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Critical Success

Learn the mechanics behind creating a great role playing adventure.

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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

15mins

Ranked #2

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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

19mins

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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

52mins

Ranked #4

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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

20mins

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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

12mins

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Maps and Minis

Maps and Minis

This week James McGhie asked the simple question: "Tiles and minis, yay or nay?"

9 Jan 2015

11mins

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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

16mins

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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

21mins

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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

1hr 22mins

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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

21mins

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