Roleplay Rescue
376 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDid you used to play roleplaying games back in the day, delving dungeons with funny dice in hand? Why’d you stop? Find out how to reclaim your RPG hobby as a working adult.
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Imagine with Michael Tenery
April 13, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBHello Rescuers! We’re back! Sort of. As I said a few weeks ago, I am changing the pace of Roleplay Rescue from a regular podcast to being a, well, irregular podcast - in other words, although this is the first episode of the resurrected show, it may be some time (or not) before I record another. But this episode couldn’t wait. I thought about holding it back but, frankly, it was such a great conversation that I couldn’t in good conscience hold it back. Today, I am honoured to welcome W. M...
The End?
March 23, 2024 03:00 - 17 minutes - 22.5 MBHere’s the short version: I’m going to take a break - once again - from podcasting. When I do return, whether it’s in a couple of weeks, two months, or a year, I’m going to take the approach of recording when I have something I’m interested in saying. No more weekly or bi-weekly schedule, just grabbing the mic whenever ideas are worth developing. And so this is the End. It’s also the beginning of something new. Big thanks to Jon for the call-in which inspired the episode. Tiny Prep, the ...
RPGMatch with Joaquin Lippincott
March 09, 2024 03:00 - 57 minutes - 53.6 MBThis is the last in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various guests over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. Joaquin Lippincott is the founder of RPGMatch, an application where you can register and meet other TTRPG players who like to play like you do. Following the call-in and my not-entirely positive feedback about the app in Episode 6, Seeking Face to Face, Joaquin reached out and we agreed to have a bit of a chat. Thanks to Joaquin for coming on the show! I hope...
Intermission
February 24, 2024 03:00 - 34 minutes - 40 MBIt has been a month since I last hopped on the mic and spoke. This episode is a GM Intrusion into the flow of the season to do two things: First, I wanted to share and respond to a few call-in messages I’ve received through January and February. Second, I thought I would update you on a couple of areas in my own hobby and thought - we just played a second face-to-face session at The Dice Cup, the School Club has shifted to playing Dungeon Fantasy RPG too, and I’ve even taken part as a pla...
Five Percent Challenge with Bob from SAFCO
February 10, 2024 03:00 - 52 minutes - 50.8 MBThis is the third in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Bob from the SAFCO podcast. Bob Loftin is co-host of SAFCOcast, a podcast about the Traveller roleplaying game and its derivatives. SAFCO stands for Super Adventure Friends Co., the tongue-in-cheek name the members of Bob’s group decided to give the company their characters formed ...
GURPS with Mr_Sandman
January 27, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBThis is the second in a series of four conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Mr_Sandman, aka Andrew from Long Island. Andrew is a long-time GURPS GM and the mind behind his blog, In The Sandbox, which contains lots of great advice for aspiring and new GURPS GMs. I particularly enjoyed his post entitled, “My Tips for GMs New to GURPS” from May 2023. Last ti...
Playing Face-to-Face
January 20, 2024 03:00 - 21 minutes - 28.3 MBI got back to running a game face-to-face. More than that, it looks like this newly formed group of gamers wants to meet again in February. I don’t want to jinx it, but I’m so entirely made up about this event that I thought I’d share a few quick thoughts as an episode. Thanks right up front to all the new players in that session who absolutely made my day - James, Phil, Isa, Onur, and Adam. It was an absolute pleasure to make your acquaintance. Fellmyr Map via After Five Years – Roleplay ...
Primaeval Fantasy with Daniel Jones
January 13, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBThis is the first in a series of four new conversations I’ve enjoyed with various friends and new acquaintances within the Roleplay Rescue community over the tail end of 2023 and into January 2024. My guest today is Daniel Jones of the Primaeval Fantasy YouTube and podcast channels, plus the Eudaimonic Geekery blog. I ask him to outline the nature of what he means by the term, “Primaeval Fantasy” as a sub-genre of fantasy world making. Daniel is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersi...
