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Design Games

We talk about game design, especially tabletop roleplaying and story games. We're professional designers ND Paoletta and Will Hindmarch. We're glad you're here.

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Endings

Endings

This is it. Our fiftieth episode marks the end of our long conversation about designing tabletop RPGs (and everything el... Read more

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