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We’re talking about three mods from Cortex Prime today and how we don’t quite use them the way they’re explained in the book. Stress, Action Based Resolution, and the Doom Pool. Enjoy and tell us about the mods you’ve enjoyed, used, or modified in your Cortex Games.
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays 031 – Smarty Pants Part EightWe join the Children […]
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JT sits down with the Demon Lord himself, Rob Schwalb from Schwalb Entertainment to talk about his newest game, Shadow of the Weird Wizard.
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Show us how you find the right kind of game for your GM brain! Thanks to a comment about a quick aside from a few episodes ago where Senda mentioned […]
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We join the Children of the Shroud as they throw down with Jenna in the decrepit Buffalo Asylum amidst shadows, falling apart architecture, and disturbed spirits. Will they defeat Jenna or will she end the children of the shroud? Tune in this week to find out,
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays 030 – Story JumpingWhat do you do when the […]
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Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D is the titan from which the pantheon descended.
A Cleric of Hammers stands at their forge
“Please oh god of hammers. Grant me the power to smite thine foes with this hammer you have bestowed upon me the knowledge to create in my forge with my own hands and the fire from the materials I gathered and turned into this icon of your glorious divinity.”
A humanoid stands within the grove of a Fey Queen.
“Hey, umm, fey queen. How about you give me a little juice and I’ll get rid of all your enemies for you. Like be your personal assassin on the prime material plane. Sounds good. Deal.”
Gods and Patrons. That’s the jist but Ang and Jared get more into it along with the evolution of the concept through the years and editions of D&D, I know the show is called Thac0 with Advantage but it’s more like from Thac0 to Advantage D&D through the years some episodes.
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Show us how you set a scene to give it genre feel and manage pacing! Phil and Senda talk scene setting — pacing, description and set up, spotlight, and participants […]
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What do you do when the players make a choice that jumps ahead of what you were planning on and either skips everything you had prepared or moves towards the end of a story by passing many other story beats along the way. We call this Story Jumping and we’re discussing it on todays Misdirected Mark Podcast.
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Session 0. We’re doing it again. Why? Because it’s important. Why is it important? Because it helps groups understand who the characters they’re playing are, why the characters are doing what they’re doing, places them firmly into the campaign and setting of the game, and give all the players at the table a bunch of information so they can have a easier time creating that shared vision of play at the table. For expanded upon information like this check out the actual podcast.