Panda's Talking Games

Show us what you do with your unfulfilled/unrequited character concepts! Phil and Senda talk about how unfulfilled concepts happen, ways that you can try to hang on to them, and some of our own unfulfilled character concepts. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Senda and Phil talk about managing the social aspects of trying new games or playing lots of games with an existing group (spoilers: it’s about communication). Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

It’s a January Chit Chat! Phil and Senda chat about what’s giving them life in gaming and outside of gaming (spoilers: books and food). There’s a bit of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a bit of Larp, and a bit of Cortex as well as taking our own advice. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you edit your best laid plans when the campaign has already started! Senda and Phil chat about potential pitfalls and some ways to edit your story that’s already in progress, whether at the table or between sessions. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you stuff one game inside another and cook it up for gaming! Senda and Phil talk about using side games and main games to create specific experiences in a campaign or story. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you make a good plot! Phil and Senda sit down with an email about nerves setting up a new plot, and dive in on some advice to hopefully help. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Things are getting a little wild around here — so it’s back to a chit chat for us! If you’re new here, that means we drop our normal show format of answering listener questions to have a quick chat about 1) what’s giving us life in gaming and 2) what’s giving us life outside of gaming. As a quick reminder, this will be our last episode until the new year. We’ll return on Monday, January 10. Happy New Year, all, and we hope whatever other holidays you’re celebrating (or have already celebrated!) are relaxing and full of joy instead of stress. Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you do a one on one session zero for a campaign! No really! We haven’t done one before! Senda was in Buffalo, so we did one in person — here’s our debrief. If you are interested in vintage and vintage reproduction, here’s the store Senda waxes poetic about, where you can also shop online (no, they’re not paying us): https://catslikeus.com Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you approach a one on one GM-ful game! Well, really, let us chat since we weren’t sure we were going to get to record this week at all (Senda’s been down with an awful cold all week). So you get some random thoughts on one on one gaming as we are getting ready to session 0 our one on one play of Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Housekeeping: there will be no show next week as we will both be with family for American Thanksgiving. 12/6 is also iffy, but we’ll keep you updated on social media. If you are into TSL, you have ONE DAY as of the dropping of this recording left to back the companion print book, Advanced Lovers & Lesbians: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/advanced-lovers-and-lesbians?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=advanced%20 Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you set up family dynamics in your game! Phil and Senda talk family dynamics and specific safety conversations you might want to have when setting up PCs who are all related. Also: you may note in this episode that we keep talking about how we are supposed to be off. We actually recorded this for release last week, when we had announced we would be off, but due to the mental health circumstances of the editor (hi, that’s me) it didn’t get released…so we ended up missing the week we said we’d miss anyway. We are back, and while the holidays coming up mean that there will be some more weeks off coming up, we’ll do our best to keep you in tasty Panda listening for the winter gifting season! Bamboo Lounge for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Forums: http://forums.misdirectedmark.com and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com