Idle Inspiration

The podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game, or building it.

26: Play-By-Posts

Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. This week, Caleb and David chat with Alyssa about play-by-post role-playing games. LINKS:Caleb's TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

03-11
01:02:24

25: The Psychology of Characters III

Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. This week, Caleb talks with Seth Leija about the characters he's made and why he's made them. LINKS:Caleb's TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

03-11
01:00:10

24: Table Etiquette

Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. This week, Caleb and David have Seth on to talk about being a good player. LINKS:Caleb's TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

02-15
56:33

23: Show Tunes

Welcome to Idle Inspiration, the podcast about finding our next favorite role-playing game...or building it. This week, Caleb and David do some game design on Caleb's PBtA work-in-progress, Show Tunes.The current version of the game is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98241660  LINKS:Caleb's TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

02-11
01:18:03

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-30
01:15:07

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-26
49:24

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? LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-09
01:04:50

19: The Psychology of Characters II

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

08-08
01:14:14

18: The Psychology of 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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

03-26
01:31:20

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

02-25
01:47:23

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

07-31
01:22:52

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

06-19
01:18:11

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.  LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

02-26
52:10

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

01-16
42:17

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-30
02:38:38

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-23
01:02:09

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

10-09
01:09:44

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.  LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

08-21
54:36

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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

07-04
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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. LINKS:TwitterYouTubeTwitchPatreonCaleb's WebsiteDiscord

03-27
01:08:19

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