Daydreaming about Dragons
By Judd Karlman
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Episodes: 147
Aug 5, 2019
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Welcome to Daydreaming about Dragons, in which I'll think out loud about the techniques that help make tabletop role-playing games fun.
I am always looking for feedback about your play experiences.
I can't wait to hear from you.
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 102: 2023 Gaming Recap and Environmental Puzzles with Scavengers Reign
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons: REPLY SHOW FACE
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 101: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Chargen is play! | Inspiration Goat - Inspiration Day get's right to it.
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 100
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 99: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - More about Questions at the Table | Inspiration Goat: Artists!
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 98: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Patterns of Play / INSPIRATION GOAT - Vlad Taltos and Lore
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 97: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Scheduling / INSPIRATION GOAT - Deadhouse Gates, Warrens and Dragons
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Reply Show REACTION
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 96 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Questions & Settings | INSPIRATION GOAT - Slow Horses by Mick Herron
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 95 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - An array of Consequences | INSPIRATION GOAT - The Border Keeper and Second Spear by Kerstin Hall
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Reply Show Captured!
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 94 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Players who react to the consequences of their character's violence | INSPIRATION GOAT - Andor and Research
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 93 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Using the old D&D trope, YOU ALL MEET IN A TAVERN | INSPIRATION GOAT - The Scar by China Miéville
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Reply Show N.P.C.
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 92 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Making NPC's / INSPIRATION GOAT - Rings of Power, playing games in established worlds
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 91 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Problems Not Solutions / INSPIRATION GOAT - True Detective Season 2 and Chasing the Beauty
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 90 Tabletop Techniques: Taking Delight and Inspiration Goat: Steven Universe, the Purple Puma, Tiger Millionaire and Character Histories
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 89. What to do with post-great-game energy. / Inspiration Goat brings us Our Flag Means Death
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 88, Tabletop Technique: Considering the Murder-Hobo / Inspiration Goat: Closed Caption in Dune
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Episode 87 Tabletop Techniques: When should the DM make stuff up and when is it okay to ask the players to make stuff up/ Inspiration Goat: Peacemaker and the earnestness of comedy's straight man...
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: 2021 Light Reflection and Gratitude
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Reply Show Winter's Night
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Episode 86 Pitching Games and Inspiration Goat brings us Pictures of Pistols
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Episode 85 Tabletop Technique: When the villain and character play chess | Inspiration Goat Pariah by Anthony Ryan, and questioning creative decisions
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Episode 84 Tabletop Techniques - One drop of weird at a time | Inspiration Goat: Dune and carpeted spaceships
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Episode 83 Tabletop Techniques: Moving Beyond Genre Expectations / Inspiration Goat: Apocalypse World Playbooks
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 82, Season 2: Tabletop Techniques - First and Third Person Narration | Inspiraton Goat - Wildermyth
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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E81S2 Tabletop Techniques: Lore people care about it / Inspiration Goat: Willow and the Dust of Broken Hearts
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Reply Show Pollen
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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E80S2 Structure for Improvisation / Inspiration Goat: Leaving Kansas by Emmy Allen
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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E79S2 Tabletop Techniques: Leadership and Empathy / Inspiration Goat: Almost Famous and Lester Bangs on Rock and Roll
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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E78S2 Too many or too few players / Gideon the Ninth and Humor
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Episode 77 Thinking about Session 0 and The Murderbot Diaries
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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E76 S2 Getting info on the table and Mare of Easttown, hobbit shires and small town settings
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May 17, 2021 |
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E75 S2 Tabletop Techniques: B-Game / Inspiration Goat: Season 3, Star Trek Discovery
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May 06, 2021 |
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E74 S2 Table Techniques: Parable of the Floating Head / Inspiration Goat: Warrior
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Remembering Morgan
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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E73 S2 Tabletop Techniques: Language as Setting / IG: Insecure, Media and Art in your settings and fully fleshed out NPC's
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Special Congrats Ravenloft Episode
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Reply Show Snowblanket
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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E72S2 Table Technique: Genre, Tropes and Beyond / Inspiration Goat: What We Do in the Shadows and Lower Decks
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Reply Show Friendship is Magic
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Episode 71 - Favorite Gaming Experiences of the Past Decades (a strange episode for strange times)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Reply Show Two Zero
