The Play Better Podcast

We actually get through a the opening part of tall pines! And spend most of the time commenting on how weird it is to make a game out of copying David Lynch.

We try to play a game. Honestly we really tried, we swear. We chat about Twin Peaks, Scooby Doo, and the rules for Tall Pines by Self Critical Hit Games.

We talk about our recent trip to PAX Unplugged, and then get down with the sickness with Death Wish by Zafty Games!

Our young Samurai uncover a secret sinister plot within the Topaz Championship, and then things go... sideways.

Our Samurai continue their coming of age competition, and try to help a young Mantis Bushi stay alive in the process.

We have a holiday mini-sode here for you to talk about some games we've been playing, and how to best jump into D&D this holiday season.

There's a new edition of the L5R RPG in the world, so it's time for another Topaz Championship!

Join our dashing band of rogues while they attempt to steal a necklace in Dusk City Outlaws by Scratchpad Publishing

Ten Candles! Four Lives! One Dapper 20s Dandy! One Dog!... it's kind of amazing it winds up being as spooky as it does. But it does. P.S.: Ten Candles is great.

Plot Twist! Things are not as they seem, R-Cell was right, and it only gets worse.

Rex continues to be unsettlingly prescient, and the rooms here are made of cartilage, skin, and oatmeal.

R Cell rides again in a new horrifying techno thriller written by the illustrious Cameron McNary!

We uncover the histories of our Ratbaggers, and Jovi is left with more questions than answers.

Jovie is confronted with her tragic past, and the Ratbaggers descend into a creepy pit!

There's a room full of corpses. Gale tries to steal a skeleton, and it doesn't quite work out.

We have one more regular cast before our return to Ratbaggers, and we talk about Age of Sigmar: Champions, Scythe, and competitive player types!

We take a brief break from Ratbaggers to have a regular cast this week! We talk about the final Sentinels of the Multiverse expansion: Oblivaeon, Trash Pandas, and setting expectations for your players.

Our heroes meet with the ghost of Gerald "Duckfoot" Reese, and then find a skeleton that should definitely not have that many pelvises.

Our heroes delve deeper into the house, spin the thrumming basement wheel, and get into a bit of a scruff with the former inhabitants.

The Ratbaggers make their way through Rel Mord to everyone's favorite place, the county clerk's office!

Euadne gets up to some weird ass shit, and Henry the Bullywug is a real asshole.

R Cell closes out OBSERVER EFFECT with proper application of STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

The crew heads back to Euadne's house, and she's super rude the whole time.

The group finds a key card, explores the second floor, and Cameron... licks his dice?

The Ratbaggers get a little waterlogged, and deal with a trap!

The Ratbaggers get to rollin' on a river, and have their first taste of combat!

Ratbaggers: What the Hell do we do now? The Ratbaggers crew gets reoriented after a rocky start. They emerge even rougher around the edges, and ready to Play Better!

R Cell take another shot at preventing Azathoth from eating all of reality, and things... uh... happen.

The Ratbaggers' great adventure begins! Much like our heroes, it's rough around the edges.

Our Origins 2018 debrief! We play a lot of games, had a blast, and also got a fantastic interview with Cat Tobin of Pelgrane Press!

The madness continues in this week's episode of Delta Green. Come for the sanity loss, stay for the interdimensional radiation burns!

We're joined by cast favourite Amanda Farough as R Cell finds themselves on the wrong side of reality!

We talk about video game to board game adaptations, changing tone mid game, and amateur dermatology. 

Nightcrawler Investigations gets put between a rock and a hard place! Also the rock is a demon who is really a rock. Monster of the Week, with special guests James Flanagan and Jen Rabbit Ring!

Back due to popular demand: Nightcrawler Investigations - The King in Roadstone With special guest: Jen Rabbitt Ring !

We continue our One Ring ghost hunt that may or may not involve a Necro-Draco-Barrow-Oliphaunt.

This time around, we're joined by special guest Nerissa Hart for Molly's GMing of The One Ring RPG by Cubicle 7!

We talk about BATTLE FOR ROKUGAN, ALIENT ATRIFACTS, ...and really weird dreams?

If we analyze a game about spies, does that make us Intelligence Analysts? Because that would look super cool on our business cards. Top Secret, Part 2: THE DEBRIEFENING.

This week we play TOP SECRET. If we told you any more, we'd have to kill you.

We take a break from deep thoughts, and play a couple small-format games!   Discussions of Super-Gonorrhea and the sex lives of Space Marines feature prominently.

We set out to play some more KARMA. That is not what winds up happening.

Tactical Machete is a Thing. We're making it a Thing. You heard it here first. Part 2 of KARMA.

Let's Play Better: KARMA, a Roleplaying Game About Consequences, by Frenzy Kitty Games! Featuring the stunning first appearance of... TACTICAL MACHETE!

The inimitable Fred Wan returns to the cast to discuss the new Legend of the Five Rings LCG, acclimating players to complex settings, and more!

“SURPRISE TABLETALK TOPIC in this one, folks! We start off talking about one thing, and then talk about ANOTHER THING INSTEAD!”

CORIOLIS, Part 2: Where creeping scifi horror is met with concussion grenades, stoic pragmatism, and preemptively setting people on fire.

This week we talk about solo gaming, motion sickness, and how to pronounce "erudite". We also have a fantastic interview with Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian games!

“The best-laid plans of Gods and Men gang aft a-gley. Like, SO a-grey, y'all. The Emu of Vaginal Birth is heavily involved.”

This week we play Follow by Ben Robbins! We invent a pantheon of gods. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Phalluses abound!

It's Firefly meets Arabian Nights meets a Bunch of Players Who Will Not Shut Up No Matter What Ryan Says when we try CORIOLIS, by Free League!