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More Like Guidelines
Jessica Crimes
47 episodes
3 months ago
An actual play/game design podcast! Hosted by Jessica Crimes and produced by Don't Hurt Birds, on MLG we develop, play, and chat about indie TTRPGs; build all-new games with exciting guests; and all too often ignore a game's rules in favour of a good story - after all, they're more like guidelines.

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An actual play/game design podcast! Hosted by Jessica Crimes and produced by Don't Hurt Birds, on MLG we develop, play, and chat about indie TTRPGs; build all-new games with exciting guests; and all too often ignore a game's rules in favour of a good story - after all, they're more like guidelines.

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BIG KING WIZARD #4 ft. Grant Howitt
Jess is joined by Grant Howitt as they pit an occult outsider against a children's television presenter in a magical battle to the death.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-game

Orc Borg is funding on Kickstarter now https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/orc-borg-brutal-chaos-powered-by-mork-borg

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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3 years ago
39 minutes 22 seconds

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BIG KING WIZARD #3 - Steel Cog Revenge ft. Ross Payton
More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. You can back the project now over at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-game

You can find Role Playing Public Radio over at https://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/ - check it out!
Ross in on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rosspayton
And more of Ross' works are on Patreon, over at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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3 years ago
35 minutes 22 seconds

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BIG KING WIZARD #2 - Jonny Sims and Sasha Sienna

More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-game

You can find MacGuffin and Co's games and newsletter over at https://www.macguffinandcompany.com/
Jonny and Sasha are also on Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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3 years ago
58 minutes 55 seconds

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BIG KING WIZARD #1 - Captain Celery vs The Students' Shadow
More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-game

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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3 years ago
48 minutes 11 seconds

More Like Guidelines
More Like Guidelines will Be Right Back
Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
47 seconds

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Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards wrap-up Q&A

Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards is complete! Well, it's gone off to the printers and that's complete enough for us to record a wrap-up Q&A!

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
43 minutes

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Designish #3 - SLUMGULLION

Jess, Alastair and Ben bully a robot into giving them game titles to play around with, but this time it seems like the robot is sick of us and starting to actively fight back? Also, we make a game that is definitely illegal for like a dozen reasons.

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

We have merch now! Check it out at https://donthurtbirds.redbubble.com/

Support the show

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
44 minutes 24 seconds

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Pit Crawler: The Coldsalad Chronicles #3 - Devilled Egg Salad

The finalé of Chuck Coldsalad's 'adventure' takes him deep into the den of The Devil himself. I'm sure that will all go fine and sensibly.

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Buy our games? https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/ 

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)


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4 years ago
30 minutes 39 seconds

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Pit Crawler: The Coldsalad Chronicles #2 - Failure

We're back with more Pit Crawler! Picking up with Greytree's grandad 'Chuck Coldsalad' Jess and Ben kick off another grand adventure which somehow involves like a laptop or something?

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Buy our games? https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/ 

Support the show

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
37 minutes 6 seconds

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Pit Crawler: The Coldsalad Chronicles #1 - Chuck vs A Petition
We're back with more Pit Crawler! Picking up with Greytree's grandad 'Chuck Coldsalad' Jess and Ben kick off another grand adventure which somehow involves like a laptop or something?

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Buy our games? https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/ 

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
49 minutes 31 seconds

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Designish #2 - A Beginner's Guide to Cthulhu

It's a series now! On Designish we bully a robot into giving us a big list of names for games that don't exist yet, and then we chat about making them!

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

We have merch now! Check it out at https://donthurtbirds.redbubble.com/

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
46 minutes 1 second

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(Fixed Audio) Designish #1 - The Blood-Gazebo Valley

(Woops! We accidentally released the wrong episode, should be fixed now!)

This week it's a very chill, pretty strange one where we basically just do all the fun bits of game design and none of the work, then halfway through stumble onto my new favourite format. Have fun!


You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
45 minutes 45 seconds

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Pit Crawler with Ben #3 - Over the Shady Dawn
Honestly this one's pretty fucked

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Thanks to Ben for editing this week's episode

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Content Warnings:
Audible coughing on mic
Death
Animal death
Dog barking in background


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4 years ago
45 minutes 24 seconds

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Pit Crawler with Ben #2 - A Big, Wet, U-Turn

Jess and Ben play Pit Crawler 0.5th edition by MacGuffin and Company! In this episode Greytree does some shopping and everything gets worse in the process

We have merch now!

