PJ Coffey

Next week, we've got, like, the final episode of 2024.

Next week, we've got, like, the final episode of 2024.

It's a long, long way to get there.

It's a long, long way to get there.

Sounds like the name.

Sounds like the name.

What could possibly go wrong?

What could possibly go wrong?

Russ, as ever, I am delighted to be here. Joining us, as ever, we have the wonderful and erudite, and indeed, extremely talented, it's the one, it's the only, it's...

more we have some people know him as Slifer others know him as Mike Shea I just know him as this cool guy who lives in a little box on my phone apparently now in my computer it's the one it's Mike Shea fantastic nose hey hello it's always a great back again back again I don't know how we keep getting you on because I love to talk and every invitation I get

Absolutely. If you're listening to this, years in the future, this podcast was made in the week of the 5th, 6th of November, 2024. So maybe Google that if you're wondering why we're talking about this. Anyway, moving on.

Still spry. I have a wild idea. What? Why don't we talk about some TTRPG news? Go on then.

Why don't you start?

It's a great anecdote, and I very much appreciate it. I like it, Jessica. Thank you. It was a good anecdote. There you go. You can add more things like that. Anyway, so, yeah, so exciting news. One of the more interesting sci-fi settings that isn't a massive IP license, Eroda Consortium is enjoying its 10th anniversary.

There is a large number of reasons why you might be excited about this setting, from its taken colonialism, its disability rep, But Edge Hour and Shades of Vengeance are doing a 10th anniversary Kickstarter. It's 16 days ago, and they've done 2,400 of, it's about $3,800 goals. So, you know, looks like they'll be getting through. I'm definitely looking forward to backing it.

You'll get the rulebook and up to three...

three free expansions when it's funded and potentially more from stretch goals so so yes we have mentioned this game on the show before but for those that don't recall could you quickly sort of summarize what is era the consortium era consortium is a science fiction role-playing game it uses d10 dice pool so if you're familiar with white wolf games and so forth then

you are very much in the right sort of uh area uh it has a wide variety of cross compatibility with other genres which yeah i i know rush from all the d6 dice ball rather than d10 dice ball but yeah i'm kind of going off d6s actually yeah yeah no d10 not a platyponic solid but still pretty cool i think um

uh yeah and what can we say about the setting humans go to a strange far-off system and there is much bickering and part of the excitement for it is you can play as either the consortium which is essentially hyper mega corporations or there's a resistance to it sometimes you can even mix the parties and the integration of the

different viewpoints of the world is part of the charm of the setting, in my opinion. And there's a variety of Baelin races, tree people and people and little squids that live inside human mecha suits and wander around so they can take part in a... And this isn't just a game, is it? It's also comics and all sorts of things. Oh, goodness. Yeah, there's comics.