Master Plan #69: Sean Nittner on Convention Games
Ryan is joined by Sean Nittner—owner of Big Bad Con, project manager for Evil Hat Productions, and all around excellent human. (Or hum...
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20 of 70 episodesMaster Plan #68: Kit La Touche, Design Chat
Ryan tries out a new format for the show, and brings on indie game designer Kit La Touche to chat about various game design and game publish...
Master Plan #67: Mark Richardson on Cartography in RPGs
Ryan talks with Mark Richardson, who is by night a freelance tabletop games cartographer and indie publisher, and by day a badass Canadian g...
Master Plan #66: Robin D. Laws on RPG Setting Design
Ryan kicks on one of his planned 2015 interview series—this one on setting design in roleplaying games—by talking with luminary...
Master Plan #65: Gen Con Prep with Adam Jury, Derek Guder & Jessica Price
Ryan interviews three fantastic folks about prepping for large conventions like Gen Con: Adam Jury, co-founder of Posthuman Studios Derek Gu...
Master Plan #64: Freelance Editing with Amanda Valentine, John Adamus & Lynne Hardy
Ryan talks with Amanda Valentine, John Adamus, and Lynne Hardy about what it is to be a freelance editor, answer questions from freelance ed...
Master Plan #63: Brian Clevinger on Being an RPG Licensor and the Atomic Robo RPG
Brian Clevinger—co-creator of the fantastic comic series Atomic Robo—talks with Ryan Macklin about licensed roleplaying games fr...
Master Plan #62: Stephen Hood & Will Hindmarch on Storium
Ryan sits down with Stephen Hood and Will Hindmarch or Protagonist Labs to talk about the new online roleplaying experience known as Storium...
Master Plan #61: Vincent Baker on Evolution of Games and a Game Designer
Ryan sits down with Vincent Baker to ask him what ends up being some big questions: Where did Murderous Ghosts come from? What does "Powered...
Master Plan #60/Live #1: Daniel Solis on Card Game Design and Rapid Prototyping
On this first live episode of Master Plan, I talk with Daniel Solis about a host of subjects: card game design, rapid prototyping, remote pl...
Master Plan #59: Jason Morningstar & Steve Segedy on Building Fiasco Playsets
Ryan sits down with Jason Morningstar and Steve Segedy of Bully Pulpit Games to talk shop about creating Fiasco playsets. They give the lowd...
Master Plan #58: Amanda Valentine, Editing and Language Choice
On this episode, I talk with the ever-talented Amanda Valentine , freelance editor who has worked on a number of award-winning RPGs. We deci...
Master Plan #57: Editing and Indie Games from Gen Con 2012
At Gen Con 2012, I was on an Industry Insider Guest of Honor panel with Michelle Lyons-McFarland called "Editing and Indie Games." The descr...
Master Plan #56: Keith Baker on Designing Eberron
The second & final basement tape episodes comes from September 2009: Ryan sat down with Keith Baker, creator of Eberron, to talk about setti...
Master Plan #55: Luke Crane on Mouse Guard
The first of the basement tape episodes! Ryan recorded a fantastic interview with Luke Crane back in Gen Con 2009, talking about the GM's &...
Master Plan #54: Kenneth Hite, Setting Creation & Day After Ragnarok
After 10 months of podfading, Ryan Macklin is back with a new episode of Master Plan! This is the first of his "basement tapes" episodes --...
Master Plan #53: Monica Valentinelli, FlamesRising.com, Dos & Don'ts of Horror Design
This month being the month of all things horror, Ryan gets together with Monica Valentielli of Flames Rising to talk about some basic things...
Master Plan #52: Reincorporation
Ryan talks about reincorporation from a design perspective. And he's going to write proper show notes later, when he's not packing for GenCo...
Master Plan #51: Pacing Mechanics part 2, Campaign Level
Continuing the series on pacing mechanics, Ryan talks about campaign-level pacing systems. He revisits D&D, as having a loose sense of pacin...
Master Plan #50: Paul Tevis on Text Presentation, A Penny For My Thoughts
On this fiftieth episode of Master Plan, Ryan talks with Paul Tevis about text production and his new book, A Penny For My Thoughts. Given t...