Welcome to our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and years of experience to improve your play sessions and GM styles. Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games. Whether you're a fan of D&D, Pathfinder, or any number of less familiar (but still amazing) systems out there, we hope to be a helpful resource to you in your gaming.

In episode 8, we apply some of the tips from episode 6 in another workshop. This time, the challenge is to create two factions that a character is or has been associated with. The workshop walks through ideas for fleshing out organizations in your tabletop games in a similar manner to how you would do it for your own characters or NPCs in your world. In a good world, the factions themselves should be emblematic of important and influential characters. We often don't give them the weight or focus they deserve.

And then we tackle two non-player characters related to those factions but look at them through the lens of the faction itself. How do they differ? How are they similar? Where might our PC connect or disconnect from those individuals? All this and more!

Welcome to our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and years of experience to improve your play sessions and GM styles. Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games.  

In episode 7, we put those goals and ideals for the perfect NPC to the test and turn one of the Monster Manual's most gooey creatures into... a nemesis? A swarm? And... a deity? What were we thinking? Tune in and find out! Please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop-related.

You can find the statblock for this creature here. Now you, too, can go forth and ruin your characters' armor and lives!

Welcome to our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and  years of experience on how to improve your play sessions and GM styles.  Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games.

Please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop related.

Thanks for tuning into our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and years of experience on how to improve your play sessions and GM styles. Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games.

Please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop related.

Welcome to Dueling GMs! Every week, we're offering insight into how to improve your tabletop play sessions and GM styles.  Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your roleplaying games. All of it with the hope that every player and Game Master at every table has more fun!

Music and sound from today's episode is thanks to tabletopaudio.com and Monument Studios. If you like what we've been able to give you so far and are finding it helpful for you to bring to your table, leave us a like, review, and rating on your favorite podcasting platform. It helps others find us too! And if you're listening on the Spotify app, be sure to check out our polls and questions built right into the app interface. It's a pretty nifty new feature.

Welcome back to our new show, Dueling GMs! Every week, we're offering insight into how to improve your play sessions and GM styles.  Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games. All of it with the hope that every player and Game Master at every table has more fun!

And if you're at all able, please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop related.

Welcome to our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and years of experience on how to improve your play sessions and GM styles.  Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games.

Please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting  platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop related.

Welcome to the first episode of our new show, Dueling GMs! We're offering tips, tricks, and years of experience on how to improve your play sessions and GM styles.  Some episodes will focus on the structure in which you play. Others may provide insight into the mechanics of your games.

Please like us and leave a review on any of your favorite podcasting platforms. And let us know what you want to hear about! We'll tackle nearly any subject you can think of that's tabletop related.

Starting a new tabletop roleplaying campaign is really hard sometimes. And that's not just for DnD. New setting ideas, story hooks, building  characters that are naturally cohesive- it can seem daunting. Not to mention the amount of time and energy it seems to require on the part of both the DMs and players.  

Well, allow us to blow some of those myths out of the water. Maybe you struggle with getting your PCs integrated in those first few sessions.  Maybe character creation takes forever. Maybe as a DM, you feel like if you don't have months of prep work done or entire adventure modules  ready, you're not able to start. Watch and listen as we start a new low-level adventure with virtually no prep- including by the DM. I let the players help build out the world and introduce vital NPC connections and names. Their backstories and connections provide more than enough plot hooks for months to come. All it takes is a few starting parameters...  

Join us most weeks as we continue our main campaign, Wildemount: Lost Requiem! Watch the video with maps and character sheets here.

Actual play D&D 5e homebrew campaign in the Critical Role world of Wildemount. Utilizing DnDBeyond's Avrae bot for Discord and TaleSpire 3d digital mapping.

Feeling pulled in so many directions with hints of dire consequences at every turn, Nona, Awna, Whisky, Link, Ryohn, Picks, Willam, and Grolyd  struggle with the question of how to prioritize and desperately want to be in two places at once.

Leave a comment and tell us what you think about the campaign so far!

Missed the stream? Watch the VoD! It really has the best combination of edited audio and original video of what the players see.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAiAYcuLV_JmSLKEO2M4bQ

If you like us, don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and tell  your friends! It really does help. Special thanks to Monument Studio,  Dark Fantasy Studio, krackatoa, Andrew Sitkov, Miguel Johnson, and  Tabletop Audio for the additional backing music this week. Our theme  song is "Noahs Stark" from krackatoa.