Two-Headed Game Master

Title says it all… www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

HOT TAKE: Player perception is not Character perception. Players can’t make good decisions without good information, why put it behind a roll wall? www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

A friend walked into a bar with a philosophy book, I pointed at it and said “I can’t?”... So we are talking about books. Specifically, choose your own adventure books. Precisely, Fighting Fantasy roleplaying Adventure Books... Exactly. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Sure playing god as a GM is pretty cool, but have you ever tried to create gods? Today we yap about making a TTRPG religion pop. Now, you don’t have to create a whole religion from the ground up but tuning up your favorite TTRPG setting’s religion can go a long way.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

What year did the first “mini-game” appear? We don’t know either, and I refused to look it up. But it sure wasn’t our original TTRPG; Afterlife. The best thing about mini-games is you can use them in any system because mini-games have completely different rules/gameplay than the larger rule system. Or at least they should in our opinion. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviour...

We are back at it again discussing descriptions and their uses in the TTRPG space. This is the episode for you if you have ever wondered what a 2HGM guided meditation would be like… that’s not something you have ever thought of? Huh, maybe it is time to reevaluate somethings www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Want to step up your debrief game? Don’t have a debrief game? Not a problem. After listening to this episode you will be able to debrief with the best of them. Just remember the rules of the pod, every time RMSEL is mentioned you have to finish your drink! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Welcome to the next episode in the How to Run series where we deep dive into a specific concept. We talk about space battles in this one because there are some interesting things about... hey did y'all notice all the earth reptiles on Dagobah? They totes have a Ball Python problem. Anyways, space battles can be done a multitude of ways and we talk about it. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest,...

We built a time machine and went back to when we could mainline a game for the whole weekend! Just kidding, we just took a little game-cation and ripped a 30 hour adventure in one sitting. Well we got up to stretch and bathroom but you knew what I meant…probably. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

To simulate real life in the TTRPG space, we distill actions to one quality/ability, a stat if you will. That makes it easy to run the simulation but is it accurate? *Loud buzzer sound* It is not accurate, actions rarely (if ever) rely on a single ability. Picking delicious non-poisonous mushrooms is not only about perception. We totaly should’ve used the mushroom example during the episode but I...

The physical design is not the only component of ergonomics, there is a mental component too. Some people go to school for whole degrees on Design (not us tho, our degree is in BS with a minor in bologna). In this episode we discuss how layouts and mechanics of an TTRPG game can influence the ergonomics of the experience. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Have you ever noticed how different TTRPG systems have similar concepts but slightly different mechanics? How sometimes there seems to be a rule for the most specific edge case but not a core mechanic? Is it possible that we, as game designers, have done a disservice by trying to lure players into game-mastering by writing out all the mechanics? Is this description all questions? Oops? You’re welc...

Still here, still leaning against that wall with my leather jacket and sunglasses. Perhaps still smoking… Point is I’m pretty cool and can probably talk my way of detention if a teacher were to walk by. But just because I’m steeped in rizz, does that mean I can just nat 20 my way into becoming the youngest president?  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The title is self explanatory I think. So I’m just going to lean against this wall with my leather jacket and cool sunglasses. Maybe light up a smoke. The question is, does the smoke buff my stats? Or is it a debuff, maybe it is neither?  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

GMs will create hundreds of years of lore, but it doesn’t have to actually take hundreds of years. How, you may ask?! Tips and Tricks. With their patented design, our Tips and Tricks will save you literally hundreds of years of hard work. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

In this episode we discuss what perks we have and…Just kidding, it is another designing episode! Frickin’ got you huh. We talk about the design implications of using Perks, Skills, or Attributes for our own game. Maybe they are actually the same thing, but you will have to listen to the episode to find out. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Ready? Ok! (sounds of the cheer squad warming up before their routine) Instead of those awkward minutes trying to remember how to role-play, try a warm up! Get those role-playing muscles limber and loose. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

By popular demand we invited the Two-Headed Game-Master duo back into the studio for another designing sesh. It might appear like we actually make backwards progress, but that is our process I guess (audible shrug) www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

It’s spoopy season alright, and you know what that means! 2HGM’s Halloween special yessiree. This year the players venture into war-torn Europe. The Grande Armee has created chaos in the region and provided the perfect opportunity for practitioners of the occult to steal secrets best left buried to time. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Come on, hit me! Stop trying to hit me and hit me! Do your players ever sound like that? Probably not, if they did GMs the world over might stop pulling punches. In this episode we take “the dice and rules are more like guidelines” as far as we wanted to…becuase we make the guidelines! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Joining us for the first time: 2HGM! These two game-masters and TTRPG enthusiasts talk about their original game system and how they are thinking of changing it.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Sometimes the brainteaser you planned does more than tease, other times it doesn’t even register, it can be hard to nail the perfect puzzle in your TTRPG. We may not have the answer but that doesn’t stop us from talking like we do. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

A lot of effort went into the Four Headed Game-Master, it might not be the most well structured debrief but we had a lot to process. Join us as we reminisce and tell our secrets of making one-shots about the same scenario. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

We grew an extra two heads, which brings the total count to four. In celebration we wanted to do a one-shot about a siege, but we all wanted to run it so instead we are doing four… That’s right, four one-shots, four sieges, four different game-masters.  Join us now for A Quick Towerfall  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

We grew an extra two heads, which brings the total count to four. In celebration we wanted to do a one-shot about a siege, but we all wanted to run it so instead we are doing four… That’s right, four one-shots, four sieges, four different game-masters.  Join us now for The Great Riot of DCB3 www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours