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PTG 422 – White Whales
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May 26, 2026 |
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PTG 421 – The SO as Non-Gamer
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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PTG 420 – The Hustle
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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PTG 419 – Going All The Way
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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PTG 418 – What’s Love Got To Do With It (Part II)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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PTG 417 – What’s Love Got To Do With It?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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PTG 416 – Removing Combat
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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PTG 415 – I’m a Creep
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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PTG 414 – Series Campaigns
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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PTG 413 – But What Do I Do With This Info?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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PTG 412 – Play to Find Out
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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PTG 411 – Stuck At A Table You’re Not Enjoying
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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PTG 410 – Welcome to 2026!
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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PTG 409 – Grab Bag with Ryan!
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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PTG 408 – No Closure
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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PTG 407 – Keep on Tuckman
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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PTG 406 – I Got Your Agency Right Here
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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PTG 405 – First Time Powered by the Apocalypse
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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PTG 404 – Failure
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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PTG 403 – I Want More
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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PTG 402 – GM as Servant Leader
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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PTG 401 – The Info Dump (and how to avoid it)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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PTG 400 – Pod Stars & Wishes and a Grab Bag
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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PTG 399 – Culture of Collaboration
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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PTG 398 – Culture of Critique
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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PTG 397 – When You’re Not Feeling It
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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PTG 396 – GM Manipulation via NPC
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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PTG 395 – Don’t be Clever — Experiment!
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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PTG 394 – Check Ins
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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PTG 393 – Phil’s Prep Problem
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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PTG 392 – Our Most Important Areas for New GMs
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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PTG 391 – What a Game Wants, What a Game Needs
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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PTG 390 – Core Loops and Investment
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May 21, 2025 |
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PTG 389 – Collaboration and Facilitation
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May 14, 2025 |
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PTG 388 – Missing Games
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May 07, 2025 |
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PTG 387 – Zeroing in on Session Zero
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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PTG 386 – One Venti Iced Campaign, Please
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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PTG 385 – Tech at the Table
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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PTG 384 – Dear Pandas: Patterns of Behavior
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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PTG 383 – Biting the Bullet Point
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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PTG 382 – New and Returning Players
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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PTG 381 – GM Manipulation
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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PTG 380 – Going from GM to Player
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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PTG 379 – A Chit Chat!
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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PTG 378 – Playing Characters in Other IPs
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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PTG 377 – Book Inspiration
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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PTG 376 – Worldbuilding – To Collaborate or Not
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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PTG 375 – One on One Games
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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PTG 374 – Project Management and the GM
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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PTG 373 – GM Mastery Part II
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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PTG 372 – Gygaxian GM Mastery Part I
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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PTG 371 – Master Player Part II
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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PTG 370 – Master Player (according to Gygax)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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PTG 369 – Very Very Proactive Players
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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PTG 368 – Build a Gamer (Finding a Group Part II)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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PTG 367 – Finding a New Gaming Group (Part I)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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PTG 366 – Making Gaming Goals Happen
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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PTG 365 – Goals for Gaming
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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PTG 364 – A Jrab Bag (Audio Fixed)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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PTG 363 – The Case of the Missing Momentum
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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PTG 362 – An August Grab Bag!
