Gretchen and Rob discuss the idea, "Should we even bother rolling?" Plus: Bad Indian food, indigestion, Pilsbury dough samosa, tomato soup, tortilla naan, saag paneer, Bollywood, Hercules and Xena, Atlanta, Renaissance Faire, leather armor, West End Games, d6, Streetwise, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Perseus, Athens, Lizard Man, Iason, Medusa, Euryale, The Gorgon’s Curse, Jennifer Saint, Hera, Electra, Ariadne, Sly’s Sliders, Costco Pizza, Birthright, AD&D 2nd Edition, Basketweaving, Like and Subscribe

On this episode of RPGs & Baby Makes 3, Rob and Gretchen discuss a sentence that gives DMs major anxiety: It's what my character would do. Plus: What’s your alignment? Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse Hercules and Xena West End Games D6 Greek Myths Perseus The Cyclops Mothra Frankenstein DnD 5th Edition Dungeon of the Mad Mage Dragon Heist Wizards of the Coast Hasbro Game Church Sojourner Magazine Methodist Fresh Expressions Episcopalian  Save or Die Level Drain Difficulty Settings Waterdeep Gazette Undermountain Side quest DMPC Tymora, goddess of luck Heist Adventures Lawful good Murder Hobos Chaotic Evil Temple of Elemental Evil Hommlet Respect your DM Fourth Wing Rebecca Yaros The Hunger Games with Dragons Vampire the Masquerade Toreador Tzimisce Camarilla Sabbat Nerf Battle Not Another Teen Movie

Gretchen and Rob start the show by discussing recent sessions of Old Gods of Appalachia and Old School Essentials, before moving to the main topic: Geeks, Nerds, & Dorks   Plus: Setting Expectations; Old Gods of Appalachia; Monte Cook Games; Roll the Bones; Savannah, Georgia; Party Foul; Renegade Paws; One Love; Chicken Salad Chick; Thank You Brandon; Character Names; Molasses Taffy; Ironsworn; Shawn Tomkin; Tomkin Press; Call of Cthulhu; Old School Essentials; Necrotic Gnome; Exalted Funeral; AD&D 2nd Edition; TSR; Wizards of the Coast; Battle Maps; Miniatures; Peaz N’ Carrots; First Timers; Alfred Hitchcock The Birds; Patchwork; Use Rosenberg; Hero Quest; Brainchild; the scientific method; Oxford language dictionary; Jerry Saltz; 23rd Best Art Critic; chocolate parfait is not a cake; The Necronomicon; Evil Dead; Army of Darkness; Ash; Bruce Campbell; The Silent Patient; Alex Michaelides; Goodreads; Kindle; Joe Abercrombie The Trouble With Peace; The Age of Madness Trilogy; Grimdark; Throne of Glass; A Court of Thorns and Roses; The Era of Ash and Fire; David Fincher; Richard Linklater; Slacker; Cassandra Rose Clark The Assassin’s Curse; Like and Subscribe

Gretchen and Rob have been through the wringer. This: Car Crash; Friday the 13th; Full Moon; Black Cats; Odin; Road Rage; Meth Addict; Oatland Island; Wildlife Rehabilitation; Halloween Hike; Sirenhead; Siren Head; Toddler; Preschooler; Broken Bones; Clumsy; EMT; Urgent Care; Children’s Hospital; Emergency Room; Fentanyl; Memorial Health; Surgery; Washington Commanders Versus Atlanta Falcons; Barbecue; BBQ; Rear Camera; Rats chewing through the electrical wires; Scratching and Clawing; Honda CRV; Computer Fail; Conference Call; Laptops; Sweet Gum Trees; Itchy Balls; The Flu; Burn Marks; Bearded Dragon; Pooler; Road Construction; Animal Husbandry; Parasites; Blood Taken; Blackbeard; Black Beard; Ponko Chicken; Blind Cat; Poop Explosion; Lost Pets; Shiva; Bad Luck; Natural 1; Nat 1; Critical Fail; White Privilege; WTF; You’re Not Alone; Pirates; Spongebob Squarepants; Like and Subscribe.

