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These are interview shows featuring special guests. We’ve had some amazing guests including other podcasters, movie directors and game designers. With the game scene what it is today, most of the Show & Tell episodes feature Kickstarter projects in vario

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    Show And Tell # 153 – 2nd Wave Space Blades

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 52:00


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with RPG designer Sidney Icarus about their temporarily titled 2nd Wave Space Blades, and how to deconstruct and get to the heart of what game mechanics do and how and when to apply them.

    Show And Tell # 152 – Murder Gently

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 26:42


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Raphael Stiliano, Aaron Fischer, Designers of Murder Gently, a zero prep Murder mystery RPG

    Show And Tell # 151 – Sentients

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 26:25


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Ted Hayes to discuss their currently Kickstartering game: Sentients. Sentients is a new, scifi tabletop RPG where you play an android that has suddenly become conscious in a world that is actively hunting you down. Sentients is a game of of liberation, underground resistance, newfound emotion, and what it means to be something other than human.

    Show And Tell # 150 – Holdfast Station – corrected audio

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 40:31


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) on the other side of the microphone as HE gets interviewed by returning host Tom Cantwell all about Holdfast Station, Moe's newest game. A zero-prep game about asteroid miners surviving and holding their community together in the grim desolation of space.

    Show And Tell # 149 – Starscape redux

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 33:30


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) revisits a conversation with Kimi Hughes Designer of the Ennie award winning Decuma, and the Powered By the Apocalyps game Starscape, Kickstarting now!

    Show And Tell # 148 – Sam Dunnewald

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 40:59


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Sam Dunnewald about his game Northfield and his Ennie nominated podcast Dice Exploder.

    Show & Tell # 147 – Mythworks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 53:11


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Ray Chow, co-founder and CEO of Mythworks, an award winning RPG and Comics Publisher.

    Show & Tell # 146 – Bump in the Dark

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 35:38


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Jex Thomas about his horror RPG, Bump in the Dark.

    Show & Tell # 145 – The Extraordinarily Horrible Children of Raven’s Hollow

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 36:01


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Jessie Burneko about his new card based RPG, The Extraordinarily Horrible Children of Raven's Hollow

    Show & Tell # 144- Slayers RPG

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 42:11


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs, the designer of Slayers, an RPG with asymmetric characters to play.

    Show & Tell # 143- D20 Cruise recap with Neal and Rich

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 58:44


    This week's show is a Michael Special where he chats with friends Neal Powell and Rich Howard about their recent stint as Pro DMs on the D20 Cruise.

    Show & Tell # 142 – Moe guests on Dice Exploder

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2024 44:25


    This week's show is a cross-over where we are cross posting a recent episode of the Dice Exploder podcast where our very own Moe was a guest

    Show & Tell # 141 – Rascal News

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 42:11


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Linda Codega about the launch of Rascal a new, independent, TTRPG News website.

    Show & Tell # 140 – eXistential eSsential

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 36:06


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Alexander Connor, founder of MoMoDi Games and creator of Existential Essential RPG

    Show & Tell # 139 – Helbine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 29:29


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Maria Moore, co-designer of the Space Adventure, Savage Worlds supplement, Helbine.

    Show & Tell # 138 – Errant Challenger

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 27:36


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Alex Bartee, designer of Errant Challenger, a super tactical TTRPG with PVP!

    Show & Tell # 137 – Beetle Knight

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 31:14


    This week's Show and Tell finds Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sitting down with Jim Hall about about an upcoming TTRPG called Beetle Knight where you play Bugs in a forest dealing with political and medieval style intrigue.

    Show & Tell # 136 – Deimos Academy RPG

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 28:53


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with BananaChan about Deimos Academy RPG. 

    Show & Tell # 135 – SAKE

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 29:31


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav (@Sake_TTRPG) Designer of Sorcerers, Adventurers, Kings & Economics, aka SAKE, a TTRPG.

    Show & Tell # 134 – A Monster’s Tail (corrected audio)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 31:20


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Kyle about A Monster's Tail a PBTA style game about catching creatures.

    Show & Tell # 133 – A Stitch in Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2023 33:09


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Poorna Mazumdar about the RPG A Stitch in Time, a two-player GM-less* TTRPG about using letters to restore places that have been forgotten ('phantom islands' as they're called on Earth) by capturing events, moments that form anchor points across time and space. And by doing so, stitch these forgotten places back to reality as we know it.

