RPGs & Baby Makes 3 - The Podcast

Gretchen and Rob discuss the idea, "Should we even bother rolling?" Plus: Bad Indian food, indigestion, Pilsbury dough samosa, tomato soup, tortilla naan, saag paneer, Bollywood, Hercules and Xena, Atlanta, Renaissance Faire, leather armor, West End Games, d6, Streetwise, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Perseus, Athens, Lizard Man, Iason, Medusa, Euryale, The Gorgon’s Curse, Jennifer Saint, Hera, Electra, Ar...

On this episode of RPGs & Baby Makes 3, Rob and Gretchen discuss a sentence that gives DMs major anxiety: It's what my character would do. Plus: What’s your alignment? Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse Hercules and Xena West End Games D6 Greek Myths Perseus The Cyclops Mothra Frankenstein DnD 5th Edition Dungeon of the Mad Mage Dragon Heist Wizards of the Coast Hasbro Game Church...

Gretchen and Rob start the show by discussing recent sessions of Old Gods of Appalachia and Old School Essentials, before moving to the main topic: Geeks, Nerds, & Dorks   Plus: Setting Expectations; Old Gods of Appalachia; Monte Cook Games; Roll the Bones; Savannah, Georgia; Party Foul; Renegade Paws; One Love; Chicken Salad Chick; Thank You Brandon; Character Names; Molasses Taffy; Ironsworn...

Gretchen and Rob have been through the wringer. This: Car Crash; Friday the 13th; Full Moon; Black Cats; Odin; Road Rage; Meth Addict; Oatland Island; Wildlife Rehabilitation; Halloween Hike; Sirenhead; Siren Head; Toddler; Preschooler; Broken Bones; Clumsy; EMT; Urgent Care; Children’s Hospital; Emergency Room; Fentanyl; Memorial Health; Surgery; Washington Commanders Versus Atlanta Falcons; Barb...

On this episode, Gretchen and Rob discuss Necrotic Gnome’s Old School Essentials, immersion in roleplaying games, and kids on planes and in restaurants. Plus: Water Key; Forsyth Park; Savannah, Georgia; Adulting; Home Ownership; Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse; Kids on Bikes; More Differenter Games; 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons; Grumpy Gretchen; Dice Superstition; B/X D&D; I...

On this episode, Gretchen and Rob air Rob's interview with Friendly Local Game Store owner Ben Flood, whose new shop Roll the Bones is set to open in Savannah, Georgia on August 19th, 2023! Learn more via the article Rob wrote about the space for the Savannah Morning News here: https://www.savannahnow.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/08/02/roll-the-bones-new-midtown-savannah-hobby-shop-and-gamin...

Michael Wight, aka GremlinLegions, is the creator of Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse the Roleplaying Game, based on the similarly-titled Junior Braves of the Apocalypse, by Greg Smith, Michael Tanner, and Zach Lehner. Rob had the chance to speak with Wight for his column for the Savannah Morning News, and on this episode he and Gretchen play a bit of that conversation, and discuss t...

Gretchen and Rob discuss their haul from this year's FREE RPG DAY! Plus: I’m helping; Golden Child; Hell Child; Allergies; LARPing as a contented mother; Monsoon season; Hot in Georgia; AD&D 2nd Edition; Krakenheim; Ice Barbarians; Greyhawk; Lord Cas; Americanize; 2-Player Campaign; Awkward; White Wolf; Changling; World of Darkness; Storyteller; Balloon shadows; Happy Birthday; Temple of Elemental...

Gretchen has been spending a lot of time pretending to be a fox named Oatmeal. Find out why in this week's episode! Plus: Someone knows; Wayne’s World dissolve; Roll for Initiative; Yowling Cats; Sickness; Ghosts of Saltmarsh; 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons; Session Zero; Session 1; Losing Players; 4 Players and a DM; Dungeon Master; Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh; Seagull-based Aarakocra; Merfolk;...

Gretchen and Rob are just about to start a new Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Ghosts of Saltmarsh Campaign, and they discuss the ways in which they're preparing for the first meetup. Plus: Lap Cat; Broken Tail; Odin; Hell Mother’s Day; Sinister Secrets of Saltmarsh; Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition; Crown Royal Canadian whisky; Polyhedral Dice; Ocean Theme; Field Notes; 5e Character Journals; Gretch...

Gretchen and Rob recount their truly horrible Mother's Day. Then they unbox Rob's recent Adventure Scents order from Oddfish Games, scents that he plans on using for his upcoming Ghosts of Saltmarsh 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons game. Plus: Testing; Wayne’s World; Magical; Disney; Happy Mother’s Day; Villain; Critical Fail; Dice; d6; Snake Eyes; Snakebitten; Like and Subscribe; Parenting is Har...

