Reverend Jason D. Wood, a full-time pastor and gamer, joins Grant and Peter to help introduce roleplaying games to the curious! Jason writes for The Mad Adventurers Society as The Mad Cleric, giving out gaming advice and life advice for gamers in equal measure, and contributes to the Mad Adventurers' Potelbat and Potelbat Yalp podcasts. (He's most accessible on Twitter as @Wood_JasonD.)
Jason joins us for a very special episode: An introduction to roleplaying games for the curious and the uninitiated. As a sort of companion piece to our very first episode ("Are RPGs Evil?"), this episode is designed to be a resource for those who've never played before, and want to (or feel the need to) know more about them. We outline the general conceits of RPGs, explain system and setting, discuss why they're so much fun, and elaborate on some of the positive benefits of roleplaying games. (In particular, we spend some time talking about The Bodhana Group; new listeners should listen to Episode 25, "Therapeutic Roleplaying (with Jack Berkenstock Jr.)" for more on that. They're awesome.) Finally, we wrap up with some advice on getting started in roleplaying games, whether individually, as a family, or as a church activity.
Scripture: Proverbs 27:17, Mark 12:28-31, Luke 5:27-32, Romans 14:16
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Bonus Episode 16 - Biblical Figures: Matthew
Episode 138 - The Fifth Commandment (The Ten Commandments, Part 5)
Episode 137 - Music at the Gaming Table (with Zach Lorton)
Episode 136 - Destiny (with Kris Newton)
STG 135 - Moral Accountability, Part 2 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)
Episode 134 - Moral Accountability, Part 1 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)
Bonus Episode 15 - Con Report: Fear the Con 2018
STG 133 - Getting Started as a GM
Bonus Episode 14 - Ottowa Comic Con and Other Things
STG 132 - Board Games (with Mike Perna)
STG 131 - Christian Genre Fiction and the Satanic Panic (with Daniel Silver and Father David Subu)
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Episode 129 - Support Characters
Episode 128 - Sainthood
Bonus Episode 13 - Biblical Figures 2: Gideon
Episode 127 - Christian Allegory and Allusion
Episode 126 - Resurrection Magic
Episode 125 - Positive Metagaming
Episode 124 - Roleplaying in Mass Combat
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