Hearty Dice Friends

Happy Halloween! It's SPOOKY how short this episode is! Real talk: your boys aren't doing so great. We're both mad - and not in the wacky, fun-time way, more in the medicated staring at the walls sort of way. But! We've pulled it together enough to bring you a half hour of Halloween-themed entertainment. In this week's episode: - Dual Creepy Butlers - A Blind And Haptic Orgy - Ghost Convincer 2: Laid 2 Rest - I Know What You Did Last Summer, Please Enjoy My Short Presentation About It And many more! - G+C

In this week’s episode, we briefly consider the prospect of a game for dogs before we kick that to one side and spend forty minutes developing a spy game that’s quite similar to James Bond but not so similar that we’d get sued into the ground. Much love, - G+C

You wouldn't think that there'd be much of a game inherent in supernatural gossip mags, but you'd be wrong. We knew better. That's why we make the BIG BUCKS in game design. Okay, full disclosure: the SMALL to MEDIUM BUCKS. Anyway. Enjoy the show. - G+C

This week we get weird. I mean that we have gone weird, in the head, and then done the podcast anyway. It is a strange one where we go back to answering questions for a week, sink some boats in the name of love, get angry at hypocritical governments, and make non-straight sexualities overpowered. Brace yourself for a strange thrill ride rife with bad language and oddly introspective moments detailing our proposal qualifications. Good luck. G + C

G + C bring love to the battlefield in a combination of RTS and Visual Novel. Lots of Love, G + C

Not calling out anyone in JK Particular but we reckon there's a gap in the market for a media property about a selection of increasingly endangered magical schoolchildren. To that end: what if D&D, but in High School? Much love, - Grant and Chris

Grant want's a game about bees and Chris wants a castle. From this we bring you Stonekillers, a flying castle game that is probably our most marketable to date. See if you can tell just how tired we are from our voices. It's a fun game! G + C

Grant gets an idea about mining games and we immediately kick it to one side in favour of a barbecue based crafting system of mythical proportions. Lots of love, G + C

What if a game had mechs in it? Can you imagine such a thing? We can, so we recorded us doing just that. Next week will be episode-less as Grant is on holiday in a secluded and secret location. Though rumour has it that if you can find him he has to give you his gold. Lots of love, - G + C

Games about sharks - which is definitely a genre of games - are too arcadey for our tastes. Too low-brow. What this world needs is a high-concept, absurdist, hypertechnical electronic intrusion and counterintelligence game about sharks. Also, please enjoy our new format. Please. - Grant and Chris

Happy Gencon everyone! Grant and Chris are live on the show floor, talking about: Riddle magic Adventurer poop and the ever enthralling topic of specificity There is also some attempts at game design with weird monopoly sets, a remake of die hard, and Chris getting really into plums. Much love G + C

Welcome to Chess Club! There's only one rule at Chess Club - there are no rules. Well - actually, there are lots of rules, more than regular chess in fact, that's more of a turn of phrase to get across the unusual way in which we play chess. Anyway: eat this rook and we'll say no more about it. Also in this week's episode: - Just how do you organise PDFs, and can we wring any humour out of that? - Scene detail: a tedious dance in which you must trick your players into following the plot - What happens if you cast Mending on a pair of fashionably ripped jeans? - HEAVEN CARDS: OVERDUEL And many more! We love you. Be good. _ G+C

Editors note: Chris' audio is a bit messed up here because he moved and screwed up his mic. There is some stuff about spiders at around 51 minutes and he also now knows that mildew is a fungus. -- Well shucks, partner - sure are some wet ghosts you've got there. I'd say that those are the wettest ghosts I ever done seen, b'god! Y'all need to get yerself some sorta ghost towel post haste, I reckon! Also in this week's episode: - Players planning preventing proper problems - Ever feel like a bad GM? (Yes.) - Spirals other than Death Spirals - Lots of different kinds of owlbears - Wet ghosts And many more! We love you. Be good. - G+C

Dulce et decorum est, pro patria DOOT DA DOOT DOOT DOOT DA DOO Also in this episode: - The Mug Apology - Best RPG manual to have on your side in a fight - How can we make enduring and resisting as interesting as, you know, other stuff in games? - How can you get over the desire to ride the plot as hard as possible? - Who is the Mayor of Neo-London in 2045? - Who Wants To Eat A Million Dice - An increasingly high-concept game about rockjazz propaganda And many more. Much love, - G+C

Even more ramshackle than usual this week, but at least that gives us an opportunity to use the word "ramshackle," so silver linings eh? Join us for advice and games design on the subject of: - THE FEAR - Is Cthulhu a game poem? - Staying even vaguely entertained when it's not your turn - Gorilla Bodybuilding Simulator - A football fighting game, then a football sex and fighting game, then again but without the sex Much love. It's too hot. Pray for us. - G+C

A combination of timed puzzles and resource management to, maybe, build a functioning giant robot by hand before the monsters arrive and eat the city. Or if not a *fully* functioning giant robot, then maybe just build enough to put on top of a hill and roll down into them. Also this week: - Why not try: War? - Pitching games without resorting to "just fuckin google it" - Players who add too much backstory, and how to use it against them - A Sexy Oglaf Game, like we're equipped to talk about that - Mothballs - Competitive Lying And many more. We love you. Be good. - Grant and Chris

That's the problem with the Animorphs - too much moving around. Terrible. Much better if instead of animals they can turn into ladders and screws and sofas and shit. Also in this week's episode: - Avoiding that terrible bit where players introduce their characters to each other - Making items memorable, or if you can't do that, getting better players - Sparing the lives of D&D monsters - Obstacle Golf - The Ultimate Tory Sport (Don't Worry, It's Not Fun) And many more. We love you so much. Come here. - Grant and Chris

"Take me down / Blimp Underground," sang The Sneaker Pimps, back in 1996. Or something like that, anyway. Come to think of it, what sort of name is "Sneaker Pimps?" Weird. Maybe they sold trainers before they were a band. Or rented out shoes to fetishists for sexual purposes; one or the other. In this week's show: - FRIENDS the RPG - Dragons with a Wisdom Rating - Magic Item Startups - Cavaliers & Coursers - Reverse vampires? - Blimps, but not the kind that crash and kill everyone inside And many more. Much love, - Grant & Chris

We spend a LONG time working out how to put spells in tanks today. Hopefully that's your sort of thing. Also in this week's episode: - Beating the heat - The Multiverse's Least Competent Stormcast Eternal - A genuinely evil evil empire - Running Sad Artsy Games - Britannia Rues The Waves - Some bollocks about an ambulatory tube of paint And many more. We love you. Be cool. - G+C x

There's only one way to put this spirit to rest - and that's by hosting the dankest party this campus has ever seen. Also in this week's episode: - Ending a campaign - What gives someone magic? - 21 Jeff Bridges We love you. Stay safe out there. In there? Anyway. G+C