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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Fenris Games and how to survive as a modeller: The G*M*S Magazine Podcast

Fenris Games has been at the forefront of miniatures creation for a very long time. They know the business and what it takes to survive. Having a modelling company and producing miniatures is a lot more glamorous from the consumer side than the side of the business and staying abreast of the market is a…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: Are Casual Gamers bad?

Casual gamers are, in my opinion, the bread and butter of any hobby. The vast majority of any hobby’s follower is a casual person who enjoys whatever it is on an ad-hoc basis. And of course the presence of casual gamers has an impact on the gaming experience. If anything because the level of commitment…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room: Orphan Characters

RPGs are home to too many orphan characters. Characters with no past, no grounding or no substance. Often we see people who create characters and have no background whatsoever, or want to have the “mysterious” character with no past. A character that will take as close to zero as possible effort to play because they…
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Podcast episode The RPG Room: X-Card and its detractors

I recently discovered the X-Card thanks to Jim. I had no idea it existed and it was a truly fantastic revelation that will grace my table from now on. For those of you who don’t know, the X-Card is an invention by John Stavropoulos that aims to stop discomfort at the table. As part of…
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Podcast Episode – The RPG Room with Jennell Jaquays

Having Jennell Jaquays on the show was long overdue. With so much talking about OSR and what games were like all time ago, Jim and I thought it was about time we had someone who knows *a lot* about the old days and the starts of many things. Jennell has been writing games since the…
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