Transcripts can be found at diceexploder.com
It's the Dice Exploder 2024 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Aaron Voigt, Rowan Zeoli, and MintRabbit plus a cavalcade of friends of the show to go over games and adjacent things we loved from 2024. Come reminisce about the year with us!
Aaron’s picks
- Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion
- Fealty by Michael Elliot and Galen Pejeau
- Helvetia by Bully Pulpit Games/Jason Morningstar
- Rascal News/Scrying on Iran's Tabletop Scene
- The Most Important Essay in RPG History
Rowan’s picks
- The Time We Have by Elliot Davis
- Seven Part Pact by Jay Dragon
- Oceanie 2084
- Voices in The Wood, a Void 1680 Actual Play. Rowan’s article on Voices in the Woods.
- Former World of Game Design Employees Claim Tabletop Company Exploits Workers and Clients
Mint’s picks
- The Gas Station, by DNGNCLUB
- shadow/giant by PsychHound Games
- Flyover Country, by Headstone Hills
- In Defense of Fiction, by MeatCastle Games
- Mint Plays Games: Rotted Capes (And the Lesson I Keep Learning This Year)
Sam’s picks
- Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm
- Florilegium by Nick Wedig
- A Visit to the Lonely Oak by Victor Lane
- The Disc 2 jam, organized by Ken Lowrey, and specifically the Wanderhome designer commentary
- Kiss Me If You Can by Sam Dunnewold, and actual play from Third Floor Wars
- Other Picks
Kurt Refling’s pick: Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games
Michael Elliott’s pick: Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm
Alex Roberts on The Highlander II: The Quickening Unofficial Roleplaying Game by Adam Decamp
Jason Morningstar on The Big Store by Nathan D. Paoletta
Randy Lubin’s pick: the Dice Exploder Discord
Hendrik ten Napel on Eat the Reich by Rowan Rook and Deckard
Sharang Biswas’s pick: Combat in Dungeons & Dragons by Evan Torner
Audrey Stolze’s pick: Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam Dunnewold
Sydney Icarus’s pick: Working the Case by Randy Lubin
Seraphina’s pick: Triangle Agency
Socials
Sam Dunnewold on Bluesky and itch.
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