Show us how you keep skill challenges interesting! Senda and Phil talk skill challenge challenges (see what I did there?), suggestions for when and how to use them, and some tips on what to avoid. 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 303 – Feb Chit Chat
Due to some *life stuff,* we had to record a quick chit chat! If you are listening for the first time, this is not our standard format, but it is the format that we use MORE
PTG 302 – Prep Me Up
Show us how you maximize your prep to game play time! Phil and Senda talk prep, prepping the most important stuff, and pacing the game to fill the time you want it to. Book resources MORE
PTG 301 – Slow Your De-Role
Show us how you de-role after you play! Phil and Send chat about de-roling for sessions and campaigns, with things you may wish to consider and tips on potential ways to de-role. Bamboo Lounge for MORE
PTG 300 – THIS. IS. PANDAS! (about epilogues.)
It’s episode 300, and we’re talking about epilogues! Show us how and when you use an epilogue! Senda and Phil talk the when, who, and how of epilogues, and a little bit about being 300 MORE
PTG 299 – Whose NPC Is It Anyway?
Show us how you manage sharing playing NPCs at your table! Phil and Senda talk about how to draw boundaries when there’s spillage between NPCs you want/don’t mind sharing with your player and NPCs you MORE
PTG 298 – Rules on the House
We’re back from holiday hiatus! Phil and Senda attempt to remember how to do that thing we do weekly, and then take a deep dive on request into a conversation about house rules — the MORE
PTG 297 – The Prisoner Dilemma
Show us how you deal with prisoners in your game! Do your players get stuck debating for hours? Senda and Phil talk about a gaming horror story we received (names and details redacted just in MORE
PTG 296 – Whose Clues Two(se)
Show us how you manage clue distribution and railroading in a mystery game! Phil and Senda talk clues, railroads, prepped and ad hoc mysteries, and the two mystery games we both just happen to be MORE
PTG 295 – November Chit Chat
Phil and Senda chat about…the chit chat we were going to have last week if only Senda weren’t sick! As usual for our chit chat episodes, we talked giving us life in gaming and giving MORE