Join Vince and Travis as they discuss playing and making games without combat. Why is combat in games so compelling? Why would you want to avoid it? What’s the right mix and how do you keep a game interesting if there is no fighting? What types of games could we imagine without combat? All of this and less will be answered within!

Join Vince and Travis as they map out everything about maps. Drawing maps and creating a world can be an amazing thing to do, but does it have downsides? When should you create your maps? What parts of the world should you seek to map? Why is blank space so important? All of this and less will be revealed within.

Join Vince & Travis as they dig into Random Ability sore generation. For games like D&D, this is how we all used to generate our scores “in the old days” - but is it a good system? Why? What does this have to do with Soccer? Why is Vince in Hot Take mode? All of this and less will be revealed within.

Join Vince & Travis as they discuss piddly monsters, the yard trash that have plagued video games, MMOs and table top games for years. What value do these rats, bats and non-threats have? How can you best use them in your game? How can you best use these fights in a positive way to add color to your game? All of this and less will be explained within.

Join Vince & Travis as they discuss the nature of NPCs in the world and how they get defined through standard character levels. The classic conundrum of how much you should define the NPCs in the world and how much is it important that we know the shopkeeper used to be a 5th level fighter? All of this and less will be defined within.

Vince and Travis dive into the history of D&D video games. There have been so many video games set in the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, but which ones were the best? Which ones still hold up after all these years? What were the the most faithful to the experience of D&D? All of this and less will be answered within.

Vince & Travis get into the nitty and the gritty with discussion about how to set your game’s design to the lowest common denominator of your audience (and no lower). What does any of this mean? What’s the lowest common denominator in this case? All of this and less will be explained within.

Join Vince & Travis as they get weird! It’s time to talk about the player that always wants to being the curveball to the table as a character. They want to play a modron in Dragonlance or a vampire in dark sun. How should a GM think about the weirdo character? What makes such a character valuable at the table? How many weirdos should be allowed? All of this and less will be answered within!

Vince and Travis get into backstories. The character was someone before they sat down at the table, but how much someone should they be? How much is too much backstory for a new character? How much should the game system itself dictate their background versus their own story telling? All of this and less will be answered within.

Vince & Travis sit down to talk about the value of crafting unique and bespoke rewards for your players. It’s time to move past the magic items section of the DMG and think about making something truly memorable for your players, regardless of their game. What is a special reward? How do you make it special? When do you give them out? All of this and less will be answered within.