Episode 10 - Hungary Part 1
2023-11-04 55 min Moritz Botts
Description & Show Notes
We conclude the Central- and Eastern Europe miniseries with another two-parter, because this country just has such a large gaming scene.
The show notes for part 1 and 2 will be identical so that you don’t have to look around to find what you are looking for.
Disclaimer: All links are to the websites or social media presence of RPG publishers, creators, gaming stores, gaming clubs, or actual play channels. I take no responsibility for the content behind those links. I received no compensation for linking to any of these pages.
Helvéczia by Gábor Lux is one of the few Hungarian RPGs translated into English (https://emdt.bigcartel.com/category/helveczia-rpg).
- The actual play channel I used for the teaser was Fun with Geeks (https://www.youtube.com/@funwithgeeksstreamek5074/featured). Other channels are RollPlayer (https://www.youtube.com/@RollPlayer) and Nat 20 (https://www.youtube.com/@Nat-cp4zv).
- Wendy mentioned the website for finding gaming groups in Hungarian, Szerepjátékosok (www.szerepjatekosok.hu).
- Gábor has a podcast in Hungarian named Grognard Breakfast (https://open.spotify.com/show/00N4l5KA0TWfXlsarAfkcq). His adventures can be found here ( https://emdt.bigcartel.com/product/the-lost-valley-of-kishar) and here (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/379533/No-ArtPunk-Vol-1). Tough not Hungarian, he recommends PrinceofNothing's website Age of Dusk (https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpress.com/).
- Gergely's YouTube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@KockakesSarkanyok. The funny naming thing he mentions is about Lajos Kossuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth).
- Gábor's Norse-influenced game is called Heimurinn (https://heimurinn.hu/).
- Sándor has worked on Against the Darkmaster (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/329319/against-the-darkmaster-core-rules), Trinity by Onyx Path (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/260788/trinity-continuum-core-rulebook), Dark Streets - Darker Secrets by Old Skull Publishing (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/266741/Dark-Streets--Darker-Secrets), and games by Hack & Slash Publishing (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/297830/On-Downtime-and-Demesnes-5th-Edition and https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/348258/artifices-deceptions-dilemmas). The classic Hungarian authors he mentions when he talked about Kazamaták és Kompániák and its setting Erdőelve are János Arany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/János_Arany) and Mór Jókai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mór_Jókai).
- Mátyás wrote Memento Morrison (https://thelook.club/product/memento-morrison/).
- Other smaller Hungarian RPGs not mentioned in the episode are Kalandozók Kora ("The Age of Adventurers") (https://dicewithedge.wordpress.com/) and Kard és Másodteremtés ("Sword and the Second Age") (https://masodteremtes.wordpress.com/).
The podcast I recommended is Dice Exploder (https://diceexploder.substack.com)
- The music is by Thomas Mutiu, you can find his work here: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/7GmlxnkpjsEMAq1deN5aeR?si=g822wgdISJWrX0_6Sjc-Tw&nd=1
- The logo is by Ayberk Karakaş who you can find here: https://www.instagram.com/ayberkarakas/