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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 234 - Game Design Part II

PTG 234 – Game Design Part II

Posted on April 12, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you FINISH designing a game! Phil and Senda talk feedback, alphas, betas, ashcans, and quickstarts, based on our personal experience. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged ashcan, beta, Game Design, quickstart
PTG233 -- How I Met Your Game Designer

PTG233 — How I Met Your Game Designer

Posted on April 5, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you design a game! Senda and Phil start a brief overview of what the process has, historically, looked like for us, to be finished in PART 2. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged Game Design, ideas, inspiration, playtest, Playtesting
PTG Chit Chat 14 - March Chatness

PTG Chit Chat 14 – March Chatness

Posted on March 22, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

It was a wild few days and the end result was that even though we had some neat potential topics, we just didn’t have the spell slots to put them together. The end result is MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged chit chat, ihunt, journaling
PTG 232- Poker Face

PTG 232- Poker Face

Posted on March 15, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you hide and conceal emotions at the gaming table! Senda and Phil talk showing and hiding emotions as PCs and NPCs both expressively and mechanically. Senda even managed to remember the song MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged emotion, feelings, poker face
PTG Chitty Chitty Chat Chat 13

PTG Chitty Chitty Chat Chat 13

Posted on March 8, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

It’s another chit chat episode! When things go a little wild in the real world but we still want to get an episode out to you, sometimes that means we do a quick chat about MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged chit chat
PTG231 - Prelude in G (for Game)

PTG231 – Prelude in G (for Game)

Posted on March 1, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you play preludes (and flashbacks) in your games! Phil and Senda talk what preludes can do for you and some tips on how to implement them. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged establishing competency, flashback, foreshadowing, origin stories, prelude
PTG230 - Let's Give Them Something To Talk About (In Character)

PTG230 – Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About (In Character)

Posted on February 22, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you create and encourage role play as a GM and as a player! Phil and Senda talk about how to create opportunities and the right environment for role play to happen naturally MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged in character, in character conversation, role play, role playing, rp
PTG 229 - Bad Romance

PTG 229 – Bad Romance

Posted on February 15, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you manage bad PC/NPC romances in your games! Senda and Phil talk about what makes up a bad romance (or at least how we’ll be talking about it), how to implement it, MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged bad romance, gaga, relationships, romance
PTG 228 -- PAY ATTENTION!

PTG 228 — PAY ATTENTION!

Posted on February 8, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you’re managing attention in online gaming! Whether it’s your attention or your players’, there’s no doubt that it’s trickier to manage in online gaming than at the table. Phil and Senda talk MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged attention, online games, paying attention
PTG 227 - Oh The Places You'll Go

PTG 227 – Oh The Places You’ll Go

Posted on February 1, 2021April 30, 2026 by Senda Linaugh

Show us how you make travel interesting! Phil and Senda talk about different ways to keep travel interesting, from just not doing it, to ways to make time feel like it’s passed, to actually playing MORE

Posted in Panda's Talking Games, Podcasts Tagged encounters, leading question, travelling
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