Table Top Podcast
An impulse buy on DriveThruRPG has inspired us to discuss intellectual properties we would like to homage in a rpg game.
Topics discussed: Kolchak- The Night Stalker, The Black Company, Legion, Old Gods of Appalachia, Twin Peaks, The Highway of Blood,
Shout Outs: My Best Friend’s Exorcism, It Burns, Dororo
Dream sound effect courtesy of Fesliyan Studios.
Music: Shifty by Bruce Lee.
n a topic that originally started as raiding the sinking ship that is Google Plus for great fan content; Patrick, Noah, and Adam discuss fan generated content and hacks for tabletop rpgs.
Areas of Discussion:
· Masks Google Plus
· A Nocturne (Blades Transhuman Sci-fi)
· Our Lonely Words (Blades Persona-esque mental exploration)
· Remnants of War
· Monster of the Week Roadhouse
· The Fairfield Project
· Night at the opera Reddit
· Blades in the Dark Score Generator
· Dogs In the Bark (Light-hearted, playing street dogs)
· Copperhead County (Small town Deep South crime)
· A Fistful of Darkness (Weird West)
Other Items:
Savage Tokusatsu
BestPalBrigade Twitch Channel
Red Dead Redemption 2
Resident Evil 2
Episode Music: Simultaneous Eon by Fascinating Earthbound Objects
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before; you meet in a tavern…. Today on the Roleplaying Exchange we discuss atypical ways to play tabletop games.
Areas of Discussion: Typical vs. Atypical scenarios, what makes a scenario atypical, framing, player by-in, Prey, Bat Man Arkham City, Far Cry 5,
Confused Bi-Product of a Misinformed Culture
Greg Stolze gets tricked back onto our podcast to talk about the upcoming second edition of his high fantasy ORE game, REIGN.
Be sure to check out Reign over at over at Atomic Overmind Press.
Visit gregstolze.com for more information on Greg and his many artistic endevors.
Want more Stolze? Check out his podcast actual play Termination Shock.
Sorry this isn’t our much-promised S&M episode; rather, it involves Adam and Patrick discussing how to help new game masters step up in an already established group.
Talking Points: Keeping your groups small, Prepping vs. Over-prepping, saying “yes” and “yes and…”, taking constructive criticism
Shouts outs:
Can’t get enough of that Appalachian accents? Are you interested in leftist politics and issues concerning Appalachia? Check out the Trillbillies Workers Party podcast.
Narcosis is a survival horror title that strands players on the sea floor with little oxygen and sanity.
Rusty Lake and the Cube Escape Series are an eerie collection of point-click adventures set in the vein of shows like Twin Peaks.
Cthulhu Confidential is a game of Lovecraftian horror that utilizes the new Gumshoe One-2-One system that requires only a gamemaster and one player.
Cthulhu City is a setting for Trail of Cthulhu that place investigators in a corrupted Arkham controlled by the mythos. A must have for fans of dystopian and cosmic horror literature.
Unknown Armies is “An occult game about broken people conspiring to fix the world.” Need more? Well you’re in luck, the broken people over at the Roleplaying Exchange are here to help. In this episode, we explore the setting and mechanics of Unknown Armies.
Areas of Discussion: Unknown Armies, The Cat Lady, Warriors, Flavortown, Statosphere
Have you ever found your mind wandering while at the table? Does your podcasting co-host constantly play with his fidget spinner while you’re recording? If so then this is the RPX episode for you. Join us as we discuss techniques to both plays and game master focus at the table.
Areas of Discussion: being an active player, note taking, including all player characters in on the action, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Evil Within 2 (and Noah’s Twitch stream), and a few other things we got distracted and forgot to mention.
While it is ideal that everyone gathering around the table knows how to play the game, many times it is up to the GM to not only run the game but educate players while they do so. In this episode Noah, Adam, and Chris explore best practices of how to show players an RPG system.
Areas of discussion: new players, new system, character sheets from hell, free rpg day, Origins, and Car Hitler