19 episodes
The Gameable Podcast Gameable Podcast
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5.0 • 22 Ratings
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Welcome to the Gameable Saturday Morning Podcast, a tabletop RPG podcast in the Gameable Podcast series. We analyze Saturday morning (and other) cartoons for settings, plots, characters, and themes that we can use for tabletop gaming. At the end up each episode, we come to a verdict on the week's series: Is it gameable?
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Episode 60: She-Ra
In the final episode before the Gameable hiatus, Meganbob joins Kris to discuss the characters, settings, and surprisingly compelling storytelling possibilities of 1985’s She-Ra: Princess of Power! Listen to find out who we’d cast as Hordak in a live-action film, to learn what fanfic can teach us about managing tone, and to hear possibly the first use of the adjective “Wittgensteinian” in a gaming podcast. Plus: Grape-Nuts again! Check out the episode here!
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Episode 59: She-Ra
Before there was Netflix’s fantastic 2018 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, there was 1985’s She-Ra: Princess of Power, which was… also a show. In this episode, MeganBob joins Kris to discuss the campy, magical, ridiculous plots of the original 80’s cartoon. Plus: Grape-Nuts! Check out the episode here!
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Gameable Update
Wondering where M.A.S.K. part 2 is? Here’s a quick update on what’s happening with Gameable. Listen to the update here.
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Episode 57: M.A.S.K.
This week, David McBride joins Kris to discuss the classic, toyetic 1980’s cartoon M.A.S.K.! This episode focuses on the show’s bizarre plots, such as the theft of the Statue of Liberty, the abduction of a baby dinosaur, and a cross-country flying auto race for microfilm. Check out the episode here!
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Episode 56: Young Justice
In the second part of our Young Justice coverage, Rich Howard and I talk about our favorite romantic pairings from the show, the dual challenges of creating a superhero “family” and a huge heroic ensemble, the value of time-skips in Young Justice and in gaming, and some ideas of tweaking the tone and subject matter of YJ for your table. Check out the episode here!
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Game Night: Young Justice
Rescued from the cutting room floor, it’s 15-or-so minutes of Kris and Rich Howard from Whelmed making tough choices between the characters of Young Justice and the equally-great protagonists of Gargoyles. Check out the episode here!
Customer Reviews
Please include older episodes!
Love the show, but wish older eps where on the apple podcast sevice
Great Show Full of Wonderful Ideas
Gameable Saturday Morning is a great discussion show about breaking down a cartoon franchise to it's most basic and vital components, and reassembling them in the form of an RPG.
Full of unique insights on whatever cartoon is at hand, you're bound to come away with a better understanding, and new appreciation for, the source material.
Listen to this show, then go apply what you've learned to your games! They'll be better games for it
At long last...
In many ways, I have been looking for this podcast all my life. If you have agonized about who you would be in every movie you watch, or what happens not-on-the-screen, you have too.
A combination of playfulness and deeply intelligent commentary is consistent throughout the show, from both of the hosts. Katrina is enthralling with her insights drawing upon a wide knowledge of music, animation, and the film industry; her thoughtful and wise commentary on films and gaming; and (by her own account) “a voice that is friggin’ adorable.” She is so compelling, in fact, that initially it was unclear to me what exactly Chris was contributing to the partnership, but then I began to marvel at his regularly brilliant ability to reverse-engineer a cosmology and setting from what is established in the canon; his keen insights into the social and ideological implications of a story; and his abundantly fruitful ideas to spin a single scenario into multiple different styles of campaign.
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