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Dungeon Master of None
by Robert Guthrie & Matt Drwenski
A general interest podcast for fans of Dungeons and Dragons and RPGs
Episodes
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424 - Running Blades '68 with Sean Foer
DMs Rob and Matt are ready to get groovy under the electroplasmic sun of Blades '68. This time they're joined on their heist by DM Sean Foer, our favorite Forged in the Dark Game Masters. Turn on the show for our discussion of new playbooks, mechanics, and crews in Blades '68. Tune in for some...
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423 - Public Access (Preview)
Matt and Rob come to you in the form of grainy footage on a VHS and scratchy audio on a battered cassette to talk to you about Public Access, a very cool analog horror game built on the Carved from Brindlewood system! We talk about nostalgia, horror, analog media, memory, and more! Follow Dungeon...
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422 - Choosing a Story Game System
It's time to move on over to a Story Game system. Or is it a "modern" game? Or a "fiction-first" game? Who knows! Special Guest Mason Allen, is here to help DMs Rob and Matt navigate the wide and wonderful (apocalypse) worlds of Story Games, and how to pick the right system for your next…
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421 - Giving Your Players Hard Choices (Preview)
Matt and Rob talk about how to give your players hard choices. Let's make 'em sweat folks! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice
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[FEED DROP] The Oracle: Sing, O Muse
Listen to THE ORACLE, a little side project from DM Rob. Down on his luck retro gaming YouTuber Jeff discovers a strange video game that leads him down a path of mystery and unsettling revelations. Spotify Apple YouTube
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420 - Zephyr & Nibiru with Federico Sohns
Howdy Ophoi-heads, game designer Federico Sohns joins DMs Rob and Matt to chat about social science as game and world-building inspiration and the two brilliant TTRPGs they have designed: Zephyr and Nibiru! Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities Nibiru Revisited: A Science Fiction Game…
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419 - Sharn, City of Towers (Preview)
Matt and Rob talk about the greatest city of Khorvaire, Eberron's Sharn, and the very good 2004 campaign setting book that covers it. Grab your trenchcoats, fedoras, wands and featherfall tokens, because we're headed into the city of a thousand towers folks! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue...
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418 - Crows: Fortune or Death with James Introcaso
Crows: Fortune or Death is the newest TTRPG system from MCDM productions! DMs Rob and Matt are joined by designer and game director James Introcaso to discuss what makes Crows different from other fantasy adventures. Strap on your pack, pass some equipment cards around, and get ready to head out...
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417 - News Roundup (8/25/26)
Matt and Rob discuss the news, and there's a lot of it! Dark Sun returns, World of Warcraft and Star Wars will be 5e-ified, there's a new King of Kickstarter, and more! https://www.ttrpginsider.news/p/fighting-oppression-in-new-ways-d-d-s-designers-on-adapting-dark-sun-to-modern-times...
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416 - Actual Prep: Mothership - "The Conqueror Ear Worm"
Out—out are the lights—out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. DMs Rob and Matt are back for...
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415 - Hot Takes from GenCon! (Preview)
Matt and Rob recorded a cheeky little episode from their hotel room before heading out on the final day of GenCon -- listen to our SPICIEST takes, reserved just for you, dear listener. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...
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414 - GenCon Live Show!
DMs Rob and Matt journeyed to Indianapolis, Indiana for Geneva Convention LIX! Here's the episode as it was broadcasted from the beautiful Tennessee Ballroom in the Marriot Hotel. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...
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413 - Abnimals (Preview)
Matt and Rob discuss Travis McElroy's second foray into gamemastering on The Adventure Zone: Abnimals! What can we learn from a comedy podcast about animal-human hybrids with huge muscles? Well, how much time do you have... Travis's hyperfixation The Abnimals Travis and BleeM Abnimals Rules…
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412 - Nentir Vale
Well met, traveler! Welcome to our isolated and dangerous corner of a distant realm...the realm of Fourth Edition Dungeons and Dragons. DMs Rob and Matt explore the greatest (or worst?) D&D campaign setting that never quite was...Nentir Vale. Tune in if you want some inspiration for a wilderness...
