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
PTG 380 – Going from GM to Player
Show us how you go from GM to player — especially if you’re a forever GM! How do you transition your skills and hand over default leadership gracefully? Phil and Senda talk this and also accidentall…
PTG 379 – A Chit Chat!
Phil and Senda are having a busy *life* moment, so for your listening pleasure we bring you this chit chat! The chit chat is not our normal format of show, for which we’d recommend going back (or pr…
PTG 378 – Playing Characters in Other IPs
Show us how you handle known characters in known IPs (intellectual properties)! Phil and Senda talk characters, setting, and what kind of characters you might be bringing in.
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PTG 377 – Book Inspiration
Show us how you take inspiration from the books you’re reading — or really any media? Phil and Senda talk about distilling the experience of reading to various levels of specificity and applying tha…
PTG 376 – Worldbuilding – To Collaborate or Not
Show us how you world build — and is it collaborative? Phil and Senda talk worldbuilding in quadrants from not collaborative to all collaborative and do you do it alone or as a group (trust me, it m…
PTG 375 – One on One Games
Show us how you play a one on one game! Phil and Senda talk one on one games and some tips on making them successful. We are back!
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PTG 374 – Project Management and the GM
Show us how project management skills can help you GM — and vice versa! Phil and Senda are both professionals in various project management offices at this point in their careers, and have a convers…
PTG 373 – GM Mastery Part II
Show us…Gary Gygax’s tenants of GM Mastery! Phil and Senda go back for one more part on the 1987 book Role-Playing Mastery. Do they stand up to the test of time? Our take is…well, mostly.
Also t…
PTG 372 – Gygaxian GM Mastery Part I
Show us how Gary Gygax thought you should be a master GM! Phil and Senda continue their conversation about the 1987 title Role-Playing Mastery by Gary Gygax, deciding what they think still holds tru…
PTG 371 – Master Player Part II
Show us what Gygax considered a master player! Do we agree? Do you?! Phil and Senda talk through the first 9 steps to being a Master Player according to Gary Gygax/s 1987 book Role Playing Mastery.
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PTG 370 – Master Player (according to Gygax)
Show us what Gygax considered a master player! Do we agree? Do you?! Phil and Senda talk through the first 9 steps to being a Master Player according to Gary Gygax/s 1987 book Role Playing Mastery.
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PTG 369 – Very Very Proactive Players
Show us how you balance a player that is much much more proactive than the rest of your table! Phil and Senda cover when it’s actually a problem and some ideas on how to address it.
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PTG 368 – Build a Gamer (Finding a Group Part II)
Show us how you find people…to be new gamers! Phil and Senda talk introducing people to gaming and finding the kind of people who a) would be interested and b) would be interested in the kind of gam…
PTG 367 – Finding a New Gaming Group (Part I)
Show us how you find a new gaming group! Phil and Senda talk approaches to finding people and how to figure out who you might be looking for.
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PTG 366 – Making Gaming Goals Happen
Show us how you make gaming goals happen! Phil and Senda follow up on their gaming goals from last episode, including an extemporaneous brain storm on positive feedback at the table.
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PTG 365 – Goals for Gaming
Episode 365 – after a whole year of numbered episodes, it’s like a New Year’s resolution? Phil and Senda talk personal goals for gaming – for how they play, facilitate, and engage with the industry …
PTG 364 – A Jrab Bag (Audio Fixed)
Today we answered a grab bag of questions all submitted by folks whose names start with J! Coincidence? We think….yes absolutely didn’t notice it until partway through the show. Today’s questions co…
PTG 363 – The Case of the Missing Momentum
Show us how you manage the conversation when you realize your game has lost momentum! Phil and Senda use their own campaign as a live demo to put their money where their mouth is and talk (like they…
PTG 362 – An August Grab Bag!
Today we’re addressing some of our smaller questions!
- Realism vs. Playability in Combat
- Spotlight sharing at the table
- How to pick con games
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361 – Playing it like it’s Evil
Show us how you play an evil game! Phil and Senda talk how to make it work and the pitfalls of chaos vs. purpose in an evil game.
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