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SideQuests!

Epic Table Games

Welcome to SideQuests, your high octane distraction from those other podcasts. We"re a pen and paper RPG audio show featuring chatter about rules and how to master them, epic worldbuilding, player investment, and interviews with the people who make the games you love.Listen in as we trade tabletop war stories, make judgement calls on odd situations, and do everything we can to give you more RPG resources than you could dream of--all from a simple Sidequest!

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All Episodes

00:48:37

Oh no! Our audio died during the last two minutes of...

SideQuests! ·

2023/01/28

Rob and Eli waste no time jumping into the conversation today, and while Rob has been interested in one of his newer acquisitions, Teens in Space, he hasn't had a whole heck of a lot of time to dig into the book like he'd like to. We also cover some of Eli's most recent campaign bits, one of Rob's mid session DM interruptions to help the party out, and Eli brings up The Wildsea which really sounds a whole lot like "Forrestpunk" to Rob, but the game sounds pretty damn cool. And, our remote recording

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00:53:22

These long titles are absolutely amazing! We'll talk...

SideQuests! ·

2023/01/21

Rob and Eli left off last week with a mighty neat cliffhanger, and we finally get back to it today in the back half of the episode. With all of the OGL concerns and players deciding to take an extended leave from the Wizards of the Coast vehicle, we talk about some really neat games! Eli brings the Starwars Genisys game while Rob found Soulbound to be quite enthralling. We also touch on some inspiration sources for a quick minute before we get into the weight of new systems. --- Support this

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00:49:50

What do you mean I picked up the the sickies from the...

SideQuests! ·

2023/01/14

Rob's pretty Sure he picked up the sickies from his kids, but mustered through this episode anyway. Good thing too, because Eli asked SOOOOOO MANY QUESTIONS that Rob nearly passed out as soon as they were done recording! We hit some good points though when it comes to downtime activities, and because Rob still running pathfinder 1e, there is a great compendium of rules in the ultimate campaign book. We also completely forgot to introduce ourselves until the end of the episode, which is something we

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00:47:23

The longest titles convey the most epic of episodes!...

SideQuests! ·

2023/01/09

Rob and Eli are hitting the ground running on brass tacks! As soon as 2023 kicked off our paladins of podcast talk about more Open Gaming License scares, naming your sessions and parties, and kicking progress in the goodies when it comes to our Dungeon23 progress. Follow along as we hit every major talking point that we didn't know we wanted to hit, on this weeks episode of SideQuests! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/epictablegames/support

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00:44:36

Dungeon23

SideQuests! ·

2022/12/31

This is the last episode. of 2022! We talk about the things that have hit us hard, like some of the OGL 3.0 changes by Wizards of the Coast, and some of the continual questions that pop up in popular forums like 'how do I monkey paw my players wish' and how to check in with my players about how they're feeling on the game. But all of this was just a huge lead in for the coolest thing brought to our attention of the year. Eli found Dungeon23, a mega dungeon challenge for the year 2023 where you build

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00:40:55

Everyday Heroes had Technical Difficulties!

SideQuests! ·

2022/12/24

Just earlier this week, Craig had decided to step away from SideQuests!, and we formally bid him farewell and the best of luck in every thing he does in the future; may his steps be sure and his path bright. We also talk about a small misstep Eli took in a puzzlesque encounter, and fight with technical difficulties in the midsts of a blizzard while talking about Everyday Heroes by Evil Genius Games. We pulled the episode together they best we could, but with connectivity issues like this we may have

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00:44:00

What in the world Conan!?

SideQuests! ·

2022/12/17

Modiphius has been rumored to be closing their chapter on the 2d20 Conan system which is certainly sad for Rob who has yet to actually pick it up but Eli is rather excited about the potential for a new chapter of the titular barbaric hero. While Craig is on vacation, Rob and Eli tackle a few more topics that include how to handle characters with high stats and varying levels of role play skills and for a few minutes Rob hijacks the show with something incredibly off guard his players had done in The

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00:46:00

Yellow Mold Tea..

SideQuests! ·

2022/12/10

Eli got us on the edge of our seats with a prompt of what we would do when a player decides to harvest a toxic fungus, and ask to make a tea out of it. What would you do? What would anyone do? We debate the logistics of possibilities as Rob brings up an article from earlier in 2022 when someone died by way of eating left out rice because of a bacteria that can kill you, but only AFTER it's been cooked. Crazy stuff, and we didn't mean to cause a food hysteria, but the more you know the less you go

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00:47:00

Hi Trent!

