
Ben Newbon
British tabletop RPG designer (Cybertopia, Overgrown) and host of the Cybertopia AP and Deck of Many Aces actual-play podcasts; also a videogames analyst (formerly at Rare).
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Aug 21, 2026
Splitting the Deck - Feed Me
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28:55ArielPANELIST
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Ben NewbonGUEST
And enters into the room, and as soon as the door opens, you get the blast of heat come out on all of you.

Ben NewbonGUEST
And it's like a wave, and you have to struggle a little bit to walk forwards into this.

Ben NewbonGUEST
as you enter in it is noisy it is hot there's a air pressure in here that feels oppressive and singes your nose hairs as you go in and when you're in the other rooms when you're in the bird and it was like a blue glow in here is like an orange red kind of hot glow in here so it's quite bright you can see It's also got those like heat lines in the air.
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Splitting the Deck - The Burrowers
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Ben NewbonGUEST
Yeah, we are basing this on a, we call it a generational starship, right? It's flying through space and the humans on board who once ran this thing have mysteriously died off and several generations have passed and your creatures have kind of evolved from whatever the humans were doing with animals on this spaceship all those years back.

Ben NewbonGUEST
And so it's been maybe decades since the original incident that wiped out the humans occurred.

Ben NewbonGUEST
And you all have formed your own little clans and villages amongst your various spaces on the spacecraft.

Ben NewbonGUEST
You have a nice quaint little village, maybe in like the horticultural section of the spaceship that is now completely wild and overgrown, somehow has been sustained all these decades since the humans experienced their own cataclysm.

Ben NewbonGUEST
but you've been left largely unharmed and you've got your little village led currently by your elder the I should practice saying the animal names when we make these up.
