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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 104 - Spring Gaming

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 103 - Thinking about why I game at all.

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 102: 2023 Gaming Recap and Environmental Puzzles with Scavengers Reign

Daydreaming about Dragons: REPLY SHOW FACE

Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 101: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Chargen is play! | Inspiration Goat - Inspiration Day get's right to it.

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 100

Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 99: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - More about Questions at the Table | Inspiration Goat: Artists!

Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 98: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Patterns of Play / INSPIRATION GOAT - Vlad Taltos and Lore

Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 97: TABLETOP TECHNIQUES - Scheduling / INSPIRATION GOAT - Deadhouse Gates, Warrens and Dragons

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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 96 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Questions & Settings | INSPIRATION GOAT - Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 94 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Players who react to the consequences of their character's violence | INSPIRATION GOAT - Andor and Research

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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Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 92 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Making NPC's / INSPIRATION GOAT - Rings of Power, playing games in established worlds

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 91 TABLETOP TECHNIQUE - Problems Not Solutions / INSPIRATION GOAT - True Detective Season 2 and Chasing the Beauty

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 90 Tabletop Techniques: Taking Delight and Inspiration Goat: Steven Universe, the Purple Puma, Tiger Millionaire and Character Histories

Daydreaming about Dragons, Episode 89. What to do with post-great-game energy. / Inspiration Goat brings us Our Flag Means Death

Daydreaming about Dragons Episode 88, Tabletop Technique: Considering the Murder-Hobo / Inspiration Goat: Closed Caption in Dune

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...

Bonus Episode: 2021 Light Reflection and Gratitude

Reply Show Winter's Night

Episode 86 Pitching Games and Inspiration Goat brings us Pictures of Pistols

Episode 85 Tabletop Technique: When the villain and character play chess | Inspiration Goat Pariah by Anthony Ryan, and questioning creative decisions

Episode 84 Tabletop Techniques - One drop of weird at a time | Inspiration Goat: Dune and carpeted spaceships

Episode 83 Tabletop Techniques: Moving Beyond Genre Expectations / Inspiration Goat: Apocalypse World Playbooks

Episode 82, Season 2: Tabletop Techniques - First and Third Person Narration | Inspiraton Goat - Wildermyth

E81S2 Tabletop Techniques: Lore people care about it / Inspiration Goat: Willow and the Dust of Broken Hearts

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E80S2 Structure for Improvisation / Inspiration Goat: Leaving Kansas by Emmy Allen

E79S2 Tabletop Techniques: Leadership and Empathy / Inspiration Goat: Almost Famous and Lester Bangs on Rock and Roll

E78S2 Too many or too few players / Gideon the Ninth and Humor

Episode 77 Thinking about Session 0 and The Murderbot Diaries

E76 S2 Getting info on the table and Mare of Easttown, hobbit shires and small town settings

E75 S2 Tabletop Techniques: B-Game / Inspiration Goat: Season 3, Star Trek Discovery

E74 S2 Table Techniques: Parable of the Floating Head / Inspiration Goat: Warrior

Remembering Morgan

E73 S2 Tabletop Techniques: Language as Setting / IG: Insecure, Media and Art in your settings and fully fleshed out NPC's

Special Congrats Ravenloft Episode

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E72S2 Table Technique: Genre, Tropes and Beyond / Inspiration Goat: What We Do in the Shadows and Lower Decks

Reply Show Friendship is Magic

Episode 71 - Favorite Gaming Experiences of the Past Decades (a strange episode for strange times)

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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

E69S2 Daydreaming about Dragons - Table Techniques - What makes good players? / Inspiration Goat - The Sopranos

E68S2 Table Techniques: Consequences, Context and Cool Shit Inspiration Goat: Into the Lair of the Sun God

Episode 67, Season 2: Table Techniques - Adventures leaving marks on characters | Inspiration Goat: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 2, Darmok

E66S2 Be awesomed #iamawesomedbyyou / I.G. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

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Reply Show Autumn Cider

Episode 65 Table Techniques: Looking for that One Thing / IG: Game of Thrones and what we can learn from it about ending a campaign

Episode 64 - Table Technique: Preludes from Vampire: the Masquerade | Inspiration Goat: Elric and losing

