Me And Steve Talk RPG‘s

We persevered through some technical difficulties to get y'all this one!

Metagaming can cause some controversy in the community, and while it's hard to say when it becomes "bad", today we discuss a situation where it definitely had, along with some thoughts about how to deal with it, and honestly why we feel this situation had just gone too far for the health of the game table.

d20 Network Spotlight: Eberron Renewed -- https://zencastr.com/Eberron-Renewed

Game of the Week:

     Steve S:  Backwater -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/331765/backwater-core-southern-gothic-horror-tabletop-roleplaying?affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve G:  Raptor Ruckus -- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epicrpgs/raptor-ruckus-rpg-0

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

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On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

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This week I'm joined by by friend Daryl, who's also part of the How We Roll podcast to have a chat about what we think game designers "owe" us when we buy a game, or maybe more accurately, what we think we can expect when we buy a game.  it's a good, fun discussion, so listen in, and then swing by the discord and let us know your thoughts and expectations!

d20 Network Spotlight:  How We Roll -- https://howwerollgaming.com/podcast/

And check out their other podcast Casual Nerdity -- https://zencastr.com/Casual-Nerdity-The-Podcast

Game of the Week:

     Daryl:  The End of The World -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/141786/the-end-of-the-world-zombie-apocalypse?affiliate_id=2018399  (yes, that's the link to the zombie one, the links to the other 3 should be in the sidebar on DriveThru)

     Steve S: The Fat Dragon Guide to Printing FDM Miniatures -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524045/the-fat-dragon-guide-to-printing-fdm-miniatures?src=hottest_small&affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

Our Drive-Thru RPG affiliate link https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=2018399

Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/MeandSteveTalkRPGs

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Short one this week as late night recording just made thinking difficult! A little chat about timers, investigative games, and so one!

d20 Network Spotlight: The Order 66 -- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-66-podcast/id276381727

Game of the Week:

     Steve G:  Gutgun -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/526781/gutgun?src=newest_print&affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve S:  Cursed Captains of Cthulhu -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/480543/cursed-captains-of-cthulhu-core-rulebook?affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

Our Drive-Thru RPG affiliate link https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=2018399

Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/MeandSteveTalkRPGs

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A little self-exploratory food for thought this week! Forgive the brief notes, my home has been invaded for the week by 5 of my nieces/nephews, and I'm sneaking this in amongst the chaos!

d20 Network Spotlight:  The Wonderous Atlas of Creation's Destiny -- https://wondrousatlas.wordpress.com/

Game of the Week:

     Steve G:  Kremin -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/529053/kremin-the-game-of-cross-dimensional-adventure?affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve S:  Ashes Without Number -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/526065/ashes-without-number?src=hottest&affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

Our Drive-Thru RPG affiliate link https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=2018399

Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/MeandSteveTalkRPGs

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Hard to believe it's been almost 5 years since we started putting this show out onto the interwebs! Join us for one of our traditionally rambly conversations about the things along the road, and a few other random thoughts of interest as we kinda kick back a little bit!

d29 Network Spotlight: Werewolf: The Podcast -- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797037

Game of the Week:

     Steve G:  The Rogue Prototype -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/517529/the-rogue-prototype-a-fast-paced-solo-rpg?affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve S:  Boldly Go! -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/328116/boldly-go?affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

Our Drive-Thru RPG affiliate link https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=2018399

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Imagine if you will, a game inspired by Judge Dredd, Robocop, GWAR, and the Toxic Avenger.

Oh, wait, you don't have to. It already exists!

I have gotten to play it, and I own a copy of it, and it's a whole lot of fun, and this week, I'm joined by it's creator Brian Shutter! So come hear about all the cool, neo-80s inspired, post-apocalyptic fun that can await you, should you choose to try it!

