RPG Psych

It's time to start chippin' in choombs, Josh and Luke discuss digital tools in our digital world and how they affect our games.  Make sure you are all chromed up as we dive into this electrifying episode of RPG Psych.

Luke and Josh dive into the idea of player driven stories in your tabletop RPGs and making your players authors in their own stories while also doing your job for you, at least a little bit.  Tune in and hear about conspiracy boards, radically accepting your player's crazy ideas, and real stories of transitioning from being an over-preparer to someone who rolls with an emerging story.

Season 2 of RPG Psych is coming!

Season 1 ends with a discussion on the motivations and values of the PCs! Get ready cause it's going to get clinical and anecdotal as Josh and Lucas dive in to this part one of PC Psychology.

Josh and Lucas turn on all the lights in the local pub to expose the ways you can use a cliche to benefit your players, turn it on its head or just riff on it. They also suggest ways of avoiding this well worn path.

Lucas and Josh set the scene with mechanics. This is how we dress the stage for our players it's also our table's social contract. How many mechanics are too many though?

Josh and Lucas talk about balance in encounters. What is it? Do you need it? If you do what are the best ways to balance a game? All this and more !

Join Luke and Josh as they explore some ideas to improve player and game master engagement.  Let's move beyond the ideas of worldbuilding and get to how we can use the players and their stories to create a world that they want to immerse themselves into.

Josh and Lucas talking about why it's so important for you to give your creative mind a break, even when you'd love to be gaming. Not only that they discuss the dreaded time management and how to find the sweet spot for you and your games.

Josh and Lucas tackle Verisimilitude. Should our games just be abstractions? How much truth is too much truth in the fantastic? Isn't that what mechanics are for? Josh and Lucas talk about the difference between feeling real and being realistic and more.