Welcome to Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gamed, the podcast where we explore the intricacies, challenges, and pure joys of tabletop role-playing games. Whether you’re a seasoned GM or a new player eager to dive into the world of TTRPGs, we’re here to guide you through what makes these games so unique. Join us as we discuss everything from crafting unforgettable campaigns to mastering the art of improvisation, and how TTRPGs are shaping the world of entertainment and storytelling today. No script ...
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 12 Paralyzed apparently is the new norm
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Welcome to the the Radiant Festival, held every 100 years, where people come from all over the world to visit the sites, magics, and other grand endeavors! With any grand event with massive tourism, comes crime, and danger, and to combat this threat, and keep the festival goers safe a new city watch organization was created called the Edgewatch! On…
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 11 Getting Swallowed by a Gelatinous Square Hexahedron!
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Welcome to the the Radiant Festival, held every 100 years, where people come from all over the world to visit the sites, magics, and other grand endeavors! With any grand event with massive tourism, comes crime, and danger, and to combat this threat, and keep the festival goers safe a new city watch organization was created called the Edgewatch! As…
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 10 A Delve into the Cantina of DOOM!
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Welcome to the the Radiant Festival, held every 100 years, where people come from all over the world to visit the sites, magics, and other grand endeavors! With any grand event with massive tourism, comes crime, and danger, and to combat this threat, and keep the festival goers safe a new city watch organization was created called the Edgewatch! On…
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 9 A Second Chance At Negations!
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Welcome to the the Radiant Festival, held every 100 years, where people come from all over the world to visit the sites, magics, and other grand endeavors! With any grand event with massive tourism, comes crime, and danger, and to combat this threat, and keep the festival goers safe a new city watch organization was created called the Edgewatch! As…
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 8 When Negations Fail
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Welcome to the the Radiant Festival, held every 100 years, where people come from all over the world to visit the sites, magics, and other grand endeavors! With any grand event with massive tourism, comes crime, and danger, and to combat this threat, and keep the festival goers safe a new city watch organization was created called the Edgewatch! Ou…
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Talking Ventures, Talking games Beadle & Grimm's Kickstarter Interview Complete Character Chronicles
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Join GM Jared, and Steve as they are joined with Jon Ciccolini, one of the founders of Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse as we discuss their newest product, currently on Kickstarter, the Complete Character Chronicles! What would you give to have a single book that combined the benefits of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rule Book, a 12 page ch…
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 7 Worker Riots at Dragonfly Pagoda
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 6 Finale at the Menagerie
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 5 Chaos at the Circus
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 4 Chaos at the Circus
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 3 Madness at the Menagerie
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 2 We split the Party
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 1 The First Patrol
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Agents of Edgewatch - Dossier 0 The Pre-Beginning
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Did you enjoy our Rise of the Runelords game? Well the players who gave you that thrilling end to that campaign now bring you a Brand New Adventure Path, Agents of Edgewatch. Where we as characters take on the roles of various guards across Absalom from many different districts of this massive city, and are all "promoted" into the new "Edgewatch In…
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Ramblings with the Runelords featuring BATTLESAUCE creator Michael Startzman
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Welcome back to Ramblings with the Runelords, where this episode we are joined by GM Jared, Steve, and our very special guest Michael Startzman, creator of the game BATTLESAUCE where we ask a variety of questions about the creative process in making a game like BATTLESAUCE, where does inspiration for a project like this come from, and how to make a…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 38 Part 2 - The Final Contest
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Kumat, the ancient black dragon finally got what it wants, to corupt Q's heart, and steal its power. Kumat tries to leave to a different plane of existence, fleeing from the party, near death, and transforming into a new entity. But Kayco, and Benji try to collectivly to pull back on their connection on the two dragons to try and pull them back int…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 38 Part 1 - The End Times
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During the fight with the Giant amalgamated baby demon, Kayco begins to realize what the creatures heart is made of, and in her dragon form, starts to tear it out of the creature. When it looks like things are going as well as they can, an old "friend" stops by, and cashes in on an agreement, and things begin to tumble down hill, and the party must…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 37 Part 2 - Sometimes Fire Makes Things Worse
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While the group reached an impasse on what to do, they chose the rash decision to burn down the strange creature dungeon in an effort to slow the process down, but instead they interrupted the ritual and created a giant amalgamation creature that is now loose. . . .and ANGRY! Will the group of mighty heroes be enough to stop this monstrosity from d…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 37 Part 1 - The Butt Dungeon
