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TPT #393: Draw Steel Review

Critical Lit Bonus Episode — Curse of Strahd Deep Dive (Part 1)

TPT #392: Daggerheart Review

TPT #391: D&D 2024 Final Thoughts and Alternative RPG Systems

TPT #390: 2025 D&D 5e Monster Manual Review

TPT #389: Responsible Representation and the New D&D 2024 Monk

TPT #388: Playing Lone Wolves and Antisocial Characters—Without Being a Jerk About It

TPT #387: Handling High-Level Magic & Game-Breaking Effects

TPT #386: Comparing RPG Crafting Systems and Building Your Own

TPT #385: How to Homebrew RPG Houserules That Your Table Won’t Hate

TPT #384: 2024 D&D 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide Review

TPT #383: Game Design for D&D 2024

TPT #382: The Theatre Kid's Guide to Character Optimization

TPT #381: Existential Threats & The Rouge

TPT #380: Blood Magic & Blood for the Blood God

TPT #379: Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone Review

TPT #378: Making a Living in the RPG Industry & The Itsy Bitsy Smiter

TPT #377: Cooking as Medieval Magic & Medicine

TPT #376: 2024 D&D 5e Player’s Handbook Review (Part 2)

TPT #375: 2024 D&D 5e Player’s Handbook Review (Part 1)

TPT #374: Keith Baker on Moving Beyond Eberron

TPT #373: The Power of Names & The Synonym

TPT #372: Gaming With Kids

TPT #371: Homebrewing Monsters With Cloud Curio

TPT #370: The Illusion of Choice & Schrodinger’s Ogre

TPT #369: Getting Paid to Be a Game Master

TPT #368: Using and Fighting the Law & Krillin

TPT #367: Depicting Genocide in Impactful and Responsible Ways

TPT #366: The 5e D&D Monk Subclass Tier List & Master Roshi

TPT #365: Homebrewing Spells & Bulma

TPT #364: Fallout as a Campaign Setting & The Brotherhood of Steel

TPT #363: Tapping Into Nostalgia & Rufio

TPT #362: The Bard Subclass Tier List & The Dirgesinger

TPT #361: The Avatar: The Last Airbender Campaign Setting & The Bloodbender

TPT #360: Using Fey & The Redcap

TPT #359: Cribbing From Rebel Moon and Other Bad Movies & The Death Star

TPT #358: The Barbarian Subclass Tier List & The Runescarred Berserker

TPT #357: Homebrewing Magic Items & Lady Death

TPT #356: Forest Adventures & The Temple Raider of Olidimmara

TPT #355: Playing Githyanki & The Kith’rak

TPT #354: The Cleric Subclass Tier List

TPT #353: The Math Treadmill & The ATV

TPT #352: The Ranger Subclass Tier List & The Dark Urge

TPT #351: Cribbing From Baldur's Gate 3 & Game Review

TPT #350: 8th Anniversary Mailbag Edizione Italiana & Clifford the Big Red Dog

TPT #349: Breaking Your Campaign Setting & John Henry

TPT #348: The Fighter Subclass Tier List & Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

TPT #347: Using Angels & Harriet Tubman

TPT #346: The Sorcerer Subclass Tier List & The Old Man of the Sea

TPT #345: Revisiting a Previous Campaign & Julie d'Aubigny

TPT #344: The Druid Subclass Tier List & The Rage Mage

TPT #343: Legacy Items & John Brown

TPT #342: Cribbing from the D&D Movie & Kurosaki Ichigo

TPT #341: Flawed Heroes & Ash Ketchum

TPT #340: The Paladin Subclass Tier List & Major Motoko Kusanagi

TPT #339: Playing Plant Characters & Groot

TPT #338: The Rogue Subclass Tier List & Bard Moon Rising

TPT #337: Weddings & Everybody’s Type

TPT #336: The Future of RPGs & Open Game Licenses

TPT #335: Debrief (AP S3E16, Strixhaven)

TPT #334: Fight & Flight (AP S3E15, Strixhaven)

TPT #333: Cult Classic (AP S3E14, Strixhaven)

TPT #332: Gala Pals (AP S3E13, Strixhaven)

TPT #331: Bedroom Eyes (AP S3E12, Strixhaven)

TPT #330: The Chosen One (AP S3E11, Strixhaven)

TPT #329: Hall Pass (AP S3E10, Strixhaven)

TPT #328: On the Dean’s List (AP S3E9, Strixhaven)

