Ranked #1

13. Voicing Characters
13. Voicing Characters
James discusses the art of voicing characters. This episode has improv techniques for developing character voices, advic... Read more
5 Jun 2014
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15mins
Ranked #2

Putting Together Your First Game Part 1
Putting Together Your First Game Part 1
This is a big one folks. This is the first installment of a series where James walks you through the steps to setting up... Read more
14 Oct 2013
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19mins
Ranked #3

12. Designing Monsters
12. Designing Monsters
This week live from CODcon James invites Kat Murphy and Jim Hepplewhite on the show to discuss customizing monsters than... Read more
16 Apr 2014
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52mins
Ranked #4

Putting Together Your First Game Part 2
Putting Together Your First Game Part 2
James continues his walk-through for making your first game. In this episode you'll learn about accounting for player st... Read more
21 Oct 2013
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20mins
Ranked #5

Kickstarting Your Party Dynamic
Kickstarting Your Party Dynamic
In this episode James gives us some techniques to build strong party dynamics starting with the first session. He also s... Read more
28 Oct 2013
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12mins
Ranked #6

Maps and Minis
Maps and Minis
This week James McGhie asked the simple question: "Tiles and minis, yay or nay?"
9 Jan 2015
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11mins
Ranked #7

Strong, Unreasonable Villains
Strong, Unreasonable Villains
This week James takes on a new listener question: When my players come up with what seems like a reasonable bargain or d... Read more
12 Dec 2014
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16mins
Ranked #8

9. Getting players to Participate
9. Getting players to Participate
A couple years ago I DM'd for the first time for a game with my girlfriend (now wife) my friend Matt and his wife and a ... Read more
30 Jan 2014
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21mins
Ranked #9

20. Heart Breakers
20. Heart Breakers
James invites Jon and Jef from the System Mastery podcast on to the show to talk about bad role playing games and how to... Read more
5 Mar 2015
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1hr 22mins
Ranked #10

8. Giving Players the Right Amount of Information
8. Giving Players the Right Amount of Information
James answers a listener's question - "Over the past year I have gotten back into DMing for a group of players, after an... Read more
23 Jan 2014
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21mins