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Bill and I spend 45 minutes or so talking about Classic Traveller. The focus of the episode is on how players make sense of clues and other information provided by the GM and how this contributes both to an adventure as well as adding detail t
Welcome to the next episode! Bill and I have been playing some Classic Traveller on Roll 20 so this episode is an excerpt of play of two from a recent game. We talk about Bill's penchant for mini-games inside the game as well as the balance b
At Total Con 35, which had an espionage focus, I ran a hack of TSR's Top Secret: New World Order. My goal was to run it in the style of TV's Mission: Impossible. I wanted to include the briefing scene, a preview of the mission, and then the
Welcome back to Virtual Play! Bill and I take a close look at an encounter in a Dungeon Crawl Classics game. It involves an encounter with undead in a bath house that has since become a tomb! It's a game I ran but Bill has some great insight
Happy New Year! I hope you are all as well as can be. Thanks for sticking around for more episodes. In our inaugural podcast of 2021, Bill and I talk about gaming from the last year or so. It has been a while! But we plan to get back regul
Bill and I are in the last night of Metatopia 2018. We're excited about the result of our playtest of Dying is Easy. In many ways, the evolution of Dying is Easy over the past two Metatopias and particularly this weekend shows how Metatopia h
Bill and are continue our Metatopia special episodes with a discussion about and excerpt from a game Bill wrote called "the Indie Scene". The game will be a chapter in Bill's book on the Forge, which was an online discussion forum for RPG desi
Bill and I are at Day 1 of Metatopia, the Game Design Festival in Morristown NJ. We briefly discuss the games we are here to playtest, including an excerpt from a moment of play in a game that inspired our thinking about the design of one of t
Welcome to Virtual Play! Bill and I discuss a GM workshop we conducted at Gencon. The format was the participants played characters in an adventuring party, with rotating GM duties. The workshops were planned by Will Hindmarch at Demystics b
We talk about Bill running his adventure for Pelgrane Press's Trail of Cthulhu, "The Big Hoodoo," where 1950s sci-fi writers like Bob Heinlein and Isaac Asimov confront a Mythos mystery in sun-drenched California. We try to figure out why the p
Or at least Bill is. In this recap of a moment play from Dungeon Crawl Classics, Bill, playing a kitsune dog spirit, attempts to get something to eat. Because that's what dogs do. The episode is approximately 28 minutes. Mel
Hi! Welcome back to Virtual Play. Bill and I had a great conversation with Jim Crocker, Ben Forest and Dave Petroski at Dexcon 20 discussing a bunch of things such as comics, the retail industry, New Jersey politics and more. But for Virtual
Bill and I spent some time at the Hyatt bar talking to Ben Forest about running and playing in games. We mainly discuss the question is the role of the game-master to entertain or to be entertained? Between the three of us, we likely had four
Here's some bonus content! At Origins, Bill talked to Morgan Ellis and other folks about Fate and Nitrate City. They agreed to let us listen in! I feel like I'm actually there at the Big Bar on 2! Morgan provides some advice on Fate gamepla
Welcome back! In this episode, Bill and I talk about Nitrate City, a World of Adventure for Fate. Bill co-wrote the game with Doselle Young--Doselle provided the vision, Bill provided the mechanics! We've taken excerpts for a couple of games
In this episode, Bill and I discuss the game "Fall of Magic". It's described as a roleplaying game of profound fantasy. I was attracted to it by the thematic link to Larry Niven's short story, "The Magic Goes Away" as well by the neat visual
In this episode, Bill and I get to talk about a game we have been excited about for a while. Michael Miller has revised "With Great Power" his superhero roleplaying game. Superheroes are one of our favorite genres. And low prep games are incr
Bill wanted to call this episode "Mel And Bill fix Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition," but I think the game mastering advice we talk about in the show applies to any game. There is nothing D&D specific about the ideas we discuss. The excerpts are
Lots of changes here at Virtual Play! Bill and I are going to be trying shorter shows with greater frequency. Thanks to a household move, we are a lot closer now so we'll give it our best shot. Today's show is about a Fate based game Bill is
Welcome back to Virtual Play! In this episode Bill and I talk about some GM techniques using Torchbearer and Night's Black Agents for excerpts. The games are a handful of games we played or ran at Gencon--I should say that either Bill ran or
Hi,Welcome to a longer than usual episode of Virtual Play, clocking in at approximately 75 minutes. Bill and I talk about games from Origins and Dexcon, as well as some local games. The main lesson for me from listening to the games is to thi
Bill and I are once again joined by Hannah to talk about games from Camp Nerdly. This show contains excerpts from Star Wars d6, Little Wizards, a Hellboy themed RPG, Night's Black Agents and Action Park, a parsely style game. Duration is just
Bill and I talk about some of our recent experiences with games using cards for conflict resolution. I recently played God-KIng, a game by Daniel Cruz Chan, that uses a normal deck of playing cards in places of dice for conflict resolution. B
Hi, In this episode Bill and I are joined by Ben Forest to talk about immersion in roleplaying games. We'll use a couple of excerpts from Traveller games. Ben ran one of the games; in the other the GM was Adam D. Unsurprisingly, our conclus
Bill and I had a great time at the Dreamation RPG convention last week in Morristown. I was able to play or run seven games and all of them were a blast. This show is about a Dungeon World adventure I ran. Bill pointed out that he runs split
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