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TNMT 2 Part 2

I'm a big map guy. I think that's been discussed plenty in this little column. Maps give clarity and orientation, and create story through proximity. My players don't always get to see the map, but a lot of the story gets built through geography. How do I decide what happens next? I don't have to...

TMNT2 Part 1

Love this one. Feels like a return to basics to be doing a fairly silly movie with the original cast. I like it when we go off the rails, but this one we never even got on the train. But enough spoilers . . .

This is the kind of campaign I really love in that there's a clear world and iconi...

B-Roll: Thelma and Louise

Ah, the murderous madams ride again with candy bars and curb stomping galore! Come chill while we discuss Thelma and Louise and how much we love this film, these women, and Carolyn's famous rap!

Mighty Ducks Ep 5

Joz: This isn’t a quippy intro because I have to acknowledge something important. We read an email in the mailbag and it sounds like I don’t reply after some very kind things are said about me. I tried but couldn’t because I was so choked up, so I’m replying now.

I ...

B-Roll Update!

Frens! We will drop the Thelma and Louise B-Roll in the fourth week because of some bugs that were causing partial uploads! It should be fixed now so no worries, you’ll get all kinds of Carolyn and Andy goodness this month!

Mighty Ducks part 4

Joz:  Whoa. This is a crazy ep for many reasons. It was a 24 hr turn around, we couldn’t get Carolyn because of a wedding, Jon decided to set everything on fire, and The Irregulars will skate again in two weeks.

I’m usually the one known for the off the wall choices, so I thought p...

Reroll B-Roll: Jaws

Never fear, Jaws is here! Though no one knows how to say it or how to prevent public emergencies, apparently. 

(We're a little out of sync this month on delivery because of other Reroll scheduling, but we will return to our regularly scheduled programming in August!)

Enjoy our fr...

Mighty Ducks 3

This one was a woahmygod. We have been flying by the seat of our poopypants this whole campaign, and this ep was no different. Recorded in two parts at two drastically different times while covering for players who couldn’t make it, I still love the insanity. Did I think we’d have this much p...

Mighty Ducks part 2

Joz writes:

Hey Friends! Film Reroll is a nominee in upcoming podcast awards, and we hope you’ll get your vote on for us- the more awards we pull in, the easier it is to bring “Reroll Live!” to a con near you! In July there’s only one contest, but there’s four categories! Here’s...

The Mighty Ducks (Part 1)

I have long been a fan of the episodes with a lot of people in them for what they can bring to the story, the sheer number of different ideas and impulses at the table brings a real richness. But they're also a technical nightmare, so I avoid them unless I really can't resist their appeal. I woul...

Reroll B-Roll: World Building

You've mentioned how you're building and running your own Reroll-style rpgs with friends, and we love Rerolls with frands, so we thought it was a good time to let you in on a little more of our processes, how we run games, how we set everything up, and what we do when things start to go awry!

Last Action Hero Part 4

Big thanks to Lisa for taking over blurb-writing duties:

A LESSON IN LISTENING

It's done! It's out there! It's over! ...For now....

What an incredible experience it has been taking the reins on a reroll. As many of you know, I was a listener to the podcast long before I joined t...

Last Action Hero Part 3

It's hard to write blurbs for these when I didn't run them. Normally I have so many thoughts about what an episode could have been or where it could have gone or what the challenges were in creating the world that even at 3am when I'm writing these little blurbs as I wait for the upload to comple...

Reroll B-Roll: Speed

Somehow we got far enough off-topic that we reached Rescue Rangers and Talespin. Why was everyone needing a rescue in the late 90s/early aughts? Did Rescuers Down Under spark that trend?

Anyway, we tackle Speed. Which we wrapped up with great speed. So much so you could accuse us of being o...

Last Action Hero (Part 2)

We had our first con this past weekend (that's the main reason this episode is late). It was a ton of fun and we attempted to do Film Reroll Live for the first time ever, and in our opinion it was a huge success. I always thought this show might be a bit tricky to do live because there's no way t...

Shift in release days

Hey everyone!

