Wait, Roll That Again!

Feb 20 2025 16 ep. 28 mins 16

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This is Wait, Roll That Again! A Tabletop RPG Design Podcast hosted by Alex, from Aotearoa New Zealand!

Learn the ins-and-outs of game design alongside Alex as he creates his first TTRPG, talking to industry creatives along the way, and putting their advice into practice! The show combines interviews, playtesting, and design reflection to tell the story of game design, from start to finish!

https://waitrollthatagain.carrd.co/

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S2E4 - Does Narrative Matter? (ft. Thomas Manuel)

Feb 20 2025 35 mins

Alex ran a playtest, but how did it go? One of the playtesters, Thomas, comes aboard the show to share his reactions and discuss the connections between narrative, gameplay, and our assumptions as players. The season comes to a close! Thanks so much to Thomas for coming on the show! Please check out his excellent newsletter, his podcast Yes Indie'd, and Rascal News. To learn about

S2E3 - Playtesting, and A Telling Off (ft. Sam Dunnewold)

Feb 13 2025 38 mins

Alex has to playtest his latest changes to Fight or Fright, and he turns to Sam for some advice. Sam imparts some hard truths about some of Alex's design thoughts. Thanks to Sam Dunnewold for coming on the show! Check out his fantastic podcast Dice Exploder, and head to itch.io to check out his games, including Band-Aids and Bullet Holes, Space Fam, and We Three Shall Meet Again. J

S2E2 - Reach Across the Screen (ft. Em Acosta)

Feb 05 2025 30 mins

Alex needs to tackle the blank pages that don't contain rules for running the game, but Em Acosta has ideas! Special Thanks to Em Acosta for coming along to talk about game design! You should check out their latest games EXILE and Crescent 2e, and be sure to follow their newsletter for the latest updates here. As a follow up, check out Em's Dice Exploder episode on D&D's Rule Z

S2E1 - Moments and Mechanics as Toys (ft. Cezar Capacle)

Jan 29 2025 31 mins

Designing Fight or Fright returns! Alex feels lost after a break from designing games, and Cezar comes to the rescue! Special Thanks to Cezar Capacle for coming on the show! You can find his latest project, Everspark, here on itch. You can also find his patreon here! For his newsletter, and all his other games, check out quirky.games. Fight or Fright! is available now! Check it out

Season Two Trailer - Designing Fight or Fright!

Season Two is coming your way, starting Jan 30th! I've got a game to finish, and I'm recruiting four talented designers to help me get across the finish line. Will I make it! Who knows? Look forward to hearing from Cezar Capacle, Em Acosta, Sam Dunnewold, and Thomas Manuel on this four-episode season of Wait Roll That Again! AND check out the game developed on the show, now availab

Iterative Design on Paint The Town Red (Ft. JellyMuppet)

Oct 17 2024 32 mins

Wait, Roll That Again! Return's with a discussion about SoulMuppet Publishing's latest game, Paint The Town Red, with director and designer Zach Cox aka JellyMuppet! Check out the game here on Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/soulmuppet/paint-the-town-red Huge thanks to Zach for coming along to talk about their game! And thanks for listening to this speical episode.

[FEED DROP] Dice Exploder S3E1: The Risk Sheet with John Harper

Jan 25 2024 38 mins

Alex here! Today, I'm sharing the first episode of Dice Exploder's Third Season, a discussion on the Risk Sheet from Psi*Run by Meguey and Vincent Baker. Dice Exploder is a podcast that invites a different co-host to bring a game mechanic on and discuss why it works, or even why it doesn't! It's been an awesome podcast so far, super educational for a new designer like myself. The p

Designing Fight or Fright: S1E8 - Looking in the Game Design Mirror (SEASON FINALE)

Nov 08 2023 17 mins

It's the Season Finale! On this episode, we break down the playtest with Zoe, Freya and Liam, and talk about the work on the game so far, and what's happening on Wait, Roll That Again! in the future! You can find out where to follow the show here: https://waitrollthatagain.carrd.co/ This Podcast is a part of KiwiRPG! For information on Kēmu Whakatau o Aotearoa, see their website a

Designing Fight or Fright: S1E7 - Playtesting Fright or Fight!

Oct 25 2023 40 mins

Welcome back to Wait, Roll That Again! This week, I run a playtest of the Spooky Game I’ve been developing, now called Fright or Fight! My goal is to test the central mechanics, and see how the story-world of the game comes across! Thanks to Zoe, Freya and Liam for being my amazing playtesters in this episode and creating such wonderful characters. The Halloween Music from today�

Designing Fight or Fright: S1E6 - Layout, Design, and New Dice (Ft. Clayton Notestine)

Sep 20 2023 31 mins

Welcome back to Wait, Roll That Again! On this episode, big challenges arise in the game design process, which leads to a step in adifferent direction. But first, Clayton Notestine from Explorer’s Design joins the show to talk about layout and visual design. These elements are really important to a game’s final presentation, so I felt like it was time to start thinking about th