It’s time for our yearly topic round up! Sometimes, there are topics we can’t quite wrap our brains around in to our format for whatever reason., but we don’t want to leave those poor topics 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!
Panda’s Talking Games 80: A Human by Any Other Name
Show us how you handle human like and inhuman species at your table! Phil and Senda talk cultural extrapolation when we share many features (like opposable thumbs) and when we don’t (literally made of eyes). MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 79: Howl we talk Lone Wolves?
Show us how you handle lone wolves at your table! Senda and Phil talk about lone wolves in terms of character and lone wolves in terms of players. Also, we watched the new Star Wars MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 78: Edgeplay
Show us how you deal with stuff you might not want in your game…? Phil and Senda talk about dealing with sensitive and triggering topics when they come up in your game without table consent MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 77: Bagels and Lax GMs
Show us how strict or lax you are running games! Senda and Phil talk about four of the eight (Phil promises there are eight) different axis we might be able to judge strictness vs. laxness MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 76: The Wrath of Con(ventions)
Show us how you think of small to medium conventions vs. large and mega conventions! Also known as, we recorded this the week after the Queen City Conquest! There are too many outtakes! Phil forgets MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 75: Happy Ending (The Denouement)
Show us how you handle denouement in one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk denouement as it applies to con games and one shots vs. the fractal of denouement for campaigns. Also, the Lord MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 74: Phil is Old (Playing with Age)
Show us how you handle older and younger characters at your table! Phil and Senda talk playing characters outside of the average age range for a PC. Also, giggle scripting, the best of the “Tasha” MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 73: Wait Wait! I Know This One!
Show us how you handle meta gaming as players and GMs! Phil and Senda talk through how to avoid meta gaming, how to keep ideas in the fiction, and how to communicate at the table MORE
Panda’s Talking Games 72: Pining for the Fjords
Show us how you handle character death, whether it’s one character or the dreaded TPK! Phil and Senda talk about character death and occasionally, accidentally, player death. Also, I shouldn’t drink fizzy things before we MORE