A board game event organizer finds a dead girl with a syringe in her arm 24 hours before their big tournament.
The episode opens with a discussion of Andrea 'Dado's novel 'In Doubt I Take Resources,' a pulp noir story set in the board gaming world where organizers discover a dead body before a major event. Andrea explains the novel's coral structure with multiple viewpoints and its publication by TVGiochi, which typically doesn't publish narrative fiction. He shares anecdotes from bookstore presentations, including improvising a role-playing game session to explain RPGs to a curious customer. The hosts then transition to revisiting past episodes, starting with one on role-playing games, where they mention titles like 'Tales of the Round Table,' a narrative game based on Arthurian legends. They discuss RPG pricing, noting that physical copies cost 20-30 euros due to small print runs and color illustrations, and highlight '24 Game Poems' as affordable digital filler RPGs. Next, they recall an episode on party games, featuring 'Two Rooms and a Boom,' a social deduction game for up to 42 players, and 'Death Note Ahead,' a memory-based card game. Finally, they revisit an episode on three-player board games, recommending 'Star Trek Ascendancy' for its three-faction design and criticizing 'Chaos in the Old World' for being unbalanced with three players. Throughout, the hosts interject with personal stories, such as Andrea being the 'father' of Radio Goblin, and humorous banter about game collecting and mispronunciations.
