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How Do I Recover After a Big Nerd Convention? With Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

How Do I Recover After a Big Nerd Convention? With Jasper Cartwright

Shhhhh, we are such sleepy boys. Please, keep it down. Actually, you can get very loud and excited for the best organized professional development event we’ve ever been to (AND it was part of a DEI initiative!). But only get loud for that, we need to sleep otherwise.

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Live in Manchester! with Jasper Cartwright, Amanda McLoughlin and Paul Foxcroft
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Live in Manchester! with Jasper Cartwright, Amanda McLoughlin and Paul Foxcroft

From the Empty Space in Manchester, we did a live show! The first half is the Games and Feelings we know and love; the second half is Jasper’s Quiz Show Revenge. Thank you to Paul Foxcroft for coming up from London, Jasper for letting us stay at his house, everyone who rocked it in the audience, the entire city of Manchester, and halloumi.

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Should I Taste Test This British Food? with Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Should I Taste Test This British Food? with Jasper Cartwright

We’re recording at Jasper’s house in Manchester and we’re really enjoying making the dumbest jokes about soccer right into each other’s eyes. Yes, we do answer game advice questions, but the bigger question is why did Eric keep eating the marmite?

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Can I Restart My D&D Group After My Friends Fall Out? With Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Can I Restart My D&D Group After My Friends Fall Out? With Jasper Cartwright

The way I title these episodes refers to the questions inside (which are great, especially if you’re trying to getting your friends to pick up your niche hobbies or you’re trying tiptoeing around your friends’ drama). But this episode may be defined by the constant, middling Jason Statham impressions. So imagine the title is really “Jasper makes fun of Eric’s attempted British accents, but Eric should have seen that coming.”

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How Do I Keep My Big Bad from Being an Ethnocentrist? with Dr. Claire Aubin
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

How Do I Keep My Big Bad from Being an Ethnocentrist? with Dr. Claire Aubin

A new podcast guest approaches! It’s Claire Aubin, a PhD graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where she researched “the comparative individual agency of Holocaust perpetrators in the post-war United States immigration process.” AKA Claire knows knows a lot about Nazis. And she’s an avid TTRPG and video gamer, so Eric and she are diving into how to best make a villain without exposing people to ethnocentrism that they didn’t ask for. This is the most fun you can have having a conversation about Nazis, so let Claire and Eric give you that WW2 info as sharply as possible.

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Should My Brother Be More Chill When I Win? with Andy Farrant, Luke Westaway and Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Should My Brother Be More Chill When I Win? with Andy Farrant, Luke Westaway and Jasper Cartwright

A new podcast guest approaches! It’s Andy Farrant and Luke Westaway, from Mom Can’t Cook, Oxventure, and Outside Xbox and Outside Extra, respectively. They’re joining Eric and Jasper for our first four-player episode to answer questions about adult siblings needing to keep their cool when playing games, keeping characters from different D&D campaigns separate, and whether Eric’s choice for a videogame LEGO set is good or stupid.

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What Do I Do If My DM Disappears? with Carlos Maza
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

What Do I Do If My DM Disappears? with Carlos Maza

A new podcast guest approaches! It’s journalist and video producer Carlos Maza! He’s joining Eric to answer questions about playing in TTRPG to process and escape *gestures around* all this, feeling frustrated by your current campaign, and what to do when you can’t get in touch with your DM. You also don’t want to miss the line in Carlos’ Wikipedia page that absolutely roasts him.

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Am I the Main Character at My Table? with Caldwell Tanner and Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Am I the Main Character at My Table? with Caldwell Tanner and Jasper Cartwright

A new podcast guest approaches! It’s the incredible artist and co-host of Not Another D&D Podcast Caldwell Tanner! He’s joining Eric & Jasper to answer questions about making fanart of your own character, resetting a game you spent hundreds of hours on, and the fear of grabbing the spotlight too much while you’re playing a TTRPG.

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Was This Character in a Tony Hawk Game? with Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Was This Character in a Tony Hawk Game? with Jasper Cartwright

Not all heroes wear capes, so maybe answering advice questions (in the words of Goldfinger) makes us a Superman? Ok, probably not, but Eric and Jasper had a lot of fun answering more advice questions, such as helping an introvert at a LARP and recommending the best Pokemon game to hop on with. And Eric surprises Jasper with a Game Within a Game about unlockable Tony Hawk characters.

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Do I Need to Let Kids Win at Games? with Drak and Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Do I Need to Let Kids Win at Games? with Drak and Jasper Cartwright

A new podcast guest approaches! It’s British TTRPG streamer, writer, and AP production manager Drak! He’s joining Eric & Jasper to answer questions about whether we should teach children the value of getting owned, if the new Sonic game is one of the best open-world games, and what modules are good for.

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Should I Expose Myself to the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known? With Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Should I Expose Myself to the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known? With Jasper Cartwright

It’s coming homeeeee! And by “it” I mean “Jasper” and by “coming home,” I mean “talking about soccer.” Jasper lays out the case for relegation in all sports, Eric brings a deeply frustrating update to the Sports Story Saga, and we advise you on how mortifying but also important it is to tell people about your creative ideas.

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Is There a Crab in This Game? With Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Is There a Crab in This Game? With Jasper Cartwright

Whether you call this a hat trick, a turkey, or a triple kill, this is three straight episodes with new permanent guest Jasper Cartwright! Eric & Jasper dive into the questions and advise you on worldbuilding in a oneshot, teaching ancient boardgames at a medieval recreation, and how to best determine if a game has a crab in it.

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Should Pokémon Types Work In D&D? With Jasper Cartwright
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Should Pokémon Types Work In D&D? With Jasper Cartwright

Games and Feelings is weekly, gamers! Let’s welcome new Permanent Guest Jasper Cartwright as we answer your questions about DMs allowing Pokemon-style super-effective-ness, coming to a fraught game after all the drama is over, and settling a sports debate with your girlfriend’s dad.

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Am I a Terrible Person for Lying While I’m DMing? with the Anime Sickos
Amanda McLoughlin Amanda McLoughlin

Am I a Terrible Person for Lying While I’m DMing? with the Anime Sickos

There are nine levels of hell in the official D&D setting. That really feels like a ripoff of Dante, who was writing Christianity fan fic, who was ripping off the Torah. The point is, you can do whatever you want in your own TTRPG games and not feel like you’re copying anything. For more advice like this, listen to the episode where Eric and Tom & Joe of the Anime Sickos are just some guys who try to help.

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