Episode 11

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Published on:

16th Jun 2025

Genre: Mystery

The second in our series about Genres. We pick right up with mysteries. We explore the required baseline for mysteries and how they can and can very much NOT work in TTRPGs.

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Links for the systems mentioned:

Brindlewood Bay - Miss Marple style mysteries

Apocalypse Keys - BPRD style mysteries

Scion 2e - Game about the children of old gods adventuring

Promethean: The Created - Call of Darkness game about created lifeforms

Firefly: The RPG - long out-of-print game for running games in the Firefly universe

Leverage: The RPG - long-out-of-print game for running games in the Leverage world

Blades in the Dark - modern heist game for running crews in the world of Duskvol

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Tabletop Hot Takes
with Professor Funky & Aria
A Podcast about Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPGs), our thoughts and feeling on them, and, of course, hot takes.

We explore TTRPG history, indie RPGs, advice, recommendations, and all kinds of other great things.

Professor Aria was raised in the fire of TTRPGs having run and played Shadowrun, D&D 5E, Ryuutama, and several indie RPGs. They have Game Mastered for almost ten years. They are trying to make their own system, an exploration of cyberpunk fantasy in an approachable, customizable system.

Professor Funky has run TTRPGs for over 20 years and for far too many systems to count, though he will try. He is in the process of making his own system and publishing a fantasy adventure, The Plot of Conquerors, as well.

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