🎙Let’s Chat With: Joe McCullough, Designer of Frostgrave and The Silver Bayonet! [Ep. 42]
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2023
- We chat with Joe McCullough, designer of Frostgrave, Stargrave, Rangers of Shadowdeep.💥More below!⬇
Joe is one of the top game designers working today and he graciously lent us some of his time to chat about writing, game design and his method for coming up with ideas!
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Joe’s website
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Joe’s blog
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Frostgrave
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Stargrave
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Rangers of Shadowdeep
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The Silver Bayonet
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Absolutely correct: back in the day, we were 'gamers'...which meant video games, board games, RPG games, TT wargames, etc., etc. All types were loved and appreciated for what they brought to the table. Some we liked more than others, but we appreciated (and played) them all.
Yep! I guess fracturing was inevitable along with growth, seems a natural human instinct to self-group as numbers get bigger. Take the bitter with the better, or something like that right? 🍻
I'm am and old 80's gamer, and I played EVERYTHING I could get my grubby paws on. Games were not just the mathematics, they were worlds of imagination (understanding the math did help however 😁)
A list of what I have played, just in RPG's would be....... extensive, let alone what I have run, played one off's in conventions etc as the early 90's got a lot of "system less" games run at conventions, at least out here, I cannot speak to the US scene in that regard.
Add in TTWG's, Board games, computer games...........
Holy hell, that is a LONG list.
You are absolutely right however, we were, and remain, GAMERS. (even without the time to do it as much as we used to)
You're my geek right?
Bought this new box of fun, wanna give it a go?
Dude is a legend, great interview.
Great interview 👍🏼
Thank you for making this happen! Big McCullough fan!
Awesome! Yep me too lol 🍻
Love this interview, thanks for making the time for this!
Joe is amazing. I was thrilled by each discussion topic.
Awesome! I also checked out your content, great stuff, dude! I’ll hit you up on there 🍻🏴☠️
OK, with a supplement for Silver Bayonet being written by Ash (GMG games) I suspect a definite narritive feel to it - guess SIlver Bayonet is moving into my 'purchase when the funds allow' list (i.e, when there is another Osprey sale).
Well Dangit I didn’t know osprey had sales! Now I gotta set up some kinda alert or something …
Great interview
Very cool interview 🎉
That was such an awesome interview! Really enjoyed the casual chat format, and you nailed it as far as an interviewer guiding the conversation goes. Good ole Joe McCullough seems like a great guy to talk about pretty much anything with too!
Dude needs to stop taking my money, though 😂
Lol agreed, I just added two more books to my shopping cart that I’m sure I won’t get around to playing for a couple years 😂. Glad you enjoyed it!🍻
Really dug your process questions. That was cool to hear
Nice! 🍻
Okay, making a movie about Frostgrave sounds like an awesome idea. While I haven't played the game I started reading about it and about the game's lore (which I gather is mostly created by the players), watching videos quite a bit, and I love the world it's set in and the stories that came out of it.
Yeah it’s pretty perfect setting for storytelling! 🎬🍿
@@tabletopalchemy So If you ever do end up making a movie about it, count me in. I don;t have any special skills but I am willing to work for free :)
Lol that’s an enormous special skill all on its own!
That was a really cool interview. I look forward to more expansions of Rangers of Shadow Deep and Stargrave
Yeah me too! 🍻
Great interview. thx! As a huge J McC fan I think an RPG set in the world of The Silver Bayonet would be amazing.
I agree! I’d kinda like to see any rpg rule set Joe would come up with. 🍻
Well how cool is that? Very awesome interview. 😁👍
Right on🍻
The 5 Parsecs/5 Leagues campaign structure does have a narrative arc that drives the subsequent table rolls. In some ways it mirrors some of the campaign arc supplements Joe has written for Stargrave but with a bit more randomization. But I can totally see from a design perspective where one would not want to design random tables.
Yeah I want aware of the 5 parsec system so I found that very interesting and may have to pick it up to check it out but I also understood Joe’s point as well. Awesome thing about the hobby is there’s room for every type of player and creator!
I’d love to have a bat phone to Joe. I’ve never written a story and I’m in deep building a fantasy based skirmish game.
Lol yes! I think just playing out a scenario will generate a story you can flesh out however you want! 🤙🍻
Now you are best buddies with the amazing Joe McCullough can you influence him to make an asian themed game system. SamuraiGrave or a 7 kingdoms table skirmish game or just something set in the far east. It would be nice to see a project that is less centred on Europen themes.
