Roleplay Rescue

By Che Webster

What's Roleplay Rescue about?

Did you used to play roleplaying games back in the day, delving dungeons with funny dice in hand? Why’d you stop? Find out how to reclaim your RPG hobby as a working adult. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Roleplay Rescue episodes:

06.01.2024
Back To Analogue
This episode brings us back to the most important question in rediscovering our hobby: How do we best recapture the spirit of play and of deep engagement with these games? This episode reflects on a shift in my experience of...
04.13.2024
Imagine with Michael Tenery
Hello Rescuers! We’re back! Sort of. As I said a few weeks ago, I am changing the pace of Roleplay Rescue from a regular podcast to being a, well, irregular podcast - in other words, although this is the first episode...
03.23.2024
The End?
Here’s the short version: I’m going to take a break - once again - from podcasting. When I do return, whether it’s in a couple of weeks, two months, or a year, I’m going to take the approach of recording...
03.09.2024
RPGMatch with Joaquin Lippincott
This is the last in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various guests over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. Joaquin Lippincott is the founder of RPGMatch, an application where you can register and meet other TTRPG...
02.24.2024
Intermission
It has been a month since I last hopped on the mic and spoke. This episode is a GM Intrusion into the flow of the season to do two things: First, I wanted to share and respond to a few...
02.10.2024
Five Percent Challenge with Bob from SAFCO
This is the third in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Bob from the...
01.27.2024
GURPS with Mr_Sandman
This is the second in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Mr_Sandman, aka Andrew...
01.20.2024
Playing Face-to-Face
I got back to running a game face-to-face. More than that, it looks like this newly formed group of gamers wants to meet again in February. I don’t want to jinx it, but I’m so entirely made up about this...
01.13.2024
Primaeval Fantasy with Daniel Jones
This is the first in a series of four new conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Daniel Jones...
01.06.2024
Into 2024
As the New Year for 2024 arrives, where am I at with table top roleplaying games? What are my plans for the year ahead and what lessons am I carrying forward? Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024 and I wish...
12.23.2023
Augury Ignored
I’ve sat on the conversation that you’re about to hear for far too long. Back in late September, I hopped online for a conversation with Augury Ignored - the voice behind the Augury Ignored blog. Thomas - for that is...
12.09.2023
Seeking Face-to-Face
The barriers to finding face-to-face community are many. But this was the very problem I began the whole podcast to resolve and, weirdly, find myself right back where I began. I want to face this challenge full on and see...
11.25.2023
After Five Years
On the 28th November 2018, the eight minute and 14 second episode zero of Roleplay Rescue was aired. Now, as we reach the 5th anniversary of that fateful episode, I’m wondering… has it been worth it? What have I learned?...
11.11.2023
An Open World Campaign
Draw a quick regional map on hexed paper. Grab the rules from an old roleplaying game. Sit down with some friends and begin to play. Is it really that simple to start a fantasy roleplaying campaign? Today, I want to share...
10.28.2023
Talking D&D With YUMDM
YUMDM is the creator of the d12 Monthly ‘zine which started in mid-2021 and has grown from a humble 8-pages to - in September 2023 - 27 issues at a whopping 28-pages! Hailing from Australia, Russ has been roleplaying for 30+...
10.22.2023
Adventurer Conqueror King With Alex Macris
Alex Macris is the lead designer for the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System, an old-school fantasy RPG designed to support campaign play. He’s the founder of Autarch LLC, a game design studio from Durham in North Carolina, USA which publishes ACKS and...
10.14.2023
Schooled
What’s going on with the school Roleplay Club? Why would you even run such a thing? What are the best steps in getting started? Today, I want to take you through the story of the first two weeks of the School...
09.30.2023
Rescue!
What do you do when you know you used to enjoy playing RPGs but the whole thing has, frankly, become a chore? How do you move forward when the reality is that you are anxious about GMing the next session...
09.02.2023
So You Want To Be A Game Master With Justin Alexander
This episode is the final one for this season - no, really - and it’s my pleasure to bring you a conversation about a significant new book for the RPG scene. Justin Alexander is a freelance writer and the author of...
08.26.2023
Community Voices
The last episode was supposed to be the final one for this season but, well, then I got a whole barrage of messages and call-ins from you, the listeners. It seems a shame not to share them in one last...
08.19.2023
Tension and Change With Jason Connerley
This episode is the final one for this season, another of the extended conversations I’ve shared with gaming friends over recent weeks. It was largely unplanned as I hopped online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. Jason...
08.12.2023
Talking FKR With Paul Jennings
This one’s a chat about FKR - Free Kreigspiel Roleplaying - with someone I am only beginning to get to know but who has also been so generous with their time that I feel deeply appreciative of and in debt...
08.05.2023
The Apprentice GM
So, yes, I want to be a Game Master. And I want to become a good Game Master. I’m ready to learn and I’m willing to put myself into the space of running a game for my friends. Where do...
07.29.2023
Something Shared
This episode is basically a call-in show with lots of messages interspersed with my thoughts in response. It’s unscripted and probably a little rougher around the edges… but I would encourage you to stick around and listen because this...
07.22.2023
The Fear of Mastery
