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MEET GPB

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Interviewing creators and learning to play games on our YT channel, badly! Gaming/creativity evangelist! 30+year TTRPG DM/GM/Player. #opendnd he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Thank you to all of YOU for watching our content. Sean and I really appreciate your support and are looking forward to more awesome games and game related content coming to you weekly! If you haven’t subscribed yet, please consider doing so! #boardgames #youtube

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Playtesting others’ games teaches you so much as a designer and gamer. Seeing how the sausage is made—the messy, hard, frustrating, yet fun process—builds appreciation. #gencon #GameDev #IndieGame #boardgames

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Last year’s Game Design Academy success is just the beginning! Excited to build on it and help aspiring game designers find the best resources. Gen Con’s support makes this program possible. #GameDev #GenCon #boardgames

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Aspiring game designers, fear of putting ideas out there? The First Exposure Playtest Hall offers a structured way to demo and get feedback before release. It’s about embracing the messy, fun process of creation. #GameDev #Playtesting #gencon #boardgame

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7 Apr

Our friends just started their Kickstarter for Halls of Asgard which is a 3-6 player semi co-op game where you take ont he role of a Norse God and attempt to defeat Hela!

Their Kickstarter is here: ! Check it out! #boardgames #vikings #norsemythology

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ABOUT GPB

ALL KINDS OF GAMES
I play a variety of games, from Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) to board games, card games and some PC games as well.
My interviews are with people creating homebrew D&D content and creating their own, completely new, games!

BRINGING THE GAME TO YOU
During the year of 2020, I decided to start painting miniatures again. I hadn’t done that in 30+ years and figured it would be fun to make videos of my journey.
While this was fun, I started to fall in love with all the content being created and decided to start interviewing the creators of all this awesome content and Session Zero was born.
After 30+ episodes I’ve interviewed the most diverse group of creators from Twitter and elsewhere! Please get to know some of these fabulous people by watching my interviews!

ABOUT ME
I’ve been playing games of all sorts for 30+ years, including D&D. I currently DM for several groups and play in several more! Along with games I do some miniature painting, badly. I’ve even gotten my husband into gaming and we’re having a great time playing together!