Misdirected Mark Plays

Phil, Bob, and Jerry welcome special guest Andi Fox of the Redemption podcast for further discussion about running games in a setting from an established intellectual property. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite settings MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss running games in a setting established in an existing intellectual property. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite settings at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:28 – The Temperature Check MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the differences between the “Storyteller” and “Facilitator” approaches to game mastering. Enjoy, and tell us your GMing style at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 2:30 – The Temperature Check 5:44 MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of different initiative systems. Enjoy, and tell us how you decide action order at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:01 – The Temperature MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss what happens after the big adventure is over. Enjoy, and come share your stories of aftermaths at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 2:30 – The Temperature Check 8:18 – The MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry take a deep dive into the fantasy sandbox survival game Forbidden Lands from Free League Publishing. Enjoy, and come join the conversation at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 2:00 – The MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry continue the series on opposition types with a discussion on the mighty Juggernaut. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite Juggernauts at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:46 – The Temperature MORE

Content Warning: Passing of a beloved pet. Two brief discussions of pet death: 5:40 – 6:35 1:48:14 – 1:51:28 Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss managing game mechanics that deprive players of agency over their characters. MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss types and uses of chase and pursuit mechanics in RPGs. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite chase scenes at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:14 – The Temperature Check MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the campaign sessions that take place between larger story arcs. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite interlude sessions at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:50 – The Temperature Check MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry return from winter break and continue the multipart discussion about opposition with a look at the hive mind. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite hive mind over at The Misdirected Mark MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry continue the discussion about opposition with a look at the puppet master. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite puppet master over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Reminder: This marks the final MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss their gaming lives in general in this Salon episode. Enjoy, and connect with us over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Time Stamps 1:43 – The Temperature Check 7:55 – The Lobby MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss what makes a mastermind, and how to run mastermind opposition in your games. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite masterminds over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Reminder: There will be MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the composition and uses of conspiracies in your games. Enjoy, and tell us about your in-game conspiracies over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the live recording of a new episode MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss tips on running those big boss fights that form the capstone of so many adventures and campaigns. Enjoy, and tell us about your big boss fights over at The Misdirected Mark MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss tips on running games where the GM has to set a difficulty level as part of the task resolution mechanism. Enjoy, and tell us how you decide the levels of MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry welcome special guest Jason Pitre of Genesis of Legend Publishing to discuss Forged in the Dark game design and Jason’s new game Sig: City of Blades on Kickstarter through October 30th! MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry conclude the discussion of non-optimal play, this time from the player’s perspective. Enjoy, and tell us about your non-optimal play over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the live recording of a MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the human side of non-optimal play from the GM’s perspective, as opposed to last week’s discussion of the mechanical perspective. Enjoy, and tell us about how you run non-optimal play MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss the benefits and mechanics of non-optimal play decisions. Enjoy, and tell us about your non-optimal play over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the live recording of a new episode every MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss various categories, examples, and uses of GM tools to help you run your game. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite GM tools over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss different ways to prepare and use published adventures in your games! Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite published adventures over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the live recording of MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss pre-game preparation, improv in gaming, and the strengths and uses of both of those styles – even together! Enjoy, and tell us about your prep and improv experiences over at The MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss what nostalgia means, how you can enjoy it, and what the risks of indulging may be. Enjoy, and tell us about what makes you nostalgic in gaming over at The Misdirected MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss managing the villains in your game: what they’re for and how to make them memorable. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite villains over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. Catch the MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss in-game planning, especially various game mechanics for pulling off heists. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite in-game plans over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. If you’re available, also catch the MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss powerful NPCs that support and provide for player characters. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite in-game patrons over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. If you’re available, also catch the live MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss different methods and approaches to worldbuilding for your tabletop stories. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite worlds over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. If you’re available, also catch the live MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry discuss various types of “assist” mechanics in different games. Enjoy, and tell us about your favorite teamwork rules over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. If you’re available, also catch the live recording MORE

Phil, Bob, and Jerry take an in-depth look at Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games. Enjoy, and tell us your takes on DCC over at The Misdirected Mark Forums. If you’re available, also catch the live MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back Jerry for another installment of the Salon series. The hosts discuss various activities and media in their lives and how they relate to gaming. Enjoy, and tell us what’s happening MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back Jerry for another installment of the Salon series. The hosts discuss various activities and media in their lives and how they relate to gaming. Enjoy, and tell us what’s happening MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back Jerry for another installment of the Salon series. The hosts discuss various activities and media in their lives and how they relate to gaming. Enjoy, and tell us what’s happening MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back Jerry for another installment of the Salon series. The hosts discuss various activities and media in their lives and how they relate to gaming. Enjoy, and tell us what’s happening MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back Jerry to kick off a less structured format for the show in the new Salon series. The hosts discuss activities and media in their lives and how they relate to MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss finding, bolstering, and recovering your confidence as a GM. Enjoy and tell us about how you’ll boost your GM confidence on The Misdirected Mark Forums. MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss techniques and tips for learning new games. Enjoy, tell us about how you learn games on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join us live every MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss the reasons and use of failure in games. Enjoy, tell us about failure in your games on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join us live MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss how to discourage the murder hobo mindset in your games. Enjoy, tell us about your game’s murder hobos on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss how to manage urgency in games. Enjoy, tell us about your game’s urgent situations on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join us live every Tuesday MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss productive and non-productive play, and how each can be used at the table. Enjoy, tell us about your table’s productive play on The Misdirected Mark MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss the nature and use of the character background and backstory. Enjoy, tell us about your characters on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join us live MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss bringing games that have fallen by the wayside back to your table. Enjoy, let us know how you revive stalled games on The Misdirected Mark MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to discuss how to set boundaries at the table, and how setting boundaries helps your game. Enjoy, let us know how you handle boundaries on The Misdirected MORE

Phil and Bob welcome back guest host Jerry to revisit an old show topic: reskinning. The hosts head to the Workshop to talk adapting mechanics, repurposing narrative structures and tropes, and the use of reskinning MORE

Phil and Bob welcome guest host Jerry to discuss the ins and outs of ending your RPG campaigns. Enjoy, let us know how you handle your campaign endings on The Misdirected Mark Forums, and join us MORE

We’re doing something different today on the show. We’re gonna talk about and build mechanics on the show for how to facilitate romance stories in your games.     Enjoy and let us know about MORE

So, we’ve adventured to another end once againand, now we get resources we can spendI tell my group to spend their points leave none behindBecause we’re goin’ through a little downtime We’re talking downtime on MORE

Welcome to our New Years Eve show. We have many guests and it’ll be an excellent and awesome time. You can also join us live at twitch.tv/misdirectedmark on Tuesday evenings from 8pm till 10 pm. MORE