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Internet Office Hours: Role-Playing Games!
by Alex Schroeder
Internet Office Hours by the Grenzland Server Crew.
Episodes
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Clerics
Alex, Whidou, Kayden, Laurens
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Ultraviolet Grasslands
Alex and Whidou talk about running the Ultraviolet Grasslands (UVG).
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Traveller Life Paths
Alex, Hasran, Dr. Kalt, Laurens talk abot life paths in Traveller, the random characters people get out of character generation and how to deal with it as a referee.
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Maps and mapping
Alex, Gottfried, Peter, Whidou talk about maps and mapping, how to create them, how to describe them, how to draw them, their reduction to point-crawls and its equivalence to hex-maps.
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Rumours
Alex, Peter, Whidou talk about how useful rumours are in modules, how to best write rumours for your own games, and how to act upon rumours as a player.
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Trade
Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about how to make trading interesting, mostly in the context of Ultraviolet Grasslands and Classic Traveller.
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Traveller
Alex, Laurens, Michael, Richard talk about what it takes to run a good Classic Traveller game.
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Lore
Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about making lore relevant in games.
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Hexcrawls
Alex, Peter and Whidou talk about hexcrawls: what works, what doesn't work, what about old ones, what about new ones, and what we like to run.
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Narrative Games
Alex, Ben, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about narrative games and how old school D&D and narrative games have some commonalities.
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One Page Dungeons
Alex, Peter and Random Wizard talk about the One Page Dungeon Contest. Why did Alex and Random Wizard stop running it? How to best use them?
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Writing vs. Playing
Alex, Peter and Richard talk about writing games instead of playing them.
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Published vs Sandbox Content
Gary, Laurens, Peter talk about published vs. sandbox content for our games.
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Bonus Bonus Episode! Character Creation
Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah create characters for The Dark Eye and Alex tries to explain how it works.
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Bonus Episode! Actual Play of The Forest of No Return
Alex, Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah play through the first adventure for the first edition of The Dark Eye.
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Group Cooperation
Gary, Peter and Alex talk about how to encourage cooperation.
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Rumours and agency
Alex, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about how to encourage players taking the initiative in a long campaign.
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Fighters and what to do with them
Gary, Peter, Robert talk about fighters and what to do with them.
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Immersion and how to encourage it
Gary, Laurens, Peter and Alex talk about what immersion is and where it comes from and discuss the things that encourage it.
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The importance of a skill system
Alex, Gary, Peter and Robert talk about the importance of having a skill system. Why have it, what does it do, how complicated should it be?
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The importance of a setting
Alex, Gary and Peter talk about the importance of a setting. What does it mean to have just the rules?
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Internet Office Hours by the Grenzland Server Crew.
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Internet Office Hours: Role-Playing Games! is created and hosted by Alex Schroeder.
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