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Maxwell Lander is an educator and photographer in eastern Canada. Aaron King is an editor and collage artist in the Midwestern US. They're both game designers, and together, they read RPG books, find the good bits, and discuss them critically. Welcome to RTFM.

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Maxwell Lander is an educator and photographer in eastern Canada. Aaron King is an editor and collage artist in the Midwestern US. They're both game designers, and together, they read RPG books, find the good bits, and discuss them critically. Welcome to RTFM.

    RTFM: Keep on the Borderlands

    RTFM: Keep on the Borderlands

    ⁠⁠Max Lander⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Aaron King⁠⁠ dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the fucking manual so that you don't have to.

    ⁠Dia Lacina is back to talk about more adventure modules. This time, it's that classic Gygax, Keep on the Borderlands. Is it good? Is it horny? Is it colonial? And what's with all these totally normal men?

    If you want to chat about the episode, ⁠⁠join our Discord⁠⁠. And ⁠⁠check us out on Patreon⁠⁠ for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 18 min
    RTFM: Troika!

    RTFM: Troika!

    This episode is brought to you by ⁠The Lost Bay's Outer Rim Uprising⁠. Follow the Kickstarter for this cool set of Mothership scenarios and resources!

    ⁠Max Lander⁠ and ⁠Aaron King⁠ dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the f*****g manual so that you don't have to.

    Aaron Lim is here to chat about Troika! by Daniel Sell and the Melsonian Arts Council, where game mechanics are lore and inspirations are a compost heap from which oddness blooms.

    If you want to chat about the episode, ⁠join our Discord⁠. And ⁠check us out on Patreon⁠ for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 7 min
    RTFM: Principia Apocrypha

    RTFM: Principia Apocrypha

    This episode is brought to you by The Lost Bay's Outer Rim Uprising. Follow the Kickstarter for this cool set of Mothership scenarios and resources!

    Max Lander and Aaron King dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the f*****g manual so that you don't have to.

    Game designer Chris Bissette joins us to talk about Principia Apocrypha, one of the cornerstone documents of the Old School Revival (OSR) movement. What is the OSR? What use can non-OSR gamers get from it?

    If you want to chat about the episode, join our Discord. And check us out on Patreon for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 22 min
    RTFM: RuneQuest

    RTFM: RuneQuest

    This episode is brought to you by The Lost Bay's Outer Rim Uprising. Follow the Kickstarter for this cool set of Mothership scenarios and resources!

    Max Lander and Aaron King dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the f*****g manual so that you don't have to.

    This one starts as an episode about RuneQuest, but it quickly becomes about citation, ownership, and stewardship in the RPG industry. Like, almost solely about that.

    Here's a link to the Feminist Killjoys blog post we mention.

    If you want to chat about the episode, join our Discord. And check us out on Patreon for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 4 min
    RTFM: Blades in the Dark

    RTFM: Blades in the Dark

    This episode is brought to you by The Lost Bay's Outer Rim Uprising. Follow the Kickstarter for this cool set of Mothership scenarios and resources!

    Max Lander and Aaron King dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the f*****g manual so that you don't have to.

    By popular demand, we're talking Blades in the Dark with returning guest Essay from the Three of Hearts podcast. Topics include built-in settings, position and effect, and CRIME.

    If you want to chat about the episode, join our Discord. And check us out on Patreon for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 33 min
    RTFM: Pasión de las Pasiones

    RTFM: Pasión de las Pasiones

    Max Lander and Aaron King dig through RPGs of yore to bring you valuable nuggets of mechanics, lore, and strangeness. They read the fucking manual so that you don't have to.

    Quinns from Shut Up & Sit Down joins us to talk about Brandon Leon-Gambetta's Pasión de las Pasiones, the telenovela RPG. We cover adding drama to your game, the player-to-GM pipeline, and kissing in dungeons.

    If you want to chat about the episode, join our Discord. And check us out on Patreon for extra episodes!

    • 1 hr 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

Geddingsworth ,

This show rocks

If you like RPGs you should listen to it

antafein ,

Can’t wait to hear more!

I can’t get enough of rpg chat shows. This is doing something different and I like it. Not just a chiller version of system mastery. Lol. Thx y’all.

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