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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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25:24

An Open World Campaign

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/11/11

Draw a quick regional map on hexed paper. Grab the rules from an old roleplaying game. Sit down with some friends and begin to play.Is it really that simple to start a fantasy roleplaying campaign?Today, I want to share some of the things I’ve experienced and what these moments have taught me about being a fantasy RPG GM.Big thanks to the callers today - Andrew, Jason, Anthony aka Runeslinger, and Wiebe!Game on!Roleplay Rescue Details:Voice

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1:00:54

Talking D&D With YUMDM

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/10/28

YUMDM is the creator of the d12 Monthly ‘zine which started in mid-2021 and has grown from a humble 8-pages to - in September 2023 - 27 issues at a whopping 28-pages!Hailing from Australia, Russ has been roleplaying for 30+ years and allegedly played his first game as Tasslehoff in a Dragonlance module. He has been creating his own campaign world since 2019 and has seen it grow and develop in each new campaign he runs. Russ is an avid solo roleplayer having done so as far back as 1986. This

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1:07:20

Adventurer Conqueror King With Alex Macris

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/10/22

Alex Macris is the lead designer for the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System,an old-school fantasy RPG designed to support campaign play. He’s the founder of Autarch LLC, a game design studio from Durham in North Carolina, USA which publishes ACKS and several other titles. Alex is also an entrepreneur and the author of “Arbiter of Worlds”, a primer for Gamemasters - as well as having made a host of other achievements.Massive thank you to Alex for coming on the show. Thank you to Matthew for

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37:04

Schooled

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/10/14

What’s going on with the school Roleplay Club? Why would you even run such a thing? What are the best steps in getting started?Today, I want to take you through the story of the first two weeks of the School Club project and outline the progress, but also the pains, of getting myself back in front of teens gamers. I’ve even grabbed two short clips from the GM’s Journal - recorded immediately after the students left on two consecutive sessions - to give you a sense of how the play has been going.Big

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24:56

Rescue!

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/09/30

What do you do when you know you used to enjoy playing RPGs but the whole thing has, frankly, become a chore? How do you move forward when the reality is that you are anxious about GMing the next session and you have bailed more times than you run the game?This season is shifting to a bi-weekly format and I hope that listeners will understand. This season I’m going to work on presenting the experiments I’m testing in my own actually played RPG sessions. The goal is to track a route back to the table

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46:51

So You Want To Be A Game Master With Justin Alexander

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/09/02

This episode is the final one for this season - no, really - and it’s my pleasure to bring you a conversation about a significant new book for the RPG scene.Justin Alexander is a freelance writer and the author of the grand repository of ideas that is The Alexandrian. This is an interview with Justin about his forthcoming book, released in November 2023, "So You Want To Be A Game Master". Big thanks up front to Justin for agreeing to come and talk about his new book - it truly was another joyous and

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45:03

Community Voices

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/08/26

The last episode was supposed to be the final one for this season but, well, then I got a whole barrage of messages and call-ins from you, the listeners. It seems a shame not to share them in one last hurrah of community positivity and thoughtfulness. So… here we are.Big thank you, once again, to Frank, Brian, Anthony, Jason, John, Barry, Jean-Francois, Hobbs, and James for all of their call-ins!I’m not really sure if and when I’ll be back for more episodes so… thank you for showing up and listening

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1:04:18

Tension and Change With Jason Connerley

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/08/19

This episode is the final one for this season, another of the extended conversations I’ve shared with gaming friends over recent weeks. It was largely unplanned as I hopped online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest.Jason Connerley is the voice behind the Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast podcast and a regular caller to several Anchorite shows, including this one. Jason started gaming around 1983 with the Dungeon! board game by David Megarry. His first RPGs were the Mentzer Red Box D&D Basic

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56:27

Talking FKR With Paul Jennings

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/08/12

This one’s a chat about FKR - Free Kreigspiel Roleplaying - with someone I am only beginning to get to know but who has also been so generous with their time that I feel deeply appreciative of and in debt to. The episode is the penultimate one for this season, another of the extended conversations I’ve shared with gaming friends over recent weeks. It was largely unplanned and is really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. We did have a few moments of spotty

