Werewolf: The Apocalypse Retaliation // an RPG in a Box Our good friend Simon is the lead narrative designer for this new Tabletop RPG in a box, designed to work without a Game master, it tells a grim story of a werewolf sept who loses their home to The Defiler. What follows is a challenging adventure where the players, a sept of Garou, decide how to take back what was taken as Garou. This sports a unique approach to spirits, allies, and even lone wolf mechanics that ensure this game will have plenty of replay ability. Flyos Games Links: Website // Retaliation Site // Kickstarter Simon / Wande ..read more

PAX Unplugged High Shelf Gaming has another convention survival guide for you! The unique gaming experience at PAX is a joy and Philadelphia has a lot to offer. We cover housing, gaming, the dealer hall, food and Philly specific entertainment options and even a bit of the history you can take in while visiting. We also have a few warnings in here to help with safety. PAX Link: https://unplugged.paxsite.com/ Listen on: iTunes//Google//Spotify//Stitcher HSC Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/HighShelfCLTV Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/highshelfcltv/ Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/high ..read more

Hunters of The Occult a Monster Hunting TTRPG Van Helsing inspired TTRPG where players make seasoned monster hunters with signature weapons that grow with the character throughout the campaign. The career progression influences the themes each player character brings to the game. One of the things we love hearing about is how games come together and how collaboration between writers and artist completely shapes the direction and themes of the game. Links for the game and company: The Kickstarter Storeywood Games Listen on: iTunes//Google//Spotify//Stitcher HSC Links: Twitter - https://twitter ..read more

AGON // Evil Hat John Harper and Sean Nittner join us from Evil Hat Productions to talk to us all about AGON, the thinking behind some of the truly unique game mechanics that sets AGON apart from other games. AGON brings unique dice mechanics, story mechanics, and downtime rules supported by some remarkable assets on Roll20. The story behind why Roll20 became their platform of choice for Evil Hat games is a great look at how production companies make partnership decisions for their players to. Evil Hat Website Twitter Roll20 AGON John Harper Twitter Sean Nittner Twitter One More Multiverse VTT ..read more

Latin American RPG Market Hugo has unlocked the secrets of selling tabletop roleplaying games in Mexico and throughout Latin America and he joins us to share the lessons his publishing company, The Death Die Club, learned along the way. We've wanted to bring Hugo back forever and he's been on quite the journey in finding the path to profits in Latin America as a game publisher. We also take a minute to talk about the online gaming conventions in Mexico, Cafe game days Fernando and Hugo worked out with Cafe owners, and just how they promote gaming throughout the region. Death Die Club links: We ..read more

7th Sea City of Five Sails David Lapp and Rob Croy from Pine Box Entertainment are very close to releasing a new card game into the world based in the rich world of the 7th Sea tabletop RPG! We get a sneak peak into some unique mechanics and story points. One thing you'll find is that David and Rob are gamers with a capital G. They play so many games and reference many inspirations. Bless these two as they try to explain the game and components to Rich and Dave, it's a blast! New Website & Playtest on Tabletop Simulator - End of June Pre-release Tournament (Lore impacting) - Gen Con 2022 K ..read more

Gen Con 2022 Dave and Rich are goin to GEN CON 2022 along with tons of shelfies to run events and have a great time this year. We chat about what we're doing different this year and what we're looking forward to. We've learned a lot in going to other conventions since 'all this' began. The way Gen Con does it is just special compared to other shows. https://www.gencon.com/ Listen on: iTunes//Google//Spotify//Stitcher HSC Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/HighShelfCLTV Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/highshelfcltv/ Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/highshelfcollective Facebook page - http ..read more

Episode Notes Jason Cordova (@jasoncordova6 ) of Gauntlet Publishing (@GauntletRPG) fame (distributors of Trophy, and makers of The Between) are giving Brindelwood Bay (@BrindlewoodBay) a new life as a kickstarter project. Brindelwood Bay itself is a fantastic blend of Golden Girls and Cthulhu investigation using all the tropes of Murder She Wrote and other detective shows of its time. We've been playing it for years in it's earlier form on our twitch channel. Jason joins HSG to talk about the journey this game has taken to be ready for kickstarter and how he came to the novel approach to the ..read more

Dave and Rich emerge from an ancient podcast slumber - we talk about the last couple years, what happened to us as people and as a podcast show. It feels good to be back if you'll have us! Listen on: iTunes//Google//Spotify//Stitcher HSC Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/HighShelfCLTV Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/highshelfcltv/ Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/highshelfcollec... Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/highshelfcol... Website - https://www.highshelfcollective.com TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@highshelfCLTV Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/High... Teepu ..read more

Dave and Rich along with the rest of the HSG community had a lot of fun at the first-ever Gen Con online. We go through some of the obvious differences with Gen Con being fully virtual and talk about some of the surprising aspects. Well, surprising to us. For instance, most of the players in our games were 1st time Gen Con attendees, they expected to be in contact with the GMs weeks in advance and seemed to want to keep playing games with us after the convention. Which... is so bazaar when you think about how normal conventions go. Virtual conventions seem to be an excellent place to find new ..read more