260: Some GenCon Interviews! (Twilight Inscription, Embers of the Imperium RPG, and Leder Games)

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We ran around GenCon for three days and talked to some amazing folks! 0:00 - First up, James Kniffen, the designer of the new TI Roll and Write Twilight Inscription. We discuss his background with FFG and what inspired this crazy genre shift for our beloved franchise 13:13 - Then, Sam Gregor-Stewart whose team at Edge have been trying to release the hotly anticipated Twilight Imperium sourcebook for the Genesys RPG, Embers of the Imperium. We're digging deep into what to expect with some of the upcoming lore, and where the inspirations for this book came from. 28:50 - Finally, we got to hang out with our dear friends Leder Games. Cole and Patrick joined us to discuss Ahoy, Arcs, and what it's like to be back at conventions as well as in a new bigger office! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Twitter, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0	This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:11.8	Episode 260.
0:13.7	Some Gen Con interviews.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. So I'm here with James Niffin, the new, I don't know, the godfather of T.I.
0:51.1	The uncle of T.I.
0:53.9	Yeah, I like the adjacent, the uncle of Ti. The distant uncle who,
0:57.0	who sent Christmas gifts to Dane Beltrami, but that's about it.
1:01.0	So talk to me about Twilight Inscription, maybe a quick, just the elevator pitch of what
1:08.0	Twilight Inscription is. Sure, so Twilight Inscription is, the idea is to be the Twilight Imperium experience
1:15.9	boiled down into a two-hour roll-in-write.
1:18.9	So we'll still do a lot of your favorite things from TI, like building units and
1:24.3	taking over planets and navigating the galaxy, collecting relics, fighting each other, politics, etc.
1:31.3	It's just all on a smaller scale, well, small compared to TI.
1:36.3	A reasonable person's scale is what we are now on.
1:39.3	Exactly. Like normal, you're each a faction and you're trying to become the next ruler of the galaxy,
1:46.0	shape it to the way that your culture sees how it should be.
1:49.9	And yeah, most victory points wins.
1:52.4	So most victory points wins.
1:54.4	It's notably not a, it's not like a get X amount of victory points.
1:59.5	And then the game is over kind of thing.
2:01.7	So what is the end game of Twilight Instcript? I mean, what is kind of the goal of what you're
2:07.6	striving for and how does the end feel? So you're trying to get the most victory points.
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