What does the phrase “Game Master” mean? It is simply a synonym for other labels we stick on the poor soul who organises and runs a traditional tabletop roleplaying game, or might it have deeper meaning? And if we wanted...
07.15.2023
War of Art with Daniel Jones
This episode is the third extended conversation I’ve shared with some gaming friends over recent weeks. The conversation was unplanned and is really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. Daniel Jones is...
07.08.2023
Transitions
Today’s episode is a Transition - a shift from one place towards another, the ending of one chapter and the opening of another. In part, this is a reflection upon the journey so far. It’s also a reorientation towards what...
07.05.2023
Solo Tales Ep4: Into The Tower
Hello Rescuers! Here's a early-access bonus for the Swordbearers which will become open to all Patrons prior to general release as a bonus episode on Roleplay Rescue. Roleplay Rescue’s Solo Tales is a podcast recounting the solo tabletop roleplaying adventures...
07.01.2023
Player Agency With Simon Williams
Today is the second of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week, focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were...
06.24.2023
Adventure Building With Johnn Four
Today is the first of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were...
06.17.2023
Back In Balazar
Newfound clarity has given birth to some confidence and a much greater sense of my preferences in gaming. The last few weeks have seen seismic shifts in my sense of wellbeing alongside a growing sense of who I am as...
06.10.2023
Sparking Creativity With Runeslinger
Today I have another of my conversations with a friend within the roleplaying games community. This episode we dipped into talking about sparking creativity with younger students of varying ages - a comparison between my guest’s creative writing courses that...
06.07.2023
Solo Tales Ep3: Skeletons!
Hello Rescuers! Here's another bonus - the third episode of Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales! This episode picks up where that one left off. Because this is a personal solo game, I’m going to be using a variety of tools and methods...
06.03.2023
Permutations
Having realised that I’ve been chasing my tail for the past 40 or so years in accepting a very simple misunderstanding as truth, the past couple of weeks have been an enriching and enjoyable period. While work and other commitments...
05.27.2023
Clarity
What if you didn’t need anything more to have the best games of your life? What if you didn’t need another product, another tool, or another set of rules? What if everything you really need to have a cracking session,...
05.20.2023
Rolemaster Unified
What’s the deal with Rolemaster? Why did we love it back in the 1980s and does the recent release of Rolemaster Unified invigorate us to play it again? Back in Episode 1, I declared that I was embarking on a new...
05.14.2023
GM's Journal #183: Coronation Weekend (May 5th-10th 2023)
Bonus episode leaked from the Patreon to give listeners a taste of the raw and unedited horror that is the GM's Journal. A few folk have asked what the GM's Journal is all about so I thought the best way...
05.13.2023
On Community
Having spent quite a few episodes now revisiting and developing my own return to a more coherent practice with roleplaying games, I thought I would make a brief pitstop and talk about the Roleplay Rescue community. The community is the life-blood...
05.10.2023
Solo Tales Ep2: Back To Crag's Ruin
Hello Rescuers! Here's a bonus! I have this vague idea that if I can produce a few episodes then I might release them on their own podcast feed, Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales. This episode follows on from the main Roleplay Rescue...
05.06.2023
Characterisation With Simon Williams
Today I have another of my conversations with a friend within the roleplaying games community. This episode we dipped into talking about characterisation in our RPGs, especially around NPCs. My guest, Simon Williams, is a British artist and illustrator as...
04.29.2023
Why Play GURPS?
Following the release of Episode 5 to the RPR Patreon, Patron Brian called in with a long series of seven questions about GURPS which I felt were worthy of a full episode to respond to. Not only are they truly...
04.22.2023
Simple Dungeon GURPS
In Episode 5, Barry aka GMShadow chatted with me about the need for a simple introduction to GURPS. Since then, we’ve been collaborating - along with other interested folk from the RPR Discord - to create Simple Dungeon GURPS. We...
04.15.2023
The Fear Of Starting
Do you ever find yourself not physically starting something but instead spending inordinate amounts of time and effort reading, researching, and trying to decide where to start? If not, I envy you. It's a particular problem I have and been...
04.08.2023
Megadungeon!
Following my recent conversation with GMShadow, my good friend Barry from The Shadow of the GM podcast - which you can listen to in Episode 5 - I’ve been delving back into both the Great Library of GURPS and rekindling...
04.01.2023
Location, Location, Location
Today, I want to talk about the most durable, long-serving, and under-rated game structure in roleplaying games. Most GMs use some form of it in most sessions - anytime they come to a location in their world where the Player...
03.25.2023
Simple GURPS With GMShadow
This is another one of the conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying community. This episode is a chat about how to introduce new players to GURPS by making the whole thing simpler and more familiar. One thing...
03.18.2023
On Combat
Ever since I first began roleplaying, I have always been engaged by a good fight scene. Combat has been the way in which I almost always begin to learn a new game and you can bet your bottom-dollar that any...
03.11.2023
Deeper Gaming With Arlen Walker
This is the first in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying community. This episode features a chat about how to move from beer and pretzels style gaming towards something a little deeper, richer,...
03.04.2023
Crag's Ruin
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...
02.25.2023
Back To Basic Roleplaying
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...

