Taking 20 Podcast

Ep 144 - Types of Horror

Welcome to Horror Month at the Taking 20 Podcast!  All month we will be talking about scary/spooky topics to hopefully make your RPGs even better.  This week, I talk about some of the major types of horror and confess what makes my hackles sit up and turn red.

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Resources

None.  Just the ramblings of an old, insane DM.

Ep 143 - Inspiration from Other Systems

There are a huge number of people and companies producing a plethora of RPG content for various systems out there.  Some of this content makes for greart adventures, location ideas, quest hubs, monsters, NPCs, and anything else you need for your game system.  So what if some of it is written for a game you don't play.

In this episode I encourage you to look at other game system content to find what makes sense for you to use in your system.

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Resources:

www.drivethrurpg.com

www.dmsguild.com

www.pathfinderinfinite.com

 

Ep 142 - Don’t Nerf Your PCs Part 2

I'm not done with nerfing!  There's a major aspect of not nerfing PCs that I forgot to cover last week:  letting your PCs excel at what they're good at.

Tune in this week as we continue the discussion on this important topic!

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Ep 141 - Don’t Nerf Your PCs Part 1

Sometimes games can get out of balance and it can feel like the PCs have all of the advantages and that's probably because they do.  GMs may be tempted to take away or reduce the effectiveness of abilities or equipment used by the PCs but I'm here to tell you there's only one good reason to do so.

 

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Resources:

The stupid sacred geometry feat:  https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/sacred-geometry/

 

Great discussion thread on the topic:  https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-do-you-feel-about-pc-abilities-being-nerfed-by-the-dm.687189/

 

And another one:  https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/dungeon-masters-only/43641-how-do-you-nerf-a-player-while-still-making-them

Ep 140 - Spelljammer

Spelljammer is Dungeons and Dragons' attempt to bring a touch of sci fi to their traditional fantasy RPG.  It's like 50s Pulp Sci Fi novels were inserted into the world of swords and sorcery, gnomes and nagas.  Frankly it's very very strange but in this episode I encourage you to embrace the strange and don't dismiss it simply because it's different than your usual game.

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Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wey7sgBplp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ5y_9TdIJQ

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/spelljammer

 

Ep 139 - Betrayal

Betrayal is a common story trope you see in movies, books, and even let's play podcasts.  It can be an amazing moment to include in your game but should you?  How can you use this dangerous tool to the betterment of your Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons game without it backfiring on you?  Tune in and find out.

 

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Resources

https://jennethdyck.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/seven-ways-to-write-betrayal-in-your-novel/

https://wildwritingdreams.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/how-to-create-the-perfect-betrayal-character/

Ep 138 - Making Trustworthy NPCs

It's hard to make NPCs that the PCs will trust, open up to, be vulnerable with.  Unfortunately it's not something that anyone can do with 100% success rate.  So, how DO you make NPCs the players will gravitate toward?  How can you portray these NPCs in such a way that the party wants to interact with them?  Tune in and find out.

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Ep 137 -Lore Series - Starfinder Gap & Empty History

The Gap is an aberration in the lore of most RPG products:  a time where history is completely broken and no records remain.  What do we know about this time period and how can you use similar empty periods of history in your campaign world?  Tune in to find out.

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Ep 136 - Plane Series-Multiverse Concept and Material Plane

Before the MCU introduced the world to that word, "Multiverse" meant something different in the RPG world:  a collection of universes, each of which was called a plane.  In this episode, Jeremy asks for feedback about starting a new series about the different planes, talks about running adventures in both a traditional RPG multiverse and an MCU-like one.

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Ep 135 - The Rule of Three

This week Jeremy discusses the flexible tool for DMs known as the Rule of Three, including the 3 Clue Rule and other variants of this handy method you can use at your table to keep one bad decision by the PCs from derailing your game and ruining all that time you spent preparing for the game session.

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