Shield Wall Podcasts

One of the other more subtly nuanced tabletop narrative themes gets a closer examination

What if history happened differently?

Tabletop Role-Playing is a group effort, so ensuring you start as you mean to go on is an important step

A perfectly calm conversation stays perfectly calm

Ambient audio for added immersion in tabletop role playing can be great when done properly, so lets talk some baseline how-to's

Bad news everyone, the world has ended

Zander shows what heroes are made of in a close run fight

Hackers and deckers and dystopias, oh my!

Zander's mopey barbarian friend gets a new lease on life

Why is Science Fiction so good for tabletop role playing?

Players deserve a better grade of baddie to fight

Zander's barbarian is having a tough time

There's a lot of pitfalls to being a new GM, but that doesn't mean you have to fall in ALL of them

It's an abstract kind of theme, but that's how Cosmic Horror works!

Jacob delivers a truly spectacular and spooky tale from a one shot adventure set in the Delta Green system!

Delta Green? Delta Green!

The Apocalypse is coming!

Surely this must be a rhetorical question right

Well that wasn't supposed to work out for them!

Zander is moving on up in the world

Parts one, two, and three of Adventures of Insomnia!

Parts four, five, and six of Adventures of Insomnia season 1 in a neat little bundle!

A perfectly calm discussion goes awry

Interesting NPCs? Interesting NPCs!

Its time for another grab bag!

Gotta keep your characters aligned properly

A note on character alignments and how to justify things...

Zander doesn't like elves, but isn't quite sure how to feel about half-drow yet

Cautious Players, DnD Etiquette, and How To End A Campaign, oh my!

So you've decided to become a murder hobo...

We can honestly say we weren't expecting any of this

Sometimes the GM has to discipline players, but all of them?

Sometimes TPK's happen on accident, sometimes its premeditated

The GM is not the enemy of the party

Its time for Elf character 101

Sometimes pvp happens, but when is it acceptable?

Zander's adventures experience a touch of Accelerando

Shield Wall weighs in with a verdict on premade campaigns

Wildcard characters can be useful in their own ways

Shield Wall expounds upon an unsatisfactory wikipedia summary

When you split the party, you either sentence people to death or find more plot

Shield Wall weighs in on awarding appropriate after action loot

Everything is coming up Zander!

Anton ventures into the home of a Nightmare

Who is this plot person and why should we hate them

Zander finally has his day, and an appropriate share of the loot

GM's, if your players make characters using this alignment chart, run!

What's a DM to do when their players skip the boss battle?

Poor Zander just can't catch a break

Sticking to the plan is for chumps, apparently