In-depth podcast on how to improve your campaign, focusing on the adventure, world and character design. We apply proven and practical game design techniques to the world of running pen and paper campaigns. There's a lot to get into, so let's get started.
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Professors Matt Cooper and Jason Bara talk about chemical engineering and education (among a variety of other fun topics) with a focus on Material & Energy Balance courses using the seminal textbook by Felder, Rousseau & Bullard as a guide.
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Former UFC middleweight Champion, Michael Bisping, brings his brand of brash, comedic MMA commentary to the podcast world! Believe You Me is a twice weekly show that gives you a behind the scenes look at the career and life of a former UFC champion. Bisping breaks down MMA news, pop culture stories, and talks parenting, philosophy, and life in general. Believe You Me is FOR ADULTS ONLY! Follow us on twitter and Instagram: @BYMPod. The newest 15 episodes are always free, but if you want acces ...
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586: Trump Shot! Jones Charged! Diaz Sues! With Drew Dober & Brendan Loughnane
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith talk with Brendan Loughnane about his latest run at a million dollars in the PFL, finding new respect for King Green in the training room, showing up to Michael's last "Tales From The Octagon" show with a rowdy bunch and more then Drew Dober joins the show to discuss dealing with one of the nastiest cuts in the rec…
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585: "I'll Dog Walk Rampage" With Rashad Evans & Giga Chikadze
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Michael Bisping talks with Rashad Evans about his potential upcoming boxing match with Rampage Jackson, becoming friends with his former rival while working on a movie together, how his psychonaut adventures post fighting have changes his perspective on life and more, then Giga Chikadze joins the show to talk about his long absence from the cage, h…
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584: Diaz And Masvidal Put On A Show Ft. Merab Dvalishvili
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Anthony's loss at UFC 303, what's next for the former title challenger and more before Merab Dvalishvili joins the show to discuss growing up idolizing gangsters in Georgia, his hillarious internet sketches beefing with Sean O'Malley, what is with the hold up for his title shot and more plus a recap of the …
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583: Chandler Is Fighting Islam NOT CONOR!
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Michael Bisping and Mike Harrington discuss the boxing grudge match between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz taking place this weekend, Michael Chandler claiming that he has been offered a title shot against Islam Makhachev instead of a bout with Conor McGregor, Alex Pereira moving to the number 2 spot on the pound for pound rankings, Jean Silva tellin…
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582: UFC 303 Aftermath With Dan Ige, Joe Pyfer, Payton Talbott and President Awesome
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Michael Bisping talks with Dan Ige about filling in for Brian Ortega on 4 hours notice at UFC 303, why he took the fight, what he wants next and more, then Payton Talbott jumps on to talk his lightning quick KO at the weekend, his path training exclusively as a mixed martial artist, some of the cool things the UFC platform has afforded him and more…
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581: UFC 303 Predictions with Tom Aspinall
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Michael Bisping talks with Tom Aspinall about his upcoming bout at UFC 304, how he's working to deal with the late start time to the event, why he won't accept anything other than an undisputed title shot after this fight, his prediction for the main event at UFC 303 and more, then Bisping and the boys talk all the rest of the fights at UFC 303, Se…
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580: Saudi Arabia Recap Ft. Mike Perry, Paul Felder, Daniel Rodriguez
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Michael Bisping and Paul Felder discuss all the action at UFC Saudi Arabia, Robert Whittaker's big knockout win, what's next for The Reaper, the BKFC fighter who tried to fight a referee, the MMA fighter who got shut down by his girlfriend when he proposed in the cage following a loss and more then Daniel Rodriguez joins the show to discuss his new…
