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Queer gamers talking about table top role playing games and making outtakes! Join pandas Phil and Senda ever Monday talking about TTRPGs and answering listener questions.
No cliffhangers today! Phil and Senda talk about the second part of the question regarding GM brain and anxiety — some common GM anxieties and ideas about how to address them (besides just the old advice to practice). Are there other specific anxieties that haunt you at the table? Drop us a line!
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Show us how you can use improv at the table to alleviate your recall anxiety! Phil and Senda talk improv and GM anxiety at the table, with a helping of other resources for practicing improv for gaming specifically.
References:
Improv for Gamers by Karen Twelves
Episode 127 – Improve your Improv (yikes! That was a LONG time ago!)
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We’re bringing it back!
Way back before the pandemic, Phil and Senda were well on their way to kickstarting this game. We’ve just picked it back up again and we’re working hard! We were a little overworked to have our standard topic today, so we had a chit chat instead. If this is your first episode, you may wish to go forward or backwards on episode to hear our normal show set up.
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Show us how you manage being REALLY into your game when not everyone is! Phil and Senda talk about the disparity of time spent thinking about a game between player and GM, as well as more generally when you are more excited about something than the people you are around.
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Finishing up last week’s topic (barely!), we’re bringing it home by merging in the discussion of GM brain with GM style and GM supports.
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Show us how you find the right kind of game for your GM brain! Thanks to a comment about a quick aside from a few episodes ago where Senda mentioned in passing that her attachment to improv GMing has more to do with ADHD recall than with a lack of desire or ability to prep, we’re on the case. Phil and Senda take a stab at generalized categorization of things that may be easy or hard, and things that may give you energy or take energy to use as a starting point. Spoilers — there will be a part 2 because we ran out of time!
In case you are following along at home and it’s easier to have the categories written down, they are:
Meal train for the Baker family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/lk908w/
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Show us how you set a scene to give it genre feel and manage pacing! Phil and Senda talk scene setting — pacing, description and set up, spotlight, and participants — for genre emulation and tone creation.
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Show us how you take your memorable or influential gaming experiences forward into your future games! Phil and Senda revisit last week’s topic to talk about exactly how we carried things forward from our games. We also talk about ways to categorize your experiences to help pinpoint specific things you want to bring with you to new games.
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Show us your memorable gaming moments! Phil and Senda answer a request to talk about memorable gaming moments.
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Show us how players can support a brand new GM! Phil and Senda talk through some of the responsibilities that the GM stereotypically takes on and how players can either assist or take over those responsibilities, especially when a new GM is getting their GMing legs under them or is intimidated by the number of things they have to manage.
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