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If it’s September, it must be, uh, Gen Con? Ken kicks off with a Travel Advisory on how the in-person side of the event went.
Speaking of unusual ve…
4 years, 3 months ago
By Fun You Mean Opaque
Episode 464
Our continuing Gaming Hut survey of tabletop RPG design principles tackles Power. That sounds like something we always want. Does it belong at one e…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Bubble Wrap of Roleplaying Games
Episode 463
In the Gaming Hut we continue our series on axes of tabletop RPG design with an examination of Resilience and Robustness.
At the behest of beloved P…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 462: I Can Turn Him Into a Skink
The Gaming Hut kicks off a series looking at the axes of RPG design, so appropriately enough we start with elegance.
In the Architecture Hut beloved…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 461: Armed for the Wedding
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer JP Moral asks for steps to take when homebrew adventures don’t feel right in play.
Estimable backer Bryan t…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Price is Scarecrow
Episode 460
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer V. R. Weather asks for a 101 on playtesting. Surprised that we have not directly tackled this basic topic b…
4 years, 4 months ago
Dragons Are the Federal Reserve
Episode 459
The T-Shirt Justification Hut gets scaly and doomy with a look at the connection between dragons and apocalypses.
In the Money Hut, we reveal high-f…
4 years, 4 months ago
Slacker Infant
Episode 458
In the Gaming Hut we provide tips on GMing for a loose cannon character. Surely not a loose cannon player. None of us have ever had that experience.…
4 years, 5 months ago
A Lot to Lay on the Genius Loci
Episode 457
In the Gaming Hut, we look at game balance. What is it, and when do we care about it?
We try not to step on any skulls in the Archaeology Hut as Bel…
4 years, 5 months ago
Least Worst Hell
Episode 456
Hey, it’s an all-request episode!
Count the syllables and jot down the allusions as an anonymous Patreon backer beckons us into the Gaming Hut to as…
4 years, 5 months ago