Neon Lords Links:

Main Website:  https://neonlords.com/

Drive-Thru RPG Page:  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16625/Super-Savage-Systems?affiliate_id=2018399

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/K8RbcmFtdb

Knights of the Slime Table Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/KnightsoftheSlimeTable

Linktree for everything else:  https://linktr.ee/NeonLordrpg

d20 Network Spotlight:  We Fix Games -- https://glitterfoxmedia.com/we-fix-games-2/

Game of the Week:

     Steve S: Owen Stephens Summer Survival Spectacular [BUNDLE] -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524258/owen-stephens-summer-survival-spectacular-bundle?affiliate_id=2018399

     Brian S:  Space Gits -- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetsmashergames/space-gits-miniatures-game

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

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This week I'm joined by someone who I've had the pleasure of meeting a couple times in-person, and who is also behind a service that I very much enjoy using.

This week it's a conversation with JJ from the team behind RPGSessions.com, which is a website/service/VTT specifically designed for the narrative dice system games (Star Wars and Genesys).

While I love playing games online, I don't particularly love using VTTs, but RPG Sessions is kind of an exception to that, but to find out more, you'll just have to listen to the conversation!

Check out RPG Sessions (make a FREE account and try it) at:  https://rpgsessions.com/

Check out JJ's Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/joress_id/

d20 Network Spotlight:  The Story Told -- https://thestorytold.libsyn.com/

Game of the Week:

     Steve S: Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/510395/machine-gods-of-the-noxian-expanse-core-rules?affiliate_id=2018399

     JJ:  Scum and Villainy -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/198681/scum-and-villainy?affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

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This week I'm joined by creator, and fellow GamerNationCon attendee Adam B to talk about his creations, which include the freshly-released Deeper Dungeons, as well as Darker Futures, and Further Stars, which are all really cool and very useful books for generating NPCs, as well as factions, sites, and all sorts of other useful things for your games in various genres.

If you're interested in these products, you can find these 3 here:  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/27994/bright-sun-games?affiliate_id=2018399

Additionally, you can find the website at https://brightsungames.com/

And his Itch.io page with some cool free stuff:  https://bright-sun-games.itch.io/

d20 Network Spotlight: OpCast -- https://anchor.fm/s/66b17400/podcast/rss

Game of the Week:

     Steve S:   Solo Micro RPG -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/526845/solo-micro-rpg-a-practical-guide-to-fast-solo-play?affiliate_id=2018399

     Adam B:  Galactic & Going Rogue -- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-stars?ref=card

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

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This week it's a conversation about stealing techniques from different sources, inspired by a wonderful little Canadian drama series called Cardinal. We have a bit of a chat around things like intertwining story elements, wrapping those elements up, and how sometimes looking at something different can help you learn new things!

d20 Network Spotlight:  I Should Roll -- https://ishouldroll.com/

Game of the Week:

     Steve G:  Regen -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/525487/regen?src=newest_recent&affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve S: Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/251431/return-of-the-lazy-dungeon-master?src=hottest_small&affiliate_id=2018399

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

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When is it ok to go how zany in a game? And how do you "control" the table to keep the tone of the session where you'd like it?

That's exactly what we have a chat about in this week's episode!

So join us for the conversation!

d20 Network Spotlight:  The Genesys Archives -- https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thegenesysarchives/

Game of the Week:

     Steve G:  The No-Prep Gamemaster -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524180/the-no-prep-gamemaster-train-your-brain-to-run-tabletop-roleplaying-games?src=fp_u5&affiliate_id=2018399

     Steve S: To Alex!  -- https://200wordrpg.github.io/2017/rpg/2017/04/21/ToAlex.html

*We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does, is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*

We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Joshua Gopal-Boyd, Dave Smith, Brett Bowen, Nate Doverspike, and Dec!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!

As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!

Join the conversation on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW

You can reach us at [email protected]

On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast

On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpps0vVXLSGrOdM8i4ntFiQ

On BlueSky @meandsteverpg.bsky.social

Our Drive-Thru RPG affiliate link https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affiliate_id=2018399

Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/MeandSteveTalkRPGs

We are proud members of the d20 Radio Network! http://www.d20radio.com/main/

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