On this episode, Gretchen and Rob discuss Necrotic Gnome’s Old School Essentials, immersion in roleplaying games, and kids on planes and in restaurants. Plus: Water Key; Forsyth Park; Savannah, Georgia; Adulting; Home Ownership; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; Kids on Bikes; More Differenter Games; 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons; Grumpy Gretchen; Dice Superstition; B/X D&D; Incandescent Grottos; Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Frank Mentzer; A-Hole Pirate; Water Genasi; Save Versus Death; Disintegration; Gretchen Hates D&D; Historically pirates didn’t know how to swim; Carcass Crawler; The Angry GM; Encumbrance; The Big Lebowski; Fallout; Crunch; Vampire the Masquerade; Mind’s Eye Theatre; LARPing; Kat Valentine; Ghost Table Games; Alice is Missing; Discord; Group Chat; Postpartum Depression; Ten Candles; Holy Pie; Eating Pizza While GMing; Ironsworn; Starforged; Google; Washington Commanders; Final Fantasy; Baldur’s Gate; Shannon Sharpe Skip Bayless; Aerosmith; Honor Among Thieves; Get A Grip; Rock n Roll; Jarnathan; Collider; TikTok; Outdoor Boys; Ryan’s World; Kids on Planes and in Restaurants; Eating Cookies While Your Kids Aren’t Looking; Like and Subscribe

On this episode, Gretchen and Rob air Rob's interview with Friendly Local Game Store owner Ben Flood, whose new shop Roll the Bones is set to open in Savannah, Georgia on August 19th, 2023! Learn more via the article Rob wrote about the space for the Savannah Morning News here: https://www.savannahnow.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/08/02/roll-the-bones-new-midtown-savannah-hobby-shop-and-gaming-community-center/70507442007/ Laundry; Wayne’s World; Splash Pad; City of Savannah; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; New Players; Wellbutrin; GremlinLegions; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness by Palladium; Rifts; Rocksteady; Beebop; Tafy LaPlanche; Brian MacGregor; Pete Russo; Roll the Bones; Firefly Games Columbia South Carolina; FLGS; Friendly Local Game Store; Ben Flood; Trader Joes; Alice is Missing; Squishible; Squishable; Morningstar Games; Belinda; Ms. B; Legos; Snacks; Aberrant; Xtreme Wrestling; White Wolf; Polyhedral Dice; Labyrinth Game Shop DC; Washington D.C.; Macro Micro Crime City; Where’s Waldo; Jeopardy Theme Song; Pokemon; Magic the Gathering; FLGS; Gayle Kicklighter; Lady Balrog; RtB 101; Dungeons & Dragons; DnD; Warhammer; Alice is Missing; Ten Candles; The Throne of Glass; The Atlas Six; Doom scrolling; Temple of Elemental Evil; RA Salvatore; Homeland; Exile; Drizzt Do’Urden; The Halfling’s Gem; The Wheel of Time; Holy Guacamole; The Angry GM; OSR; Old School Renaissance; Thank you Alexa; Like and Subscribe

Michael Wight, aka GremlinLegions, is the creator of Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse the Roleplaying Game, based on the similarly-titled Junior Braves of the Apocalypse, by Greg Smith, Michael Tanner, and Zach Lehner. Rob had the chance to speak with Wight for his column for the Savannah Morning News, and on this episode he and Gretchen play a bit of that conversation, and discuss the game in detail. Check out the article here: https://www.savannahnow.com/story/ent... And you can pick up the RPG and graphic novels at https://onipress.com/collections/oni-... Plus: Kids on Bikes; On a Very Special Episode of RPGs and Baby Makes 3; Meredith Baxter Birney; Kathleen Turner; Old Smoker; Pieces of Meat; Kabobs; Charlie Day; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; A Beautiful Mind; Liveplay, or is it Actual Play?; Savannah Morning News; Front Page; Free RPG Day; Discord; Character Creation; collapsible shovel; garden hoe; polyhedral dice; trope; rebel; brave tokens; Cortex; Supernatural the RPG Margaret Weis; plot points; Pathfinder; Merit Badges; Boy Scouts; Women don’t have pockets; Allergy Attack; The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Jake Gyllenhaal; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness; Knights and Dragons; Renegade Games; Oni Press; Rainy Day Games; Ghost Table Games; Kat Valentine; Escaping Cats; Odin; Heavy Duty Super Pet Screen; Like and Subscribe; Roof Rats; the cycle of life; Like and Subscribe

