Podcast #110: Jiangshi Blood in the Banquet Hall with Banana Chan and Sen-Foong Lim

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Banana Chan and Sen-Foong Lim to talk about their game about Chinese immigrants running a restaurant under threat from hopping vampires currently on Kickstarter, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall. In the news, Wizards of the Coast announces a new Dungeons & Dragons board game, D&D Beyond breaks down the most popular classes and subclasses, Starfinder pre-painted minis are out now, Chaosium announces Lords of the Middle Sea, and more! Plus Our Favorite Game in All the World and a brand new sketch about getting a unique start.

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Our Guests

Banana Chan https://twitter.com/bananachangames

Sen-Foong Lim https://twitter.com/SenFoongLim

Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall on Kickstarter Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall

Note: Sen-Foong had to leave halfway through recording and was unavailable for the Kickstarter Game.

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News

Adventure Begins: A New Dungeons & Dragons Board Game WotC - Adventure Begins: A New Dungeons and Dragons Boardgame

Pre-Order on Amazon Amazon.com: Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Begins, Cooperative Fantasy Board Game, Fast Entry to The World of D&D, Family Game for 2-4 Players, 10 and Up: Toys & Games

The Most Popular D&D Classes & Subclasses 5E - The Most Popular D&D Classes & Subclasses

Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game Quickstart Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game Quickstart - Magpie Games | Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game | DriveThruRPG.com

Free RPG Day New and Improved Free RPG Day - Free RPG Day

Starfinder Battles Launches Today paizo.com - Community / Paizo Blog

Chaosium Announces Lords of the Middle Sea Roleplaying Game In Development Chaosium Announces Lords of the Middle Sea Roleplaying Game is in development

Chaosium’s Rivers of London Chaosium Announces Rivers of London Roleplaying Game

Rime of the Frostmaiden Preview 5E - Rime of the Frostmaiden Previews Include a Scroll of Tarrasque Summoning

Cutie Marks & Dragons Cutie Marks & Dragons | Dungeons & Dragons

Yes, they make plushie D20s Amazon.com: Ultra Pro Jumbo D20 10 Inch Novelty Dice Plush Red with WhiteNumbering: Toys & Games

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Kickstarters

Monster Care Squad Monster Care Squad

Necronautilus Necronautilus: Science Fantasy TTRPG

Book of Corals BOOK OF CORALS - New Options for the IRONCLAW role-playing

When Shadows Fall When Shadows Fall

Find all the RPG related crowdfunding projects ending soon every week with Egg Embry’s RPG Crowdfunding News RPG Crowdfunding News - Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters, Earthdawn, and more

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Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall

On Kickstarter Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall

EN World Interview with Beth Rimmels Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall -- An Interview with the Creators

Mr. Vampire aka Geung See Sin Sang Mr. Vampire (1985) - IMDb (I tried to find a streaming link but it’s not currently available and DVDs are going for over $70 right now and don’t even ask how much Blu-rays cost)

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Special Note

EN Publishing’s Kickstarter for Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters ends this week on Friday, July 31 so make sure to back soon! Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for D&D

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Hosts: Russ “Morrus” Morrissey and Peter Coffey

Editing and post-production: Darryl Mott

Kickstarter News Column used for the Kickstarter Game: Egg Embry

Theme Song: Steve Arnott

Kickstarter Game Theme: Lyrics by Russ Morrissey, Vocals by “drwilko”, Guitar by Darryl Mott

Malach the Maleficent played by Darren Morrissey

 

[Paragon Lost]

Loved, loved the podcast. I missed Fridays exercise so to make up for it I went out this morning and listened to the podcast when normally I'd listen to the episode on Mondays. (As Peter alluded to that many listeners probably do) Loved the whole conversation about how to handle the difficulty of racism in a rpg. As an older white male I find myself spending a lot of time being stressed and worried about stepping on a mine and offending someone accidently. So a game like "Jiangshi Blood in the Banquet Hall" fascinates me but at the same time makes me extremely nervous.

The creativity and ideas behind it are wonderful and something I think we need to see more of. I just feel like I'd buy it and never play it because I'd be worried to a point of stressful meltdown potential, that I'd do something wrong and be the guy bearing the focus of anger. Anyhow, thanks for the podcast, it was well done and the creators were very enjoyable to listen to.

Edit: went and backed the deluxe copy of the game, it just looks so fun and interesting.

 

[Abstruse]

The creativity and ideas behind it are wonderful and something I think we need to see more of. I just feel like I'd buy it and never play it because I'd be worried to a point of stressful meltdown potential, that I'd do something wrong and be the guy bearing the focus if anger.

There's always NoodleRun...

 

[Paragon Lost]

There's always NoodleRun...

Not following your point Darryl? Probably an obvious one, so pardon me for being dense this morning?

 

[Morrus]

Not following your point Darryl? Probably an obvious one, so pardon me for being dense this morning?

It was a game that Banana suggested on the show as a Chinese-themed cyberpunk game, IIRC.

 

[Paragon Lost]

It was a game that Banana suggested on the show as a Chinese-themed cyberpunk game, IIRC.

Right, I got that and heard it mentioned in the podcast. I just don't get his reply to my quote. Again, maybe I'm being dense here. I even asked my wife in case I am just indeed being dense and she didn't get his point either. Anyhow, I went and backed their kickstarter to snag a deluxe edition because we both thought it was a really creative and interesting idea. Thanks for the reply Russ regardless.

 

[Abstruse]

Right, I got that and heard it mentioned in the podcast. I just don't get his reply to my quote. Again, maybe I'm being dense here. I even asked my wife in case I am just indeed being dense and she didn't get his point either. Anyhow, I went and backed their kickstarter to snag a deluxe edition because we both thought it was a really creative and interesting idea. Thanks for the reply Russ regardless.

I think this may be on me because I thought it was one of the options in the Scenario Book pending stretch goals. I suggested it under that assumption it is or will be available as an alternative setting to 1920s America.

 

[Morrus]

I think this may be on me because I thought it was one of the options in the Scenario Book pending stretch goals. I suggested it under that assumption it is or will be available as an alternative setting to 1920s America.

Huh. So it wasn’t a joke after al!