Until the GM Got Bored or Went to University
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about apotheosis.
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 4 min
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Squalid but Interesting Adventures
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about the innocents in the city, and how to start a fight.
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Learn It Fast Enough Before Something Eats You
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about introducing players to new systems, and how much you stat up your villains.
May 31, 2025•1 hr 1 min
She Probably Doesn't Have Enough Teacups
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about the gaming possibilities of police stories.
Apr 30, 2025•50 min
I Am So Much More Enlightened Now
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about magic and allied systems. (Apologies for quality, we had to use a backup recording for Mike.)
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 13 min
His Excellency's Policy On Bamboo
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at two of Mike's campaigns that have ended recently.
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Arete or Wisdom?
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about game adaptations that have failed, or indeed that never got a chance to fail.
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 8 min
I Knew There Was Going To Be a But
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Roger's latest enthusiasm, Mongoose's revision of the Bayern campaign for 2300 AD.
Jan 01, 2025•54 min
I May Have a Bit Of an Ego Problem
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about one-off and convention games.
Dec 01, 2024•59 min
Heiresses Who Are Not What They Seem
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to steal material for RPGs, and work out an example.
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min
The Difference Between Malice and Inadequacy
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider the limitations of improvised campaigns and how to deal with rules lawyers.
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Press Twice For Amputation
Download This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute.
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 17 min
We Are All Gamers Old In Wickedness
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back on our experience with Blades in the Dark . Warning, Roger gets a bit ranty.
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Picaresque With Tentacles
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with Enemy in Shadows , the first part of the classic Warhammer campaign, and look at the second edition of Reign .
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 8 min
The City is Like a Woman, and She Wants Her Alimony-
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new Blades in the Dark campaign.
Mar 31, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Slug Stores
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 31 min
My Sex Life is Cosmically Important
Download This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 8 min
James Wallis Burned My Boat
Download This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
A Mad Career Towards Some Dreadful Ending
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Quite Gnostic In Places
Download This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Character Description Language
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.
Sep 30, 2023•55 min
As Long As They're Not Nibbling On Your Leg
Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Weakly Godlike
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Something John Dee Whipped Up
Download This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min
The Friends You Leave In Shallow Graves
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.
May 31, 2023•1 hr 9 min
A Strong Antinomian Tendency
Download This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Rogerâs masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Unresolved Rage About Billy Bunter
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Determinedly Cheerful Or Just Obtuse
Download This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Pretentious? Moi?
Download This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Idioculture
Download This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost -historical setting.
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 10 min
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