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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…

Shield Wall Productions


    • Aug 5, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 57m AVG DURATION
    • 282 EPISODES


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    General Nerdsense Episode 146: Low Fantasy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 32:35


    One of the other more subtly nuanced tabletop narrative themes gets a closer examination

    General Nerdsense Episode 145: Alternate History And Historical Fiction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2019 35:18


    What if history happened differently?

    General Nerdsense Episode 144: Session Zero

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 38:33


    Tabletop Role-Playing is a group effort, so ensuring you start as you mean to go on is an important step

    Behind The Shield Wall Episode 36: Cookies And Elves

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2019 67:49


    A perfectly calm conversation stays perfectly calm

    General Nerdsense Episode 143: Audio Immersion And You

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 31:59


    Ambient audio for added immersion in tabletop role playing can be great when done properly, so lets talk some baseline how-to's

    General Nerdsense Episode 142: Post Apocalyptic Settings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2019 54:26


    Bad news everyone, the world has ended

    General Nerdsense Episode 141: Zander Unbeaten

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 42:47


    Zander shows what heroes are made of in a close run fight

    General Nerdsense Episode 140: Cyberpunk

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2019 35:35


    Hackers and deckers and dystopias, oh my!

    General Nerdsense Episode 139: Zander And The Tale Of Redemption

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2019 32:53


    Zander's mopey barbarian friend gets a new lease on life

    General Nerdsense Episode 138: Sci Fi And Tabletop Role Playing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2019 32:48


    Why is Science Fiction so good for tabletop role playing?

    General Nerdsense Episode 137: Evil Cults Are Overrated Enemies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2019 32:45


    Players deserve a better grade of baddie to fight

    General Nerdsense Episode 136: Zander And The Tale Of Intervention

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2019 66:10


    Zander's barbarian is having a tough time

    General Nerdsense Episode 135: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Being A New GM

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2019 43:12


    There's a lot of pitfalls to being a new GM, but that doesn't mean you have to fall in ALL of them

    General Nerdsense Episode 134: Thematic Genres That Blend With TTRPGS

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2019 50:30


    It's an abstract kind of theme, but that's how Cosmic Horror works!

    General Nerdsense Episode 133: Delta Green GVR 72 One Shot Adventure

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 84:36


    Jacob delivers a truly spectacular and spooky tale from a one shot adventure set in the Delta Green system!

    General Nerdsense Episode 132: Delta Green System Spotlight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2019 51:51


    Delta Green? Delta Green!

    Loose Sprues Episode 60: A New Apocalypse

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2019 41:11


    The Apocalypse is coming!

    General Nerdsense Episode 131: Can There Be Too Much World Building

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2019 35:50


    Surely this must be a rhetorical question right

    General Nerdsense Episode 130: How To Handle Players Succeeding When They Shouldn't

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2019 31:33


    Well that wasn't supposed to work out for them!

    General Nerdsense Episode 129: Zander And The Tale of Emergence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2019 46:41


    Zander is moving on up in the world

    Adventures Of Insomnia Season 1 Supercut Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2019 132:56


    Parts one, two, and three of Adventures of Insomnia!

    Adventures Of Insomnia Season 1 Supercut Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2019 96:20


    Parts four, five, and six of Adventures of Insomnia season 1 in a neat little bundle!

    Behind The Shield Wall Episode 35: Totally Calm

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2019 63:19


    A perfectly calm discussion goes awry

    General Nerdsense Episode 128: How To Interesting NPCs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2019 32:51


    Interesting NPCs? Interesting NPCs!

    General Nerdsense Episode 127: HP Vs Narrative Health And Homebrew Attributes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2019 52:27


    Its time for another grab bag!

    General Nerdsense Episode 126: Lawful Good Is Awful And Acting Out Of Alignment

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2019 30:20


    Gotta keep your characters aligned properly

    General Nerdsense Episode 125: Mayder And Alignments

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 41:13


    A note on character alignments and how to justify things...

    General Nerdsense Episode 124: Zander And The Tale of New Beginnings

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2019 65:51


    Zander doesn't like elves, but isn't quite sure how to feel about half-drow yet

    General Nerdsense Episode 123: Topic Variety Pack

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2019 60:42


    Cautious Players, DnD Etiquette, and How To End A Campaign, oh my!

    General Nerdsense Episode 122: How Not To DnD

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2019 48:38


    So you've decided to become a murder hobo...

    General Nerdsense Episode 121: Zander And The Tale Of Surprise

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 44:10


    We can honestly say we weren't expecting any of this

    General Nerdsense Episode 120: To Punish The Party Or The Player

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 35:54


    Sometimes the GM has to discipline players, but all of them?

    General Nerdsense Episode 119: Is It Ok For GMs To TPK And When

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2019 54:17


    Sometimes TPK's happen on accident, sometimes its premeditated

    General Nerdsensense Episode 118: Addressing The Players Vs The GM Mindset

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 47:08


    The GM is not the enemy of the party

    General Nerdsense Episode 117: How To Elf

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2019 46:58


    Its time for Elf character 101

    General Nerdsense Episode 116: Is PvP Acceptable And When

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2019 40:17


    Sometimes pvp happens, but when is it acceptable?

    General Nerdsense Episode 115: Zander And The Tale of Increased Tempo

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2019 53:04


    Zander's adventures experience a touch of Accelerando

    General Nerdsense Episode 114: The Pros And Cons Of Premade Campaigns

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2019 33:54


    Shield Wall weighs in with a verdict on premade campaigns

    General Nerdsense Episode 113: In Defense Of Wildcard Characters

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2019 35:45


    Wildcard characters can be useful in their own ways

    General Nerdsense Episode 112: What Is The Role Of A GM

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 40:52


    Shield Wall expounds upon an unsatisfactory wikipedia summary

    General Nerdsense Episode 111: Splitting The Party

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 36:46


    When you split the party, you either sentence people to death or find more plot

    General Nerdsense Episode 110: Awarding Appropriate Loot

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2019 37:04


    Shield Wall weighs in on awarding appropriate after action loot

    General Nerdsense Episode 109: Zander and The Tale of Vindication

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2019 65:44


    Everything is coming up Zander!

    Adventures Of Insomnia Episode 6 Season Finale

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2019 44:20


    Anton ventures into the home of a Nightmare

    General Nerdsense Episode 108: How Do You Choose The Villain

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2019 34:46


    Who is this plot person and why should we hate them

    General Nerdsense Episode 107: Zander Experiences Serendipity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 53:53


    Zander finally has his day, and an appropriate share of the loot

    General Nerdsense Episode 106: An Alternative Alignment Chart

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2019 42:40


    GM's, if your players make characters using this alignment chart, run!

    General Nerdsense Episode 105: So your players skipped the encounter

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2019 39:40


    What's a DM to do when their players skip the boss battle?

    General Nerdsense Episode 104: Zander And The Tale Of Haplessness

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 56:22


    Poor Zander just can't catch a break

    General Nerdsense Episode 103: Zander And The Tale Of Willful Ignorance

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2019 54:12


    Sticking to the plan is for chumps, apparently

    Loose Sprues Episode 59: Stiff Neck Part Two Electric Boogaloo

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2019 70:11


    Will and Gary from Stiff Neck Studio are at the mics in our final Adepticon interview feature!

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