RPG Psych
A podcast exploring the intersection of metacognition and tabletop gaming. Join educator Lucas Hutson and clinical therapist Josh Pate-Terry as they discuss tabletop role-playing games and bring some of their professional experience to help make our games better. Let's think about how we think at our game table.
Podcasting since 2025 • 10 episodes
RPG Psych
Latest Episodes
A10: Understanding your PCs Psychology Part 1: Motivations and Values
Season 1 ends with a discussion on the motivations and values of the PCs! Get ready cause it's going to get clinical and anecdotal as Josh and Lucas dive in to this part one of PC Psychology.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:23
A9 You start in a cliche...
Josh and Lucas turn on all the lights in the local pub to expose the ways you can use a cliche to benefit your players, turn it on its head or just riff on it. They also suggest ways of avoiding this well worn path.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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26:28
A8 Using Mechanics
Lucas and Josh set the scene with mechanics. This is how we dress the stage for our players it's also our table's social contract. How many mechanics are too many though?
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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23:44
