Season 1 is done, but Game Mechanics will return!If you have a suggestion for a future guest, please send it to: [email protected] Logan on Twitter: @LoganJenkinsGame Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Orange Groves pod

Marx Shepherd - No Fascists Allowed

Jun 17th, 2020 30m 53s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Marx Shepherd, an indy TTRPG creator, and member of the San Jenaro Co-Op, an organization that puts

Rees Bennett - A Drag Nun's Take On Playing a Role

May 27th, 2020 24m 30s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Rees Bennett, also known as Sister Evelyn Tensions of the Grenville Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Will Uhl - Prolific Game Creation

May 13th, 2020 28m 5s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Will Uhl, a very prolific writer of mostly micro-RPGs… which are exactly what they sound like. Bite

Greg Leatherman - What if everyone’s a warrior?

Apr 29th, 2020 45m 29s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Greg Leatherman, writer of Glitter Hearts, a Magical Girl anime inspired TTRPG. Greg is also one of

Sean Gomes - Having Dinner on Space Ships

Apr 15th, 2020 36m 30s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Sean Gomes, writer of Uncharted Worlds, a Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG. I am a total Sean Gomes

Nathan Blades - F*** The Tabletop Police

Apr 1st, 2020 38m 55s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Androgynous Android Gameshow Host from the Future, Nathan Blades. I wanted to talk to him about one

Bianca Zelda - Chasing baby goats

Mar 16th, 2020 26m 9s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Bianca Zelda. Bianca is one of the members of The Broadswords, an all female and nonbinary actual p

Sean McCoy - Meeting players where they are

Mar 2nd, 2020 42m 5s

Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Sean McCoy. Sean is one of the co-founders of Tuesday Knight Games, and the designer, writer, layou

Jess Ross - Writing for TTRPGs

Feb 17th, 2020 31m 49s

Today, I’m talking to Jess Ross about her experience writing for RPGs. Jess has written several modules for D&D in places like the Uncaged Anthology, and in Pugmire (a variation of D&D 5th edition where everyone plays as dogs! She wrote for th

Riley Hopkins - Interstitial and the Link System

Feb 3rd, 2020 28m 28s

Today, I’m talking to Riley Hopkins about their game, Interstitial; a game about worlds colliding in the vein of Kingdom Hearts, Crisis on Infinite Earths, or Into The Spiderverse. Interstitial is available right now at LinksmithGames.com.Inte

An Update And Hiatus

May 14th, 2019 1m 9s

EWe're taking a Hiatus!Follow Riley and today's guests on Twitter:Riley: @RevRyeBreadHosted and supported by The Orange Groves podcast network.You can tweet about the show using #RPGDFOur theme music is Wells Branch Park, P

#6 - Two Fonts Shy of a Layout: Designing the Visuals of a Book

Apr 13th, 2019 39m 20s

In this episode, we talk about laying out RPG books. What makes a good layout? What fonts and design elements are frustrating, and as a designer what should you do when approaching laying a game out?Follow Riley and today's guests on Twitter:

#5 - Re-Do, Re-Done: Rerolls and Changing the Dice

Mar 30th, 2019 48m

We talk about reroll mechanics, whether they should happen before or after the results of the roll are already clear, whether they're useful in games, or defeat the purpose of playing the game in the first place.Follow Riley and today's guest

RPGDF: Money On My Mind - Pricing, Kickstarters, and Pay What You Want

Mar 16th, 2019 54m 9s

Today we are joined by DC and Cass to talk about pricing, kickstarters, and other finance based questions in the tabletop space. We talk about the faults of Pay What You Want, the importance of setting the value for your own work, and what to

#3 - Failure's Not Flattering: Failure in Games

Mar 2nd, 2019 50m 26s

In this episode we talk about failure in games. Is it fun? Is it terrible? What kind of options should we give players to avoid failure, or should we force them into it?Follow Riley and today's guests on Twitter:Riley: @RevRyeBread

RPGDF: A Timeline of Zak S' Abuse

Feb 16th, 2019 1h 15m

In this episode we talk about Zak S, the abuse and harrassment he's done in the past, and the statements by his two ex partners whose incredible courage began the current pushback of this abuser.We give context for who he is and what he's done

RPGDF: Power Leveling - Experience, Advancements, and Progression in Games

Feb 16th, 2019 52m 9s

In this episode, Riley talks with TTRPG designers Natalie and Takuma about progression in games! What does leveling up look like and why is it the way it is? How do players gain experience and are there other ways games could implement it?Foll