Summary: This week’s new episodes.
Show Recaps
Here are summaries of new episodes from Misdirected Mark Productions this past week:
MMPlays 024 – Cortex Tests and Contests
Our second cortex primer is all about tests and contests. We also chat about chases, multi-person contests, and how you can utilize these two primary conflict resolution systems within a cortex game.
Panda’s Talking Games 320 – When Real Life Crashes Your Campaign (Tone and Content)
Show us how you manage mid game changes to your game’s tone or content that are caused by out of game, real world stuff! This hasn’t actually happened to Phil or Senda — we’ve just switched games — but the question was asked and we live to answer your questions so we tackled this from the theoretical. As always, we’re fans of ~communication~!
THAC0 with Advantage 23. Running the Big Bad
Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D is where we rehearse our villain monologues over and over again.
It’s time for the Boss Fight!!! That’s what Ang and Jared are getting into today. It’s all about big bads. You’ll get some tips, tools, and tricks for running them, a bit of reminiscing about old ones, and how to get that final fight you’ve been working up to for the whole story arc.
Bonus Experience 06×10 – Monica and Alex Break Down Setting Design Using Video Games
Today I’m joined by friend and colleague Alex Guerrero to discuss how video games utilize narrative and setting design to create a sense of wonder and mystery – and how you can bring that to the table in your own tabletop RPGs!
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