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons E70S2 - Table Technique: Making World History/Lore Relevant, Inspiration Goat: My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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E69S2 Daydreaming about Dragons - Table Techniques - What makes good players? / Inspiration Goat - The Sopranos
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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E68S2 Table Techniques: Consequences, Context and Cool Shit Inspiration Goat: Into the Lair of the Sun God
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Episode 67, Season 2: Table Techniques - Adventures leaving marks on characters | Inspiration Goat: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 2, Darmok
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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E66S2 Be awesomed #iamawesomedbyyou / I.G. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Reply Show Story Now
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Reply Show Autumn Cider
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Episode 65 Table Techniques: Looking for that One Thing / IG: Game of Thrones and what we can learn from it about ending a campaign
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Episode 64 - Table Technique: Preludes from Vampire: the Masquerade | Inspiration Goat: Elric and losing
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Episode 63 - AP: Random Tables | IG: The FIend Folio (Githyanki)
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Reply Show Summer's End
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Episode 62 - AP: Genre Expectations | IG: Star Trek Lower Decks
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Episode 61: AP - Mechanical and Pacing Expectations | IG: Perry Mason and corpses
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Episode 60 - AP: Brainstorming Gaming with Friends (in this case, with MadJay) IG: The Science Fiction Trinity Dials
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Reply Show Ain't Easy
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Episode 59: AP: Dramatic Lingo \ IG: The Old Guard
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Episode 58 - AP: Bina Janos | IG: Zuko, Cattra and Hugo
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Reply Show Garden
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Episode 57 - AP: When NOT to game IG: Book Covers and Blurbs
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Episode 56 - AP: Bad Ideas | IG: She-Ra/Wonder
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May 26, 2020 |
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Reply Show: Time is an Illusion
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May 22, 2020 |
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Episode 55 - AP: Improvisional Structure | IG: Show Intros
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May 09, 2020 |
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Episode 54 - AP: GMing Parties/Feasts/Gatherings | IG: Place names in Black Company by Glen Cook
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May 04, 2020 |
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Episode 53 - AP: Stras' Amazing Spell & Blade Questions | IG:Willow, Fin Razel vs. Queen Bavmorda
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Reply Show Washer Yer Hands
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Episode 52 - AP: Improving and Weaving | IG: Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Episode 51 - AP: Overbooked in Isolation | IG: No Goat, just Resources
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Episode 50 3/23/20 - AP: Bestiary in Trophy Gold | IG: Beforeigners on HBO
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Reply Show Whisky Tango Foxtrot: Open Letter to a New GM and Reply with Robbie Boerth
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Episode 49 AP: 3 Ways to Connect in Isolation (that aren't gaming online) / IG: Astro City by Busiek, Anderson and Ross
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Episode 48 - AP: 3 Game Player Weekend | IG: Sandman by Neil Gaiman - stories and family
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Reply Show New and Old
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Episode 47 - AP: Play to find out & Keep the story feral / IG: Green Knight trailer
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Episode 46 - AP: CLosure and Artifacts / IG: The Well
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Episode 45 AP - I didn't know what to do / IG: The Witch on Netflix and bringing the group together.
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Episode 44: AP - The Last Case | IG: Mando again
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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Episode 43 12/8/19 - Table Techniques: Before and After a Double-game Day | Inspiration Goat: Door in the Woods, rogue-like
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Episode 42: Table Techniques: Fog of War Tweet by Rob | Inspiration Goat: Oologies by Alie Ward
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Episode 41 Table Techniques: Giving Thanks Inspiration Goat: Mandolorian and Failure
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Reply Show First Snow
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Episode 40 10/21/19 - Table Techniques: Sometimes say less or even nothing | Inspiration Goat: Into the Spider-Verse
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Episode 39 10/13/19 - Table Techniques: Patterns & Repitition | Inspiration Goat: Dragon Prince - History by the victors
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Episode 38 10/6/19 | Table Techniques: Gaming Absences | Inspiration Goat: Caves of Qud, Lore and History
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Reply Show Pinterest
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Episode 37 9/22/19 - Table Techniques: Job Interviews and Office Politics in Fantasy/Science Fiction Gaming | Inspiration Goat: Fell by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Episode 36 9/9/19 - Table Techniques: Imagination Pinball | Inspiration Goat: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Episode 35 9/1/19 - Table Techniques: Reasonable NPC Syndrome | Inspiration Goat: Bendis' Superman and Hickman's X-books
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Reply Show Tango: Space Opera Decisions with Dev and Slice of Live Intros with Rob
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Episode 34 8/25/19 - Table Techniques: Interrogating Carvul | Inspiration Goat: Mindhunters, characters talking it out
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Reply Show Sierra 8/21/19: Jeremy from Take on Rules and Aron on Highlighting Modules
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Episode 33, 8/18/19 - Table Techniques: What to do when playtesting a friend's game | IG: Monster Manuals!
