This week, Tiana takes on the solo host role and welcomes Alandra Hileman onto the show to talk about tips and tricks for running mob combat in D&D 5e. We use examples from Phandelver and Below, a campaign Tiana recently wrapped up, to discuss ideas for making the juggling act behind the GM screen as smooth as possible.

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Alandra's itch.io page: https://ladybedivere.itch.io/

Keys from the Golden Vault, GM'd by Alandra, over on Quests and Chaos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSM6UhQ5Q6LIyy4uUQVV2sAG0MeA-P6t

Phandelver and Below, GM'd by Tiana, over on Quests and Chaos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSM6UhQ5Q6JF3hrzaTwY8zlbanZ9vWxc

This week, Adam and Tiana are joined by Dan Waszkiewicz, Handler of The Redacted Reports, to talk about running a horror game. We talk about tone and themes, along with some safety tools that we think are essential to the experience.

Join our Discord to offer your opinions! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

Dan's preferred safety toolkit: https://ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com/

Check out Dan and Tiana on The Redacted Reports! www.theredactedreportspodcast.com

Check out a product in the Tiny D6 system Dan wrote for! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/258276/tinyzine-issue-7

And check out Tiana's channel for the Death game Adam runs and the Vampire: the Masquerade one-on-one game Dan runs for Tiana! www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

This week, Adam and Tiana take a break from discussing TTRPGs to discuss a game franchise we both hold dear: Dragon Age. There's a new trailer released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3N4Lxw4_Y), and we have OPINIONS.

Check out the upcoming Death game run by Adam with Tiana as a player at https://www.twitch.ttv/vanalosswen

And join our Discord to offer your opinions! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the session zero Adam ran for the new Patron games, including going over his table rules and the general conceit for the upcoming game.

The streamed version of Death can be found here! https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

This week, Adam and Tiana discuss the recently-finished Patron game, Gnarled Frontier. Adam reflects on the lessons he learned as a GM from this campaign, and goes over some of his Roses (high points) and Thorns (challenges/learning opportunities).

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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the social interactivity of TTRPGs at the table, the importance of playing to the audience (seen or unseen), and how curiosity can build the experience of everyone.

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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about ways to elevate the spellcasting experience and how to bring in the fourth component of a spell: roleplay. While we don't think every spell needs in-depth roleplay to make it better, we do have some thoughts and suggestions for how to use spells in a less RAW way to make the experience more dynamic.

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This week, Adam and Tiana are thrilled to announce that Adam will be running a livestreamed D&D 5e game on Tiana's personal Twitch channel. The live session zero will be June 11th, with the campaign running through the summer. We're excited to give our listeners a sneak peek into what's coming down the pike. Join our Discord to stay updated! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

Tiana's channel where the campaign will be aired: https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen