Biggus Geekus
By Joe Hardin and Randy Nichols
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Episodes: 191
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Randy and Joe talk RPGs past and present, general roleplaying topics, gaming news, the occasional rant, RPG design and Worldbuilding. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biggusgeekus/support
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DnD has too much class ... It only needs two.
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Intra Party Strife
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Hirelings & Henchmen – Tools of the Trade or just Tools?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Magic items, What are they good for?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Advancing Your Game
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Monster Mash 15: Aberrations
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Online DnD Madness
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Fixing DnD Part One
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Gygax vs Arneson: Battle Royale
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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When one Dungeon Master is not enough.
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Internet Meet Karen and Disheartening Dweomers
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Divide, Divide, Divide The Hobby!
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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What are the OSRs?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The BrOSR is Stupid ... and Timepeeping
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Gaming Resolutions and More! Potpourri with Patrick Once Again!
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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D&D Discussions With David
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Horde Wars Basic ... And Beyond!
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Fantasy Top Five
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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A Chaos Of Topics
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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What makes a Challenging Game?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Combating Combat - Building The Mechanics
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Setting Up A Great Setting
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Designing the All-Important Magic System
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Fear Biggus Geekus
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Joe V. Randy D&D Edition War Round 2: 1e vs. 2e
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Joe v. Randy - A Battle in the D&D Edition War
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Loot and Edition Wars in DnD
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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When Enough Is Enough In DnD
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Big Geek Con #1 Report
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Handling PC Death
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Planescape Reimagined
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Resistance Is Futile
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Moving Goalposts: Exp Gains in DnD
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Gaming Facts or Fiction?
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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So ... You All Meet In A Bar
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Save or Suck in your RPGs
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Deities In Your RPGs
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Wishes in DnD
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Portals!
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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DnD Weirdness
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Retro Review: Best of Dragon Vol. 2 part 2
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Retro Review: Best of Dragon Vol. 2
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Monster Mash 14: Slimes and Oozes
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Monster Mash 13 : Here There Be DRAGONS - Part 2!
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Monster Mash 13: Dragons!
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Monster Mash 12: Lycanthropes
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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What Is The Player's Job At The Game Table?
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May 25, 2023 |
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What is the DM's job?
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May 17, 2023 |
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Campaigns, Cabin Con CC17 and Horde Wars
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May 10, 2023 |
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Monster Mash #11: ORCS & More!
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May 03, 2023 |
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DnD Myth Busters
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Monster Mash 10: Elementals
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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OSR Glut - Time to Move On?
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Toys or No Toys in your DnD Game
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Aves of Good and Evil - The Eternal Dialogue
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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I Don’t Want No Stinkin’ D&D
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Monster Mash #9 - NPCs as Monsters
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Controlling The Narrative
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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MASTER YOUR GAME PREP | DARK SUN PROBLEMATIC | PLAYING MULTIPLE PCS
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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The Final Word: Race vs Species vs Ancestry
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Monster Mash Special - Homebrewed Monsters
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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TTRPGs vs Other RPG-like Games
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Dm Blackwell and Horde Wars | WOTC and more OGL1.0a stuff
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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What do we want from a Dungeon?
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Grim Jim and the Weasels of the Coast
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Dump Dungeons and Dragons
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Why Learn A New Game?!?!?!?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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2022 ... Year In Review
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Ten Words You Cannot Use In Gaming
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Demons and Devils | Dungeons and Dragons Not Monetized Enough
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Monster Mash #6: The Drow
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Houserules in Dungeons and Dragons amd other ttrpgs.
