Unabashed Gaming

For our first (proper) episode of the new year, we gather our three "regular" contributors to look back at favorite games from the preceding year, and games we're looking forward t...

David Schimpff reconvenes his old group to conduct a detailed deconstruction and analysis of one his most successful campaigns (ironically played with one of his least favorite sys...

In this, the last of our "solo" shows for the foreseeable future and final show of 2014, David Schimpff discusses introductory scenarios and their use, and provides actual-play exa...

For this episode, David Larkins takes a turn at the mic to rant about his ambivalence towards the line of RPGs produced by Palladium Books. It's sort of a combination of warning an...

This week, David S. and Susan (with a little help from David L.) discuss methods of spicing up games, and how to get ideas for your games. Plus: more pipe dreams! And remember t...

In this episode, we turn David Schimpff loose for his long-promised rant about 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Fair warning: profanity ensues (moreso than usual), tables are pounde...

For this week's episode, Dave S. and Susan talk about open-world and sandbox-style play (in contrast to last episode's discussion of railroading). They also take a look at the Worl...

The first episode of our second season finds David S. and Susan discussing the role of maps and mapping in games, as well as resources for the cartographically-challenged. And ...

It's a record number of hosts for this, our one-year anniversary episode, and we have a long overdue discussion of one of our all-time favorite systems, Call of Cthulhu. And r...

David S. and Susan spend this episode unloading a veritable truckload of setting ideas, plot hooks, and gaming memories. It's a grab-bag of an episode, so you can take you like and...

In this week's episode, David S. and Susan discuss that old bugbear known as railroading. Plus: more Campaign Pipedreams! And remember to call our Lake Geneva, WI, voicemail n...

A discussion of the ins and outs, ups and downs, and pros and cons(?) of character creation in its many wondrous varieties, and our hosts' picks for their favorite and least-favori...