Table Talk - A D&D Podcast

Now that you’ve presumably listened to our episodes on how to build a character, join us as we take it a step further with multiclassing! We discuss the pros and cons of taking levels in different classes at the same time, several different insane combinations, and what tends to work the best and what works the worst. This especially includes Robert’s personal beef with Sorcerer/Warlock multi-classing, broken in many ways. In response of course, Maddi builds her PC Sparrow into that very multi-class, as Robert builds Ybba into a fighter/barbarian for maximum hits.

In honor of a belated love day, Robert and Maddi tackle two things: an incredible and in depth D&D feedback quiz by Justice Ramin Arman linked here, and in depth and intimate looks at character relationships. How do you flirt at the table and not make it weird? How do the villains you make reflect the party they're fighting with? What NPC’s do your player’s connect to and why? Or maybe you just want to listen to Maddi go into excruciating detail about character foils and over analyze every action other PC’s and NPC’s make.

Join us at the table as we take you through Capes and Crooks, a 5e Superhero RPG by Crit Academy that we recently started using at our own table in our current campaign, The Sapphire Prodigies! We unpack the inspiration behind our campaign, our experiences with comic books, a quick look at an amazing sourcebook, and give you a run down of the characters at our table.

The Sapphire Prodigies, written and DM'd by our very own Robert Lopez, follows a mixed bag of heroes, old and new, human and not so human, who all "coincidently" meet on a high stakes mission gone wrong. Each hero has their own unique power set from Light to Shadow, Lighting to Wind, and of course the obligatory robot, and each is striving to become Sapphire City's top hero in 2099, the new golden age of technology and super-powered beings.

Welcome back to season two of Table Talk! Join for another session 0, a laid back episode where Robert and Maddi catch you up on what they’ve been up to since the last time you’ve heard from them. Listen to Maddi and Robert review her first time in GM seat, a la Kids on Bikes, Percy Jackson style. Then get ready for some tonal whiplash as they tackle the latest in their Super Hero campaign where everyone cried by the end of the last session, even Robert. Finally, stick around for a new segment where the two answer viewer submitted questions!

The season finale of Table Talk! In celebration of almost 24 hours of content, join Maddi and Robert as they play through Table Talk’s first official actual play- The Spire and the Scab by Jasmine Bhullar. Robert DM’s the tale and the DMPC Ybba, the goliath fighter as Maddi plays the puzzle solving Sparrow, a tiefling sorcerer. Full of chaos, four nat ones in a row, cheese, and some interesting attempts at accents, this season finale has everything you could wish for and more.

The season finale of Table Talk! In celebration of almost 24 hours of content, join Maddi and Robert as they play through Table Talk’s first official actual play- The Spire and the Scab by Jasmine Bhullar. Robert DM’s the tale and the DMPC Ybba, the goliath fighter as Maddi plays the puzzle solving Sparrow, a tiefling sorcerer. Full of chaos, four nat ones in a row, cheese, and some interesting attempts at accents, this season finale has everything you could wish for and more.

Does your DM take a sick and twisted pleasure in killing characters? Maddi’s does! (A little, at least). How do you deal with character death, from both the DM’s and player’s perspective? What do you even define as death in D&D? A fun little episode for heavy topics, including unsatisfying character deaths, sunsetting characters and the concept of schrodinger's encounters.

What makes the big difference between your campaigns and Critical Role? Production value? Years of experience? Talent? None of the above. It’s the power of friendship! No seriously, join us for a conversation all about approaching one of the most terrifying parts of role play: kissing the other players. Pull a seat up to the table as we go in depth about the lack of relationships at our own tables and ways to get your fellow nerds involved with one another beyond the pizza order.

AI. Thoughts? We have plenty. Maddi and Robert have a conversation from two different ends of the spectrum: welcoming our AI overlords in with welcome arms and waiting for AI with a sniper rifle trained on it. From where AI fits in at the table to the recent strikes from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, we dissect and debate Artificial Intelligence and it’s future in our world.

Do you ever rank moments you’ve had at the table in your head? Are there moments that keep you up at night in real life? Join us as we share ours and draft our best and worst moments from each of the campaigns we’ve played together.