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The Evil Dungeon Master Universe — 339 episodes

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1

The Problem With AD&D 1 to 1 Time

2

Unearthed Arcana, Official, Final, But is it Better?

3

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Son of Kyuss

4

Feather Fall: The Spell That Keeps Your Party Alive

5

Let's talk about Skinwalkers in D&D, shall we?

6

Why 1 HP Makes Your Players Fear the Dungeon Again

7

AD&D - D1 Is Not a Dungeon Crawl, It’s Enemy Territory

8

How I Turned One Donjon Prompt Into a full gaming Idea

9

Why the Flail Snail Punishes Bad AD&D Habits

10

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 2

11

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Half-Ogres, did you use them

12

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 1

13

Monster Spotlight: The Ki-Rin, Why This Is Not a Fight

14

AD&D Custom Magic Item: the Ledger of Oaths

15

AD&D Podcast: The Character with Two Classes

16

AD&D - That's a Wrap on 2025

17

AD&D Podcast: Year-End Q&A: Where Do We Go Next?

18

AD&D Module Review: Grimbo Grotto - Christmas Farcical Horror Adventure

19

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Raise Dead

20

AD&D Adventure - Turkey Day!

21

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Shadow Demon

22

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Gambado

23

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Character Age

24

AD&D Campaign Spotlight: Money Changers, Banks, Loans, and Jewelers

25

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Player Skill Bonuses

26

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Command Words for Magic Items

27

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Wraith

28

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Elementals

29

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Casting Spells Directly from Books

30

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Ring of Truth

31

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Death Angel

32

AD&D Unearthed: The Ultimist Class

33

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Wall of Force

34

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Apparatus of Kwalish

35

AD&D Campaign Spotlight: The Role of Taxes

36

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Dig

37

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Heroism & Superheroism

38

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Arabel’s Huggable Bear

39

AD&D Bucknard’s Everfull Purse

40

AD&D - The Catoblepas, with its Death Gaze!

41

AD&D - The Black Dragon Game

42

AD&D Book of Vile Darkness: More Than Just an Evil Tome

43

AD&D Efreeti: Wishes, Fire, and Loopholes

44

AD&D Evil Dead: Necronomicon, Deadites, and Doomed Cabins

45

AD&D Wraithform: Now You See Me...

46

AD&D Random Monsters: Build It, Then Kill It

47

AD&D Dual Classing: Power Move or Painful Mistake?

48

AD&D Nilbog: Hit Me Again, It Feels Great

49

AD&D Tree Spell: Hide, Watch, Wait...

50

AD&D Stoneskin Spell, What does it really block?

51

AD&D: Good Hits, Bad Misses... and Worse Tables

52

AD&D Minotaur: The Brute with a Twist

53

AD&D Vanish Spell: The Ultimate Exit Spell?

54

AD&D Dire Corby: Doom in the Dark

55

AD&D Talisman of Pure Good: A Crack Opens. Evil Falls

56

AD&D - Phase Door, The Sneakiest Spell in the Game?

57

AD&D - Using the Guand in your Campaign

58

AD&D - The Electrum Dragon the Philosopher

59

AD&D - Psionics, What was Gygax Thinking?

60

AD&D - The Assassin: Too Evil for your table?

61

AD&D - Did Dragon Magazine #53 Fix the Monk?

62

AD&D - Why Nobody Plays the Monk?

63

AD&D - Was the Thief Actually Useless?

64

AD&D Training Costs: The Rule Everyone Ignored?

65

AD&D Fighters: Powerhouses or Punching Bags?

66

AD&D - Godlike Stats & Divine Powers – Deities, Dragon #67, and Demigod Dreams

67

AD&D - Hatched to Kill: Assassin Bugs in your game!

68

AD&D - The Leprechaun!

69

AD&D - Looking at the Thief abilities Clarifications in the DMG

70

AD&D - Let's dive into the Thief abilities from the PHB

71

AD&D - Shaman and Witch Doctor Spells..

72

AD&D - Let's Talk "Hub" Campaigns...

73

AD&D - Elf subraces from UA

74

AD&D - Demons & Demon Amulets Thoughts.

75

AD&D - Grappling Rules from Unearthed Arcana

76

AD&D - The Death Spell!

77

AD&D - Orcs with Pig faces..

