"Cleven, up until he died, talked about Egan. And there's that anecdote, he was his best man at his wedding, right? And he said something like "should've been me and you getting married"."
Callum Turner how DARE you make me feel these emotions on a Wednesday evening
You’ve probably seen several posts on here about how I’m going to be on Storyteller Conclave talking about Eureka. If you haven’t, you’re going to, because there’s still some in the queue and I’m not going to remove them.
But, that happened, and it was a great time! You can listen to the episode here, here, here, or here!
I wasn’t on my A-game the whole time unfortunately, I had some mic trouble for about the first 20 minutes, along with some other distractions on my end that kept me from focusing early on, but luckily I had team member @ashweather to support me and help me out.
If you can bear with the rocky start, there’s a lot of good insight into the design of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy in this podcast, and a lot of it goes into stuff that we haven’t really covered on this blog, especially the themes.
We talk about the realistic and simulationist nature of Eureka and how this serves its gameplay and themes, we talk about how it takes inspiration from John Woo films such as Hard Boiled, its pretty unique approach to the concept of HP, how it approaches and flips the concept of "winning", and its deeply character-driven nature.
Of course we also talk about Eureka's unique and awesome rules for investigative gameplay, and how it improves upon games that did investigative gameplay before it. How it trusts the players' intellect, but also won't leave them totally twisting in the wind after a bad roll or two!
My favorite thing we talked about, near the end of the show, was Eureka’s approach to monsters, disability, and its sympathy towards “bad people.” I’m actually going to be writing a whole essay on this topic hopefully before the Kickstarter ends on May 10th, but you can get a really good gist of it just from listening to this episode of the podcast.
Oh and on that subject, the hosts, two veteran Vampire: The Masquerade players, said in the show that in many ways, Eureka does vampires better than VTM. Like, wow, that’s high praise..
Here’s a reminder also that Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is kickstarting from right now until May 10th, 2024. Back it and get yourself a copy plus custom artwork or the chance to get your blood sucked by vampires as an entry on the random victim tables for playable monster PCs! With every stretch goal we meet, the game gets better and better. Tons of beautiful new artwork, new options for gameplay, and even two entirely new playable Monsters could be added to the book, so visit the Kickstarter and secure your copy today!
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If you want to try before you buy, you can download a free demo of the prerelease version from our website or our itch.io page!
If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!
You can also support us on Ko-fi, or by checking out our merchandise!
Join our TTRPG Book Club At the time of writng this, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise!
We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.
Another day, another Nate Mann post (plus Anthony Boyle, of course). I was watching some interviews, and immediately when I saw this moment in the IMDb interview, I had to post about it. It's the second time he's talked about his sisters and how they're the only ones who are allowed to call him "Natie/Natey."🥺 If you wanna see the other moment, I've linked it here (shameless plug).
Anthony saying "Natie Baby."😭 I need him to always call Nate that from now on. I could quite literally listen to Nate's laugh all day, and I'm going to say this again: I feel like Nate is probably the best brother. I just don't understand how two grown men be this cute and endearing. My descent into complete delulu has rapidly increased since discovering Nate Mann and Anthony Boyle, but you know what they say, "Delulu is the solulu." 🥰
When your bestie fails at self sacrifice to keep your nemesis from winning and you end up stuck for years in a place called the dark world but you have to pretend you haven’t gone feral,
this post was made by Aqua(Kingdom Hearts) and John Doe(Malevolent)!!!
The problem is that I want to do a Midst relisten to try to piece together all of the small clues that are for sure sitting there like a black goop bread crumb trail except that what I'd actually want is to do it in two days straight locked in a white cell with my headphones, printouts of the appendices and a bucket of chalk so I could scribble it all feverishly upon the walls.
“He was the most optimistic person I have ever known. He just thought things were gonna work out. And he didn’t have a particularly easy life… he just had this incredible optimism. In fact, as an older man I took him I took him to visit some of his World War II friends, Charlie Cruikshank, “Crankshaft” … and there was another guy, Danny, one of his World War II friends … and I asked that guy was he always this positive? Was he always this optimistic? Even way back during the war? And Danny said ‘Yeah, it used to drive us crazy’.”
— Rebecca Hutchinson, youngest daughter of Harry Crosby, during an interview with the Indie Magazine Podcast
Had a long ass stream last night and it was delightful! one of my highlights was drawing @trans-arthur-lester‘s Cat John AU >:3
more silliness under the cut with a self indulgent crossover