Podcast Episodes

Talking Space Opera

Episode 44

Lets talk widescreen, big idea sci-fi. Games of space fleets, interstellar empires, sometimes aliens-- big ideas and lasers. Games like Star Trek Adv…

6 months ago

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Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 5 Base Raiders

Episode 43

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History jumps forward significantly in time to just after the d20 boom/bust cycle. Today's focus is Ross Payton's indep…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 2 Twilight 2000

Episode 42

In our second episode of Roll for Mutation, a look at the history of Post-Apocalyptic TTRPGs, we tackle Twilight 2000 from GDW, focusing on those ori…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Talking White Whales and Inadvisable Ideas

Episode 41

What's the game you've wanted to get to the table but haven't been able to? What's the campaign premise you've considered but don't know how to make …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Design Chat: Pedro Barrenechea & Rotted Capes 2e

Episode 40

This week we present a bonus episode for both Roll for Origin & Roll for Mutation. Lowell chats with Pedro Barrenechea, lead designer for Rotted Cape…

7 months ago

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Talking One-Shots

Episode 39

For this episode we've cleaned up the audio from an older community seminar on running one-shots. Like several of our other "Talking" episodes, this …

7 months, 1 week ago

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Open Hearth Podcast Ep 13: Ex Tenebris, Wise Women, Star Trek Adventures

Episode 38

In this episode Host Lowell Francis talks with Becky Annison and Josh Fox of Black Armada games about what they've been playing, herbal witches, the …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 4 - Bleed

Episode 37

Content Advisory: colonialism & imperialism; sexual violence in a horror/vampire context; death of loved ones, including miscarriage; excessive immer…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 4 Champions (1st-3rd Editions)

Episode 36

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History returns to one of the earliest and most important superhero ttrpgs: Champions. Hosts Jay Brown and Lowell Franc…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

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Open Hearth Podcast Ep 12: Rangers of a Broken World, Aberrant, Masks

Episode 35

In this episode Host Rae Nedjadi (Apocalypse Keys, Once More into the Void) talks with Sebastian Yūe and Matthew Arcilla about games, superheroes, vi…

8 months ago

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