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Roleplay Rescue

Did you used to play roleplaying games back in the day, delving dungeons with funny dice in hand? Why’d you stop? Find out how to reclaim your RPG hobby as a working adult. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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30:50

Gaming With Teens

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/12/24

Today I want to revisit the topic of “Gaming With Teenagers”. It’s very much a conversation aimed at adults, so I’d like to apologise up front to any actual young adults listening to the podcast. Caveats aside, this all comes from my experience in setting up and running RPG gaming clubs across three UK secondary schools - aka high schools - and working with teens aged 11-18. Here are my Top Ten tips for introducing them to the hobby.Massive thanks to all the callers - to Simon from Legend of the

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1:10:48

Otherworlds With Daniel Jones

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/12/17

This is the fifth in a sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode continues my quest to find the game I really want to play, focused today upon the question of how to achieve greater Otherworld-immersion and build the kind of Otherworld that matters to us. My guest is, of course, Daniel Jones.Daniel is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersion and a proponent of the idea that changing the methodology of our roleplaying

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1:03:16

Solo With Simon Williams

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/12/10

This is the fourth in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode continues my quest to find the game I really want to play, this time through re-investigating the topic of solo roleplaying.My guest, Simon Williams, is a British artist and illustrator as well as being the creator of the Legend of The Bones podcast, a hybrid Solo Old School Dungeons and Dragons actual play and dark fantasy audio drama. His evocative

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1:06:11

Talking OD&D and AD&D with Jason Connerley

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/12/03

This is the third in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode picks up a thread that I’ve been noodling around for a while, namely the value of Gygaxian-era Dungeons & Dragons and what makes OD&D and AD&D valuable.Big thank you up front to my guest, Jason, and I hope that you find this as interesting as I did.The Nerd's RPG Variety Cast: https://anchor.fm/jason376Game on!Roleplay Rescue Details:Voice

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58:22

Talking Worlds With Kevin From The Redcaps

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/11/26

Another conversation to share with you today, this time someone who has recently inspired and reinvigorated my hobby through his excellent podcast. While we did begin in interview mode, the primary focus of this conversation was to chat about fantasy game worlds and some of the ways in which those were particularly important to more Old-School flavours of the hobby. Kevin is the host of The Redcaps Podcast, the podcast where he dips his hat into the blood of his listeners and rambles on about

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31:04

Old-School Reflections

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/11/19

Admitting my discomfort with the Old-School label and talking about my own relationship with the OSR as a movement appears to have touched a couple of people in a helpful and powerful way. Two listeners have taken the time to send me not one but several messages on the topic and I am every keen to share their thoughts with you. But that’s not all. Today I also want to reflect on the journey that returning to the Old-School primer and listening to some interviews has sent me out to experience. I’ve

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1:00:26

Talking Pantheons With Ron Ogden

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/11/12

Special moments come along but rarely and today is a special moment for me. Sometimes we meet people with whom we share seemingly little in common and then we discover they play D&D too. My guest today is someone from a very different background and experience of roleplaying games whom I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with. While our conversation was focused around the topic of Pantheons in D&D, the conversation roamed far and wide giving me much to think about.Ron Ogden is the CEO of The

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32:14

Goals For Engagement

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/11/05

One of the most overlooked aspects of running a roleplaying games campaign is the question of what you and your players want from such a game. We tend to assume that other people come to the table for the same reasons that we do. We also tend towards diving in head-first to getting a game up and running, keen to play, without considering how we want to the game to feel. There’s also a tendency to not consider the outcomes we might seek from a new campaign - and I’m not talking about the inevitable

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25:00

Choosing Modern and SF Worlds

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/10/29

This episode follows on from Choosing Fantasy Worlds, which was episode 13. Brian’s question was about recommending worlds that are well-done and while I have some personal favourites which fit that description, I also want to talk about why it’s so hard to find well-done modern and SF worlds for games.Thanks to Brian from I’ll Have To Look That Up for the call in that inspired the episode. Thanks also to Jason from the Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast for the call-ins today.There's also some news about my

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27:20

Uncomfortably Old-School

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/10/22

I am uncomfortably Old-School. While I don’t self-identify as being part of the so-called Old-School Renaissance, my habits and sensibilities have much in common with the early days of that Movement. But I am not truly part of the OSR because the games I enjoy are too complex and detailed for the members of that Movement. So where do I fit? I suspect I have fallen between the cracks of the roleplaying games community.Thanks to Jason and Evil Jeff for the call-ins!Game on!Roleplay Rescue

