To @sidneyicarus.bsky.social and @mrmatthew.bsky.social
: thanks for the pod :)

Keep your Cool, from *Monsterhearts 2e* by Avery Alder
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This episodes gets at consent, player agency vs. character agency, and how Monsterhearts makes you feel like a teenager.

Tell a Story, from *Escape from Dino Island* by Sam Tung & Sam Roberts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This episodes is all about how moves can shape pacing, and how even innocuous moves can have “balance” implications.

Some of my favourite episodes:

Accuse someone of Lying, from *Pasión de las Pasiones* by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
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This move is an exemplar of how Pasión sets you up to have effective drama.

Per the footnotes in *How Bad are Bananas* (which I find very helpful for doing these kinds of comparisons as a non-climate-expert) it's something like a volcano eruption or the World Cup.

howbadarebananas.com/notes-and-re...

I think it was the bathtub scene in “The Shining”, which is surprising because I read a bunch of Animorphs and Diana Gabaldon before that and was none the worse for wear… 🤷

it’s a guy from Chicago named Robert Prevost I’ve never heard of in my life