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Episode 330: The Hero's Journey The Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend explore the twelve steps to greater story telling. Carie, Jason and Ryan take a deep dive into the monomyth structure of The Hero's Journey!Support On A Roll

Episode 329: Memories of Gaming After an extensive sick leave, Carie, Jason and Ryan return to answer listeners' questions about our past gaming experiences!Support On A Roll

Episode 328: Building a Gaming Org In this double-length episode, the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend talk about what they've learned from being administrators of national larp organizations. Carie, Jason and Ryan then build a hypothetical org for The Gun Belt!Support On A Roll

Episode 327: Shooting Genre From Canons Josh Heath joins the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend to talk about genre and canon. Carie, Jason, Ryan and Josh try to define what they are before talking about how they're different, the importance of enforcing them, and if your game even needs them!Special Guest: Josh Heath.Support On A RollLinks:High Level Games - High Level Games — Find more of Josh's work at High Level Games!

Episode 326: Good Strong Hands Craig Campbell from NerdBurger Games came by to tell the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend about his new game, Good Strong Hands. Carie, Jason and Ryan learn about this fun new game based loosely on The Neverending Story!Special Guest: Craig Campbell.Support On A RollLinks:NerdBurger Games — NerdBurger Games' website!Good Strong Hands RPG by Craig Campbell — Kickstarter — Back Good Strong Hands on Kickstarter!

Episode 325: Find a DM on Crawlr Jackie Zantow-Schwartz joins Ryan, Jason and Carie to tell the story of CRAWLR, the web-based social network she created that connects gamers with one another. It's like TindR, but for vampires, superheroes, deckers and clerics!Support On A RollLinks:CRAWLR - Facebook — Like CRAWLR on Facebook!CRAWLR — Join CRAWLR on their website, here!

Episode 324: Ryan Asks A Question Jason's finished his surgery, so we're back! This week, Ryan made a list of fun questions about our experiences in gaming. With no preparation, Ryan asks Carie and Jason all sorts of things about games, players, locations, game lines and more!Support On A Roll

Episode 323: Australian Nerdball Brendan Faithfull joins us from Melbourne to talk about larp in Australia and the popularity of weekly battle larps they refer to as Nerdball. Carie, Jason and Ryan learn about his larp, Exodus, and talk about the differences and similarities of international larp philosophies!Support On A RollLinks:Exodus Battle LARP — Here's the website for Brendan's larp!Exodus Battle LARP — Check out the Facebook group for Brendan's larp, Exodus!

Episode 322: Great Artists Steal This week, the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend take a look at where great ideas come from. Carie, Jason and Ryan discuss great sources for plots, characters and themes you can adapt for your games!Support On A Roll

Episode 321: Craig Campbell and Nerdburger Con Online Nerdburger Games' Craig Campbell. creator of Capers and Die Laughing, stops by to tell the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend all about Nerdburger Con Online, coming Aug. 14-16, 2020. He also tells Carie, Jason and Ryan about his upcoming game, Good Strong Hands, and how to run an online con!Special Guest: Craig Campbell.Support On A RollLinks:NerdBurger Games — Find out more about Craig's games and the Nerdburger Con!The Curse of the House of Rookwood by Nerdy Pup Games — Check out this cool little indie game that Carie just got!On A Roll Podcast is creating RPG Gaming Podcasts | PatreonGood Strong Hands RPG by Craig Campbell — Kickstarter — The Kickstarter for Good Strong Hands, coming soon.

Episode 320: Of Goats and Idiots Internationally renowned larp creator Dan Comstock joins the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend to talk about Goat Larp 2, Village of Idiots and the crazy world of larp production. Carie, Jason and Ryan also speak with him about the future of larp in a pandemic land!Special Guest: Dan Comstock.Support On A RollLinks:Village of Idiots – A Comedy Larp — Learn about Dan's Village of Idiots larp on their website! Goatlarp — Find out more about Goat Larp 2!

