Rene Plays Games
@reneplaysgames.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Rene ("Rainy," he/him)! My podcast is all about highlighting smaller publisher RPGs, interviewing folks from the hobby, and talking all things TTRPGs. Come hang!
Episode 3 of my Ironsworn Legacies playtest is out now! Time has passed since Tessa & Farina let out the giant shadow wolf god, and they continue to pursue it in the wake of its destruction. In the coastal village of Fisher's Grove, negotiations go bad...
@capacle.bsky.social has got me 100% hooked and excited for this one! Mausworn is so up my alley it's unfair! Oh, and we may have chatted about it and that episode may be coming in August, too 😊 youtu.be/KpQ1Sj9or7o?...
What if Mausritter but... Ironsworn?
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New episode of The One Ring! Iorlas heads south on a quest from Cirdan the Shipwright to investigate the corrupted trees on the cape of Eryn Vorn... but he realizes that his actions have earned him dangerous attention. And I got to tease some First/Second Age of Middle Earth lore in this one!
Absolutely f’ing wild that Hgseth wants all the men in the military checked for low T & put on hormones if he thinks they need it to be at “the leading edge of lethality” but heaven forbid a trans dude get the hormones he needs to just live his life. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
I'm very good at social media, but also the newest Perspective Checks interview with @ragepandapajamas.bsky.social is up! We talk about actual play theory in the media landscape and the things that make APs work well as a story medium! Great chat, lots of great book recs, I hope you enjoy!
New episode up of The One Ring 2e Strider Mode! Iorlas encounters something worse than orcs beneath the ruins of Fornost Erain and flees back to Bree, where he meets with Gandalf to wrap up the first of his two quests!
Back with another session of my Ironsworn 2e playtest as Glain faces a new challenge or two. Hopefully my dice treat me slightly better.
Day late posting but my 2nd playtest of the early alpha Ironsworn: Legacies is up! I wrap up my experience ... or... do I keep playing as the 4th week episode going forward?
Part 1 of a quick 2 episode playtest of the upcoming Ironsworn: Legacies is up now! Very cool ideas in this new editions early days, excited to see how it continues to evolve. Tessa is part of a small group tasked with escorting the strange outcast Farina to a place she only knows through dreams.
The Kickstarter is live! Go check out this wild game where the line between actor and role are blurred in a surreal Italian giallo meets Lynchian vibe!
Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games@hardyroachgames.bsky.social · last mo.Il Fantasma del Giallo is now live! Please repost, there's a lot riding on this! This is a magical realist, Neo-Noir TTRPG that uses a trick-taking card system. The game is inspired by metatextual media, like The Twilight Zone, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and the Giallo genre. Details below 👇
EVERYONE STAY CALM, IT'S HAPPENING! #Stonetop physical books are in and I cannot wait to dive into this game. Might drop everything and just start a campaign of this... please advise!
everyone play weird indie ttrpgs with your friends right now
New episode of The One Ring 2e out today! Iorlas faces off against a shadow of the past who sees an echo of itself in our heroic Ranger. Fornost holds more secrets left to uncover.
New Perspective Checks with @howdylovedarlin.bsky.social out now! Meadow is an incredible mind in the TTRPG community. We talk weird games, weird mechanics, making things your own and exploring the world of games with an adventurous spirit. Enjoy, this one's got great homework!
The newest episode of The One Ring 2e Strider Mode is up now! Iorlas takes his first steps into Fornost Erain to investigate rumors of Shadow spreading for Gandalf...
Episode 4 of The One Ring 2e is up now! Iorlas takes time to recover in our first Fellowship Phase then sets out north along the Greenway to make a quick detour en route to Fornost Erain that yields an unexpected treasure...
New Perspective Checks episode with @brianflaherty.bsky.social of @manysidedmedia.bsky.social! We talk about podcasting niches within niches, how to elevate indie TTRPGs to great heights through care and craft in actual plays. It was a blast and I hope you get a lot of great advice out of this one!
Late on release, late on posting, but episode 3 of my One Ring 2e series is up now! Iorlas and Fitch Talltree, forester of Archet, search the Chetwood for the escaped servants of Saruman, but an old enemy of Fitch's finds them first. Iorlas is wounded.
Episode 2 of my The One Ring 2e Strider Mode series is out now! Iorlas brings Saruman's mercenary to Bree to face justice but his allies facilitate his escape, causing Iorlas to have to petition the Bree Wardens to help him stop their escape!
Iorlas departs from the Grey Havens in spring and ventures through the Shire on a quest to the south, but before he leaves the Shire he meets with Gandalf who has another quest for him that will take him north...
We snuck one last episode into March yesterday playing Dick Wizards by Wyrd Wolf Entertainment! My wife Lynn bought me the special edition zine so I had her play an apprentice wizard detective investigating Lovecraftian crime in Providence RI! It's classic Lynnsanity, hope you enjoy!
I have been preeeeetty bad at posting this month, things are hectic, but check out episode 0 character creation for my upcoming solo One Ring 2e series! Meet Iorlas, Dunedain Ranger of the North, inheritor and wielder of the famous blade Nimloth's Tear. I hope you're excited for some Middle Earth!
New Perspective Checks out now! My interview with @hardyroachgames.bsky.social about his upcoming Italian cinema inspired neo-noir horror slasher Il Fantasma Del Giallo is out now! There are some classic Giallo recommendations in here to get you inspired, have you ever watched a giallo film?!
March schedule! As Colostle ends I'm going to try and do a little bit of everything before picking up with a new solo series of The One Ring 2e next month! Lets see if I can finish Decktectives layout by the end of the month!
The series finale of Colostle Dungeons is out now. Sybil's time in the Dungeons comes to an end. She leaves for new adventures... with a friend.
Come hang out on the @dmsafterdark.bsky.social Twitch stream tonight as I'll be running a one-shot of Legends of Akeroth by @crossedpaths.co.uk! Its an homage to the golden era of SNES JRPGs I grew up on and I hope I came up with a fun one-shot to highlight the system!
Design Diaries episode 2 is out covering character creation in Gardens of Rust. I couldn't decide between two alternate history versions of me, so I made them both! Hope you're excited to think about characters you'd make for a post-catastrophe game. Tell me your concepts and let's make them!
This bundle just hit $500k but there's a lot of time left to make it even bigger! Reason # 1,440 to get this bundle is my game MECH, do it because MN is setting the standard for how to respond to this BS and those affected will need help.
Jes the human 🔜 LFG Con@jesthehuman.itch.io · 6mo agoThe No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
