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Fluff N Crunch — 218 episodes
Cohors Cthulhu Game Overview: Ancient Rome + Mythos
Pathfinder Eberron Campaign Update and GM Advice
Three DnD Versions in One Gaming Session? Why Not?!
How to Bring Back a Shelved Campaign
World Building: Where Should You Start?
Canon: Bend, Break, or Honor?
What's So Great About Eberron?
Our Gaming Goals and Plans for 2026
Is it Possible to Run Traveller for One Player?
Vaesen Nordic Horror RPG Starter Box Honest Review
Star Trek Adventures: Looking Back at 8 Years of Gaming
Bringing Together System, Setting, and Story for a New Campaign
End it? Shelve it? How to handle ending a campaign gracefully
Rewards Systems: What’s Typical, Atypical, and How To Improve Them
The Essentials of Planning Non-Combat Encounters: Part 1
Traveller’s “Safari World” Adventure - Big Game Hunting in the Spinward Marches
Art in RPGs: What’s Its Purpose and What’s Up With What WOTC is Putting Out Now?
Combat Encounter Planning Basics
Getting Started with Traveller: What to Buy First
Session Report - Traveller High & Dry Pt2
Three Ways to Approaching Mapping an Encounter or Scene
First Steps in Planning a New Campaign - Where to Start
Session Report: Traveller's High and Dry pt1
How to Plan for the First Session of a New Game
Rebooting Fluff n Crunch and Some Sharing Some Great GM Advice
How to Play Your Best Game pt4 - Learn the Rules
Your Best Session pt3 - Engagement Techniques for GMs and Players
How to Play Your Best Game - Pt2 - Leave Out Real World Politics
Your Best TTRPG Session: Part 1, Engagement at the Table
Dueling in the Dune 2d20 TTRPG
Sentience 2d20 Revised RPG - Creator Interview and Kickstarter News
Our 2025 Gaming Plans and the Inevitability of Change
GMs: I Give You Permission to Shelve a Campaign
Three Things That Should Make You Give Traveller a Try
Opening Moves - A Traveller Adventure Review
Gamemastering - Ignore the Lies and Relax
Achtung! Cthulhu - Rendezvous at Rouen Designer Interview
Christmas Gaming Ideas
Running a Good Convention Game pt2
How to Run a Successful Game Convention Session
How Do You Prepare to Run a Convention Game?
Redlines and 'Safety' Warnings in Games
Story Ideas and Getting Started with Vampire the Masquerade
You Should Try Vampire: the Masquerade 2nd Edition
Alien - A Perfectly Flawed TTRPG
Mon Dieu Cthulhu: Swashbuckling Supernatural Action in the Age of Napoleon
Star Wars Outlaws Review
Handling Character Death in Tabletop RPGs
Traveller Session Zero: Character Creation to Kickstart a Campaign
Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Honest Review
Handling Player Failure in TTRPGs
Is This a Workable Fear Mechanic for a Horror RPG?
Chris's Dice Mechanic Ideas - Novel Stuff!
Art in Tabletop RPG Books - How Important is It?
Character Creation for the Games We're Developing
Norms in TTRPG Character Creation
Chris Attends UK Games Expo 2024
Game Building Part 1 - Setting
Dice Mechanics pt2 - Dice Pools
Mechanics Discussed pt1 - The Most Basic Dice System
Can DnD 5e Be Fixed? Commentary on System and Settings for the Flagship TTRPG
Crunchy Yet Playable - How Much is Too Much?
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound TTRPG Overview
Fallout TTRPG Game Overview
Really Rapid Reaction - Star Trek Adventures 2e Quickstart
2d20 WorldBuilders Program Year One Review
Debut Special Episode: FnC Does Minis - Age of Sigmar Recent Reveals
Warhammer 40k Wrath and Glory Overview
Frightshow Classics - A Great Source of Horror One-Off Adventures
Would Mass Effect or Starship Troopers Make a Good TTRPG Setting?
