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Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your game master.

This week we have a very special treat for everyone.

One Shot was hired by game designer Christian Olin to take a look at his newly translated role-playing

game Trineton. Trineton is a really interesting project. It's a role-playing game that is expressly

trying to expand the hobby.

Although there are a lot of elements in Triniton that resemble other role-playing games,

a great deal of the book's layout and presentation is trying to break the mold

and easily welcome in new people to the hobby.

The game itself has an adjustable level of complexity that allows anyone to engage with the system.

I think the closest comparison for the Trineton experience is a combination of Lady Blackbird and

Numenara using Blackbird's approachable presentation and Numenara's rich detailed approach to

science fantasy although Trineton presents a fully populated world

that can have endless adventures, the book is very much designed to tell a singular

story. The quick start guide that Alan gave me provided very bare bones information about the

setting and a one-page explanation of the core mechanics of Trineton. My players

and I use the little bit of setting information that we got to spin our own

bonkers world that has only

cosmetic similarities to your standard Triniton. If you're someone who

listens to the show because you're thinking of getting into RPGs's but don't

know where to start or you're always trying to rally people into playing

games and the standard fantasy set just isn't doing it for them, Trineton is definitely

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