the world we left behind | wrapped
| wrap-ups | guests: dorian, nick butler 428 Words
the final episode of the the world we left behind series just went live! đź–¤
the guests
dorian | support your local library | @michifott [ bluesky ]
nick butler | https://www.tidebreakerrpg.com/ | @fallonmyblade [ bluesky ]
process
these episodes took 33 hours to edit. the only series that’s taken longer was live. love. die. remember. (36 hours) & that was because i made a huge mistake that took four hours to fix. this one was just labour intensive!!
dorian was the one who brought this game to my attention when i was looking for a way to get him on the show & i’m sooo so so glad it all came together. there were a couple different potential second guests, but a series of emergencies & circumstances meant that about a week before the episodes were going to start airing, i was still without a second playthrough. i really prefer the dynamic of three people in total when at all possible, so i put out a call on bluesky & nick appeared in my DMs– i really appreciate his willingness to hop into the fray at the last minute so i didn’t have a gap in episodes đź–¤
data
we each discovered almost exactly the same amount of information about our planets, but had fairly different ratios of “discoveries on unique cards” to “discoveries made on a repeat visit to a card”:
the distributions of trait types were super even across players, as well:
(the counts are different from the “unique” counts in the first chart because this one doesn’t include the four aces!)
every symbol was drawn at least once! the most common was an arrow & the least common was a rectangle. the only symbols that didn’t come up for all four trait types were the symbols that appeared fewer than four times:
i’m so struck by how even this game ended up!! i guess it makes sense with nearly half the deck in each of our maps, but i still usually see a much weirder random skew. the trait scenes were a little more lopsided, but only barely:
dorian had the widest spread of symbols, drawing at least one of every type, while nick’s & mine were a bit more clustered. i triple-checked & yeah, each of us drew three arrows!! we are NAVIGATING we are EXPLORING we are POINTING IN DIRECTIONS
ok i guess that’s it
the final thing i want to note is that dorian made my straight-up favourite little creature in folio history in this series (the perfectly cylindrical bugs)!!! ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