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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · 3d

New One Shot! We play a GREAT new cyberpunk game from @spellbookgaming.bsky.social! We are DEFINITELY biting some hands in this one!

Bite The Hand - Malpractice — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

A group of mercenaries are hired for a gig. A medical company VP, accused of some heinous crimes, rarely ventures out. But tonight, he's at a nightclub. Can this quartet get in, get him alive, and get...

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Spellbook Gaming @spellbookgaming.bsky.social · 4d

I went on the @techdiffgp.bsky.social podcast to run the one-shot from the back of the Bite The Hand rulebook that goes surprisingly smoothly, until it very suddenly doesn't.

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Bite The Hand - Malpractice — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

A group of mercenaries are hired for a gig. A medical company VP, accused of some heinous crimes, rarely ventures out. But tonight, he's at a nightclub. Can this quartet get in, get him alive, and get...

www.technicaldifficultiespod.com

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · 11d

New Episode, and New Campaign! Kind of - you can drop in on this one anywhere! It's Scum and Villainy, aka the good parts of Firefly and Star Wars. Crimes in space for money!

Scum and Villainy - Nightingale Part 1 - Operation OBSIDIAN HAWK Part 1 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

We're starting a new drop in drop out campaign! Laura wanted to play some Scum and Villainy for their birthday, and what started as planning for a one shot morphed into a campaign we can come to on sh...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks to @tunkaipoh.bsky.social for writing a sweet game that game us a wonderful time! roleoverplaydead.itch.io for more awesome games!

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · 18d

New One-Shot Episode! It's kids and a maybe-dead mech pilot in a charming game about peace and kindness! Yes, RPGs can be about peace and kindness!

ECH0 - Garrett & Barneyo's Adventure — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

A mech war has been over for some time. The world is at peace. Two kids are playing in the wreckage when they find an ECH0 drive containing the backup of a mech pilot. Their last wish is to find the w...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · 27d

Interview! Ben interviews Jacob Cordas, a professional GM on StartPlaying! You can find him here: startplaying.games/gm/jacweasel
(and find our interview below!)

Table Chatter - Interview with Jacob Cordas — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

As part of his series of interviews with professional GMs, Ben talked with Jacob Cordas. They also talk about their love of Harlem Unbound and Red Markets, teaching D&D players new ways to play, a...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Sep 10

New Episode! It's that wonderful feeling when all your pirate-hating, ass-kicking combat maniacs finally get to FIGHT SOME DAMN PIRATES

Reign - Nagalisitu - Agents of ALIS - Part 33 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

The Agents have been through a lot. They still have a lot to go. But, for now, they do get to focus and do the one thing they all love to do: Kill pirates. This campaign will touch on many themes, i...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Sep 3

New Episode! What do we do when we're short one party member? We riot.

Heart - The Gorgon - Part 8 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, dissociation, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. After Dawn goes and vanishes, the rem...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 31

Interview! Ben talks with Matt from Warlock's Sanctum about his professional GM work. Look forward to more GM interviews in the coming months!

Table Chatter - Interview with Matt from Warlock's Sanctum Games — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

Ben invited Matt from Warlock's Sanctum Games to discuss his work as a professional GM and his experience on the platform StartPlaying . We talked about the ups and downs of professional GMing, runni...

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · Aug 27

Seventy hours left on this and don’t TELL me we can’t get one more backer for a cool #fantasy story. Just one more for a lovely round 100. It might fix me!

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Besko, Boss of the Barge

The next Borzhu novella delves into intrigue and resentment among the powerful alchemists who've survived on their barge.

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 27

New Episode! Sometimes, the GM has prepped a whole thing -- maybe a dungeon, maybe a YA sci fi soap opera psychodrama -- and the players just skip it. So then the GM just takes the next session and forces the players into it. No skipping the good stuff this time!

Red Markets 2 Beta - 10k Lakes TNG, Episode 4 - The Signalers — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

Freelance finds a pretty young guy urgently looking for workers for a job involving a lighthouse. While things seem suspicious, the Takers are always looking for work... Returning to our own origins,...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 21

Look, planning and soldiering are two different skill sets.

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 20

New One-Shot Episode! Ratthew is our new favorite character name.

