Roleplay Rescue

This one's a highly experimental episode. As I said last episode, I want to explore the roots of my own hobby by revisiting my first imaginary game-world. Through dreams and many hours of day-dreaming as a teenager, I uncovered a rich fantasy realm that I am long-overdue returning to visit. Despite a few attempts to bring other tools to the table, games that I deeply enjoy and seek to explore, the reality is that the first game I stole from my Dad - RuneQuest and the even simpler Basic Roleplaying Introductory booklet - have become the key to unlocking that “specially made game-world” that exists just for me. And I have begun as all good games begin… with some characters, a situation, and a simple first session.

Thanks to Jon from Tale of the Manticore and Simon from Legend of the Bones for their inspiration.

Thanks also to Tabletop Audio for the additional music and ambient sounds:

Tabletop Audio - Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games

OR

https://tabletopaudio.com/

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

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Patreon:

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Blog:

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Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

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Somehow I’ve found my way back to the microphone and it’s time to embark on a new quest. For me, it’s a journey into the deep past to find a new pathway towards enjoying the games I like to play in the way that I most enjoy playing them. It’s my hope that, at least for someone else, this quest will resonate enough to carry you along with me too.

Massive thanks to all the callers today - Jason, Justin, Jonathan, and the Pink Phantom. Please keep the comments and questions coming!

Game on!

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Patreon:

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Blog:

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Mastodon:

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Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

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Back in July, as Season 11 opened, I spoke about how some roleplayers experience deep anxiety around playing and running games. One of the most repeated comments I have received over the past 4 years of producing this podcast has been the one about how much my honest talk about anxiety has resonated with others. This episode ends a season of Roleplay Rescue that opened with a broad theme: An Anxious GM’s Guide To Fantasy Roleplaying. I’d like to take the opportunity to review where we’ve been and a few highlights that we learned along the way.

Massive thanks to all the callers today - Jason from Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast, Jon from Tale of the Manticore, Frank from Middle Kingdoms Adventure and Trading Company, and Brian from I’ll Have To Look That up. 

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

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Email:

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Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

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or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Mastodon:

@[email protected]

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

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Johnn Four is the founder of RoleplayingTips.com which began in 1999 as a GM tips newsletter. Throughout the years, Johnn has published a GM advice column in Dragon Magazine, several books about how to improve your GMing, and continues to write on the topic of running better games. Johnn has teamed up with Jochen Linnemann to create Campaign Logger, a tool designed to help GMs capture all the details that get made up during sessions for the length of the entire campaign. Johnn is, however, perhaps best known for the 5 Room Dungeon which has become a well-known tool for adventure design across the RPG community.

Big thanks to Johnn for joining us!

RoleplayingTips:

http://roleplayingtips.com/

Campaign Logger:

https://app.campaign-logger.com/

Johnn and Jochen's Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/johnnfour

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

patreon.com/rpgrescue 

Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Mastodon:

@[email protected]

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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On the principle that everything is play, I sat down down to work out how I want to take forward my roleplaying games hobby for the foreseeable future. I have decided to record my thinking, as if I am talking to a gaming friend, because I find this helps me to work out my ideas. None of this is new, original, or even surprising. Daniel Jones has provided me with the majority of the ideas and methods outlined here and to him I simply say “thank you”. But this is the first time I’ve brought all my notes together and tried to express them coherently. It also feels like it’s high-time I share this so that Otherworld-immersion as a goal can be more widely discussed.

Big thanks to Jason for the call-in!

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

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Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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Today I want to revisit the topic of “Gaming With Teenagers”. It’s very much a conversation aimed at adults, so I’d like to apologise up front to any actual young adults listening to the podcast. Caveats aside, this all comes from my experience in setting up and running RPG gaming clubs across three UK secondary schools - aka high schools - and working with teens aged 11-18. Here are my Top Ten tips for introducing them to the hobby.