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24:50

Choosing Fantasy Worlds

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/10/15

There are many, many worlds that I would love to explore and play in. But if we specify worlds that are well-done then that list is much shorter. I’ve thought about it a great deal and I am going to suggest three worlds - or settings - that I consider to be well done. To keep things sane, I’m going to begin by focusing on Fantasy worlds. If you want my thoughts about modern-era or science-fiction worlds, let me know and I’ll do a follow-up episode. We begin with this: if I could sit down and run any

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31:31

Call-In Collective

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/10/08

A big part of what makes this show special is the community of discovery that has grown up around it - through the blog comments, emails, Discord messaging, Patreon support, and podcast call-ins. You, the listeners, are what make working on the show a joy and about 80% of the reason that I keep recording and editing episodes.Every call-in gets saved but not every call-in has space in the regular episodes, so every now and again I like to scoop up the messages and present them back as a special

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30:49

Tiny Prep

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/10/01

Today’s episode is a quick overview of an approach to GM preparation that I call Tiny Prep. It was inspired by the work of BJ Fogg, the Director of the Stanford Behavioural Lab and discussed at length in his highly-recommended book “Tiny Habits”. Tiny Prep is the simple idea of doing your GM game preparations in very small increments daily or, in my case, six days a week. I utilise the science of human behaviour revealed by BJ Fogg to leverage the natural habit-forming processes of the human brain

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38:45

Choosing Is Hard

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/09/24

This one is a bit of a rant. It arises from repeated comments from players about GURPS which irk me. It begins with this: “Sure,” says the player when I suggest we play a game using GURPS, “I’d be happy to play… as long as I don’t have to build a character.”GURPS is not a complex or difficult game. But it is a generic and universal game. It doesn’t come with a pre-packaged world nor with a bunch of genre conventions because it can handle any world and any genre. Or, more precisely, GURPS can handle

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53:24

Traveller With Bob Loftin

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/09/17

Today is the last in a series of conversations I shared over the period between the seasons, with some of the most creative gamers I know.My guest today is a fellow podcaster and perhaps one of the nicest and most mellow souls I have had the privilege to meet. We sat down to talk a little about the Classic Traveller roleplaying game - especially since, at the time, I was re-approaching the old Black Box set for a possible SF campaign I am still desperate to create. This conversation inspired many

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26:04

Choose Your Rules

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/09/10

Which set of roleplaying game rules should you use? What do you need to learn before you run the game? And how important are they to the success of the game?As an anxious gamer, the biggest focus of my hobby over the years has been the question of which set of rules is the best for roleplaying. My experience has been simple: this is the wrong question.Thanks to the Pink Phantom, Jason Connerly, and Jason Wiebe for the call-ins today.Game on!Roleplay Rescue Details:Voice

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1:02:01

Mystery With Justin Alexander

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/09/03

Today is the third in a series of conversations I shared over the period between the seasons, with some of the most creative gamers I know. My guest today is the single biggest influence on this podcast, a huge inspiration to me as a Game Master. He is, of course, The Alexandrian himself - Justin Alexander.Just in case you don’t know, Justin is a freelance writer and the author of The Alexandrian.net. His published works include more than 200 books, articles, and reviews including gaming supplements

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22:20

Imagine Places First

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/08/27

How do we get started setting up and running a fantasy roleplaying game? What’s the best approach to getting the game off the ground quickly? And how can we do it in such a way as to keep stress to the minimum?Let’s start with this: The best way to get a game going quickly is to begin with a place, a location from which to launch an adventure.Thanks to Jason and Wiebe for the call-ins!Legend of The Bones Podcast: Legend of the Bones | a podcast by legendofthebones (podbean.com) OR

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1:03:55

Discussing AD&D With Menion (aka Rob)

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/08/20

Today’s chat is with Menion, aka Rob, the creator and host of Confessions of a Wee Tim'rous Bushi, a podcast that hails from Japan. This conversation was about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and arose as I was trying to put together my own Open Table game now known as Hiraeth. At the time, I was wavering on which rules system to use and ultimately this chat helped me decide.Big thank you in advance to Rob for hopping online, sometime back in June, and sharing this delightful and insightful chat. I

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26:46

Fantasy, Dungeons, and The Open Table

Roleplay Rescue ·

2022/08/13

What’s the easiest and most straightforward way to start playing roleplaying games after many years away from the table? And if we’re playing already but want to make the jump towards being Game Master, what’s the simplest path? Is there a way to make our first games so likely to succeed that we can overcome the anxiety that stands in the way?Big thanks to Jason, Brian, and Adam for the call-ins!LINKS:D&D Basic Rules: Basic D&D Rules | Dungeons & Dragons (wizards.com) OR

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