Stories set in the real world (or real world-adjacent) past.
I sit down with Daniel Kwan, designer of the game (and returning guest!), to discover why the game is “a love letter to violence.”
Sam is the host of Dice Exploder, an ENnie-nominated podcast where game designers break down the specific mechanics of their favorite TTRPGs (as well as an incredible game designer in his own right). We sat down to play Desperation (Dead House), a historical horror RPG, based on real history, about a small community in Kansas facing an oppressive, deadly winter. Who will survive being pushed to their limits?
There is something… lurking… beneath the tunnels in the mines. Something violent, something furious, something alive what once was dead. But the scariest part? What’s above the ground might be scarier than what’s stirring below.
Silas Whittaker loaded seven bullets for seven siblings. They had made a pact with… something out there. And they needed to be put to rest.
That calling brought him to Amigara Ridge. What was there… was just the beginning. Continue reading →
This is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, and their journey through the underworld, and the true power of true love. Continue reading →
Scarstone, Louisiana. The 1890s. A small town full of doomed souls on the edge of an unknowable bayou.
This is the story of one of those doomed souls. But as he would say, that’s giving away the ending… Continue reading →