RPGBOT.Podcast - Session 0
03/10/22 • 55 min
In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss Session 0. We discuss pitching game ideas, establishing expectations, TTRPG safety tools, and collaborative character creation. We recommend and discuss some helpful tools like pre-game surveys, the “X Card”, improv games, and tools like Decuma and Curse of Strahd’s Tarroka deck.
Special thanks to @Winglady14 on Twitter and on the RPGBOT.Discord for the question of the week.
If you’ve enjoyed the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and rate us on Spotify or your favorite podcast app. It’s a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. You can find links in the show notes.
MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes
- RPGBOT.Podcast Episode 7 – Character Optimization
- RPGBOT.Podcast Episode 9 – Death
- RPGBOT.Podcast S2 E8 – Adapting Media to a Tabletop RPG (Part 1)
- RPGBOT.News – Caleb Valorozo-Jones on Neurodiversity in TTRPGs
- RPGBOT.News – Jonathan G. Nelson of AAW Games
Articles from RPGBOT.net
Dungeons and Dragons 5e
- Curse of Strahd (affiliate link)
- Eberron: Rising from the Last War (affiliate link)
- Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (affiliate link)
- Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (affiliate link)
Other Stuff
- Decuma from Golden Lasso Games (affiliate link)
- Dungeons: The Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition (This is the creator’s blogspot blog, and yes the official download is from Mediafire)
- Firefly
- Red Hand of Doom (affiliate link)
- Rise ...
In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss Session 0. We discuss pitching game ideas, establishing expectations, TTRPG safety tools, and collaborative character creation. We recommend and discuss some helpful tools like pre-game surveys, the “X Card”, improv games, and tools like Decuma and Curse of Strahd’s Tarroka deck.
Special thanks to @Winglady14 on Twitter and on the RPGBOT.Discord for the question of the week.
If you’ve enjoyed the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and rate us on Spotify or your favorite podcast app. It’s a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. You can find links in the show notes.
MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes
- RPGBOT.Podcast Episode 7 – Character Optimization
- RPGBOT.Podcast Episode 9 – Death
- RPGBOT.Podcast S2 E8 – Adapting Media to a Tabletop RPG (Part 1)
- RPGBOT.News – Caleb Valorozo-Jones on Neurodiversity in TTRPGs
- RPGBOT.News – Jonathan G. Nelson of AAW Games
Articles from RPGBOT.net
Dungeons and Dragons 5e
- Curse of Strahd (affiliate link)
- Eberron: Rising from the Last War (affiliate link)
- Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (affiliate link)
- Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (affiliate link)
Other Stuff
- Decuma from Golden Lasso Games (affiliate link)
- Dungeons: The Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition (This is the creator’s blogspot blog, and yes the official download is from Mediafire)
- Firefly
- Red Hand of Doom (affiliate link)
- Rise ...
Previous Episode
S2 Episode 9 Part 2 - Playing to Alignment featuring the Fantastic Dr. Terrance MacMullan
In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss alignment with Doctor Terry Macmullan.
Due to the length of the episode, we’ve split this episode into two parts. Whenever you’re ready, enjoy part 2, where the hosts explore Random and Tyler’s example media and answer the question of the week.
MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
- Doctor Terry Macmullan @PhilosphyDM
RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes
- RPGBOT.podcast Episode 0 – The Adventure Begins
- RPGBOT.podcast Episode 3 – Metacurrencies in Tabletop RPGs
Dungeons and Dragons 5e
- Player’s Handbook (affiliate link) or the Basic Rules
- Alignment
DnD 3.5
- Atonement – It got rolled into Ceremony in DnD 5e
- Helm of Opposite Alignment – Did not make it into 5e
Other Stuff
Next Episode
RPGBOT.News - dScryb Co-Founder David Shulman
In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we talk to David Shulman, co-founder of dScryb. We discuss dScryb’s growing library of boutique descriptive text, their new character descriptions service, and their upcoming addition of character portrait services.
Subscribe to dScryb (affiliate link). Use coupon code “RPGBOT” for 10% off the first month of your Hero tier subscription.
If you’ve enjoyed the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and rate us on Spotify or your favorite podcast app. It’s a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. You can find links in the show notes.
MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
- Scenes from dScryb (affiliate links)
- Amiable Jack – Random’s character from the RPGBOT.Oneshot episodes
- Candle of Diligent Labors
- Dead Tree in a Swamp
- Georg – Tyler’s character from the RPGBOT.Oneshot episodes
- Shrine Forest
- dScryb March Giveaway – Six Issues of Crucible Magazine + Four dScryb Player Subscriptions + One Year of dScryb Hero Membership
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