The Witch is Dead - Caught in the Crossfire — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

A war is breaking out between the dwarves and the elves. In the middle is a witch, aligned with no one. However, a massive arrow destroys her home and kills her. Can her two tiny familiars cross the b...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here's our playtesting episode, running a classic scenario from @hebanongames.bsky.social !
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Fear & Panic - Bryson Springs — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

This scenario will feature cosmic horror, but also racism and classism. Listener discretion is advised. At the height of the Great Depression in California, three men are drawn into the area of Bryso...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 18

We love this system! We had the good fortune to playtest it early, and now it's officially releasing!

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've finally released the first full edition of Fear and Panic! This is the most focused, streamlined version of a d100 horror system I could build, based on countless hours of playtesting and experience as a horror GM.
lymetime.itch.io/fear-and-panic

Fear and Panic by Lyme

Player-Friendly Horror Roleplaying

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 13

New One Shot Episode! We thank our top patrons by letting them be...Soviet airwomen in WW2, risking their lives for a society that hates them? We don't our patrons' preferences. But We DO judge #NightWitches to be one of the best #PBTA games we've ever seen! Thanks @jasonmorningstar.bsky.social!

Night Witches - Patreon Backer Game — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

This game will deal with themes of sexism and misogyny. Listener discretion is advised. During World War II, an all woman Russian division of bomber pilots go across enemy lines to do bombing runs. C...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our friends are staring up a sweet new #TTRPG podcast! Our very own @tdtlc.bsky.social joins in on this intro episode! Check it out, it's a super cool concept!

Listen to these Nerds @lttncast.bsky.social · Aug 7

Welcome to Hero with a Thousand Character Sheets a podcast examining RPG design from the lens of character creation. In our first session we have a round table discussion about writing character backstories while rolling up our first cipher character Kristina Nacar.

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Hero with a Thousand Character Sheets Session 0

We’re a ragtag group of friends that have come together to play some lesser known Tabletop Roleplaying Games and yammer on for your amusement.

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Episode! We'd call this "downtime," but there's no such thing as downtime when every character is sprinting headlong into the jaws of doom.

Heart - The Gorgon - Part 7 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. The party reunites in Derelictus. After getting pai...

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Aurumek (Simon Hintermann) @aurumek.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Jul 31

New Episode! It's #RedMarkets Takers vs. high tech egg farming. Can they hatch a plan to crack this problem? Or will their chickens come home to roost? #ActualPlay

Red Markets 2 Beta - 10k Lakes TNG, Episode 3 - No Clucking Way — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

A woman wants to get the device her father had created pre-Crash. Will Freelance be able to locate it and bring it back? Will another Red Markets mission related to chickens go horribly awry? Returni...

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Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · Jul 29

ANNOUNCING: The "I Have 3 High Grounds" sale! ⚔️

To celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the release of this IPR-bestselling TTRPG 🎲 of banter, posturing, and cape by @jessfrom.online, get 33% off the game for just the next 3 days. 🎧 it played ⬇️🧵 & see the itch page for more!

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one lesbian wearing a cape facing away from the viewer, one facing the viewer. the text reads: "I Have the High Ground", "A collaborative 2-player dueling game of banter, posturing, and capes by creator & designer Jess Levine, third anniversary 3 day 33% off sale Tuesday 7/29 - Thursday 7/31

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · Jul 28

I had a blast listening to these! No you can, too. Something to make your morning commute more cheerful!

Adam Scott Glancy @adamscottglancy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Looks like the fine folks at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have released a set of audio files to be used as player handouts with the Delta Green campaign "God's Teeth."

You're welcome.
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Audio Props: God's Teeth

Professionally recorded audio files bring props and handouts from God's Teeth for the Delta Green role playing game to thrilling life.

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Jul 28

@trinite.bsky.social will be heading to Gen Con this week! He'll be running his #CallofCthulhu Civil War scenario "We Cannot Hallow This Ground" on Thursday, and hanging around at the #DeltaGreen, #RedMarkets, and #RPPR events! If you follow us, come say hi!

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Jul 24

New One-Shot Episode! And it's a new game for us: I Have the High Ground! One-on-one dueling wits with no GM, courtesy of ‪@jessfrom.online‬ / @jumpgategames.itch.io !

I Have The High Ground - Conjuration Contract Conflict — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

Two wizards, both alike in dignity, are applying for a job. But when they see they both applied, the fight begins... Dan and Jared take I Have the High Ground for a spin! Join them as they learn how ...

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Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast @techdiffgp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sure, what's a few extra generations of benign neglect for our potentially-galaxy-ruining sociology project. Probably won't make a difference!

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