You may have noticed our recent regular release schedule, and while we’re gonna stay regular, we’re just adjusting the time frame, so now Reroll eps will drop on the 1st and 15th of the month, and B-Roll on the 7th. The next Last Action Hero should drop tonight or...

Reroll B-Roll: Frozen

Frozen was the first time we really felt like we were finding a groove. It was the first time Jon ran a reroll, and I think we all benefitted from exploring our play styles in the framework of a different GM. It also proved to us just how crunchy and also how versatile GURPS is- it may seem like ...

Last Action Hero

Yeah, so the next two movies both have a lot of people in them and are hard to schedule, it became clear that we were not going to have either of them ready in time to meet our schedule, so we brainstormed and remembered this movie that we had started just pre-pandemic and interrupted. We had alw...

Quick scheduling note

We'd told you guys that Mighty Ducks was next, but for scheduling reasons we weren't able to get that campaign ready in time. As such we've decided to complete a campaign we were working on before pandemic put a stop to live-recording.

The next movie we release will be . . . Last Action Her...

Time Bandits 4

Time Bandits part 4 is up! I'm not sure if everyone likes the format of a campaign that comes back whenever it wants to, but I think it's fun in the context of the type of movie Time Bandits is (and the campaign we're running), and you have no idea how much easier it makes our lives to have a cam...

Reroll B-Roll: Labyrinth

Hey frambz!

We're back to recap Labyrinth! And we have Jon as a special guest so he and Paulo could get all nuts and boltsy about some deep game mechanics and world-building approaches. Hope you enjoy the chatter!

And Tulkon is coming up at the end of April in Tulsa, OK! We're so exci...

Aliens Part 5

Love what Jon did with this one. Action movies are actually kind of hard to keep interesting, because they can be so dice intensive, keeping action interesting and varied is a very different skill than doing scenes with characters, or running exploration or adventure. Action scenes can easily bog...

Tulkon 2022!!

Hey Rerollers, we’re going to our first con Apr 29-May 1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Tulkon 2022! Paulo, Joz, Kara, Andy, Jon, and Scott will be on fun panels! Kara might wear cute shirts! Jon might scowl the whole time! Paulo might sing! We might fuck up some movies up along the way!

Aliens part 4

I love when characters that I make up either in planning or off the top of my head become important to the story. But my favorite is when a character who was in the original movie but who had a tiny part becomes important. Of course the classic example of that is Danny Hodges. But Aliens is full ...

Reroll B-Roll: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Guess who's back? Back again.

This time we relive Raiders, with all of the ptsd that came from opening the Ark. (It really did just belong in a museum.)

Enjoy Jon's exasperation (with a short and adorable appearance of the entire Miller clan!) at Kara and Joz's shenanigans, with Paulo...

Aliens 3

We return to Aliens at last! There's a section in the middle you'll notice that doesn't seem to make any sense, where we're laughing at Scott for ruining the edit. And that's because this episode was actually recorded across 2 sessions. The first session had been short and we decided in advance t...

Halloween 3 Part 7

I can't believe we finished this. I mean, I know it's light entertainment, it's a bit of fluff built out from the carcass of some movies from 40 years ago, but there's so much that goes on underneath to make these things happen. The amount of world that goes into my head quickly grows exponential...

Reroll B-Roll: Back to the Future 2

So y'all have been asking and we finally got ourselves together to discuss the behind the scenes of each of the episodes of Film Reroll!

This first show was a little rough- we routed it through a bunch of tech to make all these awesome little touches happen, and then it wound up jumpy as he...

Halloween 3 Part 6

In a previous blurb, I talked about the challenges of writing mysteries into your RPG's, but in that post I was talking about plot mysteries. What about mysteries about the nature of the world? The mechanics of magic and mythology.

From the very first Halloween I took a cue from John Carpen...

Halloween 3 Part 5

I didn't foresee Halloween 3 going this long, but here we are. Whatever. It's the end of a trilogy; it's earned it. To be honest, the best approach is always to let a story go as long as it wants to go. But I have an inherent instinct to not let any of these go past four episodes. If we're hurtli...