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Fear the Boot

Fear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby. Our cast changes a little from show to show, but we always assemble a group of dynamic individuals with divergent views, guaranteeing you will hear several perspectives on everything we discuss.

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44:29

Episode 613 - the eleventh dollar

Fear the Boot ·

2023/05/30

* (0:29) Julia ruins everything. * (1:35) Things are getting set for Fear the Con! An intro to RPGs game is available for newcomers. You can also announce your games on Discord. * (9:03) Coming out of a period of deep fatigue. How one game still never missed a week. * (16:18) Spoons and other finite resources. * (20:06) Why it might be best to bite off a bit less. You may not be gaming as much as you think, anyway. * (26:41) Does gaming with strangers help the problem? * (31:37) Kids, you’re already

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36:45

Episode 612 - running the unknown

Fear the Boot ·

2023/05/09

* (0:28) Running a game when someone else knows the setting a whole lot better than you do. * (2:07) The lack of pronunciation guides in most games. * (3:16) Narrowing down the task by asking what’s important about the setting to the players. * (7:59) Getting the essence or feel of the setting right. We need a Thug Notes recap of BattleTech lore. * (12:53) Start small and work outward, learning just what you need for each step along the way. * (21:15) Tell your players you only know some canon and

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37:10

Episode 611 - paid GMing

Fear the Boot ·

2023/04/17

Show links… * StartPlaying Games * Bite Size Tales * Gaming with Gage Hosts: Chris, DJ, Josh, Wayne

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41:13

Episode 610 - the value of chaos

Fear the Boot ·

2023/03/29

* (0:29) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live for one more week! * (1:56) The wonderful confusion new players and GMs bring to a roleplaying game. * (16:59) An imagined internal-consistency is sometimes more fun than an intended one. * (22:17) The burden of your own expectations. * (28:29) When contradictions aren’t actually contradictions. The Law of Non-Contradiction. * (35:16) The emotion of Muscle March. * (36:22) The ideas that mistakes allow us to explore. Hosts: Dan, Julia, Mary,

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51:01

Episode 609 – the best mechanics

Fear the Boot ·

2023/03/22

* (0:31) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live! * (1:04) The new fiction podcast, Bite Size Tales. * (3:09) Game mechanics we’re particularly fond of. * (4:54) Rerolls and other roll-modifying mechanics. * (10:13) A close relationship between skills and attributes. * (15:46) Life paths in character creation. * (24:48) Using all the dice. * (30:12) Injury instead of a simple health pool. * (38:08) Lots of randomness. * (40:31) Building something bigger than your character. * (44:13)

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35:32

Episode 608 - bringing a world to life

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2023/03/07

* (0:28) The Kickstarter for Fear the Con 2023 is live! * (1:12) Things a Game Master has done to make a world seem a little more alive (with credit to JoshB for the topic). * (5:46) Plot hooks, substories, and unanswered questions about my character. * (9:16) Allowing characters to have goals, ambitions, and projects. * (13:32) Giving me things I can trust that won’t betray me or become a vulnerability. * (19:52) Investing the players in world-building that matters. * (29:25) Don’t constantly veto

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35:26

Episode 607 - maybe a misunderstanding

Fear the Boot ·

2023/02/21

* (0:28) The new fiction podcast, Bite Size Tales. * (1:43) Dan re-reads the D&D 2nd Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. Wayne watches Secrets of Blackmoor. The inspiration D&D’s creators drew from Strategos. * (6:38) The rather disjointed rules of early RPGs. * (8:23) The heavy crunch of early RPGs that might be as much unearned reputation as reality. * (13:02) Why an early RPG may have needed to describe concepts that would be misinterpreted as immutable rules. * (16:06) Narrative examples of play. *

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Bonus Episode 99 - AI creativity

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2023/01/27

* (0:36) An odd tangent on names. * (3:39) A conversation about AI art. Some parameters we’re putting on this episode. AI art wins a fine arts competition. * (8:08) An admittedly non-technical overview of how AI generally creates its work. Syntax versus semantics. * (17:43) AI creations as a starting point instead of the final product. Why the lack of semantics may distinguish what inspires humans as opposed to AIs. * (29:32) The positive impact of AI creativity, contrasted with the intellectual

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47:41

Episode 606 - contexting the OGL

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2023/01/18

* (0:30) Giving a remote episode a try. We have a fix for Dan’s audio that should improve the quality on our next remote show. * (1:42) Catching up with Brodeur and DJ, who was on episode 466 to talk about BuJoRPG. * (4:43) Putting some parameters on the topic. * (9:42) Does Wizards of the Coast hate you? Envy other publishers? Or just not understand the market? * (16:36) Why people went along with the OGL to begin with. A genuine belief that some people in the mix have the best of intentions. *

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34:06

Episode 605 - dosing out setting

Fear the Boot ·

2023/01/05

* (0:44) Friday night chit-chat on Discord each week, starting at 8pm Central. * (2:18) Fear the Con 2023 dates have been reserved with the hotel for June 16th and 17th of 2023, with the Wing Night on June 15th. * (3:37) Wayne preps his players for a Savage Worlds: Alpha Flight game. * (8:18) Learning through trial-and-error by running homebrews and setting-dense games. * (10:42) Give your players a little homework. * (15:04) Where will the game begin? * (20:37) What the characters need or want. *

