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Champions Now
Jolt #2 -3 Nathan interviews for the super spokesmodel position at Door Dash but gets an emergency text from his wife and leaves …
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Fading Suns
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Mad Jay talks about Mythras and Glorantha, Twilight: 2000, Horizon Zero Dawn, Cortex and BX D&D with Old School Essentials!
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My guest today is a gamer I admire for his style of DMing and asking players questions. He has the uncanny ability for generating gameable premises. He is the author of the Dictionary of Mu, a favorite sword and sorcery …
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Rich Rogers, co-host of Plus One Forward and designer of Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, an ENnie award-winning street-level supers RPG joins me to talk about his gaming week - it's like a mini-con!!
Rich's Stone Top …
Running:
Whitehack + Dungeons and Dilemmas
Twilight: 2000: Base building and sweet, sweet sandbox magic.
Legacy 2E: Life Among the Ruins. Four families …
The 2021 Mad Jay Picks!
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The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs …
On the table
3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the …
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It's a Bye Week!!!
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My new …
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We've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!!
Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the …
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We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB!
Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and …
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Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible …
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Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio.
Kira and …
Mad Jay covers his gaming from last week.
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This week Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club talks about what he played last week.
Paul started the Indie Game Reading Club on Google+ in …
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Happy Birthday to me! This is the full, part two version of my talk with Andy Kitkowski made possible by my Patreon supporters, my gift to you!
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Whitney Delaglio, game designer but wanted to be a Lawful Evil Dolphin. We chat about Play by post games, Aquatic paladins, and the making of her …
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I catch up with Maxwell before rambling on about the stuff you talk about when you're celebrating your one year anniversary.
Rich Rogers joins me today and we run the bases!!
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Welcome to our run of …
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We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire with the books: No Disintegrations (Bounty …
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We cover NDP game …
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From the starships, Jersey City and Manhattan to the OG rapping Greeks and the Wu-Tang Larp, James and I go long and wide in this episode most …
I catch up with Rich after the holidays and talk about what's ahead for 2020. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, …
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We cover a lot of Symbaroum ground and the origins of Fria Ligan! We get into the new Alien RPG and Mattias talks about what he likes best about …
In this VERY short actual play, Priest returns to Westhold with a strange raven idol.
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Rich Rogers resumes GM duties for his superhero game Hit the Streets: Defend the Block. I play the 'grinking' hero Traceur. Tonight it's Traceur Vs. BetaMax!
The extended version of this episode where we discuss our …
Christoph Sapinsky and I talk about sci-fi sandboxes and Free Spacer, then we squeeze in some Dungeon World! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We …
Sarah Doombringer runs Velvet Glove and I get shanked in the school bathroom! Listen to me nerd out about Hickman's X-Men and what it means to me. …
Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.
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Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.
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Paul Beakley of Indie Game Reading Club fame and I cover Paul's initial reads and thoughts of Invisible Sun RPG. Spendy games and my own largest game …
At GenCon 2019 I got to sit and talk with Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk, Mekton, and Macross! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks …
GenCon 2019 Recap.
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Liz Chaipriditkul and I talk about gaming with friends, the Afterlife RPG Kickstarter and Invisible Sun. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to …
Rich and I nerd out on Star Wars, hacking games and Play-by-post games and Hutt Cartel. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that …
I sit down and talk with the incredibly human, Camdon Wright about his 50 state gaming tour and his successful Kickstarter _One Child's Heart_ and …
Jeremiah and I recap our games at Origins 2019 and Games on Demand. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and …
Talking Scotch, Military Service and Cthulhu with Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that …
Mad Jay muses about the Year Zero Engine OGL, Planet 9 and West Marches gaming.
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Episode 03: Sarah Doombringer talks with me about horror, the 70s, babies and her dream table! Think NPR’s Story Corp for gamers. I’ll talk to gamers, facilitators and creators. I’m a fan of all the things that bring us …
We spout game-wise with Paul Beakley of Indie Game Reading Club about game convention schedules, Paid DMing, LARPs, and game campaign length. Think …
Diceology Bonus episode of 2Eleven. 1 GM. 1Player. 1 Hour. We go to Eleven. Rich returns to his character of Samir in our series two run of Coriolis. …
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