Episode 319: NPCs Non-player characters are essential, so the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend take a look at the kinds of NPCs that are in a game. Carie, Jason and Ryan then examine the best ways to utilize them!Support On A Roll

Episode 318: Building South Fallenrock This week, the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend test a session zero component of Ryan's roleplaying game, The Gun Belt! Ryan leads Carie and Jason through the town-building process as they create the interstellar wild west streets of South Fallenrock!Support On A Roll

Episode 317: A Game's First Impression Jason bought a new rpg, so the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend explore why. Carie, Jason and Ryan do an analysis of the things people look at when deciding if they want to buy a new roleplaying game!Support On A Roll

Episode 316: Running Kid-Friendly Games Librarian and gamer Drew Meyer joins the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend to talk about his experiences running RPGs for kids and teens. Carie, Jason and Ryan explore the wonders and challenges of young gamers and learn Drew's 10 Rules For Running Kid-Friendly Games!Special Guest: Drew Meyer.Support On A RollLinks:Who and Company - Home — Hang out with Drew's Dr. Who podcast friends on their Facebook page!Doctor Who: Who & Company — Listen to Drew on his Dr. Who podcast, Who & Company!Doctor Who: Who & Company — Listen to Drew on his Dr. Who podcast, Who & Company!

Episode 315: Runnning for New Players Jason's been running D&D for a group of brand new players, so Carie and Ryan join him to talk about what he's learned. We talk about best practices for making sure your new players have fun and come back for more!Support On A Roll

Episode 314: Character Acting Lee University theater Professor Dan Buck joins the Favorite, the Curmudgeon and the Legend to talk about acting. Carie, Jason and Ryan get schooled on how to find a character and how to act it out!Support On A RollLinks:Project SSA — Dan's Project SSA podcast is here!

Episode 313: Imagining Werewolf 5th Edition Josh Heath joins the Curmudgeon and the Legend to imagine and dream about Werewolf 5th Edition. Carie, Josh and Ryan brainstorm on what they would do if they were developing the new Werewolf: the Apocalypse game!Special Guest: Josh Heath.Support On A RollLinks:High Level Games — The official website of High Level Games... FROM CANADA! :o‎Werewolf: The Podcast on Apple Podcasts — Listen to Josh Heath and Carie the Legend talk about Werewolf the Apocalypse!Werewolf: The Apocalypse - 5th Edition — The official website for the real Werewolf 5th Edition.

Episode 312: Advanced COVID 19th Edition The pandemic is a lot to process, so Ryan and Carie sat down with gamer and research scientist Tim Clancy from the Infomullet. He puts COVID-19 into gaming terms that even the Curmudgeon and the Legend can understand, addressing the virus, the response, how it will affect conventions like Gen Con or Dragon Con and what it's like to be sick from it!Special Guest: Tim Clancy.Support On A RollLinks:The InfoMullet — Tim's blog, The Infomullet, can be found here.InfoMullet.com - Home — The Infomullet on Facebook is here.The InfoMullet | Patreon — You can help keep the Infomullet going by becoming a patron on Patreon.

Episode 311: Kids on Brooms on Podcasts The fun flies in on a broomstick this week as the Curmudgeon and the Legend are joined by the creators of the all new Kids on Brooms rpg! Jonathan Gilmour and Doug Levandowski (who created Kids on Bikes) join us with their Kids on Brooms co-creator Spenser Starke to talk about these amazing games!Special Guests: Doug Levandowski and Jonathan Gilmour.Support On A RollLinks:Junior Braves Survival Guide to the Apocalypse RPG — You can order Junior Braves of the Apocalypse here!Kids on Bikes — You can get Kids on Bikes here!Teens in Space — Renegade Game Studios — Want to check out Teens in Space? That's available here!Kids on Brooms - Powered by Kids on Bikes — Preorder Kids on Brooms here!Icarus — Renegade Game Studios — You can get a copy of Spenser's game, Icarus, here!Aunt Agatha's Attic — You can get Doug's new board game, Aunt Agatha's Attic, from Chronicle Books.