Internet Office Hours: Role-Playing Games!

Clerics 04.08.2025 48:58 ↓

Alex, Whidou, Kayden, Laurens

Ultraviolet Grasslands 19.11.2024 58:05 ↓

Alex and Whidou talk about running the Ultraviolet Grasslands (UVG).

Traveller Life Paths 05.11.2024 1:01:06 ↓

Alex, Hasran, Dr. Kalt, Laurens talk abot life paths in Traveller, the random characters people get out of character generation and how to deal with it as a referee.

Maps and mapping 04.09.2024 52:39 ↓

Alex, Gottfried, Peter, Whidou talk about maps and mapping, how to create them, how to describe them, how to draw them, their reduction to point-crawls and its equivalence to hex-maps.

Rumours 29.04.2024 49:48 ↓

Alex, Peter, Whidou talk about how useful rumours are in modules, how to best write rumours for your own games, and how to act upon rumours as a player.

Trade 21.12.2023 59:01 ↓

Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about how to make trading interesting, mostly in the context of Ultraviolet Grasslands and Classic Traveller.

Traveller 22.11.2023 52:08 ↓

Alex, Laurens, Michael, Richard talk about what it takes to run a good Classic Traveller game.

Lore 23.09.2023 55:28 ↓

Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about making lore relevant in games.

Hexcrawls 24.07.2023 59:59 ↓

Alex, Peter and Whidou talk about hexcrawls: what works, what doesn't work, what about old ones, what about new ones, and what we like to run.

Narrative Games 11.05.2023 1:10:29 ↓

Alex, Ben, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about narrative games and how old school D&D and narrative games have some commonalities.

One Page Dungeons 05.05.2023 55:27 ↓

Alex, Peter and Random Wizard talk about the One Page Dungeon Contest. Why did Alex and Random Wizard stop running it? How to best use them?

Writing vs. Playing 22.04.2023 57:57 ↓

Alex, Peter and Richard talk about writing games instead of playing them.

Published vs Sandbox Content 03.04.2023 53:58 ↓

Gary, Laurens, Peter talk about published vs. sandbox content for our games.

Bonus Bonus Episode! Character Creation 01.04.2023 25:13 ↓

Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah create characters for The Dark Eye and Alex tries to explain how it works.

Bonus Episode! Actual Play of The Forest of No Return 01.04.2023 1:22:36 ↓

Alex, Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah play through the first adventure for the first edition of The Dark Eye.

Group Cooperation 27.03.2023 1:02:44 ↓

Gary, Peter and Alex talk about how to encourage cooperation.

Rumours and agency 21.03.2023 59:31 ↓

Alex, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about how to encourage players taking the initiative in a long campaign.

Fighters and what to do with them 13.03.2023 57:10 ↓

Gary, Peter, Robert talk about fighters and what to do with them.

Immersion and how to encourage it 06.03.2023 1:00:21 ↓

Gary, Laurens, Peter and Alex talk about what immersion is and where it comes from and discuss the things that encourage it.

The importance of a skill system 26.02.2023 59:02 ↓

Alex, Gary, Peter and Robert talk about the importance of having a skill system. Why have it, what does it do, how complicated should it be?

The importance of a setting 20.02.2023 42:23 ↓

Alex, Gary and Peter talk about the importance of a setting. What does it mean to have just the rules?