I Cast Guidance - A Dungeons and Dragons and TTRPG Podcast

Once a month, we look at a class in D&D and how to play it. We also explore some of the history of that class and strategies for digging into your character a little deeper. This episode, we are looki...

18 Nov 202453min

Making a backstory for your character can be something that gets over worked or completely ignored. We talk about some approaches to creating backstory that could help you if you are a player or a DM.

11 Nov 202449min

In this episode, Todd and Rich are discussing the implications of Artificial Intelligence as a whole as well as how it impacts the community of table top role playing games.  Where do you stand on thi...

4 Nov 202450min

With Halloween right around the corner, we had a Ten Candles session that was really intense. We had great narrative flow, a compelling story and we learned a lot about the game.  Ten Candles is a tra...

28 Okt 202448min

How does lore work in your game? In this episode, we talk about the differences between lore and story and how lore impacts the game, the various ways we deploy lore in our storytelling, and the ways ...

21 Okt 202452min

In this episode we talk about the ups and downs of puzzles in table top role playing games. We talk a little about the history, the pros and cons and how to potentially make them better.  If you have ...

14 Okt 202447min

We thought with Halloween looming we would talk about making the game more scary. What tactics or mechanics from other games can you employ to make things a little more tense? Let's talk about it.

7 Okt 202451min

In this episode, we look at how Theater of the mind is broken by different physical things like miniatures, maps, VTT spaces and more. Can we get back to a more pure game with pencil, paper and dice? ...

30 Sep 202446min