Judd Karlman

Daydreaming about Dragons

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Welcome to Daydreaming about Dragons, in which I'll think out loud about the techniques that help make tabletop role-playing games fun for me and my friends. Thomas Manuel, creator on Yes, Indie'd Podcast, Rascal News, and the Indie RPG Newsletter, said, "It is like 15 minute episodes and in each episode he solves an RPG problem. I mean he literally solves it. Every time I'm like, okay, cool, that is done. I wish more people knew that answer so we could stop arguing about it."

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Judd Karlman

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E66S2 Be awesomed #iamawesomedbyyou / I.G. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville 24.09.2020 24:12

Be awesomed by your friends at the table and one of my top five fantasy novels ever and what it can teach us about gaming... Links Inspiration Goat's Twitter | https://twitter.com/InspirationGoat | Daydreaming about Dragons youtube Playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnZ3uO0pp0rzRsfN_ObyhOdgaoeMs0TQ Bluecoats Playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4isWQ8hhybnDAj3...

Reply Show Story Now 22.09.2020 15:32

Responding to gaming stories sent in by daydreamers and friends. Links Cowboy Dracula Youtube Channel |  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZN_EGJcwm3VrC8UMe-Mahg/featured Lair of Secrets Podcast | https://lairofsecrets.com/ Brindlewood Bay, (Cozy Lovecraftian Mystery RPG) | https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307416/Brindlewood-Bay Inspiration Goat's Twitter | https://twitter.com/Inspiration...

Reply Show Autumn Cider 17.09.2020 23:25

Responding to gaming stories sent in by daydreamers and friends. Links: Inspiration Goat's twitter account! |  https://twitter.com/InspirationGoat Michael Miller's Incarnadine Press | http://ipressgames.com/ Ogre's Blog, Pens, Paper and Polyhedrals | https://penspaperpolyhedrals.wordpress.com/ The Actual Play Twitchstream | https://www.twitch.tv/actualplay Please support: Black Lives Matter G...

Episode 65 Table Techniques: Looking for that One Thing / IG: Game of Thrones and what we can learn from it about ending a campaign 14.09.2020 22:57

Episode 64 - Table Technique: Preludes from Vampire: the Masquerade | Inspiration Goat: Elric and losing 30.08.2020 28:49

Episode 63 - AP: Random Tables | IG: The FIend Folio (Githyanki) 23.08.2020 26:04

Random Tables are world building. And Inspiration Goat brings us the Githyanki my favorite monster of all time. Links Band of Blades | https://www.evilhat.com/home/band-of-blades/ | Stars Without Number (Free Edition) | https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/230009/Stars-Without-Number-Revised-Edition-Free-Version | Godbound (Free Edition) | https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/185959/Godbound-A-Gam...

Reply Show Summer's End 19.08.2020 13:15

Responding to gaming stories sent in by daydreamers and friends. Links Please support: Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktrans.org/campaigns/coronavirus-grant/ | Black Voters Matter | https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ | Contact: Judd's Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos...

Episode 62 - AP: Genre Expectations | IG: Star Trek Lower Decks 14.08.2020 23:19

Genre Expectations in play and Star Trek Lower Decks and how we can bring some of it to our tables. Links Blades in the Dark, Bluecoats youtube playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4isWQ8hhybnDAj3Xjz87Si5G | Burning Wheel, The Ballad of Bina Janos youtube playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4isVUi-fFiMR0XJJu6nHra2D Stars Without Number | https://www.dri...

Episode 61: AP - Mechanical and Pacing Expectations | IG: Perry Mason and corpses 02.08.2020 19:50

Mechanics and pacing in play. HBO's recent Perry Mason reboot and corpses in our games. Links Please support: Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktrans.org/campaigns/coronavirus-grant/ | Black Voters Matter | https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ | Perry Mason | https://www.imdb.com/t...

Episode 60 - AP: Brainstorming Gaming with Friends (in this case, with MadJay) IG: The Science Fiction Trinity Dials 19.07.2020 21:57

Brainstorming at the table and I think about the three classic science fiction franchise that form a triangle around my heart. Links Please support: Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktrans.org/campaigns/coronavirus-grant/ | Black Voters Matter | https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/...

Reply Show Ain't Easy 15.07.2020 20:05

Responding to gaming stories sent in by daydreamers and friends. Links  see blog post for full links Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktrans.org/campaigns/coronavirus-grant/ | Black Voters Matter | https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ |

Episode 59: AP: Dramatic Lingo \ IG: The Old Guard 12.07.2020 22:33

Links Feelings First Podcast: Under Hollow Hills 1 | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/under-hollow-hills-episode-1-kindling-candles/id1369020667?i=1000430985564 | Under Hollow Hills | https://lumpley.games/under-hollow-hills-about-the-game/ | Games from the Wild Wood | https://gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/ The Thief and the Necromancer in the Wizard's Grimoire series of games | https://lumple...

