Episode 20 - Making the Case for Story Games

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Episode 20 - Making the Case for Story Games

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38 minutes

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Jun 12, 2015

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Steve joins us for an experimental remotely recorded episode where we say nice things about story games and try to figure out whose computer keeps making that hangouts noise.

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Jun 12, 2015

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This is a podcast about tabletop roleplaying games. We cover the indie scene, story games, and the OSR.

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