Passive (Aggressive) Perception
🎲System-agnostic tabletop roleplaying game discussions. Level up your TTRPG sessions with topic deep-dives, news, and tips for D&D and so much more. 🌲New EVERGREEN episodes every Wednesday. 🤹♂️Always as goofy as they are sincere, Ivan and Steve are two forever GMs obsessed with making your next TTRPG session the best one yet. 🗣Covering topics including •metagaming •interviews with industry leaders •bringing real life socio-political issues into your campaigns •TTRPG news, and beyond. 🧙♂️Passive (Aggressive) Perception investigates any and all games/systems including D&D, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Vampire the Masquerade, and anything else they can get their hands on. If it can be played it's fair game. 📚The conversation is never limited by any one game, but all of the topics, tips, and core principles easily apply to Dungeons & Dragons or whatever else you happen to be playing at the time. 💻icastspells.com & anywhere you get podcasts.
Passive (Aggressive) Perception
Ep 52 - Taverns (and Other TTRPG Waypoints)
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Ivan Potocnik & Steve Jones
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Season 1
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Episode 52
Discussing everyone's favorite stomping ground, tabletop roleplaying game taverns. We cover a lot of ground ranging from tips and advice on how to keep your players on their toes, to how we think adding extra flavor to a tavern setting can prevent this part of gaming from becoming just another uninteresting place to take a long rest. NPC generation tips, keeping continuity in questing, listener feedback, TTRPG news, and much more.
Website: https://icastspells.com
Twitter: @passive_podcast
Email: passiveaggropod@protonmail.com
Show Breakdown:
- 0:00: Intro
- 1:00: @bddc_pod "On TTRPG Lore"
- 10:56: Tabletop Roleplaying Games as film
- 22:39: TTRPG News
- 25:24: Main Topic
- 25:25: Why we think how we have been playing taverns needs an overhaul
- 40:53: Taking your players' cues
- 45:55: Give your TTRPG tavern proprietor genuine life
- 51:11: Subvert your players' expectations to keep things interesting
- 57:20: Continuity in questing and making it relevant in your taverns/waypoints
- 1:02:59: Home bases vs oases
- 1:08:13: Outro
