Secrets Within Secrets: Introduction
Welcome back to TwistedSpoon Studio! This week, we're taking a break from custom Magic and instead debuting a new game. Secrets within Secrets is a tabletop RPG powered by the apocalypse set in a dark folklore-inspired world where everyone has secrets. Today we're going to talk about the inspirations for the game, it's mechanical origins, and its current state of design. It starts with another roleplaying game: the OG, DnD (specifically 5e, you see). Not in the sense that Dungeons and Dragons is the progenitor of modern Western tabletop role-playing games and the wider genre of RPGs altogether, although that is also true; no, our story actually starts with an actual play podcast. You know, one where they actually play DnD. It's one you might have heard of. If you're not familiar, The Adventure Zone features the McElroy brothers-- three funny boys from West Virginia who also do another show called My Brother, My Brother, a...