Gaming and BS
A system-agnostic tabletop role-playing game podcast hosted by Brett and Sean
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078 Starting the RPG Campaign
Starting the rpg campaign takes some previous thought. How much depends on a few things, what you’re going to play and how you’ll approach your players are just two thing to consider. There is quite a bit of social contract, knowledge gathering and dissemination of information. Players are going to want to know the type...
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077 Opposed Die Rolls in RPGs
We typically use opposed die rolls in rpgs to resolve a contest between player characters or between player character and nonplayer characters. We may use skills – my push to your pull, or more like sense motive to the other’s deception. Some systems could have a different approach, re: Star Wars Edge of the Empire by Fantasy Flight...
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076 Monsters and Non Monsters
Monsters and non monsters in roleplaying games. As Game Masters we throw them at the players, but the big bad is typically a humanoid or human. That is not necessary true. Is it? By saying this we are considering monsters as just fillers. They may be the creatures that do the bidding of some more...
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075 Gumshoe RPG System
We talk about the Gumshoe RPG system developed by Robin D. Laws and published by Pelgrane Press. Ken Hite, author of Trail of Cthulhu, wrote the game using Gumshoe system because a Call of Cthuhlu game could come to a screeching halt if a player character does not find the clue, or the gamemaster would have to scramble to...
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Recent Episodes
- Beyond Your Table April 15, 2021
- POWER of the MOOK April 8, 2021
- World of Darkness April 1, 2021
- Why All the Hate, Sean? March 25, 2021
- RPG’s That Changed Our Play March 18, 2021