Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story
Tabletop RPG's use story telling to create an immersive reality for a group of players across the world. We aim to provide you better ways to tell the story you want to tell in your DnD / Pathfinder / Gurps / Vampire / Shadowrun / or other tabletop RPG of your choice.Let's tell your story!
Episodes
163 episodes
FInal Episode - Follow us on YouTube
Hey Storytellers,We started this channel in Sept 2020 and since then we have received 3000 downloads. That is really good for not advertising this channel and just getting organic reach.Because we do pay a premium for podcast ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 164
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2:01
How to Take an Idea and Make it a Campaign
Hey Storytellers,Sometimes you have a great idea but it isn't connected to anything at all, nor do you always know how to scale it up to use in a larger context.Visit https://www.Skullrpg.com to see what books, free courses, and o...
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Season 1
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Episode 163
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7:04
Why Most of Our D&D Adventures Are in a Dungeon or Town
Hey Storytellers,Have you ever noticed why most D&D / Pathfinder games occur in a place with definite boundaries?Visit Skullrpg.com to see what books, free courses, and other resources are available for you and your gaming n...
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Season 1
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Episode 162
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7:25
GM 101 - World Creation - Creating Realistic Fantasy Races
Hey Storyteller,Creating a fantasy race can be daunting. Are my players going to be in this race? Are they trying to save this race?How does this race fit into the larger campaign? Do they worship different gods? Who are t...
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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8:28
GM 101: World Creation - Creating a Realistic Fantasy City
Hey Storyteller,Creating a fantasy city can be daunting. Do you need a map? How many store owners and types of stores do I need to have created? What about guilds / factions / temples? Do I need to know what the tech / magic limit...
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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12:01
GM 101: World Creation - Create a Fantasy Kingdom
Hey Storyteller,Creating a fantasy kingdom can be daunting. How many people do you need to create? Do you need to flesh out one or more temple systems? What do you do about the economy or leadership or any number of things?Check...
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Season 1
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Episode 159
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13:39
GM 101: How Much Mythology Do You Need in Your RPG Game
Hey Storyteller,After reading many fantasy series it feels like in order to start a campaign some people feel like they have to recreate the Silmarillion. But do you?Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for...
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Season 1
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Episode 158
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10:45
GM 101: World Creation - Play an RPG in the Modern Era
Hey Storytellers,We have moved to posting every Monday/Wednesday/Friday.To finish up our how to play an RPG in ____ era. We turn to the modern era or the clay era. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complet...
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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7:22
GM 101: World Creation - Play Your RPG in the Silver Era
Hey Storytellers,We have moved to posting on Monday / Wednesday / Friday.The Silver era or age can be explained this way. Atlantis (golden age) has just fallen. The survivors have landed, scattered across the world. They don't h...
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Season 1
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Episode 156
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9:09
GM 101: World Creation - Play an RPG in the Bronze Era
Hey Storytellers,We are moving to a Monday / Wednesday / Friday publishing schedule at this point. We hope that lets you catch up and listen to each episode as they land.In today's episode, we talk about most of the RPG's we pla...
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Season 1
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Episode 155
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7:30
GM 101: World Creation - How to Play a Game in the Golden Era
Hey Storytellers,Two episodes ago we talked about the different eras of games using the Greek understanding of creation. So there were the golden, silver, bronze, and clay ages of humanity. Today we explore playing a game at the height ...
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Season 1
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Episode 154
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11:38
GM 101: World Creation - Do You Need a World Map?
Hey Storytellers,I don't know about you but when I first tried to write my own adventures as a Dungeon Master for D&D 3.5 I thought I needed a world map. The same was true when I tried my hand at GURPS.Check out our newest b...
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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11:28
GM 101: World Creation - Picking Your RPG Era
Hey Storytellers,In today's episode, we cover different eras as an overview. Using the Greek understanding of Golden, Silver, Bronze and Clay age of Humanity we talk about this in RPG terms.Check out our newest book - Human NPC'...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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11:29
GM 101: How to Move Forward in Time Quickly in Your RPG
Hey Storytellers,In one of my campaigns, I wanted to tell a story about the players hunting down a particular villain. I didn't want this game to last more than about 8 months of real-time and I didn't want to spend a year of in-game ti...
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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7:48
GM 101: Combat Traps
Hey Storytellers,In our last episode, we covered if you should use traps or not. One really nasty thing to do is to incorporate them into a mini-boss encounter. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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8:03
GM 101: Should You Use Traps in Your RPG?
Hey Storytellers,Do you need traps in your RPG? Do you need to create a dungeon where every room somehow has a 20,000 GP trap designed to kill your players?Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th editi...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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8:59
GM 101: Scaling the Challenge Rating in the Middle of a Conflict
Hey Storytellers,Sometimes in the middle of a conflict, you realize that your players are running through it too fast. So what do you do about that?Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to us...
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Season 1
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Episode 148
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8:42
GM 101: Scaling the Challenge Rating for Different Player Types in Your RPG
Hey Storytellers,In today's episode, we will cover how to scale the challenge rating of your encounters (up or down) depending on the players around your table. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for...
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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12:00
GM 101: How to Transition to Custom Made RPG Adventures
Hey Storytellers,Eventually, you may be ready to make your own custom RPG adventure and even campaign. This entire podcast is dedicated to helping you do just that and if you already make custom RPG's then our podcast is designed to giv...
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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10:51
GM 101: Using One-Off Adventures Together to Form a Complete Story
Hey Storytellers,The next step to running a premade is learning how to string together one-off adventures if you want to run these cheaply either from free adventures on the internet or with some patreons dedicated to these.Chec...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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7:26
GM 101: How to Start as a New Game Master
Hey Storytellers,Today we answer the question about what is the easiest way to get into being a Game Master. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes:
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Season 1
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Episode 144
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9:19
GM 101: How to Recover from Ruined Plot Hooks
Hey Storytellers,In today's episode, we cover what to do if your players kill your plot hook or just decide they don't want to do the adventure and want to do something else. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Comp...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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8:18
GM 101: How to Create a Good NPC for Your RPG
Hey Storytellers,In today's episode, we will cover how to create a backstory for your good NPC's in your stories. Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes:&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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12:54