It’s a grab bag! We haven’t done one of these in a while since there’s no convention travel this year. We’re covering three questions: getting players to play more background and personality, spotlighting players, and MORE
Show us what your favorite short form games are! Phil and Senda chat about old and new favorite short form games…many, many short form games. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more MORE
Show us how you’re taking stock of your gaming as we go into the holidays and the continuing pandemic! Phil and Senda talk about evaluating you current gaming habits to make sure they’re working for MORE
Show us how you do (or don’t) use meta game talk as a GM at your table! So sorry for the late drop — life definitely got in the way this week. Bonus outtakes for MORE
Show us how you manage your digital RPG files! Phil has professional experience in this and Senda is terrible at maintaining the structure that she created. Join us for some half awake thoughts on managing MORE
Show us how you manage the layers of the game! Senda and Phil take a fly by on the old MMP game layers (with a few updates), what they are, when you’re in them, and MORE
Show us how you manage your GMing stagefright! Phil and Senda talk about those butterflies (uh, were they cocoons?) in your stomach before you’re up in front of players, ways to manage, and ways to MORE
Show us how you manage spotlight time as a GM and as a player when you have personal plots! Senda and Phil talk spotlight management and graceful plot sharing, and how to encourage it at MORE
Show us how you manage when you’re not bring your A game to the table! Senda and Phil talk managing a session when you’re not up to your personal standards, and some thoughts on playing MORE
Phil and Senda have a chit chat episode because it was a rough week! What’s giving us life in gaming this week – collaborative world building and well built premade settings. Bonus outtakes for Patreon MORE
Show us whose job it is to make things happen at the table! Phil and Senda talk player responsibility and good player basics. What are your best “be a good player” tips? Let us know MORE
Show us how you define some panda terminology! Thanks again to ShadowWarl1 for this topic idea. Phil and Senda finish out another list of 6 or 7 definitions, but as usual, let us know if MORE
Show us how you … define a bunch of random terminology that we use all the time! Shadowwarl1 on twitter asked us to define some terms we’ve commonly used so that you don’t have to MORE
Show us how you use consent revoking/reactive safety tools effectively in your games! Phil and Senda share some thoughts on effectively implementing and effectively using consent revoking safety tools like the X card in your MORE
Show us how you would talk about creating a culture of player improvement the way that we typically talk about GM improvement. Phil and Senda chat about what that might look like in this first MORE
Another Chit Chat for us — you know the drill, friends! That means this is 90% unedited. This week we talked games and food, of course, as food seems to be a reoccurring pandemic theme MORE
Show us your favorite games for first time GMs and first time players! Phil and Senda talk some of their favorite games for both categories and why they picked those games. Despite being a return MORE
Another chit chat — this one inspired by some of the twitter chatter last week about Powered by the Apocalypse games, and their relevancy to current game design. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find MORE
Show us some more examples of reskinning! Thanks to Joe for sending us this one — we’re revisiting reskinning plots in different genres. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find MORE
Another chit chat as Phil comes out of his harrowing work project! Next week, we are hoping to do some random question answering, so drop us your quick questions! Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! MORE
Senda and her guest host Pandi try to fill in for Phil and fail. Come back next week! There are no bonus outtakes because Pandi FAILED ME. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and MORE
Our 7th Chit Chat. We talk what’s giving us life in gaming: writing letters and superheroes. As per usual with the Chit Chats, this episode is largely unedited and will contain ums, uhs, and sidetracks MORE
Our 6th Chit Chat. We talk what’s giving us life in gaming and we (with precautions) saw people in in real life! As per usual with the Chit Chats, this episode is largely unedited and MORE
Our 5th Chit Chat. Giving us life in gaming, we talk about sound as a game mechanic and being a proactive player. Then we added what was giving us life in the kitchen since we’re MORE
Chit Chat the fourth! We are continuing the chit chats as Senda has ongoing cat care on her shoulders. On this week’s chit chat, we talk what’s giving us life in gaming (from Senda: using MORE
Chit Chat the third! We may be having these a little more than anticipated as Senda is dealing with a sick pet. Phil and Senda chat about gaming in the time of lockdown, when people MORE
Another chit chat episode while Phil and Senda take a breather! As a quick reminder, that means that this episode is 95% unedited, so you will find all the outtakes embedded IN the actual audio MORE
Hi Friends! We’re doing something a bit different this episode. It’s hard to keep up spoons for creativity and editing in our current climate, but we also didn’t want to podfade on you. So! Enter MORE
Show us how you handle in game character introductions! Phil and Senda talk managing tropes of all the characters meeting or being forced together in one shots as a GM and as a player. Also, MORE
Show us how you manage collaborative world building in the beginning and middle of one shots! Phil and Senda talk collaborative world building in the time constraints of a one shot, how best to engage MORE
