My Rules Are Better
A podcast about creating your own role-playing game and wargame rules hosted by Tom Barbalet.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 133
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
47. The Cat Came Back [November 21, 2020]
A returning cat produces a new recording. Tom has some critical feedback from a game with Barney Dicker. Disillusion is the current emotion associated with the lead pile returns. Tom has an announcem…
00:18:31 |
Sat 21 Nov 2020
46. Middle Earth Looks Like a Sand Castle [October 28, 2020]
Tom welcomes back on Barney Dicker to talk about the Just Plain Chaos RPG played online. What is the gestalt of gaming? Operation Sea Lion is discussed and a few other random bits and pieces.
01:11:00 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Bonus: A Little Gap Filling [October 25, 2020]
Tom is about to release a recording with Barney Dicker. Before it hits the feed, there are a couple of things that need updates.
00:08:13 |
Sun 25 Oct 2020
45. The Great Escape [September 26, 2020]
Tom reflects on six months since the Pletinckx medals - what has been learnt? Would Tom become a medal collector? Probably not. He's in it for the documents. From a Monty's Reviews, Tom talks about w…
00:21:05 |
Sat 26 Sep 2020
44. Fork in the Road [September 19, 2020]
Tom has some freedom but freedom isn't free. The lead pile appears to have the fiction of manageability. The JPC game is about to split into multiple different groups but sadly without Barney Dicker …
00:10:27 |
Sun 20 Sep 2020
Bonus. Many Updates [August 30, 2020]
There are a number of updates that are long overdue.
00:13:39 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Bonus. UK White Dwarf 274 (October 2002) [July 26, 2020]
Tom talks about the magazine that got him back into wargming interests. Incredibly costly little thing.
00:11:42 |
Sun 26 Jul 2020
Bonus. Pickled Elves [July 19, 2020]
Tom explores the range of wood elves that arrived last Sunday and more on the online game.
00:11:11 |
Sun 19 Jul 2020
43. Post Game Positivity and Wood Elves [July 11, 2020]
Tom starts the recording following the first online session of Just Plain Chaos. He talks about some of the things learnt through the first game and that there was way more pluses than minuses. Throu…
00:12:53 |
Sun 12 Jul 2020
42. Neither the Means nor the Motives [July 5, 2020]
Tom explores some correspondence from Barney Dicker on future rules purchases. He provides a brief lead-pile update and then he tackles the main topic of the recording, how he is preparing material a…
00:13:18 |
Sun 05 Jul 2020
Bonus. Kicking Off an Online Game [June 28, 2020]
Tom is setting up an online game of Just Plain Chaos to test out the new normal.
00:05:32 |
Sun 28 Jun 2020
Bonus. the Chicken and Egg Problem [June 19, 2020]
Tom answers a question from longtime collaborator, Barney Dicker.
00:09:41 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Bonus. Clean Storage Room [June 14, 2020]
As I was recording this CSB sent a long message in thanks for his lead parcels. More next recording on this. Otherwise a general update.
00:09:07 |
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Bonus. Completely Against Hoarding [May 31, 2020]
Tom briefly talks about how he is trying to expunge any idead of hoarding from his hobby and his podcasting room.
00:07:07 |
Sun 31 May 2020
41. Two Topics, One That Might Surprise You [May 23, 2020]
Tom provides a couple of long overdue updates and ponders what might come next.
00:13:47 |
Sun 24 May 2020
40. The Damn Donkey [May 7, 2020]
Tom talks with Derek Stutsman about the 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons game Tom ran in his office. They talk about various points in the game. Some of the scenarios that they explored through the g…
00:51:29 |
Fri 08 May 2020
Bonus. Ideology Translated to Wargames [April 26, 2020]
Tom explores a couple of ideas in the Napoleonic period while leaving Sharpe alone. He also talks about the lead pile and a new painter on the roster.
00:08:59 |
Sun 26 Apr 2020
39. Lieutenant General Charles-Joseph Pierre Pletinckx (1797-1877) [April 12, 2020]
With less that a day of research, Tom talks about an unusual historical figure whose autobiography (and a unique wedding anniversary gift) is triggering an interest in Napoleonics and the Franco-Prus…
00:08:42 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
38. Bias in Solo Play [March 29, 2020]
Tom introduces some of the ideas to keep in mind when solo playing rules. He notes that these techniques have not been shown in recent YouTube examples of solo play and he talks about a couple of fil…
00:15:13 |
Sun 29 Mar 2020
37. Commission Painting and Solo Play [March 25, 2020]
Tom missed two topics from the last bonus recording. An email from a friend about painting commissions introduces what Tom feels is his responsibility through this period. Also the elephant in the ro…
00:13:14 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
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