Wait, Roll That Again!
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/
S2 E4 · Thu, February 20, 2025
S2E4 - Does Narrative Matter? (ft. Thomas Manuel)
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 Rascal's pledge drive, check out this page ! Fight or Fright! is available now! Check it out here , where some free community copies are available! The Season Two theme is Rotator 2, by Someone Jelly. 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S2 E3 · Thu, February 13, 2025
S2E3 - Playtesting, and A Telling Off (ft. Sam Dunnewold)
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 . Jay Dragon's article for Boom Town Playtesting can be found here . Fight or Fright! is available now! Check it out here , where some free community copies are available! The Season Two theme is Rotator 2, by Someone Jelly. 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S2 E2 · Thu, February 06, 2025
S2E2 - Reach Across the Screen (ft. Em Acosta)
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 Zero here . Fight or Fright! is available now! Check it out here , where some free community copies are available! The Season Two theme is Rotator 2, by Someone Jelly. 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S2 E1 · Thu, January 30, 2025
S2E1 - Moments and Mechanics as Toys (ft. Cezar Capacle)
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 here , where some free community copies are available! The Season Two theme is Rotator 2, by Someone Jelly. 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
Trailer · Thu, January 23, 2025
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 available! Find Fight or Fright on itch.io here: https://mixuppixels.itch.io/fight-or-fright 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
Bonus · Thu, October 17, 2024
Iterative Design on Paint The Town Red (Ft. JellyMuppet)
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. Keep your ears pierced for season two of Designing Fight or Fright! , coming sooner than you realise! Fight or Fright! is available now, and 25%% off! Check it out here: https://mixuppixels.itch.io/fight-or-fright Music in this episode: Rotator by Someonejelly Spooky Atmosphere Slow Riser V2 by free-to-use-audio Spooky Halloween by SOULFULJAMTRACKS 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
Bonus · Thu, January 25, 2024
[FEED DROP] Dice Exploder S3E1: The Risk Sheet with John Harper
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 podcast's community has also been really supportive and have given me lots of ideas worth exploring in my own projects. I'm stoked to give you the chance to listen to this episode while I keep gearing up for the future of Wait, Roll That Again! this year. Stay tuned! *** On the season 3 premiere, I’m joined by John Harper, designer of many games featured on past episodes of Dice Exploder including Blades in the Dark, Lasers & Feelings, and Agon 2e. John brought in the Psi*Run risk sheet, a fairly complex dice resolution mechanic, known generically as Otherkind Dice. The risk sheet is such an elegant piece of design, packing essentially a whole game onto a single sheet of paper, and being so clear in both how it works and how you might tear it apart for your own ends. If you’re a new designer, or even just looking to get back in touch with the basics, John and I agree that hacking this thing is a great place to look. It’s good to be back. Further Reading: Psi*Run’s risk sheet Vincent Baker’s original 2005 post on Otherkind Dice Vincent’s 2022 Otherkind Dice SRD Psi*Run Annalise Socials John’s website, onesevendesign.com , and itch page . Sam on Bluesky and itch . The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory , our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey, and our ad music is Lily Pads by my boi Travis Tessmer. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show! 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E8 · Thu, November 09, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E8 - Looking in the Game Design Mirror (SEASON FINALE)
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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E7 · Thu, October 26, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E7 - Playtesting Fright or Fight!
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’s episode is by Oleg of SoulProdMusic. You can follow me and the show on Bluesky ! 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E6 · Thu, September 21, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E6 - Layout, Design, and New Dice (Ft. Clayton Notestine)
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 those elements a bit before it was too late! You can find Clayton’s work, templates, and articles on his website here . Then, we talk about making mistakes in game design, and how I rediscovered the core elements of the Spooky Halloween game that make me excited to keep designing this game! Thanks for listening, and thank you again to Clayton for coming on the show! If you’d like to support the show, please share it with a friend and leave a review 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E5 · Thu, August 31, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E5 - Character Creation
Welcome back to Wait, Roll That Again! On this week’s episode, we continue desiging options for player characters for the game. We hear from Michael Sands (Monster of The Week) before diving into the first ever character creation for the game with Zoe, who we last heard from in the first episode! 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E4 · Sat, August 05, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E4 - That's Character Development (Ft. Jay Dragon)
Welcome back to Wait, Roll That Again! On this week’s episode, I start the process on the biggest part of design so far - the character options. I want the players to feel like they've got lots of options to explore in the game, and meaningful choices to make. To start this conversation, I brought on designer and editorial director at Possum Creek Games Jay Dragon to talk about the process behind character design! Thanks to Jay for coming along to chat! You can find Jay's work on the Possum Creek Games Patreon and Website . 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E3 · Thu, July 13, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E3 - Many-Faced Math Rocks: (Ft. Michael Sands)
Welcome back to Wait, Roll That Again! On this week’s episode, I take the tips from the last few weeks and apply them to my first pieces of design for my TTRPG project. There’s one key conversation I felt like I needed to have before I sat down to design some mechanics. I wanted to learn about resolution and dice, so I spoke to Aotearoa-based designer Michael Sands ( Monster Of The Week, Three Dooms) about what makes dice mechanics work. Following that conversation, I got right to the drawing board and put some words to paper. I came up with a basic idea of the system, and I ran it for two of my players. To find out how it went, you’re going to have to listen on… 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E2 · Thu, June 29, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E2 - Studying the Books (Ft. Ashley Warren)
We're making a game together - but first, we've got to learn from the experts. That's right, we're talking about study, how it can be fun, and why it's an important step in TTRPG design. To talk about study as part of our designer creative process, Alex talks to Ashley Warren, a designer and director of the Storytelling Collective! To find Ashley's awesome work with Storytelling Collective, including the TTRPG book club Bookwyrms, check out this link here: https://www.storytellingcollective.com/ Ashley can be found on her website here: https://www.scribemind.com/ Come by in two weeks for our next episode, where we're talking mechanics! And don't forget to check out our game design updates on the Substack. 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
S1 E1 · Thu, June 15, 2023
Designing Fight or Fright: S1E1 - The TTRPG Design Rainbow (feat. Morgan Davie)
It's our first episode! Lets talk TTRPG Game Design, and we'll start at the basics. This episode, Alex speaks to some players at his game table about their experiences getting into gaming, and then with Game Designer Morgan Davie ( a|state, paranormal wellington) about how we can get into designing games ourselves! Morgan can be found at his twitter: @Taleturn , and on his website: http://taleturn.com/ Come back in two weeks for our next episode, all about how to study game design by looking through other RPGs! 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
Trailer · Tue, June 13, 2023
TRAILER - Wait, Roll That Again! Season One!
Let's Make a Game Together! A TTRPG Design podcast that takes you through your first steps to building a game alongside Alex, a brand new game designer. You'll hear from leading, award winning and vastly experienced designers as they help Alex get a better idea of how to make a game from the ground up. Coming June 15th 2023, and releasing fortnightly after that! 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 at kiwirpg.com Thank you for listening! Please share this show with a friend, subscribe, and rate it on your favourite podcast app.
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