291: Fog of War w/ Brassbird (feat. The Stars Beyond with Absol)

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We're in full prep and travel mode for our Portland live show and Hootenanny, but we have a special treat for you! We've been a part of a couple of "Fog of War" games recently and decided to bring resident Fog of War Weird Bear Correspondent Brassbird in to help us make sense of this very odd game mode. It's an adventurous, cutthroat, thematic way to play and there are a number of ways to try it out! Also, Matt and Absol read the first short story from The Stars Beyond, A Ghost of a Chance and are here with reactions and analysis. It's the first extended universe story we've read that wasn't written by Tim Pratt, so it's time to see how other author's handle our beloved franchise. 00:00 Fog of War with Brassbird 52:05 A Ghost of a Chance with Absol Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, 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.
0:11.1	Episode 291, Fog of War with Brassbird, featuring the Stars Beyond with Absal.
0:18.4	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. What is up, everybody? I am thrilled to be joined by my best friend in the whole world. I've just taken it. You're nobody else's best friend. You're my best friend now.
0:56.0	Frocks can go stuff it. I'm here with Brassbird from community formation and from the community plays Discord and from the weird bear community and just just my best friend Brassbird. What is up?
1:09.0	Well, what's up dude? I'm so honored, thrilled, delighted to be here.
1:14.7	I'll make another meme. Friendship ended with frogs.
1:20.0	Now, Matt's my best friend. Yeah, you know it, maybe.
1:23.2	Sometimes it's E.J., but every once in a while, I get to come claim Brassard for myself.
1:28.7	Brassbert is here today because we're going to talk about fog of war stuff.
1:34.0	So we just last week, this past weekend, we did a stream of fog of war as it is implemented in tablet Playground, which is kind of its own beast, but also
1:46.6	Wecker has long been hard at work with his Froggy Bot on what some people just call
1:52.0	Frog of War, but also Fog of War, which is an async Discord kind of thing. So if you remember
1:58.1	our A-Sync episodes, it's like Playby Forum, Twilight
2:01.6	Imperium, but Fog of War style, and also what we're going to talk about today is an extension
2:06.4	of that, which is Community Plays Ti's version of Fog of War. So there's a lot happening, okay?
2:12.9	There's a lot format-wise going on. But let's first- We'll unpack at all. Yeah all yeah exactly we will unpack at all let's talk
2:18.9	first and foremost about what fog of war actually means which is honestly a hard question to
2:24.5	answer because kind of each of these formats turns the dials in different way but also
2:28.6	i'll talk about what we played uh the other day on tabletop playground it's a weird environment for fog of war. The idea of fog of war,
2:38.4	if you are not even familiar with strategy games, is a fog of war is implemented in, especially
2:44.0	real-time strategy games, that basically obscures your vision of things you don't have range of, right?
2:51.5	Things you can't quite get to so you don't get to know what's there.
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