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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361 – Playing it like it’s Evil
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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360 – Character and Player Goals
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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PTG 359 – Ch-ch-ch-changes (Major Life Ones)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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PTG 358 – Making Space for Fun
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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PTG 357 – Romantic Sideplots
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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PTG 356 – Get Your Board Game Friend In To TTRPGs
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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PTG 355 – Shared World Building
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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PTG 354 – Embodying NPCs
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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PTG 353 – Downtime Mechanics
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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PTG 352 – Game Design Topic Round Up
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May 22, 2024 |
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PTG 351 – Structure
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May 15, 2024 |
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PTG 350 – Big Ol’ List
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May 08, 2024 |
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PTG 349 – Daydreaming Big
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May 01, 2024 |
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PTG 348 – Phil’s Nostalgia Game
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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PTG 347 – When You Aren’t the IP Expert
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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PTG 346 – March Chit Chat
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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PTG 345 – Game of Theseus
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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PTG 344 – Emotional Investment in One Shots
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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PTG 343 – Conditions and Agency
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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PTG 342 – Are You Down with NPCs?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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PTG 341 – Less Than Enthused
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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PTG 340 – Giving Your Setting LIFE
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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PTG 339 – Challenging Challenges
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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PTG 338 – Introducing Settings
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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PTG 337 – New Years Aspirations
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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PTG 336 – Leading into the Holidays with Leading Questions
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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PTG 335 – Thanksgaming 2023
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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PTG 334 – I’m Bleeding Here!
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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PTG 333 – Feel the Character Beat
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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PTG 332 – Play Moar Games
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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PTG 331 – Recall, Improv, and Anxiety Part II
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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PTG 330 – Recall, Improv, and Anxiety, Part I
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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PTG 329 – Turning Point Chit Chat
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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PTG 328 – I’m So Into It, Into It, Into It
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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PTG 327 – Galaxy GM Brain (GM Brain Part 2)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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PTG 326 – GM in the Membrane (GM in the brain!)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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PTG 325 – Let’s Talk About Scenes, Baby
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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PTG 324 – How to Incorporate Memorable Gaming Experiences
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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PTG 323 – Game Changing Games
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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PTG 322 – Supporting New GMs
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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PTG 321 – Queering It Up
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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PTG 320 – When Real Life Crashes Your Campaign (Tone and Content)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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PTG 319 – June Chit Chat
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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PTG 318 – Showing Your Dice and Uninviting Players
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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PTG 317 – To GMPC or not to GMPC
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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PTG 316 – Playtesting this Title
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May 31, 2023 |
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PTG 315 – May Chit Chat
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May 24, 2023 |
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PTG 314 – Easy As Pi (Connecting published adventures and Non-Railroad Mysteries)
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May 17, 2023 |
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PTG 313 – Emotional Damage
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May 10, 2023 |
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PTG 312 – Character Death
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May 03, 2023 |
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PTG 311 – Safety Breaks
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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PTG 310 – Dropped Game, We Out
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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PTG 309 – The Camera Pan(da)s Down
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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PTG 308 – Inspiration not Aspiration
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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PTG 307 – March Grab Bag [insert funny name here]
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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PTG 306 – Today’s Fit Check
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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PTG 305 – Beginnings and Endings
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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PTG 304 – The Challenge of Skill Challenges
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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PTG 303 – Feb Chit Chat
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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MMPlays 3 – Mods for Cortex
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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PTG 302 – Prep Me Up
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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PTG 301 – Slow Your De-Role
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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PTG 300 – THIS. IS. PANDAS! (about epilogues.)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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PTG 299 – Whose NPC Is It Anyway?
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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PTG 298 – Rules on the House
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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PTG 297 – The Prisoner Dilemma
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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PTG 296 – Whose Clues Two(se)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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PTG 295 – November Chit Chat
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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PTG 294 – Family Drama
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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PTG 293 – When They Make a Terrible Decision
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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PTG 292 – Analysis Paralysis
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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PTG 291 – LEROOOOOY JENKINS
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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PTG290 – I’m so SHINY
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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PTG289 – Driving The Game
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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PTG288 – A New Introduction To Panda’s Talking Games
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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PTG287 – Age Gaps (At The Table)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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PTG286 – Cortex Prime and Denver
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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PTG285 – Too Clever: The Warning Signs
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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PTG 284 – Mini Campaigns Again
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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PTG283 – The Chit Chat of July
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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PTG 282 – Later On, We’ll Conspire
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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PTG281 – Treat or Treat
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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PTG 280 – Ain’t Nothing But A Mistake
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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PTG279 – Analyze This! … Media
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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PTG 278 – Failing Forward
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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PTG 277 – Memorial Day Chit Chat
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May 31, 2022 |
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PTG 276 – Player Loss
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May 16, 2022 |
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PTG 275 – Relationship Disasters
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May 09, 2022 |
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PTG274 – April Chit Chat Brings May Down Pat
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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PTG 273 — Nothing But A Good Time (Substance Expectations at the Table)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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PTG272 – Getting Into Character
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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PTG 271 — Table Rituals
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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PTG270 – Knowledge Imbalance
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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PTG269-6 Year Anniversary
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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PTG268 – I shall Call It…Mini Campaign!
