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Shaun Makes @shaunmakes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If you ever download three episodes of a podcast for free, these should be them! #morkborg #freeleague #trrpg

Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@thehouseofbob.org has made the first three episodes of their Patreon Mork Borg campaign available for free! www.patreon.com/collection/1... If you've ever thought about subscribing to the Patreon, but you weren't sure if it was worth it, listen to this (and realize that it is totally worth it!)

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Are you kidding? Economists have been accustomed to shouting basic economic truths and being ignored forever. This case is only interesting because the economic stupidity was so stupid that other people noticed.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I hope that, when Trump is gone, everyone continues to realize that tariffs (and import quotas) are bad, that they were also bad (but lower) under Biden and Obama, and that we would be better off if trade barriers were eliminated altogether. Also, presidents shouldn't have this kind of power.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Monochrome is such a misnomer. It has green AND black! I loved the original Wasteland, though I think I played it too young to really understand the game.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The Battle Against the Necrosorb, Strethok the Necromancer, Theobald/Tabs the Thief, The Far Off One

The battle against the Necrosorb by Shaun Makes

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Here's all the art for the Tales from Glass-Guarded World podcast by @shaunmakes.bsky.social! See more at shaunmakes.com The Lady of Pain, Speelock the Kobold Warlock, Vizier Olgibar, and Raphael and Tuck the ettin.

Tuck and Raphael the Ettin by Shaun Makes

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Zartok and his spelljammer, Corellon's Needle!

The dragonfly spelljammer Corellon's Needle pursued by a Neogi Mindspider

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A scene from the season 1 finale, Sigbert, Strethok, and the Old Mistress

Aster, Aethelflaed, Tara, and Paxton plot in the season 1 finale

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Levarrion the Deceiver, Mama Sass, Mun the Immortal, and Paxton

Levarrion the deceiver, elven illusionist

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Eppalima, Finmac Castspinner, Papa Gasten, and Jeb (the mimic custodian!)

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In this thread, all of the #art for the Tales from the Glass-Guarded World #actualplay #podcast created by Ignacio Corva. www.instagram.com/ignaciocorva/ Starting with...Tara Deyn, Aethelflaed, Asna and Gerlos, and Aster Fortuna! Next time, art from @shaunmakes.bsky.social!

Ansna the half-elf cleric and Gerlos the human idiot--I mean, fighter.

Aster Fortuna, drow rogue and bard extraordinaire

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

It's pretty great! We're using it as a foundation for a revised ruleset that we're eventually going to use to play through the classic Star Frontiers modules on the Tales of Bob podcast... ...someday. Eventually. Probably.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

We'll have one more post with interesting data on how a middling actual-play podcast like ours performs, and then this account will probably go silent. If you have other questions, you can ask them on our Discord, or chat with us about other stuff on the House of Bob Discord. Thanks again, folks!

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

You'll be able to hear us play other games on the @thehouseofbob and Tales of Bob podcasts: thehouseofbob.org/subscribe/ The House of Bob just finished up a short Spire campaign, and will play a couple one-shots before something really different. Tales of Bob is playing #pathfinder2e!

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Subscribe to House of Bob A tasty selection of Tabletop Roleplaying Game podcast series’ and one-shots. Something sweet Gaming fun for the whole family. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify RSS …or somet...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

It's the penultimate episode of the @TFTGGW #actualplay #DnD #podcast! directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... The players explain what happens to their characters after the events of the story, and that wraps it up! Next week we have a lengthy Q&A with listener questions.

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TFTGGW Episode 190 - The End

What happens to the Glass Guardians once the dust settles? Do they stay together? Do they go their separate ways? How does Coral get along with those other deities? We'll hear the players explain thei...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

It's here! The last actual-play episode of our #actualplay #DnD #podcast! directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... Next week we'll have our epilogue, and then a Q&A episode the week after that. Once we're all done I'll post a bunch of interesting data about the podcast.

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TFTGGW Episode 189 - An End and Its Elf

We're finally here! It's the last regular actual-play episode of Tales from the Glass-Guarded World. Will everyone--or anyone--survive the battle against Levarrion? What surprises does he have wa...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

We're in the home stretch! Only five episodes left in our #actualplay #DnD #podcast after this. Levarrion's coronation will go smoothly, right? He's such a great leader, after all. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... We have new art from shaunmakes!

Tara Deyn leaps to attack a white dragon.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Episode 185: "Woe and Behold" is out now! directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... The party wraps up their fight in the temple of the Seldarine, and that means there are only 6 episodes of our #actualplay #DnD #podcast left! We'll do a big podcast post-mortem when the show is done.

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TFTGGW Episode 185 - Woe and Behold

The heroes have proven they can defeat two decrepit mounds of flesh, but can they also take on a beholder? It turns out beholders don't have legendary resistances, so the answer is probably "yes". Dan...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Episode 184 of our #actualplay #DnD #podcast is out! directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... Can the party defeat the Neogi Great Old Masters, and their secret force behind the Neogi operation? Only 7 episodes of our podcast remain! Remember to follow us to the Tales of Bob and House of Bob podcasts.

