Hosts: Jason, Jenn, Todd

We have on guy-you've-probably-never-heard-of-just-kidding-you-love-his-work Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games to talk with Jenn and Todd about Gencon 2017. We discuss a number of games including Limbo, Let's be Dinosaurs, Poutine, Circles of Power, and more.

Also, Jason gives out the first ever Academy of Roleplaying Game Arts & Sciences (ARPGAS) technical awards:

Best game mechanic - Tabletop

The Beast, Aleksandra Sontowska and Kamil Węgrzynowicz

The Beast's epistolatory format, leveraging a span of 21 days to help you tell yourself a really dirty story

http://beast.nakedfemalegiant.pl/2017/06/11/diana-jones-award-nominee/

Best game mechanic - larp

The Tribes, Janan Adawi, Sari Abdo, Majd Hamouri, Mohamad Rabah, Shadi Sader, Shadi Zatara, Tamara Nasar, Amer Kurdi, Loai Misleh

In The Tribes, conflicts are resolved through synchronized dance-offs. The most precise dancing team wins.

Best metatechnique for live action play

The Lookdown, invented by Johanna Kohljonen and Trine Lise Lindahl

A safety calibration mechanic that is intuitive, flexible and elegant

https://participationsafety.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/toolkit-the-see-no-evil-or-lookdown/