A rotating cast of gnomes (from Gnome Stew, the award winning gaming blog) gather every two weeks to discuss table top gaming topics from their articles and elsewhere. Will we be good enough to avoid being thrown in the stew?
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Join Ang, along with Chris and JT as they talk about world building, both what you need to have set up before you start and what you can add on the fly when you need MORE
Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about different ideas on how to encourage your player to get into their characters and roleplay more. How do you get them from just telling you what MORE
Join Ang and Jared as they sit down with Mike Shea from Sly Flourish and talk about his latest GMing advice book, Rise of the Lazy Game Master, as well as a bunch of other MORE
Join Ang along with JT and Tomas as they talk about what they think makes for good players. What qualities in a player make them excited to see someone coming back to their table again MORE
Bob, Chris, and Phil take over the Gnomecast for a special return of the Misdirected Mark Podcast, at least for one episode. This time, they dive deep into initiative in tabletop RPGs, exploring different types of initiative systems, how games handle turn order, and what those choices mean for pacing, spotlight management, design, and player engagement at the table.
Join Ang, along with Jared and friend of the show, Carl Lehmann, as they talk about all the little details you need to have in place when playing RPGs in certain genres. We talk about MORE
Join Ang, Josh, and JT as they talk about how to teach new rules to your tables. They cover their best practices, the difference between one-shots and campaigns, and many other aspects of incorporating new MORE
Join Ang, along with Jared and guest Andy Jaksetic as they talk about starting new campaigns and everything we need in place before we can start to think about session zero. LINKS: Matinee Adventures Origins MORE
Join Ang along with Josh and JT as they talk about how to navigate the curveballs life throws at us and gets in the way of us playing RPGs. It’s going to happen at some MORE
Join Ang along with Jared and Tomas as they talk about short campaigns. They cover the major differences between a traditional long campaign with a short one, the reasons we might want to run one, MORE
Join Ang along with Chris and JT as they talk about Narrative Positioning! What even is that and what does it mean for our games? They dig in and have a conversation about it. LINKS: MORE
Join Ang along with Jared and friend of the show, Carl Lehman, as they talk about four different player types we often see at our tables. We go over the good and the bad they MORE
Join Ang along with guests Jason Haskins and Mike Mistele as they talk about the components that make for a good convention one-shot! Links: Origins Game Fair Matinee Adventures
Join Ang along with Josh and JT as they talk about the ins and outs of running published adventures! Whether it’s easier or harder and tips and tricks on how to make them work for MORE
Join Ang along with Chris and Tomas as they talk about the finer points of metacurrencies. What are they, what design purpose do they serve, and why do our players love them? Links: Mutants & MORE
Join Ang along with special guests Steve Kenson and Alex Thomas from Green Ronin as they talk about Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition. You know Ang loves all things super heroes, so let’s find out MORE
Join Senda with Erika Skirpan as they have a conversation about safety in LARPs and Tabletop RPGs and how to do it in ways that enhance your games. Links: Mooney Bin Entertainment Sinking Ship Creations
Join Ang, along with Chris and Josh as they talk about Actual Play games as entertainment and what we should and should not take away from them to use in our own games. Ang has MORE
Join Ang, Chris, and JT as they discuss different methods to pulling a party of characters together at the start of a campaign. They talk about everything from strangers shoved together to deeply established connections. MORE
Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about the types of characters they like to play, why they love those types, and why it’s also good to branch out and try other characters. Links: MORE
Join Jared as he interviews Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, the folks behind the Tabletop Safety Toolkit.
Join Ang as she chats with guest Bridgett Jeffries about all things spooky and scary games.
Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to combat analysis paralysis!
Join Ang, Chris and JT as they chat about what to do when your players get fixated on trifling matters that you didn't intend to matter in the game.
Join Ang along with Josh and Jared as they talk about the pros and cons of playing virtually online versus playing in person face-to-face.
