Typewriters and Dice

Tanner and Jamal discuss the player type who knows the rules of your roleplaying system like the back of their hand! What are some pitfalls you may come across and ways to best engage with them so that everyone at the table can have a good time without you losing the flow of your games? Are you a rules lawyer? How do you prefer to engage at the table?

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier

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In this episode, Tanner and Jamal speak on how to engage with the wallflower/timid players in your games. How to create an environment in which players feel comfortable sharing what they want and how to possibly incentivize engagement. 

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier

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In this episode, Tanner and Jamal speak about how to give and receive feedback in your dnd games. It can be incredibly hard to get feedback from your players about what they like and don't like about your games so we talk about how to create an atmosphere in which players feel comfortable doing that. We also speak about how to respond to the feedback you get from your players so that it improves the experience at the table.

Things we mention in this episode

Excerpt from No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier

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Tanner and Jamal speak about how criminal activity has the potential to be way more nuanced and complex in DND settings. With all the spells and feats available, your games should feel like a magical arms race that makes it look very different from our world.  From mending, silence, arcane eye, and unseen servant, we dig into a few spells that can change the whole way you approach crimes.

Things mentioned in this episode
XP to Level 3 https://youtu.be/EElD5us3aQM

The Three Economies
https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/The_Three_Economies_(DnD_Other)

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier
Alli @  instagram.com/inkmere/

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Tanner and Jamal speak on how they try and create personal arcs for the characters they play, and how they go about running personal arcs for the players in their games! 

Tanner and Jamal put together a module focusing on a hero/villain individual!

The group digs into a topic that Jamal found on twitter about how to spice up combat in your dnd games! The thread starts off as follows "I have a design theory around balancing encounters in #dnd 5e. I see people struggle with this a lot. If your party steamrolls through combat keep reading. "

That particular thread can be found here: Design Theory
Twitter Users we mentioned
https://twitter.com/Monsters_Multi
https://twitter.com/TTBenjamin1

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier
Alli @ instagram/com/inkmere

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Tanner and Jamal are joined by Alli as she prepares for running a campaign! We ask the question how much prep is too much prep? How much information do you need before you hit the ground running? And as always, share our perspectives and ideas based on the games we run and have played in.

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier
Alli @  instagram.com/inkmere/

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I ain't afraid of no ghosts! Tanner and Jamal put together a module inspired by the one and only Ghostbusters II! Join us as we create characters and a plot in which a city is under the attack of slime creatures in their sewers!

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier

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Tanner, Jamal, and Alli share some of their favorite role-playing moments from games they've played and run. We do our best to set up each moment so the context is clear and showcase how much character moments make for the most memorable moments.

Systems mentioned DnD 3.5 and World of Darkness. Not World of Warcraft. No one said WoW. I've got my 10-year chip so I definitely didn't say World of Warcraft.

Jamal @  twitter.com/mapstonepark
Tanner @ twitter.com/penmademightier
Alli @  instagram.com/inkmere/

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