-- Description --

There has always been a divide between Role Players and Roll Players - but what about Role Players and Players of a Role? This episode delves in to what "role playing" meant - or would have meant - to the original crew on the original game... and how it differs from what we think of when we say "role playing" today.

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-- Show Notes --

00:00 - The Role Divide

01:16 - Theme

01:46 - The Role You Serve

03:56 - The Role of the Fighter

06:03 - The Role of the Cleric

08:29 - The Role of the Magic User

10:50 - Bob the FIGHTER, not BOB the Fighter

12:18 - The Proof is in the Training

15:17 - Should You Speak in Funny Voices?

16:26 - Call In: The Trapper of Scroll Cases Speaks!

17:00 - ...Emergent World-Building through Procedural Generation

20:15 - Call In: Bos Bossman - Crunch & Flow

20:46 - ...Character Customization & Archetypal Dynamic

24:04 - ...The Benefit of Predictability in Maintaining Flow

25:45 - The Calls of M. W. Lewis!

26:01 - ...for Love of Henchmen

30:08 - ...on The Rogue's Gallery

32:08 - Outro

-- Links --

Don't Split The Party, Roles: http://harbingergames.blogspot.com/search/label/monks

Mr Hobbs: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-hobbs

Splitting the Party with Procedures: https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/2021/08/do-split-party.html

The Worlds of M. W. Lewis: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mwlewis/

The Rogue's Gallery: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tsr+the+rogues+gallery