Fluff N Crunch
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Episodes: 218
Description
We discuss tabletop roleplaying games, with a focus on how story, setting, and system can work together, and how sometimes they don't. We talk about 2d20 games, 5e, review books and resources, and share advice from our years of gaming to help you strike the right balance between story, setting, and system.
New episodes published every Wednesday. You can reach us on Facebook at Fluff N' Crunch or directly by email at fluffncrunchpodcast@gmail.com and @fluffncrunchpod
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Cohors Cthulhu Game Overview: Ancient Rome + Mythos
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Pathfinder Eberron Campaign Update and GM Advice
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Three DnD Versions in One Gaming Session? Why Not?!
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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How to Bring Back a Shelved Campaign
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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World Building: Where Should You Start?
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Canon: Bend, Break, or Honor?
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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What's So Great About Eberron?
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Our Gaming Goals and Plans for 2026
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Is it Possible to Run Traveller for One Player?
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Vaesen Nordic Horror RPG Starter Box Honest Review
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Star Trek Adventures: Looking Back at 8 Years of Gaming
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Bringing Together System, Setting, and Story for a New Campaign
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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End it? Shelve it? How to handle ending a campaign gracefully
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Rewards Systems: What’s Typical, Atypical, and How To Improve Them
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The Essentials of Planning Non-Combat Encounters: Part 1
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Traveller’s “Safari World” Adventure - Big Game Hunting in the Spinward Marches
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Art in RPGs: What’s Its Purpose and What’s Up With What WOTC is Putting Out Now?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Combat Encounter Planning Basics
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Getting Started with Traveller: What to Buy First
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Session Report - Traveller High & Dry Pt2
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Three Ways to Approaching Mapping an Encounter or Scene
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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First Steps in Planning a New Campaign - Where to Start
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Session Report: Traveller's High and Dry pt1
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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How to Plan for the First Session of a New Game
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Rebooting Fluff n Crunch and Some Sharing Some Great GM Advice
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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How to Play Your Best Game pt4 - Learn the Rules
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Your Best Session pt3 - Engagement Techniques for GMs and Players
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How to Play Your Best Game - Pt2 - Leave Out Real World Politics
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Your Best TTRPG Session: Part 1, Engagement at the Table
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Dueling in the Dune 2d20 TTRPG
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Sentience 2d20 Revised RPG - Creator Interview and Kickstarter News
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Our 2025 Gaming Plans and the Inevitability of Change
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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GMs: I Give You Permission to Shelve a Campaign
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Three Things That Should Make You Give Traveller a Try
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Opening Moves - A Traveller Adventure Review
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Gamemastering - Ignore the Lies and Relax
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Achtung! Cthulhu - Rendezvous at Rouen Designer Interview
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Christmas Gaming Ideas
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Running a Good Convention Game pt2
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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How to Run a Successful Game Convention Session
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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How Do You Prepare to Run a Convention Game?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Redlines and 'Safety' Warnings in Games
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Story Ideas and Getting Started with Vampire the Masquerade
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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You Should Try Vampire: the Masquerade 2nd Edition
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Alien - A Perfectly Flawed TTRPG
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Mon Dieu Cthulhu: Swashbuckling Supernatural Action in the Age of Napoleon
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Star Wars Outlaws Review
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Handling Character Death in Tabletop RPGs
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Traveller Session Zero: Character Creation to Kickstart a Campaign
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Honest Review
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Handling Player Failure in TTRPGs
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Is This a Workable Fear Mechanic for a Horror RPG?
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Chris's Dice Mechanic Ideas - Novel Stuff!
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Art in Tabletop RPG Books - How Important is It?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Character Creation for the Games We're Developing
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Norms in TTRPG Character Creation
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Chris Attends UK Games Expo 2024
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Game Building Part 1 - Setting
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Dice Mechanics pt2 - Dice Pools
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Mechanics Discussed pt1 - The Most Basic Dice System
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May 29, 2024 |
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Can DnD 5e Be Fixed? Commentary on System and Settings for the Flagship TTRPG
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May 22, 2024 |
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Crunchy Yet Playable - How Much is Too Much?