An Overview of the Gaming Worlds of Warhammer
Achtung! Cthulhu Starter Set Unboxing and Overview
Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Rules - What We Know and Our First Reactions
Star Trek Adventures Federation-Klingon War Tactical Campaign Book Interview
Opportunity and Controversy - AI Usage in TTRPGs
Castles & Crusades Overview and Commentary
How to Restart a Campaign After a Break
How to 2d20 - Zones, Range, and Movement
Some Ideas on How to Launch a New Campaign
How to 2d20: Using Metacurrencies Effectively
Review of Outgunned - Cinematic Action RPG
How to 2d20 - Traits and Truths
Ahris Remastered - What's to Come in the Upcoming Edition
How to 2d20 - The Three Metacurrencies
How to: 2d20's Core Mechanic, Explained
Mining Fiction for Gaming: 1632 and Codex Alera
The Top 5 2d20 RPGs - Ranked & Explained
Dreams, Goals, and Plans for Fluff n Crunch in 2024
2023 Fluff n Crunch Year End Review
Time Trackers as Resource Managers for TTRPGs
Game Spotlight - Traveller, the Original Science Fiction RPG
Kipo and Janissaries: Mining to Fiction Properties for Tabletop Games
Using Canon Characters in RPGs pt2 - Fantasy IPs
Using Canon Characters in RPGs, pt1: SciFi and Modern
Yo Joe! - Using 2d20 to be a Real American Hero
The Essential Elements of GI Joe
Religion in Games - A Lost Opportunity for Story and Characters?
Gumshoe - A System Optimized for Investigations
New Marvel Super Heroes RPG Overview pt2
New Marvel Super Heroes RPG Overview pt1
Captain's Log Act - Trouble on Beta Inari VII Act 3 - Will Our Heroes Survive?
Captain's Log - Trouble on Beta Inari VII, Act 2 (Actual Play)
Captain's Log - Trouble on Beta Inari VII, Act 1 (Actual Play)
Captain's Log: Ship Creation and Story Foundations
Captains Log Co-Op Character Creation
Espionage Tropes and Story Ideas
2d20 World Builders Games Review
Making Monsters in Ahris Fantasy RPG
Captain's Log Solo RPG Deep Dive & Review
Star Trek Adventures Captain's Log with Jim Johnson
Ahris - Talent Creation, Discussion, and Discoveries
Cohors Cthulhu Quickstart: Reaction & Commentary
Dreams and Machines Quickstart Reactions & Commentary
Spell Creation in Ahris Fantasy RPG
Ahris 2d20 Fantasy RPG Overview
2d20-powered James Bond 1:1 Game Ideas
The Essential Elements of James Bond
Star Trek Adventures Discovery Campaign Guide Review
Initial Ideas and Parameters for a 2d20 Star Wars RPG
The Essential Elements of a Star Wars RPG
Horror Stories for RPGs: Challenges and Ideas for GMs
Star Trek Adventures Utopia Planitia Review
Ahris Fantasy RPG Preview - A 2d20 World Builders Program Project
Dungeons & Dragons Movie Review and Gaming Commentary
AI - A First Chat About These and TTRPGs
Revisiting and Improving Some of the Tropiest of Fantasy Story Hook Tropes
Combat: Problems Solved!
What We Hate About Combat in RPGs
Campaign and Story Ideas for Achtung! Cthulhu
Story Ideas for SciFi Settings
The Parties In LOTR and Star Wars Don't Work In Conventional RPG Systems
We Think Some Genres Work Best as One-Offs
Skills and Their Issues, pt2
Skills and Issues Related to Them, pt1
2d20 World Builders Program, pt2
The Great OGL War of 2023 and WOTC's Strategic Withdrawal
Special Episode - The First Releases for the 2d20 World Builders program on DriveThruRPG
Modiphius' 2d20 Worldbuilders Program, pt1
The OGL War of 2023? Let's See...
