Bastionland Podcast - Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design · Chris McDowall

Andy Chambers' Rule of Three

May 20, 2024·1 hr 1 min·5 clips
Andy Chambers explains how a virus card in Warhammer 40k second edition could chain-kill your whole army.
Andy Chambers discusses three key games from his career: Warhammer 40,000 second edition, Starship Troopers, and Blood Red Skies, sharing insights on design challenges, creative freedom, and lessons learned from community feedback.

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A designer's memory lane that becomes a quiet lesson in change, freedom, and table feel.

Andy Chambers' turn on Bastionland feels like a conversation about how game ideas age and change. It moves from the White Dwarf spectacle that first caught Chris McDowell's attention to the freedom of building Starship Troopers from scratch, then into the friction of making…

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You want Andy Chambers on why rule changes hit players so hard.

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