7th Level Bardcast

Jaryd with Mikel discuss the alterations that can take place at the table. A GM can use these tools to help create a personalized shared narrative.

Three host attempt to understand the ideas behind RPG combat systems through the lens of the Shared Narrative. Conflicts will happen in the game and a resolution system needs to be understood to have fun.

In this Free Play, Mike talks with Kit about published and self-written adventures. They discuss the pros and cons of running these kinds of adventures.

Jaryd picks the brains of Jason and Mikel on the topic of game design.

Jason, Elizabeth, and Beckie take a look at Tales from the Loop after playing the game for a few months. Jason offers his thoughts on running the game and Beckie gives her thoughts on playing.

Shared Narrative is the theme of our podcast and something we discussed quite a bit in season one. It can even be found in our tagline. Shared narrative this season will be discussed in 2 topics. Building a better relationship between players and GM. Bonding the story to the narrative.

In this, our final episode of the season, we explore some positive aspects of gaming in quarantine and how you can use those aspects once we one day get back to the table. We also take some time to look at our hopes for season 2, starting next year.

Jaryd runs down his thoughts on scenes for a table-top RPG.

The crew defines the structure of a campaign from the largest to the smallest segments. With this structure, a GM can start to make better use of writing the campaign.

After the main show covered one shots, Mikel dug into the pointers for a convention one shot game. He covers pre gens, game structure, and game take-aways for Players and GMs.