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Today’s ingredient: The dead are consuming the living. Why and how? Let’s find out!







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Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne

* (0:29) In defense of technology at the gaming table. Caleb’s setup with Owlbear Rodeo.







* (5:13) Dan’s Lion King sing-a-long and Wayne’s Ghostbusters game.







* (6:27) The deeper pool of online players, including AIs. Remoting in a missing player for an in-person game.







* (14:04) Working distance and distraction into the game.







* (17:54) Digital storage and organization. The wonder of CTRL-F.







* (25:21) Minimalization of the gaming experience.







* (30:01) Dodging some issues by allowing only one person to have technology. The visual obstruction created by laptops and such.







* (41:01) Getting digital audio to work for you.







* (45:00) Balancing it all out. Advantages, disadvantages, familiarity, and the passage of time.







Hosts: Caleb, Dan, Mary, Wayne

I decided to skip over the Iron GM and go for a Tungsten GM. The ingredient? All broadcasts cease because something won’t let them get through. What’s the game plot?







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Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne

* (0:30) Dan runs a game a bit too literally.







* (4:12) The intersection of technology and roleplaying in a way that isn’t required by the game.







* (7:32) Why multimedia doesn’t pay-off the way it does in other forms of storytelling.







* (13:36) The prep time technology adds, and the stability it takes away.







* (15:59) The time spent digging up the right asset on-the-spot.







* (20:52) The physical space taken up by technology. Playing “follow the leader” at a subconscious level.







Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne

* (0:29) Why talk about intelligence? The Why Files episode about Cicada 3301.







* (9:24) A game takes an unhelpfully long break, only to be replaced by another RPG.







* (12:44) The lack of a bottomless “buffet of ideas” in a closed setting.







* (14:24) Use minimal starting information to give you room to work.







* (18:12) How to run a school (everyone go play Persona 5).







* (24:48) Create a wide variety of NPCs and give them their own lives.







* (30:38) Keeping the party together, even if it doesn’t quite make sense.







* (31:57) PC-specific NPCs, so you know the players are bought it.







Hosts: Dan, Mary, Wayne

* (0:22) Picking out the point we became curmudgeons and what exactly that means.







* (4:48) Being too set in our ways.







* (11:19) The self-destruction that comes with stagnation.







* (21:32) Wii have a solution.







* (24:32) Ducking new games while at a convention. Playing The Quiet Year on an airplane.







* (32:57) The role of pragmatism. Why expand your horizons when no one lets you go there, anyway?







* (38:43) There’s always going to be something wrong.







* (41:09) A lesson learned from The Why Files.







Hosts: Dan, Doug, Wayne