Panda's Talking Games
Queer gamers answering your TTRPG questions! It's like CarTalk, but for your tabletop role playing game. Campaign making a weird noise? One shot difficult to steer? Join pandas Phil Vecchione (Misdirected Mark, Gnome Stew, Encoded Designs) and Senda Linaugh (She’s A Super Geek, Gnome Stew) every Wednesday answering listener questions about playing, running, and designing TTRPGs.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 308
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
PTG157 – And Also Grab Bag
One more grab bag episode for May as we cover for Phil’s trip to Boston! In this episode, we answer questions about sharing the spotlight and taking the hook. Please note, I’ve marked this episode a…
PTG156 – May The Grab Be Bag You
Show us how you do a grab bag for May when travel interferes with your recording schedule! On today’s episode, we answer two questions: How to have satisfying session arcs in episodic campaigns, and…
PTG155 – Switching: Empathy and Perspective on GMing and Playing
Show us how playing can make you a better GM and GMing can make you a better player! Phil and Senda talk about how being in each position at the table and how it can inform your play when you are in…
PTG154 – Game Life Balance Part 2
Show us how you adjust your life for games! Phil and Senda talk part 2 of balancing games and life. Also, Panda’s Talking Bags. Lots of bags. And pouches.
Bonus outtakes for Patreon backers toda…
PTG153 – Life or Games Part I
Show us how you adjust your gaming for your life! This is part one of a two parter we ACTUALLY ANTICIPATED. Go us! Phil and Senda talk about adjusting your gaming style to your life circumstances. N…
PTG152 – Pilots and Mid-season Episodes
Show us how pilots and midseason episodes can inspire one shots and campaigns! Phil and Senda talk parallels between how script writers write for pilots vs. mid-season episodes as their old standard…
PTG151 – Something Kissy This Way Comes
Show us how you set up and make a space for romance in your games! Phil and Senda talk creating safe spaces for romance with consent, boundaries and expectations, and safety tools, and also how to g…
PTG150 — Our 3nd Anniversary! No kidding!
Show us how you celebrate a podversary with no fooling! Phil and Senda talk getting your players to do homework between games (thanks to Jim Likes Games), our favorite episodes, our year in review, …
PTG149 – Breakout 2019
Show us how you…somehow manage to still record a show while con dropping like mad! Phil and Senda talk Breakout 2019 in Toronto, what we played (all games in development), and what we learned.
D…
PTG148 – March Grab Bag the Second
Senda and Phil are at Breakout this week instead of recording — so here’s another grab bag episode for your amusement! On this grab bag, we answer questions about favorite game mechanics, world buil…
PTG147 – Insert Funny Grab Bag Name Here
Show us how you do a grab bag because COOON! Phil and Senda answer fun short questions in this grab bag episode in preparation for Breakout 2019. Will we see you there?
Bonus outtakes for Patrons…
PTG146 – To Write or Not To Write
Show us how you decide to run published adventures or write your own — especially if it’s your first game! Phil and Senda talk about running your first game and how to decide if you should write you…
Panda’s Talking Games 145 – Demo vs. Entertainment
Show us how you run a game for demo purposes vs. just for entertainment! Phil and Senda talk the balance of entertainment and demo modes for con games as well as the focus of each and how to balance…
Panda’s Talking Games 144 – You Can Lead a Group to Water
Show us how you manage a group that lacks leadership! Phil and Senda talk about leading and supporting roles (in games and in life), types of leadership, and how to provide leadership in a game wher…
Panda’s Talking Games 143 – Adventure Structure
Panda’s Talking Games 142 – Situation Scope and the Case of the Setting Seekers
Panda’s Talking Bonus Experience 141 – Playtesting and Onions
Panda’s Talking Games 140 – Hack the (PbtA) Planet
Panda’s Talking Games 139 – Unedited and In Person: The Grab Bag