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The GM's Guide

Dan Felder

In-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.

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Latest Episodes

Check out Trail of the Behemoth on Drivethru RPG! more

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a year ago

Trail of the Behemoth is an game about hunting giant monsters, a TTRPG you can bring to a boardgame night. I'm working on it with Seamus Allen, and we're going to talk about what we're doing and when it might be finished. more

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3 years ago

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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3 years ago

How do you identify an inherently fun mechanic anyway? What's this 'Decision Engine' thing Dan loves so much and how do you make one yourself? Listen and find out.

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3 years ago

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 79 ratings
  • 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 Podcasts
    5
    budapesT328
    United States2 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. more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    AvidEBookReader
    United States3 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

    Audible
    5
    J. Elson
    United States3 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 Addict
    5
    DMerald
    3 years ago
  • 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 Podcasts
    5
    Draver_1123
    United Kingdom3 years ago

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