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  • Time Loops

    Time Loops
    2026/09/21

    Funky and Aria discuss time loop episodes. How do you run them? What are some ground rules? Where has that damn crystal gone?!...

    Funky and Aria discuss time loop episodes. How do you run them? What are some ground rules? Where has that damn crystal gone?!...

    Funky and Aria discuss time loop episodes. How do you run them? What are some ground rules? Where has that damn crystal gone?!...

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    50 分
  • Mental Illness and RPGs

    Mental Illness and RPGs
    2026/09/07

    So many games want to have the ability to express mental illness in their characters. They "accomplish" that goal in so many different ways. Aria opens the floor to discuss this with Funky and talk about the pros and cons of different options here. They then contemplate the gentle sound of falling rain...

    CW: mental illness, specific diagnoses, honestly just the whole episode and a lot of different topics (I know that's not helpful, but I don't have something better.)

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    1 時間 9 分
  • Cults: Membership and Making Them

    Cults: Membership and Making Them
    2026/08/24

    Cults are great as RPG villains. Aria and Funky discuss details they think are important to making them and portraying them.

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    56 分
  • Tropes (A Metadiscussion)

    Tropes (A Metadiscussion)
    2026/08/10

    Aria and Funky go off the rails with a metadiscussion about tropes as whole. Funky goes off on Romantasy. Aria goes OFF on cyberpunk.

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    48 分
  • Final Fantasy 9 & Fabula Ultima (ft. Doug Lief)

    Final Fantasy 9 & Fabula Ultima (ft. Doug Lief)
    2026/06/29

    Aria and Funky welcome their first guest (Doug Lief of Nostalgium Arcanum) to discuss Final Fantasy 9 and Fabula Ultima. They go at length on topics of politics, why dragoons are sadly overlooked, and esteemed music artist Erutan (aka KatetheGreat19).

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    Doug's Shows

    Nostalgium Arcanum

    Playing By Ear

    Still Muppeting

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    1 時間 41 分
  • Taxonomy of Players

    Taxonomy of Players
    2024/12/13

    Funky and Aria discuss one way to categorize players. They cover the difficulty of ungendered words to describe mean people, Funky having a bit of a breakdown, and trying to not break Shadowrun.

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    • Matt Colville - Kinds of Players - Matt Colville breaks down his categorization of players that Funky pulls from heavily.
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    52 分
  • A Unified Theory of Design

    A Unified Theory of Design
    2025/08/25

    Funky and Aria discuss Aria's Unified Theory of Cohesive Game Designtm. They get into hackable systems, generic systems, and the hopeful first sponsor of the podcast.

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    Systems Referenced in this Episode:

    Cortex Prime

    Hack! The RPG

    Apocalypse World

    GURPS

    Forged in the Dark

    FATE

    Draw Steel!

    Battle Systems
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    58 分
  • Genre: Space Opera

    Genre: Space Opera
    2025/12/01

    What even IS a space opera? Aria and Funky attempt to find out. Along the way they discover the truth about Sandy Cheeks, and Horse Opera.

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    We guested on another podcast!

    Go listen to Moviestruck with Sophia Ricciaridi at https://moviestruck.transistor.fm/episodes/moviestruck-episode-123-the-fifth-element-1997-feat-tabletop-hot-takes

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    41 分