Episode 63 - AP: Random Tables | IG: The FIend Folio (Githyanki)

Reply Show Summer's End

Episode 62 - AP: Genre Expectations | IG: Star Trek Lower Decks

Episode 61: AP - Mechanical and Pacing Expectations | IG: Perry Mason and corpses

Episode 60 - AP: Brainstorming Gaming with Friends (in this case, with MadJay) IG: The Science Fiction Trinity Dials

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Episode 59: AP: Dramatic Lingo \ IG: The Old Guard

Episode 58 - AP: Bina Janos | IG: Zuko, Cattra and Hugo

Reply Show Garden

Episode 57 - AP: When NOT to game IG: Book Covers and Blurbs

Episode 56 - AP: Bad Ideas | IG: She-Ra/Wonder

Reply Show: Time is an Illusion

Episode 55 - AP: Improvisional Structure | IG: Show Intros

Episode 54 - AP: GMing Parties/Feasts/Gatherings | IG: Place names in Black Company by Glen Cook

Episode 53 - AP: Stras' Amazing Spell & Blade Questions | IG:Willow, Fin Razel vs. Queen Bavmorda

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Episode 52 - AP: Improving and Weaving | IG: Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts

Episode 51 - AP: Overbooked in Isolation | IG: No Goat, just Resources

Episode 50 3/23/20 - AP: Bestiary in Trophy Gold | IG: Beforeigners on HBO

Reply Show Whisky Tango Foxtrot: Open Letter to a New GM and Reply with Robbie Boerth

Episode 49 AP: 3 Ways to Connect in Isolation (that aren't gaming online) / IG: Astro City by Busiek, Anderson and Ross

Episode 48 - AP: 3 Game Player Weekend | IG: Sandman by Neil Gaiman - stories and family

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Episode 47 - AP: Play to find out & Keep the story feral / IG: Green Knight trailer

Episode 46 - AP: CLosure and Artifacts / IG: The Well

Episode 45 AP - I didn't know what to do / IG: The Witch on Netflix and bringing the group together.

Episode 44: AP - The Last Case | IG: Mando again

Episode 43 12/8/19 - Table Techniques: Before and After a Double-game Day | Inspiration Goat: Door in the Woods, rogue-like

Episode 42: Table Techniques: Fog of War Tweet by Rob | Inspiration Goat: Oologies by Alie Ward

Episode 41 Table Techniques: Giving Thanks Inspiration Goat: Mandolorian and Failure

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Episode 40 10/21/19 - Table Techniques: Sometimes say less or even nothing | Inspiration Goat: Into the Spider-Verse

Episode 39 10/13/19 - Table Techniques: Patterns & Repitition | Inspiration Goat: Dragon Prince - History by the victors

Episode 38 10/6/19 | Table Techniques: Gaming Absences | Inspiration Goat: Caves of Qud, Lore and History

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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

Episode 36 9/9/19 - Table Techniques: Imagination Pinball | Inspiration Goat: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Episode 35 9/1/19 - Table Techniques: Reasonable NPC Syndrome | Inspiration Goat: Bendis' Superman and Hickman's X-books

Reply Show Tango: Space Opera Decisions with Dev and Slice of Live Intros with Rob

Episode 34 8/25/19 - Table Techniques: Interrogating Carvul | Inspiration Goat: Mindhunters, characters talking it out

Reply Show Sierra 8/21/19: Jeremy from Take on Rules and Aron on Highlighting Modules

Episode 33, 8/18/19 - Table Techniques: What to do when playtesting a friend's game | IG: Monster Manuals!

Reply Show Romeo 8/7/19: Jason's Twitter Thread and Goblin Henchman and Monsters

Episode 32 8/12/19 - Table Techniques: More Investigative Thoughts | IG Priest of Bones by Peter McLean

Episode 31 8/4/19 - Table Techniques: Intro's and Montages | IG: The Wire, institutional pressure and factions

Episode 30 7/28/19, Table Techniques: GM Rehearsal | Inspiration Goat: Brick

Reply Show Quebec, 7/24/19: Michael on Con Game Pacing | Drew on Spotlight Time | Erik on Positive Feedback

