Genius game designer John Wick posits that if a role-playing game is any game where you can successfully play the game without role-playing is in fact a board game, in which case, D&D is a very complicated board game and NOT a rpg. 

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Read the article here!

Ben noticed at Gen Con that there are a lot of re-issues and new editions of 20 and 30 year old products. Is gaming getting stale?

The gang talks about character death, its role at the table, and whether the story ends when the pulse does. 

Get a sneakpeak at one of the most fascinating products we've ever reviewed here at Plot Points, The Dracula Dossier by Ken Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. The sandbox campaign which uses Bram Stoker's immortal (heh) novel as its spine is Kickstarting now! 

Listen here for a sneak peak that the goodness in store!

Go here to back the project!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1721105501/the-dracula-dossier  

Thanks to James Semple and 50 Breaks for the tuneage. If you like Semple's moody, atmospheric compositions, back the Kickstarter! A Dossier soundtrack is a stretch goal!

The gang tackles Bulldogs! for Fate, a sci-fi setting with adventure by Brennan Taylor and Brian Engard!

Next week come back to listen to Plot Points discuss the Dracula Dossier, kickstarting now from Pelgrane Press!

Music by Incompetech.com!

Ben Riggs flies solo today to discover the counter-intuitive but apparent truth that geek culture has benefitted from the recession of 2008!

Music is courtesy of Scott MacLeod at Incompetech.com! 

Photo of Jennifer Magnuson

The gang distills their decades of gaming experience into tender, juicy nuggets of GM wisdom for your mastication pleasure! 

Twenty-five and still alive! Huzzah!

The gang completes their discussion of Cordell and Cook's The Strange!

Seek out more recursions at www.montecookgames.com!

Thanks to Scott McLeod of http://Incompetech.com for the amazing free tuneage!

"Ghostpocalypse - 1 Departure", "Ghostpocalypse - 2 The Call", "Ghostpocalypse - 3 Road of Trials", "Ghostpocalypse - 4 Temptress", "Ghostpocalypse - 5 Apotheosis", "Ghostpocalypse - 6 Crossing the Threshold", "Ghostpocalypse - 7 Master", "Ghostpocalypse - 8 Epilog", "Past the Edge", "Penumbra"

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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The gang takes on The Strange from Monte Cook Games by Bruce Cordell and Monte Cook! More to follow next week!

Seek out more recursions at http://www.montecookgames.com/!

Thanks to Scott McLeod of Incompetech.com for the amazing free tuneage!

"Ghostpocalypse - 1 Departure", "Ghostpocalypse - 2 The Call", "Ghostpocalypse - 3 Road of Trials", "Ghostpocalypse - 4 Temptress", "Ghostpocalypse - 5 Apotheosis", "Ghostpocalypse - 6 Crossing the Threshold", "Ghostpocalypse - 7 Master", "Ghostpocalypse - 8 Epilog", "Past the Edge", "Penumbra"

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In preparation for our next in-depth episode which drops October 4th, we give you The Strange Seminar from 2014 Gen Con. Learn about the latest release from Monte Cook Games, using the Cypher System first introduced in Numenera and written by Bruce Cordell and Monte Cook!