TPT #327: The Examined Life (AP S3E8, Strixhaven)

TPT #326: Gaming With a Chronic Illness

TPT #325: Cursed by the Bell (AP S3E7, Strixhaven)

TPT #324: Gen Con Online 2022 Panel: ‘Two Legs Bad’

TPT #323: For Glove or Money (AP S3E6, Strixhaven)

TPT #322: Duel-lingo (AP S3E5, Strixhaven)

TPT #321: Grandmaster Clash (AP S3E4, Strixhaven)

TPT #320: Modern Love (AP S3E3, Strixhaven)

TPT #319: Town and Gown (AP S3E2, Strixhaven)

TPT #318: Never Been Gished (AP S3E1, Strixhaven)

TPT #317: The Spelljammer Campaign Setting & Uchiha Sasuke

TPT #316: Battlefield Control Tactics & Eren Yeager

TPT #315: Using Mind Flayers & The Cerulean Sign

TPT #314: Low-Prep GMing & The Doomsday Prepper

TPT #313: Communal Characters & Sharing Is Caring

TPT #312: Dice & The Dice Goblin

TPT #311: The One Ring RPG Review

TPT #310: Endearing Villains & Carmen Sandiego

TPT #309: Survival Games & Judge Dredd

TPT #308: Plot Armor & The King Under the Mountain

TPT #307: Debrief (AP S2E7, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #306: Death Knocks Twice (AP S2E6, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #305: The Beast Revealed (AP S2E5, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #304: Blind, Fight! (AP S2E4, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #303: Graveyard Shift (AP S2E3, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #302: The Shrouded Village (AP S2E2, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #301: Hunting Party (AP S2E1, Candlekeep Mysteries)

TPT #300: 6th Anniversary Mega-Mailbag & Dora the Explorer

TPT #299: Bad RPG Advice & Just Play a Fighter

TPT #298: Playing Humans & The Steam Knight

TPT #297: Teaching Old Players New Tricks & The Old Dog

TPT #296: Using Demons & Fire Walk With Me

TPT #295: Urban Adventures & the Urban Cowboy

TPT #294: Bringing a Campaign to a Close & Nighty Night Bugs

TPT #293: The Problem With Chases & Coheed’s Chase

TPT #292: Telepathy & The Dragonrider of Pern

TPT #291: Focus Fire Tactics & Fire in the Hole

TPT #290: Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons Review

TPT #289: The Wheel of Time Campaign Setting & Mat Cauthon

TPT #288: Gen Con Online 2021 Panel: ‘Skin Deep’

TPT #287: Reconnaissance & Radar

TPT #286: Using Orcs & The All-Nighter

TPT #285: Skipping Ahead to the Action & Time Skip

TPT #284: Using Voices & The Big Talker

TPT AP #15: Debrief (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #14: The Best Defense (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #13: Spilling Guts (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #12: The Dragon’s Quest (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #11: Fire in the Hole (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #10: The Hostile Negotiator (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #9: Old Bones Make New Friends (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #8: The Way Opens (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #7: The Icy Breath of Death (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #6: Best Left Buried (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #5: The Goblin Perimeter (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #4: Reaching into the Past (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #3: The Friends We Made Along the Way (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #2: Over the Edge (Sunless Citadel)

TPT AP #1: Session Zero & The Lonely Archeologist (Sunless Citadel)