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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PTG267 – A Definition Intermission: Story vs. Character Driven Games
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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PTG266 – Of Journeys and Brussels Sprouts
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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PTG 265 – Unfulfilled Character Concepts
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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PTG264 – How to be Multigamerous
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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PTG263 – January Chit Chat: Of Thirstiness and Cortex
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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PTG 262 – Editing In Progress
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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PTG 261 – Turgamen
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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PTG260 – You’ve Lost That Plotting Feeling
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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PTG December Chit Chat
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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PTG 259 – Buffalo and Session Zero
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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PTG 258 – One on One Games (Birthday Edition)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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PTG 257 – All In The Family
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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PTG256 – Conflicted without Combat
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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PTG 255 – I’m a New Tone
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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PTG Chit Chat 15
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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PTG 254 – Born To Run
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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PTG 253 – Motivation and Engagement for Solo RPGs
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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PTG 252 – Campaign Debriefs
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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PTG251 – Player Pacing
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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PTG250 – GM Pacing
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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PTG 249 – Genre Hopping Like It’s 1999
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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PTG 248 – Story Time, No GM Gods Here
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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PTG 247 – Is This Even Fun Anymore?
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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PTG246 – Non Stressed Relationships
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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PTG 245 – Decrunchify
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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PTG244 – Zero Prep Games
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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PTG 243 – Jottin’ Notes
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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PTG242 – Unrequited Characters and Campaigns
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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PTG 241 – Narrative Combat
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May 31, 2021 |
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PTG240 – Don’t Stop Grab Baggin’
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May 24, 2021 |
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PTG239 – May I Grab Your Bag?
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May 17, 2021 |
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PTG238 – Gotta Collect/Play Them All!
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May 10, 2021 |
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PTG237 – Publishing: The Sequel
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May 03, 2021 |
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PTG236 – Publishing
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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PTG235 – Description on Demand
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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PTG 234 – Game Design Part II
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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PTG233 — How I Met Your Game Designer
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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PTG Chit Chat 14 – March Chatness
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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PTG 232- Poker Face
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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PTG Chitty Chitty Chat Chat 13
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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PTG231 – Prelude in G (for Game)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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PTG230 – Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About (In Character)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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PTG 229 – Bad Romance
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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PTG 228 — PAY ATTENTION!
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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PTG 227 – Oh The Places You’ll Go
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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PTG 226 – Post Pandemic Cons
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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PTG Chit Chat 12
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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PTG 225 – Let’s Get Physical
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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PTG224 – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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PTG223 — Grabbing the New Year By The Bag
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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PTG222 – On Baggon, On Blitzen
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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PTG221 – Santa’s Magic Grab Bag
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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PTG220 – Gaming Rituals
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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PTG219 – Online Games
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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PTG218 – November Grabsgiving
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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PTG217 – Short Form Games: Old and New
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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PTG216 – Taking Stock
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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PTG215 – GM Meta Talk
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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PTG214 – A Class in Classification
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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PTG213 – Layers: The Panda Redux
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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PTG212 – Spoiling for a Stagefright
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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PTG211 – Personal Plots
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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PTG210 – Bringing Your B Game
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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PTG ChitChat 11
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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PTG 209 — Player Responsibility
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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PTG208 — Definitions Part 2
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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PTG207–Definitions
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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PTG206 — Further Thoughts on Reactive Safety Tools
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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PTG205 – A Culture of Player Improvement
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 10
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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PTG204 – It’s My First Time
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 9 – PbtA
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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PTG 203 – Reskin It Again, Sam
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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PTG – Chit Chat 8
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Chit Chat Fail
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 7
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 6
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 5
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 4
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May 25, 2020 |
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PTG Chit Chat 3
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May 18, 2020 |
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PTG – Panda Chit Chat 2
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May 11, 2020 |
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PTG – Panda’s Chit Chat 1 (Welcome to the Unedited)
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May 04, 2020 |
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PTG 202 – Getting to Know You
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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PTG201 – Alright Stop, Collaborate in One Shots
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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PTG200 – 4th Anniversary!