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411 - Mothership: Hull Breach (Preview)
Matt and Rob review Hull Breach, an anthology of Mothership assets that includes horrible monsters and adventures of course, but also horrible legal procedures, horrible shopping malls, horrible bosses, and more! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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410 - The 5e Supplement Tier List
Did you want every single WotC book (from bonus bestiaries to campaign guides) ranked? DMs Rob and Matt hope you do because that's exactly what we did! Think of this as a reference list if you need a quick guide to decide where you may or may not want to invest your DM time and money. Don't…
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409 - Rewarding Your Players (Preview)
Matt and Rob talk about all the various and wonderful ways to reward your players beyond just loot and experience. https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice
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408 - Dungeons and Data 3e
Every couple of years, DMs Matt and Rob get curious about what systems people are playing. While there isn't a lot of data out there over the last couple of months, we've been blessed with a couple interesting new TTRPG datasets: Bob the World Builder's RPG Poll Foundry VTT's System Percent...
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407 - Mothership Campaign Clinic (Preview)
Matt and Rob work through some thorny issues in Rob's ongoing West Marches-style Mothership campaign. We talk about balance, character progression, loot, combat, and more! Remember, in space, no one can hear you scream (unless you pay your monthly scream subscription)....
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406 - Generic RPG System Rundown
Sometimes a Game Masters needs something open, full of possibilities, a mother sauce for a GM and players to build on. Join DMs Matt and Rob to explore six generic universal role-playing games systems for when you need something vanilla for your campaigns. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue…
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405 - Actual Prep: A Linear Adventure
Matt and Rob do some actual prep, but this time it's a linear adventure (boo! hiss!) We sketch out a quest to bring down a decadent nobleman who is cheating death and causing mayhem with his party that never ends! Can the intrepid DMs beat the odds and make a direct line a little bit more...
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404 - DM Book Club - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Get ready to grind, because this installment of the Dungeon Master Book Club is entering Dungeon World: Earth (no, not that Dungeon World) to discuss the first several installments of DCC (no, not that DCC), the new hit LitRPG (no, not that LitRPG) series by author Matt Dinniman. Join Crawler…
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403 - The OSR Onion (Preview)
Matt and Rob discuss a very good blog post about old-school renaissance games: The OSR Onion. We ask important questions like: What is the philosophy of OSR? What kind of games does this philosophy enable? What does 'old' mean? Does anyone read blogs anymore? Further reading: Principia Apocrypha…
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402 - Things that will Make you Love Being a DM
Feeling down in the DM dumps? DMs Rob and Matt conclude the big 400 with a discussion of campaigns, worlds, cities, places, and even histories that delight us as Game Masters. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...
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401 - Even MORE Things We Love About Being GMs (Preview)
Matt and Rob continue to celebrate the big 400 by talking about some more of the many activities and delights of being a game master! Mysteries and mapping and secrets and more! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...
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400 - The Big Four Oh Oh (Why We Love Being DMs)
Hey, it's our 400th numbered episode! Check it out. Big announcements about the podcast, plus the 400 (or so) reasons/feelings/vibes why we love being Dungeon Masters. The Oracle: https://open.spotify.com/show/6imtB64oHORHtrxVVoyZOm Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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399 - Blades '68 with Tim Denee
Matt and Rob sit down to talk with Tim Denee, designer of Deathmatch Island and the upcoming Blades '68! We all get groovy and talk about the electroplasmic cold war, bell bottom jeans, and cool spy heists with weird gadgets! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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TEASER - The Cosmere TTRPG
Brando Sanderson's multiverse of madness begins now! We review the Most Successful Crowdfunded Tabletop Roleplaying Game of All Time: Cosmere! Join our Patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
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398 - If You Liked That, Try This (Video Game Edition)
Are your players gamers? Do they enjoy digital entertainments like Dark Souls, Red Dead Redemption, or Grand Theft Auto? Are they constantly badgering you about bringing such delights into your TTRPG sessions? Well never fear, we've got the episode for you! Planet Fist Cowboys With Big Hearts…
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397 - Cloud Empress
Slips. Cicadas. Science-Fantasy. Welcome to the world of Cloud Empress, an ecological far-future fantasy TTRPG. DMs Rob and Matt love Mothership's PANIC Engine, and this game applies it a weird world of far-future environmental change, magic, and hyper-intelligent wizard giant bugs. Oh, and the...
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TEASER - Cry Havoc!
Matt and Rob talk about the Havoc System from Rowan Rook and Deckard, best known for Eat the Reich but also the framework for last month's Havoc Game Jam, which Rob (and a couple friends of the show) participated in! Come hear about this super simple, modular, high-energy system and how you could...
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396 - DM Book Club - The Bright Sword
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft The Bright Sword from the bosom of author Lev Grossman, signifying by divine providence that DMs Matt and Rob, were to discuss knights, faeries, quests, questing beasts, and mythic fantasy. THAT is why this is your...
