Panda's Talking Games

Show us how you handle kids at your table in one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda use their first hand child rearing experience to talk about the challenges and bonuses of having kids at MORE

Show us how you handle set piece encounters in one shots and campaigns! One Shot Network’s James D’Amato joins us to talk about set piece encounters in light of his current kickstarter, the Dungeon Dome, MORE

Show us how you use props in one shots and campaigns! Senda and Phil talk through some of their favorite instances of props and simple costume pieces in their gaming past, as well as some tips for using them effectively in your game and what to avoid. There is also ketchup, Parry Gripp, Sith pandas, Lisa Frank, and the EMPEROR. That’s right. The EMPEROR.

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Show us how you…drop after a con?

Phil and Senda talk Origins, what they liked and some of what they did, and then settle in to a discussion of the play testing process as Senda experiences it for the first time. Also: allergies to Nutella as karmic justice, Cholaca, transformations and tiaras.

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Extra sounds today come from Sirkoto51 and fins on freesound.org and are used under the Creative Commons Attributions License.

Show us how you make Powered by the Apocalypse games shine as one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk running PbtA and what parts make it very suitable for both long and short play. Shockingly, this episode came in pretty short — probably because we recorded very late at night! Milky juice part 2, silly childhood songs, and attack of the Definition Panda with Urban Dictionary…it’s the B show.

Patrons, we have one short clips for you this week: Senda accidentally reads the Urban dictionary definition of covfefe.

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Show us how you handle a mistake in your game! Senda and Phil talk mistake magnitude, how fast you catch it, retconning, and just moving on. There’s also milky juice, Phil does not have the clap, milky milk and the funky bunch, this is an A show, and Senda squealed on mics because YOU GUYS LEFT REVIEWS!

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Show us what your favorite types of fun are! Phil and Senda talk through their top four types of fun from the eight kinds of specified and defined fun (Phil defined terms that had been defined — can anyone say Philception?). Smash Man and Skill Monkey buck the ratings to return to their less than adventurous adventures by popular demand. We also invented a new game: MAGICAL POPSPLAIN POWER — MAKE UP!

The original article on the 8 Types of Fun:

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf

 

Sniezak’s Gnome Stew Take on defining the 8 types:

http://www.gnomestew.com/general/the-eight-types-of-fun/

 

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Show us how you like to use maps in your one shots vs. campaigns! Eli Kurtz (mythicgazatteer.com) joins Senda and Phil to talk maps, coastlines, details, and more! Also, he can SING! Interrupts interrupted by interrupting counter spells.

CORRECTION: Senda referred to a game during this episode as The Last Safe House — the actual title of the game is Bated Breath, by Jacqueline Beckwith. 

Our sponsor this week is Bagthulhu! You have 24 hours left to back these awesome dice bags: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1001433474/bagthulhu-the-diabolically-adorable-cthulhu-diceba?ref=nav_search

Find the last 24 hours on the Blackwood setting for Savage Worlds on kickstarter! If you missed it NOW IS THE TIME! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/53075258/the-blackwood-for-the-savage-worlds-rpg-system

You can also find Eli all over the place: Homepage / DriveThruRPG / Facebook / Twitter /  Google+

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Show us how you use henchmen in one shots and campaigns! We talk allies, animal companions, and henchmen, why you might think of using them, and how you may use them differently in one shots vs. campaigns. Also, Phil looses a piece of his child hood innocence when it comes to peanut butter cups, the temperature changed in the show, we’ve moved on to only Moana parodies, and our percentage for finishing the show continues to be terrible.

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Show us how you hack systems vs. create new systems to support genre! PK Sullivan, with many design credits to his name, joins us to talk about magical girls and Manowar, hacking systems for genre, and designing from scratch for genre. Also, sometimes Phil is not prepared, PK sings, Chicago mix, and they made me edit this monstrosity.

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