• S6E23: Death - Session Zero
    Jun 13 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the session zero Adam ran for the new Patron games, including going over his table rules and the general conceit for the upcoming game.

    The streamed version of Death can be found here! https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • S6E22: Roses and Thorns - A Gnarled Frontier Post-Mortem
    Jun 6 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana discuss the recently-finished Patron game, Gnarled Frontier. Adam reflects on the lessons he learned as a GM from this campaign, and goes over some of his Roses (high points) and Thorns (challenges/learning opportunities).

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • S6E21: Curiosity and Table Dynamics
    May 30 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the social interactivity of TTRPGs at the table, the importance of playing to the audience (seen or unseen), and how curiosity can build the experience of everyone.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S6E20: The Fourth Spell Component
    May 23 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana talk about ways to elevate the spellcasting experience and how to bring in the fourth component of a spell: roleplay. While we don't think every spell needs in-depth roleplay to make it better, we do have some thoughts and suggestions for how to use spells in a less RAW way to make the experience more dynamic.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • S6E19: Campaign Announcement and Preparation
    May 16 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana are thrilled to announce that Adam will be running a livestreamed D&D 5e game on Tiana's personal Twitch channel. The live session zero will be June 11th, with the campaign running through the summer. We're excited to give our listeners a sneak peek into what's coming down the pike. Join our Discord to stay updated! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    Tiana's channel where the campaign will be aired: https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • S6E18: Five Principles of Designing Part 2
    May 9 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana continue digging into the five principles of design, using subclasses we designed for this project. Do you have thoughts about what we've done? Want to try the subclasses out for yourself? Let us know at the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • S6E17: Five Principles of Designing Part 1
    May 2 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana look at principles presented by Treant Monk for handling design choices. There's a lot of thought that goes into game design balance, but we think Treant Monk had a good set of thoughts with the series of questions we go into.

    Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S6E16: Find Your Voice
    Apr 25 2024

    This week, Adam and Tiana talk about character voices and do a short exercise to play with voice. We can put so much of what makes a character who they are into the way we choose to speak as them, and it's a lot of fun to dig into that kind of thing.

    Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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    1 hr and 2 mins