The Ancients talk about times we have most regretted giving some power or other to a PC, and why; about Player Agency and Character Agency, why they are different, and why we care so much about one and not so much the other; about the biggest destruction a PC ever wrought in one of our games, and if they got away with it; about whether the Ancients have people they talk to about the design aspect of games; and Rob throws in a wild card at the end!

The RPG Ancients find themselves again answering questions from a dragon whose name shall be held confidential but whose initials are Mia the Dragon. The ancients cull their eroding memory banks to hold up something to amuse or entice or entertain or even confuse the dragon so she... or he... or they... or whatever...  doesn't immolate them in cleansing fire!

The ancients discus cons, the two methods of playtest, keeping players involved, hooking player characters, and playing in Old Meyoss

The Ancients get together to find our who has the biggest echo! Also listener questions from Frank Filz, AsenRG, and Mia the Dragon. We talk about how we generate cultures, determining if an NPC is male or female, how do PCs seek out worthy problems, how to use RPGs for educational services, and whether or not we have ninjas in our games! Enjoy!

Today's questions are from ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence application. I asked if it would like us - the RPG Ancients - to answer any questions, and it supplied 12 solid, concise questions! We answer I believe four of them. 

In which we answer a slew of complex and multifaceted questions from Mia the Dragon to our entertainment and delight!

The Ancients field more questions from listeners - Subjects are: What is your ideal gaming group size range? How do you handle trading? What do you think about 'Knife Theory'? and the ever thrilling Medievalism???

The Ancients decide to ignore the pleas of their listeners and ask each other questions for a change! Bill Reich had a senior moment and lost track of what day it was, but luckily Frank Filz stepped in and we had a wonderful time. It was so pleasing to ignore our listeners! It felt so... God-like! So we will be doing this more regularly! Enjoy!

The Ancients talk about their most exasperating experience with players, how they deal with magic in their games, In game puzzles and riddles, and how best to track things in a game - particularly a living world sandbox type of game like we all run. All these are responses to listener questions.

The RPG Ancients are back! Full of something stinky and brandishing their walkers! The Ancients delve into the pile of fan mail from flounders that has been sitting around and have an unspeakable amount of fun!