Episodes
Tuesday Nov 27, 2018
Bonus Episode 17 - The Tiny Sunglasses Method of Character Creation
Tuesday Nov 27, 2018
Tuesday Nov 27, 2018
Yep, it's a bonus episode all right—sillier and far less structured! In this episode: The end of Grant's colony game; Peter's continuing game; Grant's upcoming Eberron game and #EberronFacts (and handing out setting crunch in small doses); how Jenny and Peter came up with their character concepts; and anxiety around new characters.
Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Episode 141 - The Sixth Commandment (The Ten Commandments, Part 6)
Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Tuesday Nov 13, 2018
Our Ten Commandments series returns with a discussion of the Sixth Commandment: "You shall not murder." First, though, Jenny's got a lot of Overlight to talk about! We got to sit down and play it, and it was quite fun. Grant's also got an Eberron game in the works, and Peter's trying NaNoWriMo this month as well. We also address a question from Patreon supporter "gfactor", who asks "What tabletop RPGs would you recommend for playing with younger kids (elementary age) and how would you transition them to more complex games as they got older?" (Our answers: No Thank You, Evil!; Happy Birthday, Robot!; Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple; and Savage Worlds.) We've got something a bit unusual after our Scripture reading as well—a quick explanation of an Aramaic term, "Raca", that's untranslated in Matthew 5:22.
After all that, we have a heavy topic to address: Murder. Why 'murder' and not 'kill' in most translations? What's the difference, and what causes it? How does Christ reframe this question in the Sermon on the Mount? And how do we square this against a hobby where violence, and often outright murder, is found in many of the games we play?
Scripture: Exodus 20:13, Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 5:21-26, Romans 13:9