S01E06: Pockets of Lore, Worlds of Rules
Arguing with Munkie
On today's thrilling episode of Arguing with Munkie: Munkie gets the dudes talking about running games in established settings vs. home-brewed or knockoff settings. A lot of questions about how to respect histroy--real or fantastical--abound. Join Munkie, Lin, Toastmortem, and new guest Christopher on a wild rollicking conversation train through many real and fictional countries. As expected, KKairos is late. 0:00 - cold open 0:27 - intro 2:12 - lin's case AGAINST established settings 3:40 - toasty's DEFENSE of established settings 7:48 - established settings can help with table disagreements...
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S01E05: Cool Guys Don't Need Armor
Arguing with Munkie
Munkie, Toastmortem, and KKairos discourse far afield about many, many things, including brutal roleplaying experiences, space RPG lore, and why cool guys don't need armor. Link to Tourist: https://toastmortem.itch.io/tourist-rpg Link to La Vie Moderne de Captain Jean Luc Picard (Pathfinder rant): https://snorb.itch.io/la-vie-moderne-de-captain-jean-luc-picard . Warning: the game has some profanity and innuendo. Warning for itch.io generally: itch.io is not, as a rule, safe to browse for work any more than Steam. 0:00 intro 2:45 kkairos pitches 3 stupid ideas 11:52 has toasty considered AGILE...
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S01E04: Disney Can Has Familial Piety?
Arguing with Munkie
THREE GROWN MEN (Munkie, Lin, and the Inimitable Toastmortem) DISCUSS DISNEY MOVIES, THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR TABLE-TOP RPGS, AND SOME INTERESTING THEOLOGICAL CONNECTIONS. MORE ON THIS AFTER THE [STATIC] 0:00 toasty gets DOXXED but will we actually tell you where he lives? TUNE IN 1:54 moana discourse begins with a PLOT SUMMARY from lin 5:00 munkie has a paradigm shift. also, find out when you should disobey your parents! 7:13 lin discusses moana's communal sense of personal identity 9:30 the community discusses the idea of ancestral path character creation 13:43 lin recommends writing a book of...
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S01E03: Munkie Pitches a 1-Page RPG with the Power of Friendship
Arguing with Munkie
Gracious host Munkie pitches ideas for a 1-page RPG that may or may not fit on a page. Toasty knows at once everything and nothing (both the things a man should know) about Star Trek. KKairos won't shut up about roguelikes. And alas, Toasty doesn't really discuss Warhammer. HERESY. (Did I do that right?) Apologies if my overview is less funny than it was originally I somehow lost the working page with the more edited ones Brief overview of contents: 00:00 two cold opens for the price of none 01:38 licensed games, including several cool things about them 19:24 munkie pitches a 1-page rpg:...
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S01E02: Our Preciouseses
Arguing with Munkie
Lin, Munkie, and Toastmortem hold a bitter, no-holds-barred, knock-down-drag-out verbal fight over the things we each love in this hobby of ours, and speculate about how the game design industry works (and might work better.) Promised Links Toasty's Tourist TTRPG: https://toastmortem.itch.io/tourist-rpg
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S01E01: Session Zero
Arguing with Munkie
Munkie tries to argue with Toastmortem about Warhammer, the OSR, PbtA, and elegance in game design. Toasty frustrates his attempts by making too much sense.
info_outlineOn today's thrilling episode of Arguing with Munkie: Munkie gets the dudes talking about running games in established settings vs. home-brewed or knockoff settings. A lot of questions about how to respect histroy--real or fantastical--abound. Join Munkie, Lin, Toastmortem, and new guest Christopher on a wild rollicking conversation train through many real and fictional countries. As expected, KKairos is late.
0:00 - cold open
0:27 - intro
2:12 - lin's case AGAINST established settings
3:40 - toasty's DEFENSE of established settings
7:48 - established settings can help with table disagreements
10:24 - disagreements bleed like a guy in a tarantino film
15:15 - does it depend on setting?
16:16 - possible solutions: established lore cutoff date
23:00 - possible solutions; lore pockets
27:44 - limits of gm fiat, according to george macdonald
33:23 - who are the good guys in warhammer
37:57 - the culture and "the culture"
43:37 - nerds argue about whether nerds argue about history
45:43 - christopher discusses history as mythology
47:39 - two stories
50:42 - so quiet you could hear a lin drop
50:54 - baggage (under my eyes as i edit this podcast)
51:29 - sometimes u just wanna be a jedi
52:58 - do you prefer original recipe or alternate history
1:01:28 - literature and lore bubbles, or lack thereof
1:03:41 - daggerfall ended weird
1:04:36 - grandfather paradox
1:05:52 - many bothans died to bring us this segment
1:07:01 - toasty's preference
1:09:11 - comfort characters, comfort settings
1:11:28 - kkairos trusts toasty
1:11:50 - outro
1:14:54 - stinger