on the Matter of Systems is a tabletop roleplaying show where every month your hosts will critically engage with some RPG theory and some RPG design.
BW and 🐝 talk about Ten Candles by Stephen Dewey. Next up we read three posts on Waypoint from a...
BW and 🐝 talk about Follow The Thread: A Worldbuilding Guide, a series of blog posts by Meguey Baker. Next...
BW and Bee talk about Dogs in the Vineyard by D. Vincent Baker. Next up is Follow The Thread: A...
BW and 🐝 talk about a short thread by John R Harness, an abstract by Evan Torner called Lyric Games:...
BW and 🐝 talk about Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada, and the collection of games Doskvol Interstitials by...
BW and Bee talk about A Historical Look at the OSR, a series of blog posts on Simulacrum: Exploring OSR...
BW and 🐝 talk about Troika! by Daniel Sell. Next up we’ll be talking about A Historical Look at the...
BW and 🐝 talk about I Have No Words & I Must Design: Toward a Critical Vocabulary for Games by Greg...
BW & Bee spend an hour and a half talking about a 9 page joke game and it's an absolute blast.
Bee & BW are back to talk Grand Experiments: West Marches by Ben Robbins. Up next is Agon by John Harper & Sean Nittner
BW and Bee talk about Ribbon Drive by Avery Alder. Next up we’ll be talking Grand Experiments: West Marches by Ben Robbins.
Bee & BW are back to talk Imagining Ourselves: Queer Mechanics and Queer Games by Avery Alder. Up next is Ribbon Drive, also by Avery Alder!
BW and Bee talk about two systems: Dating.sim & Wishless, both by Tyler Crumrine. Next up we’ll be talking Imagining Ourselves: Queer Games and Queer Mechanics by Avery Alder.