-- Description --
I had the distinct privilege over Father's Day weekend to meet up with Lungfungus - author of Actual Dungeon Mastering and the Melancholies & Mirth blog - to have a beer and chat about gaming until my wife dragged me home.
Wash of topics - keep delving!
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-- Show Notes --
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Theme
01:22 - Lunch with Lungfungus
01:40 - The Implications of Presenting a Map in VTT
05:06 - Tabletop Simulator for Chainmail
07:08 - Purple Prose in Text Game Prep
07:22 - Text vs Voice Experience with VTTs
09:43 - How's Been Gamin? (Wild West OD&D)
13:00 - The Wild West, Hex Crawling, and Challenging the Mapper
17:17 - On Being Lost and the Horizon
18:52 - Touch Grass; DM Better!
20:00 - Sight Lines
22:52 - Briefly Bloviating about Beer
23:31 - Flat Earth Elves
25:37 - Lost as Impeded rather than Lost as Lost
29:47 - Hex Maps as Mazes
34:11 - Influencing the Amount of Communication
36:21 - Granularity of Weather: Engaging with the Material Reality
38:30 - Where are the Hinges?
42:33 - Player Skill and Asking Questions: Diverse Application of Common Articles
44:26 - Reputation: How Fast does News Travel?
45:57 - Great Lakes Scale
46:38 - Random Castles, Random Lairs, & PVP Chainmail
48:00 - Incorporating Hex Characteristics as Resources to Manage
50:29 - Thank You, Lungfungus!
51:43 - Outro
-- Links --
Melancholies and Mirth - https://melancholiesandmirth.blogspot.com/
OSR Simulacrum - https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/
Gucci Fuligan Cloak
- https://guccifuligincloak.blogspot.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/@gfcsdnd205
Luke Gearing - https://lukegearing.blot.im/