Kyle is recovering from Origins fatigue, so Jess and Brandon step in to save the day. We talk about a recent session of Alice is Missing we all participated in. Enjoy this post game discussion of this excellent "silent RPG".

Actual Play! The Wizard's Grimoire with Brandon Carruth

Actual Play! Moose Trip with Jess and Keeley

Alice is Missing

Silent Falls Expansion

George Winston Obituary

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The Cloud Curio

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Murph! joins us to discuss Play AWay From The Table (PAWFTT!). Kyle tries to make PAWFTT a thing, Murph! enables him, and John is powerless to stop it. 

RUNE

Worlds Without Number

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The Cloud Curio

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Hello comrades! Kyle and John bust out the soap boxes and ask: What is with all the new games? And why can't we talk about the creative aspects of these new games, instead of business moves? Spoiler: Because social media and capitalism ruin everything. 

The Splatphone!

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Tales of the Valiant

Candela Obscura

Panopticon

Society of the Spectacle 

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Alex Roberts

Alex Ross

Kyle and John exchange and discuss some of their favorite passages from RPG books. Call us on the Splatphone! Send us an email [email protected]! 

Mausritter

The Warren

Bunnies and Burrows

Dialect

A Plague Among Us

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Kyle takes John back to school to discuss how RPGs fit into our ideas of play, games, and other strange creatures. 

The Beginner's Guide

Felix Lebed on Play

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Homo Ludens - John Huizinga

Alan Levinovitz - Toys

Thomas Malaby - Games

“Big Three” questions at the Forge: “What is the game about? How is it about that? What does the game reward?”

Evan Bottcher - Platforms

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What do you do when part of your game group takes some time off? Try new games? Try new ways of playing old games? John and Kyle discuss.

Dread

The Quiet Year

Fiasco

Dialect

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This week John and Kyle take a deep dive into Free League publishing's Year Zero SRD. Kyle goes full professor on John, and then they talk about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. 

Free League - Year Zero SRD

A Theory of Fun

FATE: The Secrets of Cats

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Kyle tells John about a programming project he designed for his students, and what he hopes they will learn from it: When acquiring new skills, you have to get comfortable sucking at them at first.  John says he has always struggled with this, and somehow does not say the phrase "learn to play tennis with a wooden racket" even though this was the right episode to say it.

One of Kyle's game experiments - Methris

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John and Kyle dig into one of their favorite OSR modules: Winter's Daughter by Gavin Norman

Old School Essentials

Winter's Daughter

Hall of the Blood King

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Kyle and John talk about the Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure Sailors on the Starless Sea and ask: "Why is it so dang good?" They also answer a listener's question left via the Splatphone! Hang around for the cut-bitlets to hear  in-depth discussion of Kyle's new cat.

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Remembering Jim Halloway

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