This week on Initiative Role, it's all about timing. Ya know, making good use of time. We're great at that here. No tangents or rambling. Ever. You know us too well to accuse us of those unpleasant sorts of things, right?

In this episode:

Dora-watch 2019;

Keeping time;

Logan roasts Nathaniel's campaign;

Setting plot hooks;

Ode to a Bard;

More Monster of the Week.

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Special

thanks to Brian Altano and Weird Heat for the use of their tracks

"Fear" and "Isolation", which we use during Monster of the Week at the

end of the show.

Find the .mp3 file here.

Hey, all! Great news: it seems that our new place of recording— affectionately nicknamed Soundstage 2— is permanently our to use as we wish to record this podcast. Bad news: It's giving us 'big Uni energy'.

There's a tough edit somewhere in here due to a file corruption, hopefully you don't notice it.

In this episode:

'Where do you think we're recording?';

Building a railroad at 80 mph;

Fight the Ghost Hobo;

Check your sources;

Remember to turn in your quizzes!

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Special thanks to Brian Altano and Weird Heat for the use of their tracks "Fear" and "Isolation", which we use during Monster of the Week at the end of the show.

Find the .mp3 file here.

Hello Interwebs! This week on Initiative Role, we record from a soundproof room on our University campus, resulting in some of our cleanest audio yet.

In this episode:

Intriguing Politics;

FlutterDuke and WingBaron;

When to end a session;

Nathaniel decides independent clauses aren't worth finishing;

Harry Potter, High School Dropout;

and a special, yet hotly anticipated surprise.

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Special thanks to Brian Altano and Weird Heat for the use of their track "Fear", which we use near the end of the show.

Find the .mp3 file here.

Hey, all- This week on Initiative Role, we've queued up some of our best jokes, japes, and Shrek-adjacent content yet. And we've shelved it all to talk about haunted and spooky locales.

In this episode:

Location, Location, Location;

We take a wrong turn past Albuquerque;

The Sunken Temple of the Dragon;

Black Morass;

D'oh!;

Yes, and there are children crying.

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Hey all- This week of Initiative Role is a fun one. We've got something of a live audience in the room with us, and there's a few rough bits where people are screaming in the background. And not cause the jokes are good, though they were.

In this episode:

Plot progression and living worlds;

Recreating Dr. Kurt Connors;

Harry Potter's Hill Travels;

Jimmy Eat World: Greatest Hits;

Nathaniel's Pokemon Pantheon.

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This belated episode of Initiative Role comes to you after roughly 14 bad takes (yes, there's an outtake reel; no, you can't hear it) and one breakdown of Audacity. But hey, life isn't all rainbows and butterflies, right? And it certainly isn't all Bandits and Boromirs.

In this episode:

"What is a villain?";

Rewriting X-Men;

Our first real writing section;

It's okay, split the party;

Season Shrek.

Find the .mp3 file here.

Dear fans: we slaved long and hard (as we are contractually obligated to) to create this episode for you. There was a lot of punchy energy, a couple of takes, some bad air, and a half-listen of Carly Rae Jepsen's song Cut to the Feeling. A few cherry beverages were consumed as well.

In this episode:

Coming in hot, again;

Of mice and magic;

Nathaniel is an eligible bachelor;

Logan dunks on his favorite novelist;

Sir Fluffington.

You can find the .mp3 file here.

Hello, Internet! Initiative Role is back after a long hiatus with our highly anticipated second season! Fans and critics alike begged and asked, and we delivered! In this season, there's more Shrek, and that's an Initiative Role Guarantee!

In this episode:

We're back, baby!;

On the topic of NPCs;

What's *really* happening behind that screen?;

The Shrex Files;

An homage of Ice and Fire;

The Jack Horner Corner.

You can find the .mp3 file here.

Hey, all-

We're hoping to be back in the proverbial saddle with some regular episodes soon, but until then, here's Nathaniel and Gregg talking about a recent adventure we ran.

Hope you enjoy it!

Hey all!

This episode comes in hot after some positive feedback about episodes where we create characters. In this episode, we'll be working with some players to create characters for a new campaign we'll be playing later this summer.

Meet Alton Pockettaker and Jim Hawkins!

Find the .mp3 file here.