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The 'S' of Gaming and BS podcast. Besides producing and hosting the show, Sean enjoys long walks on the beach, running rpg's, and killing player...characters.
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‘Role’ Play It Again Sam

October 7, 2014 Sean Audio, Episode Archive, Gaming & BS 1:05:19 2 Comments

GMs overusing the same concepts, schticks and being predictable in rpgs. Players playing the same character. How did you get in hobby? – vote! Gumshoe, 5E, and NewGameapalooza. Check out Darktheatre.net/llc. Announcements Darktheatre will be pushing out an update to their Character Folio app at the end of the year (Dec) www.darktheatre.net/llc/ Random Encounter Poll Results!…

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Player Character Death in Roleplaying Games

September 30, 2014 Sean Audio, Episode Archive, Gaming & BS 1:06:09 0 Comments

Player character death in rpgs! How do you handle it? Doesn’t it contribute to the story? Leave us review on iTunes. Our first listener email – Thanks Zave! Brett would make a bad dwarf, buys a sword, and preps for new game. Ben Gerber games 24 hrs straight for charity, sponsor his effort. Shout outs…

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Metagaming in RPGs

September 22, 2014 Sean Audio, Episode Archive, Gaming & BS 1:07:12 0 Comments

Metagaming in rpgs! We talk about posting on Google+ and how some people seem to spam their info all over the place. Once the banter is over, we get to metagaming, which was originally spurred from our first episode. We define it in our own terms – essentially player knowledge and manipulating the game through…

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Pilot: Narrative Control in RPGs

September 17, 2014 Sean Audio, Episode Archive, Gaming & BS 1:08:42 6 Comments

Narrative control is our first ‘main’ topic of discussion. Sean touches on the approach that the Star Wars Edge of the Empire by Fantasy Flight Games takes with narration and how some systems or groups approach narration differently based on the game, or is it how they play? But before that we talk about Warhammer 40k, and why…

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