Best Blaseball Podcasts (2024)

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2023 Year End Bonanza

8M ago

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Hello and welcome to the Dice Exploder 2023 year end bonanza! I love me a good ranked list of movies on an end of year movie podcast, but ranked lists are bad and this show’s about RPGs not movies, so you get this instead. It’s me, Aaron King of the RTFM podcast, Lady Tabletop of the Alone at the Table podcast, and Sharang Biswas of winning tons of…

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BONUS: Designer Commentary on i know the end

8M ago

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Hello hello! Today I’ve got for you another between-season bonus episode. This time we’re breaking format to talk about i know the end, a module I published earlier this year about going back home after a long time away and all the horrors that entails. Because if you can’t occasionally publish something self-indulgent in your podcast feed, what’s …

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Accessibility and Graphic Design (Mork Borg) with Marc Muszynski

9M ago

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It’s a bonus between-seasons Dice Exploder! Wowie! As promised back in my episode with Gem Room Games about Mork Borg, today I’m talking about accessibility in game design using Mork Borg’s graphic design as an example. My cohost is Marc Muszynski, a friend and screenwriter with low vision, and we talk in detail about his experience with Mork Borg.…

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Customizing Games for Your Table with Nychelle Schneider

10M ago

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On this episode I’m joined by Nychelle Schneider, also known as Mistletoe Kiss, a moderator from the Blades in the Dark discord and contributor to The Wildsea, the upcoming Dagger Isles supplement for Blades, and Underground Maps & Passkeys among others. Nychelle brought on the idea of customizing existing games, homebrewing mechanics for your tabl…

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Secondary Missions (Band of Blades) with Thomas Manuel

10M ago

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Thomas Manuel of the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indie’d podcast joins me to talk about Secondary Missions, a mechanic from Band of Blades by Off Guard Games. In Band of Blades, a grim military fantasy forged in the dark game, you and your party go off and do missions. Meanwhile, there’s a whole other squad out there doing a whole other missio…

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A Five and a Half Foot Long Hand-Printed Scroll (Fall of Magic) with Tasha Robinson

10M ago

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It’s your last chance to back Dice Exploder season 3 on Kickstarter! The campaign ends Friday, October 6th! Here’s the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdunnewold/dice-exploder-a-tabletop-rpg-design-podcast This week I’m joined by Tasha Robinson, film editor at Polygon, Games on Demand aficionado, Golden Cobra honorable mentionee, and aut…

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Blaseball with Chris Greenbriar

11M ago

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In the year of our lord two thousand and twenty, many things occurred. But one of those things was the cultural event known as Blaseball. Blaseball was, more or less, a simulated baseball league that ran one game an hour, one season a week, that players could bet on and then use their winnings to vote for global rules changes. It got... weirder fro…

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Exploding Dice with Mikey Hamm (KICKSTARTER PREVIEW)

11M ago

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DICE EXPLODER IS KICKSTARTING NOW Ignore the lies of previous weeks, the Kickstarter has come early, and you can back it right the heck now. Here’s the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdunnewold/dice-exploder-a-tabletop-rpg-design-podcast Today on this beautiful Tuesday I have for you a preview of the Kickstarter’s backers-exclusive epis…

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Transparency with Jason Morningstar

11M ago

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This week I’m joined by Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games, known for Fiasco, Night Witches, and many other excellent games. Jason brought on transparency, a concept originating in the Nordic larp community, which describes the separation of player knowledge from character knowledge (similar to dramatic irony. We go through a whole library of …

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Graphic Design // The Calendar of Nechrubel (Mork Borg) with Gem Room Games

11M ago

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Double the cohosts, double the mechanics, double the Kickstarters to back! This week, Sam talks with Kali Lawrie and Dan Phipps of Gem Room Games about Mork Borg by Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr: its graphic design and the Calendar of Nechrubel. Mork Borg is famous for the absolute assault on the eyes [complimentary] committed by its graphic design.…

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Stress (Brinkwood) with Tan Shao Han

