All Episodes

Episode 196: Good v. Evil in TTRPGs; Media Influences on Your Game

Nerdcognito - Episode 195: Halloween Games, Message for Bert; Roll20 Dungeon Scrawl

Nerdcognito - Episode 194: WotC-Penguin Book De-Distribution; ACKS II & Alexander Macris

Nerdcognito - Episode 193: Fill-In-The-Blank ”Core” TTRPGs; Cancel Culture w/ Crud Forge

Episode 192: Premium Undead Selections; (Another) WotC Conspiracy Theory

Episode 191: Safety Tools Dance, New v. Veteran TTRPG Players

Nerdcognito - Episode 190: Swarms! Hordes! RD Channels Ginny Di’s ”Burnout!?!”

Nerdcognito - Episode 189: Cliques in the TTRPG Hobby; ”Essential” DM Tips

Nerdcognito - Episode 188: Everybody’s Back!; Real-world Influences on Worldbuilding

Nerdcognito - Episode 187: Death of a FLGS; Not the Best 80’s Slasher Flicks

Nerdcognito - Episode 186: TTRPG How-to with a New Group; Can We Love Lovcraftesque?

Nerdcognito - Episode 185: Rule Zero, Encumbrance, and PONIES?!?

Nerdcognito - Episode 184: Player Death in TTRPGs; Necro-ing a Lost TV Show!

Nerdcognito - Episode 183: TTRPG Dungeon Creation (and DM Screens!); App-based Board Games

Nerdcognito - Episode 182: Diversity & Dragons Guest Hosts; RD on IC!; Solo Gaming; Board Game Prefs

Nerdcognito - Episode 181: Baldur’s Gate 3 Bearing Down with a Bare Bear; The Kobold Cookbook

Nerdcognito - Episode 180: OSR Drama Begone! & Our Host TTRPG Origin Stories

Nerdcognito - Episode 179: The RPGPundit Talks About Our Corner of the Hobby- Then, Now, and Yet to Come!

NanoNerdcognito: Overtime w/ Randy from BG and Video Game Cookbooks

Nerdcognito - Episode 178: Randy from Biggus Geekus Talks Current TTRPG/Nerdy Affairs

Nerdcognito - Episode 177: ZERO Apologies; TWO Reviews (Dead by Daylight Board Game & Spirals RPG)!

Nerdcognito - Episode 176: Welcoming our New Co-Host w/ Some New D&D Characters!; 3rd Party Infighting in the OSR

Nerdcognito - Episode 175: Where Do You Like Your TTRPG Stacked?; Carpenter Films; Nerdy Military

NanoNercognito: Slicing the Top 10 Off of a ”Top 100” Horror Film List

Nerdcognito - Episode 174: News Blender - WotC Streams, DnD@DoD, Kickstarter Rundown, Monte Cook x2, and more!

Nerdcognito - Episode 173: Leylines Screws The Marketing Pooch; Fallout RPG

Nerdcognito - Episode 172: More (yay) WotC Announcements; Indie Comic Author Jason Sandberg

Nerdcognito - Episode 171: WotC Sends In The Pinkertons; The Quiet Year Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 170: Losing a DM - How a Group Copes; City-Building TTRPG!

Nerdcognito - Episode 169: OSR DriveThru Confliction; Final Girl Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 168: WotC D&D Showcase Falls Flat; Tony Garcia and Dystopian Dawn

Nerdcognito - Episode 167: TTRPG Character Advancement; Old School Essentials Braunhaven Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 166: Immortal Rising Comics Sits In; Lost Ruins of Arnak Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 165: Premium Game Upgrades; Video Game Resurrections

Nerdcognito - Episode 164: ShadowDark Makes No Sense; Massive Darkness 2 Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 163: WotC’s Whoopsies of the Week; Gaming Snacks!

Nerdcognito - Episode 162: The Red Room Speaks After Being Murdered By DriveThru and More

Nerdcognito - Episode 161: Love or VD, WotC Keeps Hating

Nerdcognito - Episode 160: SparkleTrolls fall back in line; ”My Father’s Work” Board Game Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 159: Wizards Walks Back the OGL Oops; Venger Satanis

Nerdcognito - Episode 158: Things to Play that are NOT D&D; The OGL Saga Continues

Nerdcognito - Episode 157: OGL Fallout Births the ORC, Wretched Époque Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 156: The OGL OSR Roundtable

Nerdcognito - Episode 155: Cancelling Castles & Crusades; On The Horizon for 2023

Nerdcognito - Episode 154: WotC is Closing the OGL; OSR Rundown and Review of Dungeons & Delvers

NanoNerdcognito - Holiday Potpourri: Predators, (not) Minsc, The News, Cavill, and More!

