Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_109.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger wonder whether they're indulging in NPCs too much, while considering what the late Stephen Sondheim can tell us about game design.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_108.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look for inspiration for a new campaign, and look into a very old-fashioned one.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_107.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike gets Roger to talk about his Second World War campaign, recently ended after fourteen years of play.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_106.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look back at <em>En Garde!</em> and consider fate (as distinct from FATE) and destiny.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_105.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider adventures written by other people, and do RPG-a-Day faster than ever before.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_104.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike attempt to work out what GM skills <em>are</em>.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_103.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at Realm Management and other game modes which move away from the individual PC, and consider how to write a TV show bible.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_102.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike (with guest vocals by Bruce) consider the British style of role-playing (if any), and a year and more of remote gaming.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_101.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger have played James Bond 007 (thanks to friend of the show Brett Evill) and consider how to de-crunch a crunchy game.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_100.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike celebrate episode 100.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_099.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger regret a failed campaign, do each other favours, and contemplate the role of the trap in a modern game.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_098.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike delve into taxonomy, looking at types of thieves and what players want from a game.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_097.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at Modern Age, The Expanse, and Blades in the Dark; and split the party.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_096.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike talk about what they're up to and how on-line conventions are working for them, discuss GM nerves, and talk about how they choose a setting .</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_095.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at the Dracula Dossier, do RPG-a-Day only a few months late, and generate another <em>Ars Magica</em> character.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_094.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike generate a character for <em>Ars Magica</em>, and worry about not fitting into the campaign.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_093.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger poke further into <em>Ars Magica</em>, wonder what you should simulate, and try to make school stories enjoyable.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_092.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look at the <em>Yellow King Roleplaying Game</em>, worry about being the only one who has a problem with this, and consider an <em>Ars Magica</em> play-by-forum game.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_091.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider play styles enforced by game mechanics, and review a couple of unusual RPGs.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_090.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look back on <em>Man to Man</em> and consider disease when applied to other people.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_089.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger rebuild the world, and chat with friend of the show Dr Bob about Astronautilus Productions.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_088.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike investigate villainy and isolate themselves.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_087.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger are ill, look at paperless play and finish off our play of <em>The Fathomless Sleep</em></p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_086.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike resolve their challenge, and look to the future (not in the culty way, honest).</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_085.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at the Bluebeard Plot and the Great War.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_084.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike get superstitious, and challenge each other.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_083.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider the phenomenon of the Adventurers' Guild, start a Monster Hunters campaign, and look at what goes wrong with combat.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_082.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider gaming as animals, and the Good Monster.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_081.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger do RPG-a-day, or more accurately RPG-a-3.1-minutes. Apologies for the audio quality; Roger messed up the setup (it won't happen (in that specific way) again), then mostly rescued the recording with Heroic Sound Engineering Skills.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_080.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider some more fantasy gaming tropes: the lawful good but still feudal kingdom, and the vast disparities of power found among people in fantastic societies.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_079.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger get into character, and look at the differences between Fantasyland and mediaeval Europe.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_078.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider what to do once the adventures are rich beyond even their wildest dreams, try to avoid the boring bits of game prep, and experiment with an actual play recording.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_077.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look into conspiracy theories, and pick apart mystery adventures.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_076.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike (with helpful contributions from Anzac the dog) isolate an island, contemplate blindness, and look forward to the end of the world.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_075.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger consider characters cleverer than they are, fail to assume they're sitting round a table, and consider the narrative implications of The Law.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_074.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike feel burned out, consider the fun of being evil, and try to work out how to get better at GMing.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_073.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger search for secret doors, are intimidated by some but not all "large" campaign settings, and consider how to do cultural appropriation with respect.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_072.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike look at random tables, random character generation and particularly social class, and consider what to do when the system lets you down.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_071.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger remember Greg Stafford, bring recent events into their games, and consider the importance of Stuff, specifically the equipment list.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_070.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike run through the GURPS Spaceships series, and consider how and when to construct your own setting.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_069.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger revisit RPG-a-Day, and consider some possibilities for role-playing without violence.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_068.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider demonstration scenarios, revisit the Infinite Worlds, and contemplate how to encourage new players.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_067.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger indulge in crass commercialism, consider players who don't turn up reliably, look at high-powered games and how to keep them interesting, and delve into the pulps and what gaming can learn from them.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_066.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike (plus a supporting cast of birds and trains) fire players, think about themes that make them uncomfortable, and indulge in Ruritanian romance.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_065.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at RuneQuest that isn't RuneQuest, ponder why some campaigns just flow more easily than others, think about GURPS books that were never written, and work on long-term goals.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_064.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider a historical mystery, ponder how little you can get away with telling your players, and wonder whether a rigid lack of metaplot can be as bad as having metaplot in the first place.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_063.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at two games on special offer and one that's just interesting, and examine name lists and stats for NPCs.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_062.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike revisit <em>Fall of Magic</em>, and take a long introductory look at GURPS.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_061.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at what it takes to do <em>Star Trek</em> "right", and explore the language of role-playing and its native narrative forms; and Mike perpetrates a carefully-organised surprise.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_060.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, for our sixtieth episode, Roger and Mike are inspired by music, get decadent, and consider their equipment lists. The inspirational tracks for the first segment are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0D8U5fHbk">Rocketman</a> by the Red Elvises, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCUoNRXUQ8">Lucifer</a> by The Alan Parsons Project.</p>