Join Ang, along with Chris and Josh as they talk about Actual Play games as entertainment and what we should and should not take away from them to use in our own games. Ang has been on a Critical Role kick and wants to talk about it!

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Scritches: A Misdirected Mark Plays AP

Tales from Woodcreek

Quinn’s Quest and Play to Find Out

Join Ang, Chris, and JT as they discuss different methods to pulling a party of characters together at the start of a campaign. They talk about everything from strangers shoved together to deeply established connections. How are you going to get it started?

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Making Connections

Philadelphia Area Game Expo

Running GAGG

Buckeye Game Fest

Scritches

Twilight Sword

Tome of Intangible Treasures

Box of Intangible Treasures

JT Evans Books

Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about the types of characters they like to play, why they love those types, and why it’s also good to branch out and try other characters.

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Global Comix

Seth Skorkowsky – Closed vs. Open RP

Bastions & Guildhalls by Czepeku

Also, Visit your Friendly Local Gamestores!

Join Jared as he interviews Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, the folks behind the Tabletop Safety Toolkit, a resource providing gamers with access to a variety of safety tools. There’s a ton of options out there and their site provides options for every table.

TTRPG Safety Toolkit

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Legend in the Mist – 5e Crossover Tool – Son of Oak Game Studio | Free Products

Meat Circus Jam – itch.io

Castles in the Air – A Gilded Age TTRPG

Join Ang as she chats with guest Bridgett Jeffries about all things spooky and scary games. Need some insight into how to bring the best of horror to your table during this spooky season? Listen to Bridgett!

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Contact Bridgett at Chaosium

Symphony Entertainment

Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to combat analysis paralysis! What do you do when your players get stuck overthinking and overanalyzing things and start dragging the game down!

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Cyberpunk Legends Kickstarter

DM Andy’s Maps

Invincible RPG by Free League

Join Ang, Chris and JT as they chat about what to do when your players get fixated on trifling matters that you didn’t intend to matter in the game. Do you make it matter or do you redirect them, and how do you do either of them?!?

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The Streets of Avalon Playtest

Viper’s Bane

Talons and Tails

Reading D&D Aloud

Join Ang along with Josh and Jared as they talk about the pros and cons of playing virtually online versus playing in person face-to-face. Listen to them talk about what they love about both ways of playing!

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Coyote & Crow Digital Kickstarter

CzePeku

2 Minute Tabletop

Tom Cartos

Afternoon Maps

Josh and Chris take over the Gnomecast as Ang is on her Gnomecation. They talk JRPGs and the JRPG TTRPG Fabula Ultima. They played through a session 0 and four four hour sessions. Now they’re here to give you their thoughts and feelings on the game.

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Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they revisit a topic they discussed way back in episode 80: Niche Protection! When is it important to make sure that each PC has a specialty that is theirs alone? When can you ignore that worry? They discuss it all again!

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Ginny Di on Sympathetic Villains

JT Evans Novels

Streets of Jade