78

AD&D - Zero Hits Points, Dead? No so fast!

79

AD&D - Sticky Situations: The Adherer Unleashed

80

AD&D - Let's talk Theater of the mind

81

AD&D - Appendix F: Gambling, plus my homebrew game

82

AD&D - Appendix H: Tricks, but are they harmless?

83

AD&D - Let's talk about training for new levels

84

AD&D - Hex Mapping is loads of fun!

85

AD&D - Heroism in a Bottle, Boost your Fighter!

86

AD&D - The Chaos of Casting Stone to Flesh, Storytime!

87

AD&D - Magical Item: Magical Eyes

88

AD&D - the Gorgon, Not the Greek legend?

89

AD&D - The Deadly Allure of the Medusa

90

AD&D - The Power and Perils of the Animate Dead Spell

91

AD&D - Let's reflect on magical mirrors

92

AD&D - FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION

93

AD&D - Nixies: Enchanting Foes or Underwater Nightmares?

94

AD&D True Neutral: The Alignment That Tests Every DM

95

Plague & Peril: Surviving Disease in AD&D

96

AD&D is more Dangerous than 5e, here's why..

97

AD&D - Cantrips can be useful, listen in.

98

End of the Year Wrap up show, Emptying the email bag!

99

AD&D - Cleric Command Spell Thoughts..

100

AD&D - Changing up how Clerics get spells?

101

AD&D - Wishes, Alter Reality Spells and Attributes..

102

AD&D - Advice on Making Taverns a little more interesting..

103

AD&D - Oriental Adventures Magical Items

104

AD&D - Let's talk Honor Mechanics from OA

105

AD&D - Cursed Items and Identifying them...

106

AD&D - Thoughts about the Rod of Smiting..

107

AD&D - Cloak of Guarding from Dragon 91

108

AD&D - Designing For Unique Wilderness Encounters

109

AD&D - Magic Item - The LockStone

110

AD&D - Homebrew Vampire Hunter Sword

111

AD&D - Wand of Enemy Detection

112

AD&D - The Thorn Curse in your campaign..

113

AD&D - Gary Gygax did not play as written & Blindheim Creature

114

AD&D - Detecting Alignment, Its not as cut and dry as you think.

115

AD&D - Cleric 5th Level Spell Rainbow

116

AD&D - Incorporating the Croatoan legend into your game..

117

AD&D - Shadow Creatures

118

AD&D - Adding to the Thief Class

119

AD&D - Email Question: Do Tieflings belong in D&D Campaigns?

120

AD&D - The Sunray spell and its uses..

121

AD&D - Demonic Possession Rules..

122

AD&D - Egg Laying, Chest Bursting Creature, the Xill!

123

AD&D - The Hound of Ill Omen

124

AD&D - Trick in your campaign

125

AD&D - Cantrips and Negative Levels..

126

AD&D - Appendix V: Agreements for Division of Treasure!

127

Divine Retribution: The Deadly Duel with an Aleax in AD&D

128

AD&D - Let's talk about Dark Elves aka Drow

129

AD&D - Elfin Chain Mail

130

AD&D Let's Discuss Vision and Movement for a moment..

131

AD&D - Holy Water Creation Process

132

AD&D - Reviving Life and Levels, The Restoration Spell!

133

AD&D - Gauntlets of Dexterity

134

AD&D Skills, Modifiers, and Probability in Play..

135

AD&D - The Deck of Many things... Campaign breaker?

136

The Dragon Slayer: AD&D Weapons of Legend?

137

AD&D - Let's Discuss the term "Monster" for a moment.

138

AD&D - The Cavalier Class, Over Powered or Just Powerful Fun?

139

AD&D - The Power of the Ring of Regeneration!

140

AD&D Exploring Magic-User Spell Books Rules...

141

AD&D - Necklace of Strangulation and Its Uses...

142

AD&D - Cleric, your deity can say, "no"

143

AD&D Fumbling with Magic, The Power of the Fumble Spell!

144

AD&D - The Holy Avenger, A Paladin's Ultimate Weapon!

145

AD&D - The Algoid, a Swamp Guardian Creature!

