Differing seasons and month names etc can be flavourful, but giving your story "months" and "years" of a different length to the real world equivalents is always a massive headache and never worth the confusion imo!

Also the most stackable component is the camels from Camel Up, but that might be cheating because that's what you're meant to do with them.

A fun listen! I'm delighted to hear you guys reach for "magical girl" as an example genre, because I have been (affectionately) bullied for always using it as my go-to genre in discussions 😜

(W)hat is (t)hat? 🎩

One small advantage of the curse of changing clocks is that the playtest & discussion ran for five hours and ended well after midnight, so I'm glad for the extra hour's sleep.

Trapped in a vault deep beneath the earth, RIP

Okay, @ilgingell.bsky.social and I watched River this evening and we agree it's also really good! I love how the problems caused by the timeloop differ from the standard tropes because of the setup. And the fact that arguably the main problem is the nightmare of endless customer service.

Ah, correction: it gets (not quite) two minutes in the roundup of everything - youtu.be/q6tzeDqGrcA?...

By the way, I've recently been watching a youtube series comparing and contrasting timeloop movies, and although they somehow haven't mentioned BtITM or River yet afaik, they've certainly surfaced some interesting international offerings, eg youtu.be/M1KZMV9S8PY?...

Not a very descriptive or searchable title, but I found it again! m.imdb.com/title/tt2769...

We watched it at our "show everyone your favourite things from this year" new year's party a couple of years and it was definitely the highlight. Apparently it has a sort-of sequel now too?

Violet noted that we somehow didn't mention Map Men across the entire two parter, so, as an honourable mention that's not really anything to do with ttrpgs: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ah, I just saw your listing on the con's website! I'll be running JourneyMon on Saturday evening, and generally around the rest of the time, so let's keep an eye out for each other :-)