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Inside the GM Studio — 280 episodes
Rival or Villain
Side Quest-ion: NPC Actions
Lore and History
Keeping up the Tension
There's More Than Death
Side Quest-ion: Push the Rules Aside
Phandelver Emails
Side Quest-ion: What Books to Read and How to Read Them
Actual Plays
Mounted Combat
When Players Leave
What's Your Fantasy?
Religions, Dietys, and Theocracies
Side Quest-ion: Is He Being Derailed?
Rests and Downtime
Side Quest-ion: How to Lie
Listener Emails
Side Quest-ion: Pulling Rank as a GM?
Why Medieval Fantasy
Side Quest-ion: Do you Have a Tail in Low Fantasy?
Side Quest-ion: Be a Better Story Teller
Table Horror Stories
XP and Progression
Side Quest-ion: Another Adventure in the Sandbox?
Feats are Better than Subclasses
2025 Year in Review
Side Quest-ion: Working the GM Muscle
Initiative, Which Fits Best for You?
Side Quest-ion: Expecting the Power Gamer
Side Quest-ion: Framing a Faction
Do We Really Need A GM?
Does Multiclassing Suck?!?!?!
Side Quest-ion: Making a Module for the PCs
Cultures of Play
Side Quest-ion: Cyberpunk Bad?!?!?!?
GM Tools
Side Quest-ion: Don't Let the Players Know
GM Myths
Side Quest-ion: OSR Love
Designing Your Dungeon Crawl
Side Quest-ion: RP in Combat
Writing for a PC
Side Quest-ion: PCs Loosing Memories
Our GM Mistakes
Games for Daves
Side Quest-ion: Prophesy?
Yes And... With Dice?
Side Quest-ion: What Should be Asked?
It's All About Timing
Side Quest-ion: Raw vs Rai
Get to Know David
Side Quest-ion: What Makes Horror Really Scary?
Inside the GM Workshop
Forging Character Relationships
Side Quest-ion: Stealth is Unfair?
Inside the Character Studio
Side Quest-ion: Long Intro
All Day Gaming
Side Quest-ion: Main Campaign Getaway
Tier Lists
Side Quest-ion: Ambushing Player Agency
The Differences of Story and Plot
Side Quest-ion: Notes and Story
What We Miss Through the Editions
Side Quest: How to Murder Mystery
Our Favorite Mechanics and Homebrews
Choose Your Own Adventure Games
Side Question: Speed Up Combat
Homebrew and Player Agency
Side Quest: How to Start a One Shot
(Dot) .Dungeon Review
Side Quest: Survival Campaign
How to Homebrew
Side Quest: Ballroom Quiz
Rolling with Purpose: Why Mechanics Matter in TTRPGs
Side Quest: Don't Give a PC a Kingdom
Inner Demons
Who are Vampires and What Do They Do?
Recaps are the best Icebreakers
Side Quest: Should I Let My Players Write Their Own Ending?
May the Fourth Special
Side Quest: How Important is Theme
Introduction of the Main Villain
Side Quest: What's Your Process?
How to Warlock
Side Quest: Fluid Narration
Horror Stories, at and between the Table
Side Quest: Does Skill of the GM or Mechanics Make the Game?
Testing Homebrews and Fleeing the Plot
Side Quest: Should I Do This, You May Ask?
Skill Challenges
Side Quest: Heist Night!
Keep That Spark Alive
Side Quest: Lost the Magic
Aerial, Underwater, and Mounted Combat
Side Quest: How to One Shot
What Makes the Movie?
Side Quest: How to Write My Story
News Week
Side Quest: Know Your Roll
Character Development
Side Quest: Wrap it Up
Goals and Motivations
Side Quest: Is Failing Really That Bad?
Cloudbreakers Alliance Review
Side Quest: Random Encounters
Reusing Adventures
Cliches and Avoiding them
Side Quest: Players Notes
Plot Armor
Side Quest-Navigating Character Driven Campaigns
What is Storytelling
Side Quest: Epilogues
2024 Year in Review
Side Quest: Our Favorite Dice Mechanics
Good Character Deaths
Side Quest: Old School Players and the Connection to Their Characters
Stormlight Review
Side Quest: Speed Up Large Dungeons
Bastions? Home?
Side Quest: Attacking an Outpost!! How to Run It
Espionage...
Side Quest: Turn Up the Tension
Meta Currencies and OSR's
Side Quest: How Many Sessions Should You Plan Ahead?
Impromptu Social Scenes
Hirelings!!!
Side Quest: What Makes a Good Role Playing Game?
What Would We Do?
