Rene Plays Games
Hi! I’m Rene (pronounced Rainy) and I want to share my love of roleplaying games with you! Join me as I play through smaller publisher games, talk design and gaming topics with friends, and explore all the ways you can be a better game master or player.
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Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Dyne and the crew of the Venture make moves to secure The Chimera before a storm comes in and score a warship for the Resistance, which they plan to use to attack another of the Kyrody fleet with unexpectedly. However, villagers from Isto Mavana have been tested for sorcerous potential and taken captive aboard the remaining two Kyrody ships - The Warden and the flagship Ironclad.
The Resistance attempts to take The Warden from Commander Gavin, but learn that they don't know the whole story about the Kyrody Dominion's presence in these waters...
Go check out the sample guidebook and back Sundered Isles on Kickstarter!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Ancient Beacon from TabletopAudio.com
Nordic Noir from TabletopAudio.com
Pirates! from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the TTRPG world and discuss a topic of their choice!
This time I'm joined by a fellow podcaster and GM who I respect and listen to constantly - Adam Kelly of The STF Network! The Strange Table Fellows have a whole lot of shows and content for you to enjoy, but we talk about the massive 3 Adventure Path kitbash Adam and friends put together to form the story of the Apollo Protection Agency, as well as his other experiences in gaming and the music world.
Adam was so easy to talk to and really cares about community in the creative scene. He gives great advice about running or playing in your home games, tips if you're thinking about podcasting, and has more than a few spot on analogies that show his background in music and TTRPG skills go hand in hand.
Find more of the STF Network on their website, join their Discord, subscribe to their podcast feeds, and maybe I'll see you at STFConline!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Aboard another Kyrody Warship, Dyne and Ephraim learn the truth about the Kyrody Dominion's presence out here in the Reaches. However, the truth comes with a twist, and Dyne's attempts to persuade the sailors to accept an alternative option lands on deaf ears. His failure comes at a heavy cost, and a friend is lost...
Maezyu convinces Dyne to finish what's been started - a win against the Kyrody would be celebrated by all they've broken in the wake of their brutal war campaign. Together, the crew of the Venture flies to the cursed sky island of Manao for Dyne's last Trial, but the dying island is a terrifying maze of dry caves and colossal bones. What awaits Dyne at its heart?
Go learn more about everything Ironsworn and get your solo gaming on!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Dark Continent from TabletopAudio.com
Drowned Sailors from TabletopAudio.com
High Seas Pursuit from TabletopAudio.com
Shaman's Hollow from TabletopAudio.com
Solemn Vow from TabletopAudio.com
Trireme from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Welcome to another Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences. In this episode we're talking about Fonda Lee's incredible gangster fantasy trilogy The Green Bone Saga. This series is one of *very* few (maybe the only?) that I've rated 5 stars down the line. It has enough magic and urban fantasy to feel wondrous, incredibly emotional character development, intense martial arts action scenes, harsh betrayals, drugs, sex, crime, corruption, generational trauma and expectations... I could go on and on forever - please read it and talk to me about it!
Anyway, the take home points for how to make your TTRPG sessions better with The Green Bone Saga include:
Hack your favorite system to use the Jade Disciplines as Stats (along with others for non-Green PCs)
Consider using a relationship map/web to constantly keep pressure on your PCs from their connections, making every move dangerous in a faction-based turf war
If your setting has magic, include a culture or people who are immune or resistant to that magic - how are they viewed in society? How do they overcome this?
When making factions always have allied, antagonistic, and neutral parties to the party's goals. The Penitents & religious folk of these books are very cool, silent monks who are the ears of the gods - give them emotional, cultural depth
In the end, I think this episode was less "here's what to use in your game," and more "PLEASE READ THESE AND LET'S PLAY AN RPG CAMPAIGN IN THIS WORLD TOGETHER." If you're interested, please let me know. And Fonda Lee, if you ever see this and want someone to make your world an RPG, I'll help!
