The GM's Guide
Dan FelderIn-depth podcast on how to improve your campaign, focusing on the adventure, world and character design. We apply proven and practical game design techniques to the world of running pen and paper campaigns. There's a lot to get into, so let's get started.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 52 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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| Categories | ArtsDesignGamesLeisure | ||||
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Check out Trail of the Behemoth on Drivethru RPG!
Seamus and I go deep behind the scenes and talk about the favorite parts of the adventures we made for the system and other cool aspects you can steal for your own games.
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I might even hand out some... more
A listener sent me a question on how to deal with evil PCs, and how to deal with lawful-stupid paladins. I answer.
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- Im glad it’s started back up again!!
Great show! Lots of information! Makes me wish I had questions to ask, but the host is always answering questions that I didn’t know I had! Thank you!
Apple Podcasts5budapesT328
United States4 years ago - Best Practical Advice Available
Dan Felder does an excellent job of distilling specific problems in game design down to their key components and explaining how to solve them. In my opinion, he is the best content producer out there right now.
Once you get past the first level of advice about GMing ("Yes, and...", it's about the players not you, etc) there's a real dearth of usable content. There's a bunch of people endlessly diagraming and defining new vocabulary about games who never actually expose any new territory to expl... more
Apple Podcasts5AvidEBookReaderUnited States4 years ago - Best Practical Advice Available
Dan Felder does an excellent job of distilling specific problems in game design down to their key components and explaining how to solve them. In my opinion, he is the best content producer out there right now. Once you get past the first level of advice about GMing ("Yes, and...", it's about the players not you, etc) there's a real dearth of usable content. There's a bunch of people endlessly diagraming and defining new vocabulary about games who never actually expose any new territory to expl... more
Audible5J. ElsonUnited States4 years ago Great podcast. I jumped on to initially learn about building an rpg system but I have managed to pull so much more tips and tools to use even if I do not end up using them.
Podcast Addict54 years agoDMerald- Give it a go!
I am a player with 15 years of experience. I recently started preparing for my first game as a GM. This podcast is helping a lot :)
Apple Podcasts5Draver_1123
United Kingdom4 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #241 |  Germany/Leisure/Games |
Apple Podcasts | #247 |  France/Leisure/Games |
Apple Podcasts | #8 |  Brazil/Leisure/Games |
Apple Podcasts | #29 | Brazil/Leisure |
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