Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_158.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about getting NPCs more involved in play, and how to work with PC backstories.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_157.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at the detectability of metagame traits, and revisit random encounters.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_156.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about demonstration games and Roger rants about dice pools.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_155.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at using current events in games, and think about what player skills we find most useful as GMs.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_154.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about current hotness Brindlewood Bay, and games for children.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_153.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider ad-hoc backgrounds, and the best way to get started as a new GM.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_152.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about what makes a system dead, and whether we should care.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_151.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>Michael apologises for leaving the episode to languish in his inbox past the deadline. It may be related to the bad attack of Renovation his landlords put him through.</p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_150.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about apotheosis.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_149.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about the innocents in the city, and how to start a fight.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_148.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about introducing players to new systems, and how much you stat up your villains.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_147.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about the gaming possibilities of police stories.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_146.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about magic and allied systems.</p> <p>(Apologies for quality, we had to use a backup recording for Mike.)</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_145.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at two of Mike's campaigns that have ended recently.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_144.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about game adaptations that have failed, or indeed that never got a chance to fail.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_143.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at Roger's latest enthusiasm, Mongoose's revision of the <em>Bayern</em> campaign for 2300 AD.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_142.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger talk about one-off and convention games.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_141.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider how to steal material for RPGs, and work out an example.</p>

<p><a href="https://tekeli.li/podcast/irtd_140.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider the limitations of improvised campaigns and how to deal with rules lawyers.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_139.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger once again attempt RPG-a-Day as RPG-a-Minute.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_138.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look back on our experience with <em>Blades in the Dark</em>. Warning, Roger gets a bit ranty.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_137.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with <em>Enemy in Shadows</em>, the first part of the classic <em>Warhammer</em> campaign, and look at the second edition of <em>Reign</em>.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_136.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new <em>Blades in the Dark</em> campaign.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_135.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_134.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_133.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_132.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_131.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose <em>Traveller</em> and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_130.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_129.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_128.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_127.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_126.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_125.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Roger’s masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_124.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_123.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_122.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_121.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an <em>almost</em>-historical setting.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_120.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_119.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_118.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_117.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger make our usual annual visit to <a href="https://www.autocratik.com/search/label/%23RPGaDAY2022">RPG a Day</a>.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_116.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike discuss settings that didn't start as RPGs, and how to make your home base more interesting.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_115.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger contemplate another gameable age: the Stuart Restoration.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_114.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike discuss the English Civil War and how it can be useful to role-playing.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_113.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger contemplate madness in gaming, and attempt to don a veil of ignorance.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_112.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider the history and utility of character classes… and do not reveal their True Names.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_111.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at the history and current edition of RuneQuest, then talk with Dean Engelhardt about the new <em>Cthulhu Eternal</em> SRDs.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_110.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike review Mongoose's <em>Traveller</em>. (We had a lot of lag, which I've tried to fix.)</p>