Phil, Bob, & Jerry talk about GM / DM advice, Game design, playing, and running table top RPGs in an effort to entertain and inform you, the listener.
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Why do we GM? There has to be a reason we put in that extra work, especially when our outside lives conspire to make things more difficult. That’s today’s topic. Why […]
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Many RPGs pit the heroes against an adversary they can defeat by brute force or direct confrontation. However, fiction is full of enemies that are above the law or behind […]
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There’s an excellent action flick on Netflix called RRR. We all watched it and wanted to tell you why we liked it so much. This is normally after show content […]
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Did you know we have far more neurons dedicated to visual processing than audio processing? It got us thinking. How do we use visuals to help us at the game […]
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The What’s Going On document contains the NPCs, background, motivations, and events that would occur in the session, if the characters did not intervene. In this episode we talk about […]
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Lore is the backstory to your setting. You could have zero lore or a novel worth of the stuff, but no player will care unless it comes into play within […]
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Evil Organizations are a staple of action adventure stories. They’re expansive, multi-headed groups that heroes fight against again and again. The villains are many, the schemes are devious, their reach […]
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Regardless of the game, players and GMs have a tendency to get hung up on randomizers. The D20, the dice pool, the card flip. You know. The randomizer. They’re important […]
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Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss making the most of using the narrative device of flashbacks in your games. Enjoy the show, and tell us your thoughts on flashbacks at the Misdirected […]
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Phil, Bob, and Jerry return to the Adversary Files to discuss another type of adversary for your games, the Faction. Enjoy the show, and tell us your thoughts on factions […]
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