    Show & Tell # 132 – Slugblaster

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2023 32:08


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with  Mikey Hamm, designer of Slugblaster, the teenage hoverboard game where you can kickflip the quantum menace.

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    Show & Tell # 131 – Don’t Play This Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2023 36:30


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Charlie Menzies ( @GamesParable ) about Don't Play This Game, a solo found footage horror RPG on Kickstarter now!

    Show & Tell # 130 – Bard RPG

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2023 24:02


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Scriv the Bard on her game Bard RPG, an all ages, all genre roleplaying game inspired by literature and psychology.

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    Show & Tell # 129 – Capers Cyberpunk

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 30:26


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with @NerdBurgerCraig to chat about his new RPG, Capers Cyberpunk which is on Kickstarter now.  Play Super-powered cyberpunks fighting corrupt megacorps in an alternate present day.

    Show & Tell # 128 – Pod People

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 39:14


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Lazlow Tamasfi about his new game Horror RPG, Pod People, where you play alien invaders trying to figure out what it means to be human.

    Show & Tell # 127 – Enclave: A Tableless Roleplaying Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2023 29:28


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Robby Howell about his diceless RPG "Enclave" on Kickstarter now

    Show & Tell # 126 – Stoneburner

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 27:27


    This week, Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ), sits down with Rene-Pier (@RPDeshaies) to chat about his RPG Stoneburner https://farirpgs.com/

    Show & Tell # 125 – Starscape

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 33:30


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Kimi Hughes from HappyJacks to chat about Starscape by Golden Lasso Games 

    Show & Tell # 124 – Tide Breaker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 32:41


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Gavin and Andrea, authors and designers of Witches of Midnight to chat about the upcoming Witches of Midnight Kickstarter.

    Show & Tell # 123 – Eco Mofos

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 41:41


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Daniel Locke to discuss Eco Mofos a ruin-delving Survival game where you are invited to play a Punk seeking a safe homestead to start a new community.  With a vibe of Weirdhope not Grimdark.

    Show & Tell # 122 – Witches of Midnight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 37:03


    This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Gavin and Andrea, authors and designers of Witches of Midnight to chat about the upcoming Witches of Midnight Kickstarter.

    Show & Tell # 121 – Michael Low

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 38:32


    Hello and welcome to episode 121 of Show and Tell. This is the show where we bring on cool guests and talk about cool stuff they're working on. This week new Show and Tell Host Moe Poplar ( @Ashyfeet1 ) sits down with Game Designer Michael Low ( @LuckLegends ) for a free-ranging discussion about game design.

    Show & Tell # 120 – Mini Dungeon Tome II

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 23:40


    Hello and welcome to episode 119 of Show and Tell. This is the show where we bring on cool guests and talk about cool stuff they're working on. This week new Show and Tell host Moe Poplar chats with Bill Buchalter about the currently running AAW Games KS - Mini Dungeon Tome II

    Show & Tell # 119 – Paladin Archives July Marathon

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2023 47:39


    Hello and welcome to episode 119 of Show and Tell. This is the show where we bring on cool guests and talk about cool stuff they're working on. This week Guest Host Larry H (@Mumphry999) sits down with Paladin Reizo of Paladins Archives and Edwin Nagy of Frog God Game to chat about an upcoming world record trying, charity fund raising game marathon and how YOU can be involved. 

    Show & Tell # 118 – Action 12 Cinema

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2023 59:33


    Hello and welcome to episode 118 of Show and Tell. This is the show where we bring on cool guests and talk about cool stuff they're working on. This week's Cool guest is none other than Michael K Ross.

    Show & Tell # 117 – Gervasio Lembo

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 74:29


    Hello and welcome to episode 117 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 116 – CalazCon

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 47:24


    Hello and welcome to episode 116 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 115 – Here We Used To Fly

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 42:25


    Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 114 – Noctis Labyrinth

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 56:07


    Hello and welcome to episode 114 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 113 – Code Warriors

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2022 47:26


    Hello and welcome to episode 113of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 112 – When the Moon Hangs Low

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2022 40:02


    Hello and welcome to episode 112 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 111 – Dragonbane

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2022 38:45


    Hello and welcome to episode 111 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 110 – Beacon

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 52:41


    Hello and welcome to episode 11 of Show and Tell.

    Show & Tell # 109 – Heroes and Hardships

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 52:40


    Hello and welcome to episode 109 of Show and Tell.

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