Episode 9: Know Your Players

10/04/22 • -1 min

In this episode Ryan, Ralf and Kade talk about how knowing what your players want out of a role-playing game and what interests they have outside of it can improve your encounter design

The book we mention in this episode is The Monsters Know What They are doing. If you want to support our podcast you can buy those games through the affiliate links or head to our patreon page at www.patreon.com/the_encounter_table. If you’d like to support us in a non-monetary way you can subscribe to our podcast, leave a five star rating and review, or tell your friends about us.

The music for our boxed text section is Turning to You by Blue dot Sessions.

In this episode Ryan, Ralf and Kade talk about how knowing what your players want out of a role-playing game and what interests they have outside of it can improve your encounter design

The music for our boxed text section is Turning to You by Blue dot Sessions.

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Episode 8: Mechanics Part 2

In the second half of this two part episode Ryan, Ralf and Kade talk about how to be inspired by and use mechanics from other games in order to run better encounters and better games.

The games we mention in this episode are Numenera, Powered by The Apocalypse, Savage Worlds and The Dark Eye. If you want to support our podcast you can buy those games through the affiliate links or head to our patreon page at www.patreon.com/the_encounter_table. If you’d like to support us in a non-monetary way you can subscribe to our podcast, leave a five star rating and review, or tell your friends about us.

The music for our boxed text section is Gilly Wash by Blue dot Sessions.

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Episode 10: Horror in RPGs

In this episode Ryan, Ralf, Kade and special guest Charlie from Parable Games talk about their new game shiver and how to put more horror into your RPG.

The games we mention in this episode are Blades in the Dark, Gensys, and Shiver If you want to support our podcast you can buy those games through the affiliate links or head to our patreon page at www.patreon.com/the_encounter_table. If you’d like to support us in a non-monetary way you can subscribe to our podcast, leave a five star rating and review, or tell your friends about us.

The music for our boxed text section is Roadside Bunker by Blue dot Sessions.