TPT #283: Steampunk Adventures & Iron Man

TPT #282: Gaming Hades & Zagreus

TPT #281: Using Giants & Stone’s Throw

TPT #280: Using History & The Historian

TPT #279: Sword and Sorcery Adventures & Red Sonja

TPT #278: Tundra Adventures & Healing Warmth

TPT #277: Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Review

TPT #276: Speeding Up Combat & Simple Simon

TPT #275: Plot Hooks V & Undeath Metal

TPT #274: Playing Kenku & Sombra

TPT #273: Verisimilitude & Winston

TPT #272: Using the Tarrasque & Mei

TPT #271: Necromancy & Ashe

TPT #270: The Midgard Campaign Setting & Torbjorn

TPT #269: Lightning Rails and Trains & the Conductor

TPT #268: World-Shaking Events & The Shock Jock

TPT #267: Romance & The Heartbreaker

TPT #266: Astral Plane Adventures & The Guardian of the God-Isles

TPT #265: Mass Combat & The Bugbear-tillerist

TPT #264: Using Deities & The Ecclesitheurge

TPT #263: Exploring Eberron Review

TPT #262: 5th Anniversary Mailbag & Buffy Summers

TPT #261: Random Tables & The Lotto Ticket

TPT #260: Playing Kobolds & The Weather Balloon

TPT #259: Lancer Campaign Setting & The Hard Charger

TPT #258: Divinations and Fortune-Telling & The Medani Prophet

TPT #257: Family Members & The Brother-in-Arms

TPT #256: Support Characters & The Accomplice

TPT #255: Mythic Odysseys of Theros Review

TPT #254: Using Undead & The Twice-Damned

TPT #253: Downtime & The Herbalist

TPT #252: Airships & Spike Spiegel

TPT #251: Player Types for Online Games & L

TPT #250: Playing Aberrant Dragonmarked Characters & Inuyasha

TPT #249: Seafaring Adventures & Sailor Neptune

TPT #248: Using Poison & The Dart Frog

TPT #247: Cults, Cultists & The Deprogrammer

TPT #246: Using Slaad & The Toad Battler

TPT #245: Gaming During the Pandemic & The Nosomatic Chirurgeon

TPT #244: The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting

TPT #244a: The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (The April Fool’s Episode)

