<description>&lt;p&gt;Transcripts available at diceexploder.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first stand-alone print game, Band-Aids &amp;amp; Bullet Holes, goes live on Kickstarter next week on May 5th. I have a lot to say about it, and I&amp;#39;m gonna say a lot of it: May&amp;#39;s going to be all episodes about mechanics from other people&amp;#39;s games that inspired me in this design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today I wanted to talk about Band-Aids &amp;amp; Bullet Holes straight up, but I didn&amp;#39;t want you to just take it from me all the stuff I love about it, so I&amp;#39;m handing the show over once again to Lady Tabletop and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez. They&amp;#39;re gonna tell you about Band-Aids &amp;amp; Bullet Holes through its core mechanic: take a marker, sharpie your character&amp;#39;s core traits onto playing cards, then shuffle those up and flip them at each other, high card wins. As Sera says, somehow adding flavor to the classic card game War makes it so much better...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Reading&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdunnewold/band-aids-and-bullet-holes" rel="nofollow"&gt;Band-Aids &amp;amp; Bullet Holes&lt;/a&gt; on Kickstarter&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Socials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seraphina on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/seraphimseraphina.bsky.social" rel="nofollow"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devlog" rel="nofollow"&gt;itch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lady Tabletop on Tumblr and itch&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dice Exploder blog is at &lt;a href="http://www.diceexploder.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;diceexploder.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our logo was designed by &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sporgory.bsky.social" rel="nofollow"&gt;sporgory&lt;/a&gt;, our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Join the &lt;a href="https://discord.gg/PhJStRPQDa" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dice Exploder Discord&lt;/a&gt; to talk about the show!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our logo was designed by &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sporgory.bsky.social" rel="nofollow"&gt;sporgory&lt;/a&gt;, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/purelygrey/sunset-bridge" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sunset Bridge&lt;/a&gt; by Purely Grey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This episode was edited by Em Acosta&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Dice Exploder

Sam Dunnewold

Calling Cards (Band-Aids & Bullet Holes) with Lady Tabletop and Seraphina

APR 28, 202632 MIN
Dice Exploder

Calling Cards (Band-Aids & Bullet Holes) with Lady Tabletop and Seraphina

APR 28, 202632 MIN

Description

Transcripts available at diceexploder.comMy first stand-alone print game, Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, goes live on Kickstarter next week on May 5th. I have a lot to say about it, and I'm gonna say a lot of it: May's going to be all episodes about mechanics from other people's games that inspired me in this design.Today I wanted to talk about Band-Aids & Bullet Holes straight up, but I didn't want you to just take it from me all the stuff I love about it, so I'm handing the show over once again to Lady Tabletop and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez. They're gonna tell you about Band-Aids & Bullet Holes through its core mechanic: take a marker, sharpie your character's core traits onto playing cards, then shuffle those up and flip them at each other, high card wins. As Sera says, somehow adding flavor to the classic card game War makes it so much better...Further ReadingBand-Aids & Bullet Holes on KickstarterSocialsSeraphina on Bluesky and itchLady Tabletop on Tumblr and itchThe Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.comOur logo was designed by sporgory, our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer.Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!CreditsOur logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey.This episode was edited by Em Acosta