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Saving the Game

A Christian podcast about tabletop roleplaying games, collaborative storytelling in RPGs, and other interesting topics

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Episode 23 - Narrative Structure (Science of Storytelling, Part 1)

Episode 23 - Narrative Structure (Science of Storytelling, Part 1)

Two major announcements: This is the first episode in our new "Science of Storytelling" series; and Save Against Fear, a... Read more

27 Aug 2013

52mins

Ranked #2

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STG 168 - Lawful Evil (Alignments 3)

STG 168 - Lawful Evil (Alignments 3)

With the holidays over, we're back to our normal episode format, and in this one we wrap up the first batch of 3 from ou... Read more

7 Jan 2020

1hr 27mins

Ranked #3

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STG 135 - Moral Accountability, Part 2 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)

STG 135 - Moral Accountability, Part 2 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)

Continuing our previous episode, Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook from the Min/Max Podcast join us to fi... Read more

8 Aug 2018

52mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 134 - Moral Accountability, Part 1 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)

Episode 134 - Moral Accountability, Part 1 (with Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainbrook)

We reach maximum hosting with not one, not two, but three guests this week! Allen Mowers, Ashley Mowers, and Kyle Stainb... Read more

24 Jul 2018

49mins

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Episode 119 - Gaming Evangelism (with Gospel and Gaming)

Episode 119 - Gaming Evangelism (with Gospel and Gaming)

Peter and Jenny have two special guests this week: Jacob Toman and Michael Mendis from Gospel & Gaming! Gospel &... Read more

17 Oct 2017

1hr 1min

Ranked #6

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STG 152 - Biblical Figures: Jonah

STG 152 - Biblical Figures: Jonah

Peter and Jenny have the mics to themselves this episode, and they're talking about one of the funniest and most imagina... Read more

14 May 2019

39mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 136 - Destiny (with Kris Newton)

Episode 136 - Destiny (with Kris Newton)

Gaming podcaster extraordinaire Kris Newton returns to discuss handling destiny in our games! Kris hosts two of our favo... Read more

21 Aug 2018

1hr 21mins

Ranked #8

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STG 147 - Angels and Angelology

STG 147 - Angels and Angelology

It's time for our Patreon-selected topic for the quarter, and this one's so big it'll take up two episodes! Our topic th... Read more

5 Mar 2019

55mins

Ranked #9

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STG 144 - Hacking Published Adventures

STG 144 - Hacking Published Adventures

With Jenny traveling for the holidays, we're back to Grant and Peter on the mics for an episode! We cover our Christmas ... Read more

8 Jan 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #10

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STG 164 - Monsters

STG 164 - Monsters

After several episodes with either more or less than the three main hosts, Grant, Peter, and Jenny finally get to sit do... Read more

29 Oct 2019

1hr 18mins

Ranked #11

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STG 149 - Unlikely Heroes (with Rev. Derek White)

STG 149 - Unlikely Heroes (with Rev. Derek White)

Rev. Derek "The GeekPreacher" White joins us once again, and this time it's even more special than usual. This episode i... Read more

2 Apr 2019

1hr 8mins

Ranked #12

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STG 145 - Roleplaying Mental Illnesses

STG 145 - Roleplaying Mental Illnesses

We're tackling a difficult and complex topic in this episode: How to roleplay characters with mental illnesses with sens... Read more

5 Feb 2019

1hr 10mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 166 - Lawful Good (Alignments 1)

Episode 166 - Lawful Good (Alignments 1)

We've been promising it for a while and here it is, the first episode in our series on alignment. We last talked about a... Read more

26 Nov 2019

1hr 10mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 120 - Six Clickbaity GMing Traditions We Need To Stop

Episode 120 - Six Clickbaity GMing Traditions We Need To Stop

We're back with our angriest, most rant-filled episode yet! Well, not really—but there's a lot of passion in this episod... Read more

14 Nov 2017

1hr

Ranked #15

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STG 162 - Safety and Bleed with Dr. Sarah Lynne Bowman

STG 162 - Safety and Bleed with Dr. Sarah Lynne Bowman

Professor, researcher, leading thinker in the psychology of RPGS both tabletop and LARP, and contributor to the first co... Read more

1 Oct 2019

1hr 25mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 139 - Character Backstories (with Krissi Woodward)

Episode 139 - Character Backstories (with Krissi Woodward)

Krissi Woodward joins us again this episode to help Grant and Jenny speak a little less, since they're both pretty sick ... Read more

16 Oct 2018

1hr 11mins

Ranked #17

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STG 167 - Lawful Neutral (Alignments 2)

STG 167 - Lawful Neutral (Alignments 2)

This is the corrected version of 167. The first version ran the main episode audio into the outro due to an editing mist... Read more

10 Dec 2019

1hr 3mins

Ranked #18

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Episode 157 - Bearing False Witness (The Ten Commandments, Part 9)

Episode 157 - Bearing False Witness (The Ten Commandments, Part 9)

We're nearing the end of our Ten Commandments series! This episode tackles lying—or as the Ten Commandments are commonly... Read more

23 Jul 2019

1hr 1min

Ranked #19

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STG 150 - Why We Love Games

STG 150 - Why We Love Games

It's our one hundred fiftieth episode, and we are excited! We've got a lot of people to thank, of course, and spend a co... Read more

16 Apr 2019

52mins

Ranked #20

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Bonus Episode 18 - Objectives and Key Results

Bonus Episode 18 - Objectives and Key Results

We've got an unusual bonus episode this time around—one that in many ways recalls our old New Years' resolutions episode... Read more

22 Jan 2019

50mins

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