MARGARET: Rai and Monica are out of office right now. Make sure to queue episode six and write a description for the website. This is the one where they discuss why people make PCs, the idea that someone always leaves a bit of themselves in their PCs, and also they waste close to ten minutes at the beginning talking about beer. You cut that part, right? Thanks.
—MPM
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Today, Monica and Rai are HOMEBREW JAMMING on a Exalted by-way-of Lady Blackbird/Shadow of Yesterday. We’re calling it… Lady Exalt? Shadow of Creation? Uh. That’s not important! What IS important is how to model the creativity and drama of Exalted in a much simpler dice pool system. And actually this got us sort of het up and maybe we’ll have an actual product for this later. 🤔
Kitty of the wildly popular DnDestiny project is here to talk to us all about hacking 5th ed. D&D! What do you keep in mind when designing new classes? How do you stop yourself from reinventing the wheel? What should you do when porting D&D into new genres? And so much more! Like… seriously, a lot more. Kitty really knows her stuff.
Patrons can find Margaret’s extended cut of this episode on our Patreon, featuring a whole extra 30 minutes of us dicking around, debating how D&D views encounters, talking about how much Vancian magic sux, and trying to convince Monica to start playing Destiny and/or Rai and Kitty to start playing Borderlands.
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Good morning, you beautiful content consumers. Today we bring you the final installment in our How Do You…? series, and we’re sharing tips on how to make room for diverse characters, stories, and settings at your table. We also share what to do if you mess up, or feel an enormous amount of anxiety re: messing up. Thank you @Mypsilan on Twitter for suggesting the topic!
We ALSO address everyone’s obsession with reanimating Tolkien’s corpse, commit countless audio sins, and in general this is kind of an ADHD-fest but we DO stay laser-focused on the important stuff (including discussion of James Mendez Hodes‘ excellent work, if you like this episode read his blog because it’s basically what we’re saying but 100% better!!)
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Hey, Bonus Babies! It’s entry two in our How Do You…?series, talkin’ all about surprising your players. If you’re looking for how to better keep secrets from them, how to play out entertaining twists, or just need advice on how to maintain a poker face, we have a few tips and tricks for you. Also, we crack wise about Edgar Allan Poe’s terrible mystery writing skills and share our thoughts on Forbidden Pizza.
Patrons (y’know, of our Patreon) can find Margaret’s extended cut of this episode now! Featuring rave reviews of Headspace for your crummy ADHD brain, as well as a treatise on Forbidden Pizza, and an explanation of that one time Rai started a war over pizza in the Misdirected Mark slack. It’s, uh… it’s a pretty pizza-heavy episode, ngl.
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It’s a whole new world for us here at BXP. Our Mysterious Program Manager (hereafter referred to as the MPM) has us on this new format, where we do series of interconnected topics. It’s a good thing they’re here to organize for us, because Monica and Rai are both notoriously HEY did we show you our new dice?? And this new minis game with the hot babes?? And this youtube my sister texted the other d–
Our first series is How Do You…? and this week, we’re talking about playing online: best technology and techniques, best practices, and best typing speeds (in which Rai holds the current, improbable record). Patrons (y’know, of our Patreon) can find Margaret’s extended cut of this episode, featuring Rai’s burning hatred of Facebook and Monica’s Freelance Kvetching Hour.
This week’s sponsor: Cut to the Chase on Kickstarter!
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Once upon a time, we interviewed Ken Spencer of Why Not Games. That fateful interview was plagued with sound issues, lag, dropped connections, and every conceivable guest-recording horror.
BUT it’s a new year and a new season of Bonus Experience, and Ken Spencer is back to give us the interview that never was! Join us for an exploration of Rocket Age‘s Imperial Jupiter, a discussion of Adult Words Permissions, and unfortunate dragon design choices. We actually had so much to catch up on, not everything made it into this episode—check our Patreon for Margaret’s director’s cut.
This week’s sponsors: Cut to the Chase on Kickstarter, and West Virginia’s 1d4con!
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We’ve been broadcasting Bonus Experience into your eager earholes for a whole year now. Thank you for listening, supporting, tweeting, emailing, and sending us all the lovely cards that we’re sure are in the mail right now.
Monica and Rai lay out their plan for Bonus Experience Year 2, as well as breaking down the new Patreon we’ve been so excited about. Also, Rai is sick (she wants to make sure everybody knows, ugh), a new Program Manager appears, and…
OUR STYLISH BIRTHDAY LOGO CAN FINALLY BE REVEALED!!
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We’re coming up on our Podcast Birthday, and here’s the last of our bonus content previews! Today we’re sharing a special-length episode of Monica and Rai jamming out a homebrew game. Let’s call it–and I’m just spitballing here–a homebrew jam. What if… Pokémon? But… Powered by the Apocalypse?
We recorded this like two weeks before the Sword/Shield announcement so you’ll have to trust that this is in no way SEO-related.
Our Patreon launches tomorrow, March 5th! If you want to hear more bonus content like this, you gotta Patreonize!
As always, you can find more Bonus Experience on our Twitter (@bonusexpcast)—and now, you can get some Classy Merch (bxpcast.com/bxpswag)!
March is the one year anniversary of Bonus Experience’s first broadcast! (March 5th, to be exact.) And soon we’ll be launching our very own Patreon! Here’s a hint of the extra QUALITY CONTENT you could unlock if you patronize (patreonize?) us!
Today’s Bonus “Bonus Experience” Experience has us talking about our favorite game tropes and cliches. Well, one of us, anyway—Monica came prepared, but Rai started talking about character pairings and made everything weird.
As always, you can find more Bonus Experience at our blog (bxpcast.com) and our Twitter (@bonusexpcast)—and now, you can get some Classy Merch (bxpcast.com/bxpswag)! We’ll have a BXP Classic episode on Monday, and more bonus content later this week!
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