RPG Psych
A podcast exploring the intersection of metacognition and tabletop gaming. Join educator Lucas Hutson and clinical therapist Josh Pate-Terry as they discuss tabletop role-playing games and bring some of their professional experience to help make our games better. Let's think about how we think at our game table.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
RPG Psych
Latest Episodes
A5 Time Management and Taking Breaks
Josh and Lucas talking about why it's so important for you to give your creative mind a break, even when you'd love to be gaming. Not only that they discuss the dreaded time management and how to find the sweet spot for you and your games.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:33
A4 Verisimilitude
Josh and Lucas tackle Verisimilitude. Should our games just be abstractions? How much truth is too much truth in the fantastic? Isn't that what mechanics are for? Josh and Lucas talk about the difference between feeling real and being realistic...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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47:11
A3 Radical Acceptance
Josh and Lucas dive into accepting the world as it is and not how we wish it to be, even if it is a fantasy world. How do we equip ourselves as players and GMs to "roll" with it when things don't go our way?
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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43:36
