Welcome to the Shield Wall! Here you'll find podcasts covering all varieties of tabletop hobby, background lore, nerdy stuff as a whole, and of course tangents aplenty! We're the funniest people we know, and now, because someone thought it was a good idea to let us have everything we need to make po…
One of the other more subtly nuanced tabletop narrative themes gets a closer examination
What if history happened differently?
Tabletop Role-Playing is a group effort, so ensuring you start as you mean to go on is an important step
A perfectly calm conversation stays perfectly calm
Ambient audio for added immersion in tabletop role playing can be great when done properly, so lets talk some baseline how-to's
Bad news everyone, the world has ended
Zander shows what heroes are made of in a close run fight
Hackers and deckers and dystopias, oh my!
Zander's mopey barbarian friend gets a new lease on life
Why is Science Fiction so good for tabletop role playing?
Players deserve a better grade of baddie to fight
Zander's barbarian is having a tough time
There's a lot of pitfalls to being a new GM, but that doesn't mean you have to fall in ALL of them
It's an abstract kind of theme, but that's how Cosmic Horror works!
Jacob delivers a truly spectacular and spooky tale from a one shot adventure set in the Delta Green system!
Delta Green? Delta Green!
Surely this must be a rhetorical question right
Well that wasn't supposed to work out for them!
Zander is moving on up in the world
Parts one, two, and three of Adventures of Insomnia!
Parts four, five, and six of Adventures of Insomnia season 1 in a neat little bundle!
A perfectly calm discussion goes awry
Interesting NPCs? Interesting NPCs!
Its time for another grab bag!
Gotta keep your characters aligned properly
A note on character alignments and how to justify things...
Zander doesn't like elves, but isn't quite sure how to feel about half-drow yet
Cautious Players, DnD Etiquette, and How To End A Campaign, oh my!
So you've decided to become a murder hobo...
We can honestly say we weren't expecting any of this
Sometimes the GM has to discipline players, but all of them?
Sometimes TPK's happen on accident, sometimes its premeditated
The GM is not the enemy of the party
Sometimes pvp happens, but when is it acceptable?
Zander's adventures experience a touch of Accelerando
Shield Wall weighs in with a verdict on premade campaigns
Wildcard characters can be useful in their own ways
Shield Wall expounds upon an unsatisfactory wikipedia summary
When you split the party, you either sentence people to death or find more plot
Shield Wall weighs in on awarding appropriate after action loot
Everything is coming up Zander!
Anton ventures into the home of a Nightmare
Who is this plot person and why should we hate them
Zander finally has his day, and an appropriate share of the loot
GM's, if your players make characters using this alignment chart, run!
What's a DM to do when their players skip the boss battle?
Poor Zander just can't catch a break
Sticking to the plan is for chumps, apparently
Will and Gary from Stiff Neck Studio are at the mics in our final Adepticon interview feature!
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