Download Rene's One-Page RPG One Last Quest and bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
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Music in the Episode:
Midnight Room by | e s c p | https://www.escp.spacehttps://escp-music.bandcamp.com
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
It's a 5th Tuesday, so here we are with another bonus episode! This time Rene sits down to play the one-player, card-based Dragon Dowser from Hatchling Games. It is a wonderful game where you take the role of a Dowser, someone who has dedicated themselves to saving dragon eggs from the clutches of the tyrannical Mecharchs, rulers who betrayed humanity's saviors for power and progress. It has wonderful environmentalist and conservation themes and uses Peach Garden Games' Carta SRD, which is intuitive and engaging!
Definitely check out more of Hatchling Games' releases like the sign-language teaching Inspirisles, Overisles (and soon Underisles), the supernatural scout solving Cryptid Creeks, and more on their store.
Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Stranded by Sascha EndeFree download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10375-stranded License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Elven Glade from TabletopAudio.com
Forgotten Forest from TabletopAudio.com
Mysterious Grotto from TabletopAudio.com
Secret Garden from TabletopAudio.com
Sun Dappled Trail from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Dyne and the crew of the Venture confront the colossal skeletal creature in the heart of the sky island Manao, while dragging the injured Cynosure Society scientists to safety. Tamrin snags a sweet trophy. Maezyu finds a weak point in the Cynosure Society's complex sky iron contraption. Dyne realizes the terrible fate of Manao and the heavy truth of the Mystic Trials - the responsibility passed on to those who can wield such power. He reavows his dedication to protect the island of Isto Mavana and its inhabitants.
Having completed his trial, only one thing remains for the Resistance - to drive Admiral Magnus Cassidy and the rest of the Kyrody out of the Reaches for good...
Go learn more about everything Ironsworn and get your solo gaming on!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Dark Continent from TabletopAudio.com
Lost Mine from TabletopAudio.com
Infernal Machine from TabletopAudio.com
Starforged - Fray from TabletopAudio.com
Solemn Vow from TabletopAudio.com
Escape from Shadow from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the TTRPG world and discuss a topic of their choice!
This time I'm joined by another one of the OGs of Rene's nerdy life on the internet - Baby DM Sara from the DMs After Dark! If you're following this channel, you likely know that I've been playing games with these wonderful nerds for the last few years, and they're continuing to play games over on their Twitch every other Friday, I still edit their audio for podcasts and consider myself a member even though I can't play as often as I'd like on their schedule.
Sara is the youngest of the DMs, a fellow member of Team Wholesome, and came on to talk about something that happens to a lot of us when we get really into the TTRPG hobby (or any hobby really) - burnout. She recently took a little hiatus from the streaming and we discuss checking in with yourself, your fellow players outside of the game space, finding ways to be creative outside of the expectations of content creation, the importance of being silly, and more!
Content Warnings: language, Orcfuck, and silly one-shots being the leg day of the RPG hobby (this is just a good analogy)
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
As the sky island of Manao crumbles into pieces and plummets into the ocean below, Dyne and the crew of the Venture rush to warn the villagers of Isto Mavana of the coming disaster. Kyrody Dominion Admiral Magnus Cassidy calls for a parley with the leaders of the Resistance, but negotiations take a terrible turn, and the final battle of the Reaches begins...
To all the listeners who have made it this far (and who read the description), I am so honored you choose to spend your time listening to me play and weave these stories, and I sincerely hope I've inspired you to try out either solo RPGs or Ironsworn yourself (or any other tabletop games)! I also hope that you'll stick with me as I continue to explore more great games, systems, solo & group alike, as this little endeavor goes on, and reach out to me to let me know if you have any advice, ideas, or anything else to make this better.