Side Quest: Fear and CR Management
Rules Over Rulings
Side Quest: Too Many Puzzles?
Why Do We Love Horror Games?
Low Magic Setting!
Redemption Arcs
Side Quest: Tournaments!
TRAPS!!
Side Quest: Sentient Weapon
We're Back with RPG News
Side Quest: Endearing my Villain
The Final Fantasy 14 TTRPG Review
Side Quest: Adventure on a Global Scale
The Darkest Hour
Teasing out Flavor from the Players
Side Quest: Work those Backstories
Dungeons and Drama
Community Question: Extending Quests
Raising the Stakes of the Story
Community Question: Low Magic Settings
Define the Stakes
New Crafting Rules and the Future of D&D
Community Question: Magic Law and Order
Fantasy Age System 1st Edition Review
Side Quest: Spell Component Shenanigans
Plot Devices
Community Question: My player can't pick up on plot hooks!!
Dilemmas Part 2 and some RPG Horror Stories
The Art of Creating Dilemmas for your Players
Community Question: NEXT!! How to role play Rank
Character Secrets
Exposition
Community Question: Wrapping Up A Campaign
Episode 100!!!!
Community Question: Give "ALL" info when casting identify?
Tools that could be a Punishment?
Community Question: Make the Party Love a New City
Ryuutama Review
Inside the GM Game Show Special
Creating Expansive Lore
Community Question: Lack of Feelings
Going from short campaigns to longer forms
Community Question: Highlights from the Past
The Problem with Notes and how to take them effectively
Community Question: Players and their Money
Power Gamers
Community Question: Linear to Sandbox
Ups and Downs of Published Adventures
Community Question: Long Combats
For those First Times
Plot Twists!!
Daggerheart Beta Review
Community Question: Scripting?!?!?!?!
The GM Curveball
Community Question: Epic Battle Skill Challenge
Having GMs at the Table
Community Questions: Hard Choices
Why we GM
Community Question: Travel Options
Atmosphere
Community Question: Help bring sports into the game
Death of NPC’s and the Impact it has
Community Question: Player Stress
Mail Bag
Community Question: Dungeon of the Mind
Initiative and the ways to use it
Community Question: First Fight Balance
Spell Points and Variant Rules
Community Question: Players Can't Take it Seriously
Dungeon Delves and the Women who love them
Fudging the Rolls
Our Year in Review!!
Running Large Scale Encounters
Memorable NPCs
Character Intros
Managing NPCs
Pulling Rank in Play
RPGs and Whiskey
Designing Homebrew Monsters
Rounding out Battle with other mechanics
State Your Case: Rules Lite is Better for Combat
The Mechanics of Traps
Welcome to Mechanics Month
Using description to liven up combat encounters
State Your Case: Railroading
Plot Hooks
Players Comeuppance
Shoe Leather
Incorporating Backstory
Setting Tone
High Tier Play
Creating a Good Villain
New and Old GM Mistakes
Making a good Ally
Plot Point Campaigns
House Rules. How and When to Use Them
Why we play the roles / classes we play
Story Items
TPK! TPK! TPK!
Teaching the Rules, is there a right way?
The new DM, Chris
Initiative! What is it good for?
Cinematic Descriptions
Marvel Superhero Special
Difference Between Railroad and Sandbox
Troubleshooting an Adventure
What we miss about being players
Recurring NPC's
Dave Makes a Movie
Creating a One Shot
Rotating Gm's
Keeping the Players Invested
The Balance of Encounters
The Right Reward for the Right Quest
Giving Permission
Dealing with that "Problem Player"
The Spotlight Quest
WTF is an OGL?
Gritty Realism
5 Bad Rules
Gifts for Gamers
Dave's Quiz
Infusing RP into combat encounters
Game of the Month
Spicing Up Downtime And Travel
Minis vs TotM
The Rule of Cool
All About the Players
Halloween Special
The “Transfer” between stories. Going from one bad guy to the other.
The Importance Of Creating A Character
The Most Difficult Things To Balance As A GM
Time Management And Moving The Adventure Along
Building Party Cohesion
Table Etiquette
Things You Learn GMing That Make You A Better Player
RPG Horror Story's
Make the world as alive as the characters
How to create scenarios to test the party temperament
The Apocalypse!!
Heroic Moments and Player Egos
We answer your emails
So you're new to the hobby
Mechanics & Homebrew
Player Power
All about Notes
Episode 5: Spelljammer and other new settings
Episode 4: Creating a good villain
Episode 3: Creating flavor through challenges
Episode 2: New racial modifiers in D&D
Episode 1: Cyberpunk