Show us what it means if you’ve missed “key gaming experiences!” Phil and Senda talk nostalgia, FOMO, rust monsters, and playing as teenagers. You can find our Bamboo Lounge at http://patreon.com/mmp — as soon as we resolve MORE
Category: Panda’s Talking Games
Like Car Talk, but queerer and for your TTRPGs! Join pandas Phil Vecchione (Misdirected Mark, Gnome Stew, Encoded Designs) and Senda Linaugh (She’s A Super Geek, Gnome Stew) every Wednesday to answer listener questions about playing, running, and designing TTRPGs. Is your game making a funny noise when you start it up? Does the story feel clunky or lag when you try to accelerate? We’ve got you covered!
PTG 428 – Splitting the Party
Show us your old school TTRPG wisdom — never split the party! Phil and Senda talk roots, if it’s still real, when you might want to listen, and when you inevitably do not care. You MORE
PTG 427 – They Did The Genre Mash
Show us how you mash genres for your game! Phil and Senda talk genre mashing two (2) genres on a sliding scale in consideration of trappings vs. tropes, but this is just a simplistic example MORE
PTG 426 – Summer Grab Bag
Show us how you manage to actually answer three questions in one show! Phil and Senda talk betraying characters without betraying your players, skills you might take with you to the game table from your MORE
PTG 425 – Are You Down With the OPC?
Show us how you play other people’s characters (gasp)! Phil and Senda talk about sharing characters, how and when it might happen, and some tips on how to approach it. You can find our Bamboo MORE
PTG 424 – Play to Find Out
Show us how you play to find out! Or rather, how do you define “play to find out?” Phil and Senda talk “Play to find out,” where we encountered it in writing, and how we MORE
PTG 423 – More Tuckman
Show us our Tuckman team model — where does it apply to TTRPGs, really? Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. (We are having some issues with Patreon so I will post MORE
PTG 422 – White Whales
Show us how you manage your white whales — have you gotten any to the table? Here’s some of ours, and some games we wish existed! Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and MORE
PTG 421 – The SO as Non-Gamer
Show us how you keep your partner’s interest in gaming if they’ve been brave enough to try! Some of this advice overlaps with our general new gamer advice, but some of it doesn’t — congrats MORE
PTG 420 – The Hustle
Show us how you manage the hustle and your fun when gaming is also the hustle! Okay, we don’t necessarily have answers here, but we definitely do have experience, so we can say what’s at MORE