No listener questions this session, so the RPG Ancients are free of their Geas to talk about whatever strikes their fancy, which is a target rich environment! The ancients talk about new projects, why players hate negative adjustments, how to work with LLMs, editing a manuscript, baseball as an RPG and why it is superior to model compared to other sports, how to visually represent altitude in RPGs, and scads of strange ideas that leak from their decaying, dementia ridden minds! Come join the tortu... I mean fun! 

Rob announces he is almost finished with his player facing book for his Majestic Wilderlands RPG, and describes what he is trying to do with it and how he has addressed that. Then the Ancients address two listener questions, and in the process describe a great deal of what they find fun and interesting, and sharing techniques for GMing their games. This is a deep rabbit hole, so take your shovel and your lunch!

Having no listener questions the Ancients cackle with glee as this condition frees them from their geas and they are free to randomly launch into any topic they damn well feel like! The Ancients enthusiastically steal topics from fora, talk about ChatGPT experiments concerning alternate futures of The Great Society and Jefferson Airplane and Firefly, and ramble freely where their addled brains lead them, finally landing on maneuvers for aircraft and dragons and giant birds and moonshine bootleggers in Alabama. Please ask them questions or nothing is safe!

Frank Filz joins the Ancients for a chat about using music in Tabletop games, converting games and setting to work together, and the fact that clash is hearing music in his brain non-stop 24/7 and not paying any licensing fees!

The Ancients Deal with Inspiration, Hanging Rope, Newton's Third Law, Ancient Mass Media, GURPS, and Dino Pulp!

The Ancient handle questions from their listeners - The Great Fur and Scale War in the prehistoric Americas, The Great Curse of Metagaming and how to strangle players, The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune and their ranges, The Weak vs. The Strong how it happens and how to deal with it, and Prince/Princess == Spoiled Brat? Why or why not?

The ancients having gathered together from their Places of Power in their magical Gathering Place, realize they had no idea why they gathered and began talking about cats, which, of course, led to games, which led to the pulp solar system which led to more games and cool ideas, and ended up with SF authors. They then wandered back to their Places of Power, also known as porches, where they had good fields of fire over their lawns

The Ancients reveal their nefarious plans to cooperate as step one in taking over the world, before answering some burning listener questions! 

The Ancients have run out of listener questions, so, being Ancients of very little brain, as everyone knows Ancients are wont to be, they each start talking about their current RPG projects. One would think at this time of their lives they would be resting on their laurels, but apparently laurels are not particularly comfortable. Go figure!

The Ancients answer user questions on using LEGO for miniatures and terrain; how we use AI to help running games; How we prepare for game sessions; using abbreviated and full stats for NPCs; What do we do when PCs refuse to bite a hook; and what are the characteristics and habits we consider 'good' in players.