Gretchen and Rob discuss their haul from this year's FREE RPG DAY! Plus: I’m helping; Golden Child; Hell Child; Allergies; LARPing as a contented mother; Monsoon season; Hot in Georgia; AD&D 2nd Edition; Krakenheim; Ice Barbarians; Greyhawk; Lord Cas; Americanize; 2-Player Campaign; Awkward; White Wolf; Changling; World of Darkness; Storyteller; Balloon shadows; Happy Birthday; Temple of Elemental Evil; Podcast; Character Death; The Spider Queen Lolth; TSR; Gary Gygax; Village of Hommlet; Aarakocra; d6; YouTube; FreeRPGDay.com; Free RPG Day; Loup Garou; Choose Your Own Adventure; Mazes RPG; Level 1 Issue #4: Rainbow Bridge; Indie RPG Anthology; Post Lifers Sylvia Jimenez; Pocket RPG Guide; Heckin’ Good Doggos; Star Trek Font; Heist at the Museum; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; Root RPG Quick Start; GI Joe and Transformers; Renegade Game Studios; Knowing is Half the Battle; Dragonbane; Free League; Mork Borg; Pathfinder 2e For A Few Flowers More; Gnome; Scythe; Fluff Fang; Bowser; Popcorn is Short Tempered; Actung Cthulhu; Is it wrong to kill Nazis? A Taste of the Moon; Vampire the Masquerade; Brigand Bunnies; Monty Python’s Holy Grail; Point Break; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; Junior Braves of the Apocalypse; Greg Smith; Michael Tanner; Zach Lehner; Roll the Bones; Gaming Community Center; Chicken Salad Chick; Elizabeth on 37th; The Grey; Bull Street Taco; Green Truck; Coke Zero; Gale Kicklighter; Lady Balrog; Chewbacca; Ready Player Two; Ready Player One; E Shaver Bookstore; Foxy Loxy; The Holy Bible; The Oxford Dictionary; Glass Throne Series; A Court of Thorns and Roses on Hulu; Like and Subscribe

Gretchen has been spending a lot of time pretending to be a fox named Oatmeal. Find out why in this week's episode! Plus: Someone knows; Wayne’s World dissolve; Roll for Initiative; Yowling Cats; Sickness; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons; Session Zero; Session 1; Losing Players; 4 Players and a DM; Dungeon Master; Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh; Seagull-based Aarakocra; Merfolk; Triton; Human; Half-elf; Genasi; D&D; DnDBeyond; Bells and whistles; Giant axe-wielding pirate bird; Chocolate chip cookies; Session Zero is roleplaying no matter what Gretchen says, and she doesn’t read this so she’ll never know muahahahaha!!!; We’re Going to Pump Clap You Up; Hanz and Franz; Oatmeal; Reynard the Fox; Sigikid; Fort; NPCs; Non-player Characters; Dolls; Stuffies; Dragon with Human Teeth; Escargot; Little Blue Truck; Truck Tunes; Ambiguous accents; Appalachia; Eastern Shore of Maryland; The Luggage; Charleston, South Carolina; American Accents; Star Trek The Next Generation Picard All Hands to Battle Stations; Court of Thorns and Roses; DragonLance; Fade to Black; Laura K. Hamilton; Forgotten Realms; X-Men; Rogue; PG-13; R-Rated; Goodreads; Vampire The Masquerade; The Angry GM; Encumbrance; Ammunition; Immersion; Rations; Labyrinth; The Trash Lady; David Bowie; Sick Kid; Like and Subscribe

