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Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts

Roger & Michaeltekeli.li
Role-playing games and how to do them better.
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Episodes

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, 20201 hr 1 min

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, 20201 hr 20 min

In 1895? I Don’t 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, 20201 hr 4 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, 20191 hr 9 min

Dogs Have a Nyarlathotep?

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gaming as animals, and the Good Monster.

Sep 30, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 hr 16 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, 20191 hr 22 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20191 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, 20181 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, 20181 hr 1 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 201859 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, 20181 hr 13 min
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