Gnomecast

Join Ang along with guests Jason Haskins and Mike Mistele as they talk about the components that make for a good convention one-shot!

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Origins Game Fair

Matinee Adventures

Join Ang along with Josh and JT as they talk about the ins and outs of running published adventures! Whether it’s easier or harder and tips and tricks on how to make them work for you.

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JT’s D&D Tools Classic

JT’s D&D Tools Modern

JT’s D&D Tools Download at GitHub

7th Sea 3rd Edition by Agate — Kickstarter

NorWesCon

Join Ang along with Chris and Tomas as they talk about the finer points of metacurrencies. What are they, what design purpose do they serve, and why do our players love them?

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Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Kickstarter

Crypt of the Nekrolych

Dimension 20: Gladlands

Streets of Avalon

Join Ang along with special guests Steve Kenson and Alex Thomas from Green Ronin as they talk about Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition. You know Ang loves all things super heroes, so let’s find out together what the new edition of this beloved supers game has in store for us!

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Mutants & Masterminds 4e Kickstarter

SteveKenson.com

Steve Kenson @ Bluesky

Untold Stories Project Twitch

AlexanderWrites.Com

Join Senda with Erika Skirpan as they have a conversation about safety in LARPs and Tabletop RPGs and how to do it in ways that enhance your games.

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Mooney Bin Entertainment

Sinking Ship Creations

Join Ang, along with Chris and Josh as they talk about Actual Play games as entertainment and what we should and should not take away from them to use in our own games. Ang has been on a Critical Role kick and wants to talk about it!

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Scritches: A Misdirected Mark Plays AP

Tales from Woodcreek

Quinn’s Quest and Play to Find Out

Join Ang, Chris, and JT as they discuss different methods to pulling a party of characters together at the start of a campaign. They talk about everything from strangers shoved together to deeply established connections. How are you going to get it started?

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Making Connections

Philadelphia Area Game Expo

Running GAGG

Buckeye Game Fest

Scritches

Twilight Sword

Tome of Intangible Treasures

Box of Intangible Treasures

JT Evans Books

Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about the types of characters they like to play, why they love those types, and why it’s also good to branch out and try other characters.

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Global Comix

Seth Skorkowsky – Closed vs. Open RP

Bastions & Guildhalls by Czepeku

Also, Visit your Friendly Local Gamestores!

Join Jared as he interviews Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, the folks behind the Tabletop Safety Toolkit, a resource providing gamers with access to a variety of safety tools. There’s a ton of options out there and their site provides options for every table.

TTRPG Safety Toolkit

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Legend in the Mist – 5e Crossover Tool – Son of Oak Game Studio | Free Products

Meat Circus Jam – itch.io

Castles in the Air – A Gilded Age TTRPG

Join Ang as she chats with guest Bridgett Jeffries about all things spooky and scary games. Need some insight into how to bring the best of horror to your table during this spooky season? Listen to Bridgett!

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Contact Bridgett at Chaosium

Symphony Entertainment

Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to combat analysis paralysis! What do you do when your players get stuck overthinking and overanalyzing things and start dragging the game down!

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Cyberpunk Legends Kickstarter

DM Andy’s Maps

Invincible RPG by Free League

Join Ang, Chris and JT as they chat about what to do when your players get fixated on trifling matters that you didn’t intend to matter in the game. Do you make it matter or do you redirect them, and how do you do either of them?!?

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The Streets of Avalon Playtest

Viper’s Bane

Talons and Tails

Reading D&D Aloud

Join Ang along with Josh and Jared as they talk about the pros and cons of playing virtually online versus playing in person face-to-face. Listen to them talk about what they love about both ways of playing!

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Coyote & Crow Digital Kickstarter

CzePeku

2 Minute Tabletop

Tom Cartos

Afternoon Maps

Josh and Chris take over the Gnomecast as Ang is on her Gnomecation. They talk JRPGs and the JRPG TTRPG Fabula Ultima. They played through a session 0 and four four hour sessions. Now they’re here to give you their thoughts and feelings on the game.

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Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they revisit a topic they discussed way back in episode 80: Niche Protection! When is it important to make sure that each PC has a specialty that is theirs alone? When can you ignore that worry? They discuss it all again!

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Ginny Di on Sympathetic Villains

JT Evans Novels

Streets of Jade

Join Ang along with Chris and special guest Carl Lehmann as they talk about GM Burnout. How it happens, what to do when you’re in the middle of it and how to prevent it.

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Symphony Entertainment

Fultimator

Join Ang and JT as Matt leads the questions on how to prep for our games and how to make that easier for yourself.

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Ashes and Embers

Scapple

JT’s D&D Tools

Join Ang along with Jared and Tomas as they talk about how to get a group stuck on playing one particular game to try something else.

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Wildmage Press

Deerstalker Pictures

The Forever DM

Hearth Magazine

Join Ang, along with Josh and Senda as they talk about the different styles of roleplaying games and why it can help improve your experience to understand what types you enjoy most.

