In this episode we discuss how to get people to play a 2d20 game, and then how to explain and make sense of the most important mechanics during that first session.

Part 2 of our discussion of the challenges of running original adventures and campaigns in story-heavy settings, wherein we move on from easier settings to more difficult ones - that is, those with little daylight between story and setting, like Dune or The Expanse.

Part 1 of our discussion of the challenges of running original adventures and campaigns in story-heavy settings. In this episode we first discuss those settings with established stories that don't present too much of a challenge to writing original adventures, and offer some opportunities, then move on to those settings where there is less daylight between story and setting.

This is a long one, in which we work through a combat encounter and provide running rules and gameplay commentary throughout. We made a mistake, however, with the rules and I went back and plugged in a few interludes of commentary to smooth things out and set up our recognition of the mistake, which we talked about at the end of the episode.

One bit of advice for running combat in AC: make sure you have your Momentum charts and weapon Qualities and Effects lists handy - they will both come up, and there are subtle differences between AC and some other 2d20 titles.

The episode in which we discuss the comparative merits and challenges in using published vs. homebrew adventures and campaigns, which led us quite organically to some realizations about us as GMs - and probably GMs in general - from which we drew what we believe is solid advice for those of us who spend most of our gaming time 'behind the screen.'

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The episode in which we discuss range, space, and distance, and how it's handled through theater of the mind and minis-based games, as well as how 2d20s concept of 'zones' can work well with either.

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What are Chris and I looking forward to, individually, in gaming over 2022? What releases have our interest, and what do we hope to do with our respective groups? We discuss these, and some Covid, in this episode.

We take shots at the game and the system a lot, we know, and so we thought it was time to devote an episode to explaining ourselves to you. Spoiler: we actually think there is quite a lot to like about 5e...and yet...

Recorded while Jeremy and Chris could not harmonize their schedules, this episode includes our first guest host, John - military combat veteran and current law enforcement officer - whose life experiences color his views on gaming and game rules. We had an interesting discussion of the core mechanic and how we think it's a significant improvement over the stock Year Zero Engine, and spent time on how the combat system creates situations and forces decisions that closely resemble the real thing.

After about six months of podcasting and a lot of gaming, we decided to look back on all of 2021 and reflect on the good.