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Once the Lamia has been defeated, the party tries to regroup, and bandage up those who were injured during the battle. While that was going on, some creature opened up a portion of the skin wall surrounding the room, and encountered the party, apparently not expecting the party to be here. A chase began, and one of the members of the party gets enc…
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Class Dice Pathfinder 2e - Advanced Player's Guide - The Investigator
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On this episode GM Jared, Fabio, Zack, and Steve talk about their thoughts on the Investigator, one of the four new classes out of the the newly released Advanced Player's Guide from Paizo. This class specializes in finding clues, and having the skills to deduce the hidden hands influence. Did Paizo do a good job in giving that Sherlock Holmes/Batm…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 36 Part 2 - Revenge for the Fallen
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Now that the contract has been finalized, Benji now serves Kamat, the Ancient Black Dragon! His first order is to hunt down a Lamia, a half snake, half human monster, whom is a general for Nualia! Kamat allowed the party to gather some items, and granted some mental protection to remain hidden from the roving mind hunters in the depths. But the par…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 36 Part 1 - The Decent into Hell
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With Benji guiding the party to a yet, unknown power, the party finally reaches its destination, the lair of an ancient black dragon. But all it not what it seems, but with one goal complete, a new problem arises. Balen hates black dragons, how will Benji reconcile his loyalty to his friend, and his searching for ways to stop Nualia. What happens w…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 35 Part 2 - The Temple Infiltration
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While taking refuge in one of those smog generating buildings, the party is descended on by a war demon, so the party decides that stealth is the best option of getting into the temple. So once freeing a small group of slaves, and taking their chains, the group uses the opportunity to sneak the long walk to the temple, as the temperature gets hotte…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 35 Part 1 - The Temple Run
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After the celebration of the new Slurk Rider Kayco! The party woke up early to hunt for the temple they were trying to find, where Nualia has been building power. The party quickly determined that they were on the right track when they found Giant tracks, as they soon discovered that the area was crawling with Cyclopes. The party soon disguised the…
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Here's a new episode of Power Up! In this series, we take on an idea or rule in Pathfinder Second Edition, the Tabletop role playing game, and Fabio, and Steve each build an entire a level 10 character around it. Then discuss their thought process, and ideas. This Episode, the concept is based around movement, Fabio took this idea and built the fas…
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Ramblings with the Runelords ep 14 - The Witch class
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This episode of Ramblings with the Runelords has GM Jared, Tina and Steve talking about the new Witch class released in the new Advanced Player's Guide released from Paizo, which adds 4 new classes, Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler, and the Witch. Tina has played the Witch during the playtest of these four characters, and she gives her insights i…
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PowerUp! Level 3 -Support vs Control
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In this episode of Power Up! we try and tackle the age old RPG question of Support vs Control. What does support look like, and how it differs from control, what abilities do you look for with either concept? In this series, we take on an idea or rule in Pathfinder Second Edition, the Tabletop role playing game, and Fabio, and Steve each build an e…
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PFS Oneshot with Guest GM Steve part 2
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PFS Oneshot with Guest GM Steve part 1
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 34 Part 2 - The Slurk vs The MEGASlurk!
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Kayco finds the slurk nest, and successfully mounts and rides the slurk, but while she was doing that, a creature called a Froghemoth emerges and starts attacking the party. The goblins are all cheering for someone to ride the Megaslurk! The battle is extremely difficult, and the party may be faced with leaving a member of the party behind or face …
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 34 Part 1 - The Slurk will ride!
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***Reuploaded due to some audio issues, and technical difficulties. Please bear with us*** Now back with the heroes, as they team up with the frog goblins to hunt down, and ride a mighty slurk, as agreed apon, to make friends with the goblin tribe, and to get more inforamtion about the Temple the party seeks. As they hunt down the slurks, Cursewind…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 33 Part 2 - The NPC’s finish the job, or get finished?!
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Last time, the party was spotted by some bandits, but then made quick work of them, and hurried to find cover! Kay knew of some hidden tunnels, as they rushed to find the well of decay, and power that they had to stop! But Wondrous Blazing Sunrise, the druid had detected the smell of death, but is the party escaping the smell, or heading right into…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 33 Part 1 The NPC's just took center stage!
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Now that our hero's are on their way to finding the main source of evil, and decay in the swamps, the refugees of Sandpoint need to send a team of locals to locate another one of these wells; although a lesser powerful one, and shut it down. With the aid of Father Mazika, a ritual has been discovered that can aid this team of misfits, and rebels to…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 32 Part 2 An old friend, or new enemy?!
