Today we're talking about NPCs and how to play the best ones. A voice is engaging, but there's so much more to roleplaying than a voice, especially when you're a DM who's using NPCs to convey information about the world and the hooks for play in it!

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While we all can agree that XP are a fantastic reward and motivator...we wanna talk about ALL the ways to motivate and compensate your players for achievement. Today we're discussing how to give rewards across ALL pillars of play and for all play styles!

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Today we're talking about why we love random tables and we're making our best case about why you should love them and be using them too. Here's how we make them relevant to your campaign and save you prep time in your D&D and TTRPG games

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The perfect TTRPG investigation has a plethora of leads, memorable situations to explore, feels baked into the world, but isn't on rails. Here's a brass tacks, step-by-step discussion of how we run effective mysteries and investigations in Dungeons and Dragons, or any other roleplaying game!

This week, Jim and Pruitt talk about getting every last drop of meaning out of the monsters in your world. We like to approach our monsters with worldbuilding in mind, and we're getting at exactly how we do that!

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Jim and Pruitt discuss the benefits of Co-DMing in D&D and other TTRPG. It's a great way to manage a larger group, work with your group's strengths and weaknesses, RP better, and all around have more fun! And then we answer a patron question about what to do when your players are a buncha GOOFS who don't take anything seriously.

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