Episode 09 - Poland Part 1

The World of RPGs

The show notes for part 1 and 2 will be identical so that you don’t have to look around to find what you are looking for.

Disclaimer: All links are to the websites or social media presence of RPG publishers, creators, gaming stores, gaming clubs, or actual play channels. I take no responsibility for the content behind those links. I received no compensation for linking to any of these pages.

The gaming club I hung out with during my study abroad was Druga Era (https://drugaera.org

) and I got my RPG books at Empik (https://www.empik.com). Nowadays, major Polish game publishers and distributors are Rebel (https://www.rebel.pl) and Portal (https://portalgames.pl/pl/).

• The actual play channel I used and that Michał is part of was To ja go tnę! (https://www.youtube.com/@tjgt). There are many more Polish actual play channels out there and I cannot possibly document all of them here.
• Łukasz is part of the Fajerbol collective (http://fajerbol.pl) their games can be found on itch (https://skavenloft.itch.io) and Drivethru (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/9394/Skavenloft). Some of the mentioned games are Edelweiss (https://skavenloft.itch.io/edelweiss), Strzygi/ Wights (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/368117/Wights), Greystokes (in Polish only https://skavenloft.itch.io/greystokes-legenda-wadcw-dungli), and especially Rajd na Stambuł (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/353463/Rajd-na-Stambul?manufacturers_id=9394).
• Slav Bork was kickstartered in the Summer of 2023 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slavdomstudio/slav-borg-a-post-soviet-semi-fantasy-osr). Before that, Paweł had participated in the Lovehammer exhibition (https://krupagallery.pl/en/lovehammer/) and published a couple of albums under the name Naptha (https://tance.bandcamp.com/album/a-o).
• Artur has his own homepage (https://ganszyniec.com/en/main-english/) and Wolsung is currently available in an English translation (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/123128/Wolsung-Steam-Pulp-Fantasy) and also planned to be released in German (https://www.redaktion-phantastik.de/produkt/wolsung-grundregelwerk/).
• Kaja’s games are on itch (https://solskaia.itch.io) and Drivethru (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/20629/Kaja-Solska).
• Marcin is one of the founders of Game Machinery (https://gamemachinery.com/our-games). There’s also an interview with him about Defiant on EN World (https://www.enworld.org/threads/defiant-rpg-a-gaming-interview-with-marcin-kuczyński-game-machinery.681018/).

I mentioned a number of YouTube channels about TTRPGs in different countries. The Polish channel TTRPGs Around the World is dedicated to this topic (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJSXT0NRdn36FcX1pwlw_VPfr9mL8X1-) though they have not done a Poland episode yet.

The channel Don’t Stop Thinking has an episode in which the interview someone from Poland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdonlSPepdc). The German channel Lurch und Lama has an English language interview about Israel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05eVVHAtF_0&t=3187s).

• The music is by Thomas Mutiu, you can find his work here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GmlxnkpjsEMAq1deN5aeR?si=g822wgdISJWrX0_6Sjc-Tw&fbclid=IwAR1zyWd9vEAOQlG-L_8Ym1N1cuiQMKdOGn5xDYgUU-bPGmHavvhEeDO9cDE&nd=1
• The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş who you can find here: https://www.instagram.com/ayberkarakas/