And to Shawn Tomkin, if you ever see this, you've got a forever fan and backer in me, I'll always sing your praises on whatever small soapbox/platform/podcast I have. Thank you for an incredible line of games. Everyone go find out more about all things Ironsworn!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Harpies Nest from TabletopAudio.com
Haven from TabletopAudio.com
High Seas Pursuit from TabletopAudio.com
Interrogation Room from TabletopAudio.com
Lord of Bones from TabletopAudio.com
Pirates! from TabletopAudio.com
Puzzle Dungeon from TabletopAudio.com
Ship of the Line from TabletopAudio.com
Survivor's Bivouac from TabletopAudio.com
The Misty Marsh from TabletopAudio.com
Voyage Begins from TabletopAudio.com
Gunshot (Exterior) sound from Zapsplat.com
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Welcome to another Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences. In this episode we're talking about Amazon Prime's new video game to TV adaptation Fallout. Based on the hit video game franchise, season one takes some liberties with what's been established in the games but succeeds in making an enjoyable, pretty true to universe story that uses a lot of great techniques you can pull for your tabletop RPG campaigns.
The take home points are:
Give your characters "ghosts" (from YouTuber ALuckyMuse), which are people, events, and obligations from their past which continue to haunt PCs, either through traumatic experiences, voices always heard when they look inward (trusted or derogatory), or similar which inform their misconceptions about the world, their beliefs, and can justify their actions when they're not necessarily the best.
Don't worry about character imbalance when it comes to power. Everyone has a role in the party, it's okay for someone to be overpowered in one aspect, but make sure it has a drawback (e.g. the Ghoul's need for the drugs, Maximus's inexperience with the jumpsuit, Lucy's naivety).
When adapting canon, don't play in what's known - focus on the "what ifs." What if this took place in the northern forests of Canada? Each faction might still exist, but they'd have very different goals, problems, and methods. What if we played our story before the events of New Vegas? or after?
Download Rene's One-Page RPG One Last Quest and bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
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Music in the Episode:
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/adi-goldstein/i-dont-need-your-love License code: FSMKKQOUT4ZD4EHK
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
A brand new beginning! For the first time since the podcast started I'm starting a brand new series, and I'm super excited to be playing "Trilogy Mode" combining NOTORIOUS and OUTSIDERS by Jason Price, a.k.a. Always Checkers Publishing. These games recreate the solo bounty hunter vibes of Star Wars (especially the Mandalorian), Cowboy Bebop, and westerns/space operas so well.
Also, Jason has a Kickstarter running for another week at the time of this episode publishing for Revolt!, a fantasy TTRPG of overthrowing a monarchy with card based mechanics for solo to 4 players, so check it out!
In our new series, we create our Nomad, the Bot-Human Construct known as ISIL-8, one of many identical bots created by the Trade Alliance for use in war, but who has gained individual sentience through a malfunction, damage, or clever hacking.
They are employed as a bounty hunter as they live on the run from the corporation that still considers them property, and they've taken a bounty for Aura Day, a Pellucid (crystalline humanoid) hiding out on the frozen planet Utov, wanted for stealing and sharing blueprints of The Old Empire's with the New Uprising (oh yea, we're going there).
This may end up being more than 3 episodes, because this first one doesn't go super well, but it certainly was full of awesome events!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Warriyo - Mortals (feat. Laura Brehm) [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/mortals Watch: http://youtu.be/yJg-Y5byMMw
Docking Bay from TabletopAudio.com
Gravity from TabletopAudio.com
Lonesome West from TabletopAudio.com
Robot Scrapyard from TabletopAudio.com
Solemn Vow from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the TTRPG world and discuss a topic of their choice!
I met this episode's guest on the relatively new social media platform Threads, where the RPG community is still pretty small and interactive. Jordan is a Mainer and runs the small game company Goosepoop Games where he is focused on making silly, wholesome games. I knew I had to talk to them when I saw a recent game of theirs called Good Soup - a wholesome game where you play as woodland creatures in the Soup Troupe with alternate mechanics involving spoonfuls of a real, shared soup (preferably separate bowls but you do you).
