The Quiet Year

Uh, and, and there even are some RPG-shaped objects, uh, that, that have no role-playing or minimal role-playing.

You know, kind of like the, the classic one being, like, The Quiet Year, right? And, and so, uh, I think it's...

I could absolutely accept an argument that, like, The Quiet Year is not a role-playing game when we're discussing specifically the difference between role-playing and, uh, collaborative storytelling, right? I, I think that, like, getting these kinda, like, technical terminologies, uh, straight and, like, drawing distinctions between things is, is useful and good.

Uh, but I think that has the knock-on- I just wanna back you up with a quote there- Yeah ... really fast.

Really fast.

So I, I agree with you in concept, but I have, like, 1,000 minor nitpicks about this in various directions.

All this just to say that I'm being pedantic, but I do agree with you.

One, The Quiet Year mostly doesn't call itself a role-playing game, actually.

And those soft things are, I think, what games like Apocalypse World brought us.

And I think that's why you see, like, that's why you see people not understand The Quiet Year and not understand these games that are operating on this, like, really elegant, soft level.

Mm-hmm.

And, and so I think there are, like the idea that PBTA is 2D6 mixed success is like, that's not what PBTA is bringing us.

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And then finally, we will be doing The Quiet Year, hopefully with a special guest.

James and I are all coordinating.

And then that will be it for season three.

Uh, and so I started discovering things that were just blowing my mind.

Uh, and one of them was a game called The Quiet Year.

If you get one thing [laughs] out of this-

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The Quiet Year is such a special and innovative game.

I, I've got the website up 'cause I always forget the name of the creator.

Avery Elder.

Anyway, The Quiet Year is a game where you draw cards and consult a table, uh, and answer a prompt.

Yeah

... it's, uh, us playing The Quiet Year with Dr. Emily Friedman and Avery Alder, who designed The Quiet Year, and it's just great.

It's so much fun.

Um, it's crazy.

It's touching.

It's e- everything you want a game of The Quiet Year to be.

And it is a video episode.

We will post an audio only version for the, for the podcast feed, but like-