Show us how you adjust your life for games! Phil and Senda talk part 2 of balancing games and life. Also, Panda’s Talking Bags. Lots of bags. And pouches. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! 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!
PTG153 – Life or Games Part I
Show us how you adjust your gaming for your life! This is part one of a two parter we ACTUALLY ANTICIPATED. Go us! Phil and Senda talk about adjusting your gaming style to your life MORE
PTG152 – Pilots and Mid-season Episodes
Show us how pilots and midseason episodes can inspire one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk parallels between how script writers write for pilots vs. mid-season episodes as their old standards of one shots MORE
PTG151 – Something Kissy This Way Comes
Show us how you set up and make a space for romance in your games! Phil and Senda talk creating safe spaces for romance with consent, boundaries and expectations, and safety tools, and also how MORE
PTG150 — Our 3nd Anniversary! No kidding!
Show us how you celebrate a podversary with no fooling! Phil and Senda talk getting your players to do homework between games (thanks to Jim Likes Games), our favorite episodes, our year in review, and MORE
PTG149 – Breakout 2019
Show us how you…somehow manage to still record a show while con dropping like mad! Phil and Senda talk Breakout 2019 in Toronto, what we played (all games in development), and what we learned. Don’t MORE
PTG148 – March Grab Bag the Second
Senda and Phil are at Breakout this week instead of recording — so here’s another grab bag episode for your amusement! On this grab bag, we answer questions about favorite game mechanics, world building as MORE
PTG147 – Insert Funny Grab Bag Name Here
Show us how you do a grab bag because COOON! Phil and Senda answer fun short questions in this grab bag episode in preparation for Breakout 2019. Will we see you there? Bonus outtakes for MORE
PTG146 – To Write or Not To Write
Show us how you decide to run published adventures or write your own — especially if it’s your first game! Phil and Senda talk about running your first game and how to decide if you MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 145 – Demo vs. Entertainment
Show us how you run a game for demo purposes vs. just for entertainment! Phil and Senda talk the balance of entertainment and demo modes for con games as well as the focus of each MORE