2024 Year End Bonanza

Transcripts can be found at diceexploder.com

It's the Dice Exploder 2024 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Aaron Voigt, Rowan Zeoli, and MintRabbit plus a cavalcade of friends of the show to go over games and adjacent things we loved from 2024. Come reminisce about the year with us!

Aaron on Youtube and Bluesky

Rowan on Bluesky

MintRabbit on Tumblr

Aaron’s picks

• Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion 

• Fealty by Michael Elliot and Galen Pejeau

• Helvetia by Bully Pulpit Games/Jason Morningstar 

• Rascal News/Scrying on Iran's Tabletop Scene

• The Most Important Essay in RPG History 

Rowan’s picks

• The Time We Have by Elliot Davis

• Seven Part Pact by Jay Dragon

• Oceanie 2084

• Voices in The Wood, a Void 1680 Actual Play. Rowan’s article on Voices in the Woods.

• Former World of Game Design Employees Claim Tabletop Company Exploits Workers and Clients

Mint’s picks

• The Gas Station, by DNGNCLUB

• shadow/giant by PsychHound Games

• Flyover Country, by Headstone Hills

• In Defense of Fiction, by MeatCastle Games

• Mint Plays Games: Rotted Capes (And the Lesson I Keep Learning This Year)

Sam’s picks

• Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm

• Florilegium by Nick Wedig

• A Visit to the Lonely Oak by Victor Lane

• The Disc 2 jam, organized by Ken Lowrey, and specifically the Wanderhome designer commentary

• • Kiss Me If You Can by Sam Dunnewold, and actual play from Third Floor Wars

  Other Picks

Kurt Refling’s pick: Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games

Michael Elliott’s pick: Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm

Alex Roberts on The Highlander II: The Quickening Unofficial Roleplaying Game by Adam Decamp

Jason Morningstar on The Big Store by Nathan D. Paoletta

Randy Lubin’s pick: the Dice Exploder Discord

Hendrik ten Napel on Eat the Reich by Rowan Rook and Deckard

Sharang Biswas’s pick: Combat in Dungeons & Dragons by Evan Torner

Audrey Stolze’s pick: Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam Dunnewold

Sydney Icarus’s pick: Working the Case by Randy Lubin

Seraphina’s pick: Triangle Agency

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