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395 - The Soft Skills of GMing
The soft boys teach you how to win friends and influence people. Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone...
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The Neopets TTRPG Saga
The Neopets Role-Playing Game is the ideal kickstarter. It's got it all: licensed IP, lazy 5e mechanics, nostalgia mining, kitchen sink promises, missed deadlines, alleged missed wages, a combat system for a cozy setting, potential OGL violations, and drama! DMs Rob and Matt try their best to…
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TEASER - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Matt and Rob return to the world of GAMERTHRONES to talk about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which dares to ask "What if a Game of Thrones show was good?" Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join…
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393 - Ride or Die with John Harper
We don't have games, we got family. Have you ever wanted to play a Fast & Furious-inspired TTRPG? John Harper (of Blades in the Dark, Lady Blackbird, and Agon fame) has got you covered. Welcome to Ride or Die, a fast-paced, double-clutching game where you are invulnerable as long as you are in…
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392 - Knife Theory With Cristina Van Epps
Matt and Rob sit down with Cristina of I Seduce the Dragon to talk about Knife Theory -- a way to think about character creation and a tool for DMs to use to create drama. Have fun! Stab your friends! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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391 - It's Sort of Like a Wand...
It's back to the archives of Dragon magazine for DMs Rob and Matt. When is giving characters too much information too much of a good thing? Tune in to find out! Dragon Magazine #161: https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine161/page/20/mode/2up Music: Pac Div - Roll the...
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390 - PF96-108: Hell's Rebels and Hell's Vengeance
Matt and Rob go to hell! Hell-lite, anyway, specifically the nation of Cheliax, in Paizo's twin APs, Hell's Rebels and Hell's Vengeance. One of them is good and one of them is not so good, and you probably don't need to even listen to the episode to guess which is which (but you should listen to…
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389 - Actual Prep with Random Tropes
DMs Rob and Matt are joined by a special guest: a random table! But this isn't just any random table, but a table of your over-used, loved or hated, fantasy tropes. Listen in as Matt and Rob attempt to remix and reuse these tropes into a workable bit of region, adventure, and faction prep. d12...
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TEASER - The 1 HP Dragon
Matt and Rob read some BLOGS and talk about OSR design, especially around how to run big, epic monster combats that don't just feel like slugfests. https://www.latorra.org/2012/05/15/a-16-hp-dragon/ https://www.explorersdesign.com/the-1-hp-dragon/...
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388 - Mythic Bastionland
"A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of stick! It makes me tired." Strap on your shield and get ready to seek some myths, Sir Rob and Sir Matt are reviewing Chris McDowall's Mythic Bastionland!…
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387 - Pathfinder #79 - #96
Matt and Rob return to finding paths, reviewing Pathfinder #79 - #96: Mummy's Mask, Iron Gods, and Giantslayer. These adventures take us from the deserts of Osirion to the depths of Numeria's mysterious mountains and just about everywhere in between. We'll tell you about the good, the bad, and…
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386 - Dueling DM Fops
2026 is here! And DMs Rob and Matt are here to answer your Dungeon Mastering questions. Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the...
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TEASER - 2025 Year in Review
Matt and Rob look back on 2025 and talk about the highs, lows, and notable events -- of which there were many! We also look forward to 2026, and what's yet to come. Happy New Year everyone!
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385 - Astarion's Book of Hungers
The Seventh Day of Wizardsmas is here, and Rob and Matt are reviewing Astarion's Book of Hungers. Will it slate their DM bloodlust or leave them desiring more? Astarion's Book of Hungers Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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384 - Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
On the 6th day of Wizardsmas, Matt and Rob return to Eberron and Khorvaire to talk about the newest book in our favorite magitech pulp universe, Eberron: Forge of the Artificer! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...
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383 - Adventures in Faerûn
This one is just for the Dungeon Masters! Rob and Matt review the new gazetteer and/or campaign book for running games in the Forgotten Realms! Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky:...
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382 - Heroes of Faerun
Matt and Rob talk about the first of two big chonky books about playing D&D in the Forgotten Realms! We've got subclasses, spells, feats, factions, you name it, it's here! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social Join our Patreon for bonus episodes:...
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381 - Dragon Delves
Hey! You got your dragon in my dungeon! You got your dungeon around my dragon! What? DMs Rob and Matt find out if the two great tastes, taste great together as they review WotC's new-ish adventure anthology, Dragon Delves. Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue…
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