15: Practical Player Advice

With our good friend David Ager from the Dungeonpunx, we sit down to answer more of your questions from Instagram and Discord in celebration of our one year anniversary! Thanks to the responses you've sent in we touch on everything from horror gaming to Kickstarter, how to be confident and how to overcome preparation anxiety, using props and immersion at the gaming table, managing your time and gaming sessions, style over substance, challenge versus risk, and how D&D's pop culture footprint has influenced the way people play it. Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

The least spooky Halloween episode ever recorded where we just talk about Dune for an hour. Then we talk about Heirs to Heresy for an hour. We didn't plan it this way. Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

As we look forward to Trial By Dice 2021, we take a look at what constitutes competitive play in roleplaying and examine some different ways of measuring progress in tournament-style games. We talk experience points, skills, wealth, character advancement, and the X-card gets mentioned again because of course it does. After a brief tangent praising Osprey Publishing's game line Henry bridges the middle of the episode with a bit of chat about a recently completed Cypher campaign and why Cypher makes for great stories. Then we roll up our sleeves and sharpen our blades to butcher Wild Beyond The Witchlight, 5e's latest offering. Is it lazy? Is it disappointing? Is it a sign of things to come? Tune in to find out! Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! BUY TRIAL BY DICE TICKETS HERE: https://corehammer.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

Henry's released an RPG - we chat about how awesome it is! Celtic fantasy! The highs and lows of small press publishing!  Then our friend Sam joins us to discuss Troika! companions and 50's/60's science fiction, and we found the HEF Book Club! We finish off with a brief look at Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton, a book recounting the horrors of a doomed Antarctic expedition in 1884.  Thank you for listening as always. Come join the Book Club in our Discord! Stay hydrated! Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected]

This episode we take a look at the death of player characters - how it can serve the narrative, how it can benefit the game, and how best to pull it off. We cover all sorts of facets; internal and external closure, the difference between GM choice and player choice, emotional satisfaction, the lingering importance of deceased characters, and the many pitfalls of player vs player conflicts. We also discuss Osprey Publishing's new urban horror title Sigil and Shadow, and take a run down of some of the ongoing hobbying from our Forges of Gnothos campaign. Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

In answer to more Instagram questions - we come up with ten commandments for being a good player at the gaming table, and discuss how you can do your part to make the game better and the story stronger! Also Jamie gets mad about players looking at their phones during a game, and Henry gets mad about having to schedule games as well as write them. Overall we hope this episode helps players to lift each other up during games and enable a better experience for everyone involved. Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Buy Caer Mundus at our online shop: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

A special episode where we tackle some heavy subjects with our long-time friend and former host of Full Metal RPG, Brendan Carrion. Brendan looks back on his tenure at FMRPG and breaks down some of the workings of the show, leading us (via some talk about Vampire 5th Edition) to discuss ideas of longevity and novelty, both in roleplaying and podcasting, and onward to weigh up the cost of democratised art and gaming for legitimacy. We look at TSR's current predicament, the divided OSR scene, and how Brendan fights right-wing presence in hobby spaces. We talk about rejecting sponsor deals and the price of honest product reviews, and round out with some of his fresh picks for cool new games and a bit of chat about Mage 20.  Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated!  Follow us on Instagram:  @humanenergyfieldpodcast  Join our Discord!  https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email!  [email protected]  Check out our BigCartel page and buy Caer Mundus today!  https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

In response to more of your Instagram questions we both list five of our most beloved RPGs for a total of ten great recommendations! While not a definitive list, we hope it highlights some of our interests and inspirations as well as our reasoning behind them. Afterwards, we go on to chat a bit about Discord and contentious opinions and somehow end up on Harry Potter. Henry recommends the new Ben Wheatley film In The Earth and we round off the episode with an exciting announcement. Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Keep an eye on our BigCartel for future stuff: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

Thank you for sending in your replies to our Instagram poll - we bring you tips and advice for the discerning games master! After a bit of chat about The Judas Halo by the Dungeonpunx and our expectations for the new Dune RPG, Henry talks about The Wake, one of his favourite books. Then we get down to answering your questions - How can you make your RPG combat better? How can you take your GMing to the next level? What considerations should both new and experienced GMs keep in mind when running games? Tune in to find out! Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Keep an eye on our BigCartel for future stuff: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/

We joined forces with our friends Paulo and Connor from Middle Earth Crisis Podcast to bring you this extravaganza - come hang out with us while we chat and speculate about the best and worst of Games Workshop! Thank you for listening as always. Stay hydrated! Follow us on Instagram: @humanenergyfieldpodcast Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eSeKV4bGsq Send us an email! [email protected] Keep an eye on our BigCartel for future stuff: https://humanenergyfield.bigcartel.com/