About this podcast
Fear the Boot is an irreverent, round table discussion of tabletop role playing games. In this weekly show we debate game-related issues, offer advice for improving your game, and poke fun at the hobby. Our cast changes a little from show to show, but we always assemble a group of dynamic individuals with divergent views, guaranteeing you will hear several perspectives on everything we discuss.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 311 episodes
- Bonus Episode 104 - WPC 1: random traits · 33 min* (0:24) A joke to an AI becomes a show topic. * (2:48) Characters born in a cursed forest, without sunlight. * (7:48) Characters who compulsively collect…feathers…? * (13:18)…
- Episode 628 - player bucket list · 38 min* (0:29) Switching to a bucket list of what we want to play. * (1:30) Wayne wants to play Dresden Files. * (4:13) Dan still wants to play an Injustice game. * (6:11) Mary wants…
- Episode 627 – GM bucket list · 38 min* (0:29) The bucket list of games we want to run. * (1:31) Doug’s long-term campaign. * (3:10) Wayne’s : St. Louis game. * (7:03) Dan’s Battletech: Silver Scorpions game. A . *…
- Episode 626 - video games to tabletop · 40 min* (0:30) An old Apple //c computer and early computer RPGs. * (4:16) Transitioning from video games into tabletop RPGs. * (9:44) The expectations players bring from a video game…
- Episode 625 - profiting from session one · 43 min* (0:29) What is your goal for the first session of a game? * (2:10) Who are these characters really? * (6:08) When who you wanted to be isn’t who you became. * (11:34) A buffet…
- Bonus Episode 103 – WGM 3: clockwork crystals · 35 min* (0:23) Prompts and prepositions. The clockwork circus is coming to town! * (1:40) Wayne’s circus in space. * (4:13) Mary’s circus on the frontier. * (7:53) Doug’s carnival of…
- Episode 624 - back to what you enjoy · 32 min* (0:29) Fear the Con has funded and ! We hope to see you Thursday, June 20th to Saturday, June 22nd. * (1:58) Getting back to what you love, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s . *…
- Episode 623 - too big to fail · 34 min* (0:29) Wayne has a problem: the Wardens from Dresden Files. Coming up with too many excuses for why powerful organizations don’t care about the characters’ problems. * (7:14)…
- Episode 622 – bringing your PC to life · 37 min* (0:30) What steps do we take to bring a character to life? * (1:49) Ask what’s important. * (6:53) Seeing the good and bad in a single trait. * (8:06) Doug’s personality…
- Bonus Episode 102 – WGM 2: dead consuming the living · 27 minToday’s ingredient: The dead are consuming the living. Why and how? Let’s find out! Fear the Con 2024’s Kickstarter . Hosts: Dan, Doug, Mary, Wayne
- Episode 621 – juice is worth the squeeze · 49 min* (0:29) In defense of technology at the gaming table. Caleb’s setup with . * (5:13) Dan’s Lion King sing-a-long and Wayne’s Ghostbusters game. * (6:27) The deeper pool of online…
- Bonus Episode 101 - WGM 1: dead air · 36 minI decided to skip over the Iron GM and go for a Tungsten GM. The ingredient? All broadcasts cease because something won’t let them get through. What’s the game plot? Also, the…
- Episode 620 – juice ain’t worth the squeeze · 34 min* (0:30) Dan runs a game a bit too literally. * (4:12) The intersection of technology and roleplaying in a way that isn’t required by the game. * (7:32) Why multimedia doesn’t…
- Epoch of Rysos, Episode 8 · 2 h 19 minDigging through the lives of a family trapped in a gilded cage.
- Episode 619 - a closed setting · 39 min* (0:29) Why talk about intelligence? episode about Cicada 3301. * (9:24) A game takes an unhelpfully long break, only to be replaced by another RPG. * (12:44) The lack of a…
- Bonus Episode 100 – becoming the curmudgeon · 44 min* (0:22) Picking out the point we became curmudgeons and what exactly that means. * (4:48) Being too set in our ways. * (11:19) The self-destruction that comes with stagnation. *…
- Episode 617 - the value of questionable · 39 min* (0:29) Thanks to Eric Van Note for Swole Mole! * (3:15) The value of terrible GMing. * (8:42) Everyone is their own most inept critic. . * (15:28) The worst possible outcome…
- Episode 616 - affiliated or not · 34 min* (0:29) Dan prefers affiliated groups, Wayne does not. * (2:15) Cohesion, identity, and help. * (9:35) Affiliations you start with as opposed to those you pick up along the way…
- Episode 615 - inspecting InSpectres · 42 min* (0:28) An update on the . * (4:48) The (at least temporarily back in print!) and our . * (8:09) Why play InSpectres as an interlude to the main campaign? Apparently only Dan…
- Episode 614 - session X.5 · 33 min* (0:28) Things are getting set for ! An intro to RPGs game is . * (2:03) A shared Minecraft server. You can find more information . * (5:52) Realigning your game with a…
