Game Mechanics - A Critical Tabletop Podcast · Logan Jenkins, Greg Leatherman

A Year of Mechanics - GM2 52

·59 min·5 clips
A Harvard sociologist discovered creativity and anxiety can't activate simultaneously—here's why tabletop RPGs are therapeutic.
Hosts Logan Jenkins and Greg Leatherman celebrate their podcast's one-year anniversary, announcing a Patreon launch to support the show. They discuss listener feedback, critique Magic: The Gathering's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, and explore how creativity alleviates anxiety, tying it to tabletop RPGs' mental health benefits.

As heard by us

A one-year milestone hang that uses turtles, horror, and shared history to show the hosts at their loosest.

Episode 52 finds Game Mechanics in familiar form: open, chatty, and willing to drift from the anniversary into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles canon and horror memories.

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A year of weekly tabletop chatter, with turtles, horror, and two hosts keeping the conversation moving.

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