Gretchen and Rob are just about to start a new Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Ghosts of Saltmarsh Campaign, and they discuss the ways in which they're preparing for the first meetup. Plus: Lap Cat; Broken Tail; Odin; Hell Mother’s Day; Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh; Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition; Crown Royal Canadian whisky; Polyhedral Dice; Ocean Theme; Field Notes; 5e Character Journals; Gretchen hates D&D; Low Stakes; Nerdberger Games; Green Crown Royal Bag; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; Pirates; Alexa; Jeopardy theme; Preparing for a new campaign; Cleaning up; Group dynamics; DragonLance; Tafy LaPlanche; Gary Gygax; Snacks; Sushi; Pirate’s Booty; From the Leaves of the Inn of the Last Home; Vegan; Veggie Booty; Cheese Dust; Cheetos; Dark Chocolate Coins; Hanukkah; Judaism; Babysitter; Dice; Adventure Scents; Pirates of the Caribbean; Black Sails; Waterworld; Spongebob Squarepants; Post-Apocalyptic Pirates; Landrates; Starz; DnD Beyond; Zoom; Utility Knife; Cub; Packrat; Temple of Elemental Evil; Castle Amber; Spiders; Nautical Theme Pass Me The Afghan; I’m on a Boat; Black Phoenix Alchemical Laboratory; Citrus; Smoky Campfire; Gretchen can’t smell anything; Like and Subscribe

Gretchen and Rob recount their truly horrible Mother's Day. Then they unbox Rob's recent Adventure Scents order from Oddfish Games, scents that he plans on using for his upcoming Ghosts of Saltmarsh 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons game. Plus: Testing; Wayne’s World; Magical; Disney; Happy Mother’s Day; Villain; Critical Fail; Dice; d6; Snake Eyes; Snakebitten; Like and Subscribe; Parenting is Hard; Discipline; Lowe’s; Made for TV Mom; Roleplaying; Photos; Kiddie Pool; Social Media Lies; Weird Steps; Carwash; Dairy Queen; DQ; Kroger; Candy Shop; 50 Cent; Candy by the Pound; Meltdown; River Street Sweets; You’re Mean; Second Wind; Face Wounds; Exhausted; Doom Scrolling; Gardening; Gerber Daisies; Etiquette; Bean; Celery; Reddi Whip; Ice Cream Sundaes; Licking Ice Cream; Edy’s Slow Churned Mint Chocolate Chip; Censored; Tylenol Tampering in the 1980s; Cyanide; Goldfish; d4; Legos; Metal Dice; Dead Wrong; C-Mob; Dug; Norway; England; Oddfish Games; Unboxing Video; Adventure Scents; Diffuser; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; Pirates; 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons; Marsh; Fishing Docks; Rot; Island Temple; Brothel; Ocean Breeze; Pirate Ship; Fetid Swamp; Graveyard; Vampire’s Tomb; oddfishgames.com ; Swamp Thing Cosplay; Tentacles; Facebook Reels; Pole Dancing; Scream; Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants; YouTube and Chill; Netflix and Chill; Army of Darkness; Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves; Hasbro; Wizards of the Coast; Hugh Grant; Holy Guacamole; TikTok; R Rated; Evil Dead Rise; Vox Machina; Critical Role; Arcane; Cussing; S-Word; Sword; Deadpool; Logan; Wolverine; Old Man Logan; Flawed Individuals; Made for Social Media; We’re all in this together; Catharsis; Sailing into the Sunset; Ocean of Salty Tears; Yo Ho Yo Ho A Pirates Life For Me

