Panda's Talking Games

Show us how you manage when you’re not bring your A game to the table! Senda and Phil talk managing a session when you’re not up to your personal standards, and some thoughts on playing successfully anyway (if cancelling isn’t a better idea). 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

Phil and Senda have a chit chat episode because it was a rough week! What’s giving us life in gaming this week – collaborative world building and well built premade settings. 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 whose job it is to make things happen at the table! Phil and Senda talk player responsibility and good player basics. What are your best “be a good player” tips? Let us know on twitter or the forums! 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 define some panda terminology! Thanks again to ShadowWarl1 for this topic idea. Phil and Senda finish out another list of 6 or 7 definitions, but as usual, let us know if there are more that you want or need to know! 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 … define a bunch of random terminology that we use all the time! Shadowwarl1 on twitter asked us to define some terms we’ve commonly used so that you don’t have to hunt through all our old episodes trying to figure out what we’re talking about. 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 use consent revoking/reactive safety tools effectively in your games! Phil and Senda share some thoughts on effectively implementing and effectively using consent revoking safety tools like the X card in your games. As this is pandemic times, we continue to leave the vast majority of the podcast unedited. Who knows? Maybe editing is a thing of the past… Breakout Con’s Safety Tool compilation: https://breakoutcon.com/https%3A/breakoutcon.com/convention/safety-tools Safety Toolkit from Smooching Knife (the one Senda couldn’t remember): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/114jRmhzBpdqkAlhmveis0nmW73qkAZCj 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 would talk about creating a culture of player improvement the way that we typically talk about GM improvement. Phil and Senda chat about what that might look like in this first part of what will be at least two parts. Many thanks to Kalum of the Rolistes Podcast for the fantastic topic suggestion in our forums! Senda’s pin curlsCaptain Vecchione of the Ludington 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

Another Chit Chat for us — you know the drill, friends! That means this is 90% unedited. This week we talked games and food, of course, as food seems to be a reoccurring pandemic theme for us. 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 your favorite games for first time GMs and first time players! Phil and Senda talk some of their favorite games for both categories and why they picked those games. Despite being a return to actual questions answered, this is still a pandemic episode, and as such is unedited beyond adding in the music. You have been warned! It’s the disaster opening of doom! 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

Another chit chat — this one inspired by some of the twitter chatter last week about Powered by the Apocalypse games, and their relevancy to current game design. 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