Remastered 01/16/23 - I wasn't thrilled with the previous upload so cleaned up the audio and made the listening experience all the better... and tighter, shaving almost a minute-thirty. Enjoy this newly remastered version!

#OGL #OpenDnD

EFF article with a great rundown on the OGL announcement

Autarch's response to WOTC's announcement

Paizo's announcement of the ORC

DaveCon - I'm going! Let me know if you are thinking of attending!

Secrets of Blackmoor - documentary on the history of our hobby. Should I facilitate a livestream discussion on Odysee? Do let me know if you'd be interested.

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Aqualith Consortium, my chill discussion group for all things Aqualith on MeWe

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Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. 

Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You can support this podcast by returning value for value at Ko-fi.com/aqualith or through the various options provided at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated and allows me to continue producing valuable content.

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck

Designer, Consultant, Publisher 

Aqualith Media

Today's prompt for #RPGaDay2022 asks what your favorite place to play is. I briefly share this in today's episode.

Links called out:

Judd aka @PDFGamer

Aqualith Consortium, my chill discussion group for all things Aqualith on MeWe

Fountain, a modern podcast app. You can earn sats while you stream, plus send some of those you earn my way or other podcasters you follow.

Odysee 

Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. 

Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You can support this podcast by returning value for value at Ko-fi.com/aqualith or through the various options provided at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated and allows me to continue producing valuable content.

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck

Designer, Consultant, Publisher 

Aqualith Media

No, that's no runtime error. It's a shorter one for you today, one that I hope you are not... adverse to. It speaks on adversity in gaming, the business world, and social media presence. What are your thoughts on this topic? I'd love to hear them!

Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You support this podcast by returning value for value at ko-fi.com/aqualith or through the various options provided at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated and allows me to continue producing valuable content.

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck

Designer, Consultant, Publisher

Aqualith Media

Prep time prior to a tabletop RPG can be it's own art form. Some GM's skip prep all-together and just wing it. Others spend countless hours to ensure an incredible experience is had. But what if there's another way to approach your next pre-session?

Special shoutout: Radio Grognard, specifically episode 1285 "Tailor Your Prep".

Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You can always return value for value at ko-fi.com/aqualith or through other options found at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated!

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

Unexpected hiatuses happen. Still no podfading though. I suspect I am back on track for now. I discuss the exact reason why I'm still not quite Podcasting 2.0 compliant.

Other services mentioned and worthy of shoutout:

Castopod - Special props to Yassine!
Podcast Index
New Podcast Apps

Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You can always return value for value at ko-fi.com/aqualith or through other options found at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated!

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

The podcast finally makes a comeback. The plan is for good. Details on all that therein. Thanks for listening!

Aqualith AM is a podcast of lo-fi, speculative theorycrafting on play, design, and business of the emerging, yet still peculiar hobby of tabletop roleplaying. Hosted by Ryan Heck of Aqualith Media. Plunge further in at aqualith.media. Aqualith AM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You can always return value for value at ko-fi.com/aqualith or through other options found at aqualith.media. It's not required, but always appreciated!

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

Hi! Still here. Listen herein for a very quick update on the whereabouts of this here podcast. The TL;DR? Launching in the new year. Stay tuned and....

Steady tides be with you!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

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And we come to the close of #RPGaDay2020 with today's prompt, Experience.

#RPGaDay2020, which is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik's blog.

This concludes the preview test drive episodes of Aqualith AM, the audio arm of Aqualith Media. 

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Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

This one may seem quite maddening, but I thought what if I just decided to catch up with all the prompts I didn't get to cover and do lightning rounds with each? As I did my notes for quite a few of these, they sparked ideas for future episode topics I want to elaborate on, so quantity over quality has won the day... or at least this special.

This episode covers the following word prompts, not necessarily in this exact order:
7 Couple
8 Shade
9 Light
10 Want
11 Stack
12 Message
13 Rest
15 Frame
16 Dramatic
17 Comfort
18 Meet
19 Tower
20 Investigate
21 Push
22 Rare
23 Edge
24 Humour
25 Lever
26 Strange
27 Flavour
28 Close
29 Ride
30 Portal

Those not showing were done either in previous episodes of Aqualith AM or can be found linked on Twitter.com/aqualithmedia under #RPGaDay2020, which is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik's blog.

Like what I'm doing? Considering returning value for value to me on Ko-fi. I highly appreciate it and it!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

You may of heard the term 'banner year' floated around in some circles, but today I'm banking off Day 14 of #RPGaDay2020's word prompt, "Banner" with banner session. I forgot to ask at the end of the recording but, what's your banner session?

#RPGaDay2020 is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik's blog.

Like what I'm doing? Considering returning value for value to me on Ko-fi. I highly appreciate it and it!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

This bonus episode of Aqualith AM is covering the fourth day's prompt, "Vision". This one goes longer than previous, and I took a more crunchy approach by reading through the rulings on vision in various darkened areas. Less commentary from me, but I hope that in listening, you might pick up on the differences and use of voice for each. I would love to extrapolate on these concepts further in the future. RPG-a-Day has enabled me to do some experimentation and see what works, while also stretching my ability to solo-podcast, which I have not done for a good fifteen years. I welcome feedback on this style of presentation as well as on the subject and rules when it comes to vision in the comments.

Games featured in this episode

Cypher System
Labyrinth Lord
The Hero's Journey: Second Edition
Pathfinder 1e
Pathfinder 2e

#RPGaDay2020 is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik's blog.

 Wednesday, August 5th's prompt is "Tribute".

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

#RPGaDay2020 is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik's blog.

This bonus episode of Aqualith AM is covering the third day's prompt, "Thread". Tuesday, August 4th's prompt is "Vision". 

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media

#RPGaDay2020 is this year's tag shared across all social media for anyone to participate in a unique and fun exercise sparked by a list of keywords every participant elaborates on through tweeting, blogging, recording audio/video… painting even. There's literally no wrong way to express the daily concept, provided it's tagged appropriately so everyone can find it. The what and why can be found at Autocratik.

This inaugural, test/bonus episode of Aqualith AM is covering the first two days' prompts of Beginning and Change.

Monday, August 3rd's prompt is Thread. See you then!

Ryan Heck
Designer, Consultant, Publisher
Aqualith Media