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Michael played Tsuro, with the minions!

  Tsuro     I am going to start reviewing the various board/card games I play with my boys. JG is almost 7 and Jacob is 5 and a half.   First up Tsuro from Calliope Games.       If you are not familiar with the game, Tsuro is a tile-based board game flavored as …

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2016 Holiday special – Blooper edition

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:35 — 17.0MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts     Hello and welcome to a special BONUS episode of The RPG Academy podcast. We thought we’d end the year with some of the bloopers and outtakes from recent episodes.  WARNING – these bloopers have not been …

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Bonus Ep – AcadeCon 2016 Thank You!!

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:19 — 37.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts Hello and welcome to a BONUS episode of The RPG Academy Podcast. In this episode Caleb and I wax poetic about AcadeCon 2016 and Thank everyone we can think of for helping us.  If you care about AcadeCon, …

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Field Trip Wushuper Friends Halloween Special pt 2

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:18 — 49.7MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts Hello and welcome to A special edition our Field Trips. For this Field Trip we jump back once again to my childhood and the 1982* cartoon Challenge of the Super-Friends but we do it by the cracked mirror …

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GM Advice – The Dice Matter

    The dice matter. There are times when I wish they didn’t, but they do. As a player, I go into most games with the goal of rolling dice the least amount of times possible. If never is an option, that’s what I’m going for. I really enjoy the social aspect of role playing and …

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Bonus Ep – Running Con games online panel w/ Senda & Kendall

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:59 — 53.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts Podcast (httptherpgacademy-comfeedlive): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:59 — 53.8MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSSThis episode is sponsored by WymrwoodGaming.  Use coupon code rpgacademy to get free shiping. Hello and welcome to a special BONUS episode of The …

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Alignment : Part 5

Hello students. Welcome to the final article about alignment in this series. We’ve covered a lot of information in these past few weeks. After discussing what alignment is, how it’s changed through the various editions of Dungeons and Dragons, and its mechanical impact on the game, today we’ll be talking about ways to change alignment. …

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New Pocket editions announced for Pathfinder RPG

    Paizo, Inc., publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, announces the release of new softcover pocket editions for the two of the game’s essential rulebooks: the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary.       The Core Rulebook and Bestiary pocket editions will include the same page count and …

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Alignment : Part 4

  Hello students. Welcome to what was going to be the final article in this series on alignment. There ended up being too much to talk about to wrap this up today. And part three was way too long. My apologies. We’ve spent time discussing what alignment is in Dungeons and Dragons, how it’s changed …

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Alignment : Part 3

Hello students. Welcome back to my series on alignment. In this article, we will talk about the mechanical development of alignment in a few editions of Dungeons and Dragons. As I’ve said many times on the podcast, I learned to play RPGs with 3.5 D&D, so I’m going to start there. Then we’ll travel forward …

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