The Adventuring Party

22/10/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 817
This week's Party: Dave, Eoin and Scarr
Editor – Shane
This week, The Party discuss Progression in RPGs, and whether the accumulation of XP, loot and victories are why we don’t just take up acting instead.
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08/10/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 815
This week's Party: Savage and Scar
Editor – Shane
This week, the Couplet of Confusion bid farewell to a project that release schedules would not permit to continue, and also show just what annoys them in a magic system. http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/burn-october-2024-spell-cull-finale?tdest_id=127437

11/09/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 812
This week's Party: Shane and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, the Party discuss whether some mechanics in RPGs are more about setting expectations for a game than actually seeing use.
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 812 This week's Party: Shane and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party discuss whether some mechanics in RPGs are more about setting expectations for a game than actually seeing use. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe ...

26/08/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 810
This week's Party: Shane, Liam and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, the Party respond to more shenanigans from WotC, as they attempt to control the D&D experience and turn it digital.
Please note that since recording this episode, some of the issues which inspired it have been walked back by WotC: https://x.com/DnDBeyond/status/1827922221932703782
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 810 This week's Party: Shane, Liam and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party respond to more shenanigans from WotC, as they attempt to control the D&D experience and turn it digital. Please note that since recording this episode, some of the issues which insp...

12/08/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 808
This week's Party: Eoin and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, the Party take a look at the CCG marketplace, and how one particular way of playing Magic has, according to some, completely taken over the game.

The Adventuring Party - Episode 808 This week's Party: Eoin and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party take a look at the CCG marketplace, and how one particular way of playing Magic has, according to some, completely taken over the game. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go...

29/07/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 806
This week's Party: Eoin and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, the Party discuss NPCs in RPGs, and whether they deserve the same loving mechanical attention as a PC, or if its better for everyone if a few corners are cut on their sheet.
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 806 This week's Party: Eoin and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party discuss NPCs in RPGs, and whether they deserve the same loving mechanical attention as a PC, or if its better for everyone if a few corners are cut on their sheet. ------------------------ Want...

15/07/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 805
This week's Party: Scarr and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, we discuss the parts of RPG combat that most often lead to bad feelings, and how a GM can work to get through it to the next high point.
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The Adventuring Party - Episode 805 This week's Party: Scarr and Dave Editor – Shane This week, we discuss the parts of RPG combat that most often lead to bad feelings, and how a GM can work to get through it to the next high point. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to ...

03/07/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 803
This week's Party: Savage and Scarr
Editor – Shane
This week, yet more D&D spells with too many Ds to them. How many different ways to mind control different creatures does one game need? And is an underwritten spell a blessing or a curse? http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/will-july-2024-spell-cull-episode-10?tdest_id=127437

09/06/2024

Episode 800

This week's hosts - Dave, Hida-O-Win, Warlord Scarr & SavageMick
Editor - SavageMick

Another milestone. This time, instead of looking back or inwards, we instead ask some of your questions and ponder what could have been, what might yet be... What If?

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02/06/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 799
This week's Party: Shane and Dave
Editor – Shane
This week, The Party discuss some of the quirks of magic items in RPGs: How do you figure them out? Should they have horrible curses? And how many should you have, anyway? http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/loot-june-2024-magic-item-miscellany?tdest_id=127437

22/04/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 793
This week's Party: Scarr and Savage
Editor – Shane
This week, Dunce and Dweeb demonstrate a disposition disincline to dweomers that deal with darkness, dimensions and delays, as the Spell Cull dissembles further... http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/disenchant-april-2024-spell-cull-episode-8?tdest_id=127437

01/04/2024

Episode 790

This week's hosts - Warlord Scarr, Liam & Savagemick
Editor - SavageMick

This week the Party dive deep and drink long of the heady froth of character backstory and progression. What destiny awaits your spirited avatar? One written in the stars by hte hands of Fate, or forged in the chaos of the dice and random tables?!

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24/03/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 789
This week's Party: Scarr, Liam and Savage
Editor – Shane
This week, The Party face the difficult problem of Challenge Rating. Can you plan out the difficulty of fights in your RPGs before they start, or are your players going to have to compensate for an unregulated system? http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/difficulty-march-2024-challenge-rating?tdest_id=127437

17/03/2024

Episode 788
This week's hosts - Hida O-Win & Dave
Editor - SavageMick

This week Dave and Eoin sit down to mull over why and when we need more or less complexity in our RPG systems. Who needs it, who wants it and why it matters. All will be considered during this system-scrutinizing session!

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12/03/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 787

This week's Cullers: Scarr and Savage

Editor – Shane

This week, The Party finish off the C spells in the expansive, in-need-of-Culling spell lists of D&D.

On the hit list this week:

Contact Other Plane
Contagion
Contingency
Continual Flame
Control Water
Control Weather
Cordon of Arrows
Counterspell
Create Food and Water
Create or Destroy Water
Create Undead
Creation
Crown of Madness
Crusader’s Mantle
Cure Wounds

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03/03/2024

This week Liam and the Warlord sit down to review the Blade Runner RPG Starter Set from Free League Publishing [ https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/blade-runner-rpg/starter-set/ ].

It's not every day you get to open a case file and hand out crime scene photos while your players declare 'Enhance!' (well, maybe if you play the CSI RPG...) http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/tap-786-blade-runner-starter-set?tdest_id=127437

25/02/2024

The Adventuring Party - Episode 785
This week's Cullers: Scarr, Savage and Eoin
Editor – Shane
This week, The Party rip through more of the chaff of the modern D&D spell list, with special attention to the Conjuring spells that refuse to be consistent.
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18/02/2024

Episode 784

TAP 784 - Talking Heads and Hot Takes

This week's hosts - Dave, Hida-O-Win, Warlord Scarr & SavageMick

Editor - SavageMick

What do we talk about when we talk about talking about roleplaying games? Join us as we ponder the imponderable and take side-swipes at the current state of coverage in The Hobby.

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