Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D lets us take those games into a dark alley and take their stuff.
And take their stuff is exactly what Ang and Jared are doing on this episode as they discuss ways to take mechanics, procedures, and ideologies from other games and bring them to Dungeons and Dragons.
Today Monica is joined by the hosts of the Malifaux podcast, Steampowered Scoundrels, to have a lively discussion about being small content creators in a niche field, being the microest of micro celebrities, having relationships with tabletop game designers, and a lot, and I really mean a lot, of talk about Malifaux.
Here’s another crossover with Mage: The Podcast. This time Danielle Lauzon joins us as we discuss the concept of design directives in games.
From Tales of the Valiant to the most recent D&D playtest. Our adventurous podcasters delve into the depths of these pages and almost get TPK’d
How do we get new gamers. WE TEACH THEM!!! Ang and Jared are talking about running new games for players on this weeks installment of Thac0 with Advantage
Today Monica is joined by Exalted developer, Elliott Freeman, to break down their favorite (and least favorite) characters sheets: what works, what doesn’t, what they like to see, and so on.
There are a large number of genre’s that Dungeons and Dragons says it can emulate. Ang and Jared go through them and provide advice on what they think works, doesn’t work, and some general thoughts on how players and GMs might make them work. They also get into their campaign journal and talk about their Tales of the Valiant playtesting.
Monica is joined by freelance author and designer, MJ Monleon, to discuss the ins, outs, and pitfalls of designing a competitive game. We focus mostly on traditional games like tabletop RPGs and card or board games and then wander off into the weeds of some of our favorite video games.
Take the rules. Learn them. Use them. Report on them. Get revisions. Repeat. It’s the playtesters life. Then there’s playing at 10th level and above which many many people do, right? No, they don’t? Ok, well, for those who do Ang and Jared get into it and some ideas for how to make it fun.
Monica joins Terry on Mage the Podcast to workshop the design concept of individual magic(k) merits, as well as temporary merits and experience rewards in Mage 20th.