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Tuesday Night Pre-Thanksgiving Chill Stream
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Attributes in D&D and Other TTRPGs
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Monster Mash #5: Giants (ogres & trolls) In Your DnD Game
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Ending a Campaign | Dungeons and Dragons Thief Class Analysis
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The Many Faces of Evil in D&D
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Ravenloft-The Spooky D&D Setting
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Creating Engaging Encounters for Dungeons and Dragons, and other ttrpgs
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Episode 108: Retro review of D&D’s White Plume Mountain, Finale | DnD Pushing Boundaries, Finale
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Retro review of D&D’s White Plume Mountain (1e) | The OSR is Dying?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Dungeons and Dragons - Pushing Boundaries
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Great DnD Modules & Adventures
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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D&D and RPG Sundry
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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ARTIFACTS In Your Dungeons and Dragons Game
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Episode 102: Golems and Constructs in Dungeons and Dragons | Favorite DnD Game Mechanics | One DnD
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Starting a New Campaign
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Episode 100 Retrospective
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Safety Tools | Staying Positive | Blain Pardoe | Gencon 2022
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Monster Mash - The Terrasque in your Dungeons and Dragons Game
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Alignment in Dungeons and Dragons ... Again
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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OSR, Old School, and the DnD divide with Legacy Game Mastering
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Five More Cool RPGs That Are Not Dungeons and Dragons
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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On The DriveThruRPG Controversy
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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D&D Lessons You wish you’d learned earlier
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Stereotypes, Inclusion and Representation in D&D
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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We Love The OSR, But Is It D&D?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Dungeons and Dragons vs. The Satanic Panic and the Woke Mob
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Cultivating a Game Group & Fantastic Locations
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May 27, 2022 |
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CC16 Re-Cap and Lessons learned
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May 18, 2022 |
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What We Love About D&D | Doctor Strange 2 | Violence in RPGs
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May 11, 2022 |
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Things We Hate in D&D
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May 04, 2022 |
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Monster Mash 2 - Incorporeal Undead in D&D
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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What’s Stats got to do with it?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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High Level Breakdown: Real or Fiction?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Monster Mash Pt. 1: Corporeal Undead
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Monster Mash Overview: Monsters in your DnD Game
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Evil Campaigns & PCs
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Default DnD Assumptions
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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5 RPGs To Play That Are Not DnD
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Keeping it Real while Playing Pretend
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Death and Taxes with T-Shirted Historian
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The 3 R’s: Renounce, Ridicule and Replace
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Initiative Revisited With Bruce
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Episode 73: 13th Age Finale ... Part Two
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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13th Age Deep Dive Part Finale ... Part 1
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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13th Age Deep Dive Part 2
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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13th Age Part 1: Icons and Setting
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Hickman Manifesto/Are You Too Old For RPGs
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Pros & Cons of Spellcasting Systems In Your TTRPG
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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The Right Game for the Right Job
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Save or Suck /Die in Dungeons and Dragons
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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RPG Campaign Nuts & Bolts: Procedural Play
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Campaign Nuts & Bolts: Using Published Modules, Part 1
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Potpourri with Patrick: A Special Wizard Analysis Edition
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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On the Clock: Tracking Time In Your DnD Game
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Is the DM Just a Player?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Narrative or the Dice: Which Rules Your Game
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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How High is too High to Play?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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It’s Time to Level Up!
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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The Ultimate Topic: Alignment- yes no or maybe
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Bringing Your World to Life
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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The Con Game
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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OOC Player Choices, FrogGate, DnD 5e is Flawed?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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DnD Campaign Design: Top-down vs. Bottom-up
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Naming Conventions in RPGs
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Dungeons and Dragons Class Analysis: The Gish (The Multiclassing Question)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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A BG Retrospective: Rules, Rulings, and Roles
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Top 10 Inspirational Books For Your TTRPG
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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A Biggus Geekus One Shot
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Dragons in Fantasy RPGs
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Resource Management: Abstraction or Accounting
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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How Do You Roll (DnD styles)?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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What Type of Gamemaster Are You
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Top 10 Inspirational Movies for RPG Gaming
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Class & Role: Fighter Analysis
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Playing the Whole Game
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Class and Role Analysis: The Cleric
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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RPG Collections & Downsizing
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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What Does Evil Do
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May 27, 2021 |
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Extreme PCs
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May 19, 2021 |
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The Elusive Game Balance
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May 12, 2021 |
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Wasting Time At the Table?
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May 06, 2021 |
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Potpourri With Patrick Part Deux
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Gaming Inspiration
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Managing the Known vs the Unknown
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Game & Gamer Mindsets
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Discussing & Playing RPGs And How to Even it Out (twofer)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Making High Level Play Playable (updated)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Potpourri with Patrick
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Shorties Episode 3
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Player Agency & Bennies (A Twofer)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Shorties episode 2
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The Obligatory Meta-Gaming Episode
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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CR & Predictability
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Shorties Episode 1
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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PC Progression: Zero to Hero … OR NOT?
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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5E DnD a Belated Review
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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OSR ReDux
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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The Railroad vs The Sandbox
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Is This OSR?
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Player Burnout
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Combat in RPGs
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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If You Build Them We Will Play - Making PCs
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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What We Love about RPGs
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Get Off My Domain
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Wealth in RPGs
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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PC Power Disparity and How to Handle it
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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GM & Player RANTS
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Newbie GM Advice
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Magic systems and Making Magic Magical
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Who Are You as a TTRPG Gamer
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Let's Start a Campaign
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Handling PC death
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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D&D Through The Ages
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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The Prep Scale
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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High vs. Low Fantasy
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May 09, 2020 |
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What Is Adventure?
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May 02, 2020 |
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Campaigns vs. One Shots
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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A Very Special Episode
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Our First Time
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Feb 27, 2020 |