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What's the point?! Join Adam and Tiana for some friendly, off-the-cuff discussion about their ideas on D&D, RPGs, or just games in general!

Inspiration Point Adam Power, Andrew Geertsen, & Tiana Ren Hanson

    • Leisure

What's the point?! Join Adam and Tiana for some friendly, off-the-cuff discussion about their ideas on D&D, RPGs, or just games in general!

    S6E19: Campaign Announcement and Preparation

    S6E19: Campaign Announcement and Preparation

    This week, Adam and Tiana are thrilled to announce that Adam will be running a livestreamed D&D 5e game on Tiana's personal Twitch channel. The live session zero will be June 11th, with the campaign running through the summer. We're excited to give our listeners a sneak peek into what's coming down the pike. Join our Discord to stay updated! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs
    Tiana's channel where the campaign will be aired: https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

    • 1 hr 13 min
    S6E18: Five Principles of Designing Part 2

    S6E18: Five Principles of Designing Part 2

    This week, Adam and Tiana continue digging into the five principles of design, using subclasses we designed for this project. Do you have thoughts about what we've done? Want to try the subclasses out for yourself? Let us know at the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    • 1 hr 1 min
    S6E17: Five Principles of Designing Part 1

    S6E17: Five Principles of Designing Part 1

    This week, Adam and Tiana look at principles presented by Treant Monk for handling design choices. There's a lot of thought that goes into game design balance, but we think Treant Monk had a good set of thoughts with the series of questions we go into.
    Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    • 1 hr 3 min
    S6E16: Find Your Voice

    S6E16: Find Your Voice

    This week, Adam and Tiana talk about character voices and do a short exercise to play with voice. We can put so much of what makes a character who they are into the way we choose to speak as them, and it's a lot of fun to dig into that kind of thing.
    Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    • 1 hr 1 min
    S6E15: The Intention Is Not To Intend

    S6E15: The Intention Is Not To Intend

    This week, Adam and Tiana reflect on the Patron Westgate game we played the day before, and what it taught Adam in terms of GM control and how to let go. At the core of it all, punitive punishment AND mercy are forms of control that GMs need to examine and grow beyond.
    Join the conversation in the Discord: https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    • 58 min
    S6E14: Triton with a Trident - A Quiz Show

    S6E14: Triton with a Trident - A Quiz Show

    This week, Adam takes Tiana through a series of D&D 5e rules questions used on the YouTube channel Jorphdan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qfhVN64AiA&t=100s) to see how well she knows more obscure D&D 5e questions. Take the quiz yourself, and let us know how you did in our Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

    • 1 hr 18 min

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