Into 2024
January 06, 2024 03:00 - 33 minutes - 38 MBAs the New Year for 2024 arrives, where am I at with table top roleplaying games? What are my plans for the year ahead and what lessons am I carrying forward? Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024 and I wish you all the very best for the 50th anniversay of the publication of Dungeons & Dragons - that funny old boxed set that sparked this whole roleplaying games phenomenon in 1974! This episode is - predictably enough - all about me, my hobby, and my thoughts as I begin the 53rd year of my life....
Augury Ignored
December 23, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBI’ve sat on the conversation that you’re about to hear for far too long. Back in late September, I hopped online for a conversation with Augury Ignored - the voice behind the Augury Ignored blog. Thomas - for that is his actual name - reached out across Mastodon and we hopped online to chat. It was a first time conversation between gaming strangers but it was a hugely influential chat for me. Without this conversation, I don’t think Roleplay Rescue Season 13 would have started. Big thanks t...
Seeking Face-to-Face
December 09, 2023 03:00 - 30 minutes - 36.9 MBThe barriers to finding face-to-face community are many. But this was the very problem I began the whole podcast to resolve and, weirdly, find myself right back where I began. I want to face this challenge full on and see what actions I can take. This is pretty personal but I hope you'll find it useful nonetheless. Thank you to all the callers this week - to Infinity Devil for helping inspire the episode, and to Jamie, Jason and Jon. Nottingham Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Meetup Group: https:...
After Five Years
November 25, 2023 03:00 - 23 minutes - 25.8 MBOn the 28th November 2018, the eight minute and 14 second episode zero of Roleplay Rescue was aired. Now, as we reach the 5th anniversary of that fateful episode, I’m wondering… has it been worth it? What have I learned? And is it mission accomplished? I mean… has anyone’s roleplaying been rescued? Big thanks to the callers today - Jason, Hobbs, Spencer, Jean-Francois, Carl, Matt, and Jon. Please consider donating for Men's Health during Movember! Thanks to everyone who has already donate...
An Open World Campaign
November 11, 2023 03:00 - 25 minutes - 31.6 MBDraw a quick regional map on hexed paper. Grab the rules from an old roleplaying game. Sit down with some friends and begin to play. Is it really that simple to start a fantasy roleplaying campaign? Today, I want to share some of the things I’ve experienced and what these moments have taught me about being a fantasy RPG GM. Big thanks to the callers today - Andrew, Jason, Anthony aka Runeslinger, and Wiebe! Game on! Roleplay Rescue Details: Voice Message: speakpipe.com/roleplayrescue ...
Talking D&D With YUMDM
October 28, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBYUMDM is the creator of the d12 Monthly ‘zine which started in mid-2021 and has grown from a humble 8-pages to - in September 2023 - 27 issues at a whopping 28-pages! Hailing from Australia, Russ has been roleplaying for 30+ years and allegedly played his first game as Tasslehoff in a Dragonlance module. He has been creating his own campaign world since 2019 and has seen it grow and develop in each new campaign he runs. Russ is an avid solo roleplayer having done so as far back as 1986. This...
Adventurer Conqueror King With Alex Macris
October 22, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBAlex Macris is the lead designer for the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System, an old-school fantasy RPG designed to support campaign play. He’s the founder of Autarch LLC, a game design studio from Durham in North Carolina, USA which publishes ACKS and several other titles. Alex is also an entrepreneur and the author of “Arbiter of Worlds”, a primer for Gamemasters - as well as having made a host of other achievements. Massive thank you to Alex for coming on the show. Thank you to Matthew fo...
Schooled
October 14, 2023 02:00 - 37 minutes - 46.2 MBWhat’s going on with the school Roleplay Club? Why would you even run such a thing? What are the best steps in getting started? Today, I want to take you through the story of the first two weeks of the School Club project and outline the progress, but also the pains, of getting myself back in front of teens gamers. I’ve even grabbed two short clips from the GM’s Journal - recorded immediately after the students left on two consecutive sessions - to give you a sense of how the play has been ...
Rescue!
