Fear the Boot, RPG Podcast
Fear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby. Our cast changes a little from show to show, but we always assemble a group of dynamic individuals with divergent views, guaranteeing you will hear several perspectives on everything we discuss.
- Website
- http://www.feartheboot.com/ftb
- Description
- An irreverent look at tabletop roleplaying games and a little bit more.
- Support
- https://www.patreon.com/feartheboot
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-01 02:47
- last episode published
- 2024-11-30 05:00
- publication frequency
- 12.08 days
- Contributors
- FearTheBoot.com
- Author
- FearTheBoot.com
- Owner
- dan@feartheboot.com (FearTheBoot.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 240
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Games & Hobbies Other Games
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-30 | * (0:29) Switching to a bucket list of what we want to play. * (1:30) Wayne wants to play Dresden Files. * (4:13) Dan still wants to play an Injustice game. * (6:11) Mary wants to play a necromancer. * (9:05) Doug wants to play Stargate (or something l... |
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| 2024-09-04 | * (0:29) The bucket list of games we want to run. * (1:31) Doug’s long-term campaign. * (3:10) Wayne’s Fallout: St. Louis game. * (7:03) Dan’s Battletech: Silver Scorpions game. A Fabian war. * (9:37) Mary’s Castle Ravenloft / Curse of Strahd game. * (... |
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| 2024-08-20 | * (0:30) An old Apple //c computer and early computer RPGs. * (4:16) Transitioning from video games into tabletop RPGs. * (9:44) The expectations players bring from a video game to pen-and-paper games. * (12:41) The tyranny of choice brought on by a la... |
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| 2024-07-21 | * (0:29) What is your goal for the first session of a game? * (2:10) Who are these characters really? * (6:08) When the person you wanted to be isn’t who you became. * (11:34) A buffet of NPCs. * (16:14) Keeping the first session low pressure and short... |
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| 2024-07-12 | * (0:23) Prompts and prepositions. The clockwork circus is coming to town! * (1:40) Wayne’s circus in space. * (4:13) Mary’s circus on the frontier. * (7:53) Doug’s carnival of nightmares. * (8:41) Dan’s carnival of hope. * (13:10) Celestial crystals t... |
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| 2024-05-26 | * (0:29) Fear the Con has funded and the sign-up site is live! We hope to see you Thursday, June 20th to Saturday, June 22nd. * (1:58) Getting back to what you love, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing. * (5:16) The tyranny of compromi... |
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| 2024-05-13 | * (0:29) Wayne has a problem: the Wardens from Dresden Files. Coming up with too many excuses for why powerful organizations don’t care about the characters’ problems. * (7:14) Session Zero can help…or maybe not. * (10:29) There’s always someone bigger... |
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| 2024-04-17 | * (0:30) What steps do we take to bring a character to life? * (1:49) Ask what’s important. * (6:53) Seeing the good and bad in a single trait. * (8:06) Doug’s personality triangle model. * (10:54) Demonstrating character quirks. * (16:34) Making chara... |
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| 2024-04-09 | Today’s ingredient: The dead are consuming the living. Why and how? Let’s find out! Fear the Con 2024’s Kickstarter can be found here. Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne |
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| 2024-03-31 | * (0:29) In defense of technology at the gaming table. Caleb’s setup with Owlbear Rodeo. * (5:13) Dan’s Lion King sing-a-long and Wayne’s Ghostbusters game. * (6:27) The deeper pool of online players, including AIs. Remoting in a missing player for an ... |
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