Raising the Stakes (w/Spencer Wight)
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 58 min
Episode description
Want to know how you can raise the stakes at your gaming table? Well you've come to the right place.
Join us and our guest Spencer Wight as we dive into a discussion of what kinds of stakes we see in TTRPGs and the best examples we could find from Critical Role.
We'll cover risking our lives, protecting the people we care about, losing our reputations and more!
Since the ep is pretty long, here are timestamps:
- 14 mins: Intro to Stakes
- 24 mins: Player Character Death
- 48 mins: NPC
- 55 mins: Internal Stakes
- 1 hr, 12 mins: Environment
- 1 hr, 34 mins: Reputation
- 1 hr, 41 mins: Honorable Mentions
- 1 hr, 49 mins: Advice & Takeaways
We hope you enjoy having Spencer on the show. We sure did!