Two-Headed Game Master

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 Demise of Samwise Zenith 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 Halfling’s Treasure www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Two game-masters walk into a bar… actually it is only one, but they have two heads! (laugh here) That was a funny joke, no? We discuss humor in the hobby. Starting with the high production professional entertainment shows but then applying it to the amature scene (us).  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

You asked for it, so here it is: another episode about the text role-playing the sickos at 2HGM do because once a week role-playing is not enough. We also meander into talking about telling a good story, stats and failure too… so it is not a totally skippable episode… www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Time… yesterday, tomorrow, next year…At some point you will listen to all the words in this episode so why put it off? And now that you’ve already listened to this episode, I don’t need to write a description. Is your noodle twisted yet? www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Solo RPG existed long before we started this podcast, but if you never heard of them did they really tho? Wonder no longer, cuz after this episode you will know all about Solo RPGs. Well maybe not all about them, but a little more than when you started reading this probably… www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

When a fun activity gets stale, what do you do? Introduce a new toy ;p …For serious tho, if you ever feel stuck as a game master or maybe bored as a player, it might be time for a change. We talk about how we experience and work through burnout, writer’s block, and lack of creativity.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Optimizing your character for your play style during the creation process just takes a little thought… Or don’t listen to the haters (i.e. us), and you do you queen. But if you’re sickos like us you may want to squeeze every last drop of fun out of the hobby by thinking about how a character’s stats change the way you play them.  www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The mission on Samsa VI continues, will our heroes unravel the mystery of what happened to the terraforming team? Can they trust each other when events go from bad to worse? Find out now in Another Bug Hunt! https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqaE6OBGYXRJcKECKz2a5mCGPud6TOkHjdEu9pDsRDjgyXqS8IB www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

With great dice comes great math. Dice provide randomness to roleplaying, and sometimes it is not even dice! Whatever your random number generator, there are going to be some probabilities. Understanding what them dice do can provide insight into game design, balance and fun! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The mission on Samsa VI continues, will our heroes unravel the mystery of what happened to the terraforming team? Can they trust each other when events go from bad to worse? Find out now in Another Bug Hunt! https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqaE6OBGYXRJcKECKz2a5mCGPud6TOkHjdEu9pDsRDjgyXqS8IB www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Does the sound of the wind through the leafless branches raise the hair on the back of your neck? WAIT! What was that scurrying in the underbrush, harmless mouse? Or vicious vampire? Did I get you? We know it is not spoopy season when we release this episode, but you could be listening to it in October so I don’t want to hear another word about it…I maxed the word count so I guess you’ll just have...

The mission on Samsa VI continues, will our heroes unravel the mystery of what happened to the terraforming team? Can they trust each other when events go from bad to worse? Find out now in Another Bug Hunt! https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqaE6OBGYXRJcKECKz2a5mCGPud6TOkHjdEu9pDsRDjgyXqS8IB www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Can you review a game after only playing it for an hour? Well thanks to podcasting magic, which is similar to “Movie Magic” but much less cool, we can. You see, you may have only heard us play Mothership for an hour but by the time the photons of these words reach your eyeballs we will have actually played Mothership for like 7 hours, TA DA! www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Sav...

The mission on Samsa VI continues, will our heroes unravel the mystery of what happened to the terraforming team? Can they trust each other when events go from bad to worse? Find out now in Another Bug Hunt! https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqaE6OBGYXRJcKECKz2a5mCGPud6TOkHjdEu9pDsRDjgyXqS8IB www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Welcome to the scary space, we have screams and shouts. We got all the spooky things, honey no need to scout. Yes, I did write that… Mothership is a sci-fi horror TTPRG by Tuesday Knight Games (link in bio). And we grab a few guest stars to play the intro module hope nothing scary happens. https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqaE6OBGYXRJcKECKz2a5mCGPud6TOkHjdEu9pDs...

The adventure to save The Briarwood and the hamadryad sisters Lorelei and Corelei continues. Will the adventuring band, led by the poorest wood elf Anthony and the hungriest halfling Honk, overcome the evil that has come to the wood? Can the fastidious Colin learn something about the rough adventuring life from the less poor Samantha?   www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The adventure to save The Briarwood and the hamadryad sisters Lorelei and Corelei continues. Will the adventuring band, led by the poorest wood elf Anthony and the hungriest halfling Honk, overcome the evil that has come to the wood? Can the fastidious Colin learn something about the rough adventuring life from the less poor Samantha?   www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The adventure to save The Briarwood and the hamadryad sisters Lorelei and Corelei continues. Will the adventuring band, led by the poorest wood elf Anthony and the hungriest halfling Honk, overcome the evil that has come to the wood? Can the fastidious Colin learn something about the rough adventuring life from the less poor Samantha? www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours  

All the episodes of the Fey Sisters Fate live play may not be out yet, but we are back to our regularly scheduled programming. Welcome back Brian as this adventure’s super special guest, we dive into our review of the module. Basically we just talk about how fun it was and barely do any actual review. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

The adventure to save The Briarwood and the hamadryad sisters Lorelei and Corelei continues. Will the adventuring band, led by the poorest wood elf Anthony and the hungriest halfling Honk, overcome the evil that has come to the wood? Can the fastidious Colin learn something about the rough adventuring life from the less poor Samantha?   www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

This time on the pod, we start a prewritten module adventure written for 5e. Join us as brave adventurers assist the village of Bur Hollow, that sits on the edge of the mystical Briarwood forest, with their recent goblin trouble. As the band follows the trail, it is clear there is more troubling the Briarwood than a few goblins… www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

*Seinfeld voice* Every game has a crafting system these days, what is the deal with that? There is a long list of why, but we spend this episode more on the how. With a lot of examples out there we try to separate out the good from the bad www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Resources can be an easy way to create interesting problems to solve in TTRPG games. They can also be quite annoying to keep track of…ever go into the fridge and say “why do we have 4 mustards and an empty ketchup bottle?!” That’s a joke! But it really happened! In addition to mechanics, we get deep into the psyche of players. www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours

Breaking down how to execute a courtroom drama in a TTRPG, we deliberated hard, judged different ideas…I don’t know how to use “jury” in a sentence(shrug). Playing out a courtroom drama could be a lot of fun, and if you don’t agree maybe listen to the episode first or you’ll be held in contempt www.2HGM.com Music: Pondhillow's Finest, The Burning Saviours