Episodes
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Happy Halloween! Please enjoy this spooooky actual play of our One Page RPG - Air Boo-N-Boo: Haunt the Rental. GMed by Christopher Salzman of the Roll for Topic podcast.
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The Splatphone!
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With the spooky season upon us, John, Jess, and Ben dive into the world of one-page RPG design. In this episode we make and RPG, and next episode we will play it. SpooOooookkyyy!!!
Doctor Magnet Hands
Sexy Battle Wizards
Sad Vampire Boy Friend
Advance Skeleton Siege
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The Splatphone!
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John and co-host Matt Wilson are honored to be joined by Kenneth Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan to talk about GUMSHOE games, Cthulhu movies, and of course ... Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition
Back the new edition here!!!
Strange Harvest (Movie)
Dream Eater
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
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The Splatphone!
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Fantasy artist Hailee Smith joins the Splatbook crew. We discuss art as process, AI, and how much fun it was to design the new Splatbook logo.
Cloud Curio
Dragonology
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The Splatphone!
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John and Ben are joined by Tim Saucer to talk about running your own games at conventions. We also talk about creating emotional experiences in RPGs, and our RFTCON experience in general.
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The Splatphone!
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John is joined by his two new co-hosts, Ben Donaldson and Jess Rhiannon, to talk about the new Players Handbook 2024. Who will play it? Are we converting our campaigns to the new edition? Ooooo the mysteries contained herein!
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2024 Player's Handbook
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The Splatphone!
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Tony Vasinda (aka Plus One Tony) joins John to talk about their GenCon experience, how to iterate your game's design, and why zines are the best! And we sneak in some rumblings about the OSR, of course. BECAUSE THAT IS ALL ANYONE TALKS ABOUT
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RPG Zine ClubOSR Rules Families
Posters, Posers and POSR(s)
Butter Princess
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In honor of the release of Alien: Romulus, Andy Rau from Roll for Topic joins John for a discussion of the Alien franchise. What makes a great Alien movie? And does Alien:Romulus hit the mark? Plus an update on the Alien RPG from Free League
Alien: Romulus Trailer
Alien RPG
Alien RPG 2n Edition
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The Splatphone!
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Are you tired of all the RPG podcasts publishing their "GenCon Reflections" episodes? Well tooooo baaaad. Here is ours. We have an interview with Amber Seger, and a special guest appearance from Kyle's mom. Plus, Kyle shares some huge life changing news.
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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John and Kyle discuss modern magical settings, and John's plan to put his poor gaming group through an OSR Dolmenwood campaign. Tuns out Kyle has been playing a long game that has all lead up to this point.
Dolmenwood
Dolmenwood Soundtrack
Star Borg!
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Due to unrelenting popular demand John, Andy, and new guest Joel Boonstra tackle the first volume of Robert A Caro's pentalogy of the "Times of Lyndon Johnson". Mission Accomplished, so quit sending me harassing email, jeez.
The Path to Power
99% Invisible: The Power Broker
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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We are so tired y'all. So thank you for sending us some juicy questions to answer.
Sincerely Departed
Game Wizards
The Elusive Shift
Ben Robbins Website - Lame Mage
Firebrands Games
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
Jubensha
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Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Somewhere... in space...this could all be happening RIGHT NOW! Star Borg: Episode 2 - The Hypercore of Madness
John and Kyle are joined by Andy Rau and Ben Donaldson for an epic actual play of Star Borg! The new TTRPG collaboration between Kyle and JP Coovert.
Star Borg
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The Splatphone!
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The Cloud Curio
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Somewhere... in space...this could all be happening RIGHT NOW! Star Borg: Episode 1 - The Ship of Doom
John and Kyle are joined by Andy Rau and Ben Donaldson for an epic actual play of Star Borg! The new TTRPG collaboration between Kyle and JP Coovert.
Star Borg
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Kyle is joined by his "favorite person in the whole wide world (!?)", Evan Torner. Which is fine. John is not the least bit jealous. He is just over here working his fingers to the bone editing this podcast. Toiling away on the show notes mines. It’s fine. Everything is fine. But then at the end Kyle says he is sad John was not here, so John just does not know how to feel. They talk about D&D combat or something. Oh, and Matt is here.
JK! Evan is awesome, and this is a really insightful episode. Check out his article from 50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons.
The Website of Dr Evan Torner
Combat in Dungeons & Dragons
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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YouTuber JP Coovert join John and Kyle to talk about a new Mork Borg hack he and Kyle are working on, making a living creatively, comic books, and making art as process.
JP on YouTube!
Star Borg announcement
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Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Jess returns to the show and we breakdown some of Wraith Curse of the Night Sword. Kyle claims that Jess is now his favorite game master, John is sad, but then we all talk about our therapists.
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Kyle and John talk about ADHD and RPGs. This very rapidly devolves into absolute silliness.
AADL GM Like A Pro panel
Avery Alder Politicizing and Queering Game Mechanics
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The Splatphone!
Map Crow YouTube
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The Cloud Curio
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Kyle and John do a deep dive into the "rules platforms". What are they? What makes them useful? or limiting?
Year Zero SRD
AGE System
GUMSHOE Reference Document
METAgaming
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The Splatphone!
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The Cloud Curio
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