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Pil’s Haunted Mech Part 1 (s02 e01)
Island Demeter: Season 2 begins! The Kry Twins and Pil, ten years later, start to solve the mystery of a haunted mech.
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
Hiatus Announcement
We, well, are taking a break. And wanted to let you know. See you in Season 2!
8.2: Ten Candles
BW and 🐝 talk about Ten Candles by Stephen Dewey. Next up we read three posts on Waypoint from a themed week they did in July of 2017 called At Play in the Carceral State. The first, from then editor-in-chief Austin Walker, is the editorial that introduced the series; the subsequent two are “Dragons in the Department of Corrections” and “How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband,” both by Elisabeth de Kleer.
Links:
- Read 🐝’s Game Welcome to the City, My New Friend
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
8.1: Follow The Thread: A Worldbuilding Guide
BW and 🐝 talk about Follow The Thread: A Worldbuilding Guide, a series of blog posts by Meguey Baker. Next up is Ten Candles by Stephen Dewey.
Links:
- Only one, a correction, our first ever mistake.
- BW vastly simplified Meguey’s work in fiber history and museums, this tweet from a couple years ago sums it up better than I did! Apologies!
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
7.2: Dogs in the Vineyard
BW and Bee talk about Dogs in the Vineyard by D. Vincent Baker. Next up is Follow The Thread: A Worldbuilding Guide, a series of blog posts by Meguey Baker.
Links:
- While out of print, it is not hard to get a pdf, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=dogs+in+the+vineyard+pdf
- Then go check out Baker’s other work, https://lumpley.games/
- D.O.G.S. by KN Obaugh
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
7.1: GURPS: Games: Unruly Rending, Piping Sense, and more
BW and 🐝 talk about a short thread by John R Harness, an abstract by Evan Torner called Lyric Games: Geneaology of an Online “Physical Games” Scene, and GURPS: Games: Unruly Rending, Piping Sense by Riverhouse Games. Next up we’ll be talking about Dogs in the Vineyard by D Vincent Baker.
Links:
- see above :)
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝 and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
6.2: Alone Among the Stars & Doskvol Interstitials
BW and 🐝 talk about Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada, and the collection of games Doskvol Interstitials by Matthew RF Balousek. Next up we’ll be talking about a short thread by John R Harness, an abstract by Evan Torner called Lyric Games: Geneaology of an Online “Physical Games” Scene, and GURPS: Games: Unruly Rending, Piping Sense by Riverhouse Games.
Links:
- we gave you enough in the description this time!
- but also here’s a picture of Maquis for fun
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝 and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
6.1: A Historical look at the OSR
BW and Bee talk about A Historical Look at the OSR, a series of blog posts on Simulacrum: Exploring OSR design by Keith Hann. Next up, Alone among the Stars by Takuma Okada, and Doskvol Interstitials by Matthew RF Balousek.
Links:
- TSR’s $22 million in sales claim bee makes is from this post, which they barely half remembered and haven’t checked
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝 and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
5.2: Troika!
BW and 🐝 talk about Troika! by Daniel Sell. Next up we’ll be talking about A Historical Look at the OSR, a series of blog posts on Simulacrum: Exploring OSR design by Keith Hann
Links:
- Melsonian Arts Council
- Bunch of old Fighting Fantasy Books on Archive.org
Find the hosts at, respectively @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝 and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com/
5.1: I Have No Words & I Must Design
BW and 🐝 talk about I Have No Words & I Must Design: Toward a Critical Vocabulary for Games by Greg Costikyan. Next up we’ll be talking Troika by Daniel Sell.
Links:
Find the hosts at @beegabberel on Twitter for 🐝 and @bakeryslashworkshop on Instagram for BW.
We’re on the Island Demeter network, a fake as fuck podcast network. https://islanddemeter.com
