Trench Monkeys RPG Podcast

What makes a game or a setting brutal? Is that a bad thing?   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!  

We discuss the merits of skirmish war games and board games.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Most games have combat. Where there’s combat, there’s tactics.   Are tactics and strategy important, or are they unnecessary? Well as Sun Tzu said, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

We are going to play a game of HERO System on mic. The production will be recorded after Tour 1 is complete. In this episode, we hash out what we want to play and get some of the ground rules established.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Anyone who’ve done anything as a group knows that some things work better in a certain settings than others. Group dynamics is something that all gamers should know something about.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Batman, Daredevil, Luke Cage are street-level heroes and they need good street-level adversaries. What makes a good street-level foe?   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Games. RPG history. Top notch gaming guests. Gary Con has it all. Luke Gygax is a wonderful ambassador of the hobby and also a soldier. We discuss gaming in the military as well as the convention he organizes in honor of his dad.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

It is not done in a vacuum. Rarely is a game a solo affair, so why would you start it off without group input?   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Information Briefing with Mark Plemmons, discussing his new game MASHed. A must have!   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Staff Briefing: Group Size The monkeys discuss what they’ve experienced with different group sizes when playing RPGs.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Our first tour of duty continues with our second episode, where we discuss the longest games we’ve been involved with and what we do to maintain longevity.   If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!!” atop our page and fire away.   If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!

Welcome to Trench Monkeys RPG Podcast. This being the first episode of our first tour of duty, we go into what Trench Monkeys is all about and why we are doing it. If you have a question, comment or suggestion, click on “Mail Call!” atop our page and fire away. If you like what we are doing, become a patron. Click the link!