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Hosted by Adam Vass & Will Jobst · leisure · EN
Indie tabletop RPG designers Adam Vass and Will Jobst make roleplaying games, chat theory, and be friends online.
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Booking probability
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Signup to Generate a PitchBrain Trust is hosted by Adam Vass & Will Jobst. The show has published 132 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Signal, Noise, and Quantum Mysteries" (7 May 2025, 64 minutes), "Q&A: Epiphanies, Magic Systems, and Scrapping It" (9 April 2025, 50 minutes), and "The Pros of Con" (25 March 2025, 65 minutes).
Brain Trust publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 132 episodes.
Booking probability for Brain Trust is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Brain Trust requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Brain Trust's contact route on record: public web form.
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Adam Vass & Will Jobst hosts Brain Trust, a leisure podcast with 132 episodes published.
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Season 2, Episode 10. On this season finale, Adam and Will talk about Brindlewood Bay and the concept of the quantum mystery. We get into stoner mysteries, the LA of it all, and what to do about ipods. Visit...
Season 2, Episode 9. On this episode, Adam and Will talk about their perfect creative conditions, how long we’ll be making games, magic systems, epiphanies, changes in approaches over time, and more. Visit...
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On this episode, Adam and Will talk about cons: working them, playing games at them, and running games at them, and all the feelings wrapped up therein. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a...
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On this episode, Adam and Will talk about finishing projects, Mortal Kombat, and Adam’s white whale project. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get...
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On this episode, Adam and Will recap and discuss this year’s ZineQuest, and explore a spiritual successor to a game they both love. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal...
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Season 2, Episode 5: Brain Trust Babies On this episode, Will regales Adam with an anecdote about a recent game. Find Adam Vass’s Midnight Marathon here...
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On this episode, we chat about what happens when we send games to print, and the eternal struggle of supporting systems with adventure releases. How do you build a play culture? Check out this link for a list of zine...
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Season 2, Episode 3 Part 3 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we talk about the existential aspects of crowdfunding, and answering questions from the Brain Trust Discord and Bluesky: How do you decide if a project...
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Season 2, Episode 2: Crowdfunding is a Pencil Dive into a Pond. Part 2 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we focus on the mental aspect of crowdfunding, and answer questions from our Discord and Bluesky: How do you...
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Season 2, Episode 1: For Those About to Crowdfund, We Salute You Part 1 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we break down first principles of a crowdfunding campaign. What is it, why do we do it, and how do we stay...
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Season 1, Episode 11: In this episode, we tackle a question from Ethan Yen about creating competitive TTRPGs. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get...
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Season 1, Episode 10: In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically about monster design, art, and “quiet innovation”. Appendix N...
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Season 1, Episode 9: In this episode, we talk about how we communicate what our games even are, and how we can meld minds with people who run games via the page. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few...
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Season 1, Episode 8: We were both… ACTUALLY… at Gen Con. Here’s our report! Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more...
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Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode we join our hosts mere minutes after the end of a successful Kickstarter. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get...
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Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode, we talk everything Plasmodics, a big update on our lives and project, and how we highlight the usness of our games. Find Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future here. Visit...
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Season 1, Episode 5: In this episode, we talk about shock jocks, graphic design, and studying adventures, and in the middle we design the Born to Die TTRPG! Listen to part two of this episode only on Ko-Fi , on 2/6...
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Season 1, Episode 4: In this episode, we chat about IKEA, save points in TTRPGs, and how we research games, and who our “game parents” are. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear...
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Season 1, Episode 3: In this episode, we talk about companions and how we love to use them. Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch...
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Season 1, Episode 2b Bonus: In this episode, we enter the Therapy-G zone to talk about how to run dungeons while playing digitally! Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal...
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