RADIO JAMES GAMES

Indie Roleplaying Games Publishing House

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NEWS

APRIL 2026 - The Psychic Danger Society came out in 2025 and is nominated in a few categories for the brand-spanking-new Canada Roles Awards. I welcome participation in these new awards celebrating Canadian TTRPG publishers! And if you happen to vote for me, I wouldn't object...Follow the link, here.

MARCH 2026 - This month I released Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes. This game is about memory and music, community and sadness in a particular time when the best way to express your feelings was still to record a cassette tape. It's out at Itch.io now as a printable pdf, and will be coming from other places as the broadcast continues.

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Radio James' Games

The cover of the game Metal Position features robots fighting in the broadcast studio of Trout Radio House.

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Genetics of TTRPGs

Trying to Identify the Building Blocks of Genres for TTRPGs TTRPGs need genres. I want to do something about that, somehow. What I am not going to do is propose shiny new genre labels for TTRPGs and argue about their applicability. TTRPGs finding secure genre labels will need to involve waves and waves of agreement, and I’m not up to arguing, but I do think I have a good starting point. As a perhaps not wholly necessary preamble, see the earlier blog post dealing with why I

TTRPGs Need Genres

In Want of Proper Caterogies for Table-top Role-playing Games Walk around a bookstore and you’ll see novels separated into different genre categories like Romance, Science-Fiction, Mystery, and so on. TTRPGs are not categorised so conveniently, and I wish they were, for several reasons. Perhaps the biggest one is that I think it would help the buying process. Genre categories would give consumers a better idea of what they are buying. Distributors would more effectively be a

TTRPGs Eat Time for Breakfast

Rumination on Time Spend vs. Success in Indie TTRPGs I’ve written so many failed blogs over the last year, thousands of words that, like...

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The Gaming Horizon

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Radio James Games

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in West Mabou, and it meows in the Kootenays. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."

Established and operated by James Kerr, the eponymous Radio James Games is designed with the production of exceptional table-top role-playing games in mind. Radio James Games believes there is much left to discover in the medium.

Generative A.I. Policy: Just in case it's not gob-smackingly clear, Radio James Games is SUPER AGAINST the use of Generative AI (Gen AI/AI Art/AI Images/however you want to put it) at any level in the publishing funnel. I'll craft a spiffier statement for later, but for now this can sit as a statement of intent.

James Kerr

James Kerr is a publisher, broadcaster, Indie Groundbreaker nominated table-top RPG designer, and arcade champ from rural Ontario. In 1987 James Kerr placed a peanut butter sandwich in his parent's VCR and was transported to an otherworldly land. We'll skip over what happened there. Returning to this world, he developed Backgrounds in both radio broadcasting and print magazine publishing before plying his skills towards his otherworldly dreams, and making him that much more annoying with his indie weirdo games in this digital age. Radio James Games is his publishing house, where marvellous notions take on life.