239 episodes
TABLETOP TALK - Third Floor Wars Craig Shipman
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4.7 • 35 Ratings
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Do you love tabletop gaming? This is your podcast.
Who are the creatives behind your favorite games and content? How do they approach their work?
Craig sits with designers, developers, artists, writers, and creators and learns how they approach their work. I try to understand their process, inspiration, and methods for crafting their creations.
Craig digs deep into the work and uncovers the origins of your favorite tabletop games and the creative process that brought them to life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thirdfloorwars/support
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Fleur & Chelsea Sciortino (Flabbergasted!, Mystified!) Interview: ep. 229
What if Jeeves and Wooster or Fawlty Towers had mysteries to solve? Craig talks with the Sciortino sisters about the newest expansion for their award-winning RPG. They reveal their creative process and inspirations.
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Mystified Backerkit
Flabbergasted
Baulder's Gate 3
Brandon Sanderson books
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Watt (Cloud Empress: Life & Death) Interview: ep. 228
How do you expand a Nausicaä-inspired RPG that leans even more into the genre?
Enjoy this conversation with Watt, the creator of Cloud Empress. They discuss what they learned from their latest crowdfunding campaign and walk us through the creative process of bringing two expansions to life.
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Life & Death Kickstarter
Helldivers 2
Succession
Voidfall boardgame
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Ellinor DiLorenzo (Vaesen: Lost Mountain Saga) Interview: ep. 227
How does a first-time GM start a podcast that becomes the first campaign book for Free League's RPG Vaesen? Craig sat with Ellinor DiLorenzo to find out. She walks us through her process for producing the hit podcast and translating it into a campaign book.
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Anatomy of a Fall
The English
Red Dead Redemption
Deadwood
Unforgiven
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
Magnificent Seven
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Nora Haynes & Iris Saintclaire (Perfect Draw! RPG) Interview: ep. 226
How do you capture the action and drama of toy anime like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Masters, and CardFight! Vanguard? Craig sat down with Nora and Iris and learned their creative approach to answer that question - Perfect Draw! the RPG.
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Kyle Tam (MORIAH) Interview: ep. 225
What would you sacrifice for the mercy of your god on the mountain? Listen as Craig talks with Kyle Tam about her RPG MORIAH. Kyle takes us through her creative journey and choices from idea to completed game.
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Urania Games
Lisa the Painful
Soul Sacrifice
Twitter
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Mikey Hamm (Slugblaster, Two-Hand Path) Interview: ep. 224
Who are the only people dumb enough to ride into tridimensional portals to fight off dangers that threaten reality? Only skateboard kids, and they'll post it on their social media. Mikey and I talk about his riff on Blades in the Dark called Slugblaster. It is gonzo and pushes what a Forged in the Dark game can do.
Slugblaster
Two Hand Path RPG
Mikey on Twitter
Mikey’s Itch Page
Space Weirdos
A Billion Suns
Slow Horses
Marvel Snap
Air Land Sea
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Customer Reviews
Great interviews
Among the better RPG interview shows out there. Craig sets a comfortable and inviting tone, and that gets good answers out of his guests. Listen to it.
Best Game Designer Interviews out there!
This podcast has an amazing selection of interesting tabletop RPG designers and Craig gets them to open up about their process in ways that I haven’t heard these creators do in other interviews. Truly excellent interviews!
Where’s the malifaux
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