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 157 - Bearing False Witness (The Ten Commandments, Part 9)
STG 156 - Treasure Without Theft
STG 155 - Unwritten Rules (with Geek at Arms)
STG 154 - Theft (The Ten Commandments, Part Eight)
STG 153 - Publishing (with Kyle Rudge)
STG 152 - Biblical Figures: Jonah
STG 151 - Actual Play (with Ryan Felton)
STG 150 - Why We Love Games
STG 149 - Unlikely Heroes (with Rev. Derek White)
STG 148 - Angels in our Games
STG 147 - Angels and Angelology
STG 146 - Adultery (The Ten Commandments, Part Seven)
STG 145 - Roleplaying Mental Illnesses
Bonus Episode 18 - Objectives and Key Results
STG 144 - Hacking Published Adventures
STG 143 - Good Gaming Sessions (with Greg Stolze)
STG 142 - Biblical Figures: Samson
Bonus Episode 17 - The Tiny Sunglasses Method of Character Creation
Episode 141 - The Sixth Commandment (The Ten Commandments, Part 6)
Episode 140 - Undeath
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