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The Whispering GM — 91 episodes

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Title
1

Emergent Play and Hooking your Players

2

Lairs, Dungeons, and Mega-Dungeons

3

Paid Game Mastering

4

Bags of Holding

5

OSR Tourists

6

Moldvayan Revisionism

7

Lessons on God in Gaming

8

Salted Gaming - Flipping and Turning, No. 5

9

Calls from the Bronze Age

10

Bronze Age Adventure

11

Make Bikinis Armor Again!

12

In Defense of the Screen

13

Talking Time

14

Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun

15

Lunch with Lungfungus

16

1:1 Turn Tracking

17

Ghouls: Not as Scary As you Think

18

Adversarial Play and Adversarial Prep, Revisited

19

Confessions of a High Prep GM

20

Adversarial Players

21

Did You Really?

22

Where Are You, Whispers?

23

Maps & Minis

24

Beyond Advancement

25

Maps Aren't Real!

26

The Role Divide

27

Creative Railroading?

28

The Importance of Gold for Experience

29

Crunchy Feedback

30

Listeners Talk Mapping!

31

Crunch... or Flow?

32

Answers & Questions

33

Player Expectations, GM Metagaming, and Specializing your Character

34

Adversarial Play

35

Tips to the Mapping Referee and Other Calls

36

Henchmen, Combats, Battles, and Balance

37

OctOSR Response Conversations - Part 2

38

OctOSR Response Conversations - Part 1

39

Plots, Narratives, & the Living World

40

Why Guilds will Ruin your Game

41

OctOSR - Day Fifteen: Pick your Players

42

OctOSR - Day Fourteen: Suit Your Table

43

OctOSR - Day Thirteen: Getting Into a Game

44

OctOSR - Day Twelve: Prep vs Play

45

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

46

OctOSR - Day Ten: The Donner Party!

47

OctOSR - Day Nine: On Abstract Combat-Fu!

48

OctOSR - Day Eight: Regarding the Moose Head

49

OctOSR - Day Seven: Regarding the Ming Vase

50

OctOSR - Day Six: Cannon Fodder Henchmen?

51

OctOSR - Day Five: On Player Mapping

52

OctOSR - Day Four: Forget Game Balance

53

OctOSR - Day Three: Heroic, not Super Heroic

54

OctOSR - Day Two: Player Skill not Character Skill

55

OctOSR - Day One: Rulings over Rules

56

Experiencing Chainmail (and an #OctOSR Announcement)

57

Call Ins: Players, Player Interactions, and Player Skill

58

Regarding Player Skill

59

The Broken Sword and Aquatic Adventures

60

Contest!

61

Support Aaron Koelman

62

Unboxing The Underground Architect's Dungeon Ecology

63

Immersion

64

Interview in the World of Weirth

65

Callers Unite!

66

An Interview with Josiah Mork of Hoodwink Games

67

System Conversions with Jason

68

Sparring over Houserules!

69

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

70

The Pendragon Episode

71

A Journey with Jason

72

Birthday Bonanza

73

A Dialog with Daniel: Part Deux

74

Strict Time Records

75

A State of the Project

76

Continued Ranting on Clerics, Healing, and God

77

Call Ins for Christmas

78

I Hate Health Potions

79

Holiday Traditions with Jason

80

An Unboxing from Michigan

81

Answering the Call(s)!

82

A Dialog with Daniel

83

Builds, Min Maxing, and Dying your Hat

84

On Adversary and Adversarial

85

Don't Be Nice

86

Horror in my Home Game - Part 3

87

On Rule Zero

88

Horror in my Home Game - Part 2

89

Horror in my Home Games - Part 1

90

Call Ins!

91

Rob Made Me Do It