Tag: Let’s Roll

Let's Roll: GM Advice - A Good Start

March 11, 2025

Siskoid doles out GameMaster advice in this special “column” episode, focusing on how to start gaming. How do you get your kids involved in the hobby? How do you massage expectations based on your new group’s past experiences? And how do you make playing small or low-level parties exciting?

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Credits: Community’s “Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”, starring Jonathan Banks, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, and Joel McHale; the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon’s “Day of the Dungeon Master”, starring Don Most and Sidney Miller; and “The Poseidon Adventure Main Title” by John Williams.

All ready? Let’s roll!

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Let's Roll: Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP)

November 05, 2024

On this episode of Let’s Roll!, Siskoid welcomes fellow GameMaster Ian Fletcher back to the show to cover Iron Crown Enterprise’s Middle-Earth Role Playing (or MERP), the first and longest-serving role-playing game set in the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Plus, GameMaster Advice on how to handle magic items in your fantasy campaigns!

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Let's Roll #21 Supplemental

November 05, 2024

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Let's Roll: GURPS Swashbucklers/Deadlands

July 16, 2024

Let’s Roll covers the END of Siskoid’s Shiftworld campaign using GURPS Swashbucklers and GURPS Deadlands, in this case, with his players Pout and Bébert joining him for one last discussion. And there was much rejoicing, probably. Plus, GameMaster Advice about how to quickly and efficiently craft large casts of Non-Player Characters!

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Let's Roll #20 Supplemental

July 16, 2024

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Let's Roll: GURPS Greece/Space

November 07, 2023

Let’s Roll returns to Siskoid’s Shiftworld campaign, as his players Pout and Bébert are once again invited to discuss this long-running GURPS game, this time focusing on GURPS Greece and GURPS Space, with a small detour through the Star Wars RPG – the theme shall be MYTHIC role-playing, yeah, that works. Plus, GameMaster Advice about how to run a space opera role-playing game!

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Let's Roll #19 Supplemental

November 07, 2023

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Let's Roll: Marvel Universe

September 12, 2023

In this episode, Siskoid and special guest Ryan Blake look at the Marvel Universe RPG, not to be confused with TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes RPG, the Marvel Saga RPG, nor the Marvel Multiverse RPG… this is the one with the stones! All the deets on this funky little game which had a lot of people curious, plus GameMaster advice about aggro… oh, did someone get angry? Who fights who?

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Let's Roll #18 Supplemental

September 12, 2023

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Let's Roll: GURPS Time Travel

July 04, 2023

Siskoid and special guest Pout Ouellet discuss yet another chapter of their Shiftworld campaign by addressing time travel in gaming, and how GURPS specifically deals with what can be a difficult genre. Plus, GameMaster Advice on that very topic.

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