Michael Dismuke and writer Josh Allen open the writers' room to explore how to design dramatic stories for RPGs. In Part 1, they cover defining your story’s end goal, structuring a three-act arc, crafting inciting incidents, and building meaningful conflicts that keep players engaged.

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Jim and Michael welcome back Al Spader to show you how to build character arcs into your episodic Star Trek Adventure games. Drive drama. Encourage character growth. Create stories that you and your crew will remember forever. WARNING: We make it look easy.

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Jim and Michael invite Al Spader to talk about integrating the new Technical Guide into your Star Trek Adventures and Captain's Log RPG games. Time to riff! https://linktr.ee/studiotembo

Massive Star Trek and media tie-in writer Keith R.A. DeCandido graces us with his presence this week. From how he got started in his amazing career to his methodology for writing, we cover it all plus some!

Keith R.A. DeCandido has been writing about popular culture for this site since 2011, primarily but not exclusively writing about Star Trek and screen adaptations of superhero comics. He is also the author of more than 60 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 70 comic books, both in a variety of licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, as well as in worlds of his own creation, most notably the new Supernatural Crimes Unit series debuting in the fall of 2025. Read his blog, or follow him all over the Internet: Facebook, The Site Formerly Known As Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, YouTube, Patreon, and TikTok.

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To preorder Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD Book 1: The Thin Blue Ley-Line, this blog post has all the links:

https://decandido.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/cover-reveal-and-preorder-link-for-supernatural-crimes-unit-nypd-book-1-the-thin-blue-ley-line/

Other links:

Website: http://decandido.net/

Blog: http://decandido.wordpress.com/

Facebook: http://facebook.com/kradec and http://facebook.com/KeithRADeCandido

Twitter: http://x.com/kradec

Instagram: http://instagram.com/krad418

Threads: http://threads.net/@krad418

Patreon: http://patreon.com/krad

YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/KRADCOVIDreadings

Blue Sky: http://bsky.app/profile/kradec.bsky.social

My writing for Reactor Magazine: https://reactormag.com/author/keith-decandido/

We have a very special announcement about the future of Continuing Conversations.

Lou Anders is the author of the novel Once Upon a Unicorn, as well as the Thrones & Bones trilogy of fantasy adventure novels (Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn), and the novel Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. Listen in as Lou talks about his years of experience as a sci-fi reporter pumping out hundreds of articles about Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9, Voyager and more!!!

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Lou Anders is the author of the novel Once Upon a Unicorn, as well as the Thrones & Bones trilogy of fantasy adventure novels (Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn), and the novel Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. Listen in as Lou talks about his years of experience as a sci-fi reporter pumping out hundreds of articles about Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9, Voyager and more!!!

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Romulans!!!!! Join Troy Mepyans and Alex Boer as we discuss those green-bloodied secret-keepers that some people love to hate and others love to love. How can you get the most out of your Romulan characters if you choose to play them in Star Trek Adventures RPG? Check this out!

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