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The GM's Guide

Dan Felder

Leisure

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Frequency: 1 episode/50d. Total Eps: 52

In-depth podcast on how to improve your campaign, focusing on the adventure, world and character design. We apply proven and practical game design techniques to the world of running pen and paper campaigns. There's a lot to get into, so let's get started.

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🇨🇦 Canada - games
24/06/2026
#65
🇨🇦 Canada - games
19/03/2026
#95
🇨🇦 Canada - games
18/03/2026
#57
🇫🇷 France - games
28/02/2026
#88
🇫🇷 France - games
26/02/2026
#97
🇫🇷 France - games
06/01/2026
#88
🇫🇷 France - games
03/01/2026
#85
🇩🇪 Germany - games
28/12/2025
#96
🇩🇪 Germany - games
27/12/2025
#64
🇩🇪 Germany - games
26/12/2025
#38

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Trail of the Behmoth is Out!

Monday, October 24, 2022 • Duration 43:20

Check out Trail of the Behemoth on Drivethru RPG!

Seamus and I go deep behind the scenes and talk about the favorite parts of the adventures we made for the system and other cool aspects you can steal for your own games.

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I'm Releasing a Game!

Friday, June 25, 2021 • Duration 36:12

Trail of the Behemoth is an game about hunting giant monsters, a TTRPG you can bring to a boardgame night. I'm working on it with Seamus Allen, and we're going to talk about what we're doing and when it might be finished.

I might even hand out some playtest files to listeners. If your interested, contact me on twitter @designerdanf.

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Boss Battles

Friday, February 12, 2021 • Duration 56:21

Designer Reuben Covington returns to chat about designing Boss Fights in TTRPGs. The two give some advice, and tell a LOT of stories about memorable boss battles they've made and played against. Feel free to steal them (like always).

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Prepare to Improvise!

Sunday, February 7, 2021 • Duration 01:10:11

Dan and guest Reuben Covington break down how to design and run Dynamic Adventures, where the GM role is treated more like a player than a job.

Link to the adventure notes: Cold-Blooded

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One-Page Settings

Sunday, February 7, 2021 • Duration 35:06

Prepare a full adventure setting, a full region of your world, with just a single page of notes. This format, the one-page setting, is what I use to prepare vast open worlds with diverse and interesting regions with just a little bit of work.

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Let's Build a Sandbox!

Monday, February 1, 2021 • Duration 30:36

A great sandbox campaign is incredibly fun to play in, and it’s a great introduction for new players. I often start new groups in sandboxes rather than carefully constructed narrative games. It’s a simple pitch: Here’s a fantastical wilderness filled with monsters, treasures, dungeons, and dragons. Want to go explore it?

However, while sandboxes can be a lot of fun to play in, they can be intimidating to think about building. Preparing one adventure is hard enough, how are you going to prepare dozens? In fact, I think a sandbox campaign is actually much easier to build than a linear campaign and takes me much less work to set up. There are a lot of tricks I use in my own sandbox campaigns and we’re going to go through the big ones today.

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Give Players a Chance to Shine

Sunday, January 31, 2021 • Duration 13:45

I love making combat encounters. I have a lot of advice on how to make them, but there's one point that I come back to more than any other:

Attack the players' STRENGTHS, not their weaknesses

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Designing Great Random Encounters

Sunday, January 31, 2021 • Duration 32:22

Random Encounters are a classic element of TTRPGs, but most aren't fun in practice. Often the table just turns up entries like "2d4 wolves" or "two gnomes are arguing about which way the nearest town is".

Here's the secret: Random Encounters are Micro-Adventures.

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GM's Guide 36 - LIch-Disney Magic

Monday, December 10, 2018 • Duration 01:04:58

Part 2 of our epic Disney World adventure.

GM's Guide 35 - We're Going to Disney World!

Sunday, August 5, 2018 • Duration 46:26

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