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August 22, 2019 Episode 18 – 7th Sea Campaign Retrospective with Matt Wilson
Matt, one of our first guest GMs, recently wrapped up a two-year campaign of 7th Sea, so we invited him back to reflect on what he’s learned. Also, we touch on the topic of using history to inform gaming. Episode 18 appendix: 7th Sea, second edition. 7th Sea, first edition. Eternal Lies.
43 min
August 22, 2019 Episode 18 – 7th Sea Campaign Retrospective with Matt Wilson
Matt, one of our first guest GMs, recently wrapped up a two-year campaign of 7th Sea, so we invited him back to reflect on what he’s learned. Also, we touch on the topic of using history to inform gaming.
Episode 18 appendix:
7th Sea, second edition.7th Sea, first edition.Eternal Lies.
43 min
August 08, 2019 Episode 17 – Reflections on Gencon 2019
As a change of pace from our usual format, we’re talking about Gencon 2019, from which Andy just returned! Chris and Andy discuss some GMing takeaways from the con. Episode 17 appendix (mostly games that Andy played at Gencon): Gencon, of course. The Mothership RPG. Band of Blades. Eclipse Phase. Cthulhutech. Delta Green. @geekteachin, who …
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25 min
August 08, 2019 Episode 17 – Reflections on Gencon 2019
As a change of pace from our usual format, we’re talking about Gencon 2019, from which Andy just returned! Chris and Andy discuss some GMing takeaways from the con.
Episode 17 appendix (mostly games that Andy played at Gencon):
Gencon, of course.The Mothership RPG.Band of Blades.Eclipse Phase.Cthulhutech.Delta Green.@geekteachin, who led a great Gencon seminar on running RPGs with middle-schoolers.Greg Stolze, author of many fine games (and a killer con GM).And lastly, a correction: in this episode, Andy refers to Greg Stolze as the author of Delta Green. Actually, Stolze has written material for Delta Green but is not the sole author of the gameline. Andy deeply regrets the error!
25 min
July 25, 2019 Episode 16 – How to Send Off a Player Who’s Leaving Your Game
What do you do when one of your players has to leave the game for good? Hopefully, you give them a fun in-game send-off. Chris and Andy discuss what makes for a good farewell salute to departing players. Also: we want to hear your suggestions for topics to cover! Drop us a line if you’ve …
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39 min
July 25, 2019 Episode 16 – How to Send Off a Player Who’s Leaving Your Game
What do you do when one of your players has to leave the game for good? Hopefully, you give them a fun in-game send-off. Chris and Andy discuss what makes for a good farewell salute to departing players.
Also: we want to hear your suggestions for topics to cover! Drop us a line if you’ve got a great topic you want to hear us discuss!
Episode 16 appendix:
Red Dead Redemption 2, a cowboy video game Andy has been playing.If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, a challenging book that Chris recently read.The 13th Age RPG.Call of Cthulhu and Blades in the Dark, the games Andy and Chris (respectively) can’t stop mentioning.Fourth and 5th edition D&D, and the 4th edition iteration of the Dark Sun campaign setting.
39 min
July 11, 2019 Episode 15 – Theater-of-the-mind vs. Maps, Minis, and Other Visual Representations (with Murph)
We’re joined by Murph to talk about how to bring the action at the table alive. Do you paint word pictures, or slap down some gorgeously painted miniatures? If you have any feedback, praise, or criticism, we want to hear about it! Visit our contact page for how to get your message directly to us. …
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42 min
July 11, 2019 Episode 15 – Theater-of-the-mind vs. Maps, Minis, and Other Visual Representations (with Murph)
We’re joined by Murph to talk about how to bring the action at the table alive. Do you paint word pictures, or slap down some gorgeously painted miniatures?
If you have any feedback, praise, or criticism, we want to hear about it! Visit our contact page for how to get your message directly to us.
Episode 15 Appendix:
GURPSTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other StrangenessPathfinderDungeon Crawl Classics
42 min
June 27, 2019 Episode 14 – How to Create and Use Monsters in a Game (with Kyle Latino)
This episode we’re joined by Kyle Latino, our first returning guest (!), to discuss monsters. Listen as we all admit to just re-skinning existing monsters from the Monster Manual as needed. Episode 14 appendix: Fantasy Fun Council on itch.io – Kyle’s tables and supplements. Powered by the Apocalypse – the system all D&D DM’s secretly …
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50 min
June 27, 2019 Episode 14 – How to Create and Use Monsters in a Game (with Kyle Latino)
This episode we’re joined by Kyle Latino, our first returning guest (!), to discuss monsters. Listen as we all admit to just re-skinning existing monsters from the Monster Manual as needed.
Episode 14 appendix:
Fantasy Fun Council on itch.io – Kyle’s tables and supplements.Powered by the Apocalypse – the system all D&D DM’s secretly wishes they were runningPrismastic Corpse jam – a game jam where you rewrite D&D from memory.D&D 5e Monster ManualFollow Kyle on TwitterRead Shedwarf, Kyle’s Webcomic
50 min

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GM/DM discussions on topics related to running tabletop games. Each episode is a 30-45 minute conversation about one specific topic chosen by rolling 1d10 on a table of topics.