Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts

Download This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.

Download This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.

Download This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.

Download This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.

Download This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).

Download This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.

Download This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Roger’s masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.

Download This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.

Download This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.

Download This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost -historical setting.

Download It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other.

Download This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.

Download This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.

Download This month, Mike and Roger make our usual annual visit to RPG a Day .

Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss settings that didn't start as RPGs, and how to make your home base more interesting.

Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate another gameable age: the Stuart Restoration.

Download This month, Roger and Mike discuss the English Civil War and how it can be useful to role-playing.

Download This month, Mike and Roger contemplate madness in gaming, and attempt to don a veil of ignorance.

Download This month, Roger and Mike consider the history and utility of character classes… and do not reveal their True Names.

Download This month, Mike and Roger look at the history and current edition of RuneQuest, then talk with Dean Engelhardt about the new Cthulhu Eternal SRDs.