Roleplay Rescue

Che Webster

Did you used to play roleplaying games back in the day, delving dungeons with funny dice in hand? Why’d you stop? Find out how to reclaim your RPG hobby as a working adult.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Roleplay Rescue episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Roleplay Rescue for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Roleplay Rescue episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Old-School Essentials With Doug Cole

Roleplay Rescue

08/07/22 • 49 min

A short while ago I was privileged to be able to catch Doug for a chat about his forthcoming projects, most notably his entry into the Old-School Essentials B/X D&D space, with a really cool Kickstarter running until the tail end of August 2022.

Big thanks to Doug for coming to speak to us and I hope you find this conversation illuminating. Especially look out for Doug talking about a few new projects previously unreported...

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingballistic/old-school-solo-adventures

Gaming Ballistic: http://gamingballistic.com/

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Email: [email protected]

Blog: roleplayrescue.com

MeWe Group: mewe.com/join/roleplayrescue (or search "Roleplay Rescue")

Twitter: @ubiquitousrat

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore: Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama (podbean.com) or https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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GURPS Fourth Edition

Roleplay Rescue

10/12/24 • 41 min

On April 2nd 2004, Pyramid Magazine published an article entitled, “Designer's Notes: GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition” by Sean Punch. Twenty years from that article in 2004, GURPS - the Generic Universal Role-Playing System - is still with us. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not a dead game. GURPS Fourth Edition might be out of fashion but it’s truly a standard in the RPG community.

Last episode, I spoke of my rediscovery of the spirit of the Third Edition through the pages of Roleplayer. A month on, I have arrived back with the Fourth Edition of GURPS. Having enjoyed a journey into the early 1990s GURPS community, I was also aware that GURPS received an overhaul in 2004. This episode is a reflection on the power of that RPG system: it’s time to unleash this power and flexibility into my experience of play.

Big thanks to Matt C and Jason W for the call-ins this episode!

Thanks also to Steve Jackson Games for creating GURPS and keeping the game alive for nearly 40 years.

Game on!

GURPS Basic Set on Warehouse23:

GURPS Basic Set: Characters and Campaigns | Warehouse 23

warehouse23.com/collections/gurps/products/gurps-basic-set-characters-and-campaigns

GURPS Lite on Warehouse23:

GURPS Lite (Fourth Edition) | Warehouse 23

warehouse23.com/products/gurps-lite-fourth-edition

GURPS Lite on DriveThruRPG:

GURPS Lite (Fourth Edition) - Steve Jackson Games | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition - Start Here! | DriveThruRPG

drivethrurpg.com/en/product/236828/gurps-lite-fourth-edition

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Patreon:

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Email:

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Blog

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Bluesky Social:

https://bsky.app/profile/ubiquitousrat.bsky.social

MeWe:

https://mewe.com/p/roleplayrescue

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

Logo and artwork by MJ Hiblen:

https://www.patreon.com/MJHiblenART/

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GM's Journal #19

Roleplay Rescue

06/26/19 • 48 min

Witterings, call-ins and replies, and more ramblings from my addled GM brain. As ever, it's another selection of audio journal entries from my own gaming experience. Listen at your peril!

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309 Talking Savage Worlds With Frank Turfler

Roleplay Rescue

06/22/19 • 71 min

I talked about Savage Worlds back in Season 2, Episode 6 when I spoke about Five Games that I’d recommend everyone at least take a good look at. With my recent focus on creating a multi-genre campaign, something which I believe Savage Worlds would excel at delivering, I decided to talk to someone whose been not just using the game but also writing for it.

Frank Turfler been playing tabletop RPGs for at least 35 years and is the voice behind Frank T’s Liner Notes, an Anchor podcast in which he shares what he’s up to with Print and Paste Tabletop Terrain, Techniques, Theory, and other things Tabletop RPG related. Frank creates modular tile-sets that can be printed and assembled in just about any configuration to match the encounter you need, and he releases these through his Patreon. Frank also offers his work through DriveThruRPG under the Middle Kingdoms Adventure & Trading Company. A percentage of all proceeds from his titles goes to the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation, which has care centers all across Arizona, USA.

Useful Links:

Frank T's Liner Notes: anchor.fm/FrankT

Frank T's Patreon: patreon.com/FrankT

Savage Worlds: peginc.com/product-category/savage-worlds

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GM's Journal #15: Sharing The Mo

Roleplay Rescue

06/05/19 • 43 min

This episode was largely recorded during the school break when I was off work for a week. It's a mash-up of two elements: the usual ups and downs of my own life as a GM plus a whole bunch of lovely call-ins from listeners who had something to say about losing momentum, the last episode's key moment. There are some heart-felt replies to my question as to whether I am alone in this problem. Clearly, I am not. Thank you to everyone who called in and shared their own perspective on the question of maintaining positive momentum!