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May 15, 2024 |
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound TTRPG Overview
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May 08, 2024 |
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Fallout TTRPG Game Overview
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May 01, 2024 |
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Really Rapid Reaction - Star Trek Adventures 2e Quickstart
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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2d20 WorldBuilders Program Year One Review
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Debut Special Episode: FnC Does Minis - Age of Sigmar Recent Reveals
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Warhammer 40k Wrath and Glory Overview
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Frightshow Classics - A Great Source of Horror One-Off Adventures
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Would Mass Effect or Starship Troopers Make a Good TTRPG Setting?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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An Overview of the Gaming Worlds of Warhammer
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Achtung! Cthulhu Starter Set Unboxing and Overview
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Rules - What We Know and Our First Reactions
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Star Trek Adventures Federation-Klingon War Tactical Campaign Book Interview
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Opportunity and Controversy - AI Usage in TTRPGs
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Castles & Crusades Overview and Commentary
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How to Restart a Campaign After a Break
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How to 2d20 - Zones, Range, and Movement
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Some Ideas on How to Launch a New Campaign
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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How to 2d20: Using Metacurrencies Effectively
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Review of Outgunned - Cinematic Action RPG
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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How to 2d20 - Traits and Truths
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Ahris Remastered - What's to Come in the Upcoming Edition
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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How to 2d20 - The Three Metacurrencies
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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How to: 2d20's Core Mechanic, Explained
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Mining Fiction for Gaming: 1632 and Codex Alera
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The Top 5 2d20 RPGs - Ranked & Explained
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Dreams, Goals, and Plans for Fluff n Crunch in 2024
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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2023 Fluff n Crunch Year End Review
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Time Trackers as Resource Managers for TTRPGs
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Game Spotlight - Traveller, the Original Science Fiction RPG
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Kipo and Janissaries: Mining to Fiction Properties for Tabletop Games
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Using Canon Characters in RPGs pt2 - Fantasy IPs
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Using Canon Characters in RPGs, pt1: SciFi and Modern
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Yo Joe! - Using 2d20 to be a Real American Hero
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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The Essential Elements of GI Joe
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Religion in Games - A Lost Opportunity for Story and Characters?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Gumshoe - A System Optimized for Investigations
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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New Marvel Super Heroes RPG Overview pt2
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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New Marvel Super Heroes RPG Overview pt1
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Captain's Log Act - Trouble on Beta Inari VII Act 3 - Will Our Heroes Survive?
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Captain's Log - Trouble on Beta Inari VII, Act 2 (Actual Play)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Captain's Log - Trouble on Beta Inari VII, Act 1 (Actual Play)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Captain's Log: Ship Creation and Story Foundations
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Captains Log Co-Op Character Creation
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Espionage Tropes and Story Ideas
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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2d20 World Builders Games Review
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Making Monsters in Ahris Fantasy RPG
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Captain's Log Solo RPG Deep Dive & Review
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Star Trek Adventures Captain's Log with Jim Johnson
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Ahris - Talent Creation, Discussion, and Discoveries
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Cohors Cthulhu Quickstart: Reaction & Commentary
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Dreams and Machines Quickstart Reactions & Commentary
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Spell Creation in Ahris Fantasy RPG
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Ahris 2d20 Fantasy RPG Overview
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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2d20-powered James Bond 1:1 Game Ideas
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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The Essential Elements of James Bond
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Star Trek Adventures Discovery Campaign Guide Review
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May 31, 2023 |
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Initial Ideas and Parameters for a 2d20 Star Wars RPG
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May 24, 2023 |
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The Essential Elements of a Star Wars RPG
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May 17, 2023 |
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Horror Stories for RPGs: Challenges and Ideas for GMs
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May 10, 2023 |
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Star Trek Adventures Utopia Planitia Review
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May 03, 2023 |
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Ahris Fantasy RPG Preview - A 2d20 World Builders Program Project
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Dungeons & Dragons Movie Review and Gaming Commentary
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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AI - A First Chat About These and TTRPGs
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Revisiting and Improving Some of the Tropiest of Fantasy Story Hook Tropes
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Combat: Problems Solved!
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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What We Hate About Combat in RPGs
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Campaign and Story Ideas for Achtung! Cthulhu
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Story Ideas for SciFi Settings
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The Parties In LOTR and Star Wars Don't Work In Conventional RPG Systems
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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We Think Some Genres Work Best as One-Offs
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Skills and Their Issues, pt2
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Skills and Issues Related to Them, pt1
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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2d20 World Builders Program, pt2
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Great OGL War of 2023 and WOTC's Strategic Withdrawal
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Special Episode - The First Releases for the 2d20 World Builders program on DriveThruRPG
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Modiphius' 2d20 Worldbuilders Program, pt1
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The OGL War of 2023? Let's See...
