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
Bonus. Makeshift Napoleonic Miniatures [March 21, 2020]
Tom covers a number of topics in this somewhat rambling account of his current thinking.
00:11:25 |
Sun 22 Mar 2020
Bonus. Cluster [March 15, 2020]
The attic brings some insights into Tom's prior behavior.
00:08:59 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
36. Forthright in Opinions [March 6, 2020]
Barney Dicker is back and Tom wants some biographical information. It all started with Shreddies. Tom introduces Barney to the word nerdic. What does review mean when it comes to tabletop gaming? The…
00:55:05 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Bonus. Just Plain Dice Rolls [February 24, 2020]
Tom has reclaimed the bed in his podcasting room and discovered a simplification while he was writing the rules in software.
00:07:27 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Bonus. They Should Simulate [February 19, 2020]
Covering a few different topics, Tom concludes with the idea of simulating rules to get good coverage.
00:12:35 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Bonus. On the Mend [February 9, 2020]
Tom has been reading about the final squabbles of the Third Reich and has a story about a dragon ogre or three.
00:08:48 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
Bonus. Golfball Removal [January 30, 2020]
Down but not out. A couple of brief updates.
00:03:53 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
35. Some Good News and Easy d12s [January 19, 2020]
Sometime the war on miniatures has occasional victories, now Tom is painting d12s and rules are a coming.
00:09:57 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
34. Jetlag and Reading [January 8, 2020]
While Tom was travelling he continued to work on two rule systems, one soon ready for prime-time and one for longterm development. He also discusses his reflections on Kickstarter, the progress of th…
00:13:57 |
Thu 09 Jan 2020
33. Coming 2020 [December 14, 2019]
Tom has few thoughts for the end of the year and outlines a pretty hectic production schedule while he is traveling to provide some items to discuss in the new year.
00:09:22 |
Sat 14 Dec 2019
32. GMs, You Don't Have To Roll the Red Dice! [December 8, 2019]
Mathew Gibson provides an update on the DnD game. Tom offers the idea of nostalgia as being an undiscussed component to DnD. Mathew wants to offer some house rules. Tom mentions formalized addendums …
01:16:20 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Bonus Task-Cast: Painting Greenskins [December 7, 2019]
You are going to have to use your imagination as Tom paints greenskins and talks about the October Skirmish rules, Britannia, the origins of Just Plain Chaos and a WW2 skirmish game coming up in the …
00:27:55 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
31. A Poor Excuse for an End of Year Ramble [December 1, 2019]
Tom reflects on a year and what is coming in the future.
00:23:09 |
Sun 01 Dec 2019
Bonus: Loco Dice [November 26, 2019]
The Loco Ludus podcast provided a very interesting piece of information.
00:05:33 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
30. Slight Change of Direction [November 17, 2019]
Tom would like to change things a little in the new year and he outlines these ideas here.
00:10:17 |
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Bonus: Combat Lead Rot and Disappearing Games Stores [October 27, 2019]
Tom reflects on two topics that have been concerning him of late.
00:13:45 |
Sun 27 Oct 2019
29. Unearth The Odd [October 6, 2019]
Tom welcomes back Barney Dicker to talk about his GMing experience with Into the Odd and Electronic Bastion Land. What does Old School Role-playing mean? Barney outlines his thrice played scenario. T…
01:06:16 |
Sun 06 Oct 2019
28. Making Do [September 29, 2019]
Tom reflects on items owed for the podcast. Two ideas to explore this recording: dedicated space to play games and also reconstructing the DM rules from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons without having t…
00:14:28 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Bonus: Games Stores of London [September 14, 2019]
Tom found the games stores of London a little ho-hum.
00:05:22 |
Sun 15 Sep 2019
Bonus: Fighting Fantasy Fest 3 [September 14, 2019]
Tom spent a little time reflecting on his mis-spent-yoof.
00:09:08 |
Sun 15 Sep 2019
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