11M ago

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This week, Sam talks with Tan Shao Han about stress from Brinkwood by Erik Bernhardt, a character resource originally from Blades in the Dark by John Harper. This is one of those episodes where to talk about the mechanic in question, we kind of had to talk about the whole-ass game around it because so much of Brinkwood is tied up in stress. And in …

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RE-AIR: Random Roulette #1, muscle girl drawings, Jessica Rabbit, and the joy of pet rats 1:27:40

1y ago1:27:40

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RE-AIR: We spend the entire episode smashing that random button and testing our fate with whatever our sweet Reddit lord decides to give us. Plus, a nice discussion about building PCs and F*ck, Marry, Kill with cartoon babes.By Doot LeDoot

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Is Our Friendship Better Than Disco Elysium? 37:18

1y ago37:18

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This is it. This is goodbye to ICB, and hello to Infinite Cities. We're officially dropping the Blaseball, and moving on to our future of "good games, and better friends." It's bittersweet, wrapping up everything we've been doing these past three (almost) years, but that doesn't mean we're going anywhere. In fact, you might not even notice the diff…

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How Do I Explain That Something Very Important To Me Has Ended? 34:49

1y ago34:49

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Blaseball will not be returning. In a lot of ways, this isn't different than a month ago - we didn't have Blaseball then, and we still don't have Blaseball now. Our last regular season episode was thirty-nine. But in more meaningful ways, the world is a little less cool. Even though we gave up talking about blaseball a while ago, this still sucks. …

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ICB Plays Tears of the Kingdom - Why Wasn't This Game More Gay? 2:14:43

1y ago2:14:43

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Despite everything that's gotten in the way for the past few weeks, Will, Karp, and Gary have been devoting their time to being the Hero of Hyrule. in this episode: will has played the least of us, our formative zelda years, rediscovering 3D zelda, those sheikah duds, doing everything in a weird order, going to hyrule castle, ~~link's~~ zelda's hou…

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ICB Plays Disco Elysium (Part 2): Can We Talk About The Hole? 2:41:53

1y ago2:41:53

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Disco Elysium is somehow (still) so much more than we could have anticipated, but we're finally wrapping up our conversation from last week with the endgame! Feather's still doing too many drugs, Gary has thoughts about the hole, Will's complaining about tech, and Karp is still just better than you. Content warning: this episode contains discussion…

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ICB Plays Disco Elysium (Part 1): Are We All Sorry Cops? 1:46:26

1y ago1:46:26

1:46:26

Wow, Disco Elysium is a lot. It feels a bit late to be getting to this game, but we're finally in the dark (metaphorically and physically), dank (same) city of Revachol! Gary found books to read, Feather's trying to solve being sad through chemistry, Will is having a hard time finding his place and Karp is just better than you. This game is so big,…

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Isn't Kool-Aid Man A Villain? 1:46:45

1y ago1:46:45

1:46:45

Taco D3 Mayo might be behind us, but it still looms large in our heads - and T4co De Mayo is just around the corner! To settle our minds, friend of the show Deejay burst into our podcast and sat us down for an interview. How did TDM go? Who was it for? And, why in the name of christ did we go to 3pm on Saturday? In this episode: kool-aid man morali…

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Join us for the third annual Taco De Mayo! 14:33

1+ y ago14:33

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This Friday, May 5th (actually Cinco De Mayo this time!) we're kicking off our annual 24-hour charity marathon livestream extravaganza! If you like ICB, or if you hate ICB and enjoy seeing us suffer, tune in from 3:30 pm Pacific, May 5, through 4:00 pm Pacific, May 6th! The stream will be live at https://www.twitch.tv/infinitecitiesblaseball Stream…

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What Do We Even Have Left? 2:05:06

1+ y ago2:05:06

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This week, we're continuing our playthough of One and Ninety-Eight! The Erie Sunfish continue to struggle to find a foothold in the Major Leagues, despite everyone's best efforts to improve themselves. our characters: Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "call me double-o". Guy fieri shirt. Jealous of le…

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ICB Plays Titanfall 2: Is BT A Gundam? 1:23:42

