Explore every episode of the podcast Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts
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| Heiresses Who Are Not What They Seem | 01 Nov 2024 | 01:10:56 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to steal material for RPGs, and work out an example. | |||
| The Difference Between Malice and Inadequacy | 30 Sep 2024 | 01:07:11 | |
This month, Mike and Roger consider the limitations of improvised campaigns and how to deal with rules lawyers. | |||
| Press Twice For Amputation | 31 Aug 2024 | 01:16:53 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute. | |||
| We Are All Gamers Old In Wickedness | 31 Jul 2024 | 01:12:19 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back on our experience with Blades in the Dark. Warning, Roger gets a bit ranty. | |||
| Picaresque With Tentacles | 30 Apr 2024 | 01:08:18 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with Enemy in Shadows, the first part of the classic Warhammer campaign, and look at the second edition of Reign. | |||
| The City is Like a Woman, and She Wants Her Alimony- | 31 Mar 2024 | 01:12:39 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new Blades in the Dark campaign. | |||
| Slug Stores | 01 Mar 2024 | 01:31:22 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems. | |||
| My Sex Life is Cosmically Important | 01 Feb 2024 | 01:08:15 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters. | |||
| James Wallis Burned My Boat | 01 Jan 2024 | 01:01:31 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs. | |||
| A Mad Career Towards Some Dreadful Ending | 01 Dec 2023 | 01:01:16 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign. | |||
| Quite Gnostic In Places | 01 Nov 2023 | 01:15:19 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it. | |||
| Character Description Language | 30 Sep 2023 | 00:55:19 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters. | |||
| As Long As They're Not Nibbling On Your Leg | 31 Aug 2023 | 01:23:22 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once. | |||
| Weakly Godlike | 31 Jul 2023 | 01:14:56 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?). | |||
| Something John Dee Whipped Up | 30 Jun 2023 | 01:14:02 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be). | |||
| The Friends You Leave In Shallow Graves | 31 May 2023 | 01:08:56 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism. | |||
| A Strong Antinomian Tendency | 30 Apr 2023 | 01:02:13 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Rogerâs masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two. | |||
| Unresolved Rage About Billy Bunter | 31 Mar 2023 | 01:14:22 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories. | |||
| Determinedly Cheerful Or Just Obtuse | 01 Mar 2023 | 01:25:28 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group. | |||
| Pretentious? Moi? | 01 Feb 2023 | 01:12:03 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life. | |||
| Idioculture | 01 Jan 2023 | 01:09:57 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost-historical setting. | |||
| You Could See Coronation Street From There | 01 Dec 2022 | 01:34:48 | |
Download It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other. | |||
| Too Busy Starving to Have a Civil War | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:59:21 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard. | |||
| Investing in a Plausible Scotsman | 30 Sep 2022 | 01:21:08 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency. | |||
| Extensive Rules On Clothing | 31 Aug 2022 | 01:09:56 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger make our usual annual visit to RPG a Day. | |||
| Mapping the Kitchens of Camelot | 31 Jul 2022 | 01:04:46 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss settings that didn't start as RPGs, and how to make your home base more interesting. | |||
| National Amnesia | 30 Jun 2022 | 01:48:47 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate another gameable age: the Stuart Restoration. | |||
| High Wycombe: Conspiracy, Sin and Iniquity | 31 May 2022 | 01:05:41 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss the English Civil War and how it can be useful to role-playing. | |||
| Out on the Sharp and Bitey End | 30 Apr 2022 | 01:05:24 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate madness in gaming, and attempt to don a veil of ignorance. | |||
| Straitjackets and Scaffolds | 31 Mar 2022 | 01:00:22 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike consider the history and utility of character classes⦠and do not reveal their True Names. | |||
| Playing With Ducks | 01 Mar 2022 | 01:38:26 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the history and current edition of RuneQuest, then talk with Dean Engelhardt about the new Cthulhu Eternal SRDs. | |||
| I'm A Perfectionist and I Don't Have the Rent to Pay | 01 Feb 2022 | 01:12:10 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike review Mongoose's Traveller. (We had a lot of lag, which I've tried to fix.) | |||
| Eccentrics and Lunatics and Fanatics | 01 Jan 2022 | 01:05:08 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger wonder whether they're indulging in NPCs too much, while considering what the late Stephen Sondheim can tell us about game design. | |||
| Being Wealthy and a Bastard | 01 Dec 2021 | 01:31:24 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike look for inspiration for a new campaign, and look into a very old-fashioned one. | |||
| Down These Mean Streets With A Mint Julep | 01 Nov 2021 | 01:25:09 | |
Download This month, Mike gets Roger to talk about his Second World War campaign, recently ended after fourteen years of play. | |||
| Requiescat in High-Energy Particles | 30 Sep 2021 | 01:12:22 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike look back at En Garde! and consider fate (as distinct from FATE) and destiny. | |||
| Except For The Actual Dying Bit | 31 Aug 2021 | 01:38:08 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger consider adventures written by other people, and do RPG-a-Day faster than ever before. | |||
| Only One Serious Case Of Assault | 31 Jul 2021 | 00:58:35 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike attempt to work out what GM skills are. | |||
| Tattered Stockings and Last Year's Surcoat | 30 Jun 2021 | 01:31:54 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Realm Management and other game modes which move away from the individual PC, and consider how to write a TV show bible. | |||
| The Fantasy Gratification Thing | 31 May 2021 | 01:18:29 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike (with guest vocals by Bruce) consider the British style of role-playing (if any), and a year and more of remote gaming. | |||
| Fundamental GURPSiness | 30 Apr 2021 | 01:16:23 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger have played James Bond 007 (thanks to friend of the show Brett Evill) and consider how to de-crunch a crunchy game. | |||
| People's Bad Dreams, Gamified | 31 Mar 2021 | 01:19:32 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike celebrate episode 100. | |||
| A Favour You Can Pick Up And Load | 01 Mar 2021 | 01:11:06 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger regret a failed campaign, do each other favours, and contemplate the role of the trap in a modern game. | |||
| Not Even an Italian Ninja | 01 Feb 2021 | 01:18:45 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike delve into taxonomy, looking at types of thieves and what players want from a game. | |||
| You Can't Have Enough Thugs | 01 Jan 2021 | 01:17:15 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at Modern Age, The Expanse, and Blades in the Dark; and split the party. | |||
| Agonised about AGON | 01 Dec 2020 | 01:15:40 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike talk about what they're up to and how on-line conventions are working for them, discuss GM nerves, and talk about how they choose a setting . | |||
| She Had Her Teeth in Boris Johnson | 01 Nov 2020 | 01:46:33 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the Dracula Dossier, do RPG-a-Day only a few months late, and generate another Ars Magica character. | |||
| A Large Tick in my Book of Vengeance | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:57:38 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike generate a character for Ars Magica, and worry about not fitting into the campaign. | |||
| Being Disgusting From the Beginning | 31 Aug 2020 | 00:57:52 | |
Download This month, Mike and Roger poke further into Ars Magica, wonder what you should simulate, and try to make school stories enjoyable. | |||
| They'll Lie To Me - They're British | 31 Jul 2020 | 01:10:45 | |
Download This month, Roger and Mike look at the Yellow King Roleplaying Game, worry about being the only one who has a problem with this, and consider an Ars Magica play-by-forum game. | |||