Nerdcognito - Episode 153: Hasbro Wants More (Money); OSR Dungeon Generation

Nerdcognito - Episode 151: D&D Disaster Discounts; Spinoffs

Nerdcognito - Episode 150: Video Game-ifying TTRPGs; We Are Thankful

Nerdcognito - Episode 149: Too Much Gaming, $50 Board Game Picks, Mezo Rundown and Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 148: Crafting One-Shots and SparkleTroll Racism

Nerdcognito - Episode 147: The Rule of Cool, Isn’t & Holiday Game Scheduling

Nerdcognito - Episode 146: RD’s De-Twittering, Bad Expansion Books, and Assassin TTRPGs

Nerdcognito - Episode 145: Creating Characters, Disorganized DMs, and the Attack on OSR Creators

Nerdcognito - Episode 144: Author Robert Kroese and the Boys Love Autumn and Horror!

Nerdcognito - Episode 143: Kicking Bad Players from the TTRPG Table and Auras: The Roleplaying Game Preview

Nerdcognito - Episode 142: Sleeping Gods and TTRPG Taint, Pus, and Vim (illnesses)!

Nerdcognito - Episode 141: Hadozee Hullabaloo and Horde Wars

Nerdcognito - Episode 140: Vacation Board Games and Kobold Quest!

Nerdcognito - Episode 139: One D&D Roundtable!

Nerdcognito - Episode 138: Easy Encounters, Dixit Hard

Nerdcognito - Episode 137: Joe from Biggus Geekus & the ”Transition” of the Nerdcognito TTRPG Group

Nerdcognito - Episode 136: Hordes, IP Profiteers, and Converting Cowboys

Nerdcognito - Episode 135: Digital TTRPG Mergers and A War of Whispers

NanoNerdcognito - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Castrates M’Benga

Nerdcognito - Episode 134: Main Character Syndrome in D&D and a Brass Birmingham Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 132: Way Too Much News!

Nerdcognito - Episode 131: Is the Force with Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi?; The Attack on the OSR

Nerdcognito - Episode 130: A Nerdtastic Memorial Day Military Salute; and the Roots of a Fandom with Personal Tales from Ryan and Bert

Nerdcognito - Episode 128: New Players to the Table and their Board Game Trial; Picking a Non-Fantasy TTRPG for the Gang!

Nerdcognito - Episode 127: 90s Sci-Fi Film Fest! ...and the SparkleTrolls now want to remove combat from D&D

Nerdcognito - Episode 126: Alien Fate of the Nostromo Review, Modules and Dungeon Mastering

Nerdcognito - Episode 125: Woke WotC Slaughtering Spelljammer while Dooming Dragonlance and Upcoming Star Wars Video Game Goodness

NanoNerdcognito - The Top 3 Nerdy News Stories from the week of 4/20/22

Nerdcognito - Episode 124: Old Video Games Due For A Reboot; Experienced PCs vs. Newbie PCs

Nerdcognito - Episode 123: Consent Checklists and Where to Shove Them; Cooperative Board Games for Your Table

Nerdcognito - Episode 122: Ark Nova Review and Thoughts, Zelda Piracy, and D&D Potions

Nerdcognito - Episode 121: Facebook Jail, Social Media, plus Reflections and Recommendations for New DMs

Nerdcognito - Episode 120: Sailing the Skies with a Windward Review and ”Cancelling” Monsters in D&D

NanoNerdcognito - The Nerdy News for the week of 3/9/22

Nerdcognito - Episode 118: Don’t Cross The DM Boss & the Best 16-Bits of SNES.

Nerdcognito - Episode 117: Barrage’s Beauty and Amazon ”Suppresses” Indy Author Denton Salle

Nerdcognito - Episode 116: A Look to the Future (on screen, on the table, and in our Nerddom!)

Nerdcognito - Episode 115: RD is a Lousy Dungeon Master. Counterspell Fails.

Nerdcognito - Episode 114: In The Game Room, No One Can Hear You Scream

Nerdcognito - Episode 113: MOTU Origins He-Man & Skeletor Battle in Merchant’s Cove

Nerdcognito - Episode 112: Ghostbusters Afterlife Rundown, Gambling, and the Guys’ Gaming Styles

NanoNerdcognito - Does the Otys Board Game Sink or Swim?

Nerdcognito - Episode 111: Stupid Sexy Bards and the Death of Bob Saget

Nerdcognito - Episode 110: The Witcher Season 2 Doesn’t Disappoint; ”Two A-Holes and Bert”

Nerdcognito - Episode 109: The Merry Post-Holiday ”We Won’t Talk About The Death of D&D” Episode

Nerdcognito - Episode 108: Woke Wizards of the Coast and the Death of Dungeons & Dragons

Nerdcognito - Episode 107: Author Roger Ley Classes Up the Joint After the Boys Attend Midnight Mass

Nerdcognito - Episode 106: The Boys Must Be Hungry, Favorite D&D Race/Class Combos

Nerdcognito - Episode 105: TTRPG Gatekeeping Sounds Better When You Turn On Your Mic, Sex in Video Games

Nerdcognito - Episode 104: It’s ”Unfathomable” but Mike is Looking Like an ”Abomination”

Nerdcognito - Episode 103: Brandi Braids Keeps C̶u̶m̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ Coming Up; Roll Player Adventures Review

Nerdcognito - Episode 102: Playing D&D on the ‘net, Dune Imperium, and the Nerdy News