tryingtobekind

Trying To Be Kind

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Mahar, Fiona, and Jared do their best to say insightful things about one book or another in the tabletop RPG space.

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Jul 14, 2025

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Episodes

Season 4, Episode 2: Dexterity 04.07.2022

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone .

Season 4, Episode 1: Religion Is Interesting To Me 16.05.2022

Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015. With special guest Joe DeSimone .

Season 3, Episode 2: Swamplet Johansson 01.04.2022

In which we continue to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts . With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission . Music by Kelley Mangahas and Chris Zabriskie.

Season 3, Episode 1: Critical Hearts, A Monster Role Story 28.02.2022

In which we begin to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts . With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission . Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Elusive Wrap-Up 04.02.2022

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson. Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Sauna Episode 10.12.2021

Don't worry, this episode is content free. Just taking a breather to shoot the shoot. Happy holidays!   Music by Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Elusive Shift, The Role of the GM 07.11.2021

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson. Music by Joshua Cerdenia and Kelley Mangahas.

Season 2, Episode 1: The Elusive Shift, Communities 09.10.2021

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.   Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Season 2, Episode 0: The Elusive Shift 06.09.2021

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.   Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 8: The Episode with a Content Warning 02.08.2021

CW: Discussion of insensitive remarks made by others regarding mental health, neurotype, and disability. --- Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 7: The Phenomenology of Being Ron Edwards 05.07.2021

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.    Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 6: Suffused with a Jaunty Arrow 02.05.2021

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).

Episode 5: Hashtag Influencers 05.04.2021

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  https://www.across-rpgsea.com/ https://momatoes.itch.io/the-magus https://dropbear-games.itch.io/fragments https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RPGLATAM&src=typed_query https://metalsnail.itch.io/colouring-book-dungeons https://dastardlydave.itch.io/eat-trash-be-free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ming Monkeys Spinning Monkey...

Episode 4: Contrary Energy 01.03.2021

Discussing Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 3: Activate Discourse 31.01.2021

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 2: Implausible and Invidious 31.12.2020

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode 1: Ethics and Dragonlance 30.11.2020

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Episode 0: Forgetting the Forge 30.10.2020

Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.  Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

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