Gretchen and Rob discuss poor treatment by a group of players towards their DM as noted in an article from the internet. Here’s the article we chat about in this podcast, if you’d like to give it a read: https://www.cbr.com/dnd-dm-harassed-players-ending-campaign/   Plus: Checking the weather; Weather Forgetter; Whimsical Tales; Doo Doo Dee Doo; Wayne’s World; Parkside Neighborhood Association Meeting; Time Keeper; Long Meetings; Parents; Personal Tales; 311; Neighborhood Activist Live Action Role Playing Game; Critical Fail; Cheating; Dirty GM; Broken Characters; Strep Throat; Soup; Tea; Crusty Bread; Olive and Salt; Whole Foods; Biting Your Best Friend; Broken Tail; Rabbit; Liver and Kidney Issues; Pink Eye; Conjunctivitis; Sunglasses inside; Broken Friendships; Green Truck Neighborhood Pub; Martial Arts; VFW Post 660; Dungeons & Dragons; Kat Valentine; Ghost Table Guild; Rum; Mint; Kris Grand; Babysitter; One-Shot; Ghosts in the basement; Ronald; Pregens; Premades; Portable Charger; Podcast; Transformers; G.I. Joe; Sailor Moon; Power Rangers; Shared Universe; Beeboop; Headache from laughter; Temple of Elemental Evil; DnD Beyond; 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons; Bards; Stoner; Contemporary Characters in Medieval Fantasy Settings; Low Intelligence; Greyhawk; Krakenheim; Mark Henry “It’s Time for the Main Event!”; CBR.com; Reddit; perger4382; retcon; teleportation; world building; power levels; magic items; balance; character attachment; it’s just a game; DMing is hard; Matt Mercer is not the norm; The Lazy Dungeon Master; Random Encounter Decks; Improv; Yawn; Burnout; The DM is a player; Go with the flow; Adapt; Mr. Wizard; Burne the Wizard; Hommlet; Halloween Ends; Time to put the boogyman to bed; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; Rebel Crown; Blades in the Dark; Forged in the Dark; Slow Clap; Glitter; Robert E. Howard; Conan; Modiphius; 2d20; Carolina wren; Critical Hit; Like and Subscribe

Don't forget to Like and Subscribe!!! We watched the original trilogy of Dungeons & Dragons movies so that you don't have to! Plus: Wayne’s World; Doodly Do; Tia Carrera; Chuck E. Cheese’s; Ski-ball; Ball pit; broken games; Janky; Savannah, Georgia; Animatronics; Chucky; Life; AD&D; 2nd Edition; The Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Like and Subscribe; Apple Podcasts; Spotify; Ice Barbarian; Session Zero; Side Quests; Vikings; Aaron Sturgill; In the Hollow of the Spider Queen; Greek Myths; 24/7; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; Superfresh; A&P; Grocery Store; Salad; Croutons; Blades in the Dark; Agon; Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse; Graphic Novels; Kids on Bikes; I might could gaming; Huey Lewis and the News; If This Is It; Gold Dragons; Red Dragons; Beholder; Jeremy Irons; Box Office Bomb; Bruce Payne; Bulging Veins; Blue Lips; Elf; Kristen Wilson; Boob Doopers; Breastplate; Front Heavy; Cone Bras; Marlon Wayans; Wrath of the Dragon God; Sinister Orb; Enchantress; Fighters; Heroes; D&D 3.5; Lore; Puzzle Maze; The Book of Vile Darkness; Code of Honor; Paladin; Necromancer; Evil Characters; Vows; Nudity; Honor Among Thieves; Dungeons & Dragons; Gritty; Undead; Bad Butt Woman; Damsel in Distress; SyFy; Hugh Grant; Spells; Magic; D&D the Cartoon; Easter Eggs; John Harper; Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser; Fritz Lieber; Kitchen Confidential; Anthony Bourdain; Wake of Vultures; First Nation; Lila Bowen; The Shadow #1; Texan; Southern; Upgrade; Blake Couch; Hacking Genetics; Genome; Evolution; Dark Matter; Raunchy Fantasy; Kindle; Goodreads; The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern; Math; The Night Circus; The Collected Works of Conan; Robert E. Howard; Mystic; Sex; Saucy; Body Twist; Smart Books; Stephen Fry Mythos; 