September 30, 2023 02:00 - 24 minutes - 27.8 MBWhat do you do when you know you used to enjoy playing RPGs but the whole thing has, frankly, become a chore? How do you move forward when the reality is that you are anxious about GMing the next session and you have bailed more times than you run the game? This season is shifting to a bi-weekly format and I hope that listeners will understand. This season I’m going to work on presenting the experiments I’m testing in my own actually played RPG sessions. The goal is to track a route back t...
So You Want To Be A Game Master With Justin Alexander
September 02, 2023 02:00 - 46 minutes - 43.7 MBThis episode is the final one for this season - no, really - and it’s my pleasure to bring you a conversation about a significant new book for the RPG scene. Justin Alexander is a freelance writer and the author of the grand repository of ideas that is The Alexandrian. This is an interview with Justin about his forthcoming book, released in November 2023, "So You Want To Be A Game Master". Big thanks up front to Justin for agreeing to come and talk about his new book - it truly was anothe...
Community Voices
August 26, 2023 02:00 - 45 minutes - 45.8 MBThe last episode was supposed to be the final one for this season but, well, then I got a whole barrage of messages and call-ins from you, the listeners. It seems a shame not to share them in one last hurrah of community positivity and thoughtfulness. So… here we are. Big thank you, once again, to Frank, Brian, Anthony, Jason, John, Barry, Jean-Francois, Hobbs, and James for all of their call-ins! I’m not really sure if and when I’ll be back for more episodes so… thank you for showing up a...
Tension and Change With Jason Connerley
August 19, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBThis episode is the final one for this season, another of the extended conversations I’ve shared with gaming friends over recent weeks. It was largely unplanned as I hopped online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. Jason Connerley is the voice behind the Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast podcast and a regular caller to several Anchorite shows, including this one. Jason started gaming around 1983 with the Dungeon! board game by David Megarry. His first RPGs were the Mentzer Red Box D&D...
Talking FKR With Paul Jennings
August 12, 2023 02:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBThis one’s a chat about FKR - Free Kreigspiel Roleplaying - with someone I am only beginning to get to know but who has also been so generous with their time that I feel deeply appreciative of and in debt to. The episode is the penultimate one for this season, another of the extended conversations I’ve shared with gaming friends over recent weeks. It was largely unplanned and is really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. We did have a few moments of s...
The Apprentice GM
August 05, 2023 02:00 - 29 minutes - 36 MBSo, yes, I want to be a Game Master. And I want to become a good Game Master. I’m ready to learn and I’m willing to put myself into the space of running a game for my friends. Where do I start? This episode is being put together on Day One of my Apprenticeship as a GM. I’m sharing it partly so that I can externalise and understand where I am going - it helps to explain my rationale and direction. But I’m also sharing because I hope that it might inspire one or two others who’ve been sitting ...
Something Shared
July 29, 2023 02:00 - 35 minutes - 37.5 MBThis episode is basically a call-in show with lots of messages interspersed with my thoughts in response. It’s unscripted and probably a little rougher around the edges… but I would encourage you to stick around and listen because this collection of messages from the community has been some of the most insightful stuff in all my years of podcasting. Big thanks up front to the callers - Simon, Wiebe, Matt, Barry, Matthew, and Jason. I hope you enjoy it. Game on! Roleplay Rescue Details: ...
The Fear of Mastery
July 22, 2023 02:00 - 29 minutes - 35.1 MBWhat does the phrase “Game Master” mean? It is simply a synonym for other labels we stick on the poor soul who organises and runs a traditional tabletop roleplaying game, or might it have deeper meaning? And if we wanted to master our craft, how would we begin? This episode is about the idea of mastery and the fear which arises whenever one speaks about attaining such status. Of the sense of inadequacy and foolishness which leads me to feel as though it is preposterous to suggest such an ou...
War of Art with Daniel Jones
July 15, 2023 02:00 - 50 minutes - 47.5 MBThis episode is the third extended conversation I’ve shared with some gaming friends over recent weeks. The conversation was unplanned and is really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. Daniel Jones is the originator of the term Otherworld-immersion and a published author, game designer, philosopher, podcaster, and the man behind the Eudaimonic Geekery blog. In this episode, Daniel wanted to talk to me about his struggles with writing his own roleplay...
