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@ChaosiumInc Horror on the Orient Express interview with Adam Kwapiński Find the Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/horror-on-the-orient-express-the-board-game Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game lures you into the luxurious Orient Express in the 1920s, taking you on a dangerous train ride into the realm of the Dreamlands. Everything is against you, from monsters attacking the train to murderous cults hiding among the passengers. Worst of all, an eldritch, blood-thirsty vampire hunting down everything that moves. Can you solve the dark secrets of the Orient Express before time runs out? In this cooperative game, you and the other investigators try to survive on the doomed train. To win, you must hunt out the cultists to stop them from performing a hideous ritual and ensure the train reaches its destination. Each of you controls a character who can develop new skills, gather items, talk to the passengers, discover clues, and, ultimately, decide the train'

In this episode we talk about those games that we really don't like but people totally love... What's wrong with us? ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links: This video has been produced for https://www.gmsmagazine.com For our RPGs channel ► https://www.youtube.com/@gmsmagazine For So Play We All, our Boardgames ch

In one of the rare occasions when Paco is not available, Chris interviewed the wonderful Faith Elisabeth Lilley and it was a *fantastic* chat. Find Faith's D&D Beyond campaign GitHub here: ⁠https://github.com/FaithLilley/DnDBeyond-Live-Campaign⁠ ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine⁠ ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links: This video has been prod

In one of the rare occasions when Paco is not available, Chris interviewed the wonderful Faith Elisabeth Lilley and it was a *fantastic* chat. Find Faith's D&D Beyond campaign GitHub here: https://github.com/FaithLilley/DnDBeyond-Live-Campaign ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links: This video has been produce

Dot Zombies is a tile placement game where players are divided into 3 Survivors and 1 Zombie. The Survivors aim to escape from the Zombie by playing all 10 cards in their hand to achieve victory. The survival of other Survivors is not relevant; your goal is to stay alive. Find out more on the Boardgamegeek website: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/393359/dot-zombies The conditions for playing cards are as follows: Place cards in a way that connects to the paths on Survivor cards. The Zombie wins by blocking all escape routes for the Survivors, preventing their escape. If even one Survivor is unable to escape, it results in defeat. The Zombie should play cards according to the following conditions: Place cards in a way that connects to the paths on Survivor cards. When a Zombie card connects to a Survivor card, that Survivor becomes infected and turns into a Zombie card. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, pleas

As you may know, Evil Genius Games went into meltdown a few days ago after a number of workers left the company with complains of unethical behaviour that made their position untennable. Soon after Evil Genius Games released a press release with the stance on AI work. Was that what brought up all this debacle? We also talk about ENWorld article about the topic and what bits are the good ones to keep in mind. And lastly, we answer a question that @jonathanfranklin461, one of our viewers/listeners left in the comments: "how to do handle exploration in games without the players feeling like they are making a random choice or that the adventure is on rails?" ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs

Evil Genius Games (EGG) is falling like a led balloon after a number of people have left the company citing ethical concerns". In this episode we talk about that and I give you a review of the Walking Dead Universe RPG Starter Set. Among others, EGG has licenses for Pacific Rim, The Crow, Highlander and, until recently, Rebel Moon. They lost that license after NETFLIX pulled out because of alleged confidentiality breaches and both companies have settled recently. What's going on in there and what is the future of the company? ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ►https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He's an avid reader and has a very keen interes

In this episode, Chris and I bring you two reviews. We also talk about the dangers of licensing your game for publishing without a contract and how not to try and steal a concept. Nebula: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374982/nebula Maglev Metro: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301257/maglev-metro ******************************************************** This channel is dedicated to all those games you might never hear about otherwise. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ***************************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all th

Jamey Stegmeier has produced and designed some amazing games and is releasing Wyrmspan in a matter of weeks. This game has already received criticism for being a cole of Wingspan, so we had to ask Jamey if the rumours are true and what are the differences between the two. This channel is dedicated to all those games you might never hear about otherwise. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ***************************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ****************************

In this episode, after the Xmas break, Chris and I talk about what we got for Christmas (I think you'll be disappointed in me!) some AI related controversies and a viral FB post that predicts that the end of the golden era of RPG is looming. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links: This video has been produced f

This year I was lucky to get together with @ChaosiumInc and Rivers of London author Ben Aaronovitch : https://www.chaosium.com/rivers-of-london-the-roleplaying-game-hardcover/ Crow & Crown: www.crowandcrown.store Leyline Press: www.leyline.press @Cubicle7Entertainment https://cubicle7games.com/https://cubicle7games.com/ Game Therapy UK: www.game-therapy.co.uk Hope you enjoy! ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the techno

And we come to the end of the 2023 season And in this episode, I review Gay Sauna... and it is not what I was expecting and hoping! ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links: This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com For our RPGs channel ► https://www.youtube.com/@gmsmagazine For So Play We All, our Boa

