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 podcasts and leave us unsupervised, we're bringin' the comedy to you! So tune in as we laugh at ourselves, occasionally bicker, and get into endless tabletop shenanigans across multiple different ga ...
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General Nerdsense Episode 146: Low Fantasy
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One of the other more subtly nuanced tabletop narrative themes gets a closer examinationBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 145: Alternate History And Historical Fiction
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What if history happened differently?By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 144: Session Zero
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Tabletop Role-Playing is a group effort, so ensuring you start as you mean to go on is an important stepBy Shield Wall Productions
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Behind The Shield Wall Episode 36: Cookies And Elves
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A perfectly calm conversation stays perfectly calmBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 143: Audio Immersion And You
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Ambient audio for added immersion in tabletop role playing can be great when done properly, so lets talk some baseline how-to'sBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 142: Post Apocalyptic Settings
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Bad news everyone, the world has endedBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 141: Zander Unbeaten
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Zander shows what heroes are made of in a close run fightBy Shield Wall Productions
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Hackers and deckers and dystopias, oh my!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 139: Zander And The Tale Of Redemption
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Zander's mopey barbarian friend gets a new lease on lifeBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 138: Sci Fi And Tabletop Role Playing
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Why is Science Fiction so good for tabletop role playing?By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 137: Evil Cults Are Overrated Enemies
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Players deserve a better grade of baddie to fightBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 136: Zander And The Tale Of Intervention
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Zander's barbarian is having a tough timeBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 135: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Being A New GM
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There's a lot of pitfalls to being a new GM, but that doesn't mean you have to fall in ALL of themBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 134: Thematic Genres That Blend With TTRPGS
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It's an abstract kind of theme, but that's how Cosmic Horror works!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 133: Delta Green GVR 72 One Shot Adventure
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Jacob delivers a truly spectacular and spooky tale from a one shot adventure set in the Delta Green system!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 132: Delta Green System Spotlight
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Delta Green? Delta Green!By Shield Wall Productions
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Loose Sprues Episode 60: A New Apocalypse
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The Apocalypse is coming!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 131: Can There Be Too Much World Building
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Surely this must be a rhetorical question rightBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 130: How To Handle Players Succeeding When They Shouldn't
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Well that wasn't supposed to work out for them!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 129: Zander And The Tale of Emergence
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Zander is moving on up in the worldBy Shield Wall Productions
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Adventures Of Insomnia Season 1 Supercut Part 1
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Parts one, two, and three of Adventures of Insomnia!By Shield Wall Productions
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Adventures Of Insomnia Season 1 Supercut Part 2
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Parts four, five, and six of Adventures of Insomnia season 1 in a neat little bundle!By Shield Wall Productions
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Behind The Shield Wall Episode 35: Totally Calm
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A perfectly calm discussion goes awryBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 128: How To Interesting NPCs
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Interesting NPCs? Interesting NPCs!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 127: HP Vs Narrative Health And Homebrew Attributes
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Its time for another grab bag!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 126: Lawful Good Is Awful And Acting Out Of Alignment
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Gotta keep your characters aligned properlyBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 125: Mayder And Alignments
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A note on character alignments and how to justify things...By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 124: Zander And The Tale of New Beginnings
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Zander doesn't like elves, but isn't quite sure how to feel about half-drow yetBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 123: Topic Variety Pack
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Cautious Players, DnD Etiquette, and How To End A Campaign, oh my!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 122: How Not To DnD
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So you've decided to become a murder hobo...By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 121: Zander And The Tale Of Surprise
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We can honestly say we weren't expecting any of thisBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 120: To Punish The Party Or The Player
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Sometimes the GM has to discipline players, but all of them?By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 119: Is It Ok For GMs To TPK And When
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Sometimes TPK's happen on accident, sometimes its premeditatedBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsensense Episode 118: Addressing The Players Vs The GM Mindset
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The GM is not the enemy of the partyBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 117: How To Elf
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Its time for Elf character 101By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 116: Is PvP Acceptable And When
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Sometimes pvp happens, but when is it acceptable?By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 115: Zander And The Tale of Increased Tempo
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Zander's adventures experience a touch of AccelerandoBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 114: The Pros And Cons Of Premade Campaigns
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Shield Wall weighs in with a verdict on premade campaignsBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 113: In Defense Of Wildcard Characters
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Wildcard characters can be useful in their own waysBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 112: What Is The Role Of A GM
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Shield Wall expounds upon an unsatisfactory wikipedia summaryBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 111: Splitting The Party
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When you split the party, you either sentence people to death or find more plotBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 110: Awarding Appropriate Loot
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Shield Wall weighs in on awarding appropriate after action lootBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 109: Zander and The Tale of Vindication
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Everything is coming up Zander!By Shield Wall Productions
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Adventures Of Insomnia Episode 6 Season Finale
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Anton ventures into the home of a NightmareBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 108: How Do You Choose The Villain
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Who is this plot person and why should we hate themBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 107: Zander Experiences Serendipity
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Zander finally has his day, and an appropriate share of the lootBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 106: An Alternative Alignment Chart
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GM's, if your players make characters using this alignment chart, run!By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 105: So your players skipped the encounter
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What's a DM to do when their players skip the boss battle?By Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 104: Zander And The Tale Of Haplessness
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Poor Zander just can't catch a breakBy Shield Wall Productions
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General Nerdsense Episode 103: Zander And The Tale Of Willful Ignorance
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Sticking to the plan is for chumps, apparentlyBy Shield Wall Productions
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