* (0:29) Fear the Con 2020’s Kickstarter is live!
* (4:50) When the party is split, it can make it easier to talk to an NPC.
* (8:21) A split party creating a game of telephone.
* (13:02) Giving characters their own chance to shine.
* (21:55) Team-building and RP in the party’s reunion.
* (23:12) The countdown to problems when the party separates.
* (29:54) Two approaches for how the GM can resolve separate actions.
* (42:10) Having to remember multiple bookmarks if the game gets paused.
* (43:08) How a split party can help the GM get an idea to stick.
* (44:29) Avoiding factions in the split.
* (47:34) Player-character separation as an inevitability, not a desired outcome.
* (50:34) The role of the players in a divided group.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:32) The Kickstarter for Gamers Table’s Season of the Glitch.
* (1:16) Fear the Con 2020 on June 18th – 20th, with the Kickstarter coming very soon. You can follow our progress in the Facebook group. The episode where we talked about Pat killing us all.
* (5:35) Merging two questions from Facebook to talk about how we build settings with an eye for stories that can be told there.
* (7:39) The motivation behind creating the world in the first place.
* (24:07) As aside on automats and courtesy.
* (29:36) What interests you is likely what you’re already developing.
* (33:24) Looking at what the players can and/or care to consume.
* (41:21) Where and when you start building the game plot, based on group interests.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:33) Fear the Con 2020 on June 18th – 20th! The Kickstarter is coming very soon. In the meantime, you can follow our progress in the Facebook group.
* (2:09) Explaining who Brad is.
* (2:59) The Kickstarter for Gamers Table’s Season of the Glitch.
* (6:05) Laura decides to run a Halloween game for more experienced players.
* (10:47) Intentionally and accidentally difficult players.
* (14:21) Ask for help and get people invested in your success.
* (17:53) Picking the right system and setting.
* (21:38) Why asking for feedback may not be the best idea.
* (26:45) Prioritizing the building blocks of the game.
* (33:59) Accepting you’re not in control of everything, and notes aren’t always the answer.
* (38:16) Advice for the players.
Hosts: Brad, Chad, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:54) All that matters is the d-o-g.
* (3:18) Answering part of Dustin’s question, and why it’s not getting a full answer just yet.
* (5:13) Illustrations from No Man’s Sky, Baldur’s Gate, Mass Effect, and Freelancer.
* (13:24) Slowing things down in the game versus the meta-game.
* (19:04) Getting what you’ve earned.
* (25:16) The slow flow of information in other forms of storytelling.
* (32:54) Communicating a plausible, in-story reason for withholding information.
* (39:54) Players that are desperate for information or overstuffed with it.
* (44:56) NPCs in a guiding role. Extending the Three Clue Rule.
* (54:40) Gating discoveries.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan
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* (0:23) Chad talks a whole lot about not talking. Also, cattywampus.
* (4:32) Wayne is playing Dragon Quest Builders 2.
* (7:39) Chad is playing Assassin’s Creed Origins.
* (16:31) Dale is playing Medieval II: Total War.
* (23:39) Dan is playing No Man’s Sky.
* (30:14) Dan is reading War Before Civilization.
* (33:30) Wayne is reading They Called Us Enemy.
* (35:36) Chad is reading Hardluck Ironclad.
* (48:05) Dale is reading Becoming Superman.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:28) Jonathan Belina asks about rules for dice.
* (4:45) Cocked dice. Not rolling off the floor.
* (8:31) Dice must be legible and visible.
* (9:36) Don’t “play” with the dice.
* (12:42) Dice bowling.
* (18:48) Testing your rolls.
* (20:41) Tenser’s Floating Disk at work…?
* (28:18) An unexpected break in Chad’s Blades in the Dark game.
* (36:02) Juxtaposing Chad’s situation against the break in Dan’s Skies of Glass game.
* (41:22) Recovering with the onus on the players.
* (47:23) Recovering with the onus on the Game Master.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:28) Dan’s voice. A look back at older episodes.
* (2:54) The double-standard of how social skills are handled versus any other check.
* (8:00) When players cheat around their dump stats.
* (12:47) The plausibility of counterfactuals.
* (32:04) Having no awareness of the game you’re in.
* (37:42) Holding me responsible for the things you didn’t tell me.
* (41:28) Revisiting other topics.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:30) Introducing Dale of Jon Brazer Enterprises.
* (7:11) The story of Jon Brazer, the character.
* (9:07) How the degree of crunch changes your options for creating material. The OGL and similar licenses.
* (24:26) Half of your money?!
* (33:09) Revisiting the relationship between crunch (or the lack thereof) and what that lets you create.
* (43:37) The positive role of more stuff.
* (49:40) Getting started with Traveler.
Hosts: Chad, Dale, Dan, Wayne
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* (0:32) Dan is having throat issues.
* (1:01) A huge “thank you” to Zylo for doing so much for Fear the Con-Line!
* (2:18) Wayne created a template to help with game pitches. You can find a blank version here.
* (5:26) A sample for D&D 5th Edition.
* (8:24) Every game starts somewhere.
* (11:03) Structuring without restricting. A sample for Dresden Files.
* (19:42) Pitches in-person versus on-paper.
* (29:16) Adapting the pitch based on feedback.
* (36:10) Adding miscellaneous notes.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Julia, Wayne
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* (0:28) This studio is hot.
* (2:55) The conundrum of character suicide. How Frankenstein’s monster was actually made.
* (16:10) Not being a victim of your own creations.
* (31:28) Explaining the idea of a swan song and how it manifests in an RPG.
* (39:17) Deconstructing a swan song that occurred in one of our games.
* (40:56) Extra camera time.
* (47:30) Letting a character arc run its full course. Death of a Salesman.
* (51:59) Swan songs as a consensus of every contributor to the story.
* (56:18) Recognizing the moments when they happen unplanned. Letting the character continue, anyway.
Hosts: Chad, Dan, Wayne
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