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Hello and Welcome to The RPG Academy. In this very special bonus episode Michael ( @TheRpgAcademy ) is joined by Lewanika from the Tabletop Journeys Podcast as well as Kevin Stacy from the Game Knight Heroes podcast for a cross-pod event – the 2023 Ultimate TTRPG Bookshelf Draft with Chris Burlew from the Redemption Podcast acting as our Draftmaster aka the Commissioner.
The Draft proceeded in Snake Draft format with Lewanika going in 1st position, then Kevin and then Michael.
We had 6 categories to draft from and we could draft them in any order we wanted. Our Categories were:
The Cornerstone. Any version of D&D or Pathfinder (though you COULD go outside if you wanted)
The Contender. A TTRPG that wasn’t one of the big two, but maybe should be or could be in the future.
The Indie Darling. An Indie RPG that can never get enough live.
Genre 1 and Genre 2 – any TTRPG that would fit as a genre game.
Wildcard – anything we wanted including a duplicate of another category.
We have our selections as:
Round 1 Selection 1 Lewanika Cornerstone Category D&D 3.0/3.5 edition
Round 1 Selection 2 Kevin Cornerstone Category D&D 5e
Round 1 Selection 3 Michael Contender Category Savage World Adventure Edition
Round 2 Selection 4 Michael Indie Darling Dread
Round 2 Selection 5 Kevin Genre 1 Mutants & Masterminds
Round 2 Selection 6 Lewanika Genre 1 Star Trek: Adventures
Round 3 Selection 7 Lewanika Genre 2 Everyday Heroes
Round 3 Selection 8 Kevin Genre 2 Vampire: The Masquerade
Round 3 Selection 9 Michael Genre 1 MASKS: The New Generation
Round 4 Selection 10 Michael Genre 2 Call of Cthulhu
Round 4 Selection 11 Kevin Wildcard City of Mist
Round 4 Selection 12 Lewanika Contender Dungeon Crawl Classics
Round 5 Selection 13 Lewanika Indie Darling Kids on Bikes
Round 5 Selection 14 Kevin Indie Darling Lady Blackbird
Round 5 Selection 15 Michael Cornerstone Pathfinder 2nd edition
Round 6 Selection 16 Michael Wildcard: Atomic Robo FATE
Round 6 Selection 17 Kevin Contender AGE – Adventure Game Engine
Round 6 Selection 18 Lewanika Wildcard The Palladium Series
and now it’s all up to YOU, dear listener – now you get to vote and determine who’s bookshelf is the Ultimate (or most ultimate) one from this draft. Check on various social channels on Twitter, Facebook and instagram and vote. We will tally the votes across all our channels and announce which one of us has the Ultimate TTRPG Bookshelf.
Comments and Feedback are always welcome.
Thanks!!
~Michael
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