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41:48

Bonus Episode 98 – tired tropes

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2022/12/15

* (0:22) The villain as the dark inverse of the hero. * (9:20) A big CGI fight at the end that seems visually out of continuity. * (16:06) Zombies and Lovecraft. * (20:37) The freedom to like or dislike, and how little that says about you as a person. * (23:33) Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, and Disney. * (26:59) Let’s not be too reductive. * (34:26) Maybe we’ve just been around too long and seen too many stories. * (37:15) Elves with short hair. Hosts: Brodeur, Dan, Wayne

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40:56

Bonus Episode 97 - manis, pedis, and fandoms

Fear the Boot ·

2022/11/14

* (0:24) Brodeur recommends a manicure and pedicure to Dan. * (5:58) Dan, Wayne, and their muscle tension. * (11:24) A straight-razor shave and the thrill of death. * (15:56) Fandoms that (at least temporarily) put people off from the product they love. * (28:08) On anime. * (31:37) The need to be inviting within gaming, since it’s a social hobby. * (37:56) Gratuitous violence and opinion as identity. Hosts: Brodeur, Dan, Julia, Wayne

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33:48

Episode 604 – crapping on an ending

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2022/11/07

* (0:28) Brodeur flees to Oregon. * (4:08) Failure comes to East Texas University. * (7:26) Dividing the blame between the players and Game Master. * (11:40) Player silence and passivity. * (17:30) Things lost for lack of time. * (19:34) Substance use, depression, and the option of just narrating the ending. * (26:32) Was there a post-mortem with the players? Not judging a whole campaign by its ending. * (30:09) If the players don’t know how to answer, ask a more specific question. Hosts: Brodeur,

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40:39

Episode 603 - ending without a boss fight

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2022/10/29

* (0:33) Wayne gives a shoutout to Gaming with Gage + Friends (but not Brodeur). * (1:53) Wayne ends a D&D campaign without a boss fight. * (3:11) The mutual theft of ideas between video games and tabletop roleplaying games. * (8:00) Considering all the ways a story can end. * (13:18) Another example from a D&D game. * (21:06) Post-campaign, no-boss epilogues. Player freedom in shaping the ending. * (28:02) Redefining the game in a character-centric way. * (32:33) Allowing other solutions to small

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45:24

Episode 602 - personalizing a module

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2022/09/13

* (0:29) Brodeur’s post-Gen-Con review. (I know, we’re right on top of the latest news.) A shoutout to Imagining Games, Acheron Books, and RogueOperative. * (8:02) Customizing modules for your players and characters. * (11:48) Modules as a framework, not a full script. * (18:26) Know the module well enough that you can deconstruct it into its components. * (24:37) An imaginary scenario using a well-known story as a module, adjusted to an obviously unique character. * (36:44) How the whole context of

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47:16

Episode 601 - leveraging PC backgrounds

Fear the Boot ·

2022/08/17

* (0:29) A listener, James, gets us talking about integrating player-character backstories into your game. It starts with the players giving you something to work with. * (3:01) Sitting for too long on too much information, or mining the backstory abusively. * (7:43) Finding the possible connections between backstories. * (11:08) Let’s do it live! Dan sets up a D&D game with Wayne as his player. Building story by eliminating coincidences and undefined areas. * (19:22) Wayne sets up a Skies of Glass

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Episode 600 - passivity and dysfunction

Fear the Boot ·

2022/07/29

* (0:29) How awful can a few years be? (Spoilers: Multiple things got worse since this recording!) * (3:49) An experiment in unequal levels of preparation and participation. * (8:34) Not all players will bring the same level of contribution, nor do all games encourage it. * (14:32) Pattern versus incidence. * (18:52) Reasons to not just sit it out. * (20:43) Why using past experiences of what was to infer what ought to be may not be the best approach. * (25:11) Setting expectations for the division

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44:44

Bonus Episode 96 - Fear the Con 2022 report

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2022/07/05

* (0:24) Releasing episodes out of order. * (1:24) The little convention that could, despite how hard life tried to stop it. * (6:59) All of the hurdles that weren’t COVID. * (14:00) The obstacles that came up during the convention. * (24:24) In spite of everything arrayed against it, the con went really well. * (31:42) Thanking Eric Van Note for the picture of Gnarl, which you can see here. You can contact him for your own commission at: vannoteillustration@gmail.com * (33:50) Wishing we’d had more

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36:56

Episode 599 - splitting the difference

Fear the Boot ·

2022/06/14

* (0:29) Interrogating Mary on her gaming history. * (1:33) The last few days before Fear the Con! * (4:54) The distinct moral perspective of a child. * (7:39) Leif responds to our show on vertical creativity. * (13:58) A thought exercise on who should win the 51/49 preference: players or GMs. * (15:41) Wayne and Dan’s answers. * (18:09) Mary’s answer. * (21:12) Brodeur’s answer. * (26:15) Dan’s retort about the assumed-risk of the Game Master. * (30:51) The courtesy inherent in having a group with

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44:47

Episode 598 - the Uno metaphor

Fear the Boot ·

2022/06/03

* (0:29) A difficult GM learns a lesson from an Uno game. * (4:10) Navigating the internal conflict between “roleplaying” and “game”. * (11:20) The need for control that ultimately comes from fear. * (16:45) Giving the players their wins. * (23:34) The ugly math about how many people aren’t that good at a given task. * (29:32) The importance of having rapport before doing this. * (32:29) Saying, “yes,” while camouflaging the railroad. Hosts: Brodeur, Caleb, Dan, Julia

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