A podcast exploring RPGs including the industry, table experience, and development process from the team behind Systematic Understanding of Everything, Mage the Podcast, and The Story Told.
Ben Riggs argues that a large active D&D fanbase is what creates a stable RPG environment for everything else and that the issues with the OGL and D&D Next cause unnecessary splintering that may hurt everyone
Slaying the Dragon - Ben's book on D&D in the 90s
Reading D&D Aloud - Ben's new project
RPG academics is a growing field and Dr. Scott Bruner joins to talk about the shared realities, defining a game, and the persistence of Dungeons & Dragons.
How is Hunter the Reckoning 5th edition at the table? Can you draft a one-shot character? Do TTRPGs have a future at Gencon? These and more on this So Whatcha Playin'.
Hunter the Reckoning 5th Edition - The book
So you have a blockbuster idea and just need to get an IP holder on board, what could go wrong? A lot! Rachel J Wilkinson, creator of Port Saga joins to talk about license holders, Paradox, writing, and audience surveys.
Charlie Cantrell is a part-time RPG writer who's using Storytellers Vault royalties to commission game books. What are the economics of this and how does he set his targets? Listen and find out!
Exalt characters need Exalt-level foes and Adversaries of the Righteous provides them in spades. Chazz and Terry talk sneak peaks at Exalt types, earth elemental apocalypse cults, and so so so many charms.
Adversaries of the Righteous - This book on DTRPG
Hundred Devils Night Parade - Another book of things
Demigods ply a path that results in either godhood or death in a brutal up-or-out challenge to Fate. Chazz and Terry talk new pantheons, building demigod narratives, and the underworld in Scion 2e Book Three: Demigod.
Scion Second Edition Book Three: Demigod
Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are poised to disrupt the market for commissioned art. How do these technologies work and how might they effect RPG publishing? Jason Pitre of Genesis of Legend Publishing joins to discuss.
Midjourney Bot home -Web interface for the Midjourney model
Stable Diffusion - Local or cloud image generation
Artbreeder - Image modification tool
Monkey Selfie Copyright case - The macaque who didn't own a copyright
Jason on Mage the Podcast - In which we talk about belief mechanics
Noir World - Noir Powered by the Apocalypse
Sig: City of Blades - Totally not Sigil
Carry - A game about the Vietnam war
Poser - a 3D Rendering program
Todd Lockwood - Artist
Egon Schiele - Artist
Peter Mohrbacher - Artist
Pain in the Dice Plays Scion: Hero Second Edition! The third of three episodes in which we discover that sometimes swimming is an interesting action and that Enhancement is a lovely way to accrue successes.
Pain in the Dice Plays Scion: Hero Second Edition! In which what is obviously a villain is revealed and we discuss Josh's truck.
Pain in the Dice Plays Scion: Hero Second Edition! This is the first of three parts in which Chazz storyguides for various people and a train is involved.
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