This time John and Jack take a deep dive into Monarchies of Mau, a d20 system that strongly resembles 5e … More

This week we talk about Feedback: receiving and processing as a DM, providing thoughtful feedback for players, and what to … More

John & Jack discuss changing? swapping? substituting? characters and players at your table. How do you handle it when a … More

Welcome to the first episode of Set The Table for 2021! This week John and Jack talk all about Narrating … More

John and Jack reflect on our first year of Set The Table. Many of our topics are worth mentioning in … More

This week John and Jack talk about getting the Gods involved. What can be a session zero topic doesn’t always … More

This time we talk about evil characters; why and how to build them as player, and how to deal with … More

John and Jack invite one of John’s oldest friends and player of Connie the Bard, James Kiernan onto the show … More

John and Jack have our second casual conversation episode and talk about a fun variety of things: Fafhrd and the … More

John and Jack elaborate on a notable reference we’ve talked about before called Appendix N, a page at the end … More

John and Jack are back and talking about one of Jack’s favorite things! (not…) The “5-Minute Workday”. It’s the idea … More

This week John and Jack talk about BBEG’s, or Big Bad Evil Guys, those end-bosses, mini-bosses, and other ultimate and … More

In this episode John and Jack change up the format of the show and instead of having a distinct topic, … More

In this episode, John and Jack finally talk about NPCs. What you need as a baseline, how to create them, … More

This time John and Jack talk about 7th Sea (mostly 2nd edition), what it is, why we like it and … More