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Five Or So Questions about “DayTrippers”

Nov 17, 2015

I was recently interviewed by The Alternate Brie Sheldon, who asked me Five or So Questions about “DayTrippers” – the surreal science fiction reality-hopping roleplaying game.

BS: Tell me a little about DayTrippers. What excites you about it?

TF: To answer that, I’ll need to talk about two things: themes and mechanics. This will take a little explanation. Thematically, DayTrippers is my love letter to weird science fiction. I’ve always been a SF fan, but the appeal was never about the science or technology. For me it was all about the mind, and about questioning the nature of reality…

Read the full interview here:
http://www.briecs.com/2016/05/five-or-so-questions-with-tod-foley-daytrippers.html

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