Transitions
July 08, 2023 02:00 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBToday’s episode is a Transition - a shift from one place towards another, the ending of one chapter and the opening of another. In part, this is a reflection upon the journey so far. It’s also a reorientation towards what I want for my future with roleplaying games. But the episode is also a sharing, both of my own thoughts and ideas but also those from the community which have gathered over the past few weeks. Big thank you to Hobbs from Random Screed for inspiring this episode and giving ...
Solo Tales Ep4: Into The Tower
July 05, 2023 02:00 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBHello Rescuers! Here's a early-access bonus for the Swordbearers which will become open to all Patrons prior to general release as a bonus episode on Roleplay Rescue. Roleplay Rescue’s Solo Tales is a podcast recounting the solo tabletop roleplaying adventures played by me. The core of the game is being played with Basic Roleplaying by the Chaosium and the Mythic GM Emulator Deck. There are adult themes and some pretty gory moments of combat, so listener discretion is advised. Thanks to Jo...
Player Agency With Simon Williams
July 01, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBToday is the second of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week, focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were largely unplanned and are really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. This second conversation is with Simon Williams, a British artist and illustrator as well as being the creator of the L...
Adventure Building With Johnn Four
June 24, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBToday is the first of two extended conversations I’ve shared with some gaming luminaries over the course of a week focused on answering some practical questions around the barriers I have long experienced in running consistent campaigns. These conversations were largely unplanned and are really just that - hopping online to talk and discuss some key ideas with my guest. The first conversation was with Johnn Four, the founder of RoleplayingTips.com which began as a GM tips newsletter. Throu...
Back In Balazar
June 17, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutes - 31.5 MBNewfound clarity has given birth to some confidence and a much greater sense of my preferences in gaming. The last few weeks have seen seismic shifts in my sense of wellbeing alongside a growing sense of who I am as a GM. As with much of Roleplay Rescue, there is a sense that in sharing my own journey back towards the roleplaying I enjoyed so much as a young man, perhaps there is also an invitation for others to follow. Following on from Episodes 14 and 15, I have found myself nudged toward...
Sparking Creativity With Runeslinger
June 10, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBToday I have another of my conversations with a friend within the roleplaying games community. This episode we dipped into talking about sparking creativity with younger students of varying ages - a comparison between my guest’s creative writing courses that utilise roleplaying games and my own school-based RPG club for teens. My guest today is Runeslinger - Anthony Boyd - the creator of Casting Shadows, a blog offering commentary about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and...
Solo Tales Ep3: Skeletons!
June 07, 2023 02:00 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBHello Rescuers! Here's another bonus - the third episode of Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales! This episode picks up where that one left off. Because this is a personal solo game, I’m going to be using a variety of tools and methods to create a game that I enjoy. In other words, while I am sharing the game in the hope of inspiring others to try solo play, I am also very much playing the game for my own enjoyment. Thanks to Jon from Tale of the Manticore and Simon from Legend of the Bones for th...
Permutations
June 03, 2023 02:00 - 28 minutes - 35.6 MBHaving realised that I’ve been chasing my tail for the past 40 or so years in accepting a very simple misunderstanding as truth, the past couple of weeks have been an enriching and enjoyable period. While work and other commitments still limit my time to engage in play, the times when I do sit down to roleplay have been increasingly rich and enjoyable. The mission of the podcast has always been about helping gamers get back to the table. Throughout the past 12 seasons of Roleplay Rescue, w...
Clarity
May 27, 2023 02:00 - 21 minutes - 27.5 MBWhat if you didn’t need anything more to have the best games of your life? What if you didn’t need another product, another tool, or another set of rules? What if everything you really need to have a cracking session, whether with your friend or online, was already in reach? Today’s episode is inspired by my recent reading of Jamie Smart’s hugely interesting book, “Clarity” - the second edition of which was published this year, ten years after the first, and which I heard about through a re...
