Player Advice Episodes

Tips for enabling collaborative play and ensuring you extract the maximum enjoyment from every session, while helping other players to achieve the same.
Aug. 4, 2023

Immersion

We're back! And this time joined by Anya, a.k.a. La Lionne Cosplay , to discuss immersion in your TTRPGs. Anya shares her experience as a Pro-GM on ways to truly pull your players into the game, no matter the system or medium...
Guest: Anya
May 19, 2023

Experimentation

I'm once again joined by Philippa Mort who previously joined us on the Aesthetic ⁠ episode back in season 2. This time it's to chat about confidence and taking risks when it comes to experimenting with new systems, characters...
Guest: Philippa Mort
Dec. 9, 2022

Spells

This mystical episode I'm joined by Jack Weighill of Dice Average RPG to discuss the minutia of the magical. The way WOTC have designed spells is an interesting insight into how they view D&D and how they suggest it should be...
Guest: Jack Weighill
Oct. 14, 2022

Process

This week I'm joined by friend and table mate Sam Henry to talk about our processes used for playing D&D, and how we use our professional backgrounds to improve our experiences. 05:21 - A Process Oriented Approach 15:46 - Dif...
Guest: Sam Henry
Sept. 30, 2022

Quality

This week I'm joined by Cyle Durkee from Play-Nerd Allies and Foundation for Inclusivity in Gaming , to talk about how to have a quality gaming session. Running a TTRPG is more an art than it is science, and as such involves ...
Guest: Cyle Durkee
Sept. 16, 2022

Chaos

This episode I'm joined by the eponymous Aaron of Aaron's Games ! Although not the first published, this episode was the first recorded without any preparation notes, in the spirit of the episode topic! Aaron and I discuss th...
Guest: Aaron Weight
Sept. 2, 2022

More Mistakes

Minor ' Lost Mine Of Phandelver ' spoilers in this episode. This week I host Derrick from the How Not To DM podcast (HN2DM), to once again talk about all the glorious mistakes we make! the most value from these kinds of discu...
May 27, 2022

Motivation

Once again I am joined by long time friends of the show and the inimitable hosts of Tabletop Journeys : Josh, Lewanika, and Glen. Their enthusiasm for TTRPGs is infectious and it's such a delight to provide a platform for the...
May 13, 2022

New

Welcome back! Season 4 opens with a self-indulgent, naval gazing look at the new player experience through the eyes of one my players: Matt Street. Matt joined my homebrew campaign in session 0 way back at the beginning of 20...
April 1, 2022

Dynamics

Once again I'm joined by Ian a.k.a TheFoolishSwarmi , this time to talk about the different kind of dynamics in D&D. Most of the episode is focused on the discussion of how D&D is inherently a human experience, and how realis...
March 25, 2022

Assemble

This episode stars Michael Kesavan, a.k.a. Dead Aussie Gamer, to talk about assembling the best game. Turns out, diversity and versatility are key, both in-universe and out of game. The types of players you have, and the char...
March 18, 2022

Continuity

This episode I host Jarrod Jahoda and Matt Morris of Mid-Level Adventurers to talk all about maintaining continuity in your TTRPGs. We share many tips DMs can use to maintain internal consistency within their campaigns, as to...
Jan. 28, 2022

Relationships

This episode I'm joined by Hunter Royall from the " A Sundered World " podcast to talk about all the different relationship vectors in TTRPGs. The first being that between player and character, and how it's not always affecti...
Guest: Hunter Royall
Nov. 12, 2021

Emotions

This episode I'm joined by Mike "The Birdman" Dodd from This Week in Geek to discuss all about how TTRPGs make us feel . Part of the Game Master's job is to elicit emotions from their players, so we discuss a few ways this ca...
Oct. 8, 2021

Growth

This episode I'm joined by Aaron Preuss ( @Primus_Casts ) to discuss growth within Dungeons & Dragons, and there's a lot to unpack here. Most people find their own character designs evolve and mature over time, and Aaron take...
Guest: Aaron Preuss