In this episode Chris and I talk about the lack of funding for a lot of very popular podcasters and YouTubers and how Google is renewing the creator-verse.

And after having read it, I do a review of The Electric State from Free League. What an amazing game!

Among other things!

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Over the last year, Evil Genius Games has managed to alienate a ton of people with their incursion in the world of crypto and accepting investment from crypto-currency firms.

Now they are trying to clean their act by talking to people like me and sending cease and desist letters to people who don't take down articles about them...

It does not bode well, does it?

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Critical Role's episodes have been used to feed an AI model and the results used to feed another AI model... things are getting murky!

Find out more here: https://www.polygon.com/critical-role/510326/critical-role-transcripts-ai-dnd-dungeon-master

And Chris comes with a review of Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game from Greater than Games.

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I had the enormous pleasure of interviewing Garry and talk about his mega cute game FÄNGELSEHÅLA.

Find out more on his website: https://diekugames.com/fang/

And don't miss his video podcast: https://diekugames.com/category/blog/

FÄNGELSEHÅLA is the Swedish word for “dungeon.”

We are inviting you to play an epic adventure with the elegance of the instructions from everybody’s favorite furniture store!

This tabletop role-playing game is a minimalist approach, offering an immersive experience without the complexity. Forget thick rulebooks and intricate character sheets – FÄNG is as easy to grasp as connecting the dots in an instruction manual.

Designed for one-shots that allow you to embark on quests with mechanics so straightforward that you can be up and running in minutes.

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Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. *****************************************************

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Drintera® is a lore-rich fantasy TTRPG setting inspired by world cultures and heroic mythology. The gods have proclaimed the Age of Destiny. Adventurers, stride forth to claim your place in legend! Magic in Drintera makes narrative sense, not rational sense. Enchantments can take hold of the very land to create places of wonder—or dread. As in the legend of the Fisher King, a great tragedy that strikes a royal house can bring a curse upon the entire kingdom. As in the legend, a heroic quest can lift the curse. That’s why Drintera will always need heroes. The many lands and cultures of Drintera are written by a diverse international team. We’re building Drintera month by month as a PDF magazine. Each issue contains 20+ pages of creative fuel for the game master: nations, factions, gods and sects, legends, adventure locations, story ideas, villains, and creature lore, and game master advice. Find out more on our DriveThruRPG site: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/12962/shewstone-publishing?affiliate_id=318686 Join our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/drintera ********************************************** Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. If you like our work, please buy us a Ko-Fi ► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Martin is a chartered surveyor who just loves media production. He is in charge of all the editing and the technology we use in our Spain-based studio. *****************************************************

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Time to start 2025 with a bang! Chris and I talk about the games we look forward in 2025, what games we played during Xmas and first impressions review of Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz.

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This is our Xmas guide for people who want to buy games or accesories for the gamer in your life.Links to the places we mention:

BGG list of Christmas themed games: ⁠https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/147503/christman-and-winter-themed-games⁠⁠

Board Game Bandit list⁠: https://www.boardgamebandit.ca/collections/holiday-themed-board-game-favourites?srsltid=AfmBOopLrCvmZR1E2Yg7wN86a_MwL3A4oDZCdMqnrk1dgJFnAyvjG9w1

Dragon Shield accesories: ⁠https://www.dragonshield.com/

⁠Varied gifts for geeks: ⁠https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/gifts/gifts-for-geeks/

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Are we seeing a decrease in the sales of RPGs? Over the last few weeks, a lot of small publishers have ceased to exist from the DMs Guild. In the region of 500. Given the thousands of people there, it doesn’t sound like much, but how many people are leaving and how many people just publish one product and then give up?

On part two, we discuss if games in which you discover a winning strategy that works every time and allows you to win every game are good games. Are you interested in playing a game you know you’re going to win even before you start playing?

And last, but not least, a review of Be like a Crow, a solo journaling RPG by Kritical Kit that puts the players in the wings of crows, rooks and ravens in a variety of environments, from high fantasy to political intrigue in the medieval British Court.

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