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A look back at some of our favorites - and the winners, naturally - of the 2022 Shotgun Scenario Contest.
Saturnalia - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dKnlP7rEdKI3CueCM68FX8rRfyvq5ueKM0MLya6brdM/edit?usp=sharing
Bugs Bugs Bugs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-WN4onD7X2nzPfV8e5PMlRd8IZDILtCMdPEijBBOxE/edit?usp=sharing
Keep On the Sunny Side - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJrcQLDiBJaUBQ95Q4034JmX4bYkK8
Behold The Night Mare! https://docs.google.com/document/d/189qa8jvAbJjZkBZIcL0jsxdfCpjbJ2Hl8COZEhLqXvU/edit?usp=sharing
COKE ROOM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9_4SS_91nHBiHG0gzT_uSTfjAMssvHn1_mV8mHO8FQ/edit?usp=sharing
Signs Following https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m7E5OdU40PjvlSp4LSJ_81Wc8AmKE2-ttLM1KYEVPAw/edit?usp=sharing
Operation FRUIT DUST https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-0V4zGMr8drY40dKSv9raMc_ZAD6PJ2wqwK8pNIy5c/edit?usp=sharing
Operation TOURIST TRAP https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsjoBx_T689FloylzhsWafMx-GZg6qO6WIXzuhRuThw/edit?usp=sharing
Take the A Train https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nbp6WnmVU5sENf2vPGAfZHw5Z6ur2zQrN5zHtadO4o4/edit?usp=sharing
PROVAX https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1nzn4ZlflthbTrg2M-IN4DkoEyt9nvYq2pFs4SOSMc/edit?usp=sharing
Winding down the regular episode schedule, Max Tom Jake Kevin and Will reflect on four years of the Green Box.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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In a lost episode from the Green Box archives, Will applies game design lessons from an XCOM-like cold war spy tactics game.
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The trick to writing RPG content is writing it in such a way that a complete stranger can pick it up and use it.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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How to roll with differences in authority between players at the table.
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Kevin shares some writing advice from author Mary Robinette Kowal.
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Caleb Stokes joins us to talk about God's Teeth and other DG projects, Red Markets, RPG economics and a whole lot more.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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Jake runs us through the scenario creation framework for External Containment Bureau.
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By popular request, Kevin, Max, Will, Tom and Jake bring you an Actual Play.
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Kevin subjects us to a GURPS rulebook - about gunplay!
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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In this episode we explore the idea of giving players a say in worldbuilding and other collaborative narrative tools - with a particular look at Heart: The City Beneath.
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Like a scorpion riding a frog, we bring you two shorter segments stuck together - one on electronics at the table, and another on the art of the sting.
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Max and Kevin discuss how to bring new people into the Conspiracy, with a bonus discussion of how or whether to systemize magic in a game.
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Our picks from this year's (last year's?) Shotgun Scenario Contest.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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It's been a shitty two years, so here's a laugh for the holiday season.
The gang tries a premise reinterpretation exercise on two well-known DG scenarios, Music from a Darkened Room and Future Perfect.
The Dionaea House (via Wayback Machine)
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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Kevin, Tom and Max look at the entries from the recent Green Box Jam on the N@TO discord.
N@TO Green box jam
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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Frank and Tormsen of 33.3 FM join us (whether they like it or not) to talk about Unknown Armies.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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Supernatural fiction is awash with entities that control or influence the minds of mere humans, but that's hard to get right in a game setting. Here's our discussion on how to walk that line.
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"Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1" by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Gymnopedie_No_1
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Jake comes to us with Stygian Fox's Call of Cthulhu anthology Occam's Razor, and what we can learn from it about mysteries that aren't supernatural.
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