RPG Ramblings
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsDiscussions about the various aspects of making both physical and electronic Table Top RPG products. We talk with artists, writers, editors and game designers about their process, what they do, and how to hire them. We also look at the details of making your products available to your audience, including a look at printing your own products, how to publish on DriveThru RPG, as well as running a KickStarter.
Along the way we will ramble about other things of interest or hot topics.
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Episodes
E22. “Critiquing Adventures and Discussing Comic Book Movies and Shows” with Jared Rascher
May 01, 2021 13:03 - 2 hours - 119 MB1.22 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Jared Rasher joins. He writes game reviews for Gnome Stew and also for his own blog, What Do I Know. We take a lengthy journey about good and bad adventure design. We bank hard and talk about super hero RPGs. That naturally flowed into discussing superhero moves and TV shows. This is a long episode. Grab your favorite...
E21. “Starting a City Crawl” with Tim Shorts
April 24, 2021 13:43 - 1 hour - 84.1 MB1.21 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Tim Shorts joins me to talk about his upcoming Crawlers of Scorn city campaign. We discuss his methods and ideas for setting up the city and populating it with locations and NPCs. We also talk about the difficulties of running city adventures and its merits. We recorded this late Friday night, so we meander a bit. Once...
E20. “Game Design, Game Writing, and Hot Takes” with Danielle Lauzon
April 17, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB1.20 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Danielle Lauzon joins me to converse about her history in writing and Game Design for the RPG industry. Along the way we discuss her history with White Wolf, Onyx Path and Magpie games. We also got opinionated about Blades in the Dark, The Genesys System, and discuss the affect Vincent Baker has on modern RPG design. ...
E19. “RPG Hodgepodge” with Tim Shorts
April 10, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB1.19 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Tim Shorts joins me to talk about a hodgepodge of RPG topics. From COVID recovery to missing PDF files, this week was a punt. But, hey…sometimes punting is the best option. I better stop here with the sports metaphor because if I go any further I am in danger of exposing my tremendous lack off knowledge of American foo...
E18. “Why You Need a Copy Editor” with Jessica Doble
April 03, 2021 17:30 - 1 hour - 65 MB1.18 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Jessica Doble joins me to talk about editing. Jessica was the copyeditor for Scoundrels, my three-issue zine. We discuss what editing is all about, and I share my experience of being subjected to her editor’s pen. As with most of my interviews, this was my first time meeting Jessica and we discuss her academic interest...
E17. “Writing RPG Content” with Tim Shorts
March 27, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 101 MB1.17 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Tim Shorts, from Gothridge Manor, joins me to talk about writing for RPGs. We start out discussing writing tools. Tim also gives us insight to his process for writing adventures. Eventually, like all good gamers, we meander into the post apocalypse. Once we started talking about JoAnn Fabrics we realized it was time to...
E16. “The Basics of Book Layout for RPG Products” with Clayton Notestine
March 20, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB1.16 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Clay Notestine, who is known for his excellent blog post Layout and the Grid. This is a most excellent primer for those wanting to gain a basic understanding of layout. Clay prolifically tweets about his takes on design and layouts for various indie RPG products. Those twitter tweets alone will justify your entire Inte...
E15. “Using DUNE to Add Spice to Your Game” with Tim Shorts
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MB1.15 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Tim Shorts, of Gothridge Manor, joins me to discuss a wonderful article written by Andrew Peregrine for a Modiphius blog. The article is entitled DUNE #10 - Walking Without Rhythm and was intended to explain to GM how there is so much going on in Arrakis that there is no need for planet hopping. After reading the six ...
E14. “Chewing the Fat” with Doug Cole
March 06, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB1.14 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This week Doug Cole from Gaming Ballistics is back and we discuss all sorts of groovy things. For starters I found out that Doug actually played in a Robot Warriors campaign (we mistakingly called it Robot Hero). We also discuss West End Games Star Wars and get into a pontificate about B running mysteries in RPGs. Doug talks abo...
E13. “Character Collections for The Fantasy Trip” with Doug Cole and “Little Katy’s Tea Party for ZQ3” with Edoardo Cremaschi
February 27, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 99.4 MB1.13 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. Doug Cole from Gaming Ballistics talks about his product Character Collections for Fantasy Trip that is currently running on Kickstarter. This is a great resource for any Fantasy RPG…as it provides a good deal of flavor text for each NPC. To make it even better, it only cost $10 to get all the funded PDFs. Doug has been in busin...
E12. “Deep Dive into Zine Quest 3 and Kickstarters” with Tim Shorts.
February 20, 2021 14:26 - 2 hours - 119 MB1.12 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. Tim Shorts of Gothridge Manor joins me in a discussion about our experiences as project creators for ZineQuest 3. This is a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like going through the valley of fire and we share the details and our thoughts. For talking points, I used Tim’s post “Successfully Funded! Some Stats and Insights” fro...
E11. “Starting a Small RPG Publishing Company” with John Watts
February 14, 2021 00:32 - 1 hour - 79 MB1.11 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. John Watts of Independence Games. He is a full-time publisher producing content for a OGL variant of the Traveller rule set known as The Cepheus Engine. The majority of John’s sales comes from selling PDFs on DriveThru and he own website. He doesn’t do Kickstarters. If you have any interest in making a living from our hobby, you...
E10. “Writing for the RPG Industry and Full-Time Freelancing” with Matt Forbeck, “Talking Shadow of the Demon Lord and talking 5e Smack” with Morgan Grover
February 06, 2021 20:48 - 1 hour - 80.8 MB1.10 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. The first interview is with freelance writer and game designer, Matt Forbeck. His work history is too long and detailed to list here but is only a google search away. We talk about his journey into full-time freelance work at an early age as well as his work and friendship with many of the “Old Guard” of TSR. We also get to hear...
