The Art of Gamemastery: Recent Episodes

The Art of Gamemastery

The Art of Gamemastery provides advice to gamemasters of tabletop role-playing games. TAG's goal is to inspire and encourage new Gamemasters and remove the fear that is often associated with it.

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On this episode of Gaming the System, Jon and Jackie talk about Call of Cthulhu and what we can learn from it as both a GM and a player.

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Jon and Jackie discuss Fate Core (and its variants) and how some of its concepts can be used to spruce up your Pathfinder and DnD games.

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Jon and Jackie discuss how you can improve your world building and game play with festivals and holidays.

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In this weeks episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak talk about their experiences running and playing in West Marches campaigns, as well as what makes a West Marches game West Marches.

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Jon and Jackie talk about their experiences running Sandbox campaigns and what makes them good in this week's episode of Finding Paths.

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In this week's episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jackie talk about their experiences with preparing and running one shots and give some advice on how to get the most of them.

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On this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jackie talk about Pathfinder 2e's 3 action economy and how to best take advantage of it as both a player, as well as a GM.

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In this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jackie talk about how to create believable villains for your tabletop RPGs.

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In this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak discuss the various undead abilities in Pathfinder 2e and give their own advice on spicing up your undead encounters.

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Jon and Jak talk about how to go about developing your settings and hooking your players with engaging plots in this week's episode of Finding Paths.

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Strapped for time and late to the party, Jon & Jack go over Guns & Gears at a high level and give their opinions on the various ideas within.

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In this week's episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak talk about using Relics and Artifacts of deities in your games, as well as present a few Artifacts of their own creation as examples.

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Jon and Jak talk about their experiences at GenCon Indy 2021. The good. The Bad. and The Ugly. It's all laid bare on this episode of Finding Paths.

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In this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak discuss some of the Hazards in Pathfinder 2e, as well give their own advice on how to homebrew them, and how to use them effectively in your games.

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Jon and Jak return to the Pathfinder 2e system with a discussion around the game's various "conditions" and how the get the most out of them.

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Jon and Jak interview their friend Brandon/Tramer who started GMing for his first time recently. See what this fresh GM has to say about his experience in this week's episode of Finding Paths.

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When it comes to tabletop RPGs like D&D or Pathfinder, ancestries play a huge role--both for player characters and NPCs. In this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak give their advice on choosing ancestries for your games and the worlds you create for them.

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How do you go about creating your settlements in Pathfinder 2e or other tabletop rpgs? Jon and Jak share their own thoughts on the topic in this week's episode of Finding Paths.

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Jon and Jak are back to talk about their favorite Pathfinder 2e archetypes.

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In this episode of Finding Paths, Jon and Jak talk more about some of their favorite canon deities of the Golarion setting for Pathfinder 2e.

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Jon and Jak talk skill feats in Pathfinder 2e.