Author and game designer Greg Stolze joins us once again, this time to talk about systematically creating good gaming sessions! We had Greg on once before, talking about personal horror and Unknown Armies on STG 83, and it’s great to have him back to give some excellent game-mastering advice. Greg’s […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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As always, you can find a list of all the posts in this series by clicking here. The Big City. No Bigger Than That! Eisenstadt is the New York, London, Tokyo, and Bombay of my setting, all rolled into one. It is an enormous, teeming metropolis of some 15 million […]
Jenny and Peter oversee the promotion of our ongoing series on gamifying Biblical figures with one of the most difficult yet: Samson! Though his story is found in the Book of Judges, Samson is a notorious and often actively awful outlier among Biblical figures. He’s a drunken, womanizing barbarian who […]
As always, you can find all the posts in this series here. An Increase in Scope Those who follow everything we do very carefully may remember me alluding to a writing project I was doing during NaNoWriMo both on the blog and the podcast. I wasn’t writing a novel, but […]
Yep, it’s a bonus episode all right—sillier and far less structured! In this episode: The end of Grant’s colony game; Peter’s continuing game; Grant’s upcoming Eberron game and #EberronFacts (and handing out setting crunch in small doses); how Jenny and Peter came up with their character concepts; and anxiety around […]
Due to a confluence of circumstances beyond anyone’s control, Grant has decided to end his colony game. A cavalcade of illnesses and worse over the course of several months took all of our momentum and we didn’t play for such an extended period of time that Grant actually forgot the […]
I have a piece I’m working on about my old PC in Grant’s colony game, Lambert Colvin, but I need some additional time to clean it up and bring in some outside quotes and such. I’m going to try to get that out over the long weekend. However, it’s also […]
Our Ten Commandments series returns with a discussion of the Sixth Commandment: “You shall not murder.” First, though, Jenny’s got a lot of Overlight to talk about! We got to sit down and play it, and it was quite fun. Grant’s also got an Eberron game in the works, and […]
November is a special month for me this year, because it is the first November since I learned about National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short) and haven’t been either working retail, taking classes, or both. That means this year, I’m tackling the challenge of trying to write 50,000 […]
Download this episode (right-click to save) It’s a special Halloween episode, this time on undeath! Well, okay, it’s at least a Halloween episode, and that counts for something. We start things off with a quick update on our Twitch stream schedule (Peter’s streaming Pathfinder: Kingmaker on Wednesdays for a while, […]
As always, you can find all the posts in this setting by clicking here. Note: this post, like other stuff dealing with Alchova, is pretty dark and creepy. In particular, towards the end it gets into weaponized fiendish possession. I suppose you can consider this a “Halloween post” but I […]
Click here to download Krissi Woodward joins us again this episode to help Grant and Jenny speak a little less, since they’re both pretty sick in this episode, and to talk about character backstories with everyone! Krissi’s been on a few previous episodes can be found on Twitter as @d20mom. We […]