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What Would The Smart Party Do? The Smart Party
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The UK's Premier RPG Podcast
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Adventure Games with Robin D Laws
Live From the Spring Kraken 2024 in Germany, Gaz joined forces with game designer Robin D Laws and fellow Unconventional GM Guy Milner to give a seminar on running adventures games for ttrpgs.
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Character In Your Characters
How do you put more character in your #ttrpg character? You don't have to go full method actor, here are some simple and actionable ideas to get you started.
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What Games Workshop Can Teach Us
Episode 186 – What Games Workshop Can Teach Us
There's a lot of crossover between geeky hobbies, and with the lads both working for the big Games Workshop back in the day, what can skirmish games teach us about RPGs?
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Cities
Episode 185 – Cities (aka Fantasy Tripadvisor)
After wandering the wilderness and diving down dungeons, plucky adventurers wish to go to an enthralling city. Maybe your entire campaign is based around one location. The lads explore various cities from ttrgps and the merits and flaws thereof!
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Hot War, Cold City
Episode 184 – Hot War, Cold City (with Jon Hodgson and Malcolm Craig)
Joining the ‘cast this time, Jon Hodgson of Handiwork Games and RPG author and academic Malcolm Craig. The Cold War period and monster hunting in Berlin come to the fore as the lads dive into Hot War and Cold City among other great games from the Handiwork studio!
You can find out more about Malcolm Craig here. And here are some links for Handiwork Games:Hot War & Cold CityFiveEvilMaskwitchesBeowulf
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Unacceptable!
Episode 183 – Unacceptable! (a.k.a. It’s Not You It’s Us)
There are a plethora of gaming events to go to these days and you meet all kinds of people and playstyles. Often this is a cause for celebration, a way to pick up new ideas and techniques. Sometimes though, it’s suboptimal. There are still some people who haven’t got the memo about gaming with others, and this time the lads aim to set things straight.
Customer Reviews
Really thoughtful RPG podcast
This is very worthwhile RPG podcast for your library. It’s a mix of interviews and thought-pieces about aspects of the RPG scene, covering games from the 80’s through to the modern day. It’s less about the humour, banter and nostalgia and more about the craft of RPG’s - being a GM, writing a scenario, talking to RPG luminaries. The two hosts have quite different core RPG tastes (with some overlap) which does make for an informative dialogue and interesting perspectives. Definitely worth a listen for RPG’ers old and new.
Interesting insightful, thoughts about the role replaying hobby
I really like the discussions the Smart Party has about the hobby and the games. It’s really thoughtful and interesting. They get some pretty interesting creators in the industry too.