What do you plan for? How detailed should your notes be? How do you stay committed? Long Campaigns: How Do? Lucky for us, Monica has quite a lot of experience running the serial epics, and she has some tips and advice for GMs who want to up their campaign game. Also discussed: Pretenders to the MORE
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Panda’s Talking Games 114 – Power Level 9000
Show us how you handle different power levels in one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk about the pros and cons of starting at low levels, medium levels, or high levels, and handling speed of advancement. Also, we fell down a rabbit hole discussing one of the Ditch Lilies more experimental pieces, Night of MORE
Avanti 13-Body in the Water
Our heroes finally get to rest, but in the morning light something in the water brings more questions than they already had.
Cypher Speak Episode 35: Lost in Translation!
In this episode Darcy and Troy talk about running translations in the Cypher System. Topic suggestion from: Blake via Email Shout Out to The Lounge Poddities: Troy – Angry GM Kickstarter Darcy – Welcome to Warda – Amazing Warda Actual Play!
Panda’s Talking Games 113 – One Shots at Cons vs. at Home
Show us how you prep differently for one shots at cons vs. one shots at home! Phil and Senda talk about generality and accessibility vs. specificity and customization, time frames, etc. Please forgive my slightly sick voice this week — I am starting to feel better! Also, the panda tweet that wasn’t a panda tweet, MORE
The Lounge #8 – James D’Amato
Talking about his upcoming book, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create the Most Interesting Story for Your Character, about the One Shot Network, improvising, and just cool game talk! Find James on Twitter! Check out One Shot Network! Find me on Twitter! As Always, Support Contessa!
Gnomecast #43 – Gnomecast at Origins 2018
Join a whole stewpotful of gnomes for a collection of mini-interviews recorded during the Origins Game Fair 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. Ang interviews Camdon, Wendelyn, and John, then John interviews Ang, and then John goes on to talk to Chris, Phil, Senda, Bob, Tracy, Darcy, and Kira! You can catch a whole bunch of the MORE
83-Everyone is Prince John: Hate to Love Him
Today our co-hosts are joined by Meghan Dornbrock host of Modifier and Ryan Boelter host of Character Creation Cast to finish our play of the competitive RPG Everyone is John by Michael Sullivan. Our twist on the game is that we’re playing Everyone is PRINCE John… Source: She’s A Super Geek 83-Everyone is Prince John: Hate to Love Him
Our Favorite Systems
Monica and Rai take a break from complaining to talk about things they like. Specifically, the systems they like, and why. It may surprise you to learn that they like Powered by the Apocalypse games. Also discussed: playing chicken as feminist praxis, Not Fortnite, getting eaten by eels, and Ranma-ing it up. As always, you MORE
Advantage to Insight 39 – Face of the League: Lysa Chen
Advantage to Insight returns with one fan, one insight, and roll them together for the best result! This is the long lost Face of the League episode with Associate Community Manager, Lysa Chen! What a great interview! Fan Lysa Chen (Twitter, Web) Insight Face of the League, Associate Community Manager for D&D Adventurers League Contact MORE