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Roleplay Rescue episodes:

Back To Analogue

Imagine with Michael Tenery

The End?

RPGMatch with Joaquin Lippincott

Intermission

Five Percent Challenge with Bob from SAFCO

GURPS with Mr_Sandman

Playing Face-to-Face

Primaeval Fantasy with Daniel Jones

Into 2024

Augury Ignored

Seeking Face-to-Face

After Five Years

An Open World Campaign

Talking D&D With YUMDM

Adventurer Conqueror King With Alex Macris

Schooled

Rescue!

So You Want To Be A Game Master With Justin Alexander

Community Voices

Tension and Change With Jason Connerley

Talking FKR With Paul Jennings

The Apprentice GM

Something Shared

The Fear of Mastery

War of Art with Daniel Jones

Transitions

Solo Tales Ep4: Into The Tower

Player Agency With Simon Williams

Adventure Building With Johnn Four

Back In Balazar

Sparking Creativity With Runeslinger

Solo Tales Ep3: Skeletons!

Permutations

Clarity

Rolemaster Unified

GM's Journal #183: Coronation Weekend (May 5th-10th 2023)

On Community

Solo Tales Ep2: Back To Crag's Ruin

Characterisation With Simon Williams

Why Play GURPS?

Simple Dungeon GURPS

The Fear Of Starting

Megadungeon!

Location, Location, Location

Simple GURPS With GMShadow

On Combat

Deeper Gaming With Arlen Walker

Crag's Ruin

Back To Basic Roleplaying

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