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TFTGGW Episode 184 - The Writhing Is On the Wall

The battle against the Neogi has begun! Two disgusting mounds of flesh need to be slain, and the party has the advantage of surprise. Do the Neogi have any surprises of their own? We have already reco...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

The race to our #actualplay #dnd #podcast finale begins with episode 180 and new #ocart from Ignacio Corva: It's Levarrion! "Such a Punchable Face" directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... A new episode comes out every week until we're finished!

Levarrion the elf, looking smug, with his wand of frost and summoned frost giants in the background.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

This #actualplay #DnD #podcast is barreling toward its conclusion at incredible speed! Here's the release schedule so far. Production of episode 188 is almost finished, too, and it looks like 189 will be the last regular episode. We're almost done!

A table of unreleased episodes of the Tales from the Glass-Guarded World podcast with release dates.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

This weekend we released an episode that returns us to the main storyline of our #actualplay #dnd5e #podcast: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... More importantly, we recorded the final episodes of TFTGGW! You might hear the final episodes before the end of 2024 if editing goes smoothly.

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TFTGGW Episode 179 - The Best-Laid Plans of Dice Women Oft Go Okay

We're in the home stretch! With our skill challenges done, the party members reunite months later on the Moonstone to plan their next steps, while Coral deals with the consequences of becoming a god.&...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

I thought of some related interesting etymology. In Greek "entomo" (έντομο) is "insect" BUT... The sound of δ shifted from "d" to "th" in Modern Greek. The "d" sound in Modern Greek is represented by ντ. But that means "έντομο" is now pronounced "edomo" in Modern Greek. So is it "edomology"?

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

"Deer" originally referred to any kind of wild animal (in Old English), with "heorot" (i.e. hart) referring to what we call a deer. Words, man.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

One would think so, but I can say from personal experience that even the larger publishers--and I am not just talking about WotC here--release products with serious errors and omissions that would not survive a playtest.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Hot take: prewritten #ttrpg adventures should be playtested before publication. Ideally they would be playtested by a GM who is not the author of the adventure. "But we don't have time for that! We need to get them out the door!" Oh, so you think *I* have time to clean up your mess?

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

This week we have Part 3 of our #starfrontiers #actualplay homebrew rules playtest! Will S.C.U.M. finally figure out what's going on at Aramax One? directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... Next week we'll have music or another chat, and then a silly one-shot, and then...back to the main story!

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Star Frontiers Homebrew Playtest Part 3

Part 3 of our Start Frontiers homebrew rules playtest continues the story of S.C.U.M., the Splendid Company of Upstanding Mercenaries. They've made their way inside the Aramax One power facility to de...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

3) The butterfly wand has three spells, but to swap between them you have to roll something (Arcana?), and if you fail it cuts your hand or backfires. 4) The sawed-off shortwand converts every single-target spell into a ten foot cone.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

The @thehouseofbob.org discord has been discussing these because they're brilliant. So far we've decided: 1) The Knuckle wand lets the wizard punch people with Mage Hand, or make a melee attack using their spell attack bonus to hit and damage. 2) The nail wand converts all damage to piercing. ...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

This episode stars @crkdgt.bsky.social as Glooorp, The Pink Pastor as SCUM-Vr-Spk-Lk-Tka'tk, Rhett from @stackodice.bsky.social as Waz'na'yazir, and Pavel as Thegra.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

For anyone wondering why the dralasite is colored so strangely, it's because this depicts how he looks to other dralasites; humans normally can't see the color "blorple".

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Aramax One was written by John Tantoblin (surely a nom de plume) and published in 1983 in Imagine Magazine. Episode art is by @crkdgt.bsky.social and @shaunmakes.bsky.social! Parts 2 and 3 come out next month.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

This week we're playing a #StarFrontiers one-shot using a homebrew version of the 1982 rules. This was a ton of fun; I wish my brother were around to hear it. Can the mercs of S.C.U.M. figure out what is going on at Aramax One? #actuaplay #podcast #ttrpg directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Sorry, Florida is too dysfunctional right now to comply.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Over on Tales of Bob we're trying the new Cowboy Bebop RPG from Mana Project Studio, and we're calling it "Cowboy Bebob"! It's so unusual that we struggle a bit to wrap our heads around it, but we've got original music and some fun characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FO1...

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Here's what the players saw when we started recording episode 177, out today! Sometimes the old, dumb jokes are the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxFi... #actualplay #dnd5e #podcast #spelljammer directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... Original character art by Ignacio Corva.

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Zartok in Spaaaaaace!

This is what the players saw at the beginning of episode 177. Yes, it's inspired by that classic 80s TV show skit.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I still haven't figured out who John Tantoblin (author of "Aramax One" in issue 4 of Imagine Magazine in 1983) was, and I think it's probably a nom de plume. The editor (Keith Thomson) and publisher (Don Turnbull) are both dead. Anyone have suggestions for how I might figure out who Tantoblin was?

The cover of issue 4 of Imagine Magazine from July 1983.

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Tales from the Glass-Guarded World Podcast @tftggw.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

This looks neat! I wonder if it would work with our own Spelljammer combat rules.

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