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Results of https://itch.io/jam/1hp — and discussion of each (tabletop) game in no particular order.Operation Hard Case, by Paolo Jose Cruz.End of the Road, by Jack Shirai.Hit+Die, by Jason Tocci.The Forests of Faera, by Aaron Goss.The Minus Touch, by Craig Maloney.Arid Apocalypse, by Keldaran.Disposable Heroes, by Sandy Pug Games.My Identical Cousin, by Misha Handman.A Duet of Steel, by Adrian Thoen.Little Mimic in the Big City, by Chris Hopper.01 Is The Most Dangerous Number, by Ursidice.

Thanks for the mini rant about d20, @madadric, reminded me to get this one out there.

On hit points in D&D — where they came from, where they're going, and how we feel about them.

Episode 31, wherein Adam breaks all the rules and Sage talks about working domain management into games he already likes.

A very special holiday question.So much D&D.Call of Cthulhu d20.Mouse Guard x Horatio Hornblower.Burning Wheel.Dungeon World.

In this episode: Risk Legacy, We Didn't Playtest This At All: Legacy, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Seafall, Charterstone, Fable System.

In this episode: Torchbearer + Keep on the Borderlands (recorded session) Gauntlet D&D 3e, 5e Apocalypse World + 2e Dungeon World Blades in the Dark Microscope: Explorer Charterstone Future Sage: What was that game about toys that come alive each night? Monsterhearts + 2e Inheritance Twilight Struggle, 13 Days, 13 Minutes, Iron Curtain (Katie's review). Adam's convention game starter kit.

We make them.

In this episode: Freebooting Venus Dungeon World DCC Burning Wheel Torchbearer Mouse Guard Tenra Bansho Zero (I’ll stop, I promise.)

In this episode: Best Friends Paranoia 2016 Amber Diceless Roleplaying Burning Wheel Dread Geas of Duke Vulku Dungeon Crawl Classics Traveller Rogue Trader Diaspora Fiasco The Quiet Year Torchbearer The Mountain Witch

In this episode: A tweet from Ben Wright Apocalypse World Train The Valedictorian’s Death Night Witches GNS OSR 8 Kinds of Fun Bartle’s Taxonomy Of Player Types Tenra Bansho Zero Advanced Squad Leader Combat Commander Towerfall Vim vs. Emacs 16 HP Dragon 99% Invisible Daniel Solis Innovation The X-card The Beast Microscope Oh, and “Today’s 10,000:” https://xkcd.com/1053/

Let the Jenga blocks hit the floor.

Whose line is it anyway?

...in the Dark

Now that the season is mostly over...

RPGs 501

Hunting down Wagner.

TODO: Write up Black Stars Rise: Lemonade Edition. Also, Prince Valiant should still be backable when this comes out. Adam’s #Threeforged games, in case you want to tear them apart: Forgeborn (1534) Life as it Was (1572) Bootleggers (1580)

End of season one! Straits of Anián is the blog Sage was referencing. Other games in the “Tags” list.

Don't hate the player. Don't hate the game, either.

"I'm not really an extended universe person." -- Adam

In this episode: Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Sagas of the Icelanders Lamentations of the Flame Princess Apocalypse World Pendragon Dungeon World Burning Wheel Dungeons & Dragons

In this episode: Dungeons and Dragons Burning Wheel Marvel Superheroes Powers for Good Mutants and Masterminds Champions Microscope Dungeon World Apocalypse World Dungeon Crawl Classics Into the Odd Durance The Clay that Woke Dread World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade Inspectres Gurps Moldvay D&D Kagematsu With Great Power Sorcerer Polaris Hot War Shock Mouse Guard World Wide Wrestling Undying We Will Remain

In this episode: D&D (as always), inc. AD&D, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, and Moldvay. Paranoia Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Brothers Karamazov A Few Acres of Snow Mythotopia Advanced Squad Leader Operational Combat System (OCS) Apocalypse World Madden Pathfinder Dungeon World Lamentations of the Flame Princess Dominion Thunderstone Rummy Poker Fast Action Battles: The Bulge Formula Dé Monopoly Parcheesi Magic: The Gathering

In this episode: AD&D Apocalypse World Burning Wheel Call of Cthulhu D&D 4e Dread Dungeon Crawl Classics Dungeon World Fate Heavy Rain Mass Effect Night Witches Paranoia Shadows of Mordor Undying

In this episode: The Twilight Zone (1959, Serling) D&D (1974, Gygax and Arneson) Moldvay D&D (1977, Moldvay) Star Wars (1977, Lucas) Blade Runner (1982, Scott) Neuromancer (1984, Gibson) Shadowrun (1989, Weisman et al) Snow Crash (1992, Stephenson) Diamond Age (1995, Stephenson) Hackers (1995, Softley) Android: Netrunner (1996, Garfield) Harry Potter (1997, Rowling) Deus Ex (2000, Spector) Spycraft (2002, Kapera et al) Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006, Newman) 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars (2008, Hutton) Android (2008, Clark and Wilson) Mouse Guard (2008, Crane) Apocalypse World (2010, Baker) Remember Tomorrow (2010, Hutton) Black Mirror (2011, Brooker) Almost Human (2013, Wyman) Magicians (2013, Simons) Sixth World (2013, Clouser and Yea) Big Hero 6 (2014, Hall and Williams) The Sprawl (2014, Cameron) World Wide Wrestling (2014, Paoletta) Apocalypse World: Cyberpunk (TBD, Blinkinsop)

In this episode: Apocalypse World Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Blades in the Dark Burning Wheel D&D Dungeon Crawl Classics Dungeon World Lamentations of the Flame Princess Monsterhearts Mouse Guard Questlandia Risk Legacy Undying Vampire: The Masquerade

When all role-playing games are generic, none of them are.

