cthulhu wars

Ambie and Crystal discuss Tortured Cardboard, Roll Estate, and Silver & Gold. We then talk about light themes and dark themes, and Crystal goes over the origins of the word 'point.' Announcements: 0:58 Recent Games: 2:08 Theme: 12:18 Board Game Etymology - 'Point': 33:25 Outro: 34:48 Bloopers: 35:44 Tortured Cardboard: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tortured-Cardboard/Philip-E-Orbanes/9781682618530 Roll Estate: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/290982/roll-estate Silver & Gold: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270673/silver-gold

In this special convention episode of The State of Games, Dice, Darrell, TC, and Jessica get together for a rare "live" recording at one of their favorite shows of the year, PrezCon, in Charlottesville, Virginia! The quartet talk all about inappropriate appropriation of board game design, more First Class, Flamme Rouge, Insider and Insider "After Dark", Cthulhu Wars, Sultan Kebab, coffee cream stout, the optimal hotel room temperature, how to bid properly for grail auction items, submarines, Great Western Trail, Ulm, Darrell losing his mind in Burke's Gambit, angels, interrupters, and so much more!

Episode 14

RPG character creation starts at 25:10.

In this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite horror writers as we approach Halloween.  In addition to talking Lovecraft the man, we also discuss the mythos in general and a bunch of games and influences his work has inspired.  At the end, we finally start our Call of Cthulhu RPG by rolling some characters and filling in the backstories for our brave investigators.  Listen to the process of character creation and the hilarity when appearance rolls go bad.  Thanks for listening, and join us next time for the exciting start to our campaign!

00:50 - Intro to Lovecraft
16:48 - Mythos Board Games (Arkham Horror, Cthulhu Wars, Delta Green)
25:10 - Call of Cthulhu Character Creation
49:20 - Character Intros
56:26 - Final Thoughts

*Note: Some audio issues this episode
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/delta-green-the-role-playing-game

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