A Review of 2022
Chris's Ambitious 5e Campaign Idea for 2023
Getting Players to Try a New Game
System Spotlight: Supporting Characters in 2d20 Games and Perhaps Elsewhere
Bastard Quest Joint Adventure Episode Follow-Up
Game Spotlight: John Carter of Mars
What Else Could You Do With XP Rewards?
Special Episodes Announcement: Bastard Quest Joint Actual Plays
An Interview with Acthung! Cthulhu Lead Designer John Houlihan
System Spotlight: Sorcery in Conan and the Book of Skelos
In Response to Listener Requests: Re-Introductions
System Spotlight: Carousing in Conan; Downtime Systems
Experience Systems or, "How Many Goats Do I Need to Kill to Level Up?"
Game Spotlight: Conan - Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
Party Size: Norms Over Time and Ideas for Smaller and Larger Groups
Game Spotlight: Infinity
CaRPG: Ideas for a Streamlined Game System for Family Roadtrips
Game Spotlight: Mutant Chronicles
Emergency Fluff and Emergency Crunch: The Discord Alert
From the Screen to the Tabletop: Translating Video Games into TTRPGs
Why We Like 2d20 So Much
Generic/Universal Rules Systems
Our First Projects with the New 2d20 SRD
"Balance" in Character and Encounter Creation
The 2d20 SRD in Some Depth
Homeworld Corebook Review
2d20 Supers pt2: Powers!
Chris is Running Vampire 5th Edition...Why that Version?
Homeworld Free Quickstart Commentary
The Great 50th Episode Show
2d20 Supers! Part One
Curse of Strahd: Story-System Commentary
2d20 in Place of Gumshoe for a Vampire Spy Thriller Campaign? Let's find out...
Chris, Supers RPGs, and Hope for the Future
An Interview with Nathan Dowdell of Modiphius
Our Thoughts on Cortex Prime
For the Achtung! Cthulhu GM: Adventure Reviews
First Reactions to the New Marvel Supers Playtest
A High(er) Magic System for 2d20?
A Novel Source for GM Inspiration
Our Wishlist for a 2d20 Fantasy Core Rules Book
One-Offs, Adventures, and Campaigns: Different Needs for Planning and Management
Dishonored: Thoughts On and Reactions to This Narrative-Heavy RPG
The Don'ts and Do's of Planning and Running Investigations
The Scientific Method Subsystem in Star Trek Adventures
When, Why, and How to Roll the Dice in Support of the Story
How to Introduce Players to 2d20
Original Adventures in Story-Heavy Settings Part 2
Original Adventures in Story-Heavy Settings Part 1
Achtung! Cthulhu Combat Encounter with Commentary
Published Adventures vs. Home Brew, and Some Unexpected GM Therapy
Space, Range, and Distance - in 2d20 and Other Games
Our Gaming Plans, Hopes, and Dreams for 2022...and some Covid
What We Like, and Dislike, About DnD 5e
Twilight: 2000 - Initial Reaction and Combat Commentary
2021: Our Year in Review
...It Was the Worst of Games
It Was the Best of Games...
The Pathfinders: 1st and 2nd Editions Compared
Combat in Conan
Personnel Combat in Star Trek Adventures
Who Ya Gonna Call? - 2d20 for Ghostbusters
Achtung Cthulhu GM's Guide: First Thoughts
Achtung Cthulhu Player's Guide: First Thoughts
Chris' Game System Quandary
Hacks, Mods, and Conversions: Using 2d20 Outside of Published Settings
Threat: Essential for the GM
The Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide: Reactions & Review
Starship Combat in Star Trek Adventures
A Review of the Star Trek Adventures Quadrant Books, and Expert Star Trek Commentary
Short Episode: Change in Publishing Schedule
A Review: Star Trek Adventures Command Division Sourcebook
The Different Types of Conflict in the Dune RPG
Our First Thought on the New Dune RPG
Some Settings and Genres are Tough to Model in TTRPGs
Combat in the 2d20 System
The Metacurrencies of 2d20
2d20's Novel Core Mechanic
Introductions and Our Gaming Backgrounds