Find Jess' games at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated  https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds


Content warnings:
Fire, resulting danger to life
Poison
Sirens in background (40:00-41:00)

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
48 minutes 5 seconds

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Pit Crawler with Ben - The Sewer Queen
Jess and Ben play Pit Crawler 0.5th edition by MacGuffin and Company! In this episode we meet Greytree, learn of the Sewer Queen, and the call to adventure is reluctantly heeded!

Find Jess' games at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
45 minutes 2 seconds

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Fae's Anatomy feat. Hebenon Games - The Diamond Carrot

Jess is joined by Ross, Baz, and Caleb to play Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG! In this weeks episode our doctors watch some standup and shape their futures.

Back Fae's Anatomy on Kickstarter here

Check out Caleb on Twitter @HebanonGCal
Hebanon Games is on Patreon here
Find Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon here
Baz is on Twitch as FutureWolfington

Check out epistolary horror series The Carving Bones
Get Jess' games here

Support the More Like Guidelines on Patreon

Content Warnings
Hospitals
Description of injury
Illness
Medical malpractice
Near-death of a child
Illness and near death experiences involving a child
References to drug use
Parasites
Smoking

Support the show 

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4 years ago
1 hour 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Fae's Anatomy feat. Hebanon Games - The Jolly Green GP

Jess is joined by Ross, Baz, and Caleb to play Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG! In this weeks episode some broccoli wakes  and we meet our patient.

Back Fae's Anatomy on Kickstarter here

Check out Caleb on Twitter @HebanonGCal
Hebanon Games is on Patreon here
Find Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon here
Baz is on Twitch as FutureWolfington

Check out epistolary horror series The Carving Bones
Get Jess' games here

Support the More Like Guidelines on Patreon

Content Warnings
Hospitals
Illness
Medical malpractice
Illness and near death experiences involving a child
References to drug use
Parasites
Smoking

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4 years ago
41 minutes 2 seconds

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In the Town in the Valley in the Day and the Night - The Bell Tower

Jess and Casimir dive into a fully improvised experimental storytelling game set over the 72 hours. One player takes on the role of the Day, and the other of the Night.

Unfortunately episode 2 of Kissing in the Weird Future has been lost to technical issues - we apologise for any disappointment.

Get this game as part of Storybox! at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Casimir has a story in Off the Beaten Path 4, find it here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello@Donthurtbirds.com

Content Notes:
Death
Apocalypse
Starvation
Unreality
Isolation

Support the show on Patreon




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4 years ago
41 minutes 5 seconds

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Kissing in the Weird Future #1: Agents of CUPID feat. Laura K Buzz and Roz Leahy

Jess and Goji are joined by Laura K Buzz and Roz Leahy to playtest Kissing in the Weird Future ahead of it being expanded and adapted for inclusion in DHB's new anthology Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards!

Back Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards while you can! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/pretentious-games-for-villains-and-bastards

You can find Laura here:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/LauraKBuzz
Twitch -https://www.twitch.tv/laurakbuzz
Hole in One-Shot - https://laurakindie.itch.io/hole-in-one-shot-a-sports-anime-tabletop-campaign
Pre-order a copy of Gender Euphoria - https://unbound.com/books/gender-euphoria/

Follow Goji at https://twitter.com/gojiberry_bbq

Check out epistolary horror series The Carving Bones
Get Jess' games here

Support the show on Patreon


Content Notes
Mentions of smoking, pornography
Cannibalism
Innuendo
Mild body horror

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)

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4 years ago
48 minutes 57 seconds

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Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards Q&A

We have a Kickstarter out! Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards is a 9 game anthology by an exciting team of contributors, produced by Don't Hurt Birds.

In this episode Jess, Cat, and Candel are joined by Roz Leahy (@Allthingstruly) and Aimee Meester (@TheAimeeMeester) to discuss the anthology and TTRPG creation, and to answer some of your questions.

Find the Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/pretentious-games-for-villains-and-bastards

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds)


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4 years ago
46 minutes 51 seconds

More Like Guidelines
An actual play/game design podcast! Hosted by Jessica Crimes and produced by Don't Hurt Birds, on MLG we develop, play, and chat about indie TTRPGs; build all-new games with exciting guests; and all too often ignore a game's rules in favour of a good story - after all, they're more like guidelines.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.