Panda's Talking Games

Show us your gaming rituals for starting or ending a session! Phil and Senda talk ritualizing aspects of your play time to help set expectations, enforce social contracts, and transition from social to game or back. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you’re managing your online games! Although we’ve talked about it in chit chats and off and on throughout the pandemic, we got a request to actually just talk about online games Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

It’s a grab bag! We haven’t done one of these in a while since there’s no convention travel this year. We’re covering three questions: getting players to play more background and personality, spotlighting players, and of course, that Ditch Lilies cameo on DS9. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us what your favorite short form games are! Phil and Senda chat about old and new favorite short form games…many, many short form games. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you’re taking stock of your gaming as we go into the holidays and the continuing pandemic! Phil and Senda talk about evaluating you current gaming habits to make sure they’re working for you in this stressful times. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you do (or don’t) use meta game talk as a GM at your table! So sorry for the late drop — life definitely got in the way this week. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you manage your digital RPG files! Phil has professional experience in this and Senda is terrible at maintaining the structure that she created. Join us for some half awake thoughts on managing your digital RPG collection. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you manage the layers of the game! Senda and Phil take a fly by on the old MMP game layers (with a few updates), what they are, when you’re in them, and how using this lens on your games can be a useful tool for finding the kind of game that works best for you. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you manage your GMing stagefright! Phil and Senda talk about those butterflies (uh, were they cocoons?) in your stomach before you’re up in front of players, ways to manage, and ways to help mitigate. And the big secret — it never goes away, you just get better at it. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com

Show us how you manage spotlight time as a GM and as a player when you have personal plots! Senda and Phil talk spotlight management and graceful plot sharing, and how to encourage it at your table. Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers today! Find these and more at http://patreon.com/mmp. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @PandasTalkGames Facebook: facebook.com/pandastalkgames and panda(at)misdirectedmark.com