146

AD&D - Gem of Seeing vs True Seeing Spell

147

AD&D Spotlight: Crafting the Perfect Death Knight for Your Campaign

148

AD&D Lamia Unleashed: Deadly Desert Encounters

149

AD&D - Intelligent Items With Guest DM Will

150

AD&D Deadly Precision: Unleashing Arrows of Slaying in RPG Campaigns!

151

AD&D - The Jackalwere, Human Infiltrator!

152

AD&D - The Death Knight, Your Campaigns Ultimate Big Bad!

153

AD&D - Using the Spectre in your game!

154

AD&D - The Equalizer of Gran March, a True Neutral sword of Justice!

155

AD&D Shoes of Fharlanghn, Never trip on long walks!

156

AD&D - Cloak of the Bat, Be a Vampire.....not really.

157

AD&D - How lucky is the LuckStone?

158

AD&D - Sword of Sharpness & The Vorpal Sword!

159

AD&D - Speak Magic or Die Trying: Command Words for Magical Items!

160

AD&D Alignment Shifts: Do Harsh Penalties Make the Cut?

161

AD&D - Let's Go Over Leomund's Tiny Hut

162

AD&D Magical Robes, Part 1

163

AD&D - the Art of Disarm: Non-Lethal Combat Techniques Revealed!

164

AD&D - Let's talk Barbarians, too powerful or too over-hyped?

165

AD&D Permanency Spell, it has lots of possibilities!

166

AD&D Boots of Speed, run like a horse!

167

AD&D Bag of Beans, a very Chaotic and Random Magic Item!

168

AD&D Unearthed Arcana "Item" Spell: A Hidden Gem!

169

AD&D Creature Feature Theater: The Kech are Clever and Deadly!

170

AD&D Potion of Treasure Finding, How can you use it?

171

AD&D Sweet Water Potion, is it useful?

172

Illusionists for AD&D are great, I tell ya!

173

Micro RPGs and I am writing an RPG (again).

174

Braintoss: Notes You take as a GM

175

HARP - High Adventure Role Playing, is it fun?

176

Fumbling those tasks?

177

Why Comic Books Are PERFECT for Roleplaying Game Inspiration

178

Theater of the Mind: How Your Imagination Can Fool You

179

What is your 'go-to' game?

180

Ghosts: Your Campaign's Uninvited Guests?

181

Campaign Magic: Creating One-of-a-Kind Custom Designs!

182

Learn the System and Be An Adult!

183

Pass that Note DM!

184

DC Heroes Batman Campaign, The Puppetmaster!

185

Book of Random Dungeons tables, Can it help inspire a game?

186

Dragonlance comic books, fun read, interesting campaign?

187

AI Chat bots, Good or Bad?

188

Email Bag! Answering your questions!

189

Let's talk about the Gumshoe System for a moment

190

Generic Gaming Systems? What about FUDGE?

191

Encouraging Good In Game Behavior by a GM

192

Vampire Hunter Games and Gumshoe system?

193

Alignment changes by a DM, How do you handle it?

194

Terminator Roleplaying Game by Nightfall Games

195

AD&D Dungeoneer's Survival Guide - Falling Damage!

196

Starship Troopers the RPG & Some Gaming Advice

197

Converting Your Favorite System into the Game you want!

198

A Planet Where Apes Evolved from Men? Terra Primate!

199

Gencon 2011, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Game.

200

Drinking Potions during combat?

201

Wandering Monster, Random Encounters. Why is it not liked?

202

The ARC Character Background Method, do you use it?

203

GURPS, Its an interesting system.

204

TSR's Gangbusters, worth a look?

205

Cinematic Unisystem Detective Noir Game

206

Ash vs Evil Dead Gaming

207

FASA Star Trek, Captain Reggie, Lt Nova & The Felonians

208

Call of Cthulhu, the game and its mindset with DM Will

209

Vampire: The Masquerade and Wolf Man Jack

210

DC Universe The Roleplaying Game by WEG

211

Mayfair's Underground RPG, Often called DC Heroes lite?

212

Fighting Fantasy Books are very cool!

213

Hidden Gems in Used Books!

214

Reponse to Friday's Fireside Chat!

215

Technology in Gaming, Good or Bad? You Decide!

216

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - The Sometimes Controversial Charm Monster Spell

217

Dungeons & Dragons - The Manual of Hexterity!

218

Shadowrun - Giving characters the spotlight?

