The Illuminati! Aside from being a cabal of lizard-people who rule the world through the United Nations, they are now also the topic of a board game, Pax Illuminaten. On today’s Space-Cast!, we’re joined by designer Oliver Kiley to discuss three very different histories of this secret society.

Listen here or download here. Timestamps can be found after the jump.

TIMESTAMPS

00:18 — introducing Oliver Kiley and the (fake) Illuminati
6:52 — the actual history of the Illuminati
15:43 — the genesis of Pax Illuminaten
29:06 — abstraction in a historical game
44:34 — what story is Pax Illuminaten trying to tell?
49:34 — the road to publication
58:00 — the absence of footnotes

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