Although I’ve been out of town the last few days I have gotten the chance to play Under the Waves.  The game is about 9-10hrs. long.  I’m about 3-4hrs. in.  A slow and methodical game about the crushing weight of grief.  Love what I am playing so far.  Full review next week.

Gaming with Grief Episode 257-Under the Waves Early Impressions

It was a difficult road, but I finally finished the game.  A great art style and music, and a pretty good message about moving on with grief.  We are going to talk about it and if you can pick the game up.  Enjoy.

Gaming with Grief Episode 258-Under the Waves Spoilercast

We are going to be playing The Shadow of the Dragon Queen module for 5e. We also added a new player. So I thought it would be good to meet them.

TTE Ep. 9-Meeting the New Players

Avin from The Grief of Politics joins me this week to talk about Sony's moves and place in the industry.  With so many layoffs and studio closures how does a company survive.

Gaming with Grief Episode 259-What's up Sony?

Some new players and a brand new setting.  Everyone really wanted to travel to the land of Krynn and experience the wonderful world of dragons and queens and...We are running the Shadow of the Dragon Queen adventure module for D&D 5e. To catch you up:  We played a few sessions without recording.  We were on boarding a new player.
To Recap: The PCs were tasked with investigating some prisoner camps to the North and to the East of their location.  After they kill some mercenaries they investigate the area, they find an illusionary rock wall, this episode picks up there.

 I had to change a lot of the module  because the experiment this time is to get PCs from level 1 to level 20.  The module ends at level 10-12.  Enjoy the first official session and remember the episodes hit once a week now on Wednesday.  The video hits YouTube at 7:00am and the audio hits earlier Wednesday morning.  Thanks for coming along on the ride with us.  Tell your D&D or TTRPG friends about the show as well.

TTE Ep. 10 Dragonlance Ep. 1-New Stakes

This week I'm introducing a new type of review on the podcast: In Memoriam.  These will focus on the last games the studios produced before they were closed down.  Many of them winning awards.  So nothing else will change, they'll come out every Monday like normal, but I'll sprinkle them in here and there over the rest of the year.

Gaming with Grief Episode 260-In Memoriam Reviews

This week the group decides to help the merchant Rhys out with a little problem.  That deals with *maybe* dragons.  And for the right coin the group helps.  Will it be okay?  Will someone be turned to stone?  Hard to say.  Remember, the podcast comes out once a week on Wednesdays now.

TTE Ep. 11 Dragonlance Ep. 2-To the Caravan

A little bit of a happy episode this week.  Since Avin and I have been talking about how different gaming companies are approaching a changing business model in video games this time we talk about Nintendo.  Enjoy.

Gaming with Grief Episode 261-What's up Nintendo?

Avin and I dive in to the recent protest on campus and the utility of protest and what they mean for the first amendment.  It’s a long great discussion this week.

The Grief of Politics Episode 41-Campus Protest

Well this week the group finally makes it to Vogler.  Will they fish? Yes, do they see if someone is cheating, if they pass an insight check, or something.  Remember episodes come out once a week now, and maybe more.  I'm dropping some extra Episodes over the holidays.  Enjoy and remember to subscribe.  A new episode drops every Wednesday.

TTE Ep. 12 Dragonlance Part 3-The Vogler Gazette

Between 2016-2020 I experienced an amazing amount of grief.  I love games, all sorts games.  Card, board, and video games.  I try to examine them from a perspective of how they deal with grief and how that is articulated in the game itself.

TTE Ep. 10 Dragonlance Ep. 1-New Stakes

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