In this episode we talk about zines in the TTRPG space, the importance of community, why we love silly games, and creativity as an outlet but also as a job.
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Welcome back to the developing trilogy of the bot-human construct Nomad ISIL-8 in NOTORIOUS and OUTSIDERS by Jason Price, a.k.a. Always Checkers Publishing.
After wandering the frozen planet of Utov hunting for the whereabouts of a blueprint thief named Aura Day, a charming Pellucid, or crystalline species, member of the New Uprising, ISIL-8 was turned away and eventually outgunned by one of their potential leads. Luckily, they had saved a New Uprising mystic doctor - Ka Lirra - when they arrived on planet, and were brought in for treatment.
Now the hunt is back on, because the Guild never always fulfills a bounty and remains neutral in the war between the Old Empire & the New Uprising, the Trade Alliance profiting from the entire thing, and all the other factions tied up in the conflict.
However, when ISIL-8 begins making some progress, all signs point backwards...
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Laser Blaster sounds from Zapsplat.com
Dark City from TabletopAudio.com
Mech War from TabletopAudio.com
Robot Scrapyard from TabletopAudio.com
Solemn Vow from TabletopAudio.com
Starforged Fray from TabletopAudio.com
Survivors' Bivouac from TabletopAudio.com
Weirder Things 2 from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Welcome to another Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences. In this episode we're talking about Atlus' video game franchise Persona. These JRPGs are some of the best video games I've ever played, they're full of great tactical turn-based combat, interesting dungeons, shadow worlds and slice of life as teenagers in modern Japan. But, most importantly, these games have TONS of great stuff to consider yoinking for your games!
Take home points:
Mechanizing social ranks between PCs and NPCs encourages them to search out certain types of scenes, interactions, and through introspection, character development, and improving bonds in the real world, their combat prowess increases in certain ways.
Use time as pressure - the game happens day to day (so do most RPGs), but when your ability in battle is tied to your handling of responsibilities and relationships in the real world, what you do on those days begins to matter more.
Classic roles with a twist - in the games, your party will fill in with the "physical attacker," the "glass cannon magic user," and more traditional roles, but each character uses a specific type of magic that affects different enemies, so even when their main role isn't applicable, their secondary unique characteristic is! Encourage this type of idea so your characters always have an interesting option
Now go play some Persona and get back to me in a few months!
Download Rene's One-Page RPG One Last Quest and bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Your Love Is What I Need by Soundroll from #Uppbeat:https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/your-love-is-what-i-need
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Welcome back to the developing trilogy of the bot-human construct Nomad ISIL-8 in NOTORIOUS and OUTSIDERS by Jason Price, a.k.a. Always Checkers Publishing.
ISIL-8 has failed The Guild and failed to complete a bounty, leaving the frozen planet of Utov without their target Aura Day, a.k.a. Ka Lirra, one of the masterminds behind the bot-construct clone army ISIL-8 was created for. However, Ka Lirra left a message and coordinates for ISIL-8 to follow if they survived which lead out to the far edges of the galaxy, to a corporate planet named Arro where crimelords rule, and businesses can experiment with sketchy funding.
Before they can dock at a spaceport and begin their search for answers about themself, ISIL-8 is cornered by space pirates known as Huska's Corsairs, rich raiders of the edges of the galaxy who operate out of Arro. In order to get planetside, ISIL-8 has to take a job for them to hunt down a loudmouth Quadoi (4-armed alien) who has a habit of leaking information and ruining profitable raids.
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Endless Voyage from TabletopAudio.com
Goblin Ambush from TabletopAudio.com
Mega City Slums from TabletopAudio.com
Orbital Prison Break from TabletopAudio.com
Stakeout from TabletopAudio.com
Starbase Omega from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Not a 5th Tuesday bonus episode, but just keeping up the rhyming bonus episodes with Gila RPGs solo games and in June that means RUNE. Similar to REAP, which I played back in February for the Leap Year, RUNE is a solo TTRPG based on the Dark Souls and Elden Ring games, and it plays just as punishing (you'll see).
