In the aftermath of a landslide, under imminent threat from the Chicago Bears' offensive line, loyalty between close friends, fathers and sons, and magician and stage secrets are tested. Will they manage to find common ground in time to protect themselves, or will a murderous sports team have their revenge? Check out Isolated by Max Beller on itch.ioGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 367
An outdoorsman father, his philosopher son, a friend with a criminal present, and a stage magician (all sports guys, by the way) enjoy a weekend retreat to an isolated cabin in the Rocky Mountains. Does this sound like the set up to a horror RPG? Because it's definitely the set up for a horror RPG. Check out Isolated by Max Beller on itch.ioGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 366
The action team of sea creatures with ill-defined senses of self and their teammate who is also a bus tries to unravel the mysterious thing that has destroyed the community of their closest neighbor. How will doing that change them, and can they survive that change? Back Descent into Midnight!Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 365
Taylor LaBresh joins James and his guests Mel D'Amato, Darcy Ross, and Cory O'Brien to lead them through a session of Descent into Midnight. It's an atmospheric speculative fiction RPG with wild worldbuilding and sci-fi marine biology. Everyone builds mind-boggling characters and their strange little world. Back Descent into Midnight! Learn more about Designing Games That Matter 2020! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 364
It's pageant time but weird haunted sailors are knocking at the door and dragging the Electric Flames into a nautically themed nether realm, which is historically bad for tips. Can the girls rally in time to save the pageant and club? Buy Minimum RageGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 363
The girls split up to get the club ready for the pageant, replace their salty liquor, and learn more about the mysterious book that Mother sent them. Can they figure everything out quickly enough to get ready for the show, or are things dead in the water?Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 362
Electric Flames is a downtown institution with some of the best drag in the city. Who cares if it's technically illegal and partially patronized by monsters from a nether realm? When the girls who run the joint are tasked by Mother to care for a strange old leather bound book just before a huge pageant everything gets thrown in jeopardy. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 361
Hotankles, EdGar, Joshua, and Carol fight for their lives against Mallie/Malissa/Maledict and a mysterious plant monster deep beneath the earth in a thick fog of ruby mist. EdGar has reunited with his family but will their love be enough o overcome the forces of evil? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 360
The Try Guys finally make their way into the ruby mist, looking for answers about Mallie, Malissa, and potentially Kitty Keith (an enormous talking magical cat who is somehow responsible for Hotankle's powers.) They find much more than what they were looking for. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2020•56 min•Ep. 359
After killing a truly inept Snowdonian Mayor the Guys are forced to defend themselves in a combat that was absolutely unplanned. Afterwards they are left with a difficult choice: attempt to hunt the crimson mist on their own, or talk to anyone other than Kilometers to find out what's going on. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 358
James takes The Try Guys to Snowdonia, a land of danger and adventure haunted by the terrible crimson mist. It is up to EdGar, an Ivy League-educated barbarian searching for his lost family (Ned Fulmer); Hotankles, a teifling bard working on a song that will one day save the world (Zach Kornfeld); Joshua, a dragonborn sorcerer who loves to paint and travels the world for new pigments (Keith Habersberger); and Carol, a drow rogue femme fatale trying to keep her sordid past behind her while fighti...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 357
Bianca concludes their magical girl adventure with Meghan, Ryan, and Victoria. Huge thanks to the donors to our World Builders page! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 30, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 356
A group of yo-yo obsessed teens battle to protect life energy and all of human progress! Donate to help us get a Kingkiller AP podcast! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 355
The battle against the surprise attack reaches its climax. We learn the Jarl is perhaps not super trustworthy and a teen hero cracks under the responsibility o his great power. Support Worldbuilders!Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 354
Some people just want to go on a school field trip, but the dwarves want to wipe out humanity, which means Balbadon is going to ruin everything. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 02, 2019•54 min•Ep. 353
James sits down with Tracy, Liz, Mike, and Adira to create characters and a community for Iron Edda. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 352
Fae must confront the Crowan King alongside her friends to stop him from collecting people's personalities like so man shiny baubles. But what might this act of heroism cost her and her friends? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 351
After making a few friends our heroine learns that The Underground is also home to many dangers. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 04, 2019•58 min•Ep. 350
Growing up can be difficult even when you have three moms. There are so many things the world around you and the people who love you want you to be. Sometimes you need to figure out who you are for yourself... with the help of a talking tiger, a hero, a tree giant, and a horrible goose. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 349
Ellory races to find a magic ghost who will hopefully give her a way to avoid writing her paper. Even with the help of her familiar, Beans, and a stink lizard it will be a difficult task to find the ghost before he has already given out his A for the year. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 348
Ellory wraps up her first night of adventure, but to do it she'll have to confront the mystery person who publishes her favorite zines. Will this help her write her paper? What if she does something embarrassing? What if she thinks they are hot!? (they are) Will Ellory be able to buckle down on night two, or will she look for an easy way out? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 347
Eloree is a normal student at a liberal and esoteric arts college, and she has a potions paper to write at the end of her first term. Unfortunately, she hates potions and all of the necessary reference material is checked out at the library which means she'll have to get creative... Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 07, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 346
I didn't get to listen to this one before posting, but my editor assures me there is a fisting joke. CONTENT WARNING: Some unconscionably rude jokes in this one. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 345
The brave officers of P.I.S.S. get attacked in the line of duty. CONTENT WARNING: Some pretty rude jokes in this one. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 344
The folks from One Shot West fill in for James while he is on bereavement leave. They play Haven: City of Violence, a game you might be familiar with from System Mastery. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 343
A small kingdom with waning power has recently crowned a young queen who might have the ability to turn things around, but not without affecting those who hold her dear. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Save the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 342
The sound of wind rattling bones shares a tender moment with the entropomancer sent by The Order. Unrest in the city grows as the humans in the order and the witches fail to see the joke. CONTENT WARNING: Sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2019•55 min•Ep. 341
The Order's inspector visits The Home of House Rapture for a dance. A routine diplomatic obligation initiates a change that will affect the city for decades. Also, that poor idiot made of chalk finally gets some help. CONTENT WARNING: Parts 2 and 3 of this series will have sexual content. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Save the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 340
A random intersection of shifting leylines has turned a once unimportant and mostly ignored city into nexus of magical power. The Order seeks to control this power and prevent it from enabling a civil revolution. The Witches, a contingent of untrained citizens seek to harness magical power to throw off their oppressors. The Lords and Ladies, the historic fey rules of the city want to conduct business as usual. In this tumult, we find three people who will soon be important to one another. CONTEN...
Aug 19, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 339
Lil Bingo confronts Remmington Smuck in a jail cell with only his prison-issued crossbow (a legal requirement in the state of Florida) to defend himself. Also, the episode ends kinda early so we have plenty of bloopers from 2018 and 2019 to fill out the rest of the hour. Coffee Detective Pre-order my new book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 338