This is a cool idea - I’ll actually fwd him this! 🍻
Mash 'em up! "Grave of the Kingdoms' 7 Samurai"! 😁😁😁
*points to the door I'll see myself out...
I sent him your question, and he said he doesn’t feel he knows enough about Asian culture to make an attempt currently 🤷 Still a great idea … maybe there’s a game waiting for you to design it … 🧐
@@tabletopalchemy Okay "Graves of the Kingdoms of the 7 Samurai" is in the works then lol
a hero interviewing a hero! +10exp for both of you!
lol I’ll take it! 🏴☠️🍻
Would be really interesting to know what Joe thinks of: -
1) Infinity?
2) Brawlmachine?
Infinity is so different to a lot of wargames, but has the d20 and the responiveness (and the lethality!) that Joe seems to like.
And Brawlmachine seems to me the BEST incarnation of Warmachine - perhaps what the game could always have been as they severely cut the points but also banned some of the most powerful casters in the game to even out the power, and for all the issues with PP the fundamental game system is still good imo.
Good questions! I hadn’t heard of Brawlmachine, that sounds promising, I shall check it out. 🤙🍻
Great video! Joe McCullough is a legend!
If you need a leatherworker for the Frostgrave movie, give me a shout (like yourself, I actually work in film and TV too hahaha)
Ah excellent! I shall save your message here🍻
@@tabletopalchemy it's nice seeing someone on CZcams in that crossover of gaming and film work. Odd how there's not more.
I agree! Do you work in wardrobe/costume/props?
@@tabletopalchemy normally costume, lots of armour and belts and bracers. I'm UK based, and the strikes over there have stopped a lot of work over here too (good luck to them, mind!), so I'm currently doing leatherwork breakdown for a props dept on a medieval film. Nice for a change, and kinda fun beating up leatherwork rather than making it.
Ah very cool! When I did my little fantasy web series I tried to get ahold of some cool leather armor bits but man my $0 budget kinda choked on that 🤣 I ended up getting one very cool articulated pauldron - leather work is amazing! Good luck on the productions!
I’m getting Frostgrave. What a twist!
Nice! Hope you dig it! 🍻
Stargrave is one of my favorite skirmish games. I've really noticed a push in both RPGs and skirmish games to not only simplify rules and distill them down to what is needed to facilitate fast and fun play, but to explore really different genres and worlds. Especially in indie style RPGs and miniature games.
I’ve got all the Stargrave books but I haven’t played yet - definitely looking forward to it!
Silver Bayonet is sounding more interesting. So many rulesets, so little time and money.
Lol agreed!
Great interview until the last bit.
Lol - we try, we try🍻
3 hours of interviews in 72 hours.............
I KILL YOU!!!
(now I have got the Achmed off my chest)
Actually, I'm not entirely sure what to say, both were good, but for different reasons. I think the interview you controlled here was better than the one you gave, but I would chalk that more up to being in the direct "public eye" rather than anything actually being wrong.
I think there is a certain amount of control as an interviewer rather than an interviewee you find more comfortable, and that is much of a stylistic decision, or imperative, choose which one fits better.
The Director Vs the Actor?
I don't know, there is a fan around here covered in brown goo, we'll see what sticks😂😆
I do feel you interviewing and having creative control is a far better format........... at this stage simply because that seems to be what you are more familiar with.
I have no doubt you are capable of getting to the other side of things.
As for the content.
Fantastic questions, fantastic answers, throw in some hot wings and you are on a roll (or perhaps some of your brothers tapped kegs.........)
Fantashtiq (hic)
I would have said "sit on a kaiser and you are on a roll", but my humour is kinda stupid that way. 🤪
@@Ogre6972 Pointy helmets might work as well...........
Have you seen my little tank?
Or the fallen Madonna with the big boobies by Van Klump?
Or the Cracked Vase with the big flowers?
🤣 Yes kegs and Kaiser’s either way we rollin’! Yeah I’m definitely not an “on-camera” type, but some of that inevitably has to do with practice lol. And editing! I feel a lot more comfortable when there’s an edit involved. I streamed Minecraft for two years and got fairly decent at “chilling” on the mic but I ran without a face cam lol. And I do dig asking questions. Maybe I just need to drink the beer *beforehand* … 🏴☠️🍻