Massive thanks to all the callers - to Simon from Legend of the Bones, Jason from the Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast, to Evil Jeff from Minions and Musings, and to Wiebe! 

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

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Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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This is the fifth in a sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode continues my quest to find the game I really want to play, focused today upon the question of how to achieve greater Otherworld-immersion and build the kind of Otherworld that matters to us. My guest is, of course, Daniel Jones.

Daniel is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersion and a proponent of the idea that changing the methodology of our roleplaying games is the key to changing the experience we have at the table. For those who don’t know him, Daniel is a published author, game designer, philosopher, podcaster - check out the Primaeval Fantasy podcast - and the man behind the Eudaimonic Geekery blog. If you want to hear our earlier conversations about Otherworld-immersion, please check out Season 6, Episode 10; Season 9, Episode 14; and Season 10, Episode 19. 

Big thank you to Daniel from Primaeval Fantasy for coming and sharing his ideas with us.

Primæval Fantasy • A podcast on Anchor:

https://anchor.fm/primeval-fantasy

FRPG Thoughts | Good Daemon Geekery (danielionson.wixsite.com)

https://danielionson.wixsite.com/good-daemon

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

speakpipe.com/roleplayrescue

Patreon:

patreon.com/rpgrescue 

Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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This is the fourth in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode continues my quest to find the game I really want to play, this time through re-investigating the topic of solo roleplaying.

My guest, Simon Williams, is a British artist and illustrator as well as being the creator of the Legend of The Bones podcast, a hybrid Solo Old School Dungeons and Dragons actual play and dark fantasy audio drama. His evocative illustrations are inspired by classic roleplaying games like Fighting Fantasy and classic works of fiction such as The Lord of The Rings. His podcast is an amazing work of art, inspired by the pioneering Tale of The Manticore podcast whose creator, Jon, wrote and performed the theme music for this show. Simon’s Legend of the Bones has become a must-listen for me because his descriptions and characters are incredibly believable. And on top of all of this creativity, Simon is a husband and father, finding time for family and a very demanding job too. I hopped online to find out how he manages to enjoy an intense solo roleplaying experience so that I can move in this direction too.

Big thanks to Simon for coming back to the show - it truly was an eye-opening and key conversation for me. I hope you’ll find it useful too.

Legend of The Bones Podcast:

https://legendofthebones.podbean.com/

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

patreon.com/rpgrescue 

Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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This is the third in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying games community. This episode picks up a thread that I’ve been noodling around for a while, namely the value of Gygaxian-era Dungeons & Dragons and what makes OD&D and AD&D valuable.

Big thank you up front to my guest, Jason, and I hope that you find this as interesting as I did.

The Nerd's RPG Variety Cast:

https://anchor.fm/jason376

Game on!

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

patreon.com/rpgrescue 

Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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Another conversation to share with you today, this time someone who has recently inspired and reinvigorated my hobby through his excellent podcast. While we did begin in interview mode, the primary focus of this conversation was to chat about fantasy game worlds and some of the ways in which those were particularly important to more Old-School flavours of the hobby.

Kevin is the host of The Redcaps Podcast, the podcast where he dips his hat into the blood of his listeners and rambles on about Old-School roleplaying games. Hailing from Canada, The Redcaps first aired back in September 2020 and has, at the time of recording, just blasted through the first century of episodes - a true milestone for any podcaster. Beyond the podcast, Kevin uses his fame to raise awareness and funds for the charity extra life, a program of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Big thank you, once again, to Kevin from The Redcaps Podcast for coming and sharing his thoughts with us!

Game on!

The Redcaps Podcast:

The Redcaps Podcast • A podcast on Anchor

OR

https://anchor.fm/theredcaps

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

speakpipe.com/roleplayrescue

Patreon:

patreon.com/rpgrescue 

Email:

[email protected]

Blog:

roleplayrescue.com 

MeWe Group:

mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue

or search "Roleplay Rescue"

Twitter:

@ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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