If you want to hear Spencer play through this realm on his YouTube channel, you can watch it here, and if you want pick up Aaron Joliffe's RUNE Realms and content, you can find his games on his itch.io page.
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Court of the Count from TabletopAudio.com
Escape from Shadow from TabletopAudio.com
Lord of Bones from TabletopAudio.com
Survivors' Bivouac from TabletopAudio.com
Through The Woods from TabletopAudio.com
Witch Mountain from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the TTRPG world and discuss a topic of their choice!
If you're familiar with Ironsworn, especially Starforged, this week's guest likely needs no introduction - Matt Risby is the man behind the microphone for the incredible podcast The Bad Spot, which has 3 incredible seasons of Ironsworn: Starforged, some original Ironsworn, and is just beginning its brand new Sundered Isles series!
In this episode, we talk about playing solo RPGs, how it's a different experience as one shared among friends, and how it gets even more complicated when you're making solo RPG content for an audience. We talk a lot about how running games for groups has made us better at playing solo, and how the opposite also works - solo play greatly enhances your GMing at a full table! Matt heaps praise on Jason Cordova / The Gauntlet's The Between, a Victorian horror RPG which builds on Brindlewood Bay's mystery mechanics, and we have a blast talking about our journeys in solo gaming.
You can follow The Bad Spot on Twitter at @thebadspotcast and go subscribe to the YouTube page to catch up on the adventures of Gideon & Lorenzo in Ironsworn: Sundered Isles!
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Welcome back to the developing trilogy of the bot-human construct Nomad ISIL-8 in NOTORIOUS and OUTSIDERS by Jason Price, a.k.a. Always Checkers Publishing.
ISIL-8 finds themselves wanted on the planet of Arro after their run-in with the hostile hunting down a rogue hacker. Bounties go up through the Guild to bring the missing Bot-Construct in however possible, but ISIL-8 still has a job through Huska's Corsairs and questions of their own to answer about the Company that created them.
Tracking down leads including the target Xed Gron's hacker ally, being confronted by a hired assassin, and meeting other discarded victim's of Arro's corporate experiments, ISIL-8 finally finds the loudmouth Quadoi, but their answers about the cloning program will have to wait, as they're ambushed on the way off planet... Luckily, they've taken a hostage.
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Cyberpunk City from TabletopAudio.com
Docking Bay from TabletopAudio.com
Dungeon Collapse from TabletopAudio.com
Mega City Slums from TabletopAudio.com
Robot Scrapyard from TabletopAudio.com
Sand Raiders from TabletopAudio.com
Stakeout from TabletopAudio.com
Starforged: Planetside from TabletopAudio.com
Weirder Things 2 from TabletopAudio.com
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Get deep enough into the indie tabletop RPG scene and eventually you'll come up with an idea that you want to play out in a game, but you can't find a good match for it (despite the thousands of games out there). So what do you do? You start making one yourself!
Most people homebrew rules in their favorite RPGs, and if you think about it, even that is game design in a way. You're no longer playing the game you were before right out of the book or box, you've added your own piece to engage with the story that you felt worked better in a particular situation. It may seem crazy, but anyone can make a game, either hacking an existing system or coming up with something entirely new, it just depends on how much work you're willing to put into it!
In this episode, Rene talks about all the games he's got in various states of development and completion, either through recognizing a niche that hasn't been explored well enough, or just an idea he couldn't get out of his silly head.
Please reach out if any of these ideas seem good to you and let's playtest them or urge me to finish them!