In this episode we bring you two reviews: Cryo A mission gone wrong. Tensions continued to mount aboard your colony ship as the days dragged on. An anonymous act of sabotage has sent the ship plummeting to the surface of a frozen uncharted planet. Damaged beyond repair, the scattered remains will do little to protect you from the brutal cold. In the engine-building, worker placement game Cryo, leaders of separate, hostile factions compete to survive and claim control over the underground caverns on a remote icy planet. You need to act quickly and strategically to avoid further sabotage from other factions. Send drones out from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and save your crew still in cryostasis. Gather different materials to upgrade and customize your platform, fine-tuning new actions to suit your individual strategy. Utilize multi-use cards to your advantage, and claim the underground caverns for your faction to survive. Find out more on the Boardgamegeek website: https://boardgamegeek.c

Board Game Guide is a website that focuses on games and how accessible they are with people with neurodiversity. We spoke with the (rather brilliant) mind behind the project, Reese Zahner.Find out more on: https://boardgameguides.com/ https://www.instagram.com/boardgameguides ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. ***************************************************** Useful links:

In this episode we cover The Marvel RPG controversy, Devil Pig Games going bust and Expedition to 5X first play review. This episode comes loaded: Recently there was a reddit thread that shows someone claiming they did the work on the Marvel RPG instead of Matt Forbeck... is there any credibility to that claim? Here is the link to the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/17ewpfe/some_interesting_news_about_the_new_marvel/ On FB, there was a statement from Devil Pig Games, who are going through some dire times and looks like could be going away completely. With some dodgy things like their website taking orders but not fulfilling them, I am guessing there is more here than meets the eye: And lastly, we do a first play review of Expedición to 5X a game from Fractal Juegos that surprised us very pleasantly. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine *************

Death Sentence is a TTRPG that emulates the slasher films of the 80s. Perfect for Halloween! We spoke with Brazil based and born Leo Andrade, who has taken the work of Guilherme Sassaki, empowered Luana Bibiano to illustrate it and made something that sounds very, very cool. Find out more on the Itch.io website: https://leonalfr.itch.io/death-sentence We also talk about D*ck Sits!, or as we know it now, Dixits, a game by the same people who released Gay Sauna the Board Game. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a cha

How was Spiel 2023, the queerest game we've ever seen and our last take on AI. Spiel was an absolute blast this year (like every year, really). Martin and I did more than 30 interviews and have come back some a very decent haul of games that we will be unboxing and reviewing over the next few months. And in this episode Paco explains why he is not talking too much about AI and is not using it to avoid ethical issues. ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine ********************************************** About us: Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them. Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is i

Lovecraftesque is a storytelling card game of creeping cosmic horror, emulating the tone and pace of eldritch horror stories. The game will guide you to create the story of a lone individual who stumbles upon clues to a terrible evil. It creates slow-building, brooding horror that the main character at first dismisses, until all too suddenly it becomes impossible to deny. The ending will certainly be bleak, and the main character is likely to meet their doom. Lovecraftesque is an emergent mystery game, which crafts a story out of clues that you take turns to create. The game includes hundreds of creative prompts to help you generate your story and guide the main character towards a confrontation with cosmic evil. You take turns to drip weird events into the story, building up your mystery one clue at a time. Each player creates a secret theory about the horror and the truth about the horror emerges from those theories. By the end you'll reach a chilling climax that none of you could have predicted at the

Vynestra is a high fantasy, ancient-themed setting for 5th Edition, drawing heavy inspiration from Rome and other classical cultures. Vynestra has 1,000 pages of fresh new lore, spells, magical items, kinships, backgrounds, feats, adventures, encounters, and a massive city setting with over 600 locations; spread over five beautifully illustrated books with human-created art. Vynestra features a fully customisable ability system with powers drawn from the gods. These manifest as magical tattoos, called embers, which allow PCs and NPCs to ascend as demigods. Vynestra has a diverse cast of characters and creatures across all its settings. Vynestra is ready to go! We're 99% done with everything, apart from some final edits, and are able to send out PDFs soon (roughly 1-2 months after the campaign ends following a backer review period). Digital rewards will be sent through DriveThruRPG and Itch.io. Find out more on the Kickstarter website: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vynestra/vynestra-a-5th-editio

A very cool sounding solo legacy RPG with a unique concept! Find out on the publisher’s website: https://www.parablegames.co.uk/ And the Kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/327195066/dont-play-this-game-a-cursed-solo-rpg   ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting.   If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine   **********************************************   About us:   Paco and Martin are a couple who love playing games and recording videos about them. Paco has been playing RPGs since he discovered Dragonlance in 1984 and found his love for Boardgames in 2007. He’s an avid reader and has a very keen interest in gaming and the people who make them.   Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio.   *****************************************************   Useful links:   This video has been produced