Seize the GM
Helping to improve your art of GMing.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
Episode 133: Kinds of Magic For Fantasy Games
Main Topic Magic is often one of the defining pillars of a Fantasy Game or Setting. When you are either designing your own, or describing an existing setting’s magic, make sure to capture what sort..…
00:35:53 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Episode 132: Interview with B Dave Walters
Main Topic With a varied and rich background, B. Dave Walters brings a unique touch to the characters and games he runs, plays, and writes. A well recognized panelist for conventions, streamer, and …
00:53:55 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Episode 131: BattleLords new Kickstarter
Main Topic Sitting down with the guys over at BattleLords to chat about what they have been working on recently, as well as the new Kickstarter that should go live by the end of October...
01:09:51 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Episode 130: How to Research for your Game
Main Topic So you are going to be running a game. All GM’s do this but what is the first thing you do once you have pitched the basic idea to your players? Maybe you...
00:48:41 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Episode 129: Statblockapolloza Part 6
Main Topic So over the last couple of episodes we did character creation for a FATE game. We are at that time of the year for another round of Statblockopolloza. All of us thought it...
00:41:11 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Episode 128: Building Fate Characters Part 2
Main Topic In this episode we finish up these characters Skills and Stunts, plus a few more campaign setting items to touch up. How do you build out your FATE character skills? When you have...
00:57:38 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Episode 127: Building Fate Characters Part One
Main Topic Creating FATE Characters has never been easier or more fun. We are going to create some Fate characters for a campaign idea Guard-A-Manger has cooked up. Let’s see what we come up with....
00:53:13 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Episode 126: Inspiration for Metaphysical Games
Main Topic We are going to wrap up this series with a discussion about where you can draw inspiration for those whimsical or dark games with a metaphysical bend. You can draw Inspiration for these...
00:57:54 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Episode 125: Five Years and Counting
Main Topic So we have been going for a full five years and counting. We have had a fun trip and today we will talk about how we got this going and what we were...
00:53:14 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Episode 124: Inspiration for Combat Heavy Games
Main Topic Every role playing game is about resolving conflicts that players face and one question each game has to answer is about how important physical combat will be to the game. When you are...
00:42:17 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Episode 123: What GMing Has Taught Me About LIfe
Main Topic Welcome to a brief break from the planned Inspiration for Different Campaign Series! As an impromptu change of pace, we look at skills we have taken from GMing to our meatspace and real...
00:36:26 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Episode 122: Inspiration for Social and Investigative Games
Main Topic We will be tackling the idea of where to draw inspiration for different types of games for the next few episodes. Today we are going to talk about Inspiration for social and investigative.…
00:46:44 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Episode 121: Making Downtime Fun Again
Main Topic Downtime is that oh so much fun time of what the characters are doing when not in the dungeon or space battle or whatever the game you run. Not all games have built...
00:35:46 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Episode 120: Character Generation as a GM Skill
Main Topic Character generation can be something that you will need to be pretty proficient with doing before you run a game. I hear you ask why is that? Well remember you will have to...
00:43:10 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Episode 119: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 4
Main Topic Ok so something that almost every campaign will have is a big bad villain. It is a staple of storytelling. From myth to contemporary storytelling you will have a villain. You may not...
00:42:38 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Episode 118: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 3
Main Topic Welcome back to Part 3 of this series. Today we are going to be talking about the Major Beats of the campaign story. A good way to think about story beats is to...
00:39:48 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Episode 117: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 2
Main Topic In the prior episode we decided on a science fiction setting for the game. Here we go looking into the next step for things we are going to do for this campaign. Locations...
00:45:30 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Episode 116: Let’s Build a Campaign Part 1
Main Topic So we are going to be working on a bit of how to build an actual campaign. The First thing we decided on was the timeframe of the game. So we choose to...
00:39:43 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Episode 115: Statblockapalooza the Next Installment
Main Topic Topic for this writing exercise are the following: Bucolic by Guard-a-Manger Mascot Heroics by Joules Candyland by Zendead Stat Blocks Zendead Crystal Ball of Pastoral Delights [Thing] Wh…
00:30:11 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Episode 114: GM Library: Number the Five
Main Topic Zendead- Movie- The Titan on NetFlix. The earth is becoming impossible to live on and they need to start figuring out where they can send people in steps Titan. The moon of Jupiter...
00:44:36 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
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