Safer Fantasy Crafting
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -The uninformed RPG ramblings of a poorly qualified old grog, who should have grown up by now, or at least, should have just stuck to making miniatures.
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Episodes
Lost Messages for Joe Richter
November 01, 2022 18:38 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBSome Naive messages that I was going to send to Joe Richter of the Hindsightless podcast about his recent pods on accents, back stories and OSR style play in roleplaying games, but decided not to, as they were too long and rambling. So I've collected them here as a raw Guerilla style podcast of my own. Listen at your own risk. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Echoes of Time - Callers messages
September 10, 2022 23:23 - 59 minutes - 55.4 MBThoughtful Call-ins on the subject of Time Travel in RPG'S from - Jason of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast - Joe of Hindsightless podcast - Spencer of Keep off the Borderlands podcast - Kevin of The Redcaps podcast - They all talk about things I had no knowledge about so I have just had to Blag my way through this. Check out this useful YouTube video that covers methods of time travel depicted in many of the movies mentioned (far better than I have done) - https://youtu.be/d3zTfXvYZ9s - YouTube anima...
Time Travel methods in RPG's
August 17, 2022 18:33 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBMy Magnum Opus on time travel, if 'Magnum Opus' means a meandering, convoluted and confusing mess! Stay to the end to witness the anchor apocalypse in real time for RPG a day 2022 - day 17 - Past, Present and Future --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Concepts of Time 2: multiverse and nodal universe
June 25, 2022 12:36 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBMore nonsense and rambling on concepts of time for use within RPG's. Might even be some useful methodologies - might not. Thanks to Colin, Joe and Rob for the messages --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Concepts of Time Part 1 - The fixed time continuum
June 08, 2022 23:09 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBA Fixed Time Continuum full of Errors and LOTS of spoilers. Avoid. You have been warned. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Concurrent 5e playtest Ramble
November 12, 2021 00:44 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBA discussion of the recent play test, that I ran with my nephew, into concurrent 5e combat. Plus calls from Menion of Confessions of a Wee Tim'rous Bushi and Jason from Nerd's RPG Variety podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Calls & Concurrent initiative
November 07, 2021 14:07 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBResponses and thoughts on my exploration into what I'm now calling 'concurrent' initiative in DND 5e. I get distracted and go on a rant about our current government in the UK after I had become annoyed at events that had happened on the day of recording. Our UK government has now U-turned on their plans to brazenly abandon even the concept of the Rule of Law, by trying to change parliamentary rules just to allow one of their MP's to avoid a disciplinary charge. But their disdain for us ordina...
Rambling into initiative
October 12, 2021 22:01 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBScraping the bottom of the barrel. Safer dusts off a previously rejected episode idea, after hearing about the 'initiative' competition over at 'The Nerd's RPG Variety Cast' Podcast. My original rambling was recorded in April 2021, as a poor person's attempt to imitate Menion's podcast style at Confessions of a Wee Tim'rous Bushi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Spectral voices
June 28, 2021 10:53 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBFinal podcast on horror in Roleplaying Games, inspired by Andy Goodman's gaming experiment at Grizzly Peaks Radio - This podcast is given over to listener responses. Thank you all for your comments. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Horror Sensibilities: Spencer and Joe call in
June 09, 2021 22:25 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBCall in comment by Spencer from Keep off the Borderlands podcast, about Stephen King's three types of horror, and a Spooky Story from Joe Richter of The WealorWoe and Hindsightless podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Horror senses: Jason calls in.
June 05, 2021 18:09 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBJason of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast calls in with some thoughts on visceral and existential horror in Roleplaying Games. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Senses and sensibilities: visceral Vs existential horror
May 21, 2021 23:26 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBA rambling and divergent response to Andy Goodman's evocative podcast about the relationship between sound and horror. https://anchor.fm/andy-goodman9/episodes/BONUS-Audio-Terror-pt-1---What-does-horror-sound-like-e119s4j - check out his podcast for the introduction to what promises to be a very interesting topic on the use of sound to create visceral horror. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Minis & Make Believe - A 5e/ Let's pretend live play
March 07, 2021 04:42 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThe benefit of miniatures and crafting terrain for my nephew's roleplaying games, with live play example. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
A Safer Christmas Carol
December 25, 2020 01:47 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBA very Hammy Christmas to you all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Where's me Sci-fi, Man?
September 03, 2020 22:50 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBA podcast akin to a rambling, pile of Bantha muck, but where there's muck, there's brass - my apologies to Barry, Spencer and TJ Drennon for wasting your little Gem messages on this rubbish. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Insights and incept dates
August 26, 2020 22:37 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBCall in conspiracy strangeness --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Marathon Man - The John Large Files - a call in episode.
August 15, 2020 05:34 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBA flurry of call ins from John Large of the Red Dice Diaries and Purple Worm Podcasts - Also a conspiracy addressed and a poor play on words for Nate Gillbreath at the end. Sound sample from the movie Angel Heart --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Shadows and spikepits - bonus call in episode from Barry and Colin
August 04, 2020 21:34 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBA Bonus, bitesized, call in episode. Thanks to Barry from Shadow of the GM and Colin from Spikepit, for their messages --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
The Love Bus, call in episode.
August 01, 2020 23:24 - 28 minutes - 27.2 MBA big thank you to Jason of Nerd's RPG variety cast for calling in about my podcast on romance in roleplaying games, which led me to reconsider the issue. Hopefully I give a more expansive explanation of my thoughts on the matter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
RPG's are Frankenstein's monsters - a revelation
July 28, 2020 00:33 - 18 minutes - 17.8 MBAnother Gonzo, error filled, podcast, where I explore my belief that Roleplaying games are hybrid games or Frankenstein's Monsters, combining gaming and art forms --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Elminster's Love Bus - Romance in fantasy roleplaying games
July 23, 2020 01:13 - 3 minutes - 3.69 MBSeason 2 begins without direction or focus. It will be just random episodes as the fancy takes me or while I experiment with podcasting. This 1st episode begins with a virtual bus journey as a relief from being stuck in the house. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Addendum 3.5e - call-ins to my opening trilogy of podcasts
July 13, 2020 05:10 - 44 minutes - 42.1 MBThank you to Menion(aka Rob) -Confessions of a wee tim'rous bushi --to Spencer(Free Thrall) - Keep off the borderlands --to Jason - Nerd's RPG variety podcast -- and to Che Webster - Roleplay Rescue, for your messages, advice and kind words. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
True Sight - wrapping up the immersion question
July 06, 2020 22:37 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MBA Gonzo, mistake ridden, final discussion on immersion in RPG's. This episode strives to make a trilogy out of my first three podcasts, and to hopefully end on a more positive note. My apologies to Rocky Balboa for mispronouncing his name. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
Balancing Act - White Dwarf 65 - why rules and roleplaying don't mix
June 29, 2020 23:22 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBA discussion of an article by Mike Lewis, from the May 1985 issue of White Dwarf --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
The serious case of the curse of verisimilitude
June 12, 2020 05:17 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBIn a betrayal of what was promised in the 1st episode, I talk about the fault in me that wants to play RPG's seriously, and how that has been a blight on my enjoyment of the game. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/message
White Dwarf 65 - Balancing act - rules vs roleplaying
June 04, 2020 06:01 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBA read through and discussion of an old article from white dwarf 65, that explorers the conflict between rules and roleplaying in RPG's and advocates for a 'rules lite' approach.