As always, you can find a link to all the posts in this series by clicking here. Reexamining Assumptions Designing a setting in a vacuum can be (and has been!) fun, but there’s no substitute for bringing it out and using it in play, even for the design process. If […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Download this episode (right click and save) Jenny’s off exploring France this week, so Peter and Grant sat down together for another bonus episode in our Biblical Figures series! This time, we’re talking about Matthew—apostle, Gospel author, and reformed tax collector. We provide some Fun Facts about Matthew Levi before Grant […]
As always, you can find a link to the full lists of setting design reports here. Meet the Bad Guys Up until this point, I have been focusing on the places in Exadria and some of the more benign organizations. The one real exception to this rule is Grim Cities, […]
Download this episode (right click and save) After more than a year, we’re finally back to our series on the Ten Commandments! We’re picking up where we left off with the Fifth Commandment, which tells us to “honor thy father and mother”—and a good bit more. We’ve also got a […]
As always, you can find all the posts in this series by clicking here. This week’s blog post is going to cover a small, but important location in the setting. But before I get to that – after months of writing these posts, I have finally settled on a name […]
Download this episode (right click and save) Zach Lorton of Back Burner Games joins us this episode to talk about playing music at the gaming table! Zach’s a DJ, game designer, and friend of the show, so he’s basically the perfect person to talk to about playing music and sound […]
A discussion started over in The Tavern (the Innroads Ministries group on Facebook) today about what’s appropriate and not for Christians to play, and while I weighed in briefly at lunch, the discourse stuck with me enough that I wanted to try to pull together a more thorough treatment of […]
As always, you can find all of the posts in this series by clicking here. One of the things that happens in my games that I imagine is pretty common is that places in the setting the game takes place in automatically become richer and more detailed as soon as […]
Download this episode (right click and save) Gaming podcaster extraordinaire Kris Newton returns to discuss handling destiny in our games! Kris hosts two of our favorite podcasts: The Gameable Saturday Morning Podcast (neé Gameable Disney and Gameable Pixar) and the much-more-NSFW MegaDumbCast. He’s been on several times before, just as […]
Thanks to some pretty extravagant patron generosity and us finally getting around to cleaning up our Patreon tiers, rewards, and goals, we have an expanded explanation of how our streaming will work and some slight changes to the schedule. As long as we stay over the $60 mark on Patreon, […]
One of the most enduring themes of the podcast is the idea that tabletop RPGs are healthy, therapeutic, and good for people when used properly, and I have certainly found that to be true in my life. Another is that we as Christians should be welcoming to the outsider, which […]
Download this episode (right click and save) Continuing our previous episode, Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook from the Min/Max Podcast join us to finish our discussion on moral accountability for our in-character choices. Just how much accountability do we have for the things our characters do in our games? How […]