Oct 2, 2026 · 38 min · 8 segments
This episode takes three relatively recent posts from the **Casting Shadows blog** and brings them into the audio format of the Casting Shadows podcast - raising three different observations on the…
Updates.
The interview runs about an hour and focuses on the development of and concise explanations of my views on role-playing games.
I'm particularly fond of this interview, as SameOldG and I have been talking about games and gaming for more than a decade now, so he's well-positioned to ask me good questions and then get good follow-ups.
The link to the interview and a playlist with other interviews with me is in the show notes.
In related news, SameOldG recently completed an off-the-cuff series on his understanding of these ideas and his own experiences and thoughts, which is also linked in the show notes.
Tangentially, SameOldG is also part of the pending Blue Planet campaign I have started, which features rotating GMs and a lot of one-to-one play.
We'll be sharing our session zero soon, built on all of the understandings and practices that we talked about in these two video series I just mentioned.
In other news, listeners to this podcast will no doubt be as thrilled as I am that Jason Connerly has been able to revive the Nerds RPG Varietycast with a healthier schedule.
He's already produced some great episodes, independent of his involvement with the podcast version of RPG a Day 2026, and that's cool.
In particular, listeners might appreciate the recent episodes on Conan for Sumerian September and on pirate RPGs inspired by Talk Like a Pirate Day.
You can find Jason's podcast Piping Hot wherever fine podcasts are served.
A fun update from earlier in September is that I was able to play another session of Rivers of London, the RPG by Chaosium, with Mick Hand as the game master.
This gave us a chance to take my character, PC Balcombe, from our previous foray into the magical streets of London out for another case file, and this one was a doozy.
A video of that lengthy session, more than four hours, will appear in whole or probably in parts in the weeks to come.
On that theme, a series of posts about the Rivers of London novels has been appearing on the written blog throughout this month.
New posts appear on Sundays.
We're nearing the end of the series with perhaps two more posts to go at the time of this recording.
The series looks at the novels as influences on the tone and themes players might include in a Rivers of London RPG campaign.
Also talks about moments of inspiring or moving or profound writing which the author, Ben Aronovich, manages to provide in every book.
As well as some important linkages or hints hidden in plain sight in the text about future events.
And some commentary about the game.
Links to those posts are, believe it or not, in the show notes with all those other links.
And they'll be the backbone of the next episode of this podcast.
The last update I have for this episode is to note that I was joined by Craig Shipman of Third Floor Wars and Ivan Mike 1968 to discuss the recent Playstyles survey shared around by the Questing Beast YouTube channel.
Updates.
The interview runs about an hour and focuses on the development of and concise explanations of my views on role-playing games.
I'm particularly fond of this interview, as SameOldG and I have been talking about games and gaming for more than a decade now, so he's well-positioned to ask me good questions and then get good follow-ups.
The link to the interview and a playlist with other interviews with me is in the show notes.
In related news, SameOldG recently completed an off-the-cuff series on his understanding of these ideas and his own experiences and thoughts, which is also linked in the show notes.
Tangentially, SameOldG is also part of the pending Blue Planet campaign I have started, which features rotating GMs and a lot of one-to-one play.
We'll be sharing our session zero soon, built on all of the understandings and practices that we talked about in these two video series I just mentioned.
In other news, listeners to this podcast will no doubt be as thrilled as I am that Jason Connerly has been able to revive the Nerds RPG Varietycast with a healthier schedule.
He's already produced some great episodes, independent of his involvement with the podcast version of RPG a Day 2026, and that's cool.
In particular, listeners might appreciate the recent episodes on Conan for Sumerian September and on pirate RPGs inspired by Talk Like a Pirate Day.
You can find Jason's podcast Piping Hot wherever fine podcasts are served.
A fun update from earlier in September is that I was able to play another session of Rivers of London, the RPG by Chaosium, with Mick Hand as the game master.
This gave us a chance to take my character, PC Balcombe, from our previous foray into the magical streets of London out for another case file, and this one was a doozy.
A video of that lengthy session, more than four hours, will appear in whole or probably in parts in the weeks to come.
On that theme, a series of posts about the Rivers of London novels has been appearing on the written blog throughout this month.
New posts appear on Sundays.
We're nearing the end of the series with perhaps two more posts to go at the time of this recording.
The series looks at the novels as influences on the tone and themes players might include in a Rivers of London RPG campaign.
Also talks about moments of inspiring or moving or profound writing which the author, Ben Aronovich, manages to provide in every book.
As well as some important linkages or hints hidden in plain sight in the text about future events.
And some commentary about the game.
Links to those posts are, believe it or not, in the show notes with all those other links.
And they'll be the backbone of the next episode of this podcast.
The last update I have for this episode is to note that I was joined by Craig Shipman of Third Floor Wars and Ivan Mike 1968 to discuss the recent Playstyles survey shared around by the Questing Beast YouTube channel.
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