The RPG Ancients

The Ancients Deal with Inspiration, Hanging Rope, Newton's Third Law, Ancient Mass Media, GURPS, and Dino Pulp!

The Ancient handle questions from their listeners - The Great Fur and Scale War in the prehistoric Americas, The Great Curse of Metagaming and how to strangle players, The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune and their ranges, The Weak vs. The Strong how it happens and how to deal with it, and Prince/Princess == Spoiled Brat? Why or why not?

The ancients having gathered together from their Places of Power in their magical Gathering Place, realize they had no idea why they gathered and began talking about cats, which, of course, led to games, which led to the pulp solar system which led to more games and cool ideas, and ended up with SF authors. They then wandered back to their Places of Power, also known as porches, where they had good fields of fire over their lawns

The Ancients reveal their nefarious plans to cooperate as step one in taking over the world, before answering some burning listener questions! 

The Ancients have run out of listener questions, so, being Ancients of very little brain, as everyone knows Ancients are wont to be, they each start talking about their current RPG projects. One would think at this time of their lives they would be resting on their laurels, but apparently laurels are not particularly comfortable. Go figure!

The Ancients answer user questions on using LEGO for miniatures and terrain; how we use AI to help running games; How we prepare for game sessions; using abbreviated and full stats for NPCs; What do we do when PCs refuse to bite a hook; and what are the characteristics and habits we consider 'good' in players.

The RPG Ancients find themselves again answering questions from a dragon whose name shall be held confidential but whose initials are Mia the Dragon. The ancients cull their eroding memory banks to hold up something to amuse or entice or entertain or even confuse the dragon so she... or he... or they... or whatever...  doesn't immolate them in cleansing fire!

The ancients discus cons, the two methods of playtest, keeping players involved, hooking player characters, and playing in Old Meyoss

The Ancients get together to find our who has the biggest echo! Also listener questions from Frank Filz, AsenRG, and Mia the Dragon. We talk about how we generate cultures, determining if an NPC is male or female, how do PCs seek out worthy problems, how to use RPGs for educational services, and whether or not we have ninjas in our games! Enjoy!

Today's questions are from ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence application. I asked if it would like us - the RPG Ancients - to answer any questions, and it supplied 12 solid, concise questions! We answer I believe four of them. 

In which we answer a slew of complex and multifaceted questions from Mia the Dragon to our entertainment and delight!

The Ancients field more questions from listeners - Subjects are: What is your ideal gaming group size range? How do you handle trading? What do you think about 'Knife Theory'? and the ever thrilling Medievalism???

The Ancients decide to ignore the pleas of their listeners and ask each other questions for a change! Bill Reich had a senior moment and lost track of what day it was, but luckily Frank Filz stepped in and we had a wonderful time. It was so pleasing to ignore our listeners! It felt so... God-like! So we will be doing this more regularly! Enjoy!

The Ancients talk about their most exasperating experience with players, how they deal with magic in their games, In game puzzles and riddles, and how best to track things in a game - particularly a living world sandbox type of game like we all run. All these are responses to listener questions.

The RPG Ancients are back! Full of something stinky and brandishing their walkers! The Ancients delve into the pile of fan mail from flounders that has been sitting around and have an unspeakable amount of fun!

The Ancients have one job to do, one job! But they skitter off topic like dogs chasing squirrels! Where will they end up? On someone's lawn, protecting it from those damned kids! Somehow they wend through ancient stone age computers, maps, proportion of fighting to non-fighting in RPGs, Troupe Play, and end up with a unanimous thumbs down on Grimdark! Join the fun!

The Ancient Frank could not be here this week, but wanted the other Ancients to discuss the topic of "Experience" in role-playing games. Now if there is anything Ancients are experienced about, it's Experience, and sounded like more fun than yelling at the kids to get off the lawn again!

The Ancients take advantage of the innocent questions of Mia the Dragon to skitter off in nineteen different directions at once, offending everyone in the process, as is their wont!