-- Description --

I had the distinct privilege over Father's Day weekend to meet up with Lungfungus - author of Actual Dungeon Mastering and the Melancholies & Mirth blog - to have a beer and chat about gaming until my wife dragged me home.

Wash of topics - keep delving!

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-- Show Notes --

00:00 - Intro

01:02 - Theme

01:22 - Lunch with Lungfungus

01:40 - The Implications of Presenting a Map in VTT

05:06 - Tabletop Simulator for Chainmail

07:08 - Purple Prose in Text Game Prep

07:22 - Text vs Voice Experience with VTTs

09:43 - How's Been Gamin? (Wild West OD&D)

13:00 - The Wild West, Hex Crawling, and Challenging the Mapper

17:17 - On Being Lost and the Horizon

18:52 - Touch Grass; DM Better!

20:00 - Sight Lines

22:52 - Briefly Bloviating about Beer

23:31 - Flat Earth Elves

25:37 - Lost as Impeded rather than Lost as Lost

29:47 - Hex Maps as Mazes

34:11 - Influencing the Amount of Communication

36:21 - Granularity of Weather: Engaging with the Material Reality

38:30 - Where are the Hinges?

42:33 - Player Skill and Asking Questions: Diverse Application of Common Articles

44:26 - Reputation: How Fast does News Travel?

45:57 - Great Lakes Scale

46:38 - Random Castles, Random Lairs, & PVP Chainmail

48:00 - Incorporating Hex Characteristics as Resources to Manage

50:29 - Thank You, Lungfungus!

51:43 - Outro

-- Links --

Melancholies and Mirth - https://melancholiesandmirth.blogspot.com/

OSR Simulacrum - https://osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com/

Gucci Fuligan Cloak

- https://guccifuligincloak.blogspot.com/

- https://www.youtube.com/@gfcsdnd205

Luke Gearing - https://lukegearing.blot.im/