks that key off of different "attributes" (like how much cash you have, trauma, wanted levels, etc). I cannot understate how good it is.

If anyone reading this is interested in FitD design, highly recommend Copperhead County!

📖 My favorite class or playbook from a game.

The Wise from Whitehack has been hugely influential in how I approach OSR/OSR-related design. Whitehack is, probably my favorite of the more "traditional" OSR games (and I hesitate to call it traditional really, there's a lot of cool stuff in there), and the Wise is my favorite of its core classes. The Wise is the "magic-user" archetype in many senses, but it is super flexible.

The gist is you come up with a "miracle" you can perform (exorcism, bombs, fire magic, really anything that's normally impossible) and when you want to do something related to that miracle, you pay a cost of HP to "cast" it. The cost can be negotiated based on constraints and situations bonuses and whatnot.

I am keeping an eye on this particular Forged in the Dark game (Powered by the same engine as Blades in the Dark but for other styles of heist than “Dark Fantasy”) and you should too: 

https://zzzwizard.itch.io/copperhead

Corvin Silvester – The Sun And The Cloud Format: CD – Digital / Label: Continental Record Services Release: 2020 Tekst: Bert van Kessel Corvin Silvester (voluit: Corvin Silvester Keurhorst-van Wees) is de zeer getalenteerde  zanger / gitarist van de Nederlandse Southern rockers Copperhead County. Hij timmert ook als solo-artiest aan de weg en afgaande op deze EP met zes klasse-nummers (beter kort…

Corvin SIlvester - The Sun & The Cloud

Corvin Silvester – The Sun & The Cloud (EP) Format: CD – Digital Label: Continenetal Record Services Release: 2020 Corvin Silvester (voluit: Corvin Silvester Keurhorst-van Wees) is zanger en gitarist (en bespeelt af en toe een mandoline), singer/songwriter. Hij speelde op diverse festivals, nationale televisie en radio en werkte samen met o.a. producer Guido Aalbers (Bertolf, Miss Montreal),…

Copperhead County - Brothers // @CopperheadCoun1 @contrecservices

Copperhead County – Brothers Format: CD Label: Continental Record Services Release: 2020 Nieuw album uit 13 september

Copperhead County managed to spread their reputation as a serious southern rock band in a very short time. Inspired by Blackberry Smoke, The Outlaws and many other classics, Copperhead County knows how to capture that warm southern feeling. They know how Southern Rock is meant to be.