* (0:28) Jonathan Belina asks about rules for dice.

* (4:45) Cocked dice. Not rolling off the floor.

* (8:31) Dice must be legible and visible.

* (9:36) Don’t “play” with the dice.

* (12:42) Dice bowling.

* (18:48) Testing your rolls.

* (20:41) Tenser’s Floating Disk at work…?

* (28:18) An unexpected break in Chad’s Blades in the Dark game.

* (36:02) Juxtaposing Chad’s situation against the break in Dan’s Skies of Glass game.

* (41:22) Recovering with the onus on the players.

* (47:23) Recovering with the onus on the Game Master.

Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne

* (0:28) Dan’s voice. A look back at older episodes.

* (2:54) The double-standard of how social skills are handled versus any other check.

* (8:00) When players cheat around their dump stats.

* (12:47) The plausibility of counterfactuals.

* (32:04) Having no awareness of the game you’re in.

* (37:42) Holding me responsible for the things you didn’t tell me.

* (41:28) Revisiting other topics.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

* (0:30) Introducing Dale of Jon Brazer Enterprises.

* (7:11) The story of Jon Brazer, the character.

* (9:07) How the degree of crunch changes your options for creating material. The OGL and similar licenses.

* (24:26) Half of your money?!

* (33:09) Revisiting the relationship between crunch (or the lack thereof) and what that lets you create.

* (43:37) The positive role of more stuff.

* (49:40) Getting started with Traveler.

Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne

* (0:32) Dan is having throat issues.

* (1:01) A huge “thank you” to Zylo for doing so much for Fear the Con-Line!

* (2:18) Wayne created a template to help with game pitches. You can find a blank version here.

* (5:26) A sample for D&D 5th Edition.

* (8:24) Every game starts somewhere.

* (11:03) Structuring without restricting. A sample for Dresden Files.

* (19:42) Pitches in-person versus on-paper.

* (29:16) Adapting the pitch based on feedback.

* (36:10) Adding miscellaneous notes.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Julia, Wayne

* (0:28) This studio is hot.

* (2:55) The conundrum of character suicide. How Frankenstein’s monster was actually made.

* (16:10) Not being a victim of your own creations.

* (31:28) Explaining the idea of a swan song and how it manifests in an RPG.

* (39:17) Deconstructing a swan song that occurred in one of our games.

* (40:56) Extra camera time.

* (47:30) Letting a character arc run its full course. Death of a Salesman.

* (51:59) Swan songs as a consensus of every contributor to the story.

* (56:18) Recognizing the moments when they happen unplanned. Letting the character continue, anyway.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

Excuse the intro. I’ve lost my voice, so that was the best I could do.

* (0:28) We are living in the future. We’re at the threshold of hell.

* (12:39) An after-action report on bringing in a pair of new players. Planning versus problem-solving.

* (32:52) Constant pressure squeezing out roleplaying.

* (37:02) Failing to give the players a break.

* (41:37) Shifting between modes of gaming and degrees of tension.

* (56:45) Fear the Conline.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

* (0:28) Charlie goes on a rampage. A tangent on Cluster-B personality disorders.

* (6:51) Incorporating new people into the social context of your group.

* (11:16) Revising our advice on how to meet someone.

* (13:36) Using the pregame questionnaire as a loose guide. Dale’s publishing website.

* (19:28) Observing and adjusting during session zero.

* (22:07) Considering their worldview.

* (25:41) The value of compromise and outside influence.

* (29:14) Isolating the first part of the game.

* (33:46) Balancing the spotlight.

* (46:38) Why Blades in the Dark?

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

* (0:28) Play and life skills in higher animals.

* (3:25) Vote for Reading Radio in the Columbus Podcast Awards. They’re listed in both the art category and podcast of the year.

* (6:28) Introducing new concepts to established roleplayers.

* (9:43) Limited material for character creation and game play.

* (21:32) Making characters together.

* (25:07) An example from Star Trek and Solaris VII.

* (34:40) Knowing the rules. Unintentionally setting a precedent.

* (48:04) Asking players to stick to what the GM knows.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

* (0:42) Dan’s phone betrays him. Spoilers and thpoilerth.

* (14:10) Chopin makes you a superior person.

* (14:52) Premises that are meant for one character but invite storytelling for many characters.

* (18:17) Wayne tries one-to-many, and it doesn’t quite work out.

* (22:15) Distilling a premise down to what really matters.

* (27:03) The chosen one.

* (33:39) Subdivide the premise so it works for multiple characters.

* (40:08) A world big enough to ignore an individual.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne

* (1:07) The glory and horror of self-insert.

* (3:37) Dan does Shadowrun.

* (16:45) Wayne does D&D.

* (26:43) Chad does Star Wars. Sort of.

* (40:31) Julia does Narnia.

* (48:17) Dan does Battletech.

* (56:42) A bit of gaming advice.

Hosts: Chad, Dan, Julia, Wayne