Today Monica invites her friend, Jacqueline Bryk, to join her and discuss something she considers a blank spot in her traditional game literacy: LARP. We discuss what makes a LARP, and general LARP design principles as Jax gives a detailed 101 crash course. We also kick around designing our own together, for a bit.
Category: Podcast Archives
These are shows that are no longer running on the network but some of the episodes have been left on the site. The rest can be found in the archive on our Patreon.
BXP 06×01 Monica and D Analyze Resource Management
In today’s episode D and Monica sit down to get into the ins and outs of designing good resource management games. We talk about what you need to consider as a designer and break down how you can avoid common pitfalls. We also cite a handful of excellent games you can try that use their resources extremely well.
BXP Season 6 Update
BXP is BACK for Season Six. We have some very important updates to the show as well as some super cool episodes coming up. Give it a listen. If you stayed a patron through the off-season, Monica shouts out your name.
Mastering Dungeons – GameHoleCon
Shawn and Teos’ live Mastering Dungeons seminar from GameHoleCon! News! Questions! Clapping! Smells! This one has it all! Breaking News Links Wes Schneider Reveals Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen Ray Winninger confirms he has MORE
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 12
Moving through the Unearthed Arcana that is OneD&D, Shawn and Teos talk about the future of Feats, while it occurs to the editor that he has twice made the joke around ‘Feats, don’t fail me MORE
BXP 05×12 – Character Development (feat. Terry Robinson)
This is the final episode of Season Five. Terry joins Monica again with the second half of their very long conversation about experiences with gaming and new people.
Today we talk about character development in RPGs: what that means, what people want when they say they’re into it, and how games do and don’t support character growth over time. It’s a very interesting discussion and a perfect send-off for our fifth season.
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 11
Taking a look at the Expert Classes from the upcoming One D&D, Shawn and Teos break down the new options for these classes. Are they better? Are they worse? Are they balanced or broken? The MORE
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 10
With more and more information around OneD&D coming out by the week, Shawn and Teos take a look at the concept of Expert Classes and determine what, if anything, it parallels in 5e. The Decade MORE
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 9
With a very special guest to open the show, Teos and Shawn follow up with breaking down the Backgrounds and Personality aspects of Fifth Edition; all the stuff under Character Details. Has 5e done enough MORE
BXP 05×11 – Mage, Exalted, and D&D (feat. Terry Robinson)
Terry (of Mage: the Podcast) joins Monica to talk about the wild experience of teaching Mage to new people and Monica commiserates about her experiences with teaching Exalted to beginners. We discuss the interesting cultural baggage that comes with most folks pop understanding of the hobby and what it’s like to show folks new games.