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Reply Show Romeo 8/7/19: Jason's Twitter Thread and Goblin Henchman and Monsters
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Episode 32 8/12/19 - Table Techniques: More Investigative Thoughts | IG Priest of Bones by Peter McLean
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Episode 31 8/4/19 - Table Techniques: Intro's and Montages | IG: The Wire, institutional pressure and factions
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Episode 30 7/28/19, Table Techniques: GM Rehearsal | Inspiration Goat: Brick
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Reply Show Quebec, 7/24/19: Michael on Con Game Pacing | Drew on Spotlight Time | Erik on Positive Feedback
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Episode 29, 7/22/19: Table Techniques: Loud and Transparent \ Inspiration Goat: Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Episode 28: Table Techniques: Dominoes Fall / Post-Game Afterglow | Inspiration Goat: True Detective and Setting
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Episode 1 Again: Table Techniques: Learn with Me / Inspiration Goat: World Building in The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Reply Show Papa 7/4/19: Prison in the World of Darkness, What do they see? and Strange & Beautiful Things
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Episode 27 6/30/19: Table Techniques: Rules Gandalf | Inspiration Goat: The Planetary Omnibus by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Reply Show Oscar 6/26/19: TPK the Canon with Jim and Supporter's Choice: Evocative blends of the mun
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Episode 26 6/23/19: Table Techniques: What does that look like? | Inspiration Goat: Deadwood: The Movie
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Reply Show November: Ray and Alex 6/19/19
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Episode 25 6/16/19: Table Techniques: Questions and Psychic Tigers / Inspiration Goat: Wolf of the South
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Episode 24 6/9/19 Table Techniques: One GM and One Player / Inspiration Goat: Coins in John Wick
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Reply Show Mike 6/5/19 Paul & Dro
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Episode 23: 6/2/19 Table Techniques: Endings as Beginnings / Inspiration Goat: Lisa Hanawalt Youtube Video
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Episode 22 5/26/19 Table Techniques: Interrogating the Goblin / Inspiration Goat: Art by John Wigley
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May 27, 2019 |
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Lima Mid-Week Links: Hearts of Wulin, Trilemma Adventures Compendium and A Storm Eternal
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May 22, 2019 |
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Episode 21 5/19/19 Table Techniques: Artifacts / Inspiration Goat: Artesia by Mark Smylie
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May 20, 2019 |
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Reply Show Kilo
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May 16, 2019 |
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Episode 20 5/12/19: Table Techniques: Pre and Post Game day / Inspiration Goat: Game of Thrones and Avengers Endgame
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May 13, 2019 |
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Episode 19 5/10/19: Table Techniques: Writing about the game / Inspiration Goat: Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
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May 10, 2019 |
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Episode 19 4/12/19 Table Techniques: Fudging Die Rolls / Inspiration Goat: The Forgotten Realms
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Episode 18: 4/2/19 Table Techniques: GMing during Character Creation / Inspiration Goat: Star Trek Discovery
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Reply Show Juliet 3/20/19
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Episode 17: 3/18/19 Table Techniques: Prep Spectrum / Inspiration Goat: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Episode 16: 3/10/19 Table Techniques: Necropraxis 20 Questions | Inspiration Goat: Game of Thrones
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Reply Show India
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Episode 15 3/4/19 Table Techniques: Post-Game E-mail / Inspiration Goat: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Episode 14 2/26/19 Table Techniques: Sector Hades Zeta - Money and the Sci-fi Sit-down / Inspiration Goat: The Dragon Prince
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Reply Show Hotel 2/13/19
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Episode 13 2/12/18 Table Techniques: Equipment ala Swordbreaker / Inspiration Goat: Adventure Paths
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Episode 12 2/7/19 Table Techniques: Finding Old Worlds / Inspiration Goat: Pan's Labyrinth
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Episode 11 1/28/19 Table Techniques: Undead Ecology / Inspiration Goat: True Detective
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Reply Show Golf 1/23/19
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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Episode 10 Table Techniques: Power of Names / Inspiration Goat: Darkest Dungeons - The Collector
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Episode 9 Table Techniques: Character Knowledge/ Inspiration Goat: Mister Miracle by Tom King Jan 9, 2019
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Reply Show Foxtrot 1/9/18
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Episode 8 1/7/19 Table Techniques: Tea with a Lich / Inspiration: The Scar by China Miéville
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Reply Show Echo 1/2/2019
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Episode 7 12/30/18 AP: 2019 Gaming Resolution / Inspiration Goat: Adrian Selby's books
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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Reply Show Delta 12/26/18
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Episode 6 12/23/18 Table Techniques: World Building / Inspiration Goat: Cavaliers of Mars by Rose
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Reply Show Charlie 12/19/18
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Ep 5 12/16/18 Table Techniques: Organizing games Inspiration Goat: The Danielle Cain books
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Dec 16, 2018 |
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Reply Bravo Dec 12, 2018
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Episode 4 12/9/18 TT: What players want / Inspiration Goat: Caves of Qud
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Reply Show Alpha Dec 5, 2018
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Episode 3 12/3/18 TT: It is All World Building, Inspiration Goat: D&D Skill Checks on twitter
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Episode 2 11/25/18 Play: Death Incarnate Inspiration: Outlaw/King
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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Daydreaming about Dragons (Trailer)
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Nov 24, 2018 |