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Contact the Paladins of Podcast Honestly, Eli got us hooked on this idea he got from his Dad (who also happens to be one of the Paladin's players) because he didn't want to waste an ENTIRE lemon or lime called Microshots. It sounds like six full shots and Craig and Rob are both entertained by the idea. We catch the table talk bug as we try to discern the flavor for what our session zero&...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast If you're listening to our podcast, and aren't sure what we're doing, you should probably phone another friend right now because we don't either! Rob has an endgame idea that feels neat but may not work in actual application, and Craig did up a hand drawn map that the guys love. Eli mentions his general happy personality makes it difficult to run...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Eli wanted to spring a question about balance on us, particularly what does it mean for a game to be balanced and while Craig opened the can of philosophical potential of possibilities, Rob tried hard to separate over powered with balance in the metaphysical sense. Yet, all of it was to learn that we were being lead into a conversation about Rob attacking birds in t...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast The Paladins of Podcast are back! Check out how Rob has decided to go all in with his newest campaign and some of the tweaks Craig has been playing with while Eli brings up SHOOK: The Social Interaction Roleplaying Game because of it's great focus on storytelling with interpersonal triggers and problem solving. While Rob thinks a folder idea similar to a charac...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast How do you get your table to sit down, shut up, and pay attention to the game? How do you get them to participate? How do you get them to show up on time? Well, you simply make them sign a binding contract that states if they don't do these things there will be full fiery retribution filled with hate and brimstone. Okay, not really. But we do talk about what ha...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Our Paladin of Podcast Craig had some amazing news to deliver today, and it sent us down only the beginning of the rabbit hole of designing content that is going to be published. We cover a lot of the initial idea formation and the work that is needed to put out content that you're writing for a client and some of the expectations you can set as a creator. This...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast The paladins of podcast, Craig, Eli, and Rob do what they can to talk about monsters and how for the most part you can just use bears! But we keep veering off track as the conversation follows the natural progression of any well planned out improv dungeon. We fall into the trap of distraction and interesting items to pick apart. Roll Initiative everyone, because thi...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Craig has been a huge fan of TTRPG designer/writer Skerples for quite some time, and has loved the idea of The Monster Overhaul, a practical bestiary since it was announced. Craig had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Dai Shugars; editor and creative director for all of Skerples printed material. Listen in as Craig and Dai jump into the process of working th...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast What more could you ask for from a podcast? Sidequests features Rob and brand new hosts, YES! THAT'S RIGHT! HOSTS! As in Craig and Eli. While Craig can't keep himself from thinking about objects of negative mass and the fun physics that could be had some of his games it melts Rob's brain enough to equate his explanation down to magnets. Eli gives us s...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast What's up everybody!? Your Paladins of Podcast are back again with a few changes right now, and some big changes coming up in the future. Josh stepped away from our audio show, and we started putting things in place in order to keep us moving ahead at full steam. Craig is with us today and he would really like to stick around, and while he's getting used t...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob was finally able to get something in the schedule to talk with Jay Dragon and Ruby Lavin after a busy August for everyone, and some tumultuous thunderstorms in early September. We were able to really dive into both the designing aspect as well as the creation aspect of Wanderhome and connect with each of these fantastic individuals about how they chose their pro...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast I was listening to this weeks episode when I realized that Rob over develops most of his NPC's because either his players expect him to because they've always asked in depth questions or they expect him to because he always has. But the fact is, these NPC's are way developed, especially the reoccurring ones. Anyone else do this? --- Support this podca...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Josh tackle that record keeping. The book keeping. The score counting. The journaling. The dreaded note system. We talk about a few good points, for if you're a Dungeon Master and if you're a player. Did you know that when you shorthand and don't know what you're reading a week or two later, those notes are pretty useless? I'd still...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Aspartame is an intense, low-calorie, artificial sweetener . It is a white, odourless powder, approximately 200 times sweeter than sugar. And the paladins of podcast just can't let it go this episode! We talk medical stuff for no reason, try really hard to talk about 3rd party content, and campaign settings that run congruently with primary rules, and can'...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast GenCon has been an amazing ride this year, and as much as we absolutely love seeing every vendor, exhibitor, volunteer, and participant our favorite part is the opportunity to sit down and talk with the developers of the games we love. Rob had a chance encounter to sit down with Amit Moshe, the developer of City of Mist, and founder of Son of Oak Game Studio. Listen...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob made it down to Indianapolis to check out GenCon with newly appointed special content curator Mike Reynolds. They've been navigating their way through the best four days in gaming for at least two days now and give a quick recap of what they've seen so far and some of the things they've been able to do. The convention center is huge! But, it'...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast We know Rob's talked about it before, but it was Josh's first foray in to the unusual halloween dungeon Rob runs, and it's always a great time talking about some of the traps. We make a few quick references to how to change traps up because they're often times under utilized due to their nature but with a few tweaks you can have a rip-roaring rea...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob & Josh started out really strong with this one by mentioning a few things about using media as inspiration in a bid to finish a quick idea from last weeks episode. This spiraled out of control as we also looked at some of our own methods of running a game, some quick world building methods, and right at the end we finally get to what we actually wanted to ta...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast While Rob has talked about where a lot of his inspiration comes from, as we wrap up learning about Josh we take a closer look into what his general inspiration is when developing his stories and worlds. While Tolkien fantasy is always present he does seem to find some pretty unusual places to pull ideas from. But! Josh also warns of a potential pitfall with certain...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Josh and Rob tackle the idea of table Etiquette a bit more in depth this time around, speaking from both experience and expectations. Among the things we mention like keep proper hygiene as a player, is one of the most important things as both host and DM: Do not set a precedent you can not maintain; don't load the table up with maps and terrain if you can&apos...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast What is up everybody! Welcome back to Epic Table Games Audio Show! I know we've been gone for a bit, as we mourned the loss of our long time host and great friend Potato. However, to keep his memory alive and abide by his wishes, we refused to give up and found the next Paladin of Podcast:  Joshua Johnson. Stick with us as we dive right into this guys history o...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast It is with my greatest sorrow to inform our community of the death of our co-host, Brandon "Potato" Tatroe. Without Potato, it feels hard to move forward and I know that he wouldn't want me to stop or give up. When he suddenly handed me his reigns, I knew from a recent conversation that he didn't want this to end and that I'd have to finish...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Potato promised us some character builds for the new Playtest of Marvel Multiverse, and we finally get to see what he had going on. We detail some of the downsides of the character creation process and a little bit of the concept versus application issue many of us run into when talking about certain games and character design. Rob also lets a small secret out of th...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Potato follow up with some of the information that has come up since last week's episode about Marvel Multiverse Role Playing Game Playtest and Rob makes good on his teaser promise about some cool things about the Free League Publishing's "Vaesen." The art work is cool as hell, and the premise feels so close to folklore that its hard not...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast The paladins of the podcast tackle the Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying game Playtest handbook. As Rob and Potato breeze through some of the quickest chapters and a longer peer into some of the powers and abilities, we think this game is a general mainstay for the newer super hero genre of role playing games. The kicker is that we're not really on the same page as...