The Arcane Alienist
By B. J. (aka “GameDoc”)
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Episodes: 240
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A podcast mostly about tabletop roleplaying games, from game theory and concepts to session recaps to sources of inspiration. I also occasionally delve into other nerdy things like board games, comics, books, movies, and television.
Email: arcane.alienist@gmail.com.
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#oldschoolessentials #d&d5e #mongoosetraveller #talesofthevaliant #morkborg
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#oldschoolessentials #d&d5e #mongoosetraveller #talesofthevaliant #morkborg
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You Are Not Your Character Sheet (and Neither Are YOU)!
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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RPG a Day 2025, Days 21-31
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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RPG a Day 2025, Days 11-20
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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RPG a Day 2025, Days 1-10
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Roleplaying the Classics, Part 2
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Freudian Feedback and Playlists for Characters
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Sigmund Freud, Alignment, and the Swords & Wizard Book of Options
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Process Based Game Mastering?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Emergent Gameplay
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Review: Black Powder and Brimstone
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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A Brother's Lament (Part 5) - Black Sword Hack Solo Play
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A Brother's Lament (Part 4) - Black Sword Hack Solo Play
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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A Brother's Lament (Part 3) - Black Sword Hack Solo Play
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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A Brother's Lament (Part 2) - Black Sword Hack Solo Play
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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A Brother's Lament (Part 1) - Black Sword Hack Solo Play
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Worldbuilding with Black Sword Hack - Part 2
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Worldbuilding with Black Sword Hack - Part 1
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Black Sword Hack Character Creation
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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An Overview of Black Sword Hack
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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A Mörk Borg Christmas - Preview
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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A Grendel Roasting on an Open Fire
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 7
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Indigenous People's Month 2024
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 6
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 5
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 4
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Procedures on Deck
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 3
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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One Round With A Grease Dragon
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 2
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Yo Ho! International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2024
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Mörk Borg Solo Play - The Rancid Maze, Part 1
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Making a Mörk Borg Character
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #31 - The Friends We Made Along the Way
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #30 - People I’d Like to Game With
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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RPGaDay2024 #29 - Awesome App
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #28 - An Anecdote (Sort of) About Gadgets (Sort of)
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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RPGaDay2024 #27 - Marvelous Miniature
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #26 - Superb Screen
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #25 - Dice
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #24 - Acclaimed Advice
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #22 & 23 - Notable NPCs and Peerless Players
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #21 - A Classic Campaign
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #20 - An Amazing Adventure
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Call-In Roundip
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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RPGaDay #18 & 19 - Memorable Moments and Sensational Sessions
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #17 - An Engaging Community
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #16 - Quick to Learn
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #15 - Good Gear
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Review: Tales of the Vailant, Part 2/Call-In Roundup
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #13 & 14 - Evocative Environments and Compelling Characters
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #12 - Well Supported Campaigns
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #11 - One Shots
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #10 - I Want My RPGtv
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #9 - An Accessory I’d Like
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #8 - Accessories
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #7 - Good Form(at)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #6 - Easy to Use
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #5 - Great RPG Writing
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #4 - Great RPG Artwork
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #3 - Most Often Played
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #2 - First Game Played
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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RPGaDay 2024 #1 - First Game Bought
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Movie Talk with Jason Connerly: Deadpool & Wolverine (& Dr. Doom)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Review: Tales of the Valiant
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Humanoid Variants
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The Fall of the Veiled Society and Rethinking Goblins
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Happy 4th of July
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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NTRPG: The Friends We Made Along the Way
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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NTRPG: I Love it When a Plan Comes Together.
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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NTRPGC: On The Road Again
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Adventures in Tennessee and Calls about Mobile GM Kits
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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What's In Your Mobile GM's Kit?
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May 20, 2024 |
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I Love Bugbears (But My Son Hates Them)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Four Callers and a Giant Ferret
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Now It’s a Party (Two Actually)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Theater of the Mind with Theater Kids
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Raccoon Sky Pirates
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Return to the Mythic World of Urd
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Is D&D Becoming a Video Game, or Vice-Versa?
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Revisiting the Metagame of D&D
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Indigenous Games of Chance
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Gvhei: The Bobcat
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Coyote & Crow: Setting Review
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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The Three R’s of OSR October
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Good Friends, Good Times
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Review: We Deal in Lead
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Call-In Roundup: Heavy Metal Magery & Arcane Archaeology
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Inspiration: Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Heavy Metal Magery
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023 Call-In Roundup
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Day 31
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Day 30
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 28 & 29
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 26 & 27
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 24 & 25
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 21, 22, & 23
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 19 & 20
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 17 & 18
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 14, 15, & 16
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Day 13
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 11 & 12
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 9 & 10
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 7 & 8
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 5 & 6
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 3 & 4
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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RPG a Day 2023: Days 1 & 2
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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D&Disms: The Worldbuilder’s Lament
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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OSR October: Rulings not Rules in 5e D&D?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Clerics, Gods, & Saints Revisited
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Session Recap: Skeletons and Zombies and Cultists (Oh My!)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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The Moat House Dungeon
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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In the Mind’s Eye
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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RPG a Day 2022, Week 5: The Home Stretch
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Let’s Jam!
