-- Description --

New topic, new name, same spirit! Talking gaming, there is a perpetual debate between how many rules you need or how much crunch you prefer - but are we asking the wrong question? Do we actually care about the mechanics of the game, or do we care about the way it handles at the table?

Then - some voicemail conversation: folks are interested in maps, drawing maps, and whether or not they should be taken away!

Passionate, as well, and want to get in on the conversation, yourself? New! Send in a voicemail on SpeakPipe:

https://www.speakpipe.com/WhisperingGMPodcast

Or join the conversation on Spotify for Podcasters:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-whispering-gm/message

Like what you're hearing? Visit the blog:

https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/

...or come hang out with all of us on Discord:

https://discord.gg/kQnrK4YCCn

Delve on!

-- Show Notes --

00:00 - Intro & State of the Podcast

05:38 - Theme

06:08 - Crunch... or Flow?

12:31 - Flow in ACKS

17:06 - Flow in DCC

23:33 - What do y'all think?

24:24 - Call In! Ricardo the OSR Lurker on Min-Maxing

28:51 - Call In! Nerds Variety Jason will Take Your Maps

36:07 - ...but will he trap your scroll cases?

38:54 - ...an epiphany about scroll case traps

40:01 - Call In! First Time David: Maps as a Player Tool

46:29 - Call In! Bandit's Keep Daniel

49:56 - Outro

-- Links --

Monsters & Treasure: How Simple is Too Simple?

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/monsters-and-treasure/episodes/How-simple-is-too-simple--Game-design-chat-e206no6

ACKS - https://www3.autarch.co/?page_id=128

DCC - https://goodman-games.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/

Hobbs' Gamerhood:

- https://discord.gg/d6BmmAa

- https://hobbsnfriends.com/

- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-hobbs

- https://www.youtube.com/@JasonHobbs

- https://www.twitch.tv/hobbs665

Nerd's Variety Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason376

Bandit's Keep:

- Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-norton/

- Solo OD&D: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWlyyPUNLSxVSJUJ5hxyqKMDZnE5LQ9M