Summary: This week’s new episodes.
Show Recaps
Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week:
MMPlays 030 – Story Jumping
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.
Panda’s Talking Games 325 – Let’s Talk About Scenes, Baby
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 — for genre emulation and tone creation.
THAC0 with Advantage 26. Gods and Patrons
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 gist, 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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