{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Campaign Spotlight","title":"Game Mechanics as a Poem Structure: Self-paced TTRPGs with Satah [S4E9]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3759,"description":"In this week's episode, we chat with Satah about the distinction between games and writing exercises, the social expectations of GMing, and a table writing 150,000 words of fanfiction about their own campaign. We get into some of the themes that have been bubbling up through Campaign Spotlight since the beginning: the role of the GM in guiding the gameplay, player expectations around telling a cohesive story, and the way games changed in 2020 during the lockdown era. In the months since we recorded this interview, this conversation has changed how we've incorporated writing exercises in our own home games.Satah runs Folio, a very cool podcast about solo and epistolary games. Go check out their Itch for some very cool TTRPGs they've released. They also make music as People You Meet Outside of Bars (which Jake has been listening to for a decade now) and Piloting the Animal.We discuss a whole lot of TTRPG systems in this episode:Mothership, which we previously heard about in this onsite session at Vulpine TaproomGalactic, a Star Wars-inspired space opera gameMasks, which we discussed in this interview with Garrett and the Bucket BuddiesStrange Places and other AdventureByMail gamesFiasco, which we heard about our interview with Erika about using multiple systems to build the campaignFuryya, a solo survival journalling gameMonsterhearts, about the messy lives of teenage monstersDungeon World, which we discussed with Prim way back in our very first seasonAlone Among the Stars and all its hacks on ItchSatah was also kind enough to share with us the letters generated by playing the AdventureByMail game The Resistance of New Holloway, which you can read here.Thanks to Lavitts for providing the introduction to this week's episode! Beep boop.This episode also marks the end of Season 4. This has been our longest and most ambitious season yet, with some incredibly thoughtful guests and a very busy schedule of onsite recording sessions. Thank you to all the guests who's taken...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/v3uJeytmLwSAGSBFOAsFJTSP7tXChkZL6h2AXsGKyaA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NjAyLzE3MDk0/MjA0NzgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}