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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RPG a Day 2022, Week 4: Hyperborea
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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RPG a Day 2022, Week 3: What Do We Want?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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RPG a Day 2022, Week 2: My Friend Brian
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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RPG a Day 2022, Week 1: D&D with Kids
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Ancient Peoples in your RPG
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Session Recap: Queen of the Kobolds
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Character Backgrounds (for any system) & Carcass Crawler #2 for Old School Essentials.
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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A Wizard, an Alchemist, and a Cleric Meet along a Path…
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The Moat House Massacre
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Session Recap: Right in the Gnoll Hole
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Welcome to Hommlet (Hope You Survive the Experience)
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May 01, 2022 |
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All Good Things
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Session Recap: By the Horns
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy - Second Live Solo Play
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Session Recap: Bugbears with Boomsticks
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy - Live Solo Play
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Storm Kings, Warlock Antics, and Cosmic Crossroads
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Great Cyclops
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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The Gnolls Behind the Knoll.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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100th Episode, One Year Anniversary Special: Making it Your Own
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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My Players Ain’t James Bond
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Call-In Roundup
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Inspiration: Westworld
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Bugbears, Invisible Stalkers, and A Dragon (I Think).
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Hyperborea and More Pathfinder
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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New Year, New Episode
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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And To All, A Good Night!
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Call-In Roundup
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Call in Roundup
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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On the Psychology of Elves
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Calls from Anchor and Call of Cthulhu
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Inspiration: HeroQuest
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Session Recaps: D&D 5e and Dungeon Crawl Classics
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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The Best Thing About HeroQuest Is the Unboxing
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Necromancy and Undead Orcs
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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I’m a Player!
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Call-In Roundup
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Faux Orc Hunting
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Lotsa Games and Lotsa Calls
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Call-In Roundup
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Review: The Green Knight Roleplaying Game
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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A Little Bit of Everything
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Green Knight: Film Review with Dr. Sarah Peters
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Training, Feasting, and Undead Orcs
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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5e D&D: Storm King’s Thunder
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Call-In Roundup
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Dungeon Crawl Classics: Part Deux
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Hobnobbing with Hobgoblins
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Dungeon Crawl Classics (I did it!)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Min-Maxing Characters (by Request)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Inspiration: Dragon Rampant
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 31: Thank
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 30: Mention
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 29: System
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Saturdays with Daniel
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Session Summary: Assault on the Goblin Lair
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Mustard: Days 27 & 28: Fraction and Solo
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Thursdays with Jason
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 26: Theory
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 25: Welcome
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 24: Translate
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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RPG a Day23: Memory
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 22: Substitute
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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White Box Spelljammer and BattleTech
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Snake Eyes
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Mustard: Days 20 & 21, Foundation and Simple
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 19: Theme
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 18: Write
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 17: It’s a Trap!
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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EPISODE 50! (But also RPG a Day 16: Move)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 15: Supplement
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 14: Safety
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 13: Flood
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 12: Think
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 11: Wilderness
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 10: Trust
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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RPG a Day 9: Medium
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Ketchup: Days 7 & 8, Small and Stream
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Retainers and Revenge
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Ketchup: Days 5 & 6, Thrones and Flavor
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Ketchup: Days 3 & 4, Tactics and Weapon
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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RPG a Day Ketchup: Days 1 & 2, Scenario and Map
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Preview: The Green Knight
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation and Reactions
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Where Are the Bugbears?
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Unicorns and a Dearth of Virtuous Maidens
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Orc Masks and Other Stuff
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Still Lookin’ for Goblins
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Calls and Responses
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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The Ins and Outs of Intellectual Properties
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Lord of the Dead and the Queen of Lost Souls
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Gone Lookin’ for Goblins
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May 27, 2021 |
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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it’s Dwarves on This Week’s Show!
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May 18, 2021 |
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Session Recap: For Eric
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May 08, 2021 |
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Goblins and Trolls are Goblins and Trolls (not Goblins and Trolls)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Session Recap: Pining for Treasure
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Arcane Magic
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Lovecraft and Watchmen Revisited
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Inspiration: H. P. Lovecraft
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Session Recap: The Tradeway and the Canopies
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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The Castle and The Canopies
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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An Interesting Question
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Call-Ins: Crows, Hearts, Lions, and Broken Swords
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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The Mythic World of Urd: Saints, Clerics, & Paladins
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Analytics
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Funnel of Death
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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These are the Fools
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Tonight’s the Night
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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The Mythic World of Urd: Orcs!!!
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Nonhumans and the Art of Marvel Comics
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Some Calls
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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The He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Valentine’s Day Special
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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These are the Tools
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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These are the Rules
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Halfling songs...? Anyone...?
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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ROLEplay Responses: Sage Advice (but not from Jeremy Crawford)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The Mythic World of Urd: Elves and the Otherworld
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Encouraging ROLEplay
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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D&D History and Alphabet Soup
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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First Call-In. Content Creators You Should Follow.
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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The Mythic World of Urd: An Overview
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Inspiration: Tom Moldvay, Zeb Cook, & Fritz Leiber
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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The Arcane Alienist (Trailer)
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Jan 31, 2021 |