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Role-playing games and how to do them better.

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Episodes

Plus One Per Adjective

Download This month, for our sixtieth episode, Roger and Mike are inspired by music, get decadent, and consider their equipment lists. The inspirational tracks for the first segment are Rocketman by the Red Elvises, and Lucifer by The Alan Parsons Project.

Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 15 min

Unity of Purpose, Comrade

Download This month, Mike and Roger wonder how you know when you're a good GM, consider their exploits as players, and consider the ideal composition of a player group.

Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 12 min

I Blamed It On a Dragon Of Their Acquaintance

Download This month, Roger and Mike lack enthusiasm, contemplate great big detailed settings, and wonder how you lot got involved in role-playing games.

Sep 30, 2017•1 hr 6 min

Chunky Policeman Kibble

Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate types of government, and look at #RPGADay for 2017.

Aug 31, 2017•1 hr 1 min

It All Comes Down to Fire In the End

Download This month, Roger and Mike give advice to the GM of a new time travel game, and consider the thousands of worlds of a Traveller-style setting: what makes them interesting? How can this work?

Jul 31, 2017•1 hr 14 min

Much More Likely To Survive the First Civil War

Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate long-term campaigns with gaps, travel in gaming time, and consider tech levels: threat or menace?

Jun 30, 2017•1 hr 20 min

Winning Fights, Possibly With Inanimate Objects

Download This month, Roger and Mike talk about the new edition of Unknown Armies, and ask why mid-century hard SF has been relatively unrepresented in games.

May 31, 2017•1 hr 1 min

You Can't Adjust For Player Competence

Download This month, Mike and Roger criticise themselves regarding Pendragon , consider intuition, revisit game recordings, and plan for disaster.

Apr 30, 2017•1 hr 4 min

Let's Not Become Blasphemous This Early

Download This month, Roger and Mike talk about the core concepts of magic, and distinguishing personality from backstory in character generation. With spoilers for Dennis Wheatley's The Ka of Gifford Hillary and Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away .

Mar 31, 2017•1 hr 11 min

A Complete Pain, Because They Have Principles

Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about adding new players to a long-running group, spy stories (including a game Roger didn't know he wanted to play), and the golden age(s) of gaming.

Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 5 min

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