313 - Rogue Trader
/Matt and Rob talk about Rogue Trader, the now-defunct Warhammer 40k TTRPG. It's got orks, it's got big gothic cathedral ships, it's got chonky weapons, it's got profits, folks, it's got it all!
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TEASER - Dice Workshop
/DMs Rob and Matt clock into the Dice Workshop for a long shift working on custom dice mechanics and discuss dice probabilities and mechanics put in practice!
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312 - Dice Hard with a Vengeance
/Matt and Rob talk about dice! Mechanics, systems, resolution, modifiers, taxonomies, the whole shebang! It's not boring, we promise.
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Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
NMIXX - DICE
Odetari - Dice and Roll
311 - Vecna: Eve of Ruin (Part 2)
/Follow your rod to the second half of WotC's final 5e Adventure, Vecna: Eve of Destruction. Rob and Matt discuss missed opportunities, share some secrets, and offer some tips to fix this adventure.
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Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; The Turtles - Eve of Destruction.
310 - Vecna: Eve of Ruin (Part One)
/att and Rob talk about the newest WotC Adventure, Vecna: Eve of Ruin, a celebration of D&D and an adventure through the multiverse! You guys love multiverses, right?
TEASER - Actual Prep: Running Con Games
/DM Matt walks you through his prep for a Friendly Local Gaming Convention and his tips for running a successful Con slot.
Links:
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RPG Geek Global Game Conventions List
https://rpggeek.com/wiki/page/Game_Conventions
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan.
309 - OSR Principia Apocrypha
/A tome! A tome of forbidden dungeon master knowledge has been unearthed by your intrepid hosts. DMs Matt and Rob discuss the first principles and Apocalypse World-style GM moves for Old School Rules games from the Principia Apocrypha!
https://lithyscaphe.blogspot.com/p/principia-apocrypha.html
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Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Keith Mansfield - Funky Fanfare.
TEASER - Lessons from Brindlewood Bay
/Matt and Rob talk about what they learned from running Brindlewood Bay, what worked, what didn't, what to watch out for, and what you can learn and take away for your own games.
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308 - House Rules for All
/Almost everyone has house rules for their games, but are there house rules that are good for (nearly) every game? DMs Matt and Rob share over a dozen house rules from their games and their favorite systems that can (probably) be lifted and inserted into whatever TTRPG system your table plays.
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Links to rules:
FATE CORE, "Declaring a Story Detail"
Year Zero Engine SRD, Chapter 4, "Rounds & Initiative"
Giffglyph, Darker Dungeons, "Chapter 20: Active Defense"
Traverse Fantasy, "Damage Roll as Attack Bonus"
13th Age SRD, Character Rules, "Choose Your One Unique Thing"
Cypher System SRD, Creating Your Character, "Character Descriptor, Type, and Focus"
Daggerheart Playtest 1.4, Open Playtest Manuscript, "Maps, Range, and Movement"
Odd Skull Blog, "Combat Maneuvers, The Easy Way"
Blades in the Dark SRD, "Progress Clocks"
Troll Smyth, "Shields Shall Be Splintered!"
Lich Van Winkle, "The Genealogy of Advantage and Disadvantage in RPG Mechanics"
5e SRD, Rules, "Advantage and Disadvantage"
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Odetta - Hit or Miss.
307 - The Monty "Haul" Problem
/Matt and Rob travel back in time to the era of mullets and shoulderpads to talk about a strangely relevant article from 1984 in DRAGON MAGAZINE #82. What happens when your players have grown TOO POWERFUL?
306 - Brindlewood Bay
/Brew your tea, pack your knitting needles, and put on your most comfortable jogging suit because DMs Matt and Rob are off to solve the coziest murder this side of Cape Cod!
Brindlewood Bay is a mystery RPG that combines the Golden Girls with Call of Cthulhu using an innovative set of mechanics to sidestep the frustration of running a whodunit. Then, head across the pond to gothic London for The Between, an anti-cozy game using the same "Carved From Brindlewood" mechanics.
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Links:
Brindlewood Bay: A Dark and Cozy Mystery Game by Jason Cordova
https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/brindlewood-bay.html
The Between: A Game of Monster Hunters in Victorian London
https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/the-between.html
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; John Addison - Murder, She Wrote Theme.
PREVIEW - The Best Megadungeon and Hexcrawl
/Here is a preview TWO of our subscriber episodes reviewing what could be the best published megadungeon and the best published hexcrawl. To listen to the full episodes subscribe below and check out these adventures for yourself.
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Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls by Michael Curtis
The Dark of Hot Springs Island by Jacob Hurst, Evan Peterson, Donnie Garcia, and Gabriel Hernandez
305 - Disk Horse
/DMs Matt and Rob wade into The Discourse discussing if “system matters” and “rules elide.”
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Fireside Chat for Chapter 2 of World Beyond Number - Dimension 20
Rules Elide - Jared.blot (Archived)
The Baker-Care Principle - Emily Care Boss
The Fruitful Void - Lumpley Games
Stance Theory - Socratic Design
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Bruce Springsteen - Pony Boy.
BONUS - Game Design With Andy Pressman
/Rob sits down with designer Andy Pressman to talk about, well, design, but also about games! The conversation ranges from Andy's active projects to onboarding players to mechanics to game jams and hacks and more.
304 - Daggerheart Playtest Part Two
/Matt and Rob cover the REST of the Daggerheart playtest, including the GM section, adversaries, maps, worldbuilding, and the included starting adventure -- there's a lot going on here!
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https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/
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Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Slowdive - Dagger
303 - Daggerheart Playtest (Part 1)
/DM "Dagger" Matt and DM "Heart" Rob are here to chat about the recently released playtest of Daggerheart, a fantasy TTRPG by Darrington Press and Critical Role.
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https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/
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Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Blondie - Heart of Glass.
302 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan
/Matt and Rob are joined by Daniel Kwan of Asians Represent to talk about his TTRPG of lethal melodrama, Wandering Blades! We talk wuxia, TTRPG design, playtesting, mechanics, inspirations, and more!
301 - How to Learn a New RPG System
/So you want to run an RPG. No, not the one you are running right now, but a different one. DMs Matt and Rob are here to talk through their method and tips for learning a new game system.
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Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
300 - Rascal Dot News
/Matt and Rob sit down with Lin Codega and Rowan Zeoli of rascal.news, the new independent TTRPG news site that is rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of, well, several other sites. We talk plans, the state of TTRPGs, the death of journalism, and more!
In Search of a Hot Pink Bitch Named Breakfast
299 - D&D on Death Row with Keri Blakinger
/DMs Rob and Matt are joined by Keri Blakinger, investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, to talk about her piece for New York Times Magazine, "The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row," which can be read for free at the Marshall Project, "When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row."
Links:
Keri Blakinger - The Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj
Keri Blakinger - Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272850/correctionsinink
Smriti Mundhra - I Am Ready, Warden at Big Sky Film Festival
https://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2024-view/i_am_ready_warden/
Books to Prisoners Programs
https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/
Inside Books Project (Texas)
https://insidebooksproject.org/
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Lead Belly - The Gallis Pole.