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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.
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Brilliantly informed RPG podcast
Very much enjoy listening to Gaz and Baz. Fantastic interviews with industry luminaries and discussions of key games. Despite danger to bank balance, really like the ‘games you should have’ episodes. Highly recommended
An eminently agreeable listen...
I find the best podcasts are those where it feels like you’re eavesdropping on a couple of mates down the pub and every week or 2 you get a little window into a conversation that’s probably been going on for decades.
When you do find these hidden gems it can often be irrelevant what the subject matter is, luckily though sometimes form & function combine perfectly and that’s definitely the case here.
If you’re of a certain age and into RPGs then you’ll probably find a lot to enjoy here, especially so if you’re British. Saying that this isn’t just another rose tinted nostalgia fest for people incapable of understanding that the reason everything seemed better when you were 13 was because you were 13 and hopefully life hadn’t beaten all the joy out of you by then.
In a week of ploughing through their archives I’ve already ordered a few games totally new to me like Troika! so if you want a relaxed stroll through the past, present & future of RPGs then you can do a lot worse than adding this to your regular listens.
Affable RPG discussion coming in your ears.
Famously, after winning the World Cup in 1963, Bobby Charlton and the lads were celebrating with a game of war. Bobby had to settle a dispute over who had won and suggested rolling a 12-sided die and adding their bend-bars skill. Thus Dungeons and Dragons was invented.
In modern times people with beautiful teeth and hair and Hwil Hweaton have popularised the Dungeons and Dragons hobby into a global multi-billion dollar industry presided over by Chris Perkins from his hollowed out volcano.
In this podcast, North meets South in an orgasmic audio orgy as two affable old duffers engage in thought provoking conversation about the Dungeons and Dragons hobby and all the other games that it encompasses. Is Earthdawn the greatest game ever written? Is Savage Worlds the greatest game ever written? What's the point of Clerics? Is Hot War the greatest game ever written and, why Pathfinder? just why?
Those who like this sort of thing will most assuredly like it.
How's that, lads? Nobody reads these things anyway, do they? It's the stars that matter, eh?