Sometimes you try your best, and you don't succeed. It's okay though, the DM knows how to handle it.

In this episode, we discuss the idea of Failing Forward, which allows the story to continue even if the party rolls only nat 1's. It's not giving the party free successes, but rather making their failures cost something while not stalling out the game.

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The gods have died, and the world is fading. It's up to the adventurers to... barely make ends meet.

In this episode, we brainstorm a campaign from a few themes. This was an exercise in improvisation and campaign-building, and a slight break from our usual format, but we had a lot of fun, and we hope you did to!

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It's dangerous to go alone, take these!

In this episode, we discuss safety tools. These are useful barriers for discomfort, and can actually elevate the experience for everyone at your table. You might not think you need them, and maybe you don't, but there's a good chance you use at least one of them, without even really acknowledging it.

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Correction: The "Let's Not" card is from Fiasco, not Warhammer.

Content warning: there are brief discussions of torture involving toenails, and a brief description of a giant spider. There is a sound warning, but keep that in mind as you listen.

We have returned from a long and perilous journey into a strange, far-off land. We bring with us tales of heroism, treasure, vanquishing our enemies, magical girl princesses defeating aliens with power of friendship and fashion, and changing hearts with power of rock and roll.

This episode is all about Con of the North 2024 and how it turned out for us. Sit down and listen to the tales of the con. If you can, please like, share, or spread the podcast in some way. We really appreciate it.

This one is brought to you by one of our tiktok viewers. We were asked on how to run encounters.

This episode is a guide to both playing and running encounters. Tips, tricks, and tools reside within.

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Buy-In, Immersion, Suspension of Disbelief. These are terms used to describe a certain phenomenon in gaming, or group activities in general. It's when a person is sucked into the game that the world around them melts away, and the players embody their characters.

We discuss Buy-In, what it means, what can affect it, what can effect it, and whether or not you need it.

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The Hero's journey is well known in literary circles, and has become pervasive across almost all story-telling media. If the story being told is one of a hero, then it is likely to be compared to, if not based off of, this idea.

In this episode, we discuss the Hero's Journey, it's steps, how to possibly use it in your campaign, and how we feel about it overall.

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We hope this episode doesn't confuse you, it's just a discussion on puzzles! We discuss the anatomy of puzzles, types of puzzles, and how to hand them with ease.

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