Roleplay Rescue

Welcome to the Summer Conversations, a short series of podcasts in which I welcome a guest who brings their own topic of interest and we have a chat. The recordings are done in under one hour, barely edited, and...

It is finished. This is the episode where we hear from a couple of recent callers and then I tell you that this is the last show. If you’ve been here since the beginning, thank you. You’ve heard me say I’m done quite a...

Exploring the daunting transition from forever-GM to player. Preparing to join Pat's open-world Star Trek campaign, Imminent Destinies , Che discusses how to apply Jamison's Otherworld-immersion and Justin Alexander's...

Why do we spend hours prepping and playing our games, only to walk away feeling like we've just consumed another piece of disposable entertainment? What if the modern tabletop obsession with "managing the fiction" is...

Why do some campaigns feel like they have a heartbeat, lasting for years, while others fizzle out before the second session? Is it the system? The players? Or is it something deeper we haven't named yet?  We talk...

This season, I’ve introduced the shift from viewing my mental differences as pathology toward building an Architecture for Play that works with my mind—introducing the Sentinel, the Scout, and the Sojourner as the three...

In Episode 2, I outlined how the Sentinel acts as the pre-play architect who establishes the creative constraints of the Otherworld. Defining the Where, When, and How, we create a stable foundation of consistency that...

In episode one, I introduced the way in which I have learned to manage the specific ways in which my mind operates. As an anxious person with a fast-moving and deeply curious mind, I have found it necessary to lean into...

For a long time, I thought the friction in my hobby was a personal failure. I used to record my GM's Journal while running, wind hitting the mic, breathless and fumbling, calling myself the "world's flakiest GM." I saw...

This one's responding to a question about what you tell the players about the Otherworld before they use a Bio Sheet to create a character concept. Answer: give them an Otherworld Skeleton. Based on Jamison's...

In this episode I lay out where  Roleplay Rescue  stands after the whirlwind of twenty episodes in Season 16. I dive into my “dark sorcery” experiments with AI—how tools like Lumo, Gemini and Notebook LM have...

This one arose from the Karameikos recap last week and explores the way in which in-character as-character roleplay drives the emergent story in the Otherworld. Included is a reflection on what roleplay is, the...

This one's a bit of an indulgence... responding to Alex's recent call-in asking to hear the story so far in Karameikos, I've cobbled together some words and shared the tale. It's impossible to do justice to the...

What's the power of pretend and the power of the imaginary? Of inhabiting a different Otherworld, of inhabiting a different person within an emergent tale? What is it about that which is so compelling? Thanks to Pat and...

What do you do when it's game night and you're sleep-deprived or sick? You've got six players waiting and you don't want to let everyone down. What do you do? Big thanks to UberGrog for the call-in! Pat's "Processing...