Fear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby. Our cast changes a little from show to show, but we always assemble a group of dynamic individuals with divergent views, guaranteeing you will hear several perspectives on everything we discuss.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby.
Fear the Boot is hosted by Dan. The show has published 797 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Bonus Episode 104 - WPC 1: random traits" (19 December 2024, 33 minutes), "Episode 628 - player bucket list" (30 November 2024, 38 minutes), and "Episode 627, GM bucket list" (4 September 2024, 38 minutes).
Fear the Boot publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 797 episodes.
Booking probability for Fear the Boot is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Fear the Boot requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Fear the Boot's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dan hosts Fear the Boot, a leisure podcast with 797 episodes published.
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* (0:24) A joke to an AI becomes a show topic. * (2:48) Characters born in a cursed forest, without sunlight. * (7:48) Characters who compulsively collect…feathers…? * (13:18) Characters who accidentally caused a...
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* (0:29) Switching to a bucket list of what we want to play. * (1:30) Wayne wants to play Dresden Files. * (4:13) Dan still wants to play an Injustice game. * (6:11) Mary wants to play a necromancer. * (9:05) Doug wants...
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* (0:29) The bucket list of games we want to run. * (1:31) Doug's long-term campaign. * (3:10) Wayne's Fallout : St. Louis game. * (7:03) Dan's Battletech: Silver Scorpions game. A Fabian war . * (9:37) Mary's Castle...
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* (0:30) An old Apple //c computer and early computer RPGs. * (4:16) Transitioning from video games into tabletop RPGs. * (9:44) The expectations players bring from a video game to pen-and-paper games. * (12:41) The...
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* (0:29) What is your goal for the first session of a game? * (2:10) Who are these characters really ? * (6:08) When who you wanted to be isn't who you became. * (11:34) A buffet of NPCs. * (16:14) Keeping the first...
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* (0:23) Prompts and prepositions. The clockwork circus is coming to town! * (1:40) Wayne's circus in space. * (4:13) Mary's circus on the frontier. * (7:53) Doug's carnival of nightmares. * (8:41) Dan's carnival of...
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* (0:29) Fear the Con has funded and the sign-up site is live ! We hope to see you Thursday, June 20th to Saturday, June 22nd. * (1:58) Getting back to what you love, inspired by Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing...
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* (0:29) Wayne has a problem: the Wardens from Dresden Files. Coming up with too many excuses for why powerful organizations don't care about the characters' problems. * (7:14) Session Zero can help…or maybe not. *...
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* (0:30) What steps do we take to bring a character to life? * (1:49) Ask what's important. * (6:53) Seeing the good and bad in a single trait. * (8:06) Doug's personality triangle model. * (10:54) Demonstrating...
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Today's ingredient: The dead are consuming the living. Why and how? Let's find out! Fear the Con 2024's Kickstarter can be found here . Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne
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* (0:29) In defense of technology at the gaming table. Caleb's setup with Owlbear Rodeo . * (5:13) Dan's Lion King sing-a-long and Wayne's Ghostbusters game. * (6:27) The deeper pool of online players, including AIs...
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I decided to skip over the Iron GM and go for a Tungsten GM. The ingredient? All broadcasts cease because something won't let them get through. What's the game plot? Also, the Fear the Con 2024 Kickstarter is now live...
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* (0:30) Dan runs a game a bit too literally. * (4:12) The intersection of technology and roleplaying in a way that isn't required by the game. * (7:32) Why multimedia doesn't pay-off the way it does in other forms of...
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* (0:29) Why talk about intelligence? The Why Files episode about Cicada 3301. * (9:24) A game takes an unhelpfully long break, only to be replaced by another RPG. * (12:44) The lack of a bottomless "buffet of ideas" in...
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* (0:22) Picking out the point we became curmudgeons and what exactly that means. * (4:48) Being too set in our ways. * (11:19) The self-destruction that comes with stagnation. * (21:32) Wii have a solution. * (24:32)...
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* (0:29) Reintroducing Julia's husband, Mike. * (2:24) Lowered expectations, inspired by a post-pandemic world. * (7:25) Being a bit more experimental. * (13:18) Playing online instead of returning to the table. *...
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* (0:29) Thanks to Eric Van Note for Swole Mole! * (3:15) The value of terrible GMing. * (8:42) Everyone is their own most inept critic. Sojourn Volume 2 . * (15:28) The worst possible outcome: something being...
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* (0:29) Dan prefers affiliated groups, Wayne does not. * (2:15) Cohesion, identity, and help. * (9:35) Affiliations you start with as opposed to those you pick up along the way. * (11:56) The party's direction and...
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* (0:28) An update on the Actual Play . * (4:48) The InSpectres RPG (at least temporarily back in print!) and our AP interlude using its rules . * (8:09) Why play InSpectres as an interlude to the main campaign...
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* (0:28) Things are getting set for Fear the Con ! An intro to RPGs game is available for newcomers . * (2:03) A shared Minecraft server. You can find more information on Discord . * (5:52) Realigning your game with a...
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