Polymorph, February 2025: Reskinning in RPGs
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 830 This week's Party: Shane and Dave Editor – Shane This week, The Party discuss if a Bear can be a Dragon, or a Paladin can be a Jedi, through the power of pretending your pretend game mechanics can be reinterpreted to pretendier game mechanics. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ https://www.speakpipe.com/theadventuringparty ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [...
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Engineering, Jan 2025: Mecha Resurgence!
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 829 This week's Party: Scarr, Dave, and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, power your armor and ready your mile-long laser sword, as The Party recount some recent experiences with tabletop mech games. Covered in this episode: Lancer: https://massifpress.com/shop BattleTech: https://www.battletech.com/ Aeon Trespass: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdomsforlorn/aeon-trespass-odyssey-second-printing ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in...
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Campaign, Jan 2025: The Enemy With Part 5 - The Empire In Ruins
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 828 This week's Party: Liam and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, The Party at long last finishes their review of one of gamings great RPG campaigns ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook here, leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends! [ ] Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment!...
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DEX, Jan 2025: Character Flexibility in RPGs
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This week's Party: Scarr, Dave, Liam and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, in memoriam for a party member who went out for smokes, The Party discuss whether your character maybe could stand to lose a few of their spells and cyberware. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook here, leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends!...
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TAP 826 - General List Seven-ish
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Episode 826 This week's hosts - Scarr, Dave & HidaOWinEditor - SavageMick Oh No! We knocked our bowl of Topics all over our keyboard of Reader's Questions! Only the profound soakage of Party Musings will clean this all up. (I have no idea where this is going...) Enjoy the holidays from all of us here at the Adventuring Party. We will be going on a break over Christmas and the New Year and we will see you again in 2025. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook...
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Stealth, December 2024 - Origin of the Rogue
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This week's Party: Scarr, Savage and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, the quest continues, as The Party focus on another RPG archetype, the Sneaky Fella, and how it came to be. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook here, leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends! [ ] Come ear-watch us on Youtube. Leave a comment! [ ] We are on Spotify?...
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TAP 824 - Fantasy Supes
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Episode 824 This week's hosts - Dave, HidaOWin, ScarrEditor - SavageMick Power of flight? Check Speed of the wind? Check Strength of a giant? Check At what point do you stop playing a dungeon-crawler and start forming the Knights of Justice? When do you go from fantasy hero to superhero, and is that even a bad thing? Let's find out! ----------------------------------------------------------------- We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook here, leave a Thumbs Up and we can be internet friends! [ ] Come ear-watch us on...
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HP, December 2024: Origins of the Fighter
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 823 This week's Party: Scarr, Dave and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, The Party continue what has apparently become our next big series – This time we look at the Fighter archetype in RPGs, where it came from, and where it might be going. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here! [ ] Find us on Facebook here, leave a Thumbs Up and we can be...
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TAP 822 - Using Campaign Prep
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Episode 820 This week's hosts - Dave, HidaOWin, ScarrEditor - SavageMick "As many of you know, I have a background as a chemistry teacher. I've come to realize that much of what I teach my students applies not only to what goes on in the classroom, but in life also. It's not as crazy as it sounds. You see, technically, chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change: Electrons change their energy levels. Molecules change their bonds. Elements combine and change into compounds. But that's all of life, right? It's the constant, it's the cycle. It's solution,...
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Rank, November 2024: General List Ten
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 821 This week's Party: Dave and Eoin Editor – Shane This week, The Party gain go over several topics on our needlessly big list: 01:09 - Where Should The Starter Adventure Be? 12:31 - Lore and Canon redux (“But what about my great idea??”) 24:07 - Site Based adventures vs Plot Based adventures ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your message in future shows so get ready to be super famous! [ ] We have a Discord Server and it rocks! Get in here!...
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Dave and Hida dig through the ideas pile and pick some topics from the towering lists compiled by the Warlord. Savage watches from the editing booth and wonders if our insurance covers toppling topics?
It's time to visit the General Lists...
Does It Have To Have Wizards? - Why is there a reluctance to have games with no sci-fi or fantasy elements? Are we so eager to avoid the real world we need to sprinkle in elves and laser guns? Can 'Soap Opera Logic' or similar narrative devices sub in for supernatural elements? And is real-world drama as gamable as fantastic drama? Conversely, is it ok to have such things in a setting, but forbid them to PCs?
Unified Mechanics and Cognitive Load - Should a game use the same basic mechanics for every action, or is that just limiting what the game can do? Are people who want to roll one dice and get The Happy Number just lazy, stupid, or are they legit overwhelmed?
Random Bastards! - Players who want weird and wonderful outcomes every roll, versus those who would like to be able to plan and achieve goals.
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