Let’s Play AGON - tabletop RPG playthrough with John Harper and Allison Arth

Creator John Harper and designer-writer Allison Arth offered the chance to play play AGON, a new tabletop RPG about mythical monsters, heroic deeds and getting pally with the Greek gods, and we here at Dicebreaker boldly accepted the challenge! Join Johnny, Wheels and Matt alongside the RPG's creators as we take the helm of a particular ill-fated crew bound for glory, danger and one very deep hole. Odysseus, eat your heart out.
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[@HMSBeardsley]

John Harper is my favorite game creator working today. Blades in the Dark is a masterpiece.

[@peterdmcastro]

Amen, brother. Simplicity and depth somehow coexisting. But now, I just want a Fast and Furious hack for this game!

[@Knopey]

No game embraces the team effort a successful RP game needs as well as Blades in the Dark does. Also my favorite system today.

[@JohnHarper]

@@peterdmcastro I'm working on it! :)

[@OldIronShops]

I will second that it's the first game I have ever played where I don't need to plan things out in detail . Or fighting over rules ect

[@Knopey]

@Jeff G. City of Mist I really only know from this channel's video on the most beautiful RPGs. So I've never actually played it, but I'm looking forward to January, when it is coming to my country. However, CoM is based on the Apocalypse sorta-engine, which also is a very story-focused system. But in direct comparison I would say that the Apocalypse system (and thus City of Mist) is more ... "rule-tight" I would call it and also less sandboxy. While BitD uses its rules to help the group shape their story, CoM uses its rules to govern the group's story. Both aproaches have their merit and I guess it's up to personal preference which one is "better". BitD taylors to those who love to experience the unexpected. CoM taylors to those who like to know what to expect. As for the setting, I imagine CoM as a somewhat more goodguyish, modern version of BitD. Hope actual players of CoM can expand on this, though.

[@SeporiBowi]

I love how excited Johnny looks.

[@Knopey]

No way! How awesome to see John Harper on Dicebreaker! Any chance to see him again in, say, a Blades in the Dark video? ;D

[@TheOneTheyCallJack]

The smiles on everyone’s faces are absolutely infectious

[@AwesomeWookiee]

So excited to see this game played. Love the simplicity of Blades and the Lasers and Feelings one-sheet.

[@AwesomeWookiee]

Once Agon is released, I would LOVE a rules overview for it to understand how the mechanics work.

[@CharlesEtheridgeNunn]

It was so cool seeing Agon being played here. I think in my group it’s the game we’ve played which has had the most shouting from players when they were announcing their dice pools. A definite recommendation for Agon and all of its over the top heroics.

[@VrynnSardo]

So happy to have found this video, a quick demo is exactly what I was looking for :) Will GM a round on the weekend for friends, and I am happy to have some examples for tone / mechanics / rules interpretation. Great job!

[@TheWyvernn]

Ran my first game of Agon last weekend. This video was the one that gave me the best idea of the intended spirit of the game. It really helped me make my own game a success :D

[@tootiredforthis1]

Omg the whole reason i bought and started to dm blades is because of dicebreaker! :O this is so epic :D

[@BrawnyFanta]

This was great. John Harper and Allison Arth gelled well with you guys and it was cool to see the people that made the game help show it off 😎

[@nightcatarts]

I think I love this. Enough rules that it's not simply a storytelling thing, but not so many that it bogs down the creativity. Also, Matt was on fire (or should that be lightning?).

[@MSte21]

I would be struck dumb at the chance to actually play at John Harper's table, holy moly. Blades of the Dark is pure brilliance, and so is Lady Blackbird and Ghost/ECHO.

[@nsiepmann]

God that was fun. I'm so looking forward to getting a game of this going!

[@emmabenton6414]

Wheels is back with that fabulous pink hoodie that I definitely need to buy 👀 This was so wonderful. I’d like to pick up the book soon. It’s gorgeous. Awesome playthrough everyone ❤️

[@tootiredforthis1]

Agon and blades are some of my favorite looking rulebooks for some of my favorite systems to run. John Harper and his team are such legends i love them. and yes wheels does have a wonderful hoodie :O

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Summary of first contest: "BLINDED by the liiiiight!" + "But why is the RUM gone?!"😂

[@kunegund9690]

Who I want to be: Sophia Who I am: Phoebe I imagine Diodotos has earned himself some of those crystal honey lozenges by now. The best part was after Lion Hearted Aristedes delivered his speech, Sophia the Battle Wise followed with a suitable and powerful song. This is how many Māori run their formal meetings, with every man's speech followed by a no less important song sung by the women.

