RPG Psych
RPG Psych
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About This Podcast
A podcast exploring the intersection of metacognition and tabletop gaming. Join educator Lucas Hutson and clinical therapist Josh Pate-Terry as they discuss tabletop role-playing games and bring some of their professional experience to help make our games better. Let's think about how we think at our game table.
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S2E9 B9 Being "At the Table"
What does it mean to be "at the table" Josh and Luke talk about being present for a game and ways to stay engaged at the table and boosting engagement
S2E8 B8 Burnout
Are you or someone you know suffering from burnout? Do you feel that sinking feeling when you reach for you campaign notes? Fear not! Josh and Luke are here to talk about burnout and how to manage…
S2E7 B7 Failure is Always an Option
Join Luke and Josh as they explore the challenges, opportunities, and joys of failure at your game table. Failure need not be avoided, but embraced.
S2E6 B6 What is Roleplay?
Josh and Luke ask the question "What is roleplay" and talk about the different ways you can engage in and experience roleplay
S2E5 B5 Sunk Cost Fallacy
Luke and Josh discuss the idea of the sunk cost fallacy and when to know when to fold em at your TTRPG table.
S2E4 B4 Insight
Josh and Luke take an initial look at how having insight into our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can help us as players at the game table and go over some basic tools to stop and observe…
S2E3 B3 Rules Lawyering (adaptively)
Luke and Josh take a different approach to the rules lawyer. Sit back and listen as they discuss how to utilize a strong understanding of the rules as a force for good.
S2E2 B2 Electric Boogaloo
It's time to start chippin' in choombs, Josh and Luke discuss digital tools in our digital world and how they affect our games. Make sure you are all chromed up as we dive into this electrifying…
S2E1 B1 Player Driven Story
Luke and Josh dive into the idea of player driven stories in your tabletop RPGs and making your players authors in their own stories while also doing your job for you, at least a little bit. Tune in…
S2 Season 2 Trailer
Season 2 of RPG Psych is coming!
S1E10 A10: Understanding your PCs Psychology Part 1: Motivations and Values
Season 1 ends with a discussion on the motivations and values of the PCs! Get ready cause it's going to get clinical and anecdotal as Josh and Lucas dive in to this part one of PC Psychology.
S1E9 A9 You start in a cliche...
Josh and Lucas turn on all the lights in the local pub to expose the ways you can use a cliche to benefit your players, turn it on its head or just riff on it. They also suggest ways of avoiding this…
S1E8 A8 Using Mechanics
Lucas and Josh set the scene with mechanics. This is how we dress the stage for our players it's also our table's social contract. How many mechanics are too many though?
S1E7 A7 Balancing Encounters
Josh and Lucas talk about balance in encounters. What is it? Do you need it? If you do what are the best ways to balance a game? All this and more !
S1E6 A6 Player Buy-In
Join Luke and Josh as they explore some ideas to improve player and game master engagement. Let's move beyond the ideas of worldbuilding and get to how we can use the players and their stories to…
S1E5 A5 Time Management and Taking Breaks
Josh and Lucas talking about why it's so important for you to give your creative mind a break, even when you'd love to be gaming. Not only that they discuss the dreaded time management and how to…
S1E4 A4 Verisimilitude
Josh and Lucas tackle Verisimilitude. Should our games just be abstractions? How much truth is too much truth in the fantastic? Isn't that what mechanics are for? Josh and Lucas talk about the…
S1E3 A3 Radical Acceptance
Josh and Lucas dive into accepting the world as it is and not how we wish it to be, even if it is a fantasy world. How do we equip ourselves as players and GMs to "roll" with it when things don't go…
S1E2 A2 Safety Tools
What are safety tools for around the gaming table? How do we make sure that everyone feels safe with our stories and safe to share? Josh and Lucas dive into this topic, sharing tools and anecdotes,…
S1E1 A1 Session Zero
In this first episode of RPG Psych Josh and Lucas talk about what Session Zero is, what makes a good one and, why do we as players and GM's need it.
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RPG Psych has published 20 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Games, Hobbies.
RPG Psych is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 28m.
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