Jun 13, 2021
Bill and I spend 45 minutes or so talking about Classic Traveller. The focus of the episode is on how players make sense of clues and other information provided by the GM and how this contributes both to an adventure as well as adding detail to the imaginary world of the characters.
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Apr 22, 2021
Welcome to the next episode! Bill and I have been playing some Classic Traveller on Roll 20 so this episode is an excerpt of play of two from a recent game. We talk about Bill's penchant for mini-games inside the game as well as the balance between quick improvisation versus more detailed decisions. The...
Mar 7, 2021
At Total Con 35, which had an espionage focus, I ran a hack of TSR's Top Secret: New World Order. My goal was to run it in the style of TV's Mission: Impossible. I wanted to include the briefing scene, a preview of the mission, and then the mission itself. This meant the characters should start the mission knowing...
Feb 13, 2021
Welcome back to Virtual Play! Bill and I take a close look at an encounter in a Dungeon Crawl Classics game. It involves an encounter with undead in a bath house that has since become a tomb! It's a game I ran but Bill has some great insights into how I could have ran it better! The episode clocks in...
Jan 23, 2021
Happy New Year! I hope you are all as well as can be. Thanks for sticking around for more episodes. In our inaugural podcast of 2021, Bill and I talk about gaming from the last year or so. It has been a while! But we plan to get back regularly with more excerpts from games, whether played online or face-to-face....