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Joe's Table Podcast
by Joe Bush
The Podcast branch of Joe's Table, where Liz and I talk about games, game design, art, creativity, problem solving, roleplaying, fantasy, fiction, tropes, technology, software design, and whatever else comes to mind!
Episodes
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Meditation: Joe's Table Podcast 13
This week, we are talking about our thoughts and feelings about meditation. Warning, we do talk about mental health including anxiety and depression. Your discussion ranges through our thoughts and feelings about why meditation does and does not work for us and ways we could make it work better....
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Joe's Table Podcast 12: Spreadsheets
This week, we're talking one of the most nerdy subjects ever, and this is coming from folks who make tabletop roleplaying games. We'll touch on how to use spreadsheets for fun and profit. Subscribe for more episodes! https://anchor.fm/joes-table Check our the blog: https://arcandio.com/ Support…
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Joe's Table Podcast 11: Practice Sucks and I Hate It
This week, we're talking about pratice. This one gets a little deep as we talk about what prevents us from praticing. We discuss our practicing our various interests including art, guitar, photography, cooking, morse code, crochet, and more art. Additional info:...
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Joe's Table Podcast 10: Silcore
This week, we're talking about the Silcore TTRPG system, our favorite system of all time. We'll touch on the history of the game, Dream Pod 9, our history with it, metric rpg systems & mecha calculus, scale and scope, converting other games, RPG vs Skirmish game design, Skill vs Knowledge,...
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Joe's Table Podcast 9: Aesthetic Yearning
This week, we're talking about that strange sensation of desire for stylish, aesthetic things. We're going to touch on the weirdness of incorporating these things in to your identity, spindly space ships, tools and equipment, character designs, style in RPGs, brushstrokes, artfully arranged...
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Joe's Table Podcast 8: The RPG Information Economy
This week, we're taking a hard look at how you give out information in TTRPGs, and why you should be more generous than you might think. We'll be covering how players require information to keep playing, how anti-gameplay binary checks for information can be, how meta-behaviors can arise from...
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Joe's Table Podcast 7: 1v1 me
This week, we're talking about one on one roleplaying, IE playing a TTRPG with only 2 people: 1 player and 1 GM. Specifically we'll cover topics such as custom tailoring your story to your player, team requirements in group games, "Main" characters, being open to unusual story structures, how 1…
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Opulent Murder Pressure Cooker - Joe's Table Podcast 6
This week, Liz will take you on a behind the scenes look into the worldbuilding for a game she is creating for Joe. Today we are talking about Russian history, bloodsoaked rulers, sneaky mages, weaponized magic, and how to fit it all into a world. Shh, Joe hasn't heard this one, so no spoilers....
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Joe's Table Podcast 5: Sparkly Flying Forest Sharks
This week is our 3rd and final week of D&D critiques. Today we're focusing on the social aspects surrounding the D&D ttrpg culture, including advantages of our 1 on 1 roleplaying, deemphasizing higher levels, the avarice of D&D, experience points & the structure of the game, starting at higher...
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Joe's Table Podcast 4: Murderhobo Mechanics
Our D&D criticisms continue this week, in part 2 of 3. Today, we're talking about the actual mechanics of D&D and how they don't fit so well for our narrativist adventures. Today, we're talking the mechanics of D&D, including about rules as adversary, optimization & theorycrafting, optimal paths…
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Joe's Table Podcast 3: Shredded Elves and Orcish Wizards
This week, we're starting a flame war, and it's only part 1 of 3! Today we're talking about our criticisms of D&D 5E, and why it isn't the optimal system for our personal roleplaying adventures a lot of the time. We'll cover GNS theory, D&D as primarily a Gamist ttrpg, D&D as the elephant in the...
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Joe's Table Podcast 2: Bob the Blacksmith
This week, we're talking about HOW to worldbuild, with tips and tricks for making your worldbuilding actually usable at the table. In this episode, we'll be talking about Wikis, non-linear planning, rolling with unexpected player choices, flexibility, avoiding railroading, planning for allowing...
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Joe's Table Podcast 1: Space Paranoia
Today, we're going to give you an example of some collaborative worldbuilding by constructing a science fiction world before your very ears. We make it through the rough ideation stage, into some specifics about how the world works, what characters might be like, what groups are active in the...
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How many episodes does Joe's Table Podcast have?
Joe's Table Podcast currently has 13 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Joe's Table Podcast about?
The Podcast branch of Joe's Table, where Liz and I talk about games, game design, art, creativity, problem solving, roleplaying, fantasy, fiction, tropes, technology, software design, and whatever else comes to mind!
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Joe's Table Podcast is created and hosted by Joe Bush.
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