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Bisping's trip to sunny Saudi Arabia, meeting Ikram Aliskerov for the first time, a full breakdown of all the major fights on the card, Mike Perry vs Jake Paul confirmed for July, Kelvin Gastelum coming into fight week so heavy his bout had to be moved to middleweight, Chael claiming and then retracting a s…
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Anthony stepping in on two weeks notice to fight Carlos Ulberg at UFC 303, Jiri and Alex agreeing to a short notice fight, Diego Lopes calling for a title fight with a big win over Brian Ortega, Tatsuro Taira picking up the biggest win of his career against Alex Perez, Jon Jones analyzing the film of the fi…
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Michael Bisping and Mike Harrington discuss UFC 303 getting a makeover with Alex Pereira stepping in to fight Jiri Prochazka in place of Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler, Anthony Lionheart Smith getting added to the fight card against Carlos Ulberg, a brand new incredible co-main event and more plus Khamzat is out of UFC Saudi Arabia and Robert …
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Michael Bisping and Mike Harrington discuss Tyson Fury getting the boot from a local pub, Jamahal Hill calling out fans to come spar him for a chance to win 20K, Arman Tsarukyan allegedly choking out a gator, more unease about UFC 303 thanks to Ariel, Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz getting into a massive brawl at their press conference, Jake Paul agr…
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575 - Who Can Defeat Islam? | UFC 302 Recap
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss all the fallout from UFC 302, what's next for Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier, the insane judging in the Costa vs Strickland fight, the guys weigh in on whether or not the Holland fight should of been stopped and more plus the UFC 303 press conference in Dublin getting canceled leading to speculation on …
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574: UFC 302 Predictions Ft. Eddie Hall, Bobby Green & Michael Venom Page
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Michael Bisping and Eddie Hall discuss Eddie's upcoming 2 on 1 MMA fight, his path to winning "Worlds Strongest Man" and his subsequent retirement, his thoughts on this weekends PPV and more then Bobby Green joins the show to talk about his win at UFC 300, fighting Paddy Pimblett at UFC 304, planning excursions around Manchester with Bisping and mo…
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Conor McGregor staying out until 2:30 AM 6 weeks out from his fight at UFC 303, Dustin Poirier considering retirement heading into this weekend, Ryan Garcia testing positive on his B sample from the Devin Haney fight, MVP getting booked to fight Ian Garry at international fight week and so much more! This E…
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Oleksander Usyk becoming the first unified heavyweight champion in 25 years, what's next for both men after their war, Leron Murphy cementing himself as a contender with a one sided beatdown of Edson Barboza and the rest of UFC Vegas 92, Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva set to box in Brazil, Ilia Topuria cla…
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Michael Bisping and Mike Harrington discuss the undisputed heavyweight boxing unification bout this weekend between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, Ian Garry calling for a fight with Michael Venom Page for International Fight Week, Mike Tyson and Jake Paul getting upstaged by a child at their press conference, Cory Sandhagen set to face Umar Nurmago…
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570: UFC St. Louis Was A Banger Ft. Chase Hooper
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith welcome on Chase Hooper to discuss his win at UFC St. Louis, his incredible life story leading to his UFC run, how he's faring at his new weight class and more plus all the other big fights over the weekend, Colby Covington calling out Charles Olivera, John Fury headbutting a member of Usyk's team, Khabib allegedly…
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569: UfC 301 Recap | Anthony Smith Responds To Pereira Callout!
