Queer gamers talking about table top role playing games and making outtakes! Join pandas Phil and Senda every Wednesday talking about TTRPGs and answering listener questions.
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Show us how you handle power dynamics at the table — in and out of game! Spoilers…it’s a conversation. You can find our Bamboo Lounge at http://patreon.com/mmp — as soon as we resolve the Patreon issues I MORE
Show us what it means if you’ve missed “key gaming experiences!” Phil and Senda talk nostalgia, FOMO, rust monsters, and playing as teenagers. You can find our Bamboo Lounge at http://patreon.com/mmp — as soon as we resolve MORE
Show us your old school TTRPG wisdom — never split the party! Phil and Senda talk roots, if it’s still real, when you might want to listen, and when you inevitably do not care. You MORE
Show us how you mash genres for your game! Phil and Senda talk genre mashing two (2) genres on a sliding scale in consideration of trappings vs. tropes, but this is just a simplistic example MORE
Show us how you manage to actually answer three questions in one show! Phil and Senda talk betraying characters without betraying your players, skills you might take with you to the game table from your MORE
Show us how you play other people’s characters (gasp)! Phil and Senda talk about sharing characters, how and when it might happen, and some tips on how to approach it. You can find our Bamboo MORE
Show us how you play to find out! Or rather, how do you define “play to find out?” Phil and Senda talk “Play to find out,” where we encountered it in writing, and how we MORE
Show us our Tuckman team model — where does it apply to TTRPGs, really? Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. (We are having some issues with Patreon so I will post MORE
Show us how you manage your white whales — have you gotten any to the table? Here’s some of ours, and some games we wish existed! Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and MORE
Show us how you keep your partner’s interest in gaming if they’ve been brave enough to try! Some of this advice overlaps with our general new gamer advice, but some of it doesn’t — congrats MORE
Show us how you manage the hustle and your fun when gaming is also the hustle! Okay, we don’t necessarily have answers here, but we definitely do have experience, so we can say what’s at MORE
Show us how you manage bleed, feels, and significant others when playing with romance at your table! Phil and Senda do one more episode on romance with follow up questions from the Slack. Bamboo Lounge MORE
Show us how you…continue the question about romance! Phil and Senda get into the second part of the question of romance in games. Follow ups next time! Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these MORE
Show us how you handle love and intimate relationships in game! Phil and Senda *start* the conversation on romance in games — with part 2 to come. Reminder: there will be no episode next week! MORE
Show us how you remove combat from a published adventure! Phil and Senda talk how about what to balance, what you made need to consider, and some different approaches depending on why you want less MORE
Show us how you deal with creep in your games! No, not creepy people — scope creep, or slow changes in expectations, or forgetting your session 0 conversations etc. Phil and Senda manage not to MORE
Show us what you do when you thought the campaign was over…but you all want more! Phil and Senda talk extending a campaign from a TV series perspective, and some things to check in on MORE
Show us how you manage your game docs! Phil and Senda talk platforms and information storage so that we can confidently answer the question “Where do you keep your rules of the table?” Bamboo Lounge MORE
Show us how you play to find out! Phil and Senda talk play to find out, where it crystalized for them, and what it means for their style and process of gaming. Bamboo Lounge for MORE
Show us what you do when you’re sitting in a game you’re not enjoying — for whatever reason! Phil and Senda talk sitting down to a game you discover you don’t like, and what we’d MORE
It’s sure been a time! Phil and Senda talk their 2025 gaming, then things to look forward to in 2026. This feels like a good time to reiterate that we have specifically chosen to maintain MORE
Show us how you…do a year end topic round up?? Phil is joined by Ryan, our always intrepid editor, for a quick topic round up to “round off” our recording year. (eh? eh? you see MORE
Show us how you handle a game end when you don’t get to wrap it up, whether that’s for a story or a character! Phil and Senda talk about closure/closing loops, and other ways to MORE
Show us how you form good TTRPG teams! Phil and Senda revisit the Tuckman model of Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and (wah wah) adjourning when your group changes up — whether that’s people, scheduling, or MORE
Show us how you balance agency vs story structure in table top games! Phil and Senda talk spectrum and (hopefully) nuance of this potentially loaded question. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and MORE
