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The Whispering GM — 89 episodes

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Title
1

Paid Game Mastering

2

Bags of Holding

3

OSR Tourists

4

Moldvayan Revisionism

5

Lessons on God in Gaming

6

Salted Gaming - Flipping and Turning, No. 5

7

Calls from the Bronze Age

8

Bronze Age Adventure

9

Make Bikinis Armor Again!

10

In Defense of the Screen

11

Talking Time

12

Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun

13

Lunch with Lungfungus

14

1:1 Turn Tracking

15

Ghouls: Not as Scary As you Think

16

Adversarial Play and Adversarial Prep, Revisited

17

Confessions of a High Prep GM

18

Adversarial Players

19

Did You Really?

20

Where Are You, Whispers?

21

Maps & Minis

22

Beyond Advancement

23

Maps Aren't Real!

24

The Role Divide

25

Creative Railroading?

26

The Importance of Gold for Experience

27

Crunchy Feedback

28

Listeners Talk Mapping!

29

Crunch... or Flow?

30

Answers & Questions

31

Player Expectations, GM Metagaming, and Specializing your Character

32

Adversarial Play

33

Tips to the Mapping Referee and Other Calls

34

Henchmen, Combats, Battles, and Balance

35

OctOSR Response Conversations - Part 2

36

OctOSR Response Conversations - Part 1

37

Plots, Narratives, & the Living World

38

Why Guilds will Ruin your Game

39

OctOSR - Day Fifteen: Pick your Players

40

OctOSR - Day Fourteen: Suit Your Table

41

OctOSR - Day Thirteen: Getting Into a Game

42

OctOSR - Day Twelve: Prep vs Play

43

OctOSR - Day Eleven: Read the Rules with a Clean Slate

44

OctOSR - Day Ten: The Donner Party!

45

OctOSR - Day Nine: On Abstract Combat-Fu!

46

OctOSR - Day Eight: Regarding the Moose Head

47

OctOSR - Day Seven: Regarding the Ming Vase

48

OctOSR - Day Six: Cannon Fodder Henchmen?

49

OctOSR - Day Five: On Player Mapping

50

OctOSR - Day Four: Forget Game Balance

51

OctOSR - Day Three: Heroic, not Super Heroic

52

OctOSR - Day Two: Player Skill not Character Skill

53

OctOSR - Day One: Rulings over Rules

54

Experiencing Chainmail (and an #OctOSR Announcement)

55

Call Ins: Players, Player Interactions, and Player Skill

56

Regarding Player Skill

57

The Broken Sword and Aquatic Adventures

58

Contest!

59

Support Aaron Koelman

60

Unboxing The Underground Architect's Dungeon Ecology

61

Immersion

62

Interview in the World of Weirth

63

Callers Unite!

64

An Interview with Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games

65

System Conversions with Jason

66

Sparring over Houserules!

67

RAW is LAW! (Or, Confessions of a House-Ruler)

68

The Pendragon Episode

69

A Journey with Jason

70

Birthday Bonanza

71

A Dialog with Daniel: Part Deux

72

Strict Time Records

73

A State of the Project

74

Continued Ranting on Clerics, Healing, and God

75

Call Ins for Christmas

76

I Hate Health Potions

77

Holiday Traditions with Jason

78

An Unboxing from Michigan

79

Answering the Call(s)!

80

A Dialog with Daniel

81

Builds, Min Maxing, and Dying your Hat

82

On Adversary and Adversarial

83

Don't Be Nice

84

Horror in my Home Game - Part 3

85

On Rule Zero

86

Horror in my Home Game - Part 2

87

Horror in my Home Games - Part 1

88

Call Ins!

89

Rob Made Me Do It