Gretchen and Rob discuss Rob's recent Savannah Morning News Sunday column about the monthly Dungeons & Dragons event at VFW post 660 in Savannah, Georgia. Plus: Wayne’s World; Podcasting; Spotify; Tia Carrera; cpap machine; pap smear machine; What is Roleplaying…Again; Amanda Plageman; The Simpsons; Nelson; HaHa; Naturally Contrarian; Debate; Inclusion; Black, White, and Gray (or Grey); Updating Progress; Goodreads; It’s a Game; Roleplaying Magazines; Fantasy RPG; Dungeons & Dragons; Wargames; Gary Gygax; Dave Arneson; Battle Mat; Grid; Strategy Games; Dungeon Crawl; Warhammer Fantasy Role-play; Terrain; Tickle Your Fancy; Get My Juices Flowing; Check for Traps; Roll Perception; You Don’t Find the Trap; Roll for Initiative; Antagonistic Gamings; Player Versus Dungeon Master; Storytelling Games; Ironsworn Starforged; Alice is Missing; AI Art; Chatbots; ChatGPT; Midjourney; Hero Forge; Savannah Morning News; Washington Post; Blakely Scott; Queen of A.I.; Anthony Scott; Is Acting Roleplaying?; Anchorman; I’m Kind of a Big Deal; Ghost Table Guild; Kat Valentine; 5E; 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons; Honor Among Thieves; Edition Wars; Charity Stream; VFW Post 660; Combat Veterans; Savannah Morning News; D20; Minotaur; SUV; Roadhouse; Savannah; Halloween; Gatekeeping; Desert Storm; Iraq War; Transgender; Odd Lot Improv; Liberals and Conservatives; Openness; Inclusion; Diversity; Culture War; Twitter; Social Media; LGBTQ+; Firefighters playing D&D; Stranger Things; Women Gamers; Video Games; Character Voices; Starland Yard Renaissance Faire; Cosplay; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; House of Earth and Blood; Crescent City; Sarah J. Maas; House of Sky and Breath; A Court of Thorns and Roses; High Fantasy; Non-Violent Communication; Brandon Sanderson; The Stormlight Archive; Spren; Magic; Designers and Dragons; Shannon Appelcline; Abbadon’s Gate; The Expanse; Amazon Prime; Video Game Strategy Guides; Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; Nemesis; Hidden Village; Ganon; Game Genie; Willow; The Mandalorian; Parents Night Out; The Grey; Like and Subscribe

Like and Subscribe! And e-mail us RPGsandBabyMakes3@gmail.com! What defines Roleplaying? Playing a Roleplaying Game Versus Roleplaying As A Concept? Plus: Wayne’s World; OSR; The Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Frank Mentzer; Old School Renaissance; Oh Snap Roleplaying; Origami Shape Reconstruction; Don’t Split the Party; Assassin; Dagger of Venom; Evil DM; Dungeon Crawl; Dungeon Master; D&D; Dungeons and Dragons; The Village of Hommlet; Political Intrigue; T1-4; The Moathouse; Starforged; Micro Macro Crime City; Tokaido; Japanese Culture; Samurai; Oregon Trail; Morningstar Games Savannah Georgia; Koto Music; Competitive Fire; Gets the juices flowing; Moist; Ironsworn Starforged; Gm-less; Shawn Tomkin; Worldbuilding; Oracles; Random Tables; Fail Forward; Gritty Fantasy; Sci-fi; The Expanse; The Mandalorian; Battlestar Galactica; OGL; Open Game License; ironswornrpg.com; Modiphius; Storytelling; Session Zero; Roleplaying Game; Character Creation versus Character Building; Podcasting; Ones and Zeros; Truths; Prep is Play; Solo; Co-op; Creative Prompts; Is using your imagination always roleplaying?; Telling stories to kids; Poop; Ben Sperduto; Last Redoubt Games; Amanda Plageman; Brandon Sanderson; Joe Abercrombie; Susan Earl; Carmen Laura Loup; The Audacity; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Tarot in Space; Goodreads; Kerri Maniscalco; Kingdom of the Wicked; Italian Food; Hell; Witches; Sautéed Mushrooms; J.R. Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood; Vampires; Picante; Mark Lawrence; Prince of Thorns; Broken Empire Trilogy; WTF; Dresden Files; Harry Dresden; Abberant RPG; Choose Your Own Adventure The Trumpet of Terror; N.K. Jemisin; Broken Earth Trilogy; The Obelisk Gate; Wheel of Time; Stormlight Archives; Non-Violent Communication; Sharp Ends; First Law Series; The Bloody Nine; Grimdark; Logen Ninefingers; Red Country; DragonLance; Bali; Indonesia; Brian MacGregor; Mike D’Ottavio; Safety Tools; TikTik Bramblebing; Kender; Dom D’Ottavio; Cthulhu; Carrier Pigeons.

