Two-Headed Game Master

You leveled up! Congratz. Probably you have some new spells or powers…but how exactly did your character get those new shinnies? There are a lot of different narrative reasons or explanations for leveling up, and that is really cool.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The quest to put on the best show ever in the Forbidden lands continues! Enjoy this bonus episode you faithful listeners.  https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/ www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours TTRPG, RPG, Game Mechanics, Game Master, Player, Live-Play, Forbidden Lands, Adventure

First timers beat Elden Ring in 10 hours without glitches?!?! (NOT CLICK BAIT) jk, we don’t play Elden Ring, we just talk about playing it. A year since its release seems like enough time to digest it.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The quest to put on the best show ever in the Forbidden lands continues! Enjoy this bonus episode you faithful listeners.  https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/ www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours  

You ever heard that old saying, ‘never split the party’? We examine the adage and fly right in its face like a drunk seagull after that croissant you’re munching on. Please enjoy this buttery tips and tricks (a lot more difficult for a seagull to steal) www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The quest to put on the best show ever in the Forbidden lands continues! Enjoy this bonus episode you faithful listeners.  https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/ www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Listen to the talking heads of 2HGM review The Forbidden Lands ttrpg. We had a fun time playing but even better time talking about playing it. Tune in to hear our saucy dish.   www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The quest to put on the best show ever in the Forbidden lands continues! Enjoy this bonus episode you faithful listeners.  https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/ www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Welcome to the Forbidden Lands, a classical fantasy world fraught with danger. Join Dane as Evrart theTarnished, Cosmo as Ziska Redback, and Guest Star GM Enzo, in a journey to find a place in a broken land. On the road and in between jobs, a chance meeting with an unlikely pair puts our adventurers on an epic quest! https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/ www.2HGM.com Music: Po...

Another installment of the ‘How To’ series, but with a dope twist. Instead of breaking down a piece of media, we break down a common trope… the library! Should've been pretty obvious from the title. Libraries are all over fantasy and sci-fi stories, and we think they are pretty tubular. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Well last episode was exciting right? If it wasn’t really your bag, don't worry because we don't talk about it at all this episode. Just kidding, it's pretty much all we talk about. Our guests were gracious enough to stick around to discuss what it was like to play the evil guy. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

People say two heads are better than one, let’s put that to the test. We have two guests playing as the Big Bad in this upside down live play episode. Listen in to hear if Dane and Cosmo can thwart Brian and Alex! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Get your tips and tricks here! Tips on how to keep your cool in the face of a player that is about to ruin that took months of planning. Tricks on how to give a simple answer that makes you seem like a genius that saw this situation a mile away! Limited time only…just capping, it’ll be available for a long time.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

In a mash up of several ideas, we discuss things we try to as GMs and stuff we’ve seen on the internet. Being a GM can sometimes feel like trying to entertain a bunch of rabid cats in a bathtub…jk we love our players! As the facilitator, responsibilities fall on the GM that the players don’t have to deal with. There’s some pretty obvious ones, but this episode is about the ones less obvious.  www....

The villain makes the story they say, well we say that. Villains come in all shapes and sizes, not all of them are ‘the big bad’. Sometimes the villain acts like a friend and reveals their betrayal at a critical moment, other times the villain rises from the dead to claim their power. Point is, there are a lot of ways to introduce a villain.    www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning...

Fresh out of the recording studio, comes a TNT. Tips and tricks that is, this one is about writing a prompt for your players. What makes a good prompt and how to execute making one is discussed, also we make some jokes… but what else is new? www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Remember how we keep threatening to release our original setting and game system? Don’t look now because the time is nigh! Well nigh-ish, but we are excited and this episode is all about the cool and radical places and peoples of Afterlife.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Happy Halloween roleplayers! This spooky season Cosmo runs Neptune’s Slime, a one shot in our RPG-Lite system: Just off the west coast of Vancouver Island lies the small islet Zadok. A university research station is getting ready for the offseason, and the motley assortment of stragglers are very much unprepared for what the tide brings in…mwahahaha  Stay spoopy! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's F...

Sometimes it is ok to kill your players. I mean player characters. However much your players frustrate you, you shouldn’t kill them. But seriously, player characters can die and we think it shouldn’t be taken lightly. From why and when to how and where, we discuss. DON”T MISS THIS EPISODE, IT WILL BE ON THE TEST. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

A new adventurer starts out at level one, goes on an adventure and is the exact same person they were before the adventure? That doesn’t seem right, characters should grow over time. Hence leveling systems in a lot of TTRPGs, characters refine their skills or develop new ones. But don't worry, you know we can't resist talking about the roleplay side of anything and this episode is not an exception...

Scheduling can be a real downer sometimes, we discuss strategies to still get your TTRPG fix even when the group can’t get together. One-on-one roleplaying has its nuances, it also just hits different. We’ve done a fair bit of one-on-one, because, well, we are addicted sickos. Hopefully our experiences have lessons in them, just not sure what they are. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The...

If you are a Game Master and you hate running a town session, this episode is for you. If you are a player and you never know what to do in a town, this episode is for you. Towns can be tricky, making it believable can be quite the task but remember SPERM! No that sperm you nasty child, it stands for: Social, Political, Economic, Religious, and Military.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, T...

WITNESS ME!!! Learn what we think it takes to run an adrenaline soaked, action packed, Mad Max: Fury Road TTRPG session. Of course we have to break down the movie in order to build back a road map…See what I did there? www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Performance rolls are a big part of the TTRPG experience, and they are not just lying to a guard or tricking a dragon. Performance rolls can be anything that has the player acting out their character’s action. We discuss when to call for such a performance and the effects the roleplaying can have on the dice roll.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Tricks and tricks, I mean tips and ticks, alright I’m giving up. Bosses are important, we talk about how to bring the drama and nail the boss fight. Interesting mechanics, and set up, and loot of course.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours