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Kyle Wolfe On Story Engine21 Apr 202600:33:11

In which Kyle and I discuss:

  • Using your character to motivate other characters.
  • Maintaining attention during play.
  • Playing a character outside your comfort zone.
  • Creating a character in an open system without archetypes.
  • Playing a character with questionable loyalties.
  • Not exceptionalizing the PCs.
  • Character motivations in the face of horrific injustice.
  • Characters relationships to violence that happens around them.
  • Being out of the action at a critical moment.
  • The moral qualities of situational fallout.
  • Looking forward to follow-up scenarios.
  • Pausing play to think through consequences.

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  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Greg Hellings On Fantasy For Real07 Apr 202600:19:52

In which Greg and I discuss:

  • Bringing fresh ideas to player material
  • Setting up other players for character moments
  • Pace of developing a characters motivation
  • Considering other player characters’ motivations when acting.
  • Pushing for the fail moment.
  • Contingency planning or lack there of.
  • Character informing game decisions.
  • The morality of letting an NPC you could save die.
  • Processing the tone of a game.
  • Fantasy For Real as a GM training tool.
  • Having the perfect storm of players and game.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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James Ritter On Blade Runner03 Apr 202500:26:34

In which James and I discuss:

  • The professional and private life of a replicant blade runner.
  • Pushing beyond your limits for the job.
  • The complexity of interrogation scenes.
  • The politics of blade running.
  • Adjudicating beyond basic success.
  • Rules that occasionally disconnect from the fiction.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Sarah Kouklis On Crash Pandas20 Mar 202500:27:27

In which Sarah and I discuss:

  • Developing scenarios from a minimal premise.
  • Creating personality profiles for background characters.
  • Managing colorful characters in a chaotic situation.
  • Resolving uncertainty outside the rules.
  • Building relatable characters in a silly context.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Episode 0: Welcome To The People I Play With27 Feb 202500:02:35

A short introduction to the upcoming podcast: The People I Play With.

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  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Sarah ChristianScher On Broken Tales24 Mar 202600:20:06

In which Sarah and I discuss:

  • Developing a character from game cues.
  • Playing a protagonist that mirrors the antagonist.
  • Self-expression in an open magic system.
  • The morality of child vengeance and recruitment..
  • Developing an ethical framework in a villainous character.
  • Setting inspiration.
  • When player magic intersects with each other.
  • Watching inappropriate media in our youth.

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  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Kodi Gonzaga On Ten Candles10 Mar 202600:29:11

In which Kodi and I discuss:

  • Bringing emotions to the game.
  • Games as safe spaces for bad feelings.
  • Emotionally connecting with your character.
  • RPGs as “therapy” and self-expression.
  • Being emotionally disconnected from overly scripted moments.
  • Resonating with biracial themes in our game.
  • Struggling with awkward resolutions.
  • The difficulty with mixed-successes.
  • The myth of agency through narrative control.
  • Why math shouldn’t pace your games.
  • Thirsty Sword Lesbians, game or meta-game?

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Season 2 Teaser17 Feb 202600:02:34

Season 2 Is Coming March 10th!

Guests Include:

  • Kodi Gonzaga On Ten Candles
  • Sarah ChristianScher On Broken Tales
  • Greg Hellings On Fantasy For Real
  • Kyle Wolfe On Story Engine
  • Jeff Jones On Sorcerer
  • James Ritter On The Hour Between Dog And Wolf
  • Tea On Ex Tenebris
  • Bre Seale On Cthulhu Dark
  • Eva Wierzbicki On Bluebeard’s Bride

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  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Christian Yetter On Bleak Spirit12 Jun 202500:25:25

In which Christian and I discuss:

  • The joy of adding incidental details.
  • Finding the salient detail of scene vs playing toward one.
  • Formulating alternative consequences for conflicts.
  • The power of restricting conversations about in-progress play.
  • Following the creative focus of the group.
  • Discerning meaning within thematic resonance.
  • Processing and teaching rules texts.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Dawn Matheson On Sorcerer29 May 202500:21:41

In which Dawn and I discuss:

  • The value of playing in familiar locations.
  • Playing fantasy selves.
  • Navigating NPC social pressure.
  • Forming meaningful connections between PCs and NPCs.
  • Assuming responsibility for your character’s actions.
  • Playing with family members.
  • Running a game without a plot.
  • Other historical contexts for play.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Adam McConnaughey On Shine A Light15 May 202500:25:23

In which Adam and I discuss:

  • Vibing with other players.
  • Fighting contrarian impulses in play.
  • Aggressively casual creative prompts.
  • The value of time flow interruptions.
  • Backdoor GMing a GMless game.
  • Deliberate vs. informal scene framing.
  • Game structure as religious observance.
  • What does it mean to cope with death?
  • Death as resolution point vs. transformative moment.
  • Less literal implementations of source inspiration.
  • The joys of play variety.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Bre Seale On The Quick01 May 202500:18:18

In which Bre and I discuss:

  • Playing from the hip.
  • Player agency within moments of fictional loss of agency.
  • Seizing a course of action and seeing it through.
  • Finding symbolic resolutions.
  • Seeking justice in supernatural contexts.
  • Honest vs obstructive play.
  • RPGs as safe space for self-expression.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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Shaun Hayworth On Blade Runner17 Apr 202500:28:28

In which Shaun and I discuss:

  • Coping with failure in investigation scenarios.
  • Trust in play.
  • Playing a physically disabled character.
  • Portraying a corrupt character.
  • The politics of the advancement system.
  • Constructing honest investigation scenarios.

Music

  • “The Best Jazz Club In New Orleans” by Paolo Argento

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