About

The Hosts

Chris “Chrispy” Stockett

Hi! I’m Chrispy! I’ve been around the podcasting scene for a couple years now with the Wild Games Productions group as a host of the Save or Die Podcast, a podcast about Classic D&D. I’ve also done a few guest spots on other WGPRN shows dealing with Old School D&D: The Roll for Initiative Podcast and tHAC0’s Hammer. I’ve been an avid and active member of the Old School Renaissance (OSR) since around 2008 and I have a deep love for the earlier versions of the game.

I’m an anglophile, a wannabe linguist, a natural mimic, and a day dreamer. Sometimes I make music.

To me, role playing games should help you tell a story, but it should be a story that is driven by the players’ actions. The Referee’s role should be a reactionary one; with the players actively pursuing their goals and relationships and the Referee handling how those decisions affect the game world. Sadly, the game seems to be played the other way around, with the Referee telling the players a story that they have a small impact upon. I like games with rules-lite designs or games that act as tool boxes.

In addition to D&D, I’m also a fan of the Mouse Guard RPG, d6 Star Wars, Ninja Burger, and Munchkin.

Tim Jenkins

Good day! I’m Tim Jenkins. I’ve been playing D&D regularly about as long as Chrispy has, and I’ve enjoyed many needlessly heated arguments with him over the way the game should be run. As a game designer myself, I like to pick apart the rules and see what makes these game systems tick, and to see what does and doesn’t work in each edition of D&D in order to understand how we can make the game encourage the kind of play that makes table top role playing such a unique and wonderful experience.

I enjoy table top role playing games because they’re only limited by your imagination. Using the rules to describe your characters and resolve events, RPGs give you the unique opportunity to become a part of a dynamically changing narrative, a collaborative story that everyone tells with an ending that nobody is certain of. Not only are they a fun pastime, table top RPGs are a great way to meet new people, hone your own practical skills, and even explore new parts of your own personality.

I also like that most table top RPGs are flexible and customizable, allowing you to change the game and add new content to suit your needs and that of your group. I’m an active homebrewer, and will freely generate pages of new rules and options for any system I get into enough.

I’ve played just about every edition of D&D, but I have the most experience playing Pathfinder. My favorite edition so far is the D&D Next / 5th Edition Playtest, which has the most elegantly designed, simple, and versatile core rules out of any of them, in my opinion.

Guest hosts

Daniel “Odentin” Cabral

Hey, I’m Daniel. I’ve been gaming since high school, though this is my first real opportunity to discuss my love of the hobby with people other than my close friends. Though Dungeons and Dragons was my first gaming system, I have been exposed to several other games over the years, including the Old and New Worlds of Darkness, Traveller, D20 Modern, Star Wars d20 and Saga, Exalted, and more.  I also enjoyed a period of unrestrained powergaming, which provided me a great look at the rules and back-doors in D&D, though I tend to keep the optimization to a more subtle level nowadays.

When away from Tabletop gaming, I enjoy other gaming mediums, music (I am a singer, second bass), musical theatre, and pyrotechnics.

My favorite tabletop gaming system is Storytelling, the system used in the New World of Darkness and Exalted.