We're back with our angriest, most rant-filled episode yet! Well, not really—but there's a lot of passion in this episode, because we're talking about GMing traditions the gaming community still seems to support despite being destructive, uncomfortable, and simply wrong. First, though, we've got a question from Patreon backer Paige Lowe about how blatantly one should steal from other media when planning a game. After that, we tackle our Scripture as usual before diving into six common behaviors we still see: Adversarial GMing; monopolizing narrative control; turning exceptional successes into failures; misunderstanding metagaming; harming characters to punish players; and creating in-game penalties for missed gaming sessions.
Also: Grant was recently on the Gameable Saturday Morning Podcast (who are of course long-time friends of ours) to analyze an amazing and difficult cartoon from his childhood—Exo Squad. It's very long, because that's what happens when our podcasts combine! Here's Part 1, an introduction to the show and a breakdown of episodes and characters; and here's Part 2, an analysis of thematic elements and considerations for gaming in this setting. Enjoy!
Scripture: Leviticus 19:14-15, Ephesians 4:22-25, 2 Timothy 2:22-26
Episode 175 - Neutral Evil
Episode 174 - True Neutral (Alignments 5)
Bonus Episode 20 - Online Gaming
Episode 173 - Grant and Peter Brainstorm
Episode 172 - Neutral Good (Alignments 4)
Episode 171 - Vanquishing Evil (With Ashley Mowers and Derek White)
STG 170 - Pre-Game Tools (With Kimi Hughes)
STG 169 - Old Age And Retirement
STG 168 - Lawful Evil (Alignments 3)
STG Bonus 19 - "A Room with a View" (by Rev. Bob Lawrence)
STG 167 - Lawful Neutral (Alignments 2)
Episode 166 - Lawful Good (Alignments 1)
STG 165 - Unlikely Heroes (with Mike Perna)
STG 164 - Monsters
STG 163 - Collaboration Part Two (Electric Boogaloo)
STG 162 - Safety and Bleed with Dr. Sarah Lynne Bowman
STG 161 - Historical Games (with Daniel Kwan)
STG 160 - The Tenth Commandment (The Ten Commandments, Part 10)
STG 159 - We Built This City on Rock and Wool
STG 158 - Breaking Down a GM's First Game (with Krissi Woodward)
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