Join Vince & Travis as they decide that they will never be royals, but they could play one in the game. Why are PCs so rarely of royal blood? How should PCs interact with royalty in the game? What is royalty to wandering mercenaries? All of this and less will be explored within.

Join Vince & Travis as they break down the Knowledge Problem. The Knowledge Problem is what happens when you as a player learnt he tropes and meta concepts of the game and your play changes as a result. Is this good or bad? How can it be overcome? All of this and less will be explored within.

Vince and Travis get back to some crunchy, crunchy design. Today we are breaking down the nature of horizontal vs vertical power curves - or how fast the delta develops between your characters and the rest of the world as they advance. What is the benefit of each of these types of power curves? What types of games do these curves match best with? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince & Travis as they offer a couple of ideas for IPs that should be translated into RPGs. RPGs based on IPs have a long and storied history, from early Star Wars & Marvel RPGs to more recent Buffy and BSG RPGs. What RPGs would work well? What makes an IP good for an RPG? Why do these work or fail? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince and Travis as they finally get to what this podcast is supposed to be about - game design. They break into the heart of the 3 elements that make up the fundamentals of good design. What are these three lessons? How can you put them to use in your own game design? What does all this have to do with gardening anyways? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince & Travis as they talk about progression, and more precisely, Progression speed in games. If you character can advance, how fast should they do so? Should you use the math in the books? Does math even matter at all? What about the story and the accomplishments of your character? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince & Travis as they break down the 3rd leg of character creation. The history of D&D is rife with many forms of further defining your character beyond simple race and class. Why do we need this 3rd leg of definition? What is the value it brings and what were the challenges in these systems throughout their history? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince and Travis as they discuss the nature of Apocalypses in Games, both the threat of them in a story the PCs are trying to stop and the use of them in the narrative when building out the story of your world. What is the value to your story of the end of the world? Can this trope be overused? How can you best utilize the potential end of the world or even very big changes? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince and Travis as they break down a crazy concept - GM’s generating characters. Whether it’s the classic Pre-Gens, GM’s making a whole character sheet or just generating some elements of the characters that take place in the game, there is lots to explore. Why would you want to do this? What value is there for GMs? For players? All of this and less will be answered within.

Join Vince & Travis as they break down the challenge of characters (not players) that just don’t work together at the table. What causes this problem? What different forms can this take? What can you as a GM do to mitigate this challenge? All of this and less will be answered within.