On this episode, we delve into an important topic: GRETCHEN HATES D&D!! Plus: Falafel wrap with fries; Playing a sitter to make a podcast and play games; Low Stakes by Nerdberger Games; Aberrant by White Wolf 1999 version; Is Session Zero considered playing the game?; Dresden Files RPG; The Fate System; Smelling Books; Evil Hat; Thirsty Sword Lesbians; Umbrella Academy; Dungeons & Dragons 3.5; Pregaming; Leveling Up; Fallout 3; Goodreads Challenge; House Rules; Rules As Written; Mutants & Masterminds; Marvel Superheroes; Crunch/Roleplay Balance; Ravenloft; DragonLance; Supernatural RPG; Pathfinder; Flavor; Ironsworn; Post-Apocalyptic; Ben Sperduto; Last Redoubt Games; Amanda Plageman; Dungeons & Dragons; Medieval Fantasy; Roast the Wolf; Kender; Call of Cthulhu; Keeper; System Mastery; AD&D 2nd Edition; Of Dice & Men by David Ewalt; Post-Apocalyptic Vampire World; The Magicians; Steampunk; Eberron; Spelljammer; 5th Edition; Dwarves love drinking and other stereotypes; Tolkien Archetypes; Races become Species; Black and White Versus Shades of Gray; Agon; Zinequest; Never Going Home by Wet Ink Games; World War I; The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl Polymorph Games; In the Light of the Faded World; Kickstarter; Derek Kinsman; Amanda Lee Franck; Kids on Bikes; The Price of Coal; The Dee Sanction; Matt Mercer; Critical Roll; Blades in the Dark; Libby; Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff; Goodreads; The Last Silver Saint; Vampire Hunter D; Blade; Daywalker; The Obelisk Gate; The Broken Earth Trilogy; The Fifth Season; N.K. Jemisin; Green Ronin Games; Joe Abercrombie; The First Law; Hieroglyphics; Emojis; Mark Lawrence; The Last of Us; Cheese Pizza; Papa Johns; Dominos; Little Caesars; Mellow Mushroom; Squirrel’s; Never Read the Comments; Shut Up Frank; VFW; Ghost Table Games; Combat Veterans; Veteran Gamers; Vampire the Masquerade LARP; Indeed; NFL Football Playoffs; HUZZAH!

New-ish format, same old shenanigans! Gretchen and Rob chat about: Sick kids; Playing in a Cyberpunk 2020 Tournament; Goodman Games’ Temple of Elemental Evil; Pathfinder is Crunchy, Unless You’re A Brute; Playing the Games You Want to Play; Gem Room Games’ 9 Lives To Valhalla; Nerdberger Games’ Low Stakes; Ghost Table; Parental Reflexes; Anne Rice; White Wolf’s Vampires; The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri; Ring Shout; From Here to Eternity.

Is this our best or our worst episode yet? You decide! After starting the show with a discussion of the Ironsworn RPG, we moved to sort of talking about "Storytelling" versus "Gaming." After agreeing on almost everything, we also talked about tea, rabies, and tropes in grim dark fantasy.  With your hosts Gretchen Hilmers & Rob Hessler!   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ Music: D. J. Pinto - The Punisher Link: https://youtu.be/4LHOhdKMRsk Music provided by: MFY - No Copyright ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

After a discussion about Rob's adoration of the GM-less game Ironsworn (and our upcoming livestream of a new Post-Apocalyptic campaign using the ruleset), he and Gretchen discuss playing characters boldly. Tune in as Rob goes from rigidly proclaiming that you should go all-in all the time with your PCs, to making all sorts to caveats after Gretchen presents numerous smart counterpoints that he hadn't considered. Plus, a chat about Ben Sperduto's grim dark urban fantasy novel Blackspire. It's a humdinger! 

Got a young kid and still want to play tabletop RPGs? On this episode, Gretchen and Rob discuss how they handle it. Also, Rob talks about his love for "Keeping the Lights On," while Gretchen laments on character creation randomizers. A way to spend an entire hour!