Running the Table

Episode 32: Stories on Setting The Tone

Episode 32 is here for Running The Table! Today we discuss something very important in Table Top RPGs through three different stories: Setting The Tone. Each of these stories includes some variations in why players and game-runners (GMs, DMs, Storytellers, etc) need to discuss their goals and how they want to set the tone of the stories they are telling. This includes some good, some bad, and some lessons! Next episode we will be diving a bit deeper into the how of this topic.

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Episode 31: Travelling and Traipsing

Welcome back to Running The Table, a podcast about running - and playing - table top roleplaying games! In this episode I discuss some thoughts around travelling in various games, and the rules that have been outlined for it. Do you prefer to skip travelling, using it as a roleplay moment for your characters, having an encounter system, or something else? Let us know with an email or message us on twitter!

 

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Episode 30: All Barbarians All The Time

On Episode 30 of Running The Table, we're going to be reading through and discussing one of my all-time favorite D&D stories: The All Barbarian party! This story of hilarity and heroism may be well known, but it can still teach us a lot about roleplaying and rolling with the punches as a DM or GM.

 

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Episode 29: Statistics Status

Hello and welcome to Running The Table, a TTRPG discussion podcast! This episode we're experimenting a little bit - I have received a few requests to discuss some of the basic rules of some games and how to effectively leverage them. In light of those requests, today I'll be covering statistics - those things that govern how capable of certain things characters are. We'll also be going over how you can leverage these statistics for immersion of all things!

 

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Episode 28: Group Expectations

Welcome back to Running The Table, a podcast all about running your Table Top Role Playing Games!

 

This episode we go into greater detail discussing the stories we spoke of, and how the players within both had mismatched expectations of the game from the rest of the group and expressed them in some of the worst ways possible. What can you do as a Dungeon Master or Game Master to prevent similar situations? Well we've got some hints on just that!

 

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Episode 27: When Player Expectations Clash

This episode, we read through a couple of recently popular stories about player issues - namely when player expectations of the game, the dungeon master or game master, or their other players just don't mesh with the rest of the group. Next episode, we will dive a bit deeper and discuss what can be done to help foster kind and connected groups that share their expectations and outlooks of the game.

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Episode 26: Players As Agents

In this episode we dive a little deeper into Player - and Character - Agency. Just what is Agency, and what does it mean to preserve or take it away from our players? How can we avoid taking away agency?

 

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Episode 25: Good Soldiers Have Agency

Welcome back! Today we'll be reading through the RPG Horror Story "Good Soldiers Follow Orders" from a recent post on reddit, and taking a look at some of the major glaring errors and how you can avoid them.

 

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Episode 24: Tyler from Miss-Rolled Adventures

This episode our guest Tyler, from Miss-Rolled Adventures, joins us for some discussion of what it takes to get and keep players at the table, how to help them tell a story with you, and more.

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Episode 23: Dropping a Zone of Truth Bomb

In this episode, we go back over the story we read through in episode 22 and point out where some of the major issues were. What could the DM have done differently? And how can you avoid the same mistakes?

 

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