You Could See Coronation Street From There
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Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 35 min
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Too Busy Starving to Have a Civil War
Download This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.
Nov 01, 2022•59 min
Investing in a Plausible Scotsman
Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Extensive Rules On Clothing
Download This month, Mike and Roger make our usual annual visit to RPG a Day .
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Mapping the Kitchens of Camelot
Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss settings that didn't start as RPGs, and how to make your home base more interesting.
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 5 min
National Amnesia
Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate another gameable age: the Stuart Restoration.
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 49 min
High Wycombe: Conspiracy, Sin and Iniquity
Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss the English Civil War and how it can be useful to role-playing.
May 31, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Out on the Sharp and Bitey End
Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate madness in gaming, and attempt to don a veil of ignorance.
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Straitjackets and Scaffolds
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider the history and utility of character classes⦠and do not reveal their True Names.
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr
Playing With Ducks
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the history and current edition of RuneQuest, then talk with Dean Engelhardt about the new Cthulhu Eternal SRDs.
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 38 min
I'm A Perfectionist and I Don't Have the Rent to Pay
Download This month, Roger and Mike review Mongoose's Traveller . (We had a lot of lag, which I've tried to fix.)
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Eccentrics and Lunatics and Fanatics
Download This month, Mike and Roger wonder whether they're indulging in NPCs too much, while considering what the late Stephen Sondheim can tell us about game design.
Jan 01, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Being Wealthy and a Bastard
Download This month, Roger and Mike look for inspiration for a new campaign, and look into a very old-fashioned one.
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Down These Mean Streets With A Mint Julep
Download This month, Mike gets Roger to talk about his Second World War campaign, recently ended after fourteen years of play.
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Requiescat in High-Energy Particles
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back at En Garde! and consider fate (as distinct from FATE) and destiny.
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Except For The Actual Dying Bit
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider adventures written by other people, and do RPG-a-Day faster than ever before.
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 38 min
Only One Serious Case Of Assault
Download This month, Roger and Mike attempt to work out what GM skills are .
Jul 31, 2021•59 min
Tattered Stockings and Last Year's Surcoat
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Realm Management and other game modes which move away from the individual PC, and consider how to write a TV show bible.
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 32 min
The Fantasy Gratification Thing
Download This month, Roger and Mike (with guest vocals by Bruce) consider the British style of role-playing (if any), and a year and more of remote gaming.
May 31, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Fundamental GURPSiness
Download This month, Mike and Roger have played James Bond 007 (thanks to friend of the show Brett Evill) and consider how to de-crunch a crunchy game.
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 16 min
People's Bad Dreams, Gamified
Download This month, Roger and Mike celebrate episode 100.
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 20 min
A Favour You Can Pick Up And Load
Download This month, Mike and Roger regret a failed campaign, do each other favours, and contemplate the role of the trap in a modern game.
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Not Even an Italian Ninja
Download This month, Roger and Mike delve into taxonomy, looking at types of thieves and what players want from a game.
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 19 min
You Can't Have Enough Thugs
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Modern Age, The Expanse, and Blades in the Dark; and split the party.
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Agonised about AGON
Download This month, Roger and Mike talk about what they're up to and how on-line conventions are working for them, discuss GM nerves, and talk about how they choose a setting .
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 16 min
She Had Her Teeth in Boris Johnson
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the Dracula Dossier, do RPG-a-Day only a few months late, and generate another Ars Magica character.
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 47 min
A Large Tick in my Book of Vengeance
Download This month, Roger and Mike generate a character for Ars Magica , and worry about not fitting into the campaign.
Sep 30, 2020•58 min
Being Disgusting From the Beginning
Download This month, Mike and Roger poke further into Ars Magica , wonder what you should simulate, and try to make school stories enjoyable.
Aug 31, 2020•58 min
They'll Lie To Me - They're British
Download This month, Roger and Mike look at the Yellow King Roleplaying Game , worry about being the only one who has a problem with this, and consider an Ars Magica play-by-forum game.
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 11 min
People are Multipurpose Tools
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider play styles enforced by game mechanics, and review a couple of unusual RPGs.
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 17 min
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