Game Mechanics - A Critical Tabletop Podcast
Welcome to Game Mechanics, where we kick the tires and run diagnostics on tabletop experiences! Hosts Logan Jenkins and Greg Leatherman talk about everything tabletop; from board games, to roleplaying games, and even some video games that evoke the tabletop experience. Greg and Logan have been playing games for decades and have designed several games themselves.
Episodes
Logan's playing Aqua, Greg is playing Dice Throne. We talk for a bit about Earthborne Rangers, and then we talk about how tariffs will impact the tabletop industry. Yeah, that part is kinda heavy. Also, a note: this episode was recorded a few weeks ago, before Polygon was sold, and hoo boy what a strange, unstable time in not only our little hobby corner, but the world at large.
Episode Description
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After a brief visit to Magic the Gaythering, we go over all the werewolf-style games (or at least a lot of them). What's your favorite game to play when you feel like lying to your friends for fun?
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
We got an email! Hey, if you want to email us, you can do so at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com. Logan remembered to put it in the show notes! And also, it's on the permanent part of the show notes down below if you like the look of that link more. We get way deep on TCGs, TTRPGs, and more!
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
We talk about werewolf, professional GMing, and safety tools; or maybe they're collaboration tools? Let's get into it.
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
Classic games are on a lot of shelves, but does anyone really want to play Monopoly? Let us give you some modern alternatives to some of the dusty boxes on your TV stand. We might even suggest dusting a couple of them off!
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
What makes you shiver with antici............ pation? We talk tension building mechanics, and then pivot to the strange, odd list on Board Game Geek: The Hotness.
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
We talk about deck builders and legacy games, and one game that is both! Most importantly throughout all of this, we respect the helm.
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Email us at GameMechanicsCast@Gmail.com.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
We're on a first-name basis now, right? We start with a new segment about MTG, then Logan shares his experience at Tantrum Con. We move on to telling you what the word 'hide' means while we discuss Root the RPG.
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
We talk what we're playing, review The Gang, and break down the Spiel Des Jahres, gaming's most prestigious award. This episode was recorded quite a while before its release date. See if you can follow the clues and figure out when we recorded it!
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
Welcome BACK to Game Mechanics. We've dusted off the feed and we're starting again fresh. In this episode, we talk about goals for the show, games we're playing, review Land of Eem, and more!
Find Logan's stuff at LoganJenkins.com.
Find Greg's stuff at Leatherman.Games.
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Moonshot podcast network.
Season 1 is done, but Game Mechanics will return!
If you have a suggestion for a future guest, please send it to: GameMechanicsCast@gmail.com
Follow Logan on Twitter: @LoganJenkins
Game Mechanics is hosted and supported by The Orange Groves podcast network.
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Marx Shepherd, an indy TTRPG creator, and member of the San Jenaro Co-Op, an organization that puts out a quarterly games digest collectively created by all its members. When Marx reached out to me, they were quick to point out that the co-op wears its communist mindset and values on its s...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Rees Bennett, also known as Sister Evelyn Tensions of the Grenville Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The Sisters are an order of drag nuns whose entire mission is to increase joy and decrease shame in the world. Rees puts on makeup, jewelry, and the Greenville sisters’ Habit, and transform...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins. Today, I’m talking to Will Uhl, a very prolific writer of mostly micro-RPGs… which are exactly what they sound like. Bite-size Roleplaying game concept explorations that only take up a few pages. I was curious to talk to Will about distilling concepts into that small of a space. We talked about advantages, disa...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Greg Leatherman, writer of Glitter Hearts, a Magical Girl anime inspired TTRPG. Greg is also one of my co-hosts on Very Random Encounters. We go way back! One thing I really like about interviewing folks from so many backgrounds is the different answers I get from the same questions I ask...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Sean Gomes, writer of Uncharted Worlds, a Powered by the Apocalypse TTRPG. I am a total Sean Gomes fanboy. There’s a mechanic in UW called “Cramped Quarters;” when the characters are stuck together for a long time (like for space travel) they roll to see whether they had some bad blood, a ...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Androgynous Android Gameshow Host from the Future, Nathan Blades. I wanted to talk to him about one-page RPGs and games as permission. His one-page RPG Agents of H.U.E. is about queer spies using gadgets to solve very silly mysteries. Basically, a very gay version of Austin Powers. We talk...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Bianca Zelda. Bianca is one of the members of The Broadswords, an all female and nonbinary actual play podcast. Bianca also does a LOT of guest spots on a plethora of other podcasts. I wanted to talk to them about the differences in playing games for yourself and games for public consumpti...
Welcome to Game Mechanics, a show about Tabletop Roleplaying Games from lots of different perspectives. I’m Logan Jenkins.
Today, I’m talking to Sean McCoy. Sean is one of the co-founders of Tuesday Knight Games, and the designer, writer, layout artist, and illustrator of Mothership, a sci-fi horror TTRPG that won the 2019 Ennie for best game! Sean is also lead designer on other Tuesday Knight Games, which makes Sean an expert on b...
Today, I’m talking to Jess Ross about her experience writing for RPGs. Jess has written several modules for D&D in places like the Uncaged Anthology, and in Pugmire (a variation of D&D 5th edition where everyone plays as dogs! She wrote for the supplement Morti Corgi’s Scroll of Mysteries, and just everything about that game is adorable.)
We also talk about a problematic aspect of TTRPGs that is somehow still a staple in t...
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