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First Time at the Academy ?

Hello and welcome to The RPG Academy podcast website.  If this is your first time here, we want to give you a brief tour of the Academy to help you get acclimated to the wide variety of content we provide and our extensive back catalog. Primarily, we are a podcast. We strive to hit a …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 10

Welcome to the discussion of Wrought Iron episode 10, students. Crunch here to talk about one the of the most exciting and unique episodes we’ve ever done in an Actual Play podcast on The RPG Academy. I delayed the release of this article to try and give everyone a chance to listen before we get …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 9

  Hello everyone. Crunch here to talk about Wrought Iron episode 9. This was an interesting episode. My goal with these role play scenes was two fold. I wanted to flesh out the realism of the game world a bit and take a look at the characters in their natural habitats, so to speak. Thus, …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 8

Hello everyone. Crunch here to talk about Wrought Iron, episode 8. I liked this episode quite a bit. Both the players and the characters express their reaction to the combat that just occurred and I have an opportunity to start to incorporate some elements of the mystery that the PCs are dealing with. Well, one …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 7

Welcome back, students. Crunch here to talk about Wrought Iron episode 7. This episode was entirely devoted to combat. It was a needed break from all the role playing that’s been happening. Not that the role playing isn’t wonderful. But combat is a fundamental part of this game. The majority of the rules revolve around …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 6

Hello students. Professor Crunch here from the Academy computer lab where I’ve been working on the AcadeCon Kickstarter camapgin with Professor Fluff. But it’s time to take a break and talk about the sixth episode of Wrought Iron. Once again, this was an episode focused on role playing. By this point, the players have really …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 5

Welcome back, students. Professor Crunch here again to talk about Wrought Iron Episode 5. This episode was completely devoted to role playing. I think we rolled the dice once. Since this campaign is still developing, this type of episode is very important. It’s all about giving you, the audience, a chance to get to know …

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Why AcadeCon : Part 2

Last week, Michael kindly shared his reason behind starting AcadeCon and why it is so important to him. It was a terrific article and really gave everyone a peek behind the curtain to Michael and his motivation. Today, I’m taking some time to answer the same question. Why AcadeCon? I think that there are two …

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Wrought Iron : The Articles : Episode 4

Greetings and salutations, students. Professor Crunch here to talk about Wrought Iron Episode 4 and discuss what happened during my preparation and what changed as we sat down at the game table. As I mentioned before, my plans for Wrought Iron started with the opening scene. The events of this episode are the culmination of …

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Why AcadeCon?

Why AcadeCon? I was having a conversation recently about AcadeCon and was asked: why are you organizing your own convention? There was clearly some subtext to this – I gathered, “this seems like a lot of work, so why are you doing it?” Why? It’s a simple question; a good one to ask; and very obvious. …

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