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Game Mastery

A world builder, a magician, a baker, and a moderator, plus guests and conversation for everyone of every level. Whether you play Dungeons & Dragons or any other rpg, we talk about issues that cross genres and systems. If you're new to game mastering, come in and get some valuable insight on how to run your games and manage players. If you're an old and grizzled veteran of many campaigns, get some inspiration and maybe a pointer or two that are new to you. If you're a player, come on in! Learn a little about what it takes for your GMs to give you the adventures you enjoy!

  1. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: GM Tips and Stories - Part 5 of 5 - Vampires and LARPing

    Favorite LARPing stories and how they promote inclusion. GMing tips and learning to let everyone have time int he spotlight. How to handle interpersonal conflict in-game and between players. Conflicts of personality, just between players liking each other, independent of anything egregious. There are personal GM rules of intervention, but also organization-based. Plus, favorite vampire stories!

    29 min

  2. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: About Jessica - Part 4 of 5 - Vampires and LARPing

    We talk about how Jessica got into the world of Vampire.

    8 min

  3. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: More about the game! - Part 3 of 5 - Vampires and LARPing

    How often can you expect to have games available as a player? How much time does Jessica put in to administering the history, logs, characters, GMing and everything? GMs are responsible for more than just showing up each week and running a module. Vampire GMs might be more hands-on with the actual player’s characters than a D&Der is used to. The more the GM knows about the people and characters, the better the story.

    28 min

  4. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: Basics of Jessica's Vampire Organization - Part 2 of 5 - Vampires and LARPing

    How does Jessica run her games? How many separate story groups are there in the organization? How are the groups broken up into stories (chronicles, in Vampire parlance), and characters? Which clan makes the best murder hobos? How do you interact with others in-game? How is the story collected and stored as a living world? How to find a group.

    6 min

  5. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: What is LARP? - Part 1 of 5 - Vampires and LARPing

    The basics of LARPing, how conflicts are resolved, and what kind of organizations exist for organized play. How do these local and regional, national and international storylines work for organized play?

    26 min

  6. 11/10/2021

    Episode 34: Intro - Vampires and LARPing

    We 're joined in a 5-part episode by Jessica, an experienced Vampire: The Masquerade GM. New year, new ideas, new formats! Thank you for your support this past year! ----- (transcript by Descript) Steve(n): On today's game mastery. We talked to Jessica and experienced vampire the masquerade GM, and we've broken the episode into chunks to see how you like the format. Versus one long episode, we had an audio issue in the first 10 minutes of part one. It affected both our main and backup recordings, but the content was important. So we left it in. And welcome to year two of gay mastery. Thank you for listening. And don't forget to rate, review and share. It's how we grow to create better content for you.

    1 min

  7. 30/08/2021

    Episode 33: Review - Avatar RPG Quickstart

    In a world... where cartoons are not cartoons, and Andrew is flummoxed by inappropriately managed emotion, we take a journey into a role playing game made for children... and talk (maybe too much) about why a certain gaming mechanic bugged us. Magpie Games is Kickstartering an rpg based on the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra series, and we tried it out in a one-shot GM'd by the wonderful Lili Sparx! We meant to talk about the experience of gameplay as the focus, but we ended up spending most of the time talking about the merits of one of the game's key mechanics. If you're into behavioral therapy, Stoicism, and developmental psychology in real-world situations, you might get a bigger kick out of this than our other episodes [laughs]. The takeaways? - Our GM was GREAT. Highly recommended! We hope Lili will join us for a follow-up one day. - If you love Avatar, GET THIS GAME! - If you are a mental health professional rpg'r, get this game, but be prepared to want take Mark's hack-your-game brush to it. Otherwise, the interpersonal mechanics will bug ye! Avatar kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/avatar-legends-the-roleplaying-game?ref=1ajf7r&gclid=Cj0KCQjwg7KJBhDyARIsAHrAXaHX9bdSwS6AXSGM8pT1z385-cYHFXAILY7bcNFXIzYBzlXkIzRarecaAiX2EALw_wcB LIli's Magpie Games' page https://magpiegames.com/lili-sparx/

    51 min

  8. 04/08/2021

    Episode 32: Selling Magic for Shoes

    Steve(n) let's Mark help guide him on whether or not to sell his few remaining higher-dollar Magic cards. Car payment on one hand, Reserve List items on the other... If you've ever had to look at your collectables and make the hard decision about what to sell when you need cash, come on in and listen to Steve(n) debate his choices. If you're independently wealthy, never had to run down to your local game shop to sell boxes of cherished gaming treasures, then listen in just to hear Steve(n)'s reaction when he finds out how much Fallen Empires boxes are now. ----- Steve(n)'s nostalgic Urza's Deck: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/big-green-bauble-crunch/ Just what is a Gaea's Cradle, anyway: https://tinyurl.com/y7tbaa4j Article on investing in Magic from 2019: https://strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/mtg/channelmagic-articles/now-you-can-literally-invest-in-magic-cards/ ----- Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. For the past 27 years, it has grown in popularity unlike any peer game or competitor in the world. It was recently named the world's most complex game we know of- in all of known human history. And now, single cards on what is called the Reserve List have shot up in value like crazy. These are cards that will never be reprinted, and their rarity and power make them highly sought after for both competitive and casual play, plus collectability.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering

    21 min
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A world builder, a magician, a baker, and a moderator, plus guests and conversation for everyone of every level. Whether you play Dungeons & Dragons or any other rpg, we talk about issues that cross genres and systems. If you're new to game mastering, come in and get some valuable insight on how to run your games and manage players. If you're an old and grizzled veteran of many campaigns, get some inspiration and maybe a pointer or two that are new to you. If you're a player, come on in! Learn a little about what it takes for your GMs to give you the adventures you enjoy!

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  • Creator
    Game Mastery
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    41
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Game Mastery
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