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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PTG199 – Unfamiliar Territory
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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PTG198 – Triangles
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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PTG197-Going the Social Distance: Transitioning to Online Play
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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PTG196 – Making Dungeons Sexy Again
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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PTG195 – 2Fast2Cliche
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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PTG194 – You Want To Listen To This Episode
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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PTG193 – Lines and Veils
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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PTG192 – Running an Impromptu Game Day
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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PTG191 – Februgrabby Bag
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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PTG190 – Toss a Fate Point to your Transactional Complications
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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PTG189 — Online Gaming
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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PTG188 – The Hero’s Journey
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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PTG187 – Who Framed Scener Rabbit?
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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PTG186 – Splitting the Party
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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PTG185 – CoGMing Part 3
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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PTG184 – Co-GMing Part 2
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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PTG183 – Co-GMing Part I
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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PTG182 – Open Tables
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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PTG181 – Metatopia Recap 2019
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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PTG180 – November Grab Bag 2
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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PTG179 – November Grab Bag 1
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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PTG178 – Too Much Plan? …Bit More Plan.
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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PTG177 – Portin’ Rules
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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PTG176 – Whose Clues
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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PTG175 – Try It, You Might Like It!
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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PTG174 – SeptemBI Grab Bag
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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PTG173 – Pumpkin Spice Grab Bag
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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PTG172 – Table Reading Rainbow
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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PTG171-We Built This City
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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PTG 170 – New GMs on the Block
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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PTG169-Augustus Grabbus Baggus
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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PTG168 – The Name’s Bond
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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PTG167 – The Ditch Lilies Part 2
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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PTG166 – The Ditch Lilies Part 1
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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PTG165 – QCC and Lessons Learned/Remembered
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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PTG164 – Turning Point!
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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PTG163 – Balancing Immersion vs. Mechanics
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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PTG162 – Wait, What? Intrigue!
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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PTG161 – Origins Recap 2019
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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PTG160-June Grab Bag the Second
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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PTG159 – Insert Creative Grab Bag Name Here
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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PTG158 – Why GMing Advice?
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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PTG157 – And Also Grab Bag
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May 20, 2019 |
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PTG156 – May The Grab Be Bag You
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May 13, 2019 |
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PTG155 – Switching: Empathy and Perspective on GMing and Playing
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May 06, 2019 |
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PTG154 – Game Life Balance Part 2
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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PTG153 – Life or Games Part I
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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PTG152 – Pilots and Mid-season Episodes
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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PTG151 – Something Kissy This Way Comes
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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PTG150 — Our 3nd Anniversary! No kidding!
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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PTG149 – Breakout 2019
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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PTG148 – March Grab Bag the Second
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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PTG147 – Insert Funny Grab Bag Name Here
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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PTG146 – To Write or Not To Write
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Panda’s Talking Games 145 – Demo vs. Entertainment
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Panda’s Talking Games 144 – You Can Lead a Group to Water
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Panda’s Talking Games 143 – Adventure Structure
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Panda’s Talking Games 142 – Situation Scope and the Case of the Setting Seekers
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Panda’s Talking Bonus Experience 141 – Playtesting and Onions
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Jan 28, 2019 |