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We discuss our experience with the downtime rules in Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Topics: fictionally involved vs summarized, small addition to campaign vs focus of campaign, using the rules to improvise a campaign, mechanical details of the activities. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/195.

We discuss and show off Talespire, a virtual tabletop in closed beta right now on Steam. Show notes: ggnorecast.com/194 .

Our first actual play screencast. Our dungeon academy students have a school phase, follow some personal quests, see what it's like to be in dungeon-school, observe portents, and then head back into the dungeon for some wilderness crawling and find a secret entrance to a new dungeon level. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/193. ~~~Make a Search Check~~~ patreon: https://patreon.com/ggnore youtube...

The gamers discuss the function of art in RPGs and enact coronavirus discourse. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/192.

An update about how gg no re is going quarantine mode. We're still playing, and we should have another group podcast soon. This virus has also opened the door to remote play to us. Daniel talks about how he's running a megadungeon on roll20. Show notes page with examples and roll20 settings: https://ggnorecast.com/191.

Tim and Daniel recap the events of the first proper foray into the dungeon beneath the academy. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/190. Music is "Monarchy" by Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/track/monarchy

We actually enter the dungeon. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/189.

We recount the events of last session and promise to be good boys and actually record the next actual play. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/188. Music is "Monarchy" by Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/album/monarchy

We talk about our most recent session of EPIC GAMING, in which the first  Dungeon Academy "plot arc" wrapped up: what happened, DM techniques  employed, some behind the scenes info.  Show notes:  https://ggnorecast.com/187.

An old face returns and a new one appears as the students attempt to  rescue a burning dryad and delve into a lair beneath her tree.  Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/186. Music is "Monarchy" by Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/track/monarchy

What is metagaming? Bad or good? How should metagaming affect situation  design? Plus discussions on domineering players, GM-player system  mismatch, and rules nazis.  Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/185.

The party continues to explore the Shady Grove, searching for the entrance of the dungeon proper, but things go a bit sideways. Show notes with character portraits and maps: ggnorecast.com/184 . Intro music "Monarchy" by Mosh

This week in Dungeon Academy, new best friends, striking out at romance with a foodie, passing and failing tests, and some reverse-ambushing in the Shady Grove. Music, maps, and PC pics in the show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/183.  Music is "Monarchy" by Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/track/monarchy

Tim and Daniel analyze what the acclaimed Western sandbox videogame Red Dead Redemption 2 took from D&D and what your campaign can take from it. We also discuss Bryce Lynch's review of the game.  Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/182.

This is the new superhero RPG hotness. Listen as four heroes unite to fight GARBAGEMAN, Neo-Birmingham's newest villain.  Rules and show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/181. WE STAN is a snappy game that produces an actual storyboarded comic book each time you play (no drawing talent necessary). It uses panoptical GM rulings to adjudicate superheroic action rather than using extensive rules and...

We play Bret Gillan's one-shot horror RPG, The Final Girl. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/180.

Our RPG advice column reprises with more questions from the internet and our patrons. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/179.

(Check the show notes for a pdf you can use to follow along with this episode.) Daniel explains a procedure for generating a town and dungeon together as a unit and talks about why it's good to do that. Includes a lair generator. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/178.

We play the intro scenario for heartwarming indie RPG from Japan,  Ryuutama. Learn about how it handles overland travel, and see how you  might use these procedures in other games. Show notes: ggnorecast.com/177 .

We generate characters for the heartwarming Japanese RPG Ryuutama. If you listen, you will know how to make them. Show notes: ggnorecast.com/176.

We review the D&D 5e Essentials Kit. Disregard the positive reviews you've seen. It is not good. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/175.

Jim runs a homebrew adventure set within ELECTRIC BASTIONLAND, the new hotness from Chris McDowall and other luminaries. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/174.

The 5e Essentials Kit playthrough hits a VERY STRONG inflection point. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/173.

Our RPG advice column reprises with more questions from the internet and our patrons. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/172.

D&D 5e Essentials Kit continued. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/171.