[@artikid]

This video is brilliant, I was going through the rulebook and it's very interesting to see how solid the mechanics are in actual play.

[@highsquirrelwarlock4262]

My good friend just gave me this book when I was looking to play a One Piece related game. Some fellow nerds made a One Piece style DLC basically for the book called Seakings. It's such a cool game. My one critique is that the book is a little hard to navigate sometimes. They will introduce a concept in one rule but not fully explain it until like 11 pages later, so you have to go back and forth a lot to learn it. But other than that. it's such a cool concept and I like the voyage mechanic as a way of coming down after a fight

[@euansmith3699]

Lion-Hearted Aristeides leaps in to the fray! Unfortunately, it is a frayed rope!

[@JoePlinkelton]

John Harper in person as a Guest on this awesome channel, so freakin cool :D Agon sounds like it's exactly my Jam, I'll give it a try

[@d0natr0n47]

1:59:10 Ah yes, there is no better teacher than Professor Faceplant, the man who taught Socrates everything he knew 😂

[@HeyHogla]

Eeekkk!!! Got the pdf version of the game today, going to save my pennies up to get the hardback book as well! To be a Greek hero, so excited to play! Now to find 4 other heroes (well I've found them, we just need to align our schedules 😅) Also I realise this video is 2 years old but dicebreakers is how I found out about John Harper

[@TylerZed]

Having just read AGON love the Xentropa cameo! Sweet!

[@TheAmishJedi]

By the Gods of Olympus, please do more Dicebreaker Agon!!!

[@Naruga]

In bed with a cold so instead of playing Baldurs Gate 3 guess im hugging my teddy and listening to this 🧸

[@MonarchDWolf]

That was great!

[@ladyicondraco]

This looks so fun!

[@nickdejager8873]

Wheels seems to be blessed by Bastet throughout the event. Is Phoebe's last name Jenkins? And when Phoebe said she still had some lightning in her veins, I was wondered if the rest was Cheese-Whiz. I like this system. Very interesting resolution system.

[@vyttieri]

Sweet this was a great demo, it actually caused me to pick up the core book. Cheers

[@sailthemarigold_7864]

Hey, quick question, where has DungeonBreaker been? I’m just curious, as it’s been a while. I don’t mean to be impatient.

[@lordpheonix1059]

All the costumes and stuff are at the EG office.. And they can't exactly get to them at the moment.

[@sailthemarigold_7864]

Alright, thanks, you two!

[@bradyoconnell5863]

Is there a place to order Agon, because the preorder is gone?

[@MarkWMpls]

Evil Hat Productions

[@deebernaers137]

@@JohnHarper amazingly (and sadly, since I didn't get one) they already sold out their stock :D I'm definitely picking up a copy if I can get my hands on one.

[@coyoteartist]

My Daisy use to yell at me to find out where I was. I'd have been hard put to be calm and not yell back as this lady didn't.

[@zanshibumi]

Where in Europe can Agon 2nd editon hardcover be bought?

[@lordpheonix1059]

John harper used the word yeeted.. Not something I'd expect to hear today.

[@dee...]

I believe it's an ancient Greek word... 😂😂😂

[@DareToWonder]

imagine if everyone had to talk in a homeric style

[@ActualPlay]

If you friend jumped into a hole, would you...

[@fearfulsuggestion]

Hey guys I found the dwemer

[@emmlenius4167]

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[@john-lenin]

Yet another “game” that exists solely to feed players’ egos.

[@jaednhowlar2359]

???

[@john-lenin]

@@jaednhowlar2359 Because it’s just an exercise in telling some flowery tale about your character. Like fiasco and blades in the dark there’s no actual game here. I’m not saying you have to have a grid and miniatures, but you have to have some way of breaking up an encounter into parts and letting players use their wits and their character’s skills to accomplish something..

[@torsoboy]

Well, now I know I'm definitely going to run this with a Ulysses 31 skin over the top of it. Great game and great session to share with us all!