Unabashed Gaming

It's the 40th anniversary year for Dungeons & Dragons, so we figured maybe we should get around to talking about the world's most popular role-playing game. As usual for our sy...

In this episode, we depart from our usual chatter about tabletop RPGs to discuss their cousin, miniatures wargaming. We take a look at the hobby's past, present, and future, and of...

This episode sees us answering a listener-submitted question about epic campaigns before moving on to our second "System Spotlight" installment, this time focusing on the King Arth...

In this episode, we discuss the different experiences and skillsets inherent to the player experience versus the game master experience. To help us dissect the issue, we bring in s...

In this episode, we take some time to muse about the role of Kickstarter in the tabletop gaming industry and speculate what role brick-and-mortar stores still might play in the hob...

In this episode, we address some listener questions spawned by our previous System Spotlight on Basic Roleplaying (and discuss some games we're currently excited about) before...

In this episode, the first of our intermittent "System Spotlight" series, we focus on Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system - both the generic core rules as well as touching on its m...

In this episode, we talk about the issues of finding balance in systems that are not designed to encourage balanced play, and discuss strategies for finding players in your area. W...

In this episode, we discuss campaigns that died before their time (and the many causes that can contribute to such a tragedy), before moving on to our main topic: sources of inspir...

Our second episode finds us discussing our first experience with the indie FRPG Dungeon World before moving on to discussing the pros and cons of the dreaded piledriver and its muc...

In our inaugural episode, we talk a bit about our backgrounds in tabletop gaming and then move on to broadly discussing some tricks and tips for running horror games, and different...