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Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith discuss Anthony's big win at UFC 301 over Vitor Petrino, responding to getting called out for a submission challenge by Alex Pereira getting offered a super quick turn around fight and more plus a breakdown of Jose Aldo's triumphant return and the rest of the fights on the card, Conor calling out Ryan Garcia and Se…
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568: UFC 301 Preview And Prediction show
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Michael Bisping and Mike Harrington discuss Anthony Smith's big fight on Saturday at UFC 301 against Vitor Petrino and give analysis and picks for every fight on the main card, Mike Perry dominating in his BKFC main event over Thiago Alves before calling out Darren Till, Conor McGregor joining the company as a partial owner, Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson…
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567: My 10 Million Dollar Plan Ft. Arman Tsarukyan
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Michael Bisping talks with Arman Tsarukyan about his big win at UFC 300, the haters coming out of the woodwork to discredit him, his back and forth with Michael Chandler and why he's earned the right to talk some smack, a look ahead to how a fight with either Islam or Dustin would go and more plus UFC 304 is coming to Manchester, speculation around…
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ITFH LIVE at ChESS: Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, Tracy Gardner, Dami Daramola and Micha Barankin
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ITFH is LIVE again! Our host Matt Cooper chats with Sindia Rivera-Jiménez (University of Florida), Tracy Gardner (Colorado School of Mines), Dami Daramola (Ohio University) and Micha Barankin (Colorado School of Mines) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their wide-ranging discussion of this year's Summer School touches on the be…
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ITFH LIVE at ChE Summer School: Dan Anastasio, Dan Burkey and Sandy Petit
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ITFH goes LIVE as host Matt Cooper chats with Dan Anastasio (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Dan Burkey (University of Connecticut) and Sandy Petit (University of South Florida) in beautiful Golden, CO at the 2022 ChE Summer School. Their discussion of ChE Summer Schools of the past ends up going in many directions, including favorite worksho…
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Check out Trail of the Behemoth on Drivethru RPG! Seamus and I go deep behind the scenes and talk about the favorite parts of the adventures we made for the system and other cool aspects you can steal for your own games.
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ITFH 29: Courtney Pfluger Raps About Innovation
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Courtney Pfluger, Associate Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, is ITFH host Matt Cooper's guest in this entertaining episode of the show! They discuss Courtney's innovative research in inclusive teams, clean water, and renewable energy education in Brazil. Matt is delighted to learn of Courtney's unique favorite …
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Taryn Bayles, Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, joins podcast host Matt Cooper in the fume hood. In this episode Matt and Taryn theorize what makes our ChE education community so great, discuss Taryn's successes in student outreach and design projects, and Taryn shares incredible stories of her ballet …
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ITFH 27: Daniel Lepek Provides a Multi-Course Menu
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In this episode ITFH host Matt Cooper catches up with Daniel Lepek (Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Cooper Union) about his goals as current Chair of the AIChE Education Division, share pet peeves as ABET PEVs, and talk about what wine pairs best with fried bologna. We are also fortunate to hear Daniel - a trained classical pianist - play …
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ITFH 26: Matt Liberatore Reverse Engineers Engineering Education
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Double the Matt! Matt Liberatore, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo, joins ITFH host Matt Cooper for a wide-ranging conversation about Matt L's work on interactive textbooks and YouTube problems, his service as Chair of the AIChE Education division and... harp music!By In The (Fume) Hood
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ITFH 25: Sarah Wilson Prioritizes Student Mental Health
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This time Matt's ChE talk show guest is Sarah Wilson, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. They discuss Sarah's current NSF research project on the mental health of engineering students, her collaborative work in safety education, as well as her new course on bourbon production.…
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ITFH 24: Elif Miskioğlu Thinks Fast
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In this edition of ITFH our host Matt Cooper speaks with Elif Miskioğlu, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, about System 1 and System 2 thinking, Elif's experiences being named one of AIChE's 35 Under 35, and - if you can believe it - singing to puppies.By In The (Fume) Hood
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Trail of the Behemoth is an game about hunting giant monsters, a TTRPG you can bring to a boardgame night. I'm working on it with Seamus Allen, and we're going to talk about what we're doing and when it might be finished. I might even hand out some playtest files to listeners. If your interested, contact me on twitter @designerdanf.…
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ITFH 23: Milo Koretsky Explores Conceptual Knowledge
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This edition of ITFH features Matt Cooper's incredible conversation with Milo Koretsky (Tufts University) about conceptual teaching/learning and how the AIChE Concept Warehouse got started - Milo even gives Matt an on-air concept test! Milo also explains just how deep the rabbit hole of a phase diagram goes before he and Matt find out they've both …
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A listener sent me a question on how to deal with evil PCs, and how to deal with lawful-stupid paladins. I answer.
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How do you identify an inherently fun mechanic anyway? What's this 'Decision Engine' thing Dan loves so much and how do you make one yourself? Listen and find out.
