Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_071.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger remember Greg Stafford, bring recent events into their games, and consider the importance of Stuff, specifically the equipment list.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_070.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike run through the GURPS Spaceships series, and consider how and when to construct your own setting.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_069.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger revisit RPG-a-Day, and consider some possibilities for role-playing without violence.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_068.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider demonstration scenarios, revisit the Infinite Worlds, and contemplate how to encourage new players.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_067.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger indulge in crass commercialism, consider players who don't turn up reliably, look at high-powered games and how to keep them interesting, and delve into the pulps and what gaming can learn from them.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_066.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike (plus a supporting cast of birds and trains) fire players, think about themes that make them uncomfortable, and indulge in Ruritanian romance.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_065.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at RuneQuest that isn't RuneQuest, ponder why some campaigns just flow more easily than others, think about GURPS books that were never written, and work on long-term goals.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_064.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike consider a historical mystery, ponder how little you can get away with telling your players, and wonder whether a rigid lack of metaplot can be as bad as having metaplot in the first place.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_063.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at two games on special offer and one that's just interesting, and examine name lists and stats for NPCs.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_062.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike revisit <em>Fall of Magic</em>, and take a long introductory look at GURPS.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_061.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger look at what it takes to do <em>Star Trek</em> "right", and explore the language of role-playing and its native narrative forms; and Mike perpetrates a carefully-organised surprise.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_060.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, for our sixtieth episode, Roger and Mike are inspired by music, get decadent, and consider their equipment lists. The inspirational tracks for the first segment are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0D8U5fHbk">Rocketman</a> by the Red Elvises, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCUoNRXUQ8">Lucifer</a> by The Alan Parsons Project.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_059.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger wonder how you know when you're a good GM, consider their exploits as players, and consider the ideal composition of a player group.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_058.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike lack enthusiasm, contemplate great big detailed settings, and wonder how you lot got involved in role-playing games.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_057.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger contemplate types of government, and look at #RPGADay for 2017.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_056.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike give advice to the GM of a new time travel game, and consider the thousands of worlds of a Traveller-style setting: what makes them interesting? How can this work?</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_055.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger contemplate long-term campaigns with gaps, travel in gaming time, and consider tech levels: threat or menace?</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_054.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike talk about the new edition of Unknown Armies, and ask why mid-century hard SF has been relatively unrepresented in games.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_053.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Mike and Roger criticise themselves regarding <em>Pendragon</em>, consider intuition, revisit game recordings, and plan for disaster.</p>

<p><a href="/podcast/irtd_052.mp3">Download</a></p> <p>This month, Roger and Mike talk about the core concepts of magic, and distinguishing personality from backstory in character generation.</p> <p>With spoilers for Dennis Wheatley's <em>The Ka of Gifford Hillary</em> and Larry Niven's <em>The Magic Goes Away</em>.</p>