Episode 30: Spicing Up Your Game

This week, David S. and Susan (with a little help from David L.) discuss methods of spicing up games, and how to get ideas for your games. Plus: more pipe dreams!

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Episode 29: System Spotlight/Editorial - D&D 4e

In this episode, we turn David Schimpff loose for his long-promised rant about 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Fair warning: profanity ensues (moreso than usual), tables are pounded. This is a sort of hybrid of our System Spotlight and Editorial features, so sit back and enjoy...

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Episode Twenty-Eight: Open-World Gaming

For this week's episode, Dave S. and Susan talk about open-world and sandbox-style play (in contrast to last episode's discussion of railroading). They also take a look at the Worldspinner Kickstarter and return to our recurring segment, Campaign Pipedreams.


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Episode Twenty-Seven: Maps and Mapping

The first episode of our second season finds David S. and Susan discussing the role of maps and mapping in games, as well as resources for the cartographically-challenged.


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Episode Twenty-Six: System Spotlight - Call of Cthulhu

It's a record number of hosts for this, our one-year anniversary episode, and we have a long overdue discussion of one of our all-time favorite systems, Call of Cthulhu.


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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-Four: Railroading

In this week's episode, David S. and Susan discuss that old bugbear known as railroading. Plus: more Campaign Pipedreams!


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