The RPG Ancients

The Ancients are given free reign via a listener's question to excoriate  what they think is the worst RPG game, for whatever reason, excluding the usual suspects of FATAL and RaHoWa, which really are the worst, so this is just games which stick in their craws for some reason. After that they go loose and feral!

The ancient answer their measly single listener question, sort of, then go an a rampage thoroughly demolishing initiative, ravaging culture, and dredging up quaint and antiquated roleplaying incidents to support their malformed opinions! They survive technical difficulties and peresevere like the stubborn bastards they are until the session is over, leaving no tern unstoned!

Well so long as your prayers include questions! The Ancients talk about abusive GMS, and about what kind of questions from you they really love getting. Ancient Bill says he enjoys getting checks, for example.

The Ancient are stacked with listener questions, and after discussing sex in their games, how Evil works for them, whether there are constraints on the PCs other than consequences of their choices, how they would design a fun game about podcasters, how they handle players whose PCs who are down early in a session or longer, or if they are possessed or charmed, they look at the six more questions they didn't get to and panic! 

The Ancients discuss how they organize (or DON'T organize) their notes during sessions. Tales of mysterious and cryptic notes found years later add a colorful note to the proceedings. Turns out the Ancients are not the highly efficient roleplaying machines they seem to be. Also they each discuss their 5 strangest roleplaying games, with why they found them strange. 

The Ancients answer listener questions, about Cage fight death-matches, adventury stuff vs. non-adventury stuff, and whether they read comics and manga/manhwa and how it influenced them. This last led to talk about supers gaming and the Ancients' experiences with it. Capping the night they all talked about their experiences with Cons over the years.

No listener questions this session, so the RPG Ancients are free of their Geas to talk about whatever strikes their fancy, which is a target rich environment! The ancients talk about new projects, why players hate negative adjustments, how to work with LLMs, editing a manuscript, baseball as an RPG and why it is superior to model compared to other sports, how to visually represent altitude in RPGs, and scads of strange ideas that leak from their decaying, dementia ridden minds! Come join the tortu... I mean fun! 

Rob announces he is almost finished with his player facing book for his Majestic Wilderlands RPG, and describes what he is trying to do with it and how he has addressed that. Then the Ancients address two listener questions, and in the process describe a great deal of what they find fun and interesting, and sharing techniques for GMing their games. This is a deep rabbit hole, so take your shovel and your lunch!

Having no listener questions the Ancients cackle with glee as this condition frees them from their geas and they are free to randomly launch into any topic they damn well feel like! The Ancients enthusiastically steal topics from fora, talk about ChatGPT experiments concerning alternate futures of The Great Society and Jefferson Airplane and Firefly, and ramble freely where their addled brains lead them, finally landing on maneuvers for aircraft and dragons and giant birds and moonshine bootleggers in Alabama. Please ask them questions or nothing is safe!

Frank Filz joins the Ancients for a chat about using music in Tabletop games, converting games and setting to work together, and the fact that clash is hearing music in his brain non-stop 24/7 and not paying any licensing fees!