​Game Discussion
Resolving weird mechanical tensions in Monster of the Week (00:18)
Running a ‘prequel’ session of Edge of the Empire with Star Wars babies (!!!) (07:24)
Lady Blackbird and melting the special snowflakes (11:23)
One shots: the made-for-TV movie vs. the TV show pilot (16:18)
The Skeletons (18:55)
Failing forward in D&D (27:47)
Pulling a narrative bait & switch on your players (32:50)
Adapting some aspects of Beyond the Wall to PbtA games (41:59)
When OSR combat doesn’t match your pacifist setting (44:27)
Alienór (46:46)

Giving Me Life
Halloween Whiteboard (54:56)
MinnLoCo (56:54)
AW 2e PbP (57:32)
Love in the Time of Charity Games (58:23)

Links:
More Weirdness for Monster of the Week
Get Lady Blackbird
Buy The Skeletons
Buy Alienór
Halloween Whiteboard
Minneapolis Long Con
Love in the Time of Charity Games

Game Discussion
A new campaign of Dungeon World (00:56)
Threadbare RPG and running sessions at GenCon Games on Demand (06:35)
Working on some GM techniques in Masks (12:03)
As a GM, how much do you plan ahead? (15:16)
Walk With Me (19:24)
Using Microscope and Masks to set-up a campaign of Mutants & Masterminds 3E (22:50)
John Wick’s Cat (29:06)

Giving Me Life
Persona 4 Golden (37:58)
New Girl (40:12)
Doctor Who (44:15)

Links
Age of Ravens blog
http://ageofravens.blogspot.com

Ivory Thorns blog
http://ivorythorns.tumblr.com

Rich & Jason are joined by Andrea from the Ivory Thorns blog and Tim from Pocket-Sized Play!

Game Discussion
The Innocent playbook in Masks (00:12)
Making the story work when you have a new player in the group (06:06)
Playing a nice Brainer in Apocalypse World (09:59)
Necessary Evil (12:10)
Some general Savage Worlds talk (14:36)
Death Frost Dungeon World kickoff (17:40)
Monster of the Week and using questions directed at the players to paint the scene (19:18)
“I rolled a saving throw and I liked it” aka Beyond the Wall (27:05)
Knowing when to hit the fast forward button on your story (30:28)
Fiasco (33:56)
The Sharknado playset (36:32)
Play culture and managing expectations in Fiasco (39:00)
Misericord(e) (42:33)

Giving Me Life
RPG-a-Day 2016 (51:32)
Dungeon Meshi (53:44)
Simon’s Cat (54:50)
Stranger Things (55:56)

Links
Simon’s Cat
https://simonscat.com/category/simonscat/

This week we're joined by Tim from Pocket-Sized Play!
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Game Discussion
Lady Blackbird musings (00:43)
Beyond the Wall & feminist fantasy (08:01)
Shadows of Esteren (14:11)
Carolina Death Crawl (22:36)
Witch: Fated Souls & rediscovering campaign-length play (28:48)
Apocalypse World & introducing tough themes to new players (33:03)
Downfall (40:58)
Wandering Monster High School (46:34)

Giving Me Life
The return of Yay (51:41)
AD&D syndicated radio pilot from the 80’s (54:01)
Tea! (56:20)
Codex - Blood is out! (58:02)