Another Question
Join Sage LaTorra and Adam Blinkinsop as they use a question to guide a discussion about RPGs: what to play and how to play them.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 167 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
Jam
Results of https://itch.io/jam/1hp — and discussion of each (tabletop) game in no particular order.
Operation Hard Case, by Paolo Jose Cruz.
End of the Road, by Jack Shirai.
Hit+Die, by Jason Tocci.
The …
Dice
Thanks for the mini rant about d20, @madadric, reminded me to get this one out there.
HP
On hit points in D&D — where they came from, where they’re going, and how we feel about them.
Management
Domain management games, and the continuation of our remote recording experiment.
Comfort
A very special holiday question.
- So much D&D.
- Call of Cthulhu d20.
- Mouse Guard x Horatio Hornblower.
- Burning Wheel.
- Dungeon World.
Legacy
In this episode:
- Risk Legacy
- We Didn't Playtest This At All: Legacy
- Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
- Seafall
- Charterstone
- First Martians
- Fable System
- Legacy of the Slayer
- Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
- Torchbearer
Time
In this episode:
- Torchbearer + Keep on the Borderlands (recorded session)
- Gauntlet
- D&D 3e, 5e
- Apocalypse World + 2e
- Dungeon World
- Blades in the Dark
- Microscope: Explorer
- Charterstone
- Future Sage: What was tha…
Kriegsspiel
In this episode:
- The Prussian kriegsspiel systems of the 1800s.
- Holland ’44: Operation Market-Garden digression.
- The way of GM-ing.
- My Life with Master.
- Caves of Chaos on Twitter.
- Le Vol de l’Aigle.
- Pub Bat…
Advancement
In this episode:
- Freebooting Venus
- Dungeon World
- DCC
- Burning Wheel
- Torchbearer
- Mouse Guard
- Tenra Bansho Zero (I’ll stop, I promise.)
Balance
A small rant for #rpgtheoryJuly about game balance: (1/6)
— Vincent Baker (@lumpleygames) July 25, 2017
Spotlight
#rpgtheoryJuly A vital shift in how I understood RPG design came when I stopped worrying about spotlight & started thinking about audience.
— Grumpy Old Ep (@Epidiah) July 4, 2017
Indie
Indie Game Reading Club‘s snarky #INDIEGAMEaDAY2016 question list below the fold.
- When were you last deprotagonized? What happened and how did you reassert
- your agency?
- What game created your most elabo…
Back
TODO: Write up Black Stars Rise: Lemonade Edition.
Also, Prince Valiant should still be backable when this comes out.
Adam’s #Threeforged games, in case you want to tear them apart:
Future
End of season one!
Straits of Anián is the blog Sage was referencing. Other games in the “Tags” list.