Idle Inspiration
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The podcast about discovering our next favorite role-playing game, or building it.
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Oct 30, 2023
22: Learning How to Play Pathfinder 2e
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, Caleb has his friend Seth Leija on to convince him to play Pathfinder.
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Oct 26, 2023
21: Character Voices
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, Caleb has his friend Seth Leija on to talk about using character voices in tabletop roleplaying games.
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Oct 9, 2023
20: Homebrewing and More
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, Caleb has his friend Seth on to talk about homebrew campaigns, homebrew rules, and...GMing in general?
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Aug 8, 2023
19: Evaluating Characters
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, Caleb and David sit down for a psychiatry session and try to figure out why we make the characters we do.
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Mar 25, 2023
18: All About Characters
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, Caleb is joined by Joshua Lang to discuss characters in all their various shapes and sizes.
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Feb 25, 2023
17: Monster Burning, Dragonblood Edition
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I do some game design and use the Monster Burner from the Burning Wheel to create a new stock for the game: the Dragonblood. We also create a series of emotional attributes for the race.
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Jul 31, 2022
16: From Elves to Hellbreakers
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I do some game design and adapt The Burning Wheel's Elves for the Hellbreaker universe.
If you're interested in the Hellbreaker universe, you can check out a summary of the setting here.
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Jun 18, 2022
15: Our Review of the Burning Wheel
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I talk about our favorite role-playing game: Luke Crane's The Burning Wheel.
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Feb 26, 2022
14: The Hellbreaker Universe
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I talk about an ongoing project of mine: The Hellbreaker Universe.
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Jan 16, 2022
13: Hacking Magic in The Burning Wheel
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I do some quick game design and try to hack The Burning Wheel to add a new magic sub-system: The Nine Disciplines of Crow Inquisitors.
Check out Crow Inquisitors here.
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Nov 13, 2021
12: Bonds, Part Two
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, David and I talk about Bonds again, with David giving us a full breakdown of the game in preparation for our new playtest campaign.
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Oct 30, 2021
Bonus: Planning Our Future Campaigns
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week, in a piece of fun bonus content, our regular gaming group gets together to talk about the plans for our future campaigns.
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Oct 23, 2021
11: Game Mastering with Connor
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week David is absent, but my brother Connor and I talk about his recent stint as the GM for a post-apocalyptic campaign.
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Oct 9, 2021
10: Bonds
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week David and I talk about his long-running game design project: Bonds.
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Aug 21, 2021
9: Transitioning to Online Games
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week David and I talk about our transition to gaming online and streaming it live for an audience rather than simply playing in-person around a table.
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Jul 4, 2021
8: Adaptations and Conversions
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. This week David and I talk through my conversion of the Savage Tide adventure path from Paizo Publishing to Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, and some tips and tricks you might use doing something similar.
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Mar 27, 2021
7: Fate Core/Accelerated
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week Caleb and David talk about Fate Core and Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions.
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Mar 13, 2021
6: The Mistborn Adventure Game & Beyond
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week Caleb and David have Connor on to discuss their move from D&D 3.5 into other role-playing games, specifically the Mistborn Adventure Game from Crafty Games.
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Feb 27, 2021
5: The Alchemist Class
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week Caleb and David do a game design review and critique on a homebrew class for the Fifth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons that a member of our community made.
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Feb 13, 2021
4: Dungeons & Dragons 3.5
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week Caleb and David talk about Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, the version of D&D they played first and are most familiar with. They discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the game and their experiences with it.
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Jan 30, 2021
3: Savage Tide
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week most of our old gaming group gets together to talk about our first long running role-playing game campaign: Paizo's Savage Tide adventure path.
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Jan 16, 2021
2: A Philosophy of Role-Playing Games
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
This week David and I talk through a philosophy of role-playing games, why we play role-playing games, and why you should too.
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Jan 2, 2021
1: Introduction
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it.
A big thanks to my patrons on Patreon for making this podcast possible! Specifically, Alyssa Albee, Emily Valdez, and Josh Vincent.
This week David and I introduce ourselves, our history with tabletop role-playing games, and the point of this podcast.
Link to our old Savage Tide campaign write-ups
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Dec 26, 2020
Trailer
Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. Join me and my co-host David as we talk about tabletop role-playing games in all their variety—the good, the bad, and the “rolled-a-natural-one-on-their-charisma-save”. We’ll discuss our favorite games, talk about what makes role-playing games great, and reminisce about past experiences. We’ll also take some time at the drawing board coming up with ideas for new tabletop games to scratch that designer’s itch. Come listen every other Saturday on your favorite podcatcher or watch on YouTube.
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