Panda's Talking Games

Show us how (or if) you debrief your campaigns! Phil and Senda talk campaign debriefs and ways to approach them. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the MORE

Show us how you handle pacing as a player! Phil and Senda sit down to chat about the companion topic to 250, the one that people don’t address very much — that everyone contributes to MORE

Show us how you pace your story as a GM — in one shots and campaigns! That’s right, for our 250th episode we revisit our classic format of one shots vs. campaigns to talk about MORE

Show us how you manage genre hopping all in one game! Phil and Senda sit down to talk about the specific needs of games that hop genres and which ones would make it the easiest MORE

Show us your favorite GMless story game! Phil and Senda talk GMless, collaborative story games — some of our favorites, why and when they’re great, and tips on how to approach playing them. Bamboo Lounge MORE

Show us how you determine if your game is bumming you out instead of pumping you up! Phil and Senda talk some of the reasons your game might not feel fun anymore and some ideas MORE

Show us how you use NPC relationships — without stressing them! Phil and Senda talk through some ideas about embedding NPCs without making them pressure points for the PCs. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! MORE

Show us how you “decrunchify” a mechanics heavy game — ie how to shift the balance to encourage more role play in conjunction with the heavier mechanics. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these MORE

Show us your favorite zero prep games to run! Phil and Senda talk games that are written to be low prep, and how to make a game that you like work as a no prep MORE

Show us how you manage your notes, as a player or as a GM! Phil and Senda talk about note taking, when we take notes, and how and with what, as well as what we MORE

Show us your favorite character or campaign that you never got to play through! Phil and Senda talk through their own unrequited characters and campaigns. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more MORE

Show us how you run narrative combat! Phil and Senda are here with some tips and tricks and pitfalls to running narrative combat successfully, including (of course) some definitions about what folks might be talking MORE

We’re back with another grab bag episode — two topics from twitter and one soap box from Phil! We talk more about our in development spark short hand for short hand romantic consent and what MORE

It’s a grab bag episode for May! We answer three listener questions in quick succession because they were fun. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: MORE

Show us how you acquire games — to play or to collect! Phil and Senda talk about collecting games, playing games, and how and why we keep and purchase games. Also, a sarlacc pit. Bamboo MORE

Show us how you take your sheaf of loose chapters and turn them into an actual end product — small rpg publisher style! Phil and Senda talk about their personal experiences in publishing, formatting, short MORE

By request, Phil and Senda jump in on talking about their particular experiences in RPG publishing: Phil as a publisher of RPGs, and Senda as a designer who has and is publishing with him, as MORE

Show us how you use description on demand! When is it a good idea to use it, how can you make it effective, and when might you want to avoid it? Phil and Senda talk MORE

Show us how you FINISH designing a game! Phil and Senda talk feedback, alphas, betas, ashcans, and quickstarts, based on our personal experience. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find MORE

Show us how you design a game! Senda and Phil start a brief overview of what the process has, historically, looked like for us, to be finished in PART 2. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers MORE

It was a wild few days and the end result was that even though we had some neat potential topics, we just didn’t have the spell slots to put them together. The end result is MORE

Show us how you hide and conceal emotions at the gaming table! Senda and Phil talk showing and hiding emotions as PCs and NPCs both expressively and mechanically. Senda even managed to remember the song MORE

It’s another chit chat episode! When things go a little wild in the real world but we still want to get an episode out to you, sometimes that means we do a quick chat about MORE

Show us how you play preludes (and flashbacks) in your games! Phil and Senda talk what preludes can do for you and some tips on how to implement them. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! MORE

Show us how you create and encourage role play as a GM and as a player! Phil and Senda talk about how to create opportunities and the right environment for role play to happen naturally MORE