SideQuests! ·

2022/12/03

First and foremost, congrats Trent on your nuptials! Happy days indeed! Today we talk about more overdeveloped NPC's and some world building that Rob does and he gets hit with some hard and great questions from hosts Eli and Craig. We talk about his home-brew setting in the World of Animar, and how it's all build on the backbone of a singular character that has a neat and organized 10 page background! Rob also mentions the free PDF GameMastering by Brian Jameson, but unfortunately the links are all

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00:01:59

Thank you & Happy Holidays

SideQuests! ·

2022/11/26

Rob rolls solo for a short thank you to all of our listeners, and as many heart emoji's he can fit on the screen for hosts Craig and Eli for bringing new perspectives and ideas for everyone to help become better game masters. While the Holiday season is often times full of family, friends, and good times please remember to be safe. We here at SideQuests! and EpicTableGames love you all greatly, and hope you have a wonderful holiday season. We will see you next week. --- Support this podcast:

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00:45:11

Shooting from the hip

SideQuests! ·

2022/11/20

The paladins of podcast are back and shooting from the hip as we talk about all the things on our mind. How do we handle random off the cuff ideas? How do we fix quick issues? What kinds of things are doing with our players? Boons and great gifts of power that could turn a party into monstrous murder hobos? It's all kind of in there and we're happy to have talked about all of it. Craigs share, Hull Breach https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yusem/hull-breach-vol-1 Eli's Share, Cowboy Bebop

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00:46:50

What are mircoshots?

SideQuests! ·

2022/11/12

Honestly, Eli got us hooked on this idea he got from his Dad (who also happens to be one of the Paladin's players) because he didn't want to waste an ENTIRE lemon or lime called Microshots. It sounds like six full shots and Craig and Rob are both entertained by the idea. We catch the table talk bug as we try to discern the flavor for what our session zero's look like with the huge news that Craig has started up a live, in person game! Listen to us catch up all, and try to garner some information

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00:49:38

The Endgame and how to do various other things

SideQuests! ·

2022/11/05

If you're listening to our podcast, and aren't sure what we're doing, you should probably phone another friend right now because we don't either! Rob has an endgame idea that feels neat but may not work in actual application, and Craig did up a hand drawn map that the guys love. Eli mentions his general happy personality makes it difficult to run horror style games, and we try to help give some suggestions. Worlds without numbers (Free Edition):

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00:45:36

What is balance, and why would Rob fight a bird?

SideQuests! ·

2022/10/29

Eli wanted to spring a question about balance on us, particularly what does it mean for a game to be balanced and while Craig opened the can of philosophical potential of possibilities, Rob tried hard to separate over powered with balance in the metaphysical sense. Yet, all of it was to learn that we were being lead into a conversation about Rob attacking birds in the name of distaste and balance because of a very... very.. particular moment by Paladin Eli. FYI. stay until the end. Check us out on

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00:47:00

Going all In

SideQuests! ·

2022/10/22

The Paladins of Podcast are back! Check out how Rob has decided to go all in with his newest campaign and some of the tweaks Craig has been playing with while Eli brings up SHOOK: The Social Interaction Roleplaying Game because of it's great focus on storytelling with interpersonal triggers and problem solving. While Rob thinks a folder idea similar to a character dossier for his players is good, Eli gives him the good ol' one up with an entire 100 page folder one of his DM's gave him full of world

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00:46:29

The Social Contract

SideQuests! ·

2022/10/15

How do you get your table to sit down, shut up, and pay attention to the game? How do you get them to participate? How do you get them to show up on time? Well, you simply make them sign a binding contract that states if they don't do these things there will be full fiery retribution filled with hate and brimstone. Okay, not really. But we do talk about what has become known as "The Social Contract," which helps state expectations of the players, the Dungeon Master, and sets the baseline for table

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01:01:49

Designing Content to Publish

SideQuests! ·

2022/10/08

Our Paladin of Podcast Craig had some amazing news to deliver today, and it sent us down only the beginning of the rabbit hole of designing content that is going to be published. We cover a lot of the initial idea formation and the work that is needed to put out content that you're writing for a client and some of the expectations you can set as a creator. This is a passion for everyone, and while we'd all do it for free Craig makes a great point of setting expectations for payment and Rob talks

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00:57:06

We wanted to talk about Monsters!

SideQuests! ·

2022/10/01

The paladins of podcast, Craig, Eli, and Rob do what they can to talk about monsters and how for the most part you can just use bears! But we keep veering off track as the conversation follows the natural progression of any well planned out improv dungeon. We fall into the trap of distraction and interesting items to pick apart. Roll Initiative everyone, because this episode just got upended. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/epictablegames/support

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00:52:22

Interview with Dai Shugars

SideQuests! ·

2022/09/24

Craig has been a huge fan of TTRPG designer/writer Skerples for quite some time, and has loved the idea of The Monster Overhaul, a practical bestiary since it was announced. Craig had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Dai Shugars; editor and creative director for all of Skerples printed material. Listen in as Craig and Dai jump into the process of working through creation, publication, and crowd funding the project in less than 2 hours. Over the next hour, you will be transported into one of

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00:49:25

Objects of Negative Mass.. Welcome to SideQuests!

SideQuests! ·

2022/09/17

What more could you ask for from a podcast? Sidequests features Rob and brand new hosts, YES! THAT'S RIGHT! HOSTS! As in Craig and Eli. While Craig can't keep himself from thinking about objects of negative mass and the fun physics that could be had some of his games it melts Rob's brain enough to equate his explanation down to magnets. Eli gives us some great background about himself and we tool around with as much as we can muster. If you want to be included in an episode, send us a voice message

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