Once again, the specter of harassment and bad behavior has reared its ugly head in the gaming community. This time it came to our doorstep. For the first time since we opened up the Discord, we had to ban someone in March. The cause? Harassment of another Discord participant. And […]
We’re back to our usual release schedule and episode progression this week for True Neutral. The discussion kicks off with the obligatory nod to COVID-19 (wash your hands!) and a nod back to our “emergency bonus” episode and blog post about remote gaming. There’s a bit of discussion about how […]
As promised, this is our “emergency bonus episode” about remote gaming. It’s edited much more roughly than normal but as we say in the episode, turnaround was our top priority for this one. In the episode, we referenced a blog post that I posted yesterday. That is here for easy […]
As I sit down to type this, basically the entire world is in at least a limited state of lockdown. The COVID-19 virus is sweeping across the world, and countries are all taking steps to attempt to limit the spread and “flatten the curve” of the virus. It’s an unprecedented […]
With Jenny out due to travel, Grant and Peter return temporarily to the days when it was just the two of them on the podcast and do something they haven’t done on air before, or at least for quite a while: brainstorm about one specific game, namely the campaign Peter […]
My Sunday game has reached the level threshold where my PCs are starting to really get powerful (the party is currently level 9) and that means I can trot out some of the bigger, meaner threats I have waiting in the wings. In fact, I’ve already started; the PCs are […]
With Grant and Jenny back from their respective ordeals, it’s time to continue our alignment series! We start off with a quick catch-up session (thanks again Ashley and Derek for filling in!) but there’s not a lot of note in our lives since the last episode we were on together […]
Reflecting back on the discussion I had with Ashley and Derek back in Episode 171, I find myself contemplating a related topic: namely that of where the evil we wish to fight comes from. The theological answer to that is “us.” Though Eve needed some prodding from The Serpent in […]
This week’s episode is a little different in multiple ways. With Grant out with illness and Jenny out with bureaucracy, Peter is joined by Ashley Mowers from Min/Max and Derek White from The Dungeon Pastors (this is the first episode of drawing on a larger hosting pool like was mentioned […]
I’ve built up a small stock of things that I’ve learned, good and bad, from my ongoing campaign. None of these are worth a full blog post on their own, but I figured they were worth sharing. Some of the more veteran GMs out there probably know most or all […]
In this episode, we welcome back Kimi from Golden Lasso Games to talk about pre-game tools. We last spoke to Kimi in our mammoth two-parter on fitness back in episode 103 part 1 and part 2, and this time she’s here alone rather than part of what was (at the […]
In the previous two installments of this series that you can find here and here, I went over the mechanical side of the soulslike, laying out how you could simulate the mechanical side of those games. However, that’s only part of the proverbial equation. The other is the feel of […]