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Summary: Is there an analog RPG you’ve always wanted to try, but just haven’t been able to get started? Want to discover new games, or learn more about ones you already know? Join Satine Phoenix and Chad Parish as they learn a new RPG every show, with the game’s designer on hand to teach you.

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Podcasts:

 Top Secret: New World Order | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:45:39

Game School went to TotalCon and played Top Secret: New World Order with Merle Rassmussen, Allen Hammack, and Jayson Elliot.

 Children of the Fall Live Play | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:55:51

Spence ran a Children of the Fall Live Play for Peter, James, and Mary. This is the audio from a live video broadcast we did earlier this year.

 Lucid Dreams Long Play | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 03:42:18

James, Spence, Peter Bryant, Mary Lindholm, and Steven Wollett went to TotalCon and played  Andre Kruppa's game Lucid Dreams. Lucid Dreams is a d10 pool system geared toward the darker, grittier aspects of roleplaying. It has no particular setting, but is designed to handle anything from the Stone Age all the way to near-future settings. Popular settings such as the world of H.P. Lovecraft will port easily into this game system. Lucid Dreams is meant to be fast paced and focused on the story.

 Prowlers & Paragons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:23:01

Prowlers & Paragons is a narration-driven, rules-light system designed to emulate four-color superhero comics.

 Tales of Gor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:47

WARNING - This is a Detention episode. As such it may not be suitable for all listeners. There are themes of domination, bondage, and slavery. Tales of Gor brings you into a striking world of science-fantasy roleplaying. Born from the Gorean Cycle (34 books) by John Norman, Tales of Gor brings you to The Counter Earth. A world of contradictions, freedom and slavery, science and fantasy, primitive violence and high technology ripe for adventure.

 Champions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:49

Champions was one of the first role-playing games and was published by Hero Games. It was designed to simulate and function in a four-color superhero comic book world. https://www.herogames.com/

 Splintered Godhood | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:41:47

Splintered Godhood, a one-night, improvisational cooperative horror role-playing game for 4 to 5 mature players and one storyteller where each player plays a role in weaving a story of inverted and interwoven layers of reality within which each player is touched by the caress of infinity and eternity. With a divine spark infusing their Flesh, Voice, Will, and Awareness, they can build and twist the worlds around them, touching and overlapping them to form a malleable shared universe.

 Dungeons and Delvers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:28

This lightweight-yet-complete role-playing game is an homage to the "Easy-to-Master" black box of the first role-playing game that does everything the creator wished the original did. Overall the game has a similar feel to the original role-playing game, but there are a number of differences. Listen in while Spence and James go over this awesome game. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5695/Awful-Good-Games/

 Deryni | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:31

The Deryni Adventure Game is based on the series of fantasy books by Katherine Kurtz. The novels weave a rich tapestry of romantic chivalry, medieval kings, a powerful Church, and the Deryni, a persecuted race of humans with the gift of magic. Now you can share in the magic! Create characters – human or Deryni! – and experience the Eleven Kingdoms through their adventures! Uncover intrigue in the courts of kings, defend the Deryni from persecution, and experience all manner of medieval majesty!

 Everyverse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:08

Everyverse RPG features five methods of character generation to suit every situation and taste. It uses the same scale as used to measure Real-world IQ to provide more meaningful information at a glance. Along with tree-like skill arrays go from general to specific. Choose your own ease/realism trade-off. Giving players a single method to resolve all actions to keep everyone's nose out of the book. Players follow the same path or improve characters over several lifetimes.

 Meet Your Hosts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:20

It's time to meet the hosts of Game School. Spence and Jee Cee spend the hour interviewing each other. This one is just for the fans!

 Star Wars | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:19:27

On this episode JC and Spence interview Jay Little. He is a developer and one of the lead designers of Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars: Edge of the Empire roleplaying series. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/#/universe/star-wars

 High Plains Samurai | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:23

An action-heavy tabletop RPG of gunslingers, samurai, gangsters, barbarians, steampunk, and superpowers on the brink of destruction. There is a world beyond our own steeped in darkness and struggling in the aftermath of a divine war; a world where its people fight not only to survive but to amass power, riches, and honour. A place of intense, high-octane wire-fu action set against the background of desert landscapes, high speed train robberies, and mutant warriors battling it out for supremacy.  

 HGMO | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:23

This is our first Detention episode. While this episode is clean and a lot of fun it does touch on adult themes. Please review prior to allowing younger listeners listen to it. If you are not comfortable with homosexual themes, this may not be the episode for you and we encourage you to tune in to the next episode. Hot Guys Making Out is about the relationship between Honoré and Gonsalvo. They are both gorgeous and have the hots for each other. Also there are other people trying to kill them.

 Victorious | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:03

Victorious is a superhero steampunk RPG where heroes from the future have traveled back in time and altered the time-line. Through their influence, inadvertent or deliberate, technology has had a jump-start. A series of advancements, based on steam-driven technology, have arisen. The player characters can either be born into this era or can have arrived from the future. http://www.trolllord.com/

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