Podcast

System Shop

Violet & Freya

Welcome to System Shop, the podcast where we deep dive into RPG design, one subsystem at a time.Join us as we explore the origins, empirical trends, and future design space of all aspects of tabletop game design. What’s the point of mechanising carrying capacity or NPC attitudes? Why distinguish between armour and evasion, or attributes and skills? Many stories may begin with “because D&D did it”, but that’s far from …