Roleing Imperfection

In this week’s episode, Steve and Kevin move our player focused season forward. This episode is about using vulnerability to create an interesting character. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Link to Long Background Sheet Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com...

In this week’s episode, Steve and Kevin continue our player focused fifth season. This episode contains some tough love as we go over how to take a static character and make them into a dynamic character, both willingly and somewhat unwillingly. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Link to Long Background Sheet Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a com...

In this week’s episode, Steve and Kevin begin our player focused fifth season. This season we’re looking to make some suggestions to the players. We’re starting with making more dynamic, complex characters because that’s where it all begins. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@g...

In this week’s episode, Steve, Kevin, and surprise guest–even to us–Trong discuss another massive Science Fiction genre: the Mecha genre. Its common setting is war, but it branches out into multiple subgenres, like space opera, crime, and cyberpunk. We focus on how much the pilots are the center of the genre, but it often goes beyond just piloting and into the personal issue and eccentricities of...

In the third of our “punk trilogy,” Steve and Kevin talk about the broad strokes of the Cyberpunk genre. Its blend of noir and classic science fiction makes it much more versatile than one might think. Also, we review the various subgenres that have spun out of this Science Fiction revolution. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfe...

In the second of our “punk trilogy,” Steve and Kevin discuss the minutiae of Nanopunk. This weird little subgenre covers both making things small and using nanomachines to do a wide variety of things. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimp...

In the first of our “punk trilogy,” Steve and Kevin discuss Biopunk, the use of living instead of cybernetics to improve humanity. It has may permutations from plagues to body horror. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Se...

In our 100th episode, Steve questions Kevin about how GMs can deal with unexpected player moves. Will he be stumped, or will he have multiple answers for each?!? Thanks for joining us for 100 official episodes! We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: htt...

In this episode, Kevin and Steve talk about setting up a post apocalyptic game. Admittedly, it is a huge topic, and we’re definitely setting up some future deep dives. We discuss plague, climate, nuclear, magic, and technology caused post-apocalypses in some depth with mentions of monster, alien, and zombie apocalypses on the board for their own episodes. We hope you enjoy and take care of yoursel...

In this episode, Kevin and Steve go in search of a long forgotten genre: The Lost World genre. It has been seen in a few recent films: Shang Chi and Kong: Skull Island . However, we’re looking at all the permutations! We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our websi...

In this episode, Kevin and Steve discuss how to make wishes more interesting. Wish spells can do quite a bit, and arguably should be more usable, but there should always be consequences. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/...

In this episode, Kevin and Steve explore parallel worlds. Multiverses are all the rage, so we go over the varied kinds: Sliding Doors, Alternate History, Simulated Reality/Fictionalized Universes, Fantasy visions/tales, traditional Multiverses, Convergent Evolution (pure and contamination), and Isekai, of course. We also discuss what multiverse games should do. We hope you enjoy and take care of y...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss the new book: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse . We go over our impressions of the race adjustments and talk about more monsters! We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Amazon River Dolphin Baphomet Pic (NSFW) Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visi...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss how to adapt monsters and then count down our Top 5 Monsters. We talk about why we picked them and how we would, or have, used them. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Send us a ti...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss what elements make a classic coming of age story. We talk mostly about recapturing youth and some of the things that make people want to return to that time in their lives. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website:...

In this (slightly late) May the Fourth episode, Steve and Kevin talk about one of our favorite subjects: Star Wars. We talk about selecting an era and planet. We also look into managing a vast amount of galactic races. There's also the question of managing the often overpowered Jedi and Sith... We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Star Wars Races Infographic Interact with us on Twit...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about how to get a party back together after breaking it apart. We mention several scenarios to get groups to focus on their problems, depending on what kind of problem caused the initial group split. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmai...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about how to get a party to trust each other and then how to destroy that trust. We also focus on when to break up the party. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Send us a tip on Ko-fi...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss the ways that a spy game can engage your players! We talk about supervillainy, agency stuff, types of agents, and setting quirks. It’s a surprisingly adaptable genre. We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https:...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about ways to use buddy cop tropes to make your game better! We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Send us a tip on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/roimperfection Interact with us on Mastodon:...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about using multiple genres to enhance a game.   We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Send us a tip on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/roimperfection Interact with us on Mastodon: https://dice...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about fitting and adapting fables and fairy tales into a game. We spend some time on making a genre often thought of as silly more serious.  We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Revamped Fairy Tale Items: Iceglass Fragment Iceglass Fragment on DnDBeyond Memory Comb Memory Comb on DnDBeyond Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfecti...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about the much misunderstood Hard Science Fiction. We differentiate it from Soft/Social Science Fiction and then spend most our time talking about cool concepts and how they've been used in various media.  We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfe...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss the wide ranging Space Opera genre. We cover what makes it special and how far it has come from its less reputable origin.  We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com Visit our website: https://roimperfection.com/ Send us a tip on Ko-f...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin discuss the surprisingly far-reaching Martial Arts genre. We discuss Martial Arts with and without weapons as well as many of the plotlines, tropes, and some surprisingly forward thinking concepts.  We hope you enjoy and take care of yourselves! Interact with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoImperfection Send us a comment or question: roimperfection@gmail.com V...