Rolemaster Unified
May 20, 2023 02:00 - 24 minutes - 29.4 MBWhat’s the deal with Rolemaster? Why did we love it back in the 1980s and does the recent release of Rolemaster Unified invigorate us to play it again? Back in Episode 1, I declared that I was embarking on a new quest. It’s a journey into the deep past to find a new pathway towards enjoying the games I like to play in the way that I most enjoy playing them. Today, I take a trip back to 1980 and revisit the fantasy roleplaying game we played the most in that formative decade. Then I take an ...
GM's Journal #183: Coronation Weekend (May 5th-10th 2023)
May 14, 2023 02:00 - 34 minutes - 34.3 MBBonus episode leaked from the Patreon to give listeners a taste of the raw and unedited horror that is the GM's Journal. A few folk have asked what the GM's Journal is all about so I thought the best way to respond would be to share one episode by way of a taster. Remember: the Journal is a very candid snapshot of my life as a gamer, is recorded throughout the week into my phone, and is nothing like the polished typical episodes. Listener discretion is advised! This week saw the new King's ...
On Community
May 13, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutes - 22.1 MBHaving spent quite a few episodes now revisiting and developing my own return to a more coherent practice with roleplaying games, I thought I would make a brief pitstop and talk about the Roleplay Rescue community. The community is the life-blood of this podcast. Without it, I would be alone and isolated. I would possibly have stopped playing, but even if I was playing it would be alone - my home group died with the first lockdown in 2020 and has not recovered. Friends who gathered at my t...
Solo Tales Ep2: Back To Crag's Ruin
May 10, 2023 02:00 - 23 minutes - 31.5 MBHello Rescuers! Here's a bonus! I have this vague idea that if I can produce a few episodes then I might release them on their own podcast feed, Roleplay Rescue's Solo Tales. This episode follows on from the main Roleplay Rescue Season 12, Episode 2 entitled “Crag’s Ruin”. I began wanting to explore the roots of my own hobby by revisiting my first imaginary game-world. This episode picks up where that one left off. Because this is a personal solo game, I’m going to be using a variety of t...
Characterisation With Simon Williams
May 06, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBToday I have another of my conversations with a friend within the roleplaying games community. This episode we dipped into talking about characterisation in our RPGs, especially around NPCs. My guest, Simon Williams, is a British artist and illustrator as well as being the creator of the Legend of The Bones podcast, a hybrid Solo Old School Dungeons and Dragons actual play and dark fantasy audio drama. Big thanks to Simon for coming back to the show! Legend of The Bones Podcast: https://...
Why Play GURPS?
April 29, 2023 02:00 - 35 minutes - 47.4 MBFollowing the release of Episode 5 to the RPR Patreon, Patron Brian called in with a long series of seven questions about GURPS which I felt were worthy of a full episode to respond to. Not only are they truly excellent questions, they were also deeply insightful and are perhaps the kinds of questions that many listeners unfamiliar with GURPS would find interesting. I also think that, putting aside the specifics of GURPS, these are useful questions to ask of any game system. Because the que...
Simple Dungeon GURPS
April 22, 2023 02:00 - 34 minutes - 38.5 MBIn Episode 5, Barry aka GMShadow chatted with me about the need for a simple introduction to GURPS. Since then, we’ve been collaborating - along with other interested folk from the RPR Discord - to create Simple Dungeon GURPS. We have a working draft of Simple Dungeon GURPS and the playtesting is underway. In this episode, I wanted to share the progress made and the basic shape of that set of methodological guidelines which leverage the GURPS rules system. Massive thanks to Frank for calli...
The Fear Of Starting
April 15, 2023 02:00 - 31 minutes - 38.7 MBDo you ever find yourself not physically starting something but instead spending inordinate amounts of time and effort reading, researching, and trying to decide where to start? If not, I envy you. It's a particular problem I have and been struggling with again. In simple terms, this is the Resistance in a pretty unsubtle form. Thanks to Matt for the call-in at the top of the show, giving me a nudge on a topic I blogged about some weeks ago: The Fear of Starting. This episode, I aim to sha...
