Internet Office Hours: Role-Playing Games!
By: Alex Schroeder
Language: en
Categories: Games, Hobbies
Internet Office Hours by the Grenzland Server Crew.
Episodes
Ultraviolet Grasslands
Nov 19, 2024Alex and Whidou talk about running the Ultraviolet Grasslands (UVG).
Duration: 00:58:05Traveller Life Paths
Nov 05, 2024Alex, Hasran, Dr. Kalt, Laurens
Duration: 01:01:06Maps and mapping
Sep 04, 2024Alex, Gottfried, Peter, Whidou talk about maps and mapping, how to create them, how to describe them, how to draw them, their reduction to point-crawls and its equivalence to hex-maps.
Duration: 00:52:39Rumours
Apr 29, 2024Alex, Peter, Whidou talk about how useful rumours are in modules, how to best write rumours for your own games, and how to act upon rumours as a player.
Duration: 00:49:48Trade
Dec 21, 2023Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about how to make trading interesting, mostly in the context of Ultraviolet Grasslands and Classic Traveller.
Duration: 00:59:01Traveller
Nov 22, 2023Alex, Laurens, Michael, Richard talk about what it takes to run a good Classic Traveller game.
Duration: 00:52:08Lore
Sep 23, 2023Alex, Laurens, Whidou talk about making lore relevant in games.
Duration: 00:55:28Hexcrawls
Jul 24, 2023Alex, Peter and Whidou talk about hexcrawls: what works, what doesn't work, what about old ones, what about new ones, and what we like to run.
Duration: 00:59:59Narrative Games
May 11, 2023Alex, Ben, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about narrative games and how old school D&D and narrative games have some commonalities.
Duration: 01:10:29One Page Dungeons
May 05, 2023Alex, Peter and Random Wizard talk about the One Page Dungeon Contest. Why did Alex and Random Wizard stop running it? How to best use them?
Duration: 00:55:27Writing vs. Playing
Apr 22, 2023Alex, Peter and Richard talk about writing games instead of playing them.
Duration: 00:57:57Published vs Sandbox Content
Apr 03, 2023Gary, Laurens, Peter talk about published vs. sandbox content for our games.
Duration: 00:53:58Bonus Bonus Episode! Character Creation
Apr 01, 2023Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah create characters for The Dark Eye and Alex tries to explain how it works.
Duration: 00:25:13Bonus Episode! Actual Play of The Forest of No Return
Apr 01, 2023Alex, Gary, Peter, Robert and Sarah play through the first adventure for the first edition of The Dark Eye.
Duration: 01:22:36Group Cooperation
Mar 27, 2023Gary, Peter and Alex talk about how to encourage cooperation.
Duration: 01:02:44Rumours and agency
Mar 21, 2023Alex, Gary, Laurens and Peter talk about how to encourage players taking the initiative in a long campaign.
Duration: 00:59:31Fighters and what to do with them
Mar 13, 2023Gary, Peter, Robert talk about fighters and what to do with them.
Duration: 00:57:10Immersion and how to encourage it
Mar 06, 2023Gary, Laurens, Peter and Alex talk about what immersion is and where it comes from and discuss the things that encourage it.
Duration: 01:00:21The importance of a skill system
Feb 26, 2023Alex, Gary, Peter and Robert talk about the importance of having a skill system. Why have it, what does it do, how complicated should it be?
Duration: 00:59:02The importance of a setting
Feb 19, 2023Alex, Gary and Peter talk about the importance of a setting. What does it mean to have just the rules?
Duration: 00:42:23