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Podcast: Tabletop Miniature Hobby Podcast
Episode: Trench Crusade's Tuomas Pirinen on Narrative Gaming, Storytelling, & Running Campaigns
Description: Few designers have influenced narrative miniature gaming as much as Tuomas Pirinen. From Mordheim in the late 1990s to the recent breakout success of Trench Crusade, his games have always leaned heavily toward story, character and campaign play.What surprises him most is that the latest one worked as well as it did.“We were totally prepared to lose our shirts and be happy about it,” Pirinen says of launching Trench Crusade. “But it didn’t go that way.”The project was essentially a gamble between friends. Pirinen and collaborator Mike Franchina funded sculpting...