Til Dice Do Us Part

Once again it's a battle of wills as George runs Ailsa through another Quiz of a tabletop persuasion.  This time it's a True or False on a list of ten module titles, some of which are genuine pre-packaged adventures available for sale for a variety of high profile systems and others are terrible puns, rephrased titles and just terrible word vomit from George's imagination.  Can Ailsa puzzle out the answers correctly, and will you take her side when she reveals the shameful opinion George holds, beyond even the purest imagination?

After that (and a small scare of George boring us with dice chat) it's on to Ask a GM where a listener has asked us to help deal with Rules Lawyers and the chaos they can bring to a game when someone insists on a thirty minute argument about whether or not you get a charging bonus if you attack from a runaway shopping trolley.  Are they a new phenomenon?  Do they turn up in some games more than others?  Can you find a way to turn their powers to good?  Can we somehow jam in a reference to Football despite having minimal knowledge of any sport chat whatsoever?

Apart from that it's the same mish-mash you've come to expect.  There's delivery of letters, tirades about gluten-free bread, a surprise reference to Chick Lit, the definition of a Scottish word that foreigners may not be aware of and even  an advert for a service that offers peace of mind the next time you need the aid of a 9th Level Cleric.

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No content warning required for this episode as we go back to basics - or is that back to school?  Find out in our Elevator Pitch in which we discuss Hellcats & Hockeysticks, a roleplaying game of anarchic schoolgirls in a decidedly British vein.  We discuss our experiences of this game - George in running it, Ailsa in playing it - and why we think you should give it a spin

Then we go back to a section from Episode 3 as we run another X Meets Y style mashup.   It's our special method of getting the creative juices flowing and we do it live, with only a couple of edits to insert in comments George forgot to say at the time because he is a wally. With a d20, a pile of books/DVDs/computer games and some very tenuous improvisation we get to creating some ideas on the fly to show you how you can brainstorm your own new ideas when you are feeling stuck in a rut.

Before the episode ends we also manage to get in a few of our supporting cast to say a few words, as they have grown so big we now have some administration issues involving them.  There's also an advert from the eatery that's bringing the taste of the twelve-level labyrinth direct to your plate.

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Content Warning: Sex, Relationships, Sex Work, Pregnancy, Homophobia & Transphobia.  No explicit language is used in this episode.

Valentine's Day sees us do a slightly more risqué episode of the podcast, such as a section on World Building where we focus on how to be inspired in creating your characters and game worlds by questions of sex, sexuality, relationships and the like.  So much of human history and our media is dependent on our understanding of these topics but all too often they get skimmed at the table.  How can you design interesting cultures and species that bear in mind S-E-X?  Does your Elven pantheon have an issue with homosexuality?  Did those Rigellians develop the idea of marriage when they need four different biological sexes present to make a baby?  Why is that Swan running away from the Child Support Agency?

In a change to previous episodes, Ailsa takes on the role of being in charge of the Quiz.  She then instantly reveals why she cannot be trusted with power as her idea of a Quiz topic is to complete quotes from the D&D 3rd edition third party supplement book The Book Of Erotic Fantasy.  We will try and talk a little about the contents of this book and its strengths, but it may be hard for George to focus when Ailsa is dropping references to 1970s children's entertainers into proceedings.

In the mix there's also a summary of some lovely listener comments and reviews, a Valentine's Day card from a mystery admirer, a brief summary of what a Carry On film is for non-British listeners, proof that only one of us can do a content warning successfully, and an advert from this episode's sponsor for a community poorly served by existing dating solutions.

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Another Ask a GM  question has come to us - from a different source than usual - and it asks us about playing in a game where one character just doesn't gel with the rest.  You know the type: the Paladin in a party full of rogues, the loner superhero in the middle of a focused team or the Inch-High Incel in the cast of a socially liberal podcast.  How do you deal with a game group that's pulling in two different directions?  Is it better to stop it happening in the first place?

Then there's another Quiz, but this time around it isn't a "True or False" affair.  We've got a copy of the D&D Third Edition Player's Handbook out for the first time in a decade and Ailsa has to correctly deduce some sentences from therein.  George has cunningly replaced some words or phrases with fraudulent ones and you'll never spot the subtly disguised sentences!  (OK, maybe you will. )

On top of that's there's an update on Episode 2's section of Disability, with some news and some apologies; there's an appearance by everyone's least favourite 25.4mm tall Men's Rights Activist; and we get a blast of the television event that's helping all the cool cats and kittens in the future deal with their own plague outbreak.

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Things might be a bit dark right now but the first show of 2021 opens with a bit of a laugh as we do our first Quiz section.   This episode's theme for the quiz is Licensed RPGs - George has got a list that includes some genuine games and some balderdash books, but can Ailsa tell them apart?  Feel free to play along, and possibly bemoan the games that shouldn't exist but do and vice versa.

After that frivolity it's time for another Elevator Pitch, with small press game Umläut: Game of Metal that lets you play out your dream of being in a heavy metal band.  Even stranger, it does it with a GM-less system from a boxing game.  Ailsa takes some time to talk about her love of music while George mostly just tries to find excuses to talk about Space: Above and Beyond again.

All this and the usual mixture of insanity including an advert that offers you the solution to the problem of over-knowledgeable adventurers easily outmatching your dungeon's boss monster.  Praise Saint Duncan of the Paintbrush!

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We start the show off with an aid to your imagination via our  X Meets Y section, in which we use our TOP SECRET FORMULA to come up with adventure and campaign ideas.  Marvel as, armed with a D20 and no script, we come up with some brand spanking new ideas as we record!  Be inspired to try the same thing yourself!  Doubt that we really did manage to combine medieval literature and 60s sitcoms without any prep!

There's also another installment of Ask A GM, in which we address a listener question on how to handle a group where no-one seems to trust NPCs.  How do you deal with a player group who believe everyone is in league with the Big Bad, from arch-mages to Poblin the goblin?  How does this come to pass and can you as a GM get things back on track?  What if on one or two occasions, their paranoia is right and you the GM might be part of the problem?

There's even time for Shoved Granny Games to tell us all about their amazing new Kickstarter which gives one of the greatest computer games ever it's own RPG.  It looks to be an even bigger hit than their Play-By-Post Jenga system.

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This time round we bring you another Elevator Pitch  - if Ailsa can stop making Python references long enough - and introduce you to King Arthur Pendragon,  the Arthurian adventure game by the late Greg Stafford.  We give you some pointers as to whether or not this game would be your cup of tea, both from Ailsa's perspective playing it and George's recollections of running it.

There's also a chat on the topic of Disability in Role-playing Games, inspired by Sara Thompson, the Combat Wheelchair rules she released for D&D and the Twitter storm that followed.  How have role-playing games past and present addressed the topic of disability?  How can you make your game more inclusive and accessible to all players?  Why is there a tiny voice coming out of the floorboards trying to pick a fight with us?


Plus we set aside some time for this week's special sponsor who wants to tell adventurer tourists where they should be going to raid the best tombs this season.

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Our podcast makes its start with the first of many Elevator Pitches to introduce you to games you may not be familiar with.  This time it's an introduction to Night Witches, a historical game of female pilots battling Nazis on the Eastern Front of World War II.  (Terrible accents optional for you, mandatory for us.)

We then move on to our agony aunt section Ask a GM and the topic of how to deal with a group of players who won't make any decisions.  What do you do when they spend an hour agonizing over every T-junction like it's playing chess with death?  How do you get things moving and why does this happen in the first place?

All this and a specially curated advert for dice that don't affect your Ph balance!  How's that for an opening salvo of geekery?

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