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Heart Director's Commentary Episode 1 - (Under) Groundwork Nov 09, 2020

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Welcome to episode one (of many) of our Heart Director's Commentary podcast! Chris and Grant are doing a close read of a book that they just wrote, talking about the design decisions and limitations that lead them to end up with Heart: The City Beneath. In this week's episode, we talk about putting together the bare bones of the mechanics and the setting. We really must recommend that you listen to this podcast alongside reading the book, otherwise it will be at best boring at at worst nonsensical. - Grant and Chris

STONEGRAVE Part 3: Unbound Actual Play Oct 12, 2020

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STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play. In this final episode we round out the characters and world by choosing fates, twists and scars to make Stonegrave complete.

STONEGRAVE Part 2: Unbound Actual Play Oct 12, 2020

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STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play. In this episode, we start creating characters and pick out their Core, Roles, Traits and Foundations.

STONEGRAVE Part 1: Unbound Actual Play Oct 12, 2020

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STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play. In this episode, we use Touchstones to come up with the core concept of the city of Stonegrave.

Episode 9 - Rowan, Rook & Decard Dec 17, 2018

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Producer and genius Mary Hamilton, the third third of Rowan, Rook and Decard, joins us for an interview about what went into actually making a physical roleplaying rulebook exist in the world. Turns out it's quite complicated.

Episode 8 - Rumoured Goats Of Spire Nov 20, 2018

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We enter the appendices, and ask: what's the deal with all the goats? We also interview Adrian Stone, our artist, on his visions for Spire and how he helped to define the setting.

Episode 7 - Our Glorious Lady Nov 10, 2018

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In this episode, we delve into the (understandably long) Religion section, dealing with: - The creepy and insidious Ministry, who you work for - Proscribed faiths and the worship of Hallows - The wind-whipped, bone-strewn towers of New Heaven - Pilgrim's Row, a multistorey high street for religions - The Solar Basilica, and the attached anti-Ministry paladins

Episode 6 - Train Hell Nov 02, 2018

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In this episode, we look into: - The glittering halls of High Society - The wet, sweltering mess of Low Society - The many different areas of the Occult domain, including the grand cursed train network known as the Vermissian

Episode 5 - Guns, Drugs and Money Sep 07, 2018

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This episode, we examine: - Combat (all four pages of it) - The Academic districts, featuring details on demonology, the Infinite Library and the uplinked crystal-brain-surgery-practicing Brazacott Institute - The North Docks, obviously our favourite district, with the gangster knights and their pub/knightly order-focused organisation structure - The Blue Docks, an ever-shifting maze of stalls and cloth-covered tunnels, where the merchants worship a god of gold - Red Row, where Crime goes on holiday - An unsurprisingly comprehensive section on the drug trade in Spire

Episode 4 - Mass Transit Warlocks Aug 17, 2018

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We round out the third and final part of the classes section in this episode, looking at the Midwife and Vermissian Sage classes and going over the Extra Advances.

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