In this unconventionally conventional episode, Violet talks about a recent event in Edinburgh.

Violet has to hand it to handouts. Freya learns about a Thing or two. Violet takes the wrong notes. Freya is unexpectedly out-gayed.

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Timestamps

Start of Con Discussion: 3:07

Liminal Horror: 9:27

Delta Green: 21:22

Kaleidoscope: 26:41

The Family: 34:41

Games discussed

Liminal Horror

Delta Green

Kaleidoscope

The Family

Black Hack (and OSR in general)

Monsterhearts

Microscope

Belonging Outside Belonging / Dream Askew / Dream Apart / No Dice No Masters

Wanderhome

Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

Mörk Borg

Avatar Legends

Masks

Games that aren't TTRPGs that we nonetheless discussed, sometimes at surprising length

Dead Rising

Battlestar Galactica (the board game)

Betrayal at the House on the Hill

Mario Party

Immortality (confirmed, this is on Netflix)

The Executive

Lost Odyssey

Notes & links

Itch page for the designer of the Family https://clevercrumbish.itch.io/

Weird Hope Engines: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2025/3/weird-hope-engines

Video essay about Lost Odyssey - https://youtu.be/iqgSDClU4Qo?si=M1vnb3gixwhaz8zM

Additional Credits

Our intro music is

"Magic Escape Room" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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