A Taste of RPGs: Shiver on AADL.TV

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today. This time they are playing Shiver, a horror RPG that is adaptable to a range of different settings with character archetypes pulled from popular movies. Every roll of the dice has consequences, even if not immediately apparent. Too many failures and the Doom Clock ticks up! Who cut the power in the old barn? What is that horrible roaring sound in the junkyard?

A Taste of RPGs: Brindlewood Bay

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today. This time they are playing Brindlewood Bay, a game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries.

A Taste of RPGs: Coyote + Crow

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing Coyote & Crow, a Nebula Award nominated sci-fi and fantasy tabletop role playing game set in a First Nations alternate future where colonization never happened. This game was created and lead by an all Native team.

A Taste of RPGs: The Skeletons on AADL.TV

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing the narrative-driven Skeletons by Jason Morningstar. Players take on the role of skeletons warding off adventurers while remembering bits of their former lives before they became undead.
 

A Taste of RPGs: Werewolves of Wallstreet on AADL.TV

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing using The Werewolves of Wallstreet, a Capitalist Punk RPG setting using the Troika! system. The year is 1980x, President Supreme Richard Radon rules from a glass tube, and players have to try not to get eaten by their werewolf bosses.

A Taste of RPGs: The Quiet Year

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing The Quiet Year, a game experienced by collectively drawing a map with more and more details while facing calamities and resource scarcity. Will the community be ready when the Frost Shepherds come?

Taste of RPGs | There's Something in the Ice on AADL.TV

Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today.

This time they are playing There's Something in the Ice, written by Micah Anderson. This is a game of slow-creeping horror and hopelessness in the vein of The Thing!

If you want a more in-depth look at this game, watch the Full Course here!