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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room 17: Our worst game sessions ever

Playing RPGs is a source of joy and entertainment for those who play them, but sometimes, just sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. Sometimes there’s someone who ruins your game. And it can be you ruining it and not even realise. In this episode, Jim Pinto and I talk about some of the bad…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: Ad-absentia Players and Their Characters

Sometimes players have to leave the game and be ad-absentia for a few weeks at the time and sometimes they leave their characters behind so they can come back and retake the session. That happens more often than not in long term campaigns. What should happen to those characters? In this episode Vickey Beaver, Jim…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: The Thunder Plains Controversy

Apologies for the problem at the start of the podcast. Using new software and still getting used to it, didn’t hear the problem until it was too late. Recently a massive outrage exploded onto the Internet on the back, of Bruce Cordel’s game The Strange and a recursion within the game, the Thunder Plains, that…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: How to keep your games smooth

Running a game is not an exact science. Not even sure it is a science but sometimes it feels like it because you have to experiment a lot to get the desired results. And then you have to try again in a different group to get results and you might not get the results you…
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Podcast Episode The RPG Room: Ethics in Gaming Journalism

There is a lot to be said for ethics in games journalism. The fact is that it’s a very grey area because most of the journalism that goes on is done by amateurs for the love of it. Whether it is for boardgames or roleplaying games, there are just a handful of professional websites that…
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