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 Gnomecast 206 – Splitting the Party
Posted: Wed, 12 Feb 13:00:56
Category: Gnomecast
https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CG_206_SplittingtheParty.mp3 Join Ang, Josh, and JT as they talk about the dreaded, forbidden topic of splitting the party! Is it good? Is it bad? Does it depend? They’ll talk about it all. Links: Authors Against Book Bans Origins Game Fair Tech at the Table

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 Prepping Your Character for Play
Posted: Fri, 07 Feb 13:00:36
Category: Player Advice
We spend a lot of time on GM game prepping, and comparatively little time talking about players prepping for games. I want to propose a method for players to prepare characters and the stories they want to tell in the next session or campaign. Like a GM might prepare a session, players can also do […]

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 Coaching Yourself At The Table
Posted: Fri, 31 Jan 11:03:54
Category: Game Mastering, GMing Advice, improvement
I give you all a lot of GMing advice. I also take my advice as much as possible. The hardest kind of advice for me to take is the kind that affects my table style. It’s not that I am dismissive of my own advice, but rather, in the heat of running the game, the […]

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 Gnomecast 205 – Mastering Mysteries
Posted: Wed, 29 Jan 18:32:23
Category: Gnomecast
https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GC_205_Mysteries_final.mp3 Join Ang, Chris and Tomas as they discuss all the ins and outs of running mysteries in a variety of game systems! Links: Xeno Brandon Sanderson writing Lecture Series 2025 Afternoon Maps Patreon  

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 You’re Playing My Game Wrong
Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 11:00:51
Category: General
My FLGS (friendly local game store) has a Discord server where patrons can chat about all sorts of subjects in clearly marked channels. Most channels are highly active, and my heart is warmed by the pure excitement shown for their wide and varied outlets for finding joy in gaming of all types. I’m not just […]

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 Gnomecast 204 – Running vs. Playing
Posted: Wed, 15 Jan 13:00:58
Category: Gnomecast
https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CG_204_runningVSplaying_finalV01.mp3 Join Ang, JT, and guest Alex Thomas as they talk about the difference in the skills needed to run games versus play games. They dive into what they like about both and why it’s important to have both sets of skills! Links: Titan City Serials How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying […]

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 Adventure Design: Supporting and Opposing NPCs
Posted: Wed, 08 Jan 11:00:18
Category: Game Making, Game Mastering, GMing Advice
In any adventure, the party of player characters (PCs) will inevitably encounter other intelligent creatures and people. These are the non-player characters (NPCs) of the world that are largely controlled, run, an enacted by the game master. There are moments (and some systems greatly support these moments) where an NPC will be “taken over” by […]

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 Five Things I Learned in 2024
Posted: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:00:15
Category: Game Mastering, GMing Advice, end of year
It being that time of the year, I decided to reflect again on my year of gaming and see what lessons I learned. This is the second year I have done this.  Overall, this year I gamed less than 2023. There were two main reasons. The first was that at the start of the year, […]

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 Review: Shadowcat Magazine
Posted: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:00:21
Category: Reviews
Full disclosure before I launch into my review of the promo issue of Shadowcat Magazine: I received the PDF for free (you can too!) from Chaz Kemp, the creator of the magazine. Additional disclosure: Chaz and I have been good friends for a number of years now, but that has not colored my review and […]

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 Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Review
Posted: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:29
Category: Reviews
An interesting side effect of having multiple iterations of D&D 5th edition based on the 5e SRD is that some content allows publishers to produce content that works in their game but may also be helpful to people who aren’t utilizing the entire ruleset. One of the most prominent examples of this are monster books. […]

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