Gaming on the Frontier

This week we hope you are equipped to handle the problems that crop up regularly at your table.

This week we try to help you keep your players at the table and the campaign on track

This week we continue choosing elements of our new fantasy campaign.

This week we being a new big project of creating a new fantasy campaign from the ground up.  System choice will be the last thing we do.

This week we discuss how to take those adventures that seem to be branded for a certain campaign and work them into a good for for your own setting.

What you do when you aren't on the main quest.  Adventures at home?

This week we reach the end of the trail and suggest possible game settings and even a few tv show for inspiration.

This week we hunker down and get into the nitty gritty dirt devil of Western game design

This week cowpokes, we drive the b's up to Tulsa to larn ourselves how to make a truly memorable adventure in the old west

This week we finish our exploration of adventuring in a world where the PC's are only a few inches tall and the rest of the world is normal sized.

This week we explore what an adventure would be like if the pc's were at most a few inches tall

This week we suture up the biomechanical monstrocity of your rpg after adding cyberpunk to it.  Does it live?  Sure.  But does it dance?  Give a listen

This week we tackle the thorny problem of adding a massive tech and cultural shift into your rpg or if you are already there, adding the tonal qualities that makes your rpg even more cyberpunk.

Got some holiday cash left?  Here is how we find the best deals and identify quality products and merchants.  Part 2

Got some holiday cash left?  Here is how we find the best deals and identify quality products and merchants.  Part 1

This week we finish our discussion of how to add Isekai to your adventures

This week we talk about designing adventures with Isekai Tropes

We dread telling you that this is the end of our discussion of adding Halloween elements to your ttrpg.  Go watch Stranger Things season 5

this week we add just a touch of whimsey, terror, and wonder to your ttrpg adventures

Happy Holidays, everyone.  Here is the rest of our discussion of intelligent places and how they add to your campaign

Happy Holidays, everyone.  Here are some Christmas treats and part of of our discussion of intelligent places and how they add to your campaign

We finish our discussion of ethical ways to use AI in your games

A number of ways that AI can be used in your ttrpg ethically and responsibly

This week we finish our discussion of good Strong Woman Characters with more examples from our hosts.

This week we delve into the thorny issue of what is a good strong woman character.  We welcome our guests Kerry, Courtney, and Beth

It's time for another IRON GM episode were we come up with the beginning of a great adventure in a mere 20 minutes.

This week we finish our discussion of how to design a humor based rpg with lots of examples of existing games that we think succeeded.

This week we present and deconstruct the idea of making a funny TTRPG and how it differs from a funny movie, book, or other media.

This week we finish shifting to the rubble to give you the best of how to adventure in the apocalypse.

This week we talk about apocalyses and how they can impact your campaign.  How to build a campaign around them.

This week we defend the system we like best and where you should use it

This week we finish our talk about that pesky notice check; how we can use equipment to augument it; and animals that are so much better than we are in certain detections

This week we talk about that pesky notice check; how we can use equipment to augument it; and animals that are so much better than we are in certain detections

This week we talk about that pesky notice check; how we can use equipment to augument it; and animals that are so much better than we are in certain detections

This week we finish our discussion of how to make sure the GM and the Player understand a scene correctly

This week we begin to test how you can make sure that the Players and the GM are both visualizing a scene or person the same way.  But first a little Fringeworthy blast from the past from Richard Tucholka.

This week we finish our space game using Savage Worlds and the Science Fiction Companion.  Its been a long journey and we hope you have enjoyed the process of creating a game and giving it the acid test - Actually playing it.

This week we confront "the killer" in the Space Game and maybe see justice.

This week we continue to develop the ways you can enhance your campaigns with mythology.

This week we explore how to add mythology to your game or upgrade what already exists in your campaign but first we discover how many systems actually let you lop off a limb

This week we unbox the long awaited collectors edition of the Ecryme, steampunk, post-apocalyptic game.

This week we review advancement in the savage worlds system.  What are the issues?  How can it be improved?  Can it be fixed?

This week we discuss how well the pre 2025 artificer class has been developed and some ideas on how it could be better, featuring our resident artificer - Bruce

This week we finally get the Miner AI up and running; finish our investigation; and blast for civilization

We continue our actual play Space Game with Lonestar presenting a particular grisly theory

This week we continue our actual play of our original space game and discover "murder" maybe?

This week we actually start our actual play of our original space game using Savage Worlds and the Science Fiction Companion.

We finish up session 0 of our original Space Game TTRPG

This week we finally present the actual play of the space game we, your hosts created with savage worlds.  Our GM is Jonathon.  Trav, Bruce and a number of friends played characters.  This is our session zero where the characters are introduced and any kinks are ironed out before we start the plot for serious.

This week we finish our discussion of how to navigate the treacherous waters of the Fey Realm.  How to bargain and how to leave with your future intact.