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Welcome to Game Mechanics, where we kick the tires and run diagnostics on tabletop experiences! Hosts Logan Jenkins and Greg Leatherman talk about everything tabletop; from board games, to roleplaying games, and even some video games that evoke the tabletop experience. Greg and Logan have been playing games for decades and have designed several games themselves.
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We talk about werewolf, professional GMing, and safety tools; or maybe they're collaboration tools? Let's get into it. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.…
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Classic games are on a lot of shelves, but does anyone really want to play Monopoly? Let us give you some modern alternatives to some of the dusty boxes on your TV stand. We might even suggest dusting a couple of them off! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Game Me…
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S2E5 - The Hotness is Unknowable - GM2 05
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What makes you shiver with antici............ pation? We talk tension building mechanics, and then pivot to the strange, odd list on Board Game Geek: The Hotness. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast netw…
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We talk about deck builders and legacy games, and one game that is both! Most importantly throughout all of this, we respect the helm. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Email us at [email protected]. Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.…
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S2E3 - What does the word hide mean? - GM2 03
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We're on a first-name basis now, right? We start with a new segment about MTG, then Logan shares his experience at Tantrum Con. We move on to telling you what the word 'hide' means while we discuss Root the RPG. Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podc…
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We talk what we're playing, review The Gang, and break down the Spiel Des Jahres, gaming's most prestigious award. This episode was recorded quite a while before its release date. See if you can follow the clues and figure out when we recorded it! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Game Mechanics is hoste…
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Welcome BACK to Game Mechanics. We've dusted off the feed and we're starting again fresh. In this episode, we talk about goals for the show, games we're playing, review Land of Eem, and more! Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com. Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games. Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.…
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Season 1 is done, but Game Mechanics will return! If you have a suggestion for a future guest, please send it to: [email protected] Follow Logan on Twitter: @LoganJenkins Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Orange Groves podcast network.
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S1E10 - Marx Shepherd - No Fascists Allowed
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Marx Shepherd, an indy TTRPG creator, and member of the San Jenaro Co-Op, an organization that puts out a quarterly games digest collectively created by all its members. When Marx reached out to me, they w…
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S1E9 - Rees Bennett - A Drag Nun's Take On Playing a Role
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Rees Bennett, also known as Sister Evelyn Tensions of the Grenville Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The Sisters are an order of drag nuns whose entire mission is to increase joy and decrease shame in the …
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.Today, I’m talking to Will Uhl, a very prolific writer of mostly micro-RPGs… which are exactly what they sound like. Bite-size Roleplaying game concept explorations that only take up a few pages. I was curious to talk to Will ab…
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S1E7 - Greg Leatherman - What if everyone’s a warrior?
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Greg Leatherman, writer of Glitter Hearts, a Magical Girl anime inspired TTRPG. Greg is also one of my co-hosts on Very Random Encounters. We go way back! One thing I really like about interviewing folks f…
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S1E6 - Sean Gomes - Having Dinner on Space Ships
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Sean Gomes, writer of Uncharted Worlds, a Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG. I am a total Sean Gomes fanboy. There’s a mechanic in UW called “Cramped Quarters;” when the characters are stuck together for a l…
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S1E5 - Nathan Blades - F*** The Tabletop Police
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Androgynous Android Gameshow Host from the Future, Nathan Blades. I wanted to talk to him about one-page RPGs and games as permission. His one-page RPG Agents of H.U.E. is about queer spies using gadgets t…
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Bianca Zelda. Bianca is one of the members of The Broadswords, an all female and nonbinary actual play podcast. Bianca also does a LOT of guest spots on a plethora of other podcasts. I wanted to talk to th…
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S1E3 - Sean McCoy - Meeting players where they are
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Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Sean McCoy. Sean is one of the co-founders of Tuesday Knight Games, and the designer, writer, layout artist, and illustrator of Mothership, a sci-fi horror TTRPG that won the 2019 Ennie for best game! Sean…
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Today, I’m talking to Jess Ross about her experience writing for RPGs. Jess has written several modules for D&D in places like the Uncaged Anthology, and in Pugmire (a variation of D&D 5th edition where everyone plays as dogs! She wrote for the supplement Morti Corgi’s Scroll of Mysteries, and just everything about that game is adorable.) We also t…
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Riley Hopkins - Interstitial and the Link System
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Today, I’m talking to Riley Hopkins about their game, Interstitial; a game about worlds colliding in the vein of Kingdom Hearts, Crisis on Infinite Earths, or Into The Spiderverse. Interstitial is available right now at LinksmithGames.com. Interstitial, like Kingdom Hearts, puts a focus on relationships at the heart of the game. Which brings me to …
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RPGDF: Money On My Mind - Pricing, Kickstarters, and Pay What You Want
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Today we are joined by DC and Cass to talk about pricing, kickstarters, and other finance based questions in the tabletop space. We talk about the faults of Pay What You Want, the importance of setting the value for your own work, and what to do in the face of millions of dollars being given to other people.Games we talk about:Dialect Follow Riley …
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In this episode we talk about Zak S, the abuse and harrassment he's done in the past, and the statements by his two ex partners whose incredible courage began the current pushback of this abuser. We give context for who he is and what he's done, the Mark Diaz Truman "Two Minute Hate" piece and its context today, and other people who have covered up…
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RPGDF: Power Leveling - Experience, Advancements, and Progression in Games
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In this episode, Riley talks with TTRPG designers Natalie and Takuma about progression in games! What does leveling up look like and why is it the way it is? How do players gain experience and are there other ways games could implement it? Follow Riley and today's guests on Twitter: Riley: @RevRyeBread Takuma: @takuma_okada_ Hosted and supported by…
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