Podcast Episodes

What are Roleplaying Games with Runeslinger

Season 15 Episode 9

This one’s a conversation with Runeslinger, aka Anthony from the Casting Shadows blog, podcast, and Youtube channel. He hails from South Korea and, having just enjoyed a week off work, I was able to …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

World First T2K with Patrick Mullen

Season 15 Episode 8

This one’s a conversation with a new friend. My guest hails from Florida, USA, and this is probably the beginning of a sequence of chats I’d like to have with him.

Our focus was on what my guest calls…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Eclectic Thoughts

Season 15 Episode 7

This one’s an eclectic collection of thoughts emerging from listener messages and the ongoing experience of running games in the wake of recent episodes.

When I started this podcast, it was really abo…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Story Divide with Runeslinger

Season 15 Episode 6

This one’s a conversation with an old friend. My guest hails from South Korea and this continues a sequence of chats that we’ve shared over a number of months. Fear not though - this episode stands a…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Grounded Realistic Gameplay

Season 15 Episode 5

What if roleplaying games are not about telling stories?

Is there another way to approach these games?

And what happens if we stop treating the game like it’s a movie?

This one is about expressing where…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Fudging It with Joe from Dekahedron

Season 15 Episode 4

This one's a conversation with Joe, the host of the Dekahedron podcast where he talks about his love of the tabletop RPG hobby. On his show Joe talks about a range of stuff from OSR gameplay ideas th…

Published on 7 months ago

Unshackled

Season 15 Episode 3

What happens if we drop the script and the expectation that this is going to be a thought-provoking analysis of some aspect of roleplaying?

What happens if we lean into improvisation and see where thi…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Old-School GURPS

Season 15 Episode 2

What happens if we lean back into the roots of our hobby - which for me is largely the 1980s - and realise that the kind of roleplaying we enjoy the most is in fact the Old-School variety?

But instead…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Crafting Better Roleplay

Season 15 Episode 1

If roleplaying games are really about roleplay then how come so much of our time at the table is spent doing all sorts of other things that aren’t roleplay?

Is there a way in which we can craft our pl…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Dungeoneer with Simon Williams

Season 14 Episode 22

This episode emerged from a Zoom call I shared with today’s guest which he was gracious enough to allow me to record and share. The episode is as simple as that: a recorded chat in which we catch up …

Published on 8 months ago