TPT #243: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount Review

TPT #242: Puzzles & The Kundarak Keymaster

TPT #241: Adversarial GMs & The Troll Hunter

TPT #240: Underwater Adventures & The Siren’s Song

TPT #239: Playing Aasimar & The Earth Angel

TPT #238: Retconning & The Self-Forged

TPT #237: Stealing From Forged in the Dark & The Night Fox

TPT #236: The Star Trek Campaign Setting & Section 31

TPT #235: Megadungeons & The Dungeoneer

TPT #234: Using Devils & The Fiendslayer

TPT #233: Fantasy Warfare & The Field General

TPT #232: Dreams & The Night Watch

TPT #231: Long-term Consequences & The Immortal

TPT #230: Mournland Adventures & The Cyran Avenger

TPT #229: Playing Online & The Webmaster

TPT #228: Playing Dragonmarked Characters & The Blade of Orien

TPT #227: Teaching New Players & The Headmaster

TPT #226: Pulp Adventures & The MeleeMage

TPT #225: Eberron: Rising From the Last War Review

TPT #224: Using Dragons & The Dragonslayer

TPT #223: Campaign Prep & Beatrix Kiddo

TPT #222: Mind Reading & Johnny Mnemonic

TPT #221: Session Zero Redux & Junkrat

TPT #220: Amnesia & The Witcher

TPT #219: Playing Chaotic Evil & The Eye of Gruumsh

TPT #218: Desert Adventures & The Wasteland Ravager

TPT #217: Band of Blades Campaign Setting & The Mercy

TPT #216: Playing Changelings & The American

TPT #215: Ambushes & The Cloaker

TPT #214: Reincarnation & The Bodhisattva

TPT #213: Optional Rules for 5e D&D & Sly Cooper

TPT #212: Plots Hooks IV & The Warlord

TPT #211: Gen Con 2019 Wrap-up & Trick Shot

TPT #210: Virtual Realities & The Minesweeper

TPT #209: Tropes & The Acrobat

TPT #208: Playing Neutral Good & The Rescue Ranger

TPT #207: Creating Lively NPCs Quickly & The Greensinger

TPT #206: D&D Product Review Roundup

TPT #205: Awarding Treasure & The Treasure Hunter

TPT #204: The Marvel Cinematic Universe Campaign Setting & Spider-Man

TPT #203: Running Wartime Campaigns & Scorpion

TPT #202: Underground Adventures & The Sapper

TPT #201: Playing Goblins & The Bugbear Bear

TPT #200: Mega-Mailbag Anniversary & The Modern Major-General

TPT #199: Dungeon Crawls & The Stardust Crusader

TPT #198: Playing Lawful Evil & Vegeta

TPT #197: Dinner Parties & The Gourmand

TPT #196: Resurrection & The Shinigami

TPT #195: 5e D&D Grab Bag & The Jockey

TPT #194: Sowing Plot Seeds & The Human Cannonball

TPT #193: Multiple Game Masters & The DMPC

TPT #192: Railroading & The Iron Horse

TPT #191: Going to the Library & The Bookwyrm

TPT #190: Playing Drow & Drizzt Do’Urden

TPT #189: Running Races & The Marathoner

TPT #188: The Middle Earth Campaign Setting & The Rider of Rohan

TPT #187: Corruption & The Purifier

TPT #186: Playing True Neutral & The Binding Arbitrator

TPT #185: First Dates With a New Game & Cupid

TPT #184: PvP & The Player Killer

TPT #183: Building Monsters & The Mummy

TPT #182: Curses & The Lycanthrope Hunter

TPT #181: Using Comedy & The Jester

TPT #180: Putting Down the Dice & The Improviser

TPT #179: Playing Shifters & The Lunatic

TPT #178: Dueling & The Second

TPT #177: Evil Parties & The Blighter

TPT #176: High-Level Play & Jack Frost

TPT #175: Playing Lawful Neutral & The Hardhead

TPT #174: Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica Review

TPT #173: Mailbag No. 5 & Friar Tuck

TPT #172: One-Shots With Long-Term PCs & The Wedlock

TPT #171: Sieges & The Siege Engine

TPT #170: The Firefly Campaign Setting & YoSaffBridge

TPT #169: Adapting Characters From Media & Tracer

TPT #168: Mind Control & The Lie Detector

TPT #167: Scrying and Surveillance & The Eye of Horus

TPT #166: Making Disease Matter & The Rangerer

TPT #165: Post-Apocalyptic Settings & Furiosa

TPT #164: Playing Kalashtar & The Mindhunter

TPT #163: Using Illusions & The Scarecrow

TPT #162: Theater of the Mind & The Psycophant

TPT #161: Playing Chaotic Good & Robin Hood

TPT #160: Time Travel & The Highlander

TPT #159: Using Vehicles and Ships & The Spellslugger

TPT #158: The Mega Mournland Mailbag Special

TPT #157: Ken Hite & The Nosferatu

TPT #156: Vampire The Masquerade 5th Edition Review

TPT #155: Targeting the PCs & The Homing Missile

TPT #154: Crossing the Moral Event Horizon & Sub-Zero

TPT #153: Miniatures & The Mini-Mage

TPT #152: The Rifts Campaign Setting & The Glitter Boy

TPT #151: Playing Neutral Evil & Littlefinger

TPT #150: Power Creep in Game Design & The Death Shroud

TPT #149: Gaming Conventions & Heavens Above, Hells Below

TPT #148: Building Strongholds and Bases & Edward Elric

TPT #147: D&D 5E’s Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes Review

TPT #146: Plot Hooks & Goku

TPT #145: Teaching a New Game System & Sailor Moon

TPT #144: Spicing Up Combat & Izanagi

TPT #143: Random Character Creation & The Promethean

TPT #142: Insanity and Madness & The Mindpiercer

TPT #141: Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign Setting & The Monster Within

TPT #140: Defeating the Players & The Comeback Kid

TPT #139: Adapting Published Adventures & The Master of the Midnight Hunt

TPT #138: Chaotic Neutral & The Trickster

TPT #137: Large Parties & Dance with the Devil

TPT #136: Fealty & The Beast of Burden

TPT #135: Playing Warforged & The Lord of Blades

TPT #134: Creation Myths & Odin

TPT #133: Failing Forward & The One-Hit Wonder

TPT #132: Rolling in the Open & The Holy Roller

TPT #131: Lawful Good & The Goody Two-Shoes

TPT #130: Play-by-Post Gaming & The Mailman

TPT #129: Fantasy Flight Games’ Genesys Review

TPT #128: The Birthright Campaign Setting & Rhuobhe Manslayer

TPT #127: Bookkeepping & Ghost Rider

TPT #126: Gaming Triumphs & The Poacher

TPT #125: Overly Cautious Players & Safety in Numbers

TPT #124: Collaborative Storytelling & Prince Xizor

TPT #123: Filling the Room & The Whirling Dervish

TPT #122: Randomly Generated Backstories & The Armored Arcana

TPT #121: Epilogues & The Last Man Standing

TPT #120: D&D 5E’s Xanathar’s Guide to Everything Review

TPT #119: Playing Halflings & The Pint-Sized Punisher

TPT #118: Changing the World & The Stoneshaper

TPT #117: RPG Horror Stories & The Headless Horseman

TPT #116: Respeccing Characters & The Savage Sage

TPT #115: Plot Hooks #2 & Hercules

TPT #114: Resource Management & The Pacemaker

TPT #113: The Eclipse Phase Campaign Setting & The Gatecrasher

TPT #112: The Superhero Problem & Wonder Woman

TPT #111: The Death Spiral & The Triple Threat

TPT #110: Characters of Faith & Eisenhorn

TPT #109: Playing Half-Elves & The Dilettante

TPT #108: Gen Con 2017 & The Silent Knight

TPT #107: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games & Beginner’s Luck

