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BXP 2×13–Playtesting! With Jessica Hammer

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The brilliant Jessica Hammer makes her triumphant return to our show and lends us her expertise in the realm of playtesting! We’ve always said you SHOULD do it… but HOW do you do it? How do you sort through the feedback? How do you get the BEST feedback? And how do you surmount your anxiety and get the playtest phase started in the first place? We’ve got answers to these questions and more!

Also, some technical stuff: This is one of the last episodes we record using Zencastr, which, it turns out: Is not so great. We will soon be transferring to Cast, which so far has had GREAT sound quality and no lag. (Cast… call us…)

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BXP 2×09–Kickstarting! With Johnathon Grach

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Our schedule is still a little rough and bumpy but your friend (and ours) Chris S. is still coming through with the Big Edit Energy. Hopefully we’ll have this barren stretch of time behind us in, say, 14 days?

You join us today for our Kickstarter Guestpert Episode featuring Johnathon Grach of Mongrel Games! Johnathon is a wealth of knowledge for the do’s and do-nots when Kickstarter-ing your project, and it was a blast talking to him. Are you considering crowd funding your game (which of course is awesome because you’ve been listening to our advice)? Listen to this guy, he knows his stuff!

ALSO: We are brought to you this week by Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, now on (say it with us) Kickstarter! Please check them out and lend your support! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orklord/hit-the-streets-defend-the-block-tabletop-rpg 

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BXP 2×05–Hack D&D 5e, with Kitty from DnDestiny!

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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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