Episodes
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Fire Good! Fire Shiny!
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Deepnight Legacy and split the party.
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This Is Going To Sound Like an Out-Of-Touch Teacher
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about negotiating with monsters, and the malicious game master.
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Agency in Worlds That Don't Exist
Download This month, Mike and Roger pay our traditional visit to RPG-a-Day, and still don't hit our target of one cue per minute.
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My Deep and Cranky Knowledge
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about games we don't think we can run.
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At Least They're From the Same Planet Originally
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about Roger's recent Outgunned game, and an upcoming Traveller one.
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You're Not Going To Like the Bit Where Your Eyes Start Glowing
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at socially grounded characters and ask what difference a game's schedule makes.
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Crawling Around the Ankles of the Great Cyclopæan Ones
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about getting NPCs more involved in play, and how to work with PC backstories.
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You're Thinking Of Barry Morse Aren't You?
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the detectability of metagame traits, and revisit random encounters.
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Like Performing Divination From Entrails
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about demonstration games and Roger rants about dice pools.
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Blessed Are The Notetakers
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at using current events in games, and think about what player skills we find most useful as GMs.
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Little Sisters of Shub-Niggurath Bake Sale
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about current hotness Brindlewood Bay, and games for children.
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Something You Said In 1963
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider ad-hoc backgrounds, and the best way to get started as a new GM.
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You Are Not the Gaming Messiah
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about what makes a system dead, and whether we should care.
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You Get To Choose The Type Of Lunatic You Are
Download Michael apologises for leaving the episode to languish in his inbox past the deadline. It may be related to the bad attack of Renovation his landlords put him through. This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute.
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Until the GM Got Bored or Went to University
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about apotheosis.
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Squalid but Interesting Adventures
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about the innocents in the city, and how to start a fight.
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Learn It Fast Enough Before Something Eats You
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about introducing players to new systems, and how much you stat up your villains.
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She Probably Doesn't Have Enough Teacups
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about the gaming possibilities of police stories.
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I Am So Much More Enlightened Now
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about magic and allied systems. (Apologies for quality, we had to use a backup recording for Mike.)
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His Excellency's Policy On Bamboo
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at two of Mike's campaigns that have ended recently.
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Arete or Wisdom?
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about game adaptations that have failed, or indeed that never got a chance to fail.
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I Knew There Was Going To Be a But
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Roger's latest enthusiasm, Mongoose's revision of the Bayern campaign for 2300 AD.
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I May Have a Bit Of an Ego Problem
Download This month, Mike and Roger talk about one-off and convention games.
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Heiresses Who Are Not What They Seem
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to steal material for RPGs, and work out an example.
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The Difference Between Malice and Inadequacy
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider the limitations of improvised campaigns and how to deal with rules lawyers.
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Press Twice For Amputation
Download This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute.
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We Are All Gamers Old In Wickedness
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back on our experience with Blades in the Dark. Warning, Roger gets a bit ranty.
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Picaresque With Tentacles
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with Enemy in Shadows, the first part of the classic Warhammer campaign, and look at the second edition of Reign.
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The City is Like a Woman, and She Wants Her Alimony-
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new Blades in the Dark campaign.
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Slug Stores
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.
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My Sex Life is Cosmically Important
Download This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.
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James Wallis Burned My Boat
Download This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.
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A Mad Career Towards Some Dreadful Ending
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.
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Quite Gnostic In Places
Download This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.
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Character Description Language
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.
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As Long As They're Not Nibbling On Your Leg
Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.
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Weakly Godlike
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).
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Something John Dee Whipped Up
Download This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).
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The Friends You Leave In Shallow Graves
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.
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A Strong Antinomian Tendency
Download This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Roger’s masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.
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Unresolved Rage About Billy Bunter
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.
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Determinedly Cheerful Or Just Obtuse
Download This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.
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Pretentious? Moi?
Download This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.
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Idioculture
Download This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost-historical setting.
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You Could See Coronation Street From There
Download It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other.
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Too Busy Starving to Have a Civil War
Download This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.
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Investing in a Plausible Scotsman
Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.
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Extensive Rules On Clothing
Download This month, Mike and Roger make our usual annual visit to RPG a Day.
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Mapping the Kitchens of Camelot
Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss settings that didn't start as RPGs, and how to make your home base more interesting.
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National Amnesia
Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate another gameable age: the Stuart Restoration.