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What do you do when the players make a choice that jumps ahead of what you were planning on and either skips everything you had prepared or moves towards the end of a story by passing many other story beats along the way. We call this Story Jumping and we're discussing it on todays Misdirected Mark Podcast.

We join the Children of the Shroud as they break into a house. I guess we're gonna be criminals but I suppose we do have probable cause to check out this place. After all, Meseme's essence has been detected within the apartment. So check out the twists and turns on this weeks Children of the Shroud.

Here's the Cortex Primer on Plot Points. Enjoy another installment as we help you learn the ins and outs of Cortex Prime.

We join the Children of the Shroud as they return to school on a Monday morning and then continue their pursuit of Samia in the evening, but wait, there's a twist and Phil is gonna do some GM Gymnastics in this one. Check it out on this weeks Children of the Shroud.

Don't take away my agency...unless you have a good reason. And don't make me pay for it. In fact, pay me to take away my agency...in currency or in a story I can get behind.

We join the Children of the Shroud in the fallout of their fight and chase with Samia. They plan their next moves and Silas tried to get himself under control.

Our second cortex primer is all about tests and contests. We also chat about chases, multi person contests, and how you can utilize these two primary conflict resolution systems within a cortex game.

We join the Children of the Shroud as they try and get the drug dealer Samia to tell them what she knows but personalities clash and things might not go the Children of the Shrouds way.

Sometimes you just want to have that argument with another character. You don't agree with their motives, ideas, how they looked at you. Whatever the reason you just want to have that fight. It's not full on PvP but it's a conflict. So we're talking about the tools and tips you can use to have these moments at your table without it blowing up your game.

We join the Children of the Shroud as they delver deeper into the mystery surrounding the death of their friend Morris and how it relates to the magical drug dealer Samia.

We join the Children of the Shroud as they pursue Lowell Thorton and the magical Altoid situation

We join the Children of the Shroud as they pursue Lowell Thorton and the magical Altoid situation

Combat one. Combat two. Combat three. Combat four. We want no more. But your game is all about the fight so how do we get everyone having fun when fighting is the primary activity of MORE

We join the Children of the Shroud as they begin a new story. Starting with an academic decathlon, devolving into some teenage anger issues, a date, and a cold and honest conversation.

This rule just doesn’t work the way we want it to. So what do we do? Change it. Ok. So how do we do that without messing up the game? That’s what we’re talking about MORE

We join the Children of the Shroud as they continue their fight with the Lancaster Legends. We hope our Veil trainees can stop Brad and his goons and help Ike find the rest he wishes to find. Enjoy and let us know if you're enjoying the show.

We discuss a variety of examples and tools for how to get players to engage with multiple parts of a game

We join the Children of the Shroud as they enter Stiglmeier park to discover the source of the shrouds disruption. There’s magic, magical people, jerks, fighting, conversations about dating, really, a little bit of everything. MORE

Game Crush is a conversation between folks who love a game. Sometimes it’s with two people who just enjoy the game and sometimes it’s between a fan and the designer. Today Chris is talking with MORE

We love those side characters in our RPGs but how do you introduce many of them in one scene. That’s a large part of the discussion today along with some other advice on how to MORE