More Like Guidelines

More Like Guidelines

An actual play/game design podcast! Hosted by Jessica Crimes and produced by Don't Hurt Birds, on MLG we develop, play, and chat about indie TTRPGs; build all-new games with exciting guests; and all too often ignore a game's rules in favour of a good story - after all, they're more like guidelines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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February 24, 2022 39 mins
Jess is joined by Grant Howitt as they pit an occult outsider against a children's television presenter in a magical battle to the death.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-c...

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More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. You can back the project now over at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-competitive-roleplaying-card-game

You can find Role Playing Pub...

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More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-...

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More Like Guidelines returns with the first public playtest of Big King Wizard, a new competitive narrative card game by Don't Hurt Birds.

We're really excited to be bringing Big King Wizard to life and your support is what makes it possible. Follow the Kickstarter preview page now for free to help us out and get notified when the project goes live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/big-king-wizard-a-...

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October 17, 2021 47 secs
Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show https://www.patreon.com/donthurtbirds

All music in this episode is from the Anonymous Jinglesmith, contact them through Hello...

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Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards is complete! Well, it's gone off to the printers and that's complete enough for us to record a wrap-up Q&A!

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Join the official DHB Discord to chat about TTRPGs, games, and all kinds of DHB projects here

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appre...

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September 19, 2021 44 mins

Jess, Alastair and Ben bully a robot into giving them game titles to play around with, but this time it seems like the robot is sick of us and starting to actively fight back? Also, we make a game that is definitely illegal for like a dozen reasons.

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we&a...

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The finalé of Chuck Coldsalad's 'adventure' takes him deep into the den of The Devil himself. I'm sure that will all go fine and sensibly.

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompan...

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We're back with more Pit Crawler! Picking up with Greytree's grandad 'Chuck Coldsalad' Jess and Ben kick off another grand adventure which somehow involves like a laptop or something?

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive ...

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We're back with more Pit Crawler! Picking up with Greytree's grandad 'Chuck Coldsalad' Jess and Ben kick off another grand adventure which somehow involves like a laptop or something?

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive ...

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It's a series now! On Designish we bully a robot into giving us a big list of names for games that don't exist yet, and then we chat about making them!

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we're planning to introduce some really cool rewards including shoutouts on the show ht...

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(Woops! We accidentally released the wrong episode, should be fixed now!)

This week it's a very chill, pretty strange one where we basically just do all the fun bits of game design and none of the work, then halfway through stumble onto my new favourite format. Have fun!


You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any suppor...

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Honestly this one's pretty fucked

Join the MacGuffin and Co Patreon to get Pit Crawler and much more! https://www.patreon.com/macguffinandcompany

Thanks to Ben for editing this week's episode

Come hang out on our Discord https://discord.gg/VXdjsrB

Support us on Patreon for exclusive bonus content http://patreon.com/donthurtbirds

Content Warnings:
Audible coughing on mi...

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Jess and Ben play Pit Crawler 0.5th edition by MacGuffin and Company! In this episode Greytree does some shopping and everything gets worse in the process

We have merch now!

Find Jess' games at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated  https:/...

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Jess and Ben play Pit Crawler 0.5th edition by MacGuffin and Company! In this episode we meet Greytree, learn of the Sewer Queen, and the call to adventure is reluctantly heeded!

Find Jess' games at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at thecarvingbones.com.

Check out our Patreon if you'd like to help us continue the show! Any support is super appreciated and we'...

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Jess is joined by Ross, Baz, and Caleb to play Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG! In this weeks episode our doctors watch some standup and shape their futures.

Back Fae's Anatomy on Kickstarter here

Check out Caleb on Twitter @HebanonGCal
Hebanon Games is on Patreon here
Find Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon here
Baz is on Twitch as FutureWolfington

Check out epis...

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Jess is joined by Ross, Baz, and Caleb to play Fae's Anatomy: A Melodramatic Medical Mystery RPG! In this weeks episode some broccoli wakes  and we meet our patient.

Back Fae's Anatomy on Kickstarter here

Check out Caleb on Twitter @HebanonGCal
Hebanon Games is on Patreon here
Find Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon here
Baz is on Twitch as FutureWolfington

Check out epistolary hor...

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Jess and Casimir dive into a fully improvised experimental storytelling game set over the 72 hours. One player takes on the role of the Day, and the other of the Night.

Unfortunately episode 2 of Kissing in the Weird Future has been lost to technical issues - we apologise for any disappointment.

Get this game as part of Storybox! at https://dont-hurt-birds.itch.io/

You can find The Carving Bones at theca...

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Jess and Goji are joined by Laura K Buzz and Roz Leahy to playtest Kissing in the Weird Future ahead of it being expanded and adapted for inclusion in DHB's new anthology Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards!

Back Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards while you can! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storybox/pretentious-games-for-villains-and-bastards

You can find Laura here:
Twitter - htt...

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We have a Kickstarter out! Pretentious Games for Villains and Bastards is a 9 game anthology by an exciting team of contributors, produced by Don't Hurt Birds.

In this episode Jess, Cat, and Candel are joined by Roz Leahy (@Allthingstruly) and Aimee Meester (@TheAimeeMeester) to discuss the anthology and TTRPG creation, and to answer some of your questions.

Find the Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/...

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