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Trying To Be KindSeason 9, Episode 2: BazingaCardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.
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2025-07-1457 minTrying To Be KindSeason 9, Episode 1: Asteroids or WhateverCardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.
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2025-05-1455 minTrying To Be KindSeason 9, Episode 0: I Stay NoidedCardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems, Amabel Holland, 2025 CRC Press.
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2025-04-1242 minTrying To Be KindSeason 8, Episode 3: Foucault Is In This OneThe Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
2025-01-161h 09Trying To Be KindSeason 8, Episode 2: Feelings Are FactsThe Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
2024-12-0959 minTrying To Be KindSeason 8, Episode 1: Something You'd Like To Have, But Didn't Know You WantedThe Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy, Bernard De Koven. MIT Press, 2013.
2024-11-1142 minTrying To Be KindSeason 7, Episode 2: I Read Ulysses For Fun"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.
2024-10-051h 05Trying To Be KindSeason 7, Episode 1: Manly Pride Offended"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design, Cole Wehrle, GDC, 2019.
2024-09-0953 minTrying To Be KindSeason 7, Episode 0: The First TTRPGAs usual, a buffer episode to lead into the new season. In which we discuss some texts we might tackle, baseball stadiums, shame rooms, and social media.
2024-08-0540 minTrying To Be KindSeason 6, Episode 4: FishsticksWith special guest, Sam Sorensen, author of Seas of Sand and Time After Time.
Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
2024-06-031h 05Trying To Be KindSeason 6, Episode 3: According to Very Reliable Psychological SourcesThere's some intermittent noise in the first few minutes of this episode, my apologies, but it clears up after a bit. Thanks for bearing with us in this difficult time.
Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
2024-04-2953 minTrying To Be KindSeason 6, Episode 2: I'm Just Built DifferentCritical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
Raph Koster's Star Wars Galaxies Post-Mortem.
2024-03-161h 02Trying To Be KindSeason 6, Episode 1: Mixed Martial ArgumentCritical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
The audio is a little sketchy this episode, that's my bad. I'm aware, and I'm working on it for next time. Sorry! - Jared
2024-02-111h 03Trying To Be KindSeason 6, Episode 0: I’m Here, I’m VibingA buffer episode before we start the next season. Just three friends chatting about nothing, don't expect any big ideas. (And the audio is a little sketchy, forgive me.)
2024-01-0257 minTrying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 6: Lesbians On Ice
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-10-3000 minTrying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 5: Our Animal DesiresOtaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-09-161h 02Trying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 4: How Do You Pronounce ’Hegel’?Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-07-141h 01Trying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 3: Jared’s Tinfoil HatOtaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-06-091h 09Trying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 2: ”Otaku Culture”Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-04-171h 15Trying To Be KindSeason 5, Episode 1: It’s Been A WhileOtaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.
2023-03-0150 minTrying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 7: He Got In The RobotDangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
2022-12-1754 minTrying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 6: Stunt On Your DoubleThis recording is a little noisier than normal at parts. Apologies!
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.
2022-11-031h 00Trying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 5: Canadian ThankfulA casual, breezy episode, in which we don't talk about the book at all. Instead, we ask each other questions of various cruelty and reflect on the last two years of this silly podcast.
Thanks for listening! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next month.
2022-10-0647 minTrying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 4: I Suggest TherapyDangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.
2022-09-101h 02Trying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 3: Dong TheoryDangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.
2022-08-031h 07Trying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 2: DexterityDangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.
2022-07-0451 minTrying To Be KindSeason 4, Episode 1: Religion Is Interesting To MeDangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.
2022-05-1644 minTrying To Be KindSeason 3, Episode 2: Swamplet JohanssonIn which we continue to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.
With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.
Music by Kelley Mangahas and Chris Zabriskie.
2022-04-011h 47Trying To Be KindSeason 3, Episode 1: Critical Hearts, A Monster Role StoryIn which we begin to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.
With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.
Music by Kelley Mangahas.
2022-02-281h 14Trying To Be KindSeason 2, Episode 4: The Elusive Wrap-UpThe Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.
Music by Kelley Mangahas.
2022-02-041h 15Trying To Be KindSeason 2, Episode 3: The Sauna EpisodeDon't worry, this episode is content free. Just taking a breather to shoot the shoot. Happy holidays!
Music by Kelley Mangahas.
2021-12-1052 min
Shane Plays Geek TalkD&D History: Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons with Jon Peterson - Episode 250 - 11-9-2021Gaming historian Jon Peterson works through the unhappy but fascinating drama of Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, and TSR to bring us the facts of it all regarding the two most important personalities and the most important company in RPG history. The legal battles over royalties and ownership of Dungeons & Dragons and TSR itself. What is a game, legally? The Eggbert Incident and its effect on TSR’s financials. Inflated number reporting and lavish expenditures. Gary Gygax walks into the ambush at Sheridan Springs thinking he has all the bullets. Lorraine Williams’s impact on financials by the numbers. Arneson’s last...2021-11-091h 21Trying To Be KindSeason 2, Episode 2: The Elusive Shift, The Role of the GMThe Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.
Music by Joshua Cerdenia and Kelley Mangahas.
2021-11-0750 minTrying To Be KindSeason 2, Episode 1: The Elusive Shift, CommunitiesThe Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.
Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0).
2021-10-091h 22Trying To Be KindSeason 2, Episode 0: The Elusive ShiftThe Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity, Jon Peterson.
Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).
2021-09-0645 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 8: The Episode with a Content WarningCW: Discussion of insensitive remarks made by others regarding mental health, neurotype, and disability.
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Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).
2021-08-0257 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 7: The Phenomenology of Being Ron EdwardsTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).
2021-07-051h 09Trying To Be KindEpisode 6: Suffused with a Jaunty ArrowTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Music by Dj Cutman (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Urbano A. Zafra (public domain).
2021-05-0253 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 5: Hashtag InfluencersTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
https://www.across-rpgsea.com/
https://momatoes.itch.io/the-magus
https://dropbear-games.itch.io/fragments
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RPGLATAM&src=typed_query
https://metalsnail.itch.io/colouring-book-dungeons
https://dastardlydave.itch.io/eat-trash-be-free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ming
Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
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Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io...2021-04-0553 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 4: Contrary EnergyDiscussing Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
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Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
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2021-03-0150 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 3: Activate DiscourseTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
2021-01-3145 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 2: Implausible and InvidiousTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antigua
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
2020-12-3155 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 1: Ethics and DragonlanceTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
2020-11-3056 minTrying To Be KindEpisode 0: Forgetting the ForgeTabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge, William J. White.
Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
2020-10-3045 min