Phil and Senda sit down to answer three quick questions for a November Grab bag — the first of two this month, as we’ll be at Metatopia coming up 11/7! Let us know if you’ll be there! On today’s episode we’re talking licensed games, rewriting old or obscure games, and self care. Bonus outtakes for MORE
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Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – November 3, 2019
Find Us at Metatopia Game Design Festival Misdirected Mark Productions will be hanging out at the Metatopia Game Design Festival this week, November 7th – 10th, in Morristown, NJ. This annual playtesting convention has become central to the experience of a huge swath of the tabletop RPG design community (sometimes called “summer camp for game designers”), and we MORE
Gnomecast #78 – Creepy Critters
Join Ang, Chuck, and Matt for a discussion about using monsters in games and making them…spooooky! Will these gnomes brave enough scary creatures to keep them out of the stew? Check out The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game: The Zine on Kickstarter through November 27th! You can get the April Foolio of Fiends on DriveThruRPG for MORE
The Lounge, Season 2 Ep. 10 – Darren Watts
At last, one of my favorite interviews of all time, the amazing Darren Watts! Champions? Check! Doctor Who? Check! Star Trek? Check! We talk about his storied career and the newest project he’s worked on for Sentinel Comics RPG! But most importantly, you have to check out his newest project, Explorers of the Fantastic which MORE
122 — Twain
Today Senda is playing Twain by J Li — a single player larp about an estranged twin and the magic you used to share. The audio for this episode is a bit different because it was recorded on the go… Source: She’s A Super Geek 122 — Twain
PTG178 – Too Much Plan? …Bit More Plan.
Show us how you avoid the too-much-planning and analysis paralysis in your games! Phil and Senda talk creating urgency, adding stakes, and how to mitigate the issues of players who don’t have the same level of competency as their characters. Also, clicky off sides, finger soccer, Silence of the Lambs, and tick tock. Bonus outtakes MORE
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – October 27, 2019
Thanks for a Great Time at Gauntlet Con 2019 As this post goes live, Gauntlet Con 2019 will be wrapping up in a few hours, but we wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone who showed up and had a great time, and especially those came out for our games and panels! Thanks also MORE
BXP and the 6 Month Patreon Update!
Can you believe it’s been six months since our Patreon went live? Let’s check in and see where we’re AT with this thing. Monica and Rai talk business about changes being made to the tiers and rewards going forward, as well as potential schedule changes. Then they talk for like 20 minutes about Fire Emblem MORE
PTG177 – Portin’ Rules
Show us how you port rules from other games in to your current game! Phil and Senda talk porting integrated and non-integrated rules in to your ongoing campaign, as well as random ideas for merging games together. Also, Fatal (oops), losing the meow in the middle, Phil makes fake hard cuts, Swords without Queens, what’s MORE
Weekly Misdirected Mark Productions News – October 20, 2019
See You at Gauntlet Con 2019! Misdirected Mark Productions and Encoded Designs are proud to be guests at Gauntlet Con 2019, the annual online gaming convention organized by our friends at The Gauntlet RPG community! The convention runs (in time zones around the world!) October 24 – 27, and you can check out this topic MORE