E9. “The Shotguns and Sorcery Journey” with Matt Forbeck, “Talking Stat Blocks and Other Ramblings” with Ben Laurence
January 30, 2021 21:51 - 1 hour - 102 MB1.9 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. The first interview is with freelance writer and game designer, Matt Forbeck. His history is too long and detailed to list here but is only a google search away. We talk about his journey of taking his Sword and Sorcery stories and turning them into a new RPG. We discuss what is is like licensing the use of Monte Cook’s Cypher Sy...
E8. “Distribute Your ZineQuest Zines in the EU?” with Alistair Pidwell
January 25, 2021 06:00 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MB1.8 Welcome RPG Ramblings Jeff Jones, a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This episode is an emergency broadcast for those Zine Questers out there. Those of us not from the UK or the EU shake with trepidation thinking about dealing with shipping overseas. The cost of shipping is high and there doesn’t appear to be any good way to economically distribute physical product to backers. Fear not good friends, Alistai...
E7. “Coffee for an RPG Kickstarter?” with Morgan Grover and “Growing Up with RPGs in Brazil” with Diogo Nogueira
January 23, 2021 20:47 - 1 hour - 86.6 MB1.7 Welcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. In the first segment, Brad Grover of Big Nerd Coffee Roastery talks about partnering with people like you an me for our Kickstarter projects. He matches a coffee roast with your RPG product, and that becomes an add-on for your Kickstarter project. Who doesn’t love coffee? Listen for all the details. We get into a fairly deep discussion about shipping...
E6. “It is a Cost Worth Bearing” - Creativity, Stress and Why do we do it - with Ben Laurence.
January 16, 2021 20:50 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB1.6 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This is a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This episode I get rambley with Ben Laurance. The intent was to talk about Jorune but I sidelined it by starting two topics that I thought would lead to fairly short discussions…but both turned into fairly deep discussions The first topic I am saving for another day because I believe this topic is fairly pertinent as we launch in...
E5. Terror of the Statosfiend with Sean Richer and securing the Gangbusters IP with Mark Hunt
January 09, 2021 21:10 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBWelcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. The show starts with Sean Richer and we discuss Terror of the Stratosfiend: a gonzo horror, sci-fi mashup that bolts seamlessly onto Dungeon Crawl Classics, but can be used in any OSR game. An absolutely beautiful set of zines produced by successful Kickstarters. We discuss how Rifts was the inspiration and devolve into discussing Savage Worlds. For the Deep...
E4. Sara from Mixam discussing paper and printing option for Zines
January 06, 2021 03:29 - 32 minutes - 30 MBEpisode 4 1.4 Welcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. In support of ZineQuest, this is a special episode discussing paper and printing options from Mixam, a printing company with presses in the US, the UK and Australia. Sara, their customer service walks us through the dizzying options for printing booklets AKA zines. ———————————————————————————————— Mixam: Mixam.com Samples: https://mixam.com...
E3 - Discussions with Mark Hunt and Diogo Nogueira
January 02, 2021 21:47 - 1 hour - 90 MBWelcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. In the first segment, Mark Hunt and I discuss early gaming experiences with Champions and Twilight 2000. Then Mark shares the various ways one can approach running Gangbusters game, or really any game set in the 20’s. We dip into game design as Mark explains how he used existing B/X mechanics in different ways to meet the needs of the game’s genre. We also di...
E3. Discussions with Mark Hunt and Diogo Nogueira
January 02, 2021 21:47 - 1 hour - 90 MBWelcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. In the first segment, Mark Hunt and I discuss early gaming experiences with Champions and Twilight 2000. Then Mark shares the various ways one can approach running Gangbusters game, or really any game set in the 20’s. We dip into game design as Mark explains how he used existing B/X mechanics in different ways to meet the needs of the game’s genre. We also di...
E2. Ben Laurance and Tim Shorts Return! More Zine Goodness
December 26, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBEpisode 2 Welcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. For this episode, Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance are back each providing additional insight to their success at producing RPG Content. In the first segment, Ben discusses the creation of his Zine Through Ultan’s Door; a trippy, extra-dimensional plane of existence intended for characters to serendipitously tumble into. Going back into Ben’s early gami...
E2 - Ben Laurance and Tim Shorts Return! More Zine Goodness
December 26, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBEpisode 2 Welcome RPG Ramblings, a weekly show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. For this episode, Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance are back each providing additional insight to their success at producing RPG Content. In the first segment, Ben discusses the creation of his Zine Through Ultan’s Door; a trippy, extra-dimensional plane of existence intended for characters to serendipitously tumble into. Going back into Ben’s early gami...
E1. Rambling with Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance
December 20, 2020 02:09 - 1 hour - 77 MB1.1 Welcome to the inaugural podcast of RPG Ramblings, a show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This episode features two separate interviews with Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance. Tim Shorts is a long time fixture to the OSR community. For over a decade he has written blogs, produced zines and even finds time to produce his own podcast. While the name Tim Shorts may not ring a bell, his moniker, Gothridge Manor, should, as it is th...
Episode 1 - Rambling with Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance
December 20, 2020 02:09 - 1 hour - 77 MB1.1 Welcome to the inaugural podcast of RPG Ramblings, a show exploring various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people. This episode features two separate interviews with Tim Shorts and Ben Laurance. Tim Shorts is a long time fixture to the OSR community. For over a decade he has written blogs, produced zines and even finds time to produce his own podcast. While the name Tim Shorts may not ring a bell, his moniker, Gothridge Manor, should, as it is th...
RPG Ramblings (I need to start somewhere)
November 30, 2020 19:46 - 44 seconds - 706 KBThis is me layout down the track for the train that is coming. All ABOARD! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-jones6/message