In this episode Brandon and James talk about dice mechanics and the narrative role mechanics play in a game. They also chat about talking with folks on the Discord and how they can talk about how the first couple weeks of the Stop, Hack, and Roll...
In this episode Brandon and James discuss small hacks to cover some listener prompts; moves for everyday tasks, handling larger conflicts around characters, playing Fate using PbtA rules, and running a chase. They also spend a surprising amount of...
Episode 17 - Health and Death In this episode Brandon and James discuss systems of health in games, the purpose of death in narratives, and a whole lot of genre bacon. Also, systems with exceptionally cool ways to handle death and how to...
In this episode Brandon and James are joined by their future co-host to talk about bringing friends new and old into the hobby. They also talk some business stuff and introduce Elsbeth in the context of an upcoming spin off podcast! A note for...
With a fresh Pokemon craze sweeping the internet, Brandon and James put on their professor coats and talk playing Pokemon as a tabletop game. Games mentions in this episode: Apocalypse World Pokemon Tabletop Chuubo’s Marvelous...
This week's episode is postponed until Thursday, the 1st of December.
In this episode Brandon and James go to Metatopia! They talk about playtesting games, everything they learned from panels, and oh yeah Meg from the Modifier podcast joins them! Notes The list of games we talk about in this episode is really too...
In this episode Brandon and James revisit Pasión de los Pasiónes and chat about getting a game ready to bring to a con for playtesting. They also do a state of the podcast and talk a little about future plans. Notes Metatopia! ...
In this episode Brandon and James discuss the secret game James has been working on. They’ll talk about when to hack and when to walk away from a system even if you’ve put a lot of time into it and it really hurts because you’ve written so much...
In this episode Brandon and James resume the discussion of abnormal numbers of players at the table with a talk on large groups of players. We discuss multiple groups, multiple GMs, and other configurations for fitting more people at the table....