Episode 29, 7/22/19: Table Techniques: Loud and Transparent \ Inspiration Goat: Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Episode 28: Table Techniques: Dominoes Fall / Post-Game Afterglow | Inspiration Goat: True Detective and Setting

Episode 1 Again: Table Techniques: Learn with Me / Inspiration Goat: World Building in The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Reply Show Papa 7/4/19: Prison in the World of Darkness, What do they see? and Strange & Beautiful Things

Episode 27 6/30/19: Table Techniques: Rules Gandalf | Inspiration Goat: The Planetary Omnibus by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday

Reply Show Oscar 6/26/19: TPK the Canon with Jim and Supporter's Choice: Evocative blends of the mun

Episode 26 6/23/19: Table Techniques: What does that look like? | Inspiration Goat: Deadwood: The Movie

Reply Show November: Ray and Alex 6/19/19

Episode 25 6/16/19: Table Techniques: Questions and Psychic Tigers / Inspiration Goat: Wolf of the South

Episode 24 6/9/19 Table Techniques: One GM and One Player / Inspiration Goat: Coins in John Wick

Reply Show Mike 6/5/19 Paul & Dro

Episode 23: 6/2/19 Table Techniques: Endings as Beginnings / Inspiration Goat: Lisa Hanawalt Youtube Video

Episode 22 5/26/19 Table Techniques: Interrogating the Goblin / Inspiration Goat: Art by John Wigley

Lima Mid-Week Links: Hearts of Wulin, Trilemma Adventures Compendium and A Storm Eternal

Episode 21 5/19/19 Table Techniques: Artifacts / Inspiration Goat: Artesia by Mark Smylie

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Episode 20 5/12/19: Table Techniques: Pre and Post Game day / Inspiration Goat: Game of Thrones and Avengers Endgame

Episode 19 5/10/19: Table Techniques: Writing about the game / Inspiration Goat: Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

Episode 19 4/12/19 Table Techniques: Fudging Die Rolls / Inspiration Goat: The Forgotten Realms

Episode 18: 4/2/19 Table Techniques: GMing during Character Creation / Inspiration Goat: Star Trek Discovery

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Episode 17: 3/18/19 Table Techniques: Prep Spectrum / Inspiration Goat: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

Episode 16: 3/10/19 Table Techniques: Necropraxis 20 Questions | Inspiration Goat: Game of Thrones

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Episode 15 3/4/19 Table Techniques: Post-Game E-mail / Inspiration Goat: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Episode 14 2/26/19 Table Techniques: Sector Hades Zeta - Money and the Sci-fi Sit-down / Inspiration Goat: The Dragon Prince

Reply Show Hotel 2/13/19

Episode 13 2/12/18 Table Techniques: Equipment ala Swordbreaker / Inspiration Goat: Adventure Paths

Episode 12 2/7/19 Table Techniques: Finding Old Worlds / Inspiration Goat: Pan's Labyrinth

Episode 11 1/28/19 Table Techniques: Undead Ecology / Inspiration Goat: True Detective

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Episode 10 Table Techniques: Power of Names / Inspiration Goat: Darkest Dungeons - The Collector

Episode 9 Table Techniques: Character Knowledge/ Inspiration Goat: Mister Miracle by Tom King Jan 9, 2019

Reply Show Foxtrot 1/9/18

Episode 8 1/7/19 Table Techniques: Tea with a Lich / Inspiration: The Scar by China Miéville

Reply Show Echo 1/2/2019

Episode 7 12/30/18 AP: 2019 Gaming Resolution / Inspiration Goat: Adrian Selby's books

Reply Show Delta 12/26/18

Episode 6 12/23/18 Table Techniques: World Building / Inspiration Goat: Cavaliers of Mars by Rose

Reply Show Charlie 12/19/18

Ep 5 12/16/18 Table Techniques: Organizing games Inspiration Goat: The Danielle Cain books

Reply Bravo Dec 12, 2018

Episode 4 12/9/18 TT: What players want / Inspiration Goat: Caves of Qud

Reply Show Alpha Dec 5, 2018

Episode 3 12/3/18 TT: It is All World Building, Inspiration Goat: D&D Skill Checks on twitter

Episode 2 11/25/18 Play: Death Incarnate Inspiration: Outlaw/King

Daydreaming about Dragons (Trailer)