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GM's Journal #3

Roleplay Rescue

03/10/19 • 30 min

A third dose of my GM prep ramblings during which I share my preparation for the Rise of The Dragon Kings campaign using Castles & Crusades. I touch on where the school club game is and mumble some thoughts on the Saturday night game too. This is a laid-bare peek behind the GM's screen and not for the faint-hearted. Enter at your peril!

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Primaeval Fantasy with Daniel Jones

Roleplay Rescue

01/13/24 • 69 min

This is the first in a series of four new conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Daniel Jones of the Primaeval Fantasy YouTube and podcast channels, plus the Eudaimonic Geekery blog. I ask him to outline the nature of what he means by the term, “Primaeval Fantasy” as a sub-genre of fantasy world making.

Daniel is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersion and a proponent of the idea that changing the methodology of our roleplaying games is the key to changing the experience we have at the table. For those who don’t know him, Daniel is a published author and game designer. If you want to hear our earlier conversations about Otherworld-immersion, please check out Season 6, Episode 10; Season 9, Episode 14; Season 10, Episode 19, Season 11 Episode 22, and Season 12, Episode 21.

Big thanks in advance to Daniel for coming back to Roleplay Rescue for this raw, unedited conversation between two gamers. As ever, it was an illuminating and fascinating conversation. I hope you find something of interest in here too.

Game on!

Awakenings and Evolutions with Crispy on Primaeval Fantasy YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTae19wN9Hk

Primæval Fantasy • A podcast on Anchor:

https://anchor.fm/primeval-fantasy

FRPG Thoughts | Good Daemon Geekery (danielionson.wixsite.com)

https://danielionson.wixsite.com/good-daemon

Roleplay Rescue Details:

Voice Message:

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Patreon:

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Email:

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Blog:

roleplayrescue.com

Bluesky Social:

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MeWe:

https://mewe.com/p/roleplayrescue

Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales:

https://shows.acast.com/roleplay-rescues-solo-tales

Nottingham Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Meetup Group:

https://www.meetup.com/nottingham-roleplaying-games-rpgs-meetup-group/

Roleplay Rescue Theme by Jon Cohen from Tale of the Manticore:

https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

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BRP Call-ins (Bonus)

Roleplay Rescue

09/01/21 • 23 min

Another bonus call-in episode focused on Basic Roleplaying, aka BRP. These are responses to Season 9 Episode 11.

Big thanks to the callers: Evil Jeff, Graham aka First Age. Arlen, Brian, and Jason C. Highly appreciated stuff!

Game on!

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Roleplay Rescue Theme Song and incidental music by TJ Drennon.

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913 Eisen's Vow

Roleplay Rescue

08/28/21 • 23 min

In April 1975, a scant 13 months after the publication of Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax asked Sandy Eisen a question that elicited a response which I think many modern gamers would find surprising. Writing in Europa Issue 6-8, at the end of his second article on “How to set up your Dungeons & Dragons campaign”, Gygax picks up on a comment from an earlier issue of the ‘zine in which Eisen had stated that D&D was not really as open-ended as it seemed to be. Gygax wanted to know why Eisen felt this way and so he did the thing that good creatives do: he asked Eisen why. The reply Eisen gave ignited a debate which we, some 45 years on, have forgotten. This came to be known as Eisen's Vow.

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Roleplay Rescue Theme Song and incidental music by TJ Drennon.

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Fudging It with Joe from Dekahedron

Roleplay Rescue

04/19/25 • 55 min

This one's a conversation with Joe, the host of the Dekahedron podcast where he talks about his love of the tabletop RPG hobby. On his show Joe talks about a range of stuff from OSR gameplay ideas through to newer (?) games like Fudge and Dungeon World.

Joe's renowned for his honesty in RPG reviews and it’s that which triggered an invitation to the show. He recently did a couple of episodes reviewing Fudge (1995) and so I invited him on to explore it a little more.

Big thanks to Joe for taking the time to talk Fudge. I know I enjoyed it and I hope you did to!

Game on!

Links to stuff in the episode:

Dekahedron Podcast: www.dekahedron.com

Dekahedron on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIenKcZZRol5yCPO46iaAUJgq-Ju5bMi

The Anchorite APA: sites.google.com/view/anchorite/home

Fudge Website: https://fudgerpg.com/

Fudge 1995 Rules PDF (free):

FUDGE 1995 Edition (PDF Bookmarked) 1.0

https://fudgerpg.com/goodies/fudge-files/download/3-core/54-fudge-1995-pdf-bookmarked.html

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