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RPG Psych

A podcast exploring the intersection of metacognition and tabletop gaming. Join educator Lucas Hutson and clinical therapist Josh Pate-Terry as they discuss tabletop role-playing games and bring some of their professional experience to help make our games better. Let"s think about how we think at our game table.

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18:59

C2 Active Listening

RPG Psych ·

2026/10/01

Listening is one of the core factors for good communication. Join Josh and Luke as they discuss active listening, what it is, how to do it, and why it's so important.

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19:01

C1 Safe Spaces

RPG Psych ·

2026/09/15

Building and maintaining safe spaces is the topic of our first episode of our season devoted to improving communication at our game tables.

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2:30

Is RPG Psych Right for You?

RPG Psych ·

2026/09/01

Season 3 of RPG Psych is coming. Ask your players if RPG Psych is right for you.

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18:13

B9 Being "At the Table"

RPG Psych ·

2026/06/08

What does it mean to be "at the table" Josh and Luke talk about being present for a game and ways to stay engaged at the table and boosting engagement

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23:57

B8 Burnout

RPG Psych ·

2026/05/15

Are you or someone you know suffering from burnout? Do you feel that sinking feeling when you reach for you campaign notes? Fear not! Josh and Luke are here to talk about burnout and how to manage it. For the low, low price of...

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24:19

B7 Failure is Always an Option

RPG Psych ·

2026/05/03

Join Luke and Josh as they explore the challenges, opportunities, and joys of failure at your game table. Failure need not be avoided, but embraced.

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25:56

B6 What is roleplay?

RPG Psych ·

2026/04/15

Josh and Luke ask the question "What is roleplay" and talk about the different ways you can engage in and experience roleplay

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20:00

B5 Sunk Cost Fallacy

RPG Psych ·

2026/04/01

Luke and Josh discuss the idea of the sunk cost fallacy and when to know when to fold em at your TTRPG table.

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17:12

B4 Insight

RPG Psych ·

2025/11/16

Josh and Luke take an initial look at how having insight into our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can help us as players at the game table and go over some basic tools to stop and observe ourselves. It's time to take some steps towards the maxim "know thyself."

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15:03

B3 Rules Lawyering (adaptively)

RPG Psych ·

2025/11/02

Luke and Josh take a different approach to the rules lawyer. Sit back and listen as they discuss how to utilize a strong understanding of the rules as a force for good.

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23:40

B2 Electric Boogaloo

RPG Psych ·

2025/10/15

It's time to start chippin' in choombs, Josh and Luke discuss digital tools in our digital world and how they affect our games. Make sure you are all chromed up as we dive into this electrifying episode of RPG Psych.

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19:07

B1 Player Driven Story

RPG Psych ·

2025/10/02

Luke and Josh dive into the idea of player driven stories in your tabletop RPGs and making your players authors in their own stories while also doing your job for you, at least a little bit. Tune in and hear about conspiracy boards, radically accepting your player's crazy ideas, and real stories of transitioning from being an over-preparer to someone who rolls with an emerging story.

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0:46

Season 2 Trailer

RPG Psych ·

2025/09/01

Season 2 of RPG Psych is coming!

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36:23

A10: Understanding your PCs Psychology Part 1:...

RPG Psych ·

2025/06/15

Season 1 ends with a discussion on the motivations and values of the PCs! Get ready cause it's going to get clinical and anecdotal as Josh and Lucas dive in to this part one of PC Psychology.

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26:28

A9 You start in a cliche...

RPG Psych ·

2025/06/01

Josh and Lucas turn on all the lights in the local pub to expose the ways you can use a cliche to benefit your players, turn it on its head or just riff on it. They also suggest ways of avoiding this well worn path.

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23:44

A8 Using Mechanics

RPG Psych ·

2025/05/15

Lucas and Josh set the scene with mechanics. This is how we dress the stage for our players it's also our table's social contract. How many mechanics are too many though?

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29:42

A7 Balancing Encounters

RPG Psych ·

2025/05/01

Josh and Lucas talk about balance in encounters. What is it? Do you need it? If you do what are the best ways to balance a game? All this and more !

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36:23

A6 Player Buy-In

RPG Psych ·

2025/04/15

Join Luke and Josh as they explore some ideas to improve player and game master engagement. Let's move beyond the ideas of worldbuilding and get to how we can use the players and their stories to create a world that they want to immerse themselves into.

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28:33

A5 Time Management and Taking Breaks

RPG Psych ·

2025/04/01

Josh and Lucas talking about why it's so important for you to give your creative mind a break, even when you'd love to be gaming. Not only that they discuss the dreaded time management and how to find the sweet spot for you and your games.

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47:11

A4 Verisimilitude

RPG Psych ·

2025/03/15

Josh and Lucas tackle Verisimilitude. Should our games just be abstractions? How much truth is too much truth in the fantastic? Isn't that what mechanics are for? Josh and Lucas talk about the difference between feeling real and being realistic and more.

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