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Gretchen Hilmers and Rob Hessler are a married couple with a kid. They like to play RPGs and Boardgames. They made a podcast.
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
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What defines Roleplaying? Playing a Roleplaying Game Versus Roleplaying As A Concept?
Plus:
Wayne’s World; OSR; The Temple of Elemental Evil; Gary Gygax; Frank Mentzer; Old School Renaissance; Oh Snap Roleplaying; Origami Shape Reconstruction; Don’t Split the Party; Assassin; Dagger of Venom; Evil DM; Dungeon Crawl; Dungeon Master; D&D; Dungeons and Dragons; The Village of Hommlet; Political Intrigue; T1-4; The Moathouse; Starforged; Micro Macro Crime City; Tokaido; Japanese Culture; Samurai; Oregon Trail; Morningstar Games Savannah Georgia; Koto Music; Competitive Fire; Gets the juices flowing; Moist; Ironsworn Starforged; Gm-less; Shawn Tomkin; Worldbuilding; Oracles; Random Tables; Fail Forward; Gritty Fantasy; Sci-fi; The Expanse; The Mandalorian; Battlestar Galactica; OGL; Open Game License; ironswornrpg.com; Modiphius; Storytelling; Session Zero; Roleplaying Game; Character Creation versus Character Building; Podcasting; Ones and Zeros; Truths; Prep is Play; Solo; Co-op; Creative Prompts; Is using your imagination always roleplaying?; Telling stories to kids; Poop; Ben Sperduto; Last Redoubt Games; Amanda Plageman; Brandon Sanderson; Joe Abercrombie; Susan Earl; Carmen Laura Loup; The Audacity; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Tarot in Space; Goodreads; Kerri Maniscalco; Kingdom of the Wicked; Italian Food; Hell; Witches; Sautéed Mushrooms; J.R. Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood; Vampires; Picante; Mark Lawrence; Prince of Thorns; Broken Empire Trilogy; WTF; Dresden Files; Harry Dresden; Abberant RPG; Choose Your Own Adventure The Trumpet of Terror; N.K. Jemisin; Broken Earth Trilogy; The Obelisk Gate; Wheel of Time; Stormlight Archives; Non-Violent Communication; Sharp Ends; First Law Series; The Bloody Nine; Grimdark; Logen Ninefingers; Red Country; DragonLance; Bali; Indonesia; Brian MacGregor; Mike D’Ottavio; Safety Tools; TikTik Bramblebing; Kender; Dom D’Ottavio; Cthulhu; Carrier Pigeons.
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
On this episode, we delve into an important topic: GRETCHEN HATES D&D!!
Plus:
Falafel wrap with fries; Playing a sitter to make a podcast and play games; Low Stakes by Nerdberger Games; Aberrant by White Wolf 1999 version; Is Session Zero considered playing the game?; Dresden Files RPG; The Fate System; Smelling Books; Evil Hat; Thirsty Sword Lesbians; Umbrella Academy; Dungeons & Dragons 3.5; Pregaming; Leveling Up; Fallout 3; Goodreads Challenge; House Rules; Rules As Written; Mutants & Masterminds; Marvel Superheroes; Crunch/Roleplay Balance; Ravenloft; DragonLance; Supernatural RPG; Pathfinder; Flavor; Ironsworn; Post-Apocalyptic; Ben Sperduto; Last Redoubt Games; Amanda Plageman; Dungeons & Dragons; Medieval Fantasy; Roast the Wolf; Kender; Call of Cthulhu; Keeper; System Mastery; AD&D 2nd Edition; Of Dice & Men by David Ewalt; Post-Apocalyptic Vampire World; The Magicians; Steampunk; Eberron; Spelljammer; 5th Edition; Dwarves love drinking and other stereotypes; Tolkien Archetypes; Races become Species; Black and White Versus Shades of Gray; Agon; Zinequest; Never Going Home by Wet Ink Games; World War I; The Very Good Dogs of Chernobyl Polymorph Games; In the Light of the Faded World; Kickstarter; Derek Kinsman; Amanda Lee Franck; Kids on Bikes; The Price of Coal; The Dee Sanction; Matt Mercer; Critical Roll; Blades in the Dark; Libby; Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff; Goodreads; The Last Silver Saint; Vampire Hunter D; Blade; Daywalker; The Obelisk Gate; The Broken Earth Trilogy; The Fifth Season; N.K. Jemisin; Green Ronin Games; Joe Abercrombie; The First Law; Hieroglyphics; Emojis; Mark Lawrence; The Last of Us; Cheese Pizza; Papa Johns; Dominos; Little Caesars; Mellow Mushroom; Squirrel’s; Never Read the Comments; Shut Up Frank; VFW; Ghost Table Games; Combat Veterans; Veteran Gamers; Vampire the Masquerade LARP; Indeed; NFL Football Playoffs; HUZZAH!