Gretchen and Rob discuss poor treatment by a group of players towards their DM as noted in an article from the internet. Here’s the article we chat about in this podcast, if you’d like to give it a read: https://www.cbr.com/dnd-dm-harassed-players-ending-campaign/   Plus: Checking the weather; Weather Forgetter; Whimsical Tales; Doo Doo Dee Doo; Wayne’s World; Parkside Neighborhood Association Mee...

Don't forget to Like and Subscribe!!! We watched the original trilogy of Dungeons & Dragons movies so that you don't have to! Plus: Wayne’s World; Doodly Do; Tia Carrera; Chuck E. Cheese’s; Ski-ball; Ball pit; broken games; Janky; Savannah, Georgia; Animatronics; Chucky; Life; AD&D; 2nd Edition; The Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Like and Subscribe; Apple Podcasts; Spotify; Ice Barbarian; S...

Gretchen and Rob discuss Rob's recent Savannah Morning News Sunday column about the monthly Dungeons & Dragons event at VFW post 660 in Savannah, Georgia. Plus: Wayne’s World; Podcasting; Spotify; Tia Carrera; cpap machine; pap smear machine; What is Roleplaying…Again; Amanda Plageman; The Simpsons; Nelson; HaHa; Naturally Contrarian; Debate; Inclusion; Black, White, and Gray (or Grey); Updating P...

Like and Subscribe! And e-mail us RPGsandBabyMakes3@gmail.com ! What defines Roleplaying? Playing a Roleplaying Game Versus Roleplaying As A Concept? Plus: Wayne’s World; OSR; The Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Frank Mentzer; Old School Renaissance; Oh Snap Roleplaying; Origami Shape Reconstruction; Don’t Split the Party; Assassin; Dagger of Venom; Evil DM; Dungeon Crawl; Dungeon Master; D&...

On this episode, we delve into an important topic: GRETCHEN HATES D&D!! Plus: Falafel wrap with fries; Playing a sitter to make a podcast and play games; Low Stakes by Nerdberger Games; Aberrant by White Wolf 1999 version; Is Session Zero considered playing the game?; Dresden Files RPG; The Fate System; Smelling Books; Evil Hat; Thirsty Sword Lesbians; Umbrella Academy; Dungeons & Dragons 3.5; Pre...

New-ish format, same old shenanigans! Gretchen and Rob chat about: Sick kids; Playing in a Cyberpunk 2020 Tournament; Goodman Games’ Temple of Elemental Evil; Pathfinder is Crunchy, Unless You’re A Brute; Playing the Games You Want to Play; Gem Room Games’ 9 Lives To Valhalla; Nerdberger Games’ Low Stakes; Ghost Table; Parental Reflexes; Anne Rice; White Wolf’s Vampires; The Jasmine Throne by Tash...

Is this our best or our worst episode yet? You decide! After starting the show with a discussion of the Ironsworn RPG, we moved to sort of talking about "Storytelling" versus "Gaming." After agreeing on almost everything, we also talked about tea, rabies, and tropes in grim dark fantasy.  With your hosts Gretchen Hilmers & Rob Hessler!   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ Music: D. J. Pinto -...

After a discussion about Rob's adoration of the GM-less game Ironsworn (and our upcoming livestream of a new Post-Apocalyptic campaign using the ruleset), he and Gretchen discuss playing characters boldly. Tune in as Rob goes from rigidly proclaiming that you should go all-in all the time with your PCs, to making all sorts to caveats after Gretchen presents numerous smart counterpoints that he had...

Got a young kid and still want to play tabletop RPGs? On this episode, Gretchen and Rob discuss how they handle it. Also, Rob talks about his love for "Keeping the Lights On," while Gretchen laments on character creation randomizers. A way to spend an entire hour!

Character death is a part of roleplaying games, but how do we process when one of the players at our table passes away in real life? On this special episode of RPGs & Baby Makes 3, we invite Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and avid gamer Savanah Kite to the show to discuss how we deal with true tragedy at our tables.

How do we play differently in campaigns versus one-shots? Gretchen and Rob discuss the merits and flaws of both, including which type of games they think bring out the best moments in a roleplaying game. Also, they talk about potty training.

After a hiatus induced by two months of illness and the death of one of our longtime players, Gretchen and Rob talk about something that's easy for us, as passionate gamers, to forget: It's only a game.

This week we're excited to welcome Ben Sperduto of Last Redoubt Games back into the studio to talk about his latest project, "Hounds of the Tsar!" Ben is currently offering physical copies of the game on Kickstarter through Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:00 PM EDT via https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bsperduto/hounds-of-the-tsar-print-edition?ref=user_menu Sperduto describes Hounds of the Tsar a...

It's AD&D 2nd Edition versus 3-5/Pathfinder verses Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition in a No Holds Barred cage match 47 years in the making!!! Which version of D&D is the best? Tune In! With special guests Lord Cas, Endre, Amanda Plageman, and Kat Valentine!   Opening Title Music Credit: ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ Music: D. J. Pinto - The Punisher Link: https://youtu.be/4LHOhdKMRsk Music...