In this episode: TWURPS Dune (unknown) En Garde! (Darryl Hany and Frank Chadwick, 1975) Dune: The Board Game (Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, and Peter Olotka, 1979) Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium (Last Unicorn Games, 2000) Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG (CJ Carella, 2002) Burning Wheel (Luke Crane, 2002) Dune: A Dream of Rain (Steve Medeiros, 2004) The Shadow of Yesterday (Clinton R. Nixon, 2004) Burning Empires (Luke Crane, 2006) Apocalypse World (D. Vincent Baker, 2010) Microscope (Ben Robbins, 2011) Dungeon World (Adam Koebel and Sage LaTorra, 2012) Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (Cam Banks and Rob Donoghue, 2012) Rex: Final Days of an Empire (Corey Konieczka, Christian T. Petersen, adaptation of Dune, 2012) Apocalypse World: Dark Ages (D. Vincent Baker, first look 2014) D&D 5e (Wizards of the Coast, 2014) Undying (Paul Riddle, b3.5 released 2014) The Great Pendragon Campaign (Greg Stafford, 5th ed. published 2015) Playing Darkest Dungeon, Talking RPGs (Koebel, 2015)

For an audience, whether live or recorded, streamed or in-person.

In this episode: Dungeons & Dragons (Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, 1974) Pendragon (Greg Stafford, 1985) Gurps (Steve Jackson, 1988) Amber Diceless Role Playing (Erick Wujcik, 1991) Civilization (Sid Meier, 1991) C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet (Chris Adams, Dave Fooden, Barbara Manui, 1999) Burning Wheel (Luke Crane, 2002) Mutants & Masterminds (Stephen Kenson, 2002) Dread (Epidiah Ravachol, 2004) Burning Empires (Luke Crane, 2006) Best Friends (Gregor Hutton, 2007) The Blossoms are Falling (Luke Crane, 2007) Mouse Guard (Luke Crane, David Petersen, 2008) Diaspora (Brad Murray, C.W. Marshall, Tim Dyke, Byron Kerr, 2009) Freemarket (Jared Sorensen, Luke Crane, 2009) Apocalypse World (D. Vincent Baker, 2010) Microscope (Ben Robbins, 2011) Time & Temp (Epidiah Ravachol, 2012) Fate Core (Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jeremy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson, 2013) The Clay that Woke (Paul Czege, 2014)

In which we discuss playing to your audience, delicious and piping hot rules in only three microwave minutes, hack Shakespeare, alternate universe Firefly, and a surprise finish. Games mentioned in this episode: Moldvay D&D (Tom Moldvay, 1981) Once Upon a Time (Richard Lambert, Andrew Rilstone, James Wallis, 1993) The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Michael Cule, Derek Pearcy, James Wallis, 1998) Universalis (Mike Holmes, Ralph Mazza, 2002) Dread (Epidiah Ravachol, Nathaniel Barmore, 2004) Primetime Adventures (Matt Wilson, 2004) Here I Stand (Ed Beach, 2006) Fiasco (Jason Morningstar, 2009) The Play’s the Thing (Mark Diaz Truman, 2012) Virgin Queen (Ed Beach, 2012) Cuba Libre (Volko Ruhnke & Jeff Grossman, 2013) Circle of Hands [PDF] (Ron Edwards, 2014) The Clay that Woke (Paul Czege, 2014) Legion of Honor (Richard Kane, Mike Ruttler, 2014)

In which we wax respectful of translators, reference many versions of D&D, and eventually settle the question of underrated game once and for all. Games mentioned in this episode: En Garde! (Darryl Hany and Frank Chadwick, 1975) The Adventures of Indiana Jones (John Byrne, David “Zeb” Cook, 1984, all copies destroyed.) Gurps 3e (Steve Jackson, 1988) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Frank Chadwick, 1990, out-of-print.) Dungeons and Dragons (Many, many awesome people, editions discussed are from 2000 and on.) Tenra Bansho Zero (Junichi Inoue, 2000) Deadlands d20 (John Goff, Shane Lacy Hensley, John R. Hopler, 2001) Burning Wheel (Luke Crane, 2002) Call of Cthulhu d20 (Monte Cook, John Tynes, 2002, out-of-print.) Sorcerer (Ron Edwards, 2002) Trollbabe (Ron Edwards, 2002) My Life With Master (Paul Czege, 2003) F.A.T.A.L. (Byron Hall, 2004) Mouse Guard (Luke Crane, David Petersen, 2008) Microscope (Ben Robbins, 2011) Dungeon World (Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel, 2012) Apocalypse World: Dark Ages (Vincent Baker, first look 2014)