* (0:25) Introducing Kimi from Happy Jacks, The Mary Sues, and Golden Lasso Girl (Twitter, Instagram).
* (7:07) The Decuma Kickstarter, which can be found here.
* (11:03) What Decuma is meant to do, and how it plays.
* (16:20) Establishing characters and a setting so we can do a live demo.
* (20:41) Playing the game demo, starting with character connection cards. A side note on how to shuffle a tarot deck.
* (26:55) What we got from just two cards, including plot points for the GM.
* (29:12) The world dynamics card, between the character connection rounds.
* (34:09) Two location card examples.
* (38:44) Building an area map as you work through the cards.
* (40:50) The meaning of the name Decuma.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
Guests: Kimi
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* (0:29) Laura in Chad’s shoes. Dogs in the hood.
* (8:18) Fear the Con’s planning site is available and ready for your games!
* (12:10) Wayne is in the process of improving our Patreon.
* (17:01) Why there are certain games we won’t run or won’t play.
* (18:06) Why Wayne won’t run Battletech, and Dan won’t play Mechwarrior.
* (19:00) Why Wayne won’t run Blades in the Dark, but Laura will.
* (19:37) Why Dan won’t run Dresden.
* (20:24) Why Dale won’t run Dresden or Misspent Youth.
* (23:33) Why Dan struggles running horror, and most of the hosts struggle with Lovecraft.
* (33:47) Why Dan won’t run a supers game but would love to play in one.
* (35:16) Wayne ran one of Chad’s games, simply for the challenge of it.
* (36:21) The simultaneous value and limitation of practice. Dan pitches a supers game based on Owlman’s explanation of Earth Prime (also mentioned here).
Hosts: Dale, Dan, Laura, Wayne
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* (0:22) A very important number.
* (8:45) Lura, Chad, Stacy, Cathy, and Karen.
* (15:38) Why Lura isn’t allowed on Fear the Boot anymore.
* (22:25) Why Julia is still allowed on Fear the Boot.
* (31:58) Fear the Con’s shifting demographics. You can sign-up to attend Fear the Con 2020 here.
* (36:42) Cucks, clucks, pedants, and show prep.
* (42:12) Wayne misses his own dinner.
* (53:03) How Chad controls a room.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Laura, Wayne
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* (0:28) The joys of having a host rotation again.
* (3:10) Errata in tabletop games, and why we’re grateful when companies release them.
* (9:34) How publishers can do errata wrong.
* (17:39) Chad’s Dresden character makes him realize things he ought to know to accurately portray his character’s life experiences. The Trench Monkeys podcast.
* (24:04) Researching the minimum viable product.
* (30:30) What to do with information beyond the minimum viable product.
* (35:03) Playing your own character lawyer.
* (40:08) Information that can flesh out your roleplaying.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Laura
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* (0:28) Dan goes bye-bye!
* (0:49) Fear the Boot is now on Pandora.
* (2:18) Wayne and Old Man Hussey play Savage Worlds with Gage. You can find the audio of that game here.
* (6:00) Wayne reports on his game pitches. You can find his sample templates here: Dresden sample, D&D sample, blank template.
* (10:21) Pitching your passion project.
* (13:37) Wayne’s western doesn’t get much love.
* (16:12) Noting what people have said they want.
* (21:25) The proposed D&D game.
* (24:27) How Wayne picked the winning game.
* (28:31) Why everyone picked the game they did.
* (41:29) Controlling the flow of character ideas when people hear the game pitches.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Laura, Wayne
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* (0:25) Holiday postmortem of our games. Wayne wastes money on nasty food.
* (2:49) The case for and against soup, and the dark gluttony of Palladium books.
* (9:21) Chad’s preferred cookbook for soups and stews.
* (17:13) The Fallout cookbook and old-time cooking.
* (20:24) Reporting on a bit of holiday loot.
* (21:18) The RWBY board game.
* (22:42) Regular Gnoll espresso.
* (23:57) Eberron, and ebony dice by Paladin.
* (26:56) Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age.
* (29:07) Tsuro and Pandemic: Fall of Rome.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Laura, Wayne
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* (0:29) The holidays came in like a wrecking ball!
* (2:01) Wayne’s Family Feud survey is still up for answers!
* (3:24) Gnarl is here to save your Christmas! Available on Amazon and Audible.
* (5:54) Chad’s opinions save the show!
* (7:26) No one likes distractions.
* (10:10) Why Chad doesn’t like basements.
* (16:43) Wayne’s aversion to cluttered tables.
* (25:04) Chad’s distaste for chairs and high tables.
* (34:21) Why Dan wants chairs instead of a couch.
* (41:02) Once upon a time, through thin bathroom walls.
* (46:35) The ups and downs of having food present.
* (52:39) Gaming outside the normal flow of the household.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Laura, Wayne
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* (0:23) Wayne’s Family Feud survey.
* (3:09) Love for D&D and its sister games.
* (5:24) A conversation with Chris Hussey about the strata of podcasts.
* (10:46) What D&D has come to represent within the hobby. Gamers Table’s weekly Big 20 show (previous episodes here).
* (19:31) Gaming as an aspect of a person’s identity.
* (29:02) Handling the preconceptions in a constructive way.
* (41:30) A call to action.
* (44:47) The value the attention brings.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:29) The Audacity that can end the show!
* (1:30) A topic from Jesse, with two parameters from Dan.
* (5:42) Watch out for any real-world impact between the players.
* (18:28) Managing your own reaction to the bully character.
* (19:25) The attitude behind, “That’s what my character would do.”
* (21:57) The in-character consequences of playing a bully.
* (28:34) Targeting the penalties at the right party.
* (34:58) Calling out your own character.
* (37:50) GM-created deterrents against the bully.
* (44:26) When you’re unintentionally bullying the Game Master, or the bully is going otherwise unchallenged.
* (51:49) Inviting consequences upon yourself.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:28) A big THANK YOU to everyone that backed Fear the Con!
* (2:43) Gamers Table’s weekly Big 20 show (previous episodes here).
* (5:22) Blades in the Dark gives way to a Traveller game. Working through Traveller’s character creation system.
* (16:10) Finding the patterns—and inventing the story—created by the random rolls.
* (28:19) How the individual character patterns affect group design.
* (34:30) Out-of-character misery as a weird flex.
* (37:19) In-character misery as a point of story development.
* (42:34) Swalwell’s musical number.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan
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