Roll for Adventure

- Season 1

(2015)

High school can be tough. But what if you were not only an angsty teenager, but also secretly a werewolf? Or Sabrina the Teenage Witch? Or a vampire slayer? Roll for Adventure takes a look at Monsterhearts, a role-playing game based on the Apocalypse World engine, which draws inspiration from everything from paranormal romance to teen drama. They discuss the mechanics of the game as well as speak with game creator Avery Mcdaldno to get their insights to how the game was put together.

Roll for Adventure takes a look at Toon; a game where you play as a cartoon character, physics is just a funny word, and nobody ever dies. Which cartoon world is this game based on? All of them! You can play anything from Hanna Barbera to Looney Tunes, or modernise the theme and introduce some My little Pony, or even SpongeBob SquarePants if you like. Toon was originally published in 1983 so this is definitely one from the archives, but they dust this game off and see how a role-playing game goes more than three decades since it was released. They're also lucky to ...

So hypothetically speaking, what if after the Invasion of Normandy during World War II, the Germans managed to successfully push the Allied forces back? Could it have worked with laser tanks? And were the lasers reverse-engineered from Alien technology? With Microscope you can travel throughout a time-line and explore an epic history of your own creation, hundreds or thousands of years long, all in one session. The secret is you don't play the game in chronological order: your group defies the limits of time and space - jumping backward or forward to explore the parts...

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