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Want to run RPGs for new players? Want to get them hooked on this hobby we love? Here's how Dan does it.
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The second part of Dan and Reuben's live world building session. This time we're digging into Adventure Hooks and Sample Locations in the Necropolis.
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Dan and Reuben recorded a live session of their world building. They had fun recording it. Will you have fun listening to it? Let's find out.
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ITFH 22: Tony Butterfield Advocates Citizen Science
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Tony Butterfield, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah and Matt talk about enabling citizen science, social connections in capstone design and unit ops laboratories, storytelling in video games, and find out they both like Beck, Arcade Fire, and can recite lyrics from Radiohead's OK Computer album off the top of the…
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We didn't finish everything about this topic in one podcast? Huh, who would've thought? Game Designer Dan Felder breaks down how he starts working on a game and the common pitfalls new designers get stuck in when starting a project.
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I get a lot of requests to talk about designing and hacking TTRPG systems, so here we go! I make my own systems for nearly every campaign I run. It's a huge topic, so today we're going to lay the foundation.
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First example of the Content Forge, where we talk about a setting, system, or adventure we've found inspiring and pulled pieces from to use in our own games. Sometimes it'll be the royal we, but this time we're joined by Reuben Covington to talk about the whimsical and creepy Gardens of Ynn. Check out The Gardens of Ynn And the Gardens of Ynn Gener…
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ITFH 21: Margot Vigeant Has Food For Thought
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Margot Vigeant, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, joins Matt to talk about food science and her new article series on the topic in the journal Chemical Engineering Education, applications of entropy to whiskey, and what turns out to be their shared fondness for the band They Might Be Giants.…
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Designer Reuben Covington returns to chat about designing Boss Fights in TTRPGs. The two give some advice, and tell a LOT of stories about memorable boss battles they've made and played against. Feel free to steal them (like always).
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Dan and guest Reuben Covington break down how to design and run Dynamic Adventures, where the GM role is treated more like a player than a job. Link to the adventure notes: Cold-BloodedBy Dan Felder
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Prepare a full adventure setting, a full region of your world, with just a single page of notes. This format, the one-page setting, is what I use to prepare vast open worlds with diverse and interesting regions with just a little bit of work.
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A great sandbox campaign is incredibly fun to play in, and it’s a great introduction for new players. I often start new groups in sandboxes rather than carefully constructed narrative games. It’s a simple pitch: Here’s a fantastical wilderness filled with monsters, treasures, dungeons, and dragons. Want to go explore it? However, while sandboxes ca…
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I love making combat encounters. I have a lot of advice on how to make them, but there's one point that I come back to more than any other: Attack the players' STRENGTHS, not their weaknesses
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Random Encounters are a classic element of TTRPGs, but most aren't fun in practice. Often the table just turns up entries like "2d4 wolves" or "two gnomes are arguing about which way the nearest town is". Here's the secret: Random Encounters are Micro-Adventures.
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Season 2 kicks off with the first-ever ITFH interview! Matt talks with Professor Lucas Landherr (Northeastern University) about being CEE's comic mastermind, his recent AIChE process control conceptual testing presentation and '90s alternative music. Bonus dirt on the family lives of Carnot and Bernoulli too!…
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In the Season 1 finale, Matt and Jason answer questions from listeners and get into discussions about easter eggs in textbooks, policies grading exams, Rankine, Kelvin, Joule, pro wrestling, cooking, aspic (aka beef jelly), Jello molds, advice for faculty, and a nickname for ITFH listeners.By In The (Fume) Hood
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ITFH 18c: HW Problems Part 3 (The Dessert)
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In the final episode of a three part series, Matt and Jason further discuss HW problems and a whole lot more. Topics include: orange juice, infomercial science, TVs in hotel bathrooms, absorption-stripping, Whizzo(!), Deacon Process, chlor-alkali, dilution of emissions, losing weight by eating ice, fuel vs. food, and corn on the cob. We will wrap u…
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