The Angry GM's Mostly Monthly Live Chats

Here it is, my semi-regular check-in for October 2026. Thanks to some questions from the chat, I covered nothing I planned to and everything I didn’t. This beast became a three-hour marathon about designing mechanics, handling unusual actions, timekeeping, wilderness and town mechanics, and even how to use AI tools in your research, but never,…

Here’s the latest Mostly Monthly Live Chat, recorded on Wednesday, September 2 at 8:00 PM ET. Topics included… Recovering from the Backlog Upcoming Content Plans The New and Improved Tension Pool Custom Monster Building in D&D (2024) Experimental Stream: A “Normal” D&D Game Why Downtime and Bookkeeping in Town Should Be Part of the Game…

Recorded on Wednesday, August 19 at 8:00 PM ET. Links of Note Fountains Board Game at The OP Games MidLevel Meeple, Makers of Gunfights and Gamblin’ Saloon Shootout by MidLevel Meeple on Gamefound The One Ring RPG by Free League Publishing The Mr. Bean Theme Song with Lyrics The D&D 2026 Roadmap Keynote at GenCon

Recorded on Monday, May 18 at 8:30 PM ET.

Recorded on Monday, March 9, 2006 at 8:30 PM ET. I’m sorry. I didn’t take good notes about the topics I covered and the whole thing was kind of a mess. We had fun though. Listen and find out.

Recorded on Monday, February 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM ET. Question of the Month (Leave a Comment) What is something that you find yourself regularly struggling when running and prepping games? A Request from Angry (Leave a Comment or Send a Message) Do you value my work? Has it made a difference? I’m going through…

Oops! I accidentally gave an impromptu, 40-minute monologue about how to actually run a decent social interaction challenge with the tools you’ve got.

It’s been a long time since I did one of these. Long enough that I probably can’t even call them mostly monthly anymore. So let’s get back in the habit. Starting with this one. Things Referenced In This Live Chat The Annotated Symphony of the Night by John Learned on YouYube Dyson’s Logos Geomorphs Challenge…

Recorded Tuesday, August 19 at 6:30 PM CDT.

Recorded on Tuesday, July 22 at 7:00 PM EDT.