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Conscience USA

Origins Game Fair 2025

Book Riot – Fight Back Against Book Bans

Join Jared as he interviews Lou Anders and discusses Fury of the Forsaken. An addition to the Thrones and Bones, it explores Norrøngard, a setting inspired by Norse myth and Scandinavian folklore.

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Fury of the Forsaken Kickstarter

Join Ang and Jared, along with special guest Carl Lehmann as they talk about problem players and what to do about them when you find one at your table.

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Origins Game Faire

Fury of the Forsaken by Lou Anders

Symphony Entertainment

Join Ang along with Chris and Phil as they talk about managing continuity for you and your players in your campaigns. Does it matter? How much attention do you need to give it? What if you’re running an Actual Play for an Audience?

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Buckeye Game Fest

Panda’s Talking Games

Dragon Week on YouTube

Join Ang along with Josh and JT as they talk about how to navigate having multiple game systems embedded in your brain. Notice? Perception? Awareness? Which does this system use!?

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Han Cluster Crowd Funding

How to Build a Custom GM Screen

Monster Overhaul

60th Nebula Award Nominations

Join Ang and special guest, Charles Cohen, as they talk about emerging AI technology and its place in the RPG space.

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Your D&D Party is Too Big

Join Jared and Tracy Sizemore as they discuss her Savage Worlds setting The Han Cluster, an optimistic sci-fi roleplaying game.

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Han Cluster Website

Backerkit for Han Cluster

Join Ang along with Jared and guest Andy Jaksetic as they talk about the immense responsibility of running Super Hero RPGs to the best of your abilities! From street level to cosmic, they talk about all the various types of super heroes you can bring to your table.

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Origins Game Fair

Untold Stories Project

Untold Stories Project Twitch

Specatculars Setting Book

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Join Ang, Josh and JT as they talk about the dreaded, forbidden topic of splitting the party! Is it good? Is it bad? Does it depend? They’ll talk about it all.

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Authors Against Book Bans

Origins Game Fair

Tech at the Table

Join Ang, Chris and Tomas as they discuss all the ins and outs of running mysteries in a variety of game systems!

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Xeno

Brandon Sanderson writing Lecture Series 2025

Afternoon Maps Patreon

Join Ang, JT, and guest Alex Thomas as they talk about the difference in the skills needed to run games versus play games. They dive into what they like about both and why it’s important to have both sets of skills!

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Titan City Serials

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

The Vechnoye Saga

COSine 2025

Join Ang, JT, and Tomas as they look at what they hoped to accomplish RPG wise in 2024, how that turned out, and what they’re hoping for in 2025.

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Libby

JT’s Amazon Link

JT’s Website

Tomas on Bluesky

Join Ang, Matt, and Senda as they talk about how to help your gaming group survive the inevitable scheduling woes of the holiday season.

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Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977

Grinding Gears

Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about what to do when you have characters in your game whose mechanical abilities overlap and you can’t rely on traditional ‘niche’ protection to move the spotlight around the table. Or, what to do when you somehow end up with a group of just bards!

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Book Riot’s Literary Activism Newsletter

Dragon Age The Veilguard

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts

Join us for our 200th episode of the Gnomecast, as we talk about why we do this. What’s this? Giving gaming advice on Gnome Stew and this podcast. And who’s we? A bunch of gnomes who could take a little time to talk about the love we have for this hobby and why we keep giving gaming advice.

Thank you for being a listener and here’s to many more episodes!

Join Ang along with Jared and JT as they talk about how to bring the spooky to your table as we get deep into the Halloween season.

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The Carnival’s Children

Veiled Fate

Shard’s Halloween Sale

The Between Backerkit

Join Ang, Josh and Carl Lehman as they talk about setting stakes for your games and how to keep your players and their characters invested and involved.

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The MMO Acronym Accident

Fabula Ultima

Symphony Entertainment

The Last Journey Home Stream

Obsidian

Join Ang, Tomas and Walt as they talk about bringing brand new players into the hobbies. Tips, tricks, and things to keep in mind as you introduce the hobby to someone for the first time.

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Magnolia: City of Marvels

Victoriana 5e Kickstarter

Deborah Ann Woll teaches Jon Bernthal D&D

Join Ang, Jared and Chris as they talk about two common slip ups GMs make while running our games and how to recover from them.

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Dungeon Masters Audio Play

THAC0 with Advantage Discord

Undying Corruption Player’s Guide

Join Jared as he gets together with Rob Heinsoo. In between moments of being an excited and extremely enthusiastic fan, Jared talks to him about 13th Age and all things gaming!

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13th Age Kickstarter (still accepting late pledges)

Join Ang, along with guests Carl Lehmann and Alex Thomas where they talk about organizing and running multi-table games! These can be a lot of fun, but require a different kind of organization and coordination.

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Symphony Entertainment Discord

Symphony Entertainment Twitch

Untold Stories Project

Victoriana 5e Kickstarter

Join Ang, Josh, and Phil as they talk about GMing for Turtles. No, not those charming reptiles with a house on their back, but the players that end up not wanting to engage with what you’re putting down in front of them!

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Sandra Taylor’s ‘Structuring Life to Support Creativity

2024 D&D

Daggerheart

Meguey Baker