# rpg podcast (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rpg podcast. Page: Feed: --- ## [PAPER AND CLOTH](https://brine.dev/posts/paper-and-cloth) _2026-07-04 · brine.dev_ PAPER AND CLOTH The United States is not a monarchy, a single religion, an ethnicity, or a chunk of dirt. The United States is an idea written down on a piece of paper: the Constitution. Our American flag is a symbol of that document. When you corrupt the rule of law, combine chu ## [Bulls Roundtable Podcast: Draft Chat w/ Jam from No Ceilings](https://brine.dev/posts/chicago-bulls-roundtable-podcast-draft-chat-w-jam-from-no-ceilings) _2026-06-18 · brine.dev_ Bulls Roundtable Podcast: Draft Chat w/ Jam from No Ceilings 'Twas my pleasure to join some of my Bulls brethren, and chat about the draft with Jam from No Ceilings. We dig into the Bulls' strategy at picks #4 and #15. We also get philosophical and examine the value of gr ## [Drive home safely, Stacey. Beep beep.](https://brine.dev/posts/drive-home-safely-stacy-beep-beep) _2026-06-07 · brine.dev_ Drive home safely, Stacey. Beep beep. #bulls #rip #too\_much\_mustard\_on\_a\_hotdog ## [The Frog & the Scorpion](https://brine.dev/posts/the-frog-the-scorpion) _2026-05-31 · brine.dev_ The Frog & the Scorpion A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, saying, "You'll sting me!" The scorpion argues, "Why would I do that? If I sting you, we both drown." The frog thinks it over, agrees, and halfway across th ## [Calling CQ](https://brine.dev/posts/calling-cq) _2026-05-14 · brine.dev_ Calling CQ So... there are people that write a blog and there are bloggers. Bloggers don't write "content". I mean, we do. Posts are technically content but bloggers do not fill a slot. To a blogger, a blog is... a role; an identity. A person with a blog owns a tool ## [2026 NBA Draft](https://brine.dev/posts/2026-nba-draft) _2026-05-11 · brine.dev_ 2026 NBA Draft This is my annual NBA draft tradition. I go through Tankathon and start from the bottom up. I specifically do NOT look at stats or bio first. I know NOTHING about these guys beforehand. I jump right into the highlights and see what I see. I watch ~5mins or less of ## [In the Colosseum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Platform-Brain](https://brine.dev/posts/in-the-colosseum-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-ignore-platform-brain) _2026-05-09 · brine.dev_ Platform-Brain is brutal. It is nearly impossible to escape. The Fediverse itself is an example: let's remake all the platforms... but more ethical? This was a bad move or at the very least, a missed opportunity. Twitter is both horrible and perfect. Posts the size of a punc ## [Discover: A Love Letter To RSS](https://brine.dev/posts/discover-a-love-letter-to-rss) _2026-04-26 · brine.dev_ So... I wrote discover. I've been dreading writing this post because I have SO much shit spinning around in my head that I'd rather talk about. But it's adjacent to discover... so I need to start there. Fine. discover is a curated list of RSS feeds worth following. ## [Postcard from Kyiv](https://brine.dev/posts/postcard-from-kyiv) _2026-03-19 · brine.dev_ "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." ~ Goodhart's Law paraphrased I'm paraphrasing Charles Goodhart from 1975. He was talking about monetary policy but it it applies to every metric humans have invented; ever. And in 1975 he nailed ## [Accidental IndieWeb](https://brine.dev/posts/accidental-indieweb) _2026-03-10 · brine.dev_ For the past week I've been rewriting the software I use to run this blog. Yes... I'm that kind of dummy. The kind that writes their own blog software. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ For years, this blog has been a static website, written in markdown and hosted on Github Pages. Total cost: $0 ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CScnCeRka7Py) _2026-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [E5 Let's Not Talk About AI](https://brine.dev/posts/e5-lets-not-talk-about-ai) _2026-02-18 · brine.dev_ Wightbred and Brine definitely don't talk about AI, zine page counts, future warfare weapons that make you a wizard, whether Dark Secrets needs a hopeful counterpart and migrating off Discord. They also don't talk about AI some more. Wightbred Brine Unnamed Worlds World ## [The Image IS Your Character Sheet](https://brine.dev/posts/the-image-is-your-character-sheet) _2026-01-11 · brine.dev_ I bumped into this thread from Vincent Baker about character sheets. In it, he shows an image of a character and then brilliantly defines the character from the image: "He's got some immediate evident qualities: his gun, his attention to his surroundings, his energy/ad ## [E4 I Won the Podcast](https://brine.dev/posts/e4-i-won-the-podcast) _2026-01-10 · brine.dev_ Wightbred and Brine bring in the new year by talking about why systems are awesome! They then accidentally stress this point by systemizing the podcast itself. No spoilers on who won the podcast. By a lot. Wightbred Brine Apocalypse World 50/50 