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An irreverent look at tabletop roleplaying games and a little bit more.
* (0:24) A joke to an AI becomes a show topic. * (2:48) Characters born in a cursed forest, without sunlight. * (7:48) Characters who compul...
* (0:29) Switching to a bucket list of what we want to play. * (1:30) Wayne wants to play Dresden Files. * (4:13) Dan still wants to play an...
* (0:29) The bucket list of games we want to run. * (1:31) Doug’s long-term campaign. * (3:10) Wayne’s Fallout : St. Louis game....
* (0:30) An old Apple //c computer and early computer RPGs. * (4:16) Transitioning from video games into tabletop RPGs. * (9:44) The expecta...
* (0:29) What is your goal for the first session of a game? * (2:10) Who are these characters really ? * (6:08) When the person you wanted t...
* (0:23) Prompts and prepositions. The clockwork circus is coming to town! * (1:40) Wayne’s circus in space. * (4:13) Mary’s cir...
* (0:29) Fear the Con has funded and the sign-up site is live ! We hope to see you Thursday, June 20th to Saturday, June 22nd. * (1:58) Gett...
* (0:29) Wayne has a problem: the Wardens from Dresden Files. Coming up with too many excuses for why powerful organizations don’t car...
* (0:30) What steps do we take to bring a character to life? * (1:49) Ask what’s important. * (6:53) Seeing the good and bad in a sing...
Today’s ingredient: The dead are consuming the living. Why and how? Let’s find out! Fear the Con 2024’s Kickstarter can be...
* (0:29) In defense of technology at the gaming table. Caleb’s setup with Owlbear Rodeo . * (5:13) Dan’s Lion King sing-a-long a...
I decided to skip over the Iron GM and go for a Tungsten GM. The ingredient? All broadcasts cease because something won’t let them get...
* (0:30) Dan runs a game a bit too literally. * (4:12) The intersection of technology and roleplaying in a way that isn’t required by...
* (0:29) Why talk about intelligence? The Why Files episode about Cicada 3301. * (9:24) A game takes an unhelpfully long break, only to be r...
* (0:22) Picking out the point we became curmudgeons and what exactly that means. * (4:48) Being too set in our ways. * (11:19) The self-des...
* (0:29) Reintroducing Julia’s husband, Mike. * (2:24) Lowered expectations, inspired by a post-pandemic world. * (7:25) Being a bit m...
* (0:29) Thanks to Eric Van Note for Swole Mole! * (3:15) The value of terrible GMing. * (8:42) Everyone is their own most inept critic. Soj...
* (0:29) Dan prefers affiliated groups, Wayne does not. * (2:15) Cohesion, identity, and help. * (9:35) Affiliations you start with as oppos...
* (0:28) An update on the Actual Play . * (4:48) The InSpectres RPG (at least temporarily back in print!) and our AP interlude using its rul...
* (0:28) Things are getting set for Fear the Con ! An intro to RPGs game is available for newcomers . * (2:03) A shared Minecraft server. Yo...
* (0:29) Julia ruins everything. * (1:35) Things are getting set for Fear the Con ! An intro to RPGs game is available for newcomers . You c...
* (0:28) Running a game when someone else knows the setting a whole lot better than you do. * (2:07) The lack of pronunciation guides in mos...
Show links… * StartPlaying Games * Bite Size Tales * Gaming with Gage Hosts: Chris, DJ, Josh, Wayne
* (0:29) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live for one more week! * (1:56) The wonderful confusion new players and GMs bring to a ro...
* (0:31) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live! * (1:04) The new fiction podcast, Bite Size Tales . * (3:09) Game mechanics we’...
* (0:28) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live! * (1:12) Things a Game Master has done to make a world seem a little more alive (wit...
* (0:28) The new fiction podcast, Bite Size Tales . * (1:43) Dan re-reads the D&D 2nd Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. Wayne watches Se...
* (0:36) An odd tangent on names. * (3:39) A conversation about AI art. Some parameters we’re putting on this episode. AI art wins a f...
* (0:30) Giving a remote episode a try. We have a fix for Dan’s audio that should improve the quality on our next remote show. * (1:42...
* (0:44) Friday night chit-chat on Discord each week, starting at 8pm Central. * (2:18) Fear the Con 2023 dates have been reserved with the...
* (0:22) The villain as the dark inverse of the hero. * (9:20) A big CGI fight at the end that seems visually out of continuity. * (16:06) Z...
* (0:24) Brodeur recommends a manicure and pedicure to Dan. * (5:58) Dan, Wayne, and their muscle tension. * (11:24) A straight-razor shave...
* (0:28) Brodeur flees to Oregon. * (4:08) Failure comes to East Texas University. * (7:26) Dividing the blame between the players and Game...
* (0:33) Wayne gives a shoutout to Gaming with Gage + Friends (but not Brodeur). * (1:53) Wayne ends a D&D campaign without a boss fight. *...
* (0:29) Brodeur’s post-Gen-Con review. (I know, we’re right on top of the latest news.) A shoutout to Imagining Games , Acheron...
* (0:29) A listener, James, gets us talking about integrating player-character backstories into your game. It starts with the players giving...
* (0:29) How awful can a few years be? (Spoilers: Multiple things got worse since this recording!) * (3:49) An experiment in unequal levels...
* (0:24) Releasing episodes out of order. * (1:24) The little convention that could, despite how hard life tried to stop it. * (6:59) All of...
* (0:29) Interrogating Mary on her gaming history. * (1:33) The last few days before Fear the Con ! * (4:54) The distinct moral perspective...
* (0:29) A difficult GM learns a lesson from an Uno game. * (4:10) Navigating the internal conflict between “roleplaying” and &#...
* (0:29) Fear the Con appears to have catering, but we could still use more GMs! * (5:21) Laundering identities. * (7:03) Game Masters getti...
* (0:29) A new show type on the horizon: phone the Boot, or something similarly clever. * (2:04) Kids’ games at Fear the Con . Our epi...
* (0:29) A shoutout and thanks to WashingCon ! * (1:09) Fear the Con is coming up in mid-June. * (2:25) Wayne annihilates his player-charact...
* (0:29) June 16th, 17th, and 18th for Fear the Con ! You can see Mikey Mason’s material on BandCamp . * (2:40) Reviewing the idea of...
* (0:29) – Bordeur, Dan, and Julia will be at Washingcon this weekend: March 26th and 27th, 2022. * (2:23) – Defining how weR...
* (0:44) Get signed up for Fear the Con ! * (1:02) Brodeur is now on TikTok for some reason. Here’s the link . Do what you will. * (5:...
* (0:28) The teeth on the dog go click, click, click. * (1:30) Brodeur discovers New Game+ mode in video games. * (10:23) Weather and enviro...
* (0:18) Time to set the mood for bedtime. * (5:06) Wayne, Boxman, and the latex room. * (14:32) Watching sports for all the wrong reasons....
* (0:28) The site for Fear the Con is now live! * (2:07) Monday Morning Quarterbacking your own games ( the definition for anyone that doesn...
* (0:29) A fond farewell to Chad. * (4:50) Keeping the perspective that we all started somewhere. * (7:34) The amount of good advice every h...