Megadungeon!
April 08, 2023 02:00 - 31 minutes - 41.9 MBFollowing my recent conversation with GMShadow, my good friend Barry from The Shadow of the GM podcast - which you can listen to in Episode 5 - I’ve been delving back into both the Great Library of GURPS and rekindling my love of the megadungeon. This episode, I want to talk about the reasons why I’ve returned to the Dungeons of Thaarl - my own megadungeon - for a return to the classic fantasy Open Table format. The Alexandrian blog post, “Game Structures Part 3: Dungeoncrawl”: https://th...
Location, Location, Location
April 01, 2023 02:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBToday, I want to talk about the most durable, long-serving, and under-rated game structure in roleplaying games. Most GMs use some form of it in most sessions - anytime they come to a location in their world where the Player Characters need to explore. I want to talk about the humble Dungeoncrawl which has become tarnished over the years by people who totally fail to understand that the “crawl” is a fundamental and sturdy structure for any moment when the characters enter a location they wan...
Simple GURPS With GMShadow
March 25, 2023 03:00 - 47 minutes - 42.9 MBThis is another one of the conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying community. This episode is a chat about how to introduce new players to GURPS by making the whole thing simpler and more familiar. One thing to say is that I got my timeframes all wrong: I began monkeying around with GURPS around 5 years ago or so ago. Dungeons of Thaarl was happening in 2019, which is 4 years ago. Doesn’t time fly? My guest, Barry aka GMShadow, is the host of Shadow of t...
On Combat
March 18, 2023 03:00 - 18 minutes - 23.7 MBEver since I first began roleplaying, I have always been engaged by a good fight scene. Combat has been the way in which I almost always begin to learn a new game and you can bet your bottom-dollar that any scenario I run with open with a fight. Why is that? Is it because, as I alluded to back in Season 9, I am at heart a Munchkin? One of those kids who came into the hobby in the late 70’s and 80’s as a pre-teen adventurer with a predilection for violence? Or is it a little more nuanced, ha...
Deeper Gaming With Arlen Walker
March 11, 2023 03:00 - 50 minutes - 47 MBThis is the first in a fresh sequence of conversations I’ve been having with various friends within the roleplaying community. This episode features a chat about how to move from beer and pretzels style gaming towards something a little deeper, richer, and longer lived. My guest, Arlen Walker, is the host of Live From Pellam’s Wasteland which you can find both as a podcast and on YouTube in video form. Arlen does most of his recent work on YouTube and his thoughts can range wildly, but incl...
Crag's Ruin
March 04, 2023 03:00 - 21 minutes - 27.8 MBThis one's a highly experimental episode. As I said last episode, I want to explore the roots of my own hobby by revisiting my first imaginary game-world. Through dreams and many hours of day-dreaming as a teenager, I uncovered a rich fantasy realm that I am long-overdue returning to visit. Despite a few attempts to bring other tools to the table, games that I deeply enjoy and seek to explore, the reality is that the first game I stole from my Dad - RuneQuest and the even simpler Basic Rolep...
Back To Basic Roleplaying
February 25, 2023 03:00 - 20 minutes - 24.7 MBSomehow I’ve found my way back to the microphone and it’s time to embark on a new quest. For me, it’s a journey into the deep past to find a new pathway towards enjoying the games I like to play in the way that I most enjoy playing them. It’s my hope that, at least for someone else, this quest will resonate enough to carry you along with me too. Massive thanks to all the callers today - Jason, Justin, Jonathan, and the Pink Phantom. Please keep the comments and questions coming! Game on! ...
Finale
January 14, 2023 03:00 - 27 minutes - 28.6 MBBack in July, as Season 11 opened, I spoke about how some roleplayers experience deep anxiety around playing and running games. One of the most repeated comments I have received over the past 4 years of producing this podcast has been the one about how much my honest talk about anxiety has resonated with others. This episode ends a season of Roleplay Rescue that opened with a broad theme: An Anxious GM’s Guide To Fantasy Roleplaying. I’d like to take the opportunity to review where we’ve bee...