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Rowan joins Chase and Thomas for a podcast that almost immediately flies off the rails and deep into tangent territory. Also, Chase gets roundly bullied by his friends and coworkers. The crew discuss Rowan, Rook and...

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Cameron Kunzelman, game critic and scholar, returns to our podcast feed with a conversation with Thomas about lifepaths, his new book Path Apparatus , and his love-hate relationship with Pendragon. This interview is...

Thomas and Chase wade into a forum controversy over Deathrbringer that's about something other than the purile art and misguided promises of lethality. They also discuss delays to the Wolfenstein RPG adaptation and the...

Heads up: We explain some large structural spoilers for SPINE during this interview but stay away from particular details. While Thomas plans the next seasons of the Reading Club, Chase invites designer Asa Donald for a...

Chase is joined by designer and blogger Clayton Notestine of Explorer's Design to discuss the ENNIEs, both as a former judge and as a current nominee! Awards are a strange beast for tabletop RPGs, mattering very little...

Book club episode! Sean Foer , professional GM and maker of videos , joined me to go through people's responses about my discussions questions on Stonetop. Show Notes: Games mentioned: Secret of the Night Market, Perils...

Union wins and hall of fame inductions headline a much more positive week for tabletop games. Chase and Thomas convene to discuss the major headlines, including some awards news out of Origins and United Wizards of the...

<p>Union wins and hall of fame inductions headline a much more positive week for tabletop games. Chase and Thomas convene to discuss the major headlines, including some awards news out of Origins and United Wizards of...

Book club episode! We discuss Stonetop by Jeremy Strandberg. Read more here. As always, you can participate in the talkback episode by sending in a response. You can record yourself speaking, you can post in the discord...

<p>Book club episode! We discuss Stonetop by Jeremy Strandberg. Read more here.</p> <p>As always, you can participate in the talkback episode by sending in a response. You can record yourself speaking, you can post in...

<p>UPDATE: Thomas spoke with Paizo CEO Jim Butler after we recorded this.</p> <p>Industry news looms heavy over the discussion between Chase, Thomas, and Caelyn, but they find plenty of time for regularly scheduled...

<p>Book club episode! Andrew Gillis, designer of Girl by Moonlight, joined me to go through people's responses about my discussions questions on Burning Wheel.</p> <p>Show Notes:</p> <p>Games mentioned: D&D, Pathfinder...

<p>Chase is joined on this episode (which is #37 despite what he says) by Jenna Stoeber and Tomas Franzese to discuss two overlapping issues between the tabletop and video game industries. First, the crew dive into...

<p>Book club episode! We discuss Burning Wheel, the influential fantasy RPG from Luke Crane. Read more here.</p> <p>As always, you can participate in the talkback episode by sending in a response. You can record...