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Now that the unexpected Black Drakes have been dealt with, and the party is now in possession of a Black Drake Egg, they continue on to locate the temple in the swamp, where they discover a goblin tribe, one that is familiar to them. Instead of attacking them outright, they decide to open up a dialog with them, given how close they are to the Sandp…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 32 Part 1 The Tainted Swamp
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Upon returning to Sandpoint, the meet up with a long lost friend Aratare the Ranger, now known only as Cursewind, he is very much alive, but in some ways. . .different. But no time to lose, as the town of Sandpoint is in dire straights, the party must head into the dangerous Tainted Swamp to close these runewells once and for all. Tune in on this S…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 31 Part 2
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After an exhausting discussion, and an investigation of Aratar's lead, the party realized that the mayor of Magnamar was a target, and they tried to notify the local guards to the imminent attack! But bureaucratic red tape stood in their way, and it took the party in a direction that was unknown to them. But then, they received a message from a fam…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 31 Part 1
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After the defeat of the Impostor Aratare, the remaining party members try to piece together what happened, and where to go from here. A bit of friction begins when the party can't decide what path is appropriate. How do they find where Aratare actually is, and how do they get there? One does not just walk into the Plane of Hell. . . . .or do they? …
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 30 Part 2
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Finally locating the contact from Monica's advise, the come upon the abode of Rash Putahns, as they try to locate Aratare, and figure out that he is not on the material plane. And they attempt a ritual to bring him back. But Rash requires many items to make the ritual work, and the party tries to find all the items, and it works, well at least they…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 30 Part 1
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On this episode, after the party members searched the rubble of the tower for Aratare, with no success, they retreated back to their room accommodations, to try and come at this fresh the following day, in hopes of recovering Aratare, in whatever state he may be in. The next day was met with some hope, that led them on a while dire wolf chase to fi…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 29 Part 2
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Since the last episode where Aratare got swarmed by these weird vampire-esque monsters, and with fate unknown, we swap to what the rest of the party are doing. First, that horse, with strange powers still needs help, and may be able to aid the party in some way! Will this bode well for them in the future? But then, the party quickly tries to catch …
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 29 Part 1
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This episode will focus on the ramifications of Aratare's desision to rush after Rage, whom was injured during the last episode, while the remainder of the party seek to hunt down where they think Nualia is hiding out! Aratare rushes through, tracking down Rage, but finds that tracking down a flying animal is a much harder task. His search leads hi…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 28 Part 2
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The battle continues, with Balen holding the front line as all the monsters try their best to either finish the mighty barbarian off, or squeeze past to get to some of the more squishy members hailing massive support in the back of the group! As well as an aerial battle between a flying monster and Aretare's mighty companion, Rage, which ends with …
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 28 Part 1
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After the encounter with Foxglove, and his entourage, the party realizes that Nualia is nowhere to be seen. Since their clues had lead them to two places, the Manor house, or the Seven's Mill, the party rush to the Seven's Mill to hunt down the evil Nualia, before she can cause more harm. But the party encounter a horse of unknown origin. Plans are…
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After gaining access to the city proper, the group started their investigation to track down Foxglove, and Nualia before they can complete whatever evils they are trying to complete! The party splits?! into two teams, Aratar, Benji, and Balen head over to the Under-Bridge to the Mistyhaven Cafe to scope out the the less scrupulous part of town to f…
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After the climactic end to our previous episode, Nualia, and Foxglove apparently escaping to Magnamar, leaving clues for our intrepid heroes to follow, 2 weeks have passed while our adventurers traveled, and bonded on the trip to finally catch these avatars of evil, to stop their evil from spreading. When they finally arrived, they are met with som…
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The party finally finds the final room, of the house of horrors, that is Foxglove Manor! Although more unhinged by the house than ever, the party pushes through after rescuing some halflings from being fed to the horrors of the house. The finally Nualia, and Foxglove reveal themselves, and the combat ensues. Will the party survive? Stay tuned to fi…
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We pick up with the party after the battle with the shadow, not either side being able to gain the upper hand on the other. The party's inability to easily locate and hurt the incorporal shadow, and the shadow constantly losing places to hide as fire starts to rage in the room, the party moves on. Finding a hole to even lower sections of the house,…
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The party finished exploring the upper floor, and now descended into the basement, where they come to find more horrors. First they trigger some maleficent force that starts drowning some of the party members above water, and they are in dire need of assistance from their friends! Later, they enter a room of horrors, with a riddle. Will the party f…
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Sandpoint Shakers - Episode 22 Part 2
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The party finishes to explore the second floor of the Mansion of Madness, Foxglove's Manor! Last we left off with our hero's they just narrowly escaped the quicksand made of wood planks, and Benji, and Balen escaped to the other room, as the rest of the party maneged to escape back they way they came. But once was a crisis averted, leads to new tro…
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Ramblings with the Runelords Episode 13 - Pathfinder Society
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This week DM Jared is joined by Steve as they discuss Pathfinder Society, what it's all about, some differences from Pathfinder 1st edition Society, making a character, how DMing works, general rules, and why you might want to playor run in Pathfinder Society (PFS). If your interested in learning more about Pathfinder Society for 2nd Edition, pleas…
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