Episode 44: "RPG a Day 2015" in Two Hours

We're back from our hiatus with a super-sized episode. The two Davids and Susan get together to go through the #RPGaDay2015 poll/challenge. We talk about games and share gaming anecdotes from our past, present, and future, trying not to get too derailed in the process...




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Episode 39: Legacy Games

In this episode, Susan and Dave talk about the very first RPGs they played, and the legacies those early experiences still exert over their gaming style to this day. Plus: more Campaign Pipedreams!




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Episode 34: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

For our first (proper) episode of the new year, we gather our three "regular" contributors to look back at favorite games from the preceding year, and games we're looking forward to checking out and/or running in the coming year.


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Episode Twenty-Five: Brain Dump

David S. and Susan spend this episode unloading a veritable truckload of setting ideas, plot hooks, and gaming memories. It's a grab-bag of an episode, so you can take you like and leave the rest!


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Episode Twenty-Three: Character Creation

A discussion of the ins and outs, ups and downs, and pros and cons(?) of character creation in its many wondrous varieties, and our hosts' picks for their favorite and least-favorite chargen systems. Plus: Campaign Pipedreams!

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Episode Fifteen: Death and Resurrection

It's sort of an Easter special this time, because we're talking about death and resurrection…of characters, of campaigns, of whole systems. Good idea? Bad idea? You'll just have to listen to find out.



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Episode Fourteen: The Trail of Chekhov's Gun

In this episode, we take a close look at the Trail of Cthulhu RPG, and use that as a springboard to talk a bit about games that use rules to create a "narrative" play experience.



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Episode Thirteen: Systems and Settings (Part Two)

We conclude our rambling overview of matching systems to genres. There's so much more we skipped over, and if you've got a favorite genre-system we didn't talk about, please let us know and give us your thoughts!


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Episode Twelve: Systems and Settings (Part One)

This one turned out to be a two-parter, and no wonder! We're discussing matching systems to genres, and providing a quick overview of systems past and present that are particularly associated with certain settings or genres. We...may get a bit off-topic from time to time, as well. Like that's never happened before...




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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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