Download this episode (right click and save) We’re back with a discussion of Christian allegory and allusion! This episode, we’re mostly focusing on how this applies to settings, and especially Peter’s ongoing series of setting design blog posts, since the setting he’s creating is designed with allegory in mind. […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule. Peter Gnome Stew has an article on Dominant Players. It’s a very good article, but it was […]
As always, the full list of posts in this series can be found here. In the last post of this series, I promised I’d spend some time explaining how clerics and paladins in the setting are different from the D&D norm, so I figured I’d get that in before I […]
Warning: Two of the links in this post describe some very ugly gender-based and racially-based harassment and abuse. It is grim, infuriating reading, it gets pretty graphic, and definitely should be consumed with discretion. That said, if you can bring yourself to read those accounts, you should. It’s important to […]
Download this episode (right click and save) This episode, we manage the unthinkable and actually get our quarterly Patreon-selected topic in before the last possible episode! It’s a whole new world, folks. We open up the show by talking a little bit about our assorted podcats, the 200 Word RPG Challenge, Pilates, […]
Jenny Once again, here I am with another cool, old church, though this one’s a little bit on the older side of the ones I’ve posted about in Weekend Reading before. These are the archaeological remains of a 5th century church recently rediscovered in Turkey. Archaeologists believe they may have […]
A list of all of the posts in this series can be found here. Wellsprings of Power One of the biggest challenges in designing a setting that’s explicitly monotheistic rather than a dualistic setting or one with a pantheon for a system like D&D 5e is “how do you explain […]
Download this episode (right click and save) This week, we’re talking about positive metagaming! First, we catch up a bit and recap what games we’ve played recently (including Peter’s terrifying encounter with a flock of seagulls and Jenny’s Beyond the Wall game.) Then, Grant goes on for a while about […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule. Peter I’m pretty squarely on the record as finding playing evil characters to be distasteful. I think […]
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. -Galatians 6:2 (ESV) If there is one thing the Cleric class in D&D is good at, it’s keeping bad things from happening. Clerics get spells that heal injury, provide nourishing food and clean water, cleanse the body of poisons […]
As always, the full series can be found here. Over the last three posts, I’ve been working my way through the various broad classifications of area in my setting; the untamed areas known as The Wilds, the peaceful bastions of benign civilization known as The Counties, and now it’s time […]
Download this episode (right click and save) We’re back with a follow-up to our previous episode on mass combat! This time around, we’re talking about actually roleplaying in a mass combat scenario, and treating war and conflict as a setting for more traditional roleplaying. First, though, we plug Peter’s blog posts, […]