Today Monica invites her friend, Jacqueline Bryk, to join her and discuss something she considers a blank spot in her traditional game literacy: LARP. We discuss what makes a LARP, and general LARP design principles as Jax gives a detailed 101 crash course. We also kick around designing our own together, for a bit.
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Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – March 19, 2023
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays – CotS AP: Time for Change Part 1It’s session 1 of the Children of the Shroud. We begin our tale of magical high school swashbuckling drama with a very windy day of school and MORE
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – March 12, 2023
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays – Children of the Shroud: Session 0Welcome to MM Plays. It’s session 0 of the Children of the Shroud. We delve into CATS, Safety, Setting, Character Introductions, and have some Character Background Information. Several of MORE
BXP 06×01 Monica and D Analyze Resource Management
In today’s episode D and Monica sit down to get into the ins and outs of designing good resource management games. We talk about what you need to consider as a designer and break down how you can avoid common pitfalls. We also cite a handful of excellent games you can try that use their resources extremely well.
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – March 5, 2023
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays 004 – Stats or those things that make up charactersWelcome to MM Plays. Today we’re talking about stats or statistics in RPGs. Panda’s Talking Games 304 – The Challenge of Skill ChallengesSenda and Phil MORE
BXP Season 6 Update
BXP is BACK for Season Six. We have some very important updates to the show as well as some super cool episodes coming up. Give it a listen. If you stayed a patron through the off-season, Monica shouts out your name.
PTG 304 – The Challenge of Skill Challenges
Show us how you keep skill challenges interesting! Senda and Phil talk skill challenge challenges (see what I did there?), suggestions for when and how to use them, and some tips on what to avoid. Also, Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing the mountain? https://youtu.be/HU2ftCitvyQ Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! MORE
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – February 26, 2023
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays 003 – Mods for CortexToday we’re going through the Mods we chose for our Cortex Prime game Children of the Shroud. We also discuss why we chose them and have a bit of discussion MORE
PTG 303 – Feb Chit Chat
Due to some *life stuff,* we had to record a quick chit chat! If you are listening for the first time, this is not our standard format, but it is the format that we use when life gets in the way of our standard style. This chit chat: what’s giving us life in gaming – MORE
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – February 19, 2023
Summary: This week’s new episodes. Show Recaps Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week: MMPlays 002 – CollaborationToday we’re talking about collaboration and using the first episode of MM Plays as our primary example as we discuss how to collaborate to bring your ttrpgs to life during your session MORE