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Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Eli talk about some of the world effecting events that went on in the world of Animar and how weather will also be effected due to some good ol' volcanic activity. I'm positive there is more, but.. alas.. I don't remember much after Eli's "dramatic pause." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/epictab...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Are the long title still a thing? Anyhow! Rob and Eli dive into an entire conversation about some of the awesome things that have gone down in their individual campaigns. Eli tells us a little bit about some of the climbing plates that happened to plague his party over a 60 foot long gap in a magna tube while Rob details, a vampire queen of the red quart… I mean, co...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of side quests by epic table games! Today we sit down with bonfire game designer, and dragon slayer RPG's very own Peschke! We cover a whole lot about what went into his game, as well as some of the intricacies of the tabletop game in hobby as it is, and we hear a little bit about Rob's work acciden...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast It seems like a lot of the communities I'm a part of cycle through topics on a reoccurring and regular basis. What's popped up the most as of late? Challenge ratings! I understand that it's hard to understand when you don't understand it, but once you understand it, you wonder why it was so hard to understand in the first place! Understand all th...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Eli have been keeping it up with these incredible and long titles! But that isn't what we're talking about today. The paladins of podcast come out swinging with a few things they'd like to talk about, and really don't cover any of it because they go on another side quest! To talk about other things; tune in and turn the volume up to reaso...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob made a huge mistake by upping his microphone levels instead of turning up his headphones like a genius with no sleep. That must be what running for 19 hours a day gets you. We talk about the game Babies and Broadswords which is a fun introductory way to get the littles in Rob's life into a full blown ttrpg. Start them while they're young! We also cover...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Eli waste no time jumping into the conversation today, and while Rob has been interested in one of his newer acquisitions, Teens in Space, he hasn't had a whole heck of a lot of time to dig into the book like he'd like to. We also cover some of Eli's most recent campaign bits, one of Rob's mid session DM interruptions to help the party ou...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Eli left off last week with a mighty neat cliffhanger, and we finally get back to it today in the back half of the episode. With all of the OGL concerns and players deciding to take an extended leave from the Wizards of the Coast vehicle, we talk about some really neat games! Eli brings the Starwars Genisys game while Rob found Soulbound to be quite enthrall...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob's pretty Sure he picked up the sickies from his kids, but mustered through this episode anyway. Good thing too, because Eli asked SOOOOOO MANY QUESTIONS that Rob nearly passed out as soon as they were done recording! We hit some good points though when it comes to downtime activities, and because Rob still running pathfinder 1e, there is a great compendium...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob and Eli are hitting the ground running on brass tacks! As soon as 2023 kicked off our paladins of podcast talk about more Open Gaming License scares, naming your sessions and parties, and kicking progress in the goodies when it comes to our Dungeon23 progress. Follow along as we hit every major talking point that we didn't know we wanted to hit, on this wee...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast This is the last episode. of 2022!  We talk about the things that have hit us hard, like some of the OGL 3.0 changes by Wizards of the Coast, and some of the continual questions that pop up in popular forums like 'how do I monkey paw my players wish' and how to check in with my players about how they're feeling on the game. But all of this was just a...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Just earlier this week, Craig had decided to step away from SideQuests!, and we formally bid him farewell and the best of luck in every thing he does in the future; may his steps be sure and his path bright. We also talk about a small misstep Eli took in a puzzlesque encounter, and fight with technical difficulties in the midsts of a blizzard while talking about Eve...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Modiphius has been rumored to be closing their chapter on the 2d20 Conan system which is certainly sad for Rob who has yet to actually pick it up but Eli is rather excited about the potential for a new chapter of the titular barbaric hero. While Craig is on vacation, Rob and Eli tackle a few more topics that include how to handle characters with high stats and varyi...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Eli got us on the edge of our seats with a prompt of what we would do when a player decides to harvest a toxic fungus, and ask to make a tea out of it. What would you do? What would anyone do? We debate the logistics of possibilities as Rob brings up an article from earlier in 2022 when someone died by way of eating left out rice because of a bacteria that can kill...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast First and foremost, congrats Trent on your nuptials! Happy days indeed! Today we talk about more overdeveloped NPC's and some world building that Rob does and he gets hit with some hard and great questions from hosts Eli and Craig. We talk about his home-brew setting in the World of Animar, and how it's all build on the backbone of a singular character tha...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast Rob rolls solo for a short thank you to all of our listeners, and as many heart emoji's he can fit on the screen for hosts Craig and Eli for bringing new perspectives and ideas for everyone to help become better game masters. While the Holiday season is often times full of family, friends, and good times please remember to be safe. We here at SideQuests! and Ep...

Contact the Paladins of Podcast The paladins of podcast are back and shooting from the hip as we talk about all the things on our mind. How do we handle random off the cuff ideas? How do we fix quick issues? What kinds of things are doing with our players? Boons and great gifts of power that could turn a party into monstrous murder hobos? It's all kind of in there and we're happy to have...

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...