Episode 58 - AP: Bina Janos | IG: Zuko, Cattra and Hugo 06.07.2020 20:15

Links The Shoeless Peasant aka The Ballad of Bina Janos youtube playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4isVUi-fFiMR0XJJu6nHra2D | Avatar the Last Airbender | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/ She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7745956/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10482560/?ref_=nv_sr_sr...

Reply Show Garden 03.07.2020 15:12

The Ballad of Bina Janos aka The Shoeless Peasant | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4isVUi-fFiMR0XJJu6nHra2D | Too Much Judd (other podcasts I'm on this week) | https://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/too-much-judd/ Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktra...

Episode 57 - AP: When NOT to game IG: Book Covers and Blurbs 01.07.2020 17:54

Links Book cover Blog Post | https://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/book-covers-inspired-by-campaigns/ | Black Lives Matter Global Network | https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 | Black Trans Covid-19 Community Response Grant | https://blacktrans.org/campaigns/coronavirus-grant/ | Black Voters Matter | https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ |

Episode 56 - AP: Bad Ideas | IG: She-Ra/Wonder 26.05.2020 23:12

The Amazing Quinn Murphy | https://twitter.com/qh_murphy | Don't know what Kristallnacht is? Info from the Holocaust Museum | https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938/kristallnacht Judd's PDF's on Itch.io | https://juddkarlmangmailcom.itch.io/ | Judd on Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos |

Reply Show: Time is an Illusion 22.05.2020 12:21

Links Take on Rules, Desperate Role-Playing Moments | https://takeonrules.com/2020/05/08/desperate-role-playing-moments/ Alex Schroeder's Blog, Desperate Fights | https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2020-05-08_Desperate_Fights | Judd's PDF's on Itch.io | https://juddkarlmangmailcom.itch.io/ | Judd on Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos |

Episode 55 - AP: Improvisional Structure | IG: Show Intros 09.05.2020 23:16

Links Improvisational Worksheet |  https://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/improvisational-worksheet-from-ep-55-of-daydreaming-about-dragons/ | Show Intro Playlist | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnZ3uO0pp0p-OeIcpL4MpUbEKrhMstkd | Judd on Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos | Judd's Itch.io Page | https://juddkarlmangmailcom.itch.io/ |

Episode 54 - AP: GMing Parties/Feasts/Gatherings | IG: Place names in Black Company by Glen Cook 04.05.2020 20:05

Link Sly Flourish's Youtube Channel | https://www.youtube.com/user/SlyFlourish1 | Play by post with Daniel | https://the-song-of-hal-whitewyrm.obsidianportal.com/forum/chapter-vi-1st-of-ches-the-year-of-shadows-1358-dale-reckoning | Place Names on Black Company Wiki | https://blackcompany.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Locations Paid for in Blood | https://juddkarlmangmailcom.itch.io/paid-for-in-blood |...

Episode 53 - AP: Stras' Amazing Spell & Blade Questions | IG:Willow, Fin Razel vs. Queen Bavmorda 27.04.2020 17:57

Reply Show Washer Yer Hands 24.04.2020 15:30

Episode 52 - AP: Improving and Weaving | IG: Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts 17.04.2020 21:20

Links St. Hastad of the Pockets | https://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/st-hastad-of-the-pockets/ Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10482560/ | Paid for in Blood | https://juddkarlmangmailcom.itch.io/paid-for-in-blood | Judd on Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos |

Episode 51 - AP: Overbooked in Isolation | IG: No Goat, just Resources 30.03.2020 23:38

Links Madjay's Online Gaming Tech | https://medium.com/there-will-be-games/the-mad-jay-tech-stack-for-roleplaying-games-online-2b737037fc83 | Project Perseus on Actual Play | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4ivtzkQGjdrctS4Sx-NkSlA- | Trophy Gold | https://trophyrpg.com/ | Rebel Crown | https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeldunnoconnor/rebel-crown | Avery Alder's Game Design E...

Episode 50 3/23/20 - AP: Bestiary in Trophy Gold | IG: Beforeigners on HBO 23.03.2020 19:37

Reply Show Whisky Tango Foxtrot: Open Letter to a New GM and Reply with Robbie Boerth 18.03.2020 9:53

Links Robbie's Blog | http://ludoverse.blogspot.com/ Dictionary of Mu | https://pakasthreadgames.bigcartel.com/product/the-dictionary-of-mu | Judd's Twitter | https://twitter.com/Judd_of_Kryos