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
New-ish format, same old shenanigans!
Gretchen and Rob chat about:
Sick kids; Playing in a Cyberpunk 2020 Tournament; Goodman Games’ Temple of Elemental Evil; Pathfinder is Crunchy, Unless You’re A Brute; Playing the Games You Want to Play; Gem Room Games’ 9 Lives To Valhalla; Nerdberger Games’ Low Stakes; Ghost Table; Parental Reflexes; Anne Rice; White Wolf’s Vampires; The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri; Ring Shout; From Here to Eternity.
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Is this our best or our worst episode yet? You decide!
After starting the show with a discussion of the Ironsworn RPG, we moved to sort of talking about "Storytelling" versus "Gaming."
After agreeing on almost everything, we also talked about tea, rabies, and tropes in grim dark fantasy.
With your hosts Gretchen Hilmers & Rob Hessler!
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Music: D. J. Pinto - The Punisher
Link: https://youtu.be/4LHOhdKMRsk
Music provided by: MFY - No Copyright
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Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
After a discussion about Rob's adoration of the GM-less game Ironsworn (and our upcoming livestream of a new Post-Apocalyptic campaign using the ruleset), he and Gretchen discuss playing characters boldly. Tune in as Rob goes from rigidly proclaiming that you should go all-in all the time with your PCs, to making all sorts to caveats after Gretchen presents numerous smart counterpoints that he hadn't considered.
Plus, a chat about Ben Sperduto's grim dark urban fantasy novel Blackspire.
It's a humdinger!
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Got a young kid and still want to play tabletop RPGs? On this episode, Gretchen and Rob discuss how they handle it.
Also, Rob talks about his love for "Keeping the Lights On," while Gretchen laments on character creation randomizers.
A way to spend an entire hour!
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Character death is a part of roleplaying games, but how do we process when one of the players at our table passes away in real life?
On this special episode of RPGs & Baby Makes 3, we invite Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and avid gamer Savanah Kite to the show to discuss how we deal with true tragedy at our tables.
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
How do we play differently in campaigns versus one-shots? Gretchen and Rob discuss the merits and flaws of both, including which type of games they think bring out the best moments in a roleplaying game.
Also, they talk about potty training.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
After a hiatus induced by two months of illness and the death of one of our longtime players, Gretchen and Rob talk about something that's easy for us, as passionate gamers, to forget: It's only a game.
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
This week we're excited to welcome Ben Sperduto of Last Redoubt Games back into the studio to talk about his latest project, "Hounds of the Tsar!"
Ben is currently offering physical copies of the game on Kickstarter through Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:00 PM EDT via https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bsperduto/hounds-of-the-tsar-print-edition?ref=user_menu
Sperduto describes Hounds of the Tsar as follows:
"You have been chosen to serve the Tsardom of Muscovy as a member of Ivan the Terrible's dreaded Oprichnina. Hunt down traitors, heretics, and blasphemous horrors in a realm gripped by famine and the suffering of war.
"But beware... your Oprichnik companions are watching you for any sign of betrayal, and dark forces from beyond this world seek to corrupt your soul at every turn."
It's an exciting game with an interesting and unique set of rules-lite mechanics that we personally can't wait to play, and were thrilled to discuss in-depth with the man behind it's creation!
Find Last Redoubt Games at https://www.lastredoubtgames.com.