The Best Sort Of Disease
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back on Man to Man and consider disease when applied to other people.
May 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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Unchained Unicorn
Download This month, Mike and Roger rebuild the world, and chat with friend of the show Dr Bob about Astronautilus Productions.
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 20 min
The Pathologist is Making Sanity Checks
Download This month, Roger and Mike investigate villainy and isolate themselves.
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 7 min
In 1895? I Donât Think So!
Download This month, Mike and Roger are ill, look at paperless play and finish off our play of The Fathomless Sleep
Mar 01, 2020•1 hr 4 min
When the Lynch Mob Comes For You, Roger
Download This month, Roger and Mike resolve their challenge, and look to the future (not in the culty way, honest).
Feb 01, 2020•1 hr 10 min
And The Rest of You Have Trench Foot
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the Bluebeard Plot and the Great War.
Jan 01, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Cat-Based Probability Battery
Download This month, Roger and Mike get superstitious, and challenge each other.
Dec 01, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Sub-Standard Crocodiles
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider the phenomenon of the Adventurers' Guild, start a Monster Hunters campaign, and look at what goes wrong with combat.
Nov 01, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Dogs Have a Nyarlathotep?
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gaming as animals, and the Good Monster.
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 20 min
Uninfected Curates
Download This month, Mike and Roger do RPG-a-day, or more accurately RPG-a-3.1-minutes. Apologies for the audio quality; Roger messed up the setup (it won't happen (in that specific way) again), then mostly rescued the recording with Heroic Sound Engineering Skills.
Aug 31, 2019•1 hr 36 min
Sometimes the God Anoints Him With Lightning
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider some more fantasy gaming tropes: the lawful good but still feudal kingdom, and the vast disparities of power found among people in fantastic societies.
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Council of Guilds and Disgustingly Rich People
Download This month, Mike and Roger get into character, and look at the differences between Fantasyland and mediaeval Europe.
Jun 30, 2019•1 hr 33 min
Paradisia, A Lawful Good Kingdom
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider what to do once the adventures are rich beyond even their wildest dreams, try to avoid the boring bits of game prep, and experiment with an actual play recording.
May 31, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Last-Minute Improvised Thrown-Together Wah-Wah
Download This month, Mike and Roger look into conspiracy theories, and pick apart mystery adventures.
Apr 30, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Pyromania is a Lifestyle Choice
Download This month, Roger and Mike (with helpful contributions from Anzac the dog) isolate an island, contemplate blindness, and look forward to the end of the world.
Mar 31, 2019•1 hr 20 min
Teaching Woodlice to Sing
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider characters cleverer than they are, fail to assume they're sitting round a table, and consider the narrative implications of The Law.
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Gooshy Stuff
Download This month, Roger and Mike feel burned out, consider the fun of being evil, and try to work out how to get better at GMing.
Feb 01, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Merely an Engsvanyáli Garderobe
Download This month, Mike and Roger search for secret doors, are intimidated by some but not all "large" campaign settings, and consider how to do cultural appropriation with respect.
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 21 min
In the Unlikely Event That They Survive
Download This month, Roger and Mike look at random tables, random character generation and particularly social class, and consider what to do when the system lets you down.
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Somewhere Out There There's A Flange Lifter
Download This month, Mike and Roger remember Greg Stafford, bring recent events into their games, and consider the importance of Stuff, specifically the equipment list.
Nov 01, 2018•1 hr 1 min
I'm Not Quite Sure How You Pervert the Halflings
Download This month, Roger and Mike run through the GURPS Spaceships series, and consider how and when to construct your own setting.
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Fire Has to Mean Something
Download This month, Mike and Roger revisit RPG-a-Day, and consider some possibilities for role-playing without violence.
Aug 31, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Weird Oogly-Boogly in the Bigger Picture
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider demonstration scenarios, revisit the Infinite Worlds, and contemplate how to encourage new players.
Jul 31, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Deceleration Trauma is Not Your Friend
Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge in crass commercialism, consider players who don't turn up reliably, look at high-powered games and how to keep them interesting, and delve into the pulps and what gaming can learn from them.
Jun 30, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Rupert of Hentzau Wants You Dead
Download This month, Roger and Mike (plus a supporting cast of birds and trains) fire players, think about themes that make them uncomfortable, and indulge in Ruritanian romance.
May 24, 2018•1 hr 4 min
I Shoot the Horde of Bees With My Rifle
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at RuneQuest that isn't RuneQuest, ponder why some campaigns just flow more easily than others, think about GURPS books that were never written, and work on long-term goals.
Apr 30, 2018•1 hr 18 min
I Have Nightmares That Are Like That
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider a historical mystery, ponder how little you can get away with telling your players, and wonder whether a rigid lack of metaplot can be as bad as having metaplot in the first place.
Mar 31, 2018•1 hr 17 min
And His Mother-in-Law and His Flat Feet
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at two games on special offer and one that's just interesting, and examine name lists and stats for NPCs.
Mar 01, 2018•59 min
When You Stumble Into the Underworld
Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit Fall of Magic , and take a long introductory look at GURPS.
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 17 min
It Still Feels Like Dying While You're Doing It
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at what it takes to do Star Trek "right", and explore the language of role-playing and its native narrative forms; and Mike perpetrates a carefully-organised surprise.
Jan 01, 2018•1 hr 13 min
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