{"id":6684,"date":"2026-04-12T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/to-stand-out-this-ttrpg-podcast-network-chose-the-risky-route-of-avoiding-dd\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:53:13","slug":"to-stand-out-this-ttrpg-podcast-network-chose-the-risky-route-of-avoiding-dd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/to-stand-out-this-ttrpg-podcast-network-chose-the-risky-route-of-avoiding-dd\/","title":{"rendered":"To Stand Out, This TTRPG Podcast Network Chose The Risky Route Of Avoiding D&amp;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Glass Cannon Network has been a name in the tabletop roleplaying game actual play space since 2015, acting as one of the first major channels in a space that&#8217;s barely 10 years old. According to Glass Cannon Network co-founder Troy Lavallee, a big part of that success comes down to one decision: avoiding Dungeons &amp; Dragons.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;[GCN] started out as &#8216;Let&#8217;s just play [Pathfinder,] the game that we know and the game that we love, because if we&#8217;re infectious about how much we enjoy this game, listeners&#8211;whether they even play the game or not, [will listen],&#8221; Lavallee told me over a video call.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We&#8217;re always shocked by how many people listen who have no interest in ever playing,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If we can share our infectious joy of playing, people will feed off of that, and that&#8217;s what they listen for. And then it wasn&#8217;t until the pandemic [in 2020] that we were like, &#8216;I wonder if we could finally start playing other games,&#8217; because we saw that everyone else in the space was pretty much just playing D&amp;D. There were a couple of offshoot things here or there, but it was [mostly] D&amp;D, and then we were playing Pathfinder. I said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s start playing everything else.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass Cannon Network has been a name in the tabletop roleplaying game actual play space since 2015, acting as one of the first major channels in a space that&#8217;s barely 10 years old. According to Glass Cannon Network co-founder Troy Lavallee, a big part of that success comes down to one decision: avoiding Dungeons &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6613,6610,6614,6609,3306,6611,6612,5213,3702],"class_list":{"0":"post-6684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-avoiding","9":"tag-chose","10":"tag-dampd","11":"tag-network","12":"tag-podcast","13":"tag-risky","14":"tag-route","15":"tag-stand","16":"tag-ttrpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}