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I'm Phil Reed from Steve Jackson Games, and you're listening to Morris's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk. This week, Morris, PJ, and Jessica talk about all the week's tabletop RPG news, including the 2024 Player's Handbook now live on D&D Beyond for select users, Greg Taito leaves Wizards of the Coast, D&D gets an official stout and bourbon, and more this week on Morris's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk. This podcast is sponsored by Borfindel's Dwarf Spirits. Guaranteed to blow your head off. I mean, really. I've seen it. One sip and boom. I'm not entirely sure I see the point, but they seem quite popular. Anyway, order Borfindel's Dwarf Spirits now at the introductory price of 14 groats per gallon and get a pint of Goblin Spittle for free.
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Morris' unofficial tabletop RPG talk. I am Russ, aka Morris, or Morris, aka Russ, and with me this week is... PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild of Roleplayers. Delighted to be here on this sadly wet, cold, and chilly September afternoon. And joining us also today, the weather not dampening hers for it, she's quite happy to sing, dance and possibly give a little twirl around the floor. It's the only.
It's me, Jessica from EM Publishing. And I was doing a little dance before we started recording just to hype myself up. And it's a shame you, the listeners, will not see that.
Well, you know, we had to. I was touched. It was a thing of beauty. Right. Anyway, shall we get cracking? Yes. Hey, I played Vason on Wednesday. Oh, how did you find it? A game that I have wanted to play for ages. And it's my first time. Is it my first time playing Mutant Year Zero Engine, isn't it? Yeah, that's what it's called.
Yeah.
So I quite liked it. It was the Swedish folk horror set in like the late 1800s. Yeah. And basically all the myths and legends are real.
Yeah.
So werewolves are real and various Swedish monsters and folklore and stuff. It's all real. So we've only had one session so far, but so far it's been really good fun.
Yeah. I do like that system. I interviewed a creator on Not D&D, so if people want a deeper dive, there's the Not D&D episode talking about it. But what I really liked about it was the... encounters with the beings the solution isn't always to kill them like sometimes there's like well i don't do spoilers in case you're playing again russ but like there's there's other ways that you can find resolutions with these beings that are not just and kill them we haven't met a a critter or a nasty nasty beastie yet well it's just that sometimes you know human beings are doing things that are annoying to them and if you just say hey maybe if you move you know your lumber chopping business over here, that would solve all the issues. So sometimes it's things like that. So there's a nice investigative element with it.
I'm wondering if you're now talking about the exactly same adventure, because this one involves a number-chopping business as well.
I just made that up, so I genuinely am not.
It would annoy creatures in the forest.
Yeah, it seemed like an obvious fay forest creatures. They'd be like, hey, stop chopping down my house, please.
There's a British Isles version as well, isn't there? Yeah, I've got that one. Free League as well, same system, but there's one set in the British Isles with all the...
all the sort of fake folklore stuff from there the British ones are more creepy I'd say because the British ones are a lot like and then the thing comes and kills you whereas the Swedish ones are a bit more like oh they're a bit cheeky like haha not all of them but the British ones are really grim a lot of them are about children behave otherwise monsters will come and kill you that's the vibe of a lot of British folklore
Yeah, that's fair.
So I don't know what that says about British children and how badly behaved they are, that we need to threaten them with death. But, you know, that's one method of parenting, I guess.
I think it says more about British people not liking children that much.
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