Campaign Spotlight

This podcast explores the creativity and originality of home tabletop games. We interview GMs to hear about the unique world they’ve built and the story they’ve told for their players. Between these interviews, we explore tabletop gaming in our shorter Flashlight episodes.

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Flashlight: Season finale!

In this week’s Flashlight, we talk about the experience of making a podcast about the creativity and uniqueness of home TTRPGs! Jake describes the terrible initial plan for this project, Reilly recounts an incident of subpar DMing, and we go wildly off the rails by the end. It’s been a real privilege to get to…

Episode 8: Ending a campaign with Chris

In this week’s episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Chris about healthcare crowdfunding, LARPing on a remote island, and the virtues of small-scale personal stories. No spoilers this week, although we do discuss quite a few old D&D modules in general terms. Also, it’s not clear why Chris and Jake are so dead-set on…

Flashlight: Dallas

In this week’s Flashlight, we explore the game Dallas, based on the TV series from the 1970s and 1980s! Reilly leaves in a hot-mic moment, Jake tries to sound knowledgeable about buying horses, and neither one of us can sustain a Texas accent. Here’s the link to SPI Wargame Resources, where you can find the…

Episode 7: Dune with Jesse

In this week’s episode of Campaign Spotlight, we chat with Jesse about the Mophidius 2d20 system, the information flow between players, and improving the lot of your noble house. Spoiler warning for Dune, because Jesse’s using the Dune TTRPG system. Also, spoiler warning for Game of Thrones, we guess. What’s going on with all the…

Flashlight: AD&D

In this week’s Flashlight, we explore a very old ruleset for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, First Edition! Reilly attempts to befriend a sloth, Jake covets Reilly’s dice, and we speculate on the role of a sociologist in a Tolkienesque fantasy world. Finding an old copy of the rules can be tricky. OSRIC has compiled a…

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