* (0:52) Wayne visits Brodeur at Miniature Market (their Facebook page).
* (5:21) Prologue games. Taking them seriously while recognizing their disposability.
* (15:20) A shared history that’s played instead of just written.
* (18:57) How a prologue identifies issues, and what to do when one is found.
* (24:46) The value of the missing middle.
* (31:22) Finding your voice.
* (35:49) Expecting too much from a prologue game.
* (42:16) Bridging the prologue to the intended starting point of the first game.
* (49:24) The important differences between a prologue and a flashback.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:29) There and Back Again Kickstarter.
* (0:51) Simplification of Fear the Boot’s Patreon.
* (5:17) How can a wonderful dream become a nightmare?
* (9:57) What We Do in the Shadows.
* (12:49) Players that pad a a situation.
* (16:41) Allowing for deliberation. Power-gaming through roleplay.
* (25:14) Strategies for discouraging trap cards.
* (35:35) The motivation for these contingencies.
Hosts: Aisha, Chad, Dan, Eric
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* (0:29) Welcoming Jason Brick to the show. Baby Shoes, Flash, Sojourn 1, and Sojourn 2.
* (3:04) Setting up today’s topic. Jason’s Kickstarter for There and Back Again.
* (5:41) Harkening back to The Gamer Traveler. Daniel Perez’ current website.
* (8:36) How real experiences affect your roleplaying games. Some examples from security work and drug use.
* (19:36) The way things look, the way people get hurt.
* (37:36) Spaaaaaaaace Camp! Also, Kuala Lumpur, architecture, and names.
* (45:49) Intentionally bringing real experiences into your game.
Hosts: Dan, Chad, Jason, Wayne
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* (0:41) Welcoming Eric from GamersTable. Almost crashing Brodeur’s place of work.
* (1:23) GM Impostor Syndrome. The Dunning-Kruger Effect.
* (6:35) Some help with that feeling of intimidation.
* (10:02) How we suck. Failing fast.
* (21:57) Effectively communicating criticism.
* (32:53) To thine own self be true.
* (44:52) Nobody’s perfect.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Eric, Wayne
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* (0:27) What we’re looking forward to in 2018.
* (1:02) Roleplaying games and related material.
* (8:08) Video games. We somehow failed to mention the upcoming Battletech game.
* (29:36) Upcoming movies.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:50) Wayne takes his entire party prisoner in a Necessary Evil game.
* (2:03) Setting some boundaries on the discussion. Giving the concept of “agency” a clear definition.
* (8:19) Keeping it fair and purposeful.
* (14:16) Understanding the subconscious, social transaction.
* (24:02) The relationship between failure, agency, and story.
* (35:31) Gnarl ties it all together.
* (40:43) Knowing why it happened.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne
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This was a short episode I cut a while back when life got in the way of our regularly-scheduled recordings. I’ve got a full-length one we did a bit later, which I’ll be releasing immediately after this one—meaning, in a matter of minutes or hours.
* (1:06) Backing off my own ideas to let truths about the player-characters decide where the game will go.
* (4:45) Reminding players about their characters.
* (9:01) Who the PCs are as individuals.
Hosts: Dan
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* (0:28) 1d4Con on April 13th – 15th, 2018.
* (2:16) Brodeur GTFO.
* (4:42) Some comments on Salt in Wounds. Fear the Boot’s Discord server.
* (9:43) Keeping a game fresh during someone’s hiatus, without moving the game forward or leaving it on pause.
* (18:02) Converging story-lines.
* (20:03) Exploring the same story and setting from other perspectives.
* (22:49) The difficulty of integrating a new person midstream.
* (26:12) Ending the new campaign in a place that dovetails with the original one.
* (29:07) Muscling through the shift.
Hosts: Brodeur, Chad, Dan
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* (0:49) Fear the Con and its Con Planner site. All our love to Fred.
* (2:47) The Salt in Wounds game setting, and why it intrigues Brodeur.
* (14:40) Unpacking the human psychology of why we like dark things, starting with some examples from Dan’s life. Resident Evil VII and Alien Isolation. Revenge stories.
* (22:40) When these impulses manifest at the meta-game level. The traitor mechanic in many board games.
* (28:09) Feeling bad for the Tarrasque. Butchering a dragon.
* (38:36) The anatomy of what attracts us to evil, and why it can improve us morally. Midnight by Fantasy Flight. The Invitation.
* (46:08) The banality of evil.
Hosts: Brodeur, Chad, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:41) A look back at the Big Board.
* (3:37) Lesson prep for a church and how it demonstrates a social concept that applies to gaming.
* (7:17) Performance by one versus content by all.
* (15:14) Recognizing what’s important to another person.
* (25:01) Whose benefit is the game for? Setting the right level of control.
Hosts: Brodeur, Chad, Dan
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