Episode 38: Campaign Pacing and Narrative Structure

This week, Dave and Susan continue their discussion of pacing, applying it to campaign structures overall. Also, the weirdest Campaign Pipedream segment to date.




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Episode 37: Pacing in Games

This week, David S. and Susan do their best to address the Holy Grail of Good GMing: pacing. Also, the return of Campaign Pipedreams!




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Episode 36: Iron Kingdoms GM Jam

David S. and Susan, who each have Iron Kingdoms RPG campaigns going at the moment, convene to discuss the ins and outs of prepping and running in this system and setting.


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Episode 30: Spicing Up Your Game

This week, David S. and Susan (with a little help from David L.) discuss methods of spicing up games, and how to get ideas for your games. Plus: more pipe dreams!

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Episode Twenty-Two: Some More D&D, Play-by-Post Gaming, and Long-Term Campaigning

This, our first episode with three hosts, is a bit of a grab-bag. David L. shares some follow-up thoughts from last week's episode on the new edition of D&D, and then we segue into talking about that strange sub-genre of RPG gaming, play-by-post. We then segue into a discussion of how to keep campaigns running long-term and then share some more Campaign Pipe Dreams.



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Episode Seventeen: Adversaries, Villains, and Mooks

For this episode, we bring in a special guest to help us talk about the pleasures and pitfalls of villainy and adversarial play...



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Episode Sixteen: World-Building and NPCs

For this episode, we explore the related topics of world-building and NPCs: how we go about conceptualizing campaigns; homebrew versus published settings; NPC use, abuse, and management; plus more!



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Episode Nine: System Spotlight - King Arthur Pendragon

This episode sees us answering a listener-submitted question about epic campaigns before moving on to our second "System Spotlight" installment, this time focusing on the King Arthur Pendragon RPG.



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Episode Eight: Player versus GM!

In this episode, we discuss the different experiences and skillsets inherent to the player experience versus the game master experience. To help us dissect the issue, we bring in special guest Jade, the newest member of our tabletop group, who has both played and run RPGs for the first time over the course of the previous year.



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Episode Seven: Kickstarter, Game Stores, and Setting Up Fantasy Campaigns

In this episode, we take some time to muse about the role of Kickstarter in the tabletop gaming industry and speculate what role brick-and-mortar stores still might play in the hobby, before moving on to a genre-focused discussion of running fantasy campaigns. We answer listener questions as well.


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Episode Six: Published Versus Homebrew Campaigns and Scenarios

In this episode, we address some listener questions spawned by our previous System Spotlight on Basic Roleplaying (and discuss some games we're currently excited about) before moving on to the main topic of the pros and cons of running published scenarios versus writing your own, and offer some advice for accomplishing the latter.


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Episode Four: Game Balance and Finding Players

In this episode, we talk about the issues of finding balance in systems that are not designed to encourage balanced play, and discuss strategies for finding players in your area. We also field our first-ever voice mail question!



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Unabashed Gaming: Episode Three - Campaign Eulogies and Sources of Inspiration

In this episode, we discuss campaigns that died before their time (and the many causes that can contribute to such a tragedy), before moving on to our main topic: sources of inspiration and how to translate them into your game.



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Unabashed Gaming: Episode One - Introduction and Horror Gaming

In our inaugural episode, we talk a bit about our backgrounds in tabletop gaming and then move on to broadly discussing some tricks and tips for running horror games, and different flavors of horror games.



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