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Inside the GM Studio — 293 episodes · page 1 of 3

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Preparing for a Railroad

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How to allow players to go off-script without derailing your story

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Side Quest-ion: Improv Chill Session or Create a Plot?

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200 Episodes In: Where Is Tabletop RPGs Heading?

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Side Quest-ion: How do I Become Comfortable Running Sessions I Can't Fully Prepare For?

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Additions We Want

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Side Quest-ion: Rules Over Setting, or are they the Same Thing?

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Oneshot... Not Campaign

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Side Quest-ion: Game Resume's

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Crunchy Dungeons?

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Mail Bag

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System-Agnostic GM Skills to Cultivate

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Side Quest-ion: What do you like about RPG events?

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Familiars, Pets, and Companions

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Side Question: Helping the players to be more proactive and more narrative

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The Hidden Strategies That Keep Long Campaigns Engaging for Years

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Side Quest-ion: Playable Guide or Omniscient GM?

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Mounted Combat

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When Players Leave

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Side Quest-ion: Is He Being Derailed?

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Why Medieval Fantasy

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Side Quest-ion: Do you Have a Tail in Low Fantasy?

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Side Quest-ion: Be a Better Story Teller

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Table Horror Stories

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Side Quest-ion: Another Adventure in the Sandbox?

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Side Quest-ion: Expecting the Power Gamer

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Side Quest-ion: Framing a Faction

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Do We Really Need A GM?

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Does Multiclassing Suck?!?!?!

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Cultures of Play

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Side Quest-ion: OSR Love

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Designing Your Dungeon Crawl

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Side Quest-ion: PCs Loosing Memories

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Side Quest-ion: Prophesy?

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Yes And... With Dice?

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Forging Character Relationships

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Side Quest-ion: Main Campaign Getaway

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Tier Lists

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Our Favorite Mechanics and Homebrews

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(Dot) .Dungeon Review

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Side Quest: Survival Campaign

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Side Quest: How Important is Theme
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Introduction of the Main Villain
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Side Quest: Does Skill of the GM or Mechanics Make the Game?
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Side Quest: Should I Do This, You May Ask?
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Side Quest: How to One Shot
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What Makes the Movie?
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Side Quest: How to Write My Story
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Side Quest: Know Your Roll
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Character Development
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Side Quest: Wrap it Up
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Cloudbreakers Alliance Review
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Reusing Adventures
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Plot Armor
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Side Quest-Navigating Character Driven Campaigns

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2024 Year in Review

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Hirelings!!!

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Teasing out Flavor from the Players

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Dungeons and Drama

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Define the Stakes

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New Crafting Rules and the Future of D&D

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Exposition

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Community Question: Wrapping Up A Campaign

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Episode 100!!!!

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Tools that could be a Punishment?

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Ryuutama Review

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Community Question: Highlights from the Past

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The Problem with Notes and how to take them effectively

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Power Gamers

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Community Question: Linear to Sandbox

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For those First Times

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The GM Curveball

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Community Question: Epic Battle Skill Challenge

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Having GMs at the Table

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Community Questions: Hard Choices

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Why we GM

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Community Question: Travel Options

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Atmosphere

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Community Question: Help bring sports into the game

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Death of NPC’s and the Impact it has

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Initiative and the ways to use it

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Our Year in Review!!

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Memorable NPCs

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Character Intros

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Pulling Rank in Play

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RPGs and Whiskey

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Rounding out Battle with other mechanics

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The Mechanics of Traps

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Using description to liven up combat encounters

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Setting Tone

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High Tier Play

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Plot Point Campaigns

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House Rules. How and When to Use Them

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Teaching the Rules, is there a right way?

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Difference Between Railroad and Sandbox

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Dave Makes a Movie

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Creating a One Shot

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Keeping the Players Invested

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The Right Reward for the Right Quest

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Giving Permission

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