Greg Southwell

Towards a Christian Role Playing Game

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A podcast describing how I am building a biblically based Table Top Role Playing Game using Christian principles and Biblical classes and gifts. This podcast talks through the process I am going through to create the system and also my thoughts about Christian theology and ideals relate to aspects of game and also pop culture and what it means to be Heroic in today's world.

Author

Greg Southwell

Episodes

Episode 4 - Building a Character - Attributes and Talents 08.06.2026 13:38

This episode talks about how I'm trying to go about creating character using a Biblical template, figuring out the basic skills and what areas to focus on. I'm taking a few scriptures as the basis of the general characteristics and applying that to 4 main areas or attributes. This is not supposed to be taken as literal but its trying to be as faithful to the Biblical standard as I can within reaso...

Episode 3 - The Setting 08.06.2026 6:13

Talks about possible settings for the TTRPG. The aim isn't to have just one setting but to be fairly "setting agnostic" and be able to be used in several different historical, present day and even future scenarios. This means it needs to be standard but flexible enough across different time period and situations.

Episdoe 2 - The Lore (and the prophets) 08.06.2026 8:53

Episode 2 - Talking about the what kinds of games this TTRPG would be doing and what different genres and adventures that could be run.

Episode 1 - In the beginning 11.05.2026 7:55

Welcome to Episode 1, in which Greg asks the question, "Why am I doing this??" "What do I hope to achieve?" "How am I going about it?" And, "What on Earth is this thing I'm talking about anyway??"

Introduction 29.04.2026 7:52

In which I introduce the idea of a Christian Role playing game, why on earth am I doing it and what is the purpose of it anyway...? This is a soft introduction to the whole idea.