What if fewer RPG rules did MORE? (Adventure Hour! Design Read)
Inside the brain of a designer looking their own work.
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Hosted by Samuel James.
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11 Aug 2026
Smiling Friends: Sickness and Action Monsters (ft.Xander) (Ep12)
The Boss's son is sick! And the office has a temperature war.
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger. Special guest star, Xander!
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26 Jul 2026
Smiling Friends: If You Give a Bug a Car... (Ep11)
Pim and Charlie help Bug learn to drive. Absolute chaos.
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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10 May 2026
Neverland: The Clara Caper (Ep10)
The Darlings are old and Peter Pan lives on. Wendy's great-granddaughter crashes onto the scene!
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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10 Jan 2026
MAD MAX: ROLL THE BONES (Ep9)
A cult of scavengers begins harvesting living people for the rare metal in their implants.
Rated PG-13 for violence and explosions.
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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29 Dec 2025
Interview #1: Tim B.
Tim B. is a tabletop roleplaying games writer, blogger, and creative thinker known for congas.blog (https://congas.blog/), which reflects on conversation games, game design, community, and the culture around OSR and NSR.
Hosted by Samuel James.
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24 Dec 2025
Happy Helpers for Electric Bastionland (Design Thoughts)
Inside the brain of a designer looking their own work.
Happy Helpers Link (itch.io) (https://dreamingdragonslayer.itch.io/happy-helpers)
Hosted by Samuel James.
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20 Dec 2025
Wallace & Gromit: Holiday Wrap Battle! (Ep8)
Wallace designs a gift-wrapping robot to help with presents this year. It's a touchy, zealous thing, really.
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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25 Oct 2025
Scooby-Doo: Large Dragon at Large (ft. Matthew) (Ep7)
Mystery Inc encounters a fire-breathing dragon at a Renaissance Fair! Ruh-roh!
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger. Special guest star, Matthew!
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20 Oct 2025
Mythic Denizens for Mythic Bastionland (Design Thoughts)
Talking about the execution and intent of my new Mythic Bastionland supplement, designed to thicken the delightful and captivating tapestry of the Realm! Each of the dozen Denizens offer a unique plot-thread to be woven into the greater story of the Knights' quest!
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Quinns Quest review of Mythic Bastionland for more thoughts and hilarity. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-uUJ8iLTE)
11 Oct 2025
Star Wars: Tale from the Capital (Ep6)
Three stories converge in the city of Coruscant. The Empire’s shadow looms large… it’s time for STAR WARS!
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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4 Oct 2025
Pokémon: Curse of the Forbidden Fruit! (Ep5)
A lost episode of the original 1998 anime! Ash and Misty and Jessie are turned into Pokemon for their gluttony and it's up to Brock and Pikachu to find a cure! James and Meowth are reluctant to help.
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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13 Sept 2025
An Oral History of Story Games
In which Sam draws a through-line from Free Kriegsspiel to Braunstein to Matrix Games to Indie Narrative Games to the Old School (R) to the Free Kriegsspiel (R) to Modern Story Games.
Choo choo all aboard!
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30 Aug 2025
Batman: A Bat Burglary (Ep4)
This week, criminals break into Wayne Manor while Bruce Wayne attends a gala. Little do they know the Batman guards the mansion…
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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22 Aug 2025
Samurai Jack: Prehistoric Past (Ep3)
Long ago in a distant land, Kyle Burger and Samuel James recorded an improvisational session of the early '00 cartoon Samurai Jack!
Gotta get back, back to the past!
This is a re-upload, originally posted 8.8.25.
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21 Jun 2025
Phineas and Ferb: Operation Ring Rescue (Ep2)
When mom loses her wedding ring in the backyard, the boys promise to retrieve it by shrinking themselves to teeny-tiny proportions while Doofenshmirtz unleashes yet another dastardly -inator!
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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9 Jun 2025
Scooby-Doo: Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend (Ep1)
When the gang goes to Russia to watch the Moscow Invitational Hockey Tournament, they encounter a ghostly hockey player known as the Frozen Fiend!
Hosted by Samuel James and Kyle Burger.
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