In this week's episode, Jeremy talks about embracing low-prep or even no-prep game mastering.  He uses offline and online generators to generate a brief sci-fi one-shot idea.  

Books:

Book of Random Tables

Book of Random Tables 2

Book of Random Tables 3

Book of Random Tables 4

Dungeons for the Master

The No-Prep Gamemaster

The Lazy Dungeon Master

The Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

Table Fables

Table Fables II

Websites:

donjon.bin.sh

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php

chaoticshiny.com

This episode starts a series for GMs about Homebrewing adventures.  We cover borrowing plots from mythology, music, movies, and other media.  He talks about adding organizations with earth analogies.  Finally, he demonstrates the techniques by making an adventure based on The DaVinci Code and the movie Megamind.

We all play RPGs in different ways and for different reasons.  How can you, kind GM, juggle these different personality types and goals into a cohesive gaming group?  Are there personality types that aren't conducive to good gaming?  Can Jeremy write one of these not in the 3rd person that doesn't ask questions?

Scared of the Number 13?  Don't be.  On this episode, Jeremy talks about the critical relationship between a GM and players and how communication is key.  He also talks about some techniques GM can employ to make the players and their characters feel important and part of the greater game world.

Ah, the murder hobo.  Bane of GM existence, right?  Not necessarily.  Jeremy talks about what needs to be done (if anything) about murder hobos in your campaigns.  He also goes over some basic carrots you can dangle in front of players to encourage role playing.

Advantages and disadvantages of prebuilt adventures vs designing your own homebrew adventure.  

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DOUBLE DIGITS and I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!

Jeremy this time talks about building characters around tropes, concepts, pictures, party roles, and statistics.  Finally, Jeremy discusses the things your character simply must be, regardless of the personality he/she has.

Jeremy ventures into NPC territory now, discussing how to make your NPCs multidimensional and realistic.  We talk about how to make NPCs memorable and how to give them primitive character arcs.

EPISODE RESOURCE:  https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDBehindTheScreen/comments/81le54/a_suggestion_on_adding_depth_to_npcs/

In the last of week 2's episodes, Jeremy talks about min-maxing and how it's not necessarily a bad thing.

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Jeremy finally learns how to cover a topic in a single episode.  Railroads and Sandboxes are defined, compared, with benefits and drawbacks for each.  Jeremy also discusses the concept of the linear storyline and chain of sandboxes.