TPT #106: Greyhawk Initiative & The High Noon Duelist

TPT #105: Playing as a Team & The Rainmaker

TPT #104: Taking Inspiration from History & Blackbeard

TPT #103: Leveling Up & Iron Face

TPT #102: Tacticians & The Showstopper

TPT #101: Intersession Communication & The Intercessor

TPT #100: The Mega-Mailbag Musical Special & Baron Munchausen

TPT #99: Character Falls and Redemption & The Cursebreaker

TPT #98: The Planescape Campaign Setting & Fall-From-Grace

TPT #97: Using Battlemaps & The Battlemapster

TPT #96: Using Languages & The Polyglot

TPT #95: Playing Gnomes & The Breachgnome

TPT #94: Fudging Dice & Clutch

TPT #93: Small Parties & The Halfling Rockslinger

TPT #92: Power Creep & The Shadowed Stalker

TPT #91: Breadth vs Depth in Characters & The Sandman

TPT #90: Booting a Player & The Gray Guard

TPT #89: Storytellers & The Bardic College

TPT #88: Minions, Pets, and Companions & The One Man Band

TPT #87: Star Wars Campaign Setting & George Washington

TPT #86: Reflavoring & Captain America

TPT #85: The Goldilocks Levels & Conan

TPT #84: Playing Genasi & The Fistadin

TPT #83: Arena Battles & The Heathen Champion

TPT #82: Player Absences & The Batman

TPT #81: The Greyhawk Campaign Setting & The Sexy Beast

TPT #80: Riddles & The Cagematch

TPT #79: Creating Character Backgrounds & The Chevalier

TPT #78: Using Secrets & Reaper

TPT #77: Butt-Kickers & Dhalsim

TPT #76: Adapting From Other Media & The Crucible

TPT #75: Setting the Tone & The Inventor

TPT #74: The Thrillie Awards, Resolutions & Aquaman

TPT #73: 2nd Annual Mailbag & The Flash

TPT #72: Playing Tieflings & The Faustian Fiddler

TPT #71: Burnout & The Smitebiter

TPT #70: Low Fantasy in D&D & The Lazylord

TPT #69: D&D 5E’s Volo’s Guide to Monsters Review

TPT #68: Scale in RPGs & The Storm Surge

TPT #67: Splitting the Party & The Beguiler

TPT #66: The Dark Sun Campaign Setting & The Wasteland Wanderer

TPT #65: Designing Epic Destinies & The Psychic Warrior

TPT #64: Narrative Control & The Master Illusionist

TPT #63: Completing Character Arcs & Swamp Thing

TPT #62: Playing Half-Orcs & The Drunken Master

TPT #61: Revised Ranger, Deck of Many Things & The Gambler

TPT #60: Casual Gamers & The Old Man of the Mountain

TPT #59: Monte Cook, Worldbuilding & Invisible Sun

TPT #58: Murder Mysteries & The Investigator in Vestments

TPT #57: Plot Hooks & The Knife Fighter

TPT #56: System Mastery & The Polymorph Fromage

TPT #55: Warhammer 40k Setting & The Space Marine Librarian

TPT #54: Gen Con 2016 Recap & The Force Mage

TPT #53: Using Pre-Gen Characters & The Spell Duelist

TPT #52: Special Anniversary Episode with Keith Baker

TPT #51: Playing Elves & The Wildrunner

TPT #50: Character Flaws & The Executioner

TPT #49: Natural Disasters & The War Correspondent

TPT #48: Metagaming & The Swordmage

TPT #47: Specialist Players & The Hoplite

TPT #46: Kaiju Battles & The Giant Slayer

TPT #45: Prophecies & The Combat Oracle

TPT #44: Session Zero & The Fist of the Forest

TPT #43: Playing Dragonborn & The Talon of Tiamat

TPT #42: Using Published Adventures & The Juggernaut

TPT #41: Deadlands Campaign Setting & The Two-Fisted Archaeologist

TPT #40: Dungeon Design & The Berserker Priest

TPT #39: RPG Cartography & The Pathfinder

TPT #38: The Method Actor & The Iron Archer

TPT #37: Prepping a Session & The Adventurous Noble

TPT #36: Urban Adventures & The Shaman

TPT #35: Playing Dwarves & The Dwarven Defender