Episode Seven: Kickstarter, Game Stores, and Setting Up Fantasy Campaigns

In this episode, we take some time to muse about the role of Kickstarter in the tabletop gaming industry and speculate what role brick-and-mortar stores still might play in the hobby, before moving on to a genre-focused discussion of running fantasy campaigns. We answer listener questions as well.


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Episode Six: Published Versus Homebrew Campaigns and Scenarios

In this episode, we address some listener questions spawned by our previous System Spotlight on Basic Roleplaying (and discuss some games we're currently excited about) before moving on to the main topic of the pros and cons of running published scenarios versus writing your own, and offer some advice for accomplishing the latter.


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Episode Five: System Spotlight - Basic Roleplaying

In this episode, the first of our intermittent "System Spotlight" series, we focus on Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system - both the generic core rules as well as touching on its many variations.

What do you think? Do you agree with our assessment of the merits of the BRP system? Do you hate the system? Tell us why!



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Episode Four: Game Balance and Finding Players

In this episode, we talk about the issues of finding balance in systems that are not designed to encourage balanced play, and discuss strategies for finding players in your area. We also field our first-ever voice mail question!



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Now Streaming Through iTunes

Unabashed Gaming is now available to stream or download through iTunes. Just follow this link.

Other streaming services are available at the podcast's Feedburner page.

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Unabashed Gaming: Episode Three - Campaign Eulogies and Sources of Inspiration

In this episode, we discuss campaigns that died before their time (and the many causes that can contribute to such a tragedy), before moving on to our main topic: sources of inspiration and how to translate them into your game.



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Unabashed Gaming: Episode Two - Dungeon World and Piledrivers

Our second episode finds us discussing our first experience with the indie FRPG Dungeon World before moving on to discussing the pros and cons of the dreaded piledriver and its much less maligned cousin, the houserule.



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Unabashed Gaming: Episode One - Introduction and Horror Gaming

In our inaugural episode, we talk a bit about our backgrounds in tabletop gaming and then move on to broadly discussing some tricks and tips for running horror games, and different flavors of horror games.



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