Flail Forward Podcast

We talk about how RPGs have affected and inform world views.

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Kavoir and Mark were busy tonight, and even Sabrina wasn't around. This leaves Rob and Catreece to their own devices for three hours straight. Rob didn't even realize there was a topic we wandered so far off from it. So the question isn't "Is anyone surprised?" because you all knew this was going to happen. The question is "Why did you think leaving us alone was a good idea in the first place?" - asking the real questions that really matter.

Tonight on Flail Foward, we discuss the tools GMs have to work with, what kinds of things to include and design for in your game to make sure that the GM has the tools they need to portray the game experience they want and their players crave. We explicitly do not make any mention of tools of torture, such as whips or chains, because this is only the night show, not the late night show, so you'll have to find your game mistress bondage gear elsewhere, sorry!

Something About How Games Do Stuff by Flail Forward

Tonight we talk about agency, and how much is too much of a good thing.

You know, when you flick a bad guy's nose and they explode leaving a crater half the size of a small country, and you're like "oh yeaaah, maybe I shouldn't have done that. "

Yeah, that does sometimes make for interesting stories, though often the ones you don't mean to, so maybe we should cut off our characters before they hit the blow up the world button.

But WHERE!? Where do we pull back? Where do we draw that line? Is it a chalk outline? Do we need to bring you in for questioning?

These and other potentially but probably not important questions this episode on Flail Forward!

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We talk about Recovery!

What better way to recover from being nearly beaten to death than with an ice cold lemonade and a lawn chair built from the bones of your enemies?

Except you probably don't have either of those.

It's fine though, we talk about other ways to recover, from combat, from stress, from other things and how it relates to RPG design, the themes of your game, and other such things!

BTW, the fact that we have lemonade and you don't probably counts as emotional stress, so check your game rules to see how you recover from this.

Tonight Kavoir and Catreece talk about... metaphysics in games, also flogging yourself with a fish, you naughty, naughty whatever you are. But the important part is how the fish as a concept interacts with the game rules and the setting, which is that using a red herring only inflicts illusory damage, as you will soon find out.

This is the most you'll hear Kavoir talk, so buckle up.

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This is Bonus Banter episode because there's not really a design topic.

Kavoir interrogates Rob about Ashes of the Magi.

Rob gets to try to nail down his thoughts a bit better.

Our audience jumped in with good questions.

Good time was had by all.

We talk about the limits of the audience in design? How far can you push them? Why would you want to?

Are there any limits at all?

Who knows. Not us, that's for sure.

As always, find all the show notes and links to content on our discord server:

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Today we speak of things. Dark things. Insidious things. Things that should never be spoken, never be heard.

But you will hear them, whatever they are, at least if you listen to this episode. What are these things?

I dunno, we didn't reaaaally have a proper topic and I have a memory that envies goldfish, so I forget, but there was probably something interesting in there.

It's a Rob and Cat episode because of availability was limited.

Two people who love the sounds of their own voices.

Let's see what happens.

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