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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A Review of 2022
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Chris's Ambitious 5e Campaign Idea for 2023
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Getting Players to Try a New Game
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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System Spotlight: Supporting Characters in 2d20 Games and Perhaps Elsewhere
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Bastard Quest Joint Adventure Episode Follow-Up
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Game Spotlight: John Carter of Mars
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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What Else Could You Do With XP Rewards?
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Special Episodes Announcement: Bastard Quest Joint Actual Plays
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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An Interview with Acthung! Cthulhu Lead Designer John Houlihan
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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System Spotlight: Sorcery in Conan and the Book of Skelos
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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In Response to Listener Requests: Re-Introductions
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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System Spotlight: Carousing in Conan; Downtime Systems
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Experience Systems or, "How Many Goats Do I Need to Kill to Level Up?"
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Game Spotlight: Conan - Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Party Size: Norms Over Time and Ideas for Smaller and Larger Groups
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Game Spotlight: Infinity
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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CaRPG: Ideas for a Streamlined Game System for Family Roadtrips
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Game Spotlight: Mutant Chronicles
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Emergency Fluff and Emergency Crunch: The Discord Alert
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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From the Screen to the Tabletop: Translating Video Games into TTRPGs
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Why We Like 2d20 So Much
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Generic/Universal Rules Systems
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Our First Projects with the New 2d20 SRD
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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"Balance" in Character and Encounter Creation
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The 2d20 SRD in Some Depth
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Homeworld Corebook Review
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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2d20 Supers pt2: Powers!
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Chris is Running Vampire 5th Edition...Why that Version?
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Homeworld Free Quickstart Commentary
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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The Great 50th Episode Show
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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2d20 Supers! Part One
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Curse of Strahd: Story-System Commentary
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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2d20 in Place of Gumshoe for a Vampire Spy Thriller Campaign? Let's find out...
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Chris, Supers RPGs, and Hope for the Future
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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An Interview with Nathan Dowdell of Modiphius
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May 25, 2022 |
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Our Thoughts on Cortex Prime
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May 18, 2022 |
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For the Achtung! Cthulhu GM: Adventure Reviews
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May 11, 2022 |
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First Reactions to the New Marvel Supers Playtest
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May 04, 2022 |
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A High(er) Magic System for 2d20?
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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A Novel Source for GM Inspiration
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Our Wishlist for a 2d20 Fantasy Core Rules Book
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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One-Offs, Adventures, and Campaigns: Different Needs for Planning and Management
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Dishonored: Thoughts On and Reactions to This Narrative-Heavy RPG
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The Don'ts and Do's of Planning and Running Investigations
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The Scientific Method Subsystem in Star Trek Adventures
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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When, Why, and How to Roll the Dice in Support of the Story
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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How to Introduce Players to 2d20
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Original Adventures in Story-Heavy Settings Part 2
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Original Adventures in Story-Heavy Settings Part 1
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Achtung! Cthulhu Combat Encounter with Commentary
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Published Adventures vs. Home Brew, and Some Unexpected GM Therapy
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Space, Range, and Distance - in 2d20 and Other Games
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Our Gaming Plans, Hopes, and Dreams for 2022...and some Covid
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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What We Like, and Dislike, About DnD 5e
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Twilight: 2000 - Initial Reaction and Combat Commentary
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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2021: Our Year in Review
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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...It Was the Worst of Games
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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It Was the Best of Games...
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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The Pathfinders: 1st and 2nd Editions Compared
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Combat in Conan
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Personnel Combat in Star Trek Adventures
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Who Ya Gonna Call? - 2d20 for Ghostbusters
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Achtung Cthulhu GM's Guide: First Thoughts
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Achtung Cthulhu Player's Guide: First Thoughts
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Chris' Game System Quandary
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Hacks, Mods, and Conversions: Using 2d20 Outside of Published Settings
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Threat: Essential for the GM
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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The Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide: Reactions & Review
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Starship Combat in Star Trek Adventures
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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A Review of the Star Trek Adventures Quadrant Books, and Expert Star Trek Commentary
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Short Episode: Change in Publishing Schedule
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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A Review: Star Trek Adventures Command Division Sourcebook
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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The Different Types of Conflict in the Dune RPG
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Our First Thought on the New Dune RPG
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Some Settings and Genres are Tough to Model in TTRPGs
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Combat in the 2d20 System
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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The Metacurrencies of 2d20
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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2d20's Novel Core Mechanic
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Introductions and Our Gaming Backgrounds
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Jul 02, 2021 |