1+ y ago1:23:42

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Titanfall 2 might not have a lot to say, but we certainly do! From our favorite titans (Scorch is da best, ignore the rest of those losers on this show) to a confused rundown of the plot, we had such a good time talking about a good time that maybe we forgot to explain, say, what an R-201 is. Who cares! Certainly not Titanfall 2. Content warning: e…

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What Do You Hope For? 1:53:52

1+ y ago1:53:52

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Another week has come and gone and we are still without blaseball to discuss, so we're playing another ttrpg! Feather has been designing games for a while now, and this is our first time playing the first game she'd published, One and Ninety-Eight! our characters: Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "ca…

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ICB Plays Night in the Woods: Am I Too Old For Coming of Age Stories? 2:14:03

1+ y ago2:14:03

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Night in the Woods is a dense game, with a lot to say. It should be no surprise that we have a ton to say about it also! In this monster episode we try to come to terms with possibly the most literary work we've played thus far - so literary, in fact, that Feather thinks maybe this one should have just been a book? It's complicated, there's no good…

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ICB plays Pedro Pascal: Where Will You Be In Five Years? 1:22:57

1+ y ago1:22:57

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Feather and I are just vibing tonight so, congrats. in this episode: nonsense, pedro pascal, idle games, layoffs, transitioning, coming out, other stuff ~shoutouts zone~ Pedro Pascal's Triangle of Prestige Nic Cage Filmography ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - i…

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How Much Does It Cost For A Big Bucket? 1:25:34

1+ y ago1:25:34

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We're really struggling to come up with content during the non-video game book club weeks, but that's not gonna stop us! This week, we're talking about our ideas for a Blaseball LARP! What's this game look like? How do we play it? Does wearing a Mike Trout jersey mean you're cosplaying? in this episode: please imagine finger guns, 1v1 blaseball, pl…

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ICB Plays A Short Hike: Did You Do The Boat Race? 1:50:25

1+ y ago1:50:25

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Last Video Game Book Club pick was way, way too long to play in a week (Gary is still playing CrossCode!) so this week we've picked something shorter: titularly shorter, in fact. A Short Hike is a tiny, perfectly cut gem of a game, and we're too distracted sharing everything we've found to level more than one or two criticisms at it. Play it, and t…

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How Good Is Your Team at Tacos? 1:17:56

1+ y ago1:17:56

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There's been plenty of team rankings running around, but as a crew of mostly-tacos, we needed to settle everyone's relative standings on the most important of axes: if your team was a taco, how good would it be? The answer is this good: https://imgur.com/a/Xi6FyLA (spoiler alert) Content warning: discussion of food for the entirety of the episode. …

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ICB Plays CrossCode: Are Sidecords Just Guilds? 1:28:03

1+ y ago1:28:03

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For our second entry in our Video Game Book Club, we played CrossCode, a wonderful love letter to they heyday of MMORPGs! And what better way to pay our own homage to this era than by trying to play a 40 hour game in two weeks? Maybe this was a bad idea! Or maybe we just aren't in high school anymore? Either way, we (mostly) had a great time, and n…

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What If Blaseball Was Just A Set of Patch Notes We Talked About On A Podcast? 1:19:50

1+ y ago1:19:50

1:19:50

blaseball is sleepy and so is icb, but don't worry, we'll never stop podcasting. we dont know how! in this episode: we're not doing blaseball this week, ping role, the most sickos shitposters of the taco stand, the definitely real one hundred percent authentic shrek season, the nuances of being fully illegal, a gullible person with a tiny brain, bl…

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Are We Doing Blaseball Today? 1:30

1+ y ago1:30

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The siesta is still ongoing, and frankly ICB isn't sure what we have to talk about. Video Game Book Club will continue next week with CrossCode. in this episode: blaseball? ~shoutouts zone~ Blaseball CrossCode Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone,…

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ICB Plays Rain World: If A Slugcat Plummets To Its Death For Eternity Is It Art? 1:31:18

1+ y ago1:31:18

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The first game in our "Video Game Book Club" is here! We get the crew together to play Rain World: an atmospheric survival exploration platformer, first released in 2017. Is it painfully beautiful, or beautifully painful? Or just pain? We weren't sure, and even after spending an hour and a half talking about it - I don't think anyone's mind is true…

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