Dice Exploder #podcast #wob # ## [E3 System Bashing Matters](https://brine.dev/posts/e3-system-bashing-matters) _2025-12-27 · brine.dev_ Wightbred and Brine get in the holiday spirit and wrap up 2025 by bashing systems. Coal for every stocking! But also our plea for the new year: unless you need the money, stop trying to fix D&D and instead, make cool stuff we can steal! Wightbred Brine Group Combat Named Of ## [Group Combat Rules!](https://brine.dev/posts/group-combat-rules) _2025-12-12 · brine.dev_ A character was fighting a bunch of wraiths and found my regular combat rules weren't cutting it. I just threw something together for the meantime but later crafted them into this... GROUP COMBAT When groups fight, zoom out. Use the following threat levels to track the situat ## [E2 Too High To Trust](https://brine.dev/posts/e2-too-high-to-trust) _2025-12-06 · brine.dev_ Wightbred and Brine talk about trust... why real trust at the table isn't about verification or "high trust" frameworks... it's about creating a normal conversational environment where everyone collaborates to tell interesting stories together. We're NOT ta ## [The Steep Mage](https://brine.dev/posts/the-steep-mage) _2025-11-26 · brine.dev_ A gothic fantasy one-shot for Of Yarn and Bone or any system Compatible With Roleplaying Introduction Fog chokes Veshra Cemetery. Monuments lean at drunken angles and a half-collapsed chapel marks the cemetery's northern edge. At its center, three excavated graves form a t ## [Conversation-First Roleplaying](https://brine.dev/posts/conversation-first-roleplaying) _2025-11-25 · brine.dev_ After a hiatus, I'm back podcasting about TTRPGs. I'll continue to post actual plays I'm part of, but I've also launched a new series centered around what Whitebred and I refer to as Conversation-First Roleplaying. "We start with the conversation, then we ad ## [E1 Unnamed Worlds, Tarot Magic, and Conversation-First Design](https://brine.dev/posts/e1-unnamed-worlds-tarot-magic-and-conversation-first-design) _2025-11-24 · brine.dev_ This is the first episode in a new series of conversations between myself, Wightbred and whomever else. We talk about Wightbred's new zine, Unnammed Worlds; the magic system in brine's game Of Yarn and Bone; why we like narrative-first, conversation-driven ttrpgs, and a ## [Signal Flares](https://brine.dev/posts/signal-flares) _2025-11-17 · brine.dev_ "I never want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." ~Groucho The Problem Communities collapse into groupthink if tied to: Money/product: Financial incentives demand conformity. Personality: Disagreeing with the figurehead feels like betrayal. In the ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8p2RmmGtTK8q) _2025-11-16 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [\HOW TO GM\ Follow The Players](https://brine.dev/posts/show-to-gms-follow-the-players) _2025-11-14 · brine.dev_ Setup Establish The World at the table; setting, tone, and stakes Play Loop Set the Scene build from their last choice (they chose to go to the temple) honor or twist their expectations (ghouls attack as expected OR are friendly?) push character buttons (challenge what they care ## [An Unfamiliar World](https://brine.dev/posts/an-unfamiliar-world) _2025-11-09 · brine.dev_ Based on Richard Williams' Unfamiliar and adapted for use with Of Yarn and Bone. The Broken Bond Your character was once a mage's familiar but is now a stray living in the wild. The communion between mage and familiar is severed, but the world remembers what you were. Y ## [Of Yarn and Bone](https://brine.dev/posts/of-yarn-and-bone) _2025-10-23 · brine.dev_ Of Yarn and Bone is a conversation-first game of identity with stakes, magic with awe, and play with trust. WHO IN THE WORLD ARE YOU? Your character is a product of the world; they start with three Names that describe their place in it. Names are epithets that might be a role the ## [Updating My Magic System](https://brine.dev/posts/updating-my-magic-system) _2025-08-24 · brine.dev_ I'm updating my magic system, including the original post that describes the system narratively (sorry if this annoys). I thought I'd also walk through it a bit in this post... The goal is a magic system that feels magical; no easy task. I took elements from my favorite ## [The Southern Coast](https://brine.dev/posts/the-southern-coast) _2025-02-21 · brine.dev_ The Southern Coast, despite its rugged terrain, enjoys a mild climate shaped by soft sea breezes and rolling coastal fog. Passage to the northern kingdoms is best conducted by sea; circumventing the Sorrow Mountains and the West Marshes. This land once served as a sacred druidic ## [WHO COMES CALLING TONIGHT?](https://brine.dev/posts/who-comes-calling-tonight) _2025-01-26 · brine.dev_ Torrential rain in Ravencross washed over Blackthorn Lane Lucinda got her stockings wet when she called on Edmund Graves all along the wrought-iron gate the shadows scratch and claw while drops the size of bullets strike the eaves with wild applause Who comes calling tonight?