Synopsis
A Table Top Gaming podcast network which primarily covers Tabletop Role Playing Games in an effort to entertain and inform our listeners.
Episodes
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MM Plays 48 – A Magical Night Part 8 (CotS AP)
06/02/2024 Duration: 01h16sIt’s part 8 of A Magical Night. Time for the epilogue of A Magical Night. This episode uses sound and music clips licensed from Envato and Stephen Arnold Music
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MM Plays 47 – Consequences & Damage
16/01/2024 Duration: 47minDoes your game have consequences or damage, or both? Does it affect how you GM and Play the game? How does it affect the flow of the game itself? We examine those questions and more on this episode of Misdirected Mark Plays.
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MM Plays 46 – A Magical Night Part 7 (CotS AP)
10/01/2024 Duration: 47minIt’s part 7 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are back in the back rooms and things are reaching their climax with Kurt, Meseme, and Urlis. Will Meseme be reconstituted? MORE
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MM Plays 45 – Genre and Theme
26/12/2023 Duration: 55minToday we talk about how Genre and Theme impact your tabletop RPGs as players, game masters, storytellers, and designers both before play, during prep, and at the table.
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MM Plays 44 – A Magical Night Part 6 (CotS AP)
19/12/2023 Duration: 48minIt's part 6 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are back in the back rooms and things are heating up with the Prosperity Cult of the Wyrm. Will Meseme be recovered and reconstituted? Will Kurt get what's coming to him? Will we get to see Beau's weapon? Tune in and potentially learn the answers to these questions and more on Children of the Shroud.
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MM Plays 43 – The Mishmash: Reliable and unreliable narrators, Getting a game to the table fast, putting together good demo games, Setting Design
12/12/2023 Duration: 39minThe title says it all as we're hitting a bunch of small topics this week on the show.
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MM Plays 42 – A Magical Night Part 5 (CotS AP)
05/12/2023 Duration: 57minIt's part 5 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are finally at the PROM. Things start heating up as there's dancing, food, intrigue, and a secret meeting of the Wyrm clan to find out about. Tune in as we're back from our Holiday Break
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MMPlays – Holiday Break
21/11/2023 Duration: 17sWe’re taking a short two week break. We do this around Thanksgiving every year. We’ll be back on the 5th of December with new episodes. Thanks for listening and we’ll be back soon.
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MM Plays 41 – One Shot Best Practices
14/11/2023 Duration: 34minWe're talking about our best one shot tips today for both GMs and Players. So if you've ever felt neglected as a player in all this podcasting these are the shows you should tune in for. We love talking about how to get more out of games at the table as a player. We also love helping you folks as GMs play your best games your way. Take what you think works best from what we're saying and make it your own.
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MM Plays 40 – A Magical Night Part 4 (CotS AP)
08/11/2023 Duration: 33minIt's part 4 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are still getting ready for PROM. They're also getting ready for the post prom ritual, or at least to stop the Wyrm Cult, get Meseme's essence back, and reconstitute her, hopefully, if they don't mess it up. This week Ti brings Bo home for dinner. Gunny brings Casey home for dinner. Chris and Phil get to play multiple characters in multiple scenes and we take our story to the PROM or at least right to the front doors of the main event.
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MM Plays 39 – Misdirection and Red Herrings
31/10/2023 Duration: 48minWe're touching on a topic that most people say is terrible in RPGs. The Red Herring. We get into how it should be used, when to use it, and why you might want to drop one in your game. We also have a few asides, especially one about old school gotcha monsters.
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MM Plays 38 – A Magical Night Part 3 (CotS AP)
26/10/2023 Duration: 44minIt's part 3 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are still getting ready for PROM. They're also getting ready for the post prom ritual, or at least to stop the Wyrm Cult, get Meseme's essence back, and reconstitute her, hopefully, if they don't mess it up. There's a Suweet looking Gunny in this episode, an Urlis sighting, and some couple napping in this episode. Hopefully it all goes well for the Junior Guardians.
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MM Plays 37 – Story 3 Retrospective
17/10/2023 Duration: 01h02minThe guys get into story 3, talk about the choices they made as the GM and the players, and how this nine part epic became a nine part epic because the GM sure wasn't planning for it. So join us for the ups and down, the ins and outs of story three, Smarty Pants.
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MM Plays 36 – A Magical Night Part 2 (CotS AP)
10/10/2023 Duration: 01h03minIt's part 2 of A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are getting ready for PROM. They're also getting ready for the post prom ritual, or at least to stop the Wyrm Cult, get Meseme's essence back, and reconstitute her, hopefully, if they don't mess it up. Things heat up in this one with people pairing off for prom, Lisa causing some amount of grief, Ti looking for love in maybe the right places, and Gunny trying to get inside the Wyrm clan. There might even be a promposal.
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OtC. Footprint at the Table
03/10/2023 Duration: 25minSince we lost a recording and had to rerecord we got a little off schedule and didn’t have an episode for this week. Instead of not releasing anything here’s an off the cuff about your MORE
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MM Plays 35 – A Magical Night Part 1 (CotS AP)
26/09/2023 Duration: 58minWelcome to story 4, A Magical Night. The crew of Gunny, Silas, and Ti are getting ready for PROM. They're also getting ready for the post prom ritual, or at least to stop the Wyrm Cult, get Meseme's essence back, and reconstitute her, hopefully, if they don't mess it up.
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MM Plays 34 – Prep vs Play
19/09/2023 Duration: 58minHave you ever thought that about your game? I've prepped this game but after the session my prep was only sort of used. We do...a lot. Today we get inside this idea, talking a lot about how to get the most out of these situations and why they might even be a benefit to you.
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MM Plays 33 – Smarty Pants Part Nine (CotS AP)
13/09/2023 Duration: 01h31sIt's the epilogue and our Stars and Wishes for Smarty Pants. Done miss out on this one as it has some set up for story 4.
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MM Plays 32 – Mods in Cortex Prime
05/09/2023 Duration: 44minWe're talking about three mods from Cortex Prime today and how we don't quite use them the way they're explained in the book. Stress, Action Based Resolution, and the Doom Pool. Enjoy and tell us about the mods you've enjoyed, used, or modified in your Cortex Games.
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MM Plays 31 – Smarty Pants Part Eight (CotS AP)
29/08/2023 Duration: 49minWe join the Children of the Shroud as they throw down with Jenna in the decrepit Buffalo Asylum amidst shadows, falling apart architecture, and disturbed spirits. Will they defeat Jenna or will she end the children of the shroud? Tune in this week to find out,