Main Topic   Sitting down with the guys over at BattleLords to chat about what they have been working on recently, as well as the new Kickstarter that should go live by the end of October...

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Episode 131: BattleLords new Kickstarter

Main Topic So you are going to be running a game. All GM’s do this but what is the first thing you do once you have pitched the basic idea to your players? Maybe you...

Episode 130: How to Research for your Game

Main Topic So over the last couple of episodes we did character creation for a FATE game. We are at that time of the year for another round of Statblockopolloza. All of us thought it...

Episode 129: Statblockapolloza Part 6

Main Topic In this episode we finish up these characters Skills and Stunts, plus a few more campaign setting items to touch up. How do you build out your FATE character skills? When you have...

Episode 128: Building Fate Characters Part 2

Main Topic Creating FATE Characters has never been easier or more fun. We are going to create some Fate characters for a campaign idea Guard-A-Manger has cooked up. Let’s see what we come up with....

Episode 127: Building Fate Characters Part One

Main Topic We are going to wrap up this series with a discussion about where you can draw inspiration for those whimsical or dark games with a metaphysical bend. You can draw Inspiration for these...

Episode 126: Inspiration for Metaphysical Games

Main Topic So we have been going for a full five years and counting. We have had a fun trip and today we will talk about how we got this going and what we were...

Episode 125: Five Years and Counting

Main Topic Every role playing game is about resolving conflicts that players face and one question each game has to answer is about how important physical combat will be to the game.  When you are...

Episode 124: Inspiration for Combat Heavy Games

Main Topic Welcome to a brief break from the planned Inspiration for Different Campaign Series! As an impromptu change of pace, we look at skills we have taken from GMing to our meatspace and real...

Episode 123: What GMing Has Taught Me About LIfe

Main Topic We will be tackling the idea of where to draw inspiration for different types of games for the next few episodes. Today we are going to talk about Inspiration for social and investigative...

Episode 122: Inspiration for Social and Investigative Games

Main Topic Downtime is that oh so much fun time of what the characters are doing when not in the dungeon or space battle or whatever the game you run. Not all games have built...

Episode 121: Making Downtime Fun Again

Main Topic Character generation can be something that you will need to be pretty proficient with doing before you run a game. I hear you ask why is that? Well remember you will have to...

Episode 120: Character Generation as a GM Skill

Main Topic Ok so something that almost every campaign will have is a big bad villain. It is a staple of storytelling. From myth to contemporary storytelling you will have a villain. You may not...

Episode 119: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 4

Main Topic Welcome back to Part 3 of this series. Today we are going to be talking about the Major Beats of the campaign story. A good way to think about story beats is to...

Episode 118: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 3

Main Topic In the prior episode we decided on a science fiction setting for the game. Here we go looking into the next step for things we are going to do for this campaign. Locations...

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