Phil and Senda talk hacking Powered by the Apocalypse — making your own moves and playbooks. Also, sheep pits, minecraft, Senda forgets to put the blurb in, who sees your #tableselfies when you post them MORE
Show us how you…still get an episode out when you’re both on the road all week! This week’s show is unedited except for music and clipping our very beginning nonsense and very end nonsense. Not only MORE
Welcome to the new year folks. We have a bit of a treat for you all this week as we got together with many of the different hosts of our shows and brought them in MORE
Show us what you do when your players get stuck! Phil and Senda talk about some quick tips and tricks as a GM or as players when the story gets stuck and stops moving forward. MORE
Show us how you deal with problematic content! Phil and Senda answer a listener question about problematic content and how to include it (if you have a good reason) in your games. Also, the meow MORE
Show us how you handle environmental challenges as a GM and as a player! Phil and Senda talk environmental challenges in light of Anadara’s current precarious situation in Dungeon World. Also, acceptable star wars hood MORE
Show us how you manage non-violent encounters instead of combat! Phil and Senda talk encounters with combat potential and how to make other options viable. Also, we fail at the end of the show, we MORE
Show us how you….talk about games when it’s the middle of busy holiday stuff! We really will get back to answering questions here any week now. In the meantime, Anadara spends most of her time MORE
Show us how you…had so much fun talking about Metatopia you ran out of time to do any AP…? Phil and Senda talk through the rest of Metatopia, including the inception of the half-eaten burger MORE
Show us how you…do a show while dropping! Phil and Senda talk through the first part of their Metatopia 2019 experience, what they playtested. Funny stories for next week! Also on this week’s episode, creepy MORE
Show us how you…plan ahead for Metatopia so as not to miss any scheduled releases! Phil and Senda are just traveling back today, so this episode was recorded two weeks ago. On today’s grab bag, MORE
Show us how you create an evocative opening! Phil and Senda talk through a few of their favorite opening options, then finally truly begin the Legacy weapon with an opening of their own. Also, Phil MORE
Show us how you handle manage 1 on 1 play when your game might be built for a party! Phil and Senda talk about ways to manage the power differentials and missing niches, then move MORE
Show us how you session 0! Phil and Senda talk about a little pivot we’ll be making to the show to accommodate our crazy lives: we will be splitting the show in to some discussion, MORE
Show us how you learn to improv GM! Phil and Senda talk about tips and ways to ease in to improv GMing coming from a more traditional prep background. Also, snacks, oreos, raccoon appreciation day, MORE
Show us how much backstory is too much backstory! Senda and Phil talk about backstory for PCs, NPCs, and how to be effective with it in one shots and campaigns. Also, silicone, Phil is still MORE
Show us how you QCC’d! Phil and Senda talk about what they ran at QCC 2018 and what lessons they took away from each of those game experiences. Also, Phil has a silicone straw! Phil’s MORE
Show us how you run a panel when you make the audience come up with all the topics! Phil and Senda answer audience questions at QCC 2018 in Buffalo. All the outtakes are in the MORE
It’s a grab bag! Phil and Senda talk running tight plots at one shots, handling paradigm shifts in games, and what kind of designs we’re currently in to. Past Phil and Past Senda assume that MORE
Show us how you play and GM reactively and proactively in one shots and campaigns! So many moving parts in this one that Senda and Phil both talk about one shots and campaigns. Also we discuss MORE
That’s right, it’s another grab bag! The QCC is nearly here and in a desperate attempt to not be last minute scrambling or missing an episode, our valiant hosts return to the time honored tradition MORE
Hi friends! This month leading up to the Queen City Conquest, where both Phil and Senda will be in attendance, is super hectic! We’ll be doing a bunch of fun grab bag episodes to keep MORE
Show us how you cootie catcher a magical girl! Phil and Senda are joined by Emily Reinhart of Third Act Publishing to talk about her new game on kickstarter now, Domina Magica: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1445739002/domina-magica-a-magical-girl-rpg Also, Phil MORE
Someone left the garbage bins open at the Panda’s Talking Games studio, and look who came wandering in! On this episode, Eric and Rob rummage ’round the rubbish and come up with Grant Howitt and MORE
Show us how you manage out of control campaigns! Since we talked about in session table control issues last week but went a little out of control ourselves, we’re finishing up Kevin’s topic this week MORE
Show us how you handle an out of control table (or podcast?) at a convention! Phil and Senda talk about signs of the table being out of control, how to tell if it’s actually a MORE
Show us what you…like to snack on for conventions and at home? Phil and Senda talk way too much about snacks before jumping in on how to make “good” puzzles for one shots and campaigns. MORE
Iiiit’s the July Grab Bag part one! Senda’s going on vacation so this needed to be faster to edit. On today’s episode, we cover mashing up magical girls with cyberpunk, how to handle character death MORE
Show us how you handle different power levels in one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk about the pros and cons of starting at low levels, medium levels, or high levels, and handling speed MORE
Show us how you prep differently for one shots at cons vs. one shots at home! Phil and Senda talk about generality and accessibility vs. specificity and customization, time frames, etc. Please forgive my slightly MORE