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29:54

The Apprentice GM

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/08/05

So, yes, I want to be a Game Master. And I want to become a good Game Master. I’m ready to learn and I’m willing to put myself into the space of running a game for my friends. Where do I start? This episode is being put together on Day One of my Apprenticeship as a GM. I’m sharing it partly so that I can externalise and understand where I am going - it helps to explain my rationale and direction. But I’m also sharing because I hope that it might inspire one or two others who’ve been sitting on that

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35:20

Something Shared

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/29

This episode is basically a call-in show with lots of messages interspersed with my thoughts in response. It’s unscripted and probably a little rougher around the edges… but I would encourage you to stick around and listen because this collection of messages from the community has been some of the most insightful stuff in all my years of podcasting. Big thanks up front to the callers - Simon, Wiebe, Matt, Barry, Matthew, and Jason. I hope you enjoy it.Game on!Roleplay Rescue Details:Voice

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29:50

The Fear of Mastery

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/22

What does the phrase “Game Master” mean? It is simply a synonym for other labels we stick on the poor soul who organises and runs a traditional tabletop roleplaying game, or might it have deeper meaning? And if we wanted to master our craft, how would we begin?This episode is about the idea of mastery and the fear which arises whenever one speaks about attaining such status. Of the sense of inadequacy and foolishness which leads me to feel as though it is preposterous to suggest such an outrageous

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50:17

War of Art with Daniel Jones

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/15

This episode is the third extended conversation I’ve shared with some gaming friends over recent weeks. The conversation was unplanned and is really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest.Daniel Jones is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersion and a published author, game designer, philosopher, podcaster, and the man behind the Eudaimonic Geekery blog. In this episode, Daniel wanted to talk to me about his struggles with writing his own roleplaying game,

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30:21

Transitions

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/08

Today’s episode is a Transition - a shift from one place towards another, the ending of one chapter and the opening of another. In part, this is a reflection upon the journey so far. It’s also a reorientation towards what I want for my future with roleplaying games. But the episode is also a sharing, both of my own thoughts and ideas but also those from the community which have gathered over the past few weeks.Big thank you to Hobbs from Random Screed for inspiring this episode and giving me his

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22:58

Solo Tales Ep4: Into The Tower

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/05

Hello Rescuers! Here's a early-access bonus for the Swordbearers which will become open to all Patrons prior to general release as a bonus episode on Roleplay Rescue.Roleplay Rescue’s Solo Tales is a podcast recounting the solo tabletop roleplaying adventures played by me. The core of the game is being played with Basic Roleplaying by the Chaosium and the Mythic GM Emulator Deck. There are adult themes and some pretty gory moments of combat, so listener discretion is advised.Thanks to Jon from Tale

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1:21:45

Player Agency With Simon Williams

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/07/01

Today is the second of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week, focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were largely unplanned and are really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest.This second conversation is with Simon Williams, a British artist and illustrator as well as being the creator of the Legend of

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1:20:17

Adventure Building With Johnn Four

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/06/24

Today is the first of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were largely unplanned and are really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. The first conversation was with Johnn Four, the founder of RoleplayingTips.com which began as a GM tips newsletter. Throughout the

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27:16

Back In Balazar

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/06/17

Newfound clarity has given birth to some confidence and a much greater sense of my preferences in gaming. The last few weeks have seen seismic shifts in my sense of wellbeing alongside a growing sense of who I am as a GM. As with much of Roleplay Rescue, there is a sense that in sharing my own journey back towards the roleplaying I enjoyed so much as a young man, perhaps there is also an invitation for others to follow.Following on from Episodes 14 and 15, I have found myself nudged towards setting

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1:10:22

Sparking Creativity With Runeslinger

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/06/10

Today I have another of my conversations with a friend within the roleplaying games community. This episode we dipped into talking about sparking creativity with younger students of varying ages - a comparison between my guest’s creative writing courses that utilise roleplaying games and my own school-based RPG club for teens. My guest today is Runeslinger - Anthony Boyd - the creator ofCasting Shadows, a blog offering commentary about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and

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20:28

Solo Tales Ep3: Skeletons!

Roleplay Rescue ·

2023/06/07

Hello Rescuers! Here's another bonus - the third episode of Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales!This episode picks up where that one left off. Because this is a personal solo game, I’m going to be using a variety of tools and methods to create a game that I enjoy. In other words, while I am sharing the game in the hope of inspiring others to try solo play, I am also very much playing the game for my own enjoyment.Thanks to Jon from Tale of the Manticore and Simon from Legend of the Bones for their

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