Empires of Rust - Post-Catastrophe Exploration & Community Building RPG
BRP Design Challenge - T.I.M.E. Unit; Time Travel RPG
Party Animals - Young player RPG where you play animals working together
MECH - Carved by RUNE solo RPG pitting mech vs. kaiju
Shared Dice Pool / Multiple Resolution Mechanics
Modular Classless Progression System
Cell(F) Defense - Play as white blood cells in the human body during infection/injury
The Estate - Tarot prompt-based year of an artist at a legendary estate
A Modern Discovery of Magic - What if magic was discovered in the 1910s?
Candles in the Dark Library - Dark academia Forged in the Dark
Decktectives - 2-player Buddy Cop RPG using a deck of cards & poker mechanics
All That Jazz - A music-making improv game of tossing dice and filling out sheet music
Lumen & Nox - The battle between light & dark in us all with Mass Effect style morality tracking & grid-based combat where light/dark affects your options
Pokemon TCG RPG - Just a way to use those old pokemon cards to tell shared 'mon stories without the many overtuned fan-made Pokemon RPGs out there...
Download Rene's Finished Games (for free!):
One Last Quest - bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
Pine Island - Rene & Christian's first game for the PocketQuest 2022 summer game jam. Play as campers or counselors at a summer camp where nothing at all creepy will happen, surely...
Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:
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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
5th Tuesdays are for bonus episodes and this one comes IN TWO PARTS! Part 2 will be releasing on Thursday August 1st!
For July's Bonus Episode, we're playing Free League's 2024 Free RPG Day scenario for Dragonbane called The Sinking Tower. It's a tight one-shot adventure for the classic Swedish fantasy RPG that's designed for "tournament style" play, and all happens on a two hour clock! After character creation, start the timer and speedrun this tower!
In the past, a mad sorcerer named Kamandur built a seaside tower to honor his sister and placed an eerily bright emerald at the top, luring ships and pirates to their watery graves in revenge for her death. Even after his death, the magic continued to consume those within and without, and now, every twenty years on the day of his sister's death, the tower rises from the depths for two hours. Will our PCs be the first to make it to the top and retrieve what so many others never could?
Download Rene's Finished Games (for free!):
One Last Quest - bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
Pine Island - Rene & Christian's first game for the PocketQuest 2022 summer game jam. Play as campers or counselors at a summer camp where nothing at all creepy will happen, surely...
Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:
Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X | Threads | DMs After Dark
email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
The Mirrormere by Vindsvept
Court of the Count from TabletopAudio.com
Drowned Sailors from TabletopAudio.com
Ghost Ship from TabletopAudio.com
Skull Island from TabletopAudio.com
The Drowned Tower from TabletopAudio.com
Terror in the Woods from TabletopAudio.com
Rewind Sound Effect from ZapSplat.com
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
While technically a bonus for 5 Tuesdays in July, editing is a process and I'm a busy person, so this one took a few more days, enjoy the second half of our Dragonbane Free RPG Day one-shot scenario The Sinking Tower to kick off August!
Also! All episodes during the month of August will be using music from Monument Studios, who is running a Kickstarter campaign for their Fantasy+ collection of TTRPG music, ambience, sound effects, and more! Click the link to sign up and be notified when the campaign goes live and get TONS of incredible, professional quality music for your tabletop games!
Download Rene's Finished Games (for free!):
One Last Quest - bring back your favorite characters for one more mission as elderly versions of themselves!
Pine Island - Rene & Christian's first game for the PocketQuest 2022 summer game jam. Play as campers or counselors at a summer camp where nothing at all creepy will happen, surely...
Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:
Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X | Threads | DMs After Dark
email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com
Music in the Episode:
Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands
Prelude by Monument Studios
Recap by Monument Studios
Old Town by Monument Studios
Skirmish by Monument Studios
Loading Screen 3 by Monument Studios
Forsaken Sanctum by Monument Studios
Dangerous Marshlands Tonal by Monument Studios
Simple Combat by Monument Studios
Somber Cello by Monument Studios
Viking War by Monument Studios
Dragon Scream R by Monument Studios
Meta Heroic Ensemble by Monument Studios
Ascendancy by Monument Studios