Short, bite-sized RPG advice, tips, and tricks for DMs and players of tabletop role playing games (TTRPG)
248 episodes transcribedWelcome 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. Th...
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 gre...
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 a...
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 tempte...
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 inser...
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 shou...
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...
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 th...
Before the MCU introduced the world to that word, "Multiverse" meant something different in the RPG world: a collection of universes, each of which w...
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...
This week's topic comes courtesy of Andreas Jonasson who listens from Sweden and generously donated to my ko-fi at ko-fi.com/taking20podcast. In this...
DMs are the sources of truth for the game world. The players depend on us to provide the facts about encounters, the world, and NPCs and we should be...
Democracies are largely prevalent on planet earth but you hardly ever see them in an RPG setting. In this episode, Jeremy discusses why RPGs are rare...
Gaming inspiration can come from published material from existing game worlds. In this episode we talk briefly about the Orcgate Wars, its history, t...
We all love campaigns that have actions and reactions grounded in realism but in this episode, Jeremy asks, is the work to make things realistic worth...
Listener Peter sent an email asking about Paizo's planned Pathfinder Nexus so I went digging through the archives and recorded interviews from PaizoCo...
If you've never DM'd at a convention or one night at a gaming store, it's just a little different. While you could try to duplicate your gaming exper...
Low level characters die so easily. The game world is full of traps, monsters and all sorts of things looking to do them harm. As a player, how to y...
It can be hard to find a Dungeons and Dragons group to play with. When you finally find one, it may be even harder to make the decision to leave the...
Game Masters, vampires are fascinating characters from both literary and RPG lore. They are always powerful, beautiful, and mysterious, right? Not s...
