The RPG Academy - ARCHIVES

What’s up guys, in this weeks Dungeon Talk Michael, Niko, and myself sat down with character sheets from DnD Next, 13th Age, and FATE.  We created characters in each one just to see the differences and then played around with them in a few combats.  It was very interesting and we discuss the differences between them.  In part two we cover a mailbag question about collaboration between the DM and the players when creating the world of a game.

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Here is Episode 21 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.  This is a very special episode (no, not like an ABC after school Special episode) in that we have the entire group and we do a Post Mortem on The Campaigns: Made Men. We discuss the Campaign as a whole and the last session/episodes specifically.

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In part 3 we start with what our next game is going to be.  Michael put a pole on the website and 13th age was the clear winner in votes for what we should play next.

We finish with a discussion about an idea Michael has for our current game involving a prestige or influence score.  We are in a new environment where our relationship with the larger group is going to have an effect on the direction we go.  Michael has an idea for sort of an in game meter to keep track of what npc’s think of our characters.

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Ok, so part two begins with a mail bag question about how to get a player more involved with the game when he’s sitting back and only gets excited to participate during combat.  We’ve discussed things close to this before but this question comes to us from a listener who sounds like he’s really interested in getting the most out of his players experience.

At 30:30 Niko brings up DM criticism and we discuss how the three of us share critiques with each other when we think the game isn’t going well.

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Hello all, so last week we did not have a game do to scheduling conflicts so myself, Michael, and Niko sat down to record, and boy did we ever.  We got pretty long winded and ended up with a 2 1/2 hr Dungeon Talk.  I’ll put in time stamps so you can go straight to something if you want to hear it.  In part 1 we cover,

Table Topic-  Character decision vs role playing.  Even though I was taking part in this discussion it was a little confusing for me.  The topic stems from an incident at Gen Con when Michael and Jared were playing in the same game.  It sort of relates to how someone builds a character concept and then applies it to the game.

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Table Topic 2- Gen Con.  We give Michael the mic for a while and he recaps some of his best and worst moments from Gen Con.

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Well, this is it.  The end of our first Actual Play Podcast Campaign.  Can’t say that it’s the ending I expected, but all in all I think it’s a good one.

Anyway,

I really appreciate all of you who’ve made it to the End with us. I hope you’ll stick around for A New World which we’ll start posting soon.  As always, thanks for listening and comments and feedback are welcome.

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Hey guys, Dungeon Talk 22 is here!  Did  you think we were done?

Well it’s been a while since we recorded a dungeon talk.  Our schedules have been pretty full but here we are and hopefully we can get back to a regular posting of dungeon talks.  Michael is headed out to Gen Con this week so we won’t be playing, but I’m sure he’ll be having the time of his life without us.

So to knock the rust off this week we talked about Michael’s new campaign that he is running for us.  I think we’ve played three sessions so far and I’m loving it.   We’ll get into that a little bit and then we’ll go into our second table topic/ mailbag question which is about handling players searching a room where an item may be hidden.

To finish up we discuss something that a DM from a podcast Michael listens to uses to speed up his games when the players are taking to long.  He puts an egg timer on the table and sets it for a time limit! Can you believe that?  Anyways, I hope you enjoy this weeks podcast and have fun!

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Here is Episode 26 of our DnDNext Actual Play podcast.  Yet again, I have to say we lost a session. I apparently did a save as wrong and lost it. The good news is that I have since bought an external HD and will be saving original recordings to it. We also just recently lost a session of our new game A New World because the computer upstairs stopped recording and we didn’t know it. For that reason we’re going to start a redundant recording with my laptop and the old Blue Yeti so we SHOULD not have any further issues.

On a quick side note, Evan ended up finding the previous game session we thought we lost. So i’m going to edit those down and hope to post them as ‘lost episodes’ in the near future so anyone who’s behind might be able to hear them in order.

As for this episode, I start out this session with a recap of the game that we lost so there isn’t a whole lot more to catch up with. I do about a 5 min intro where I discuss the main points of the missed game.

Grexil is in the pits, fighting gladiatorial style against monsters.

We introduced a new player/character (Nick / Ralph aka Rasputin) who is a member of the resistance group Jalzira

Jalzira is named after their founder an ancient Tiefling who knows what Evan’s brother/Ser Accues/The King is up too and wants to stop him.

What he’s up to is trying to raise a demon army and then go back in time to fight the Ghisstarians.

Jalzira knows this is crazy and wont work.

The PC’s decide to Kill the King (to keep him from opening the portal) and then go back in time (cue Huey Lewis and the News) and stop the King from enacting his plan and setting the time line straight.

We pick up the actual game (in case you want to skip my intro now) with the Pc’s about to attack the King as he’s standing by the pit watching Grexil fight down below.

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Hello all,

Here is Episode 25 of our DnDNext Actual Play podcast.  There was an issue with a recording and we lost a session (boo!!) the good news is that not much happened in it (yay?) in terms of moving the story forward and even better I did a recap at the beginning of the next game (this episode) that pretty well covers everything in the missing session so I’m confident you guys will be right on track.

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Here is Episode 24 of our DnDNext Actual Play podcast.  In this Episode the PC’s continue to discuss theories as to what has happened to them or the city while they were in the Wastelands.  They eventually make their way back to Yomi’s place to see if has changed the same way Grexil’s did.  They then decide to meet with Alicia again.

In terms of story, not a lot happens this Episode to move things forward, but I thought it was a lot of fun and there are some good character moments.

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