219

Dungeons and Dragons - Keeping players on track with modules?

220

Grievances I have about people who only play D&D and nothing else!

221

Shadowrun - Bottled Demon Module is Excellent!

222

Dungeons and Dragons - Solo Crawling, No GM Oracle needed!

223

Shadowrun - Designing Missions Advice

224

Dungeons and Dragons: Limited Wish, How Limited is it really?

225

Solo RPGs - Games you can play in your head!

226

Should a DM Give Players Advice & Warnings?

227

Dungeons and Dragons: The Armor Spell, from 1st to 5th, How its changed

228

Dungeons and Dragons: The Goodberry spell, The Forgotten Gem of Druid Magic

229

Paladins & Protection from Evil!

230

The Grievances about Heroes vs Anti-Heroes

231

Spell Preparation and Creation

232

Let's Call this an RFI Mini as DM Will is here!

233

Designing Campaigns from the ground up

234

Making Giant Monster End Bosses More Interesting

235

DMs, How do you control rowdy players?

236

DM Advice on running Mystery & Investigation sessions

237

Talking Homebrew races, is it possible? Octopus-People?

238

Thoughts on the Men in Black Roleplaying Game

239

Players, let's make character backgrounds better!

240

DMs, we are only human, own up to mistakes..

241

DMs, Let's Talk Blue Dragons!

242

DMs, So your campaign is going on hiatus...Now what?

243

The Grievances about Firearms in Fantasy Gaming

244

Puzzles, GM Vs Player? hmm?

245

Starfinder, Its an interesting system.

246

DMs, Identifying Magical Items, did we do it right?

247

DMs, Should Players talk during combat?

248

Whoops, the characters took out the big bad, what now?

249

Interview with Buzz Dixon, Showrunner from GI JOE & Transformers!

250

Let's talk about Min-Maxing

251

Let's Talk RIFTS and Optional Backgrounds

252

X-Men Adventures in Marvel Superheroes FASERIP

253

Cursed Item Talk: Crystal Hypnosis Ball

254

The Postal Pouch: Mailbag questions!

255

The Evil Dungeon Master's AD&D Universe 2025 Trailer

256

Twilight 2000 Italian Campaign

257

Dream Demons in your Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns

258

Negotiation & Communication in D&D

259

Careful What You Wish For...

260

Spycraft Session this weekend..

261

DC Heroes The Vortex Campaign

262

Figurines of Wondrous Power

263

Let's Call this an RFI Mini #15 - Attack of Opportunity?

264

Historical RPGs, Gangbusters?

265

Email Bag: Designing Custom D&D Deities..

266

Cortex Classic & Supernatural the Roleplaying Game

267

Hail to the King, Army of Darkness RPG

268

Let`s talk about an alignment system…

269

DC Heroes Infinity Rings, Circe Campaign

270

Conspiracy X, Bigfoot?

271

World of Aden, a d6 Fantasy Setting

272

Dungeon Design tips 101

273

Wrestling Talk, Attitude Era Wrestling is back!

274

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review and other stuff

275

Let’s talk about my campaign, its a story.

276

Future plans for this space for this podcast

277

Unleash Your Inner Dark Knight with the Batman Roleplaying Game!"

278

Unraveling the Mysteries of Palladium RPGs' Game Mechanics & Rules

279

RFI Mini #14 - Voicemail about Henchmen...

280

RFI Mini #13 - Talking Starting Gold and the Monetary system

281

RFI Mini #12 - Talking Secret Hit points?

282

RFI Mini #11 - Email Question about percentile Attributes

283

RFI Mini #10 - Talking Magical Armor Savings throws rule

284

RFI Mini #9 - Talking about alignment changes and what happens?

285

RFI Mini #8 - No, no... Clerics can't use edged weapons...sorry!

286

RFI Mini #7 - Talking about Half Races and Racial Preferences, do you use them?

287

RFI Mini #6 - Voicemails and questions!

288

RFI Mini #5 - Email Question about Green Slimes!

289

RFI Mini #4 - Voicemails and Questions!

290

RFI Mini #3 - Multi-Class Character Class Hitpoint Rolling

291

RFI Mini #2 - Talking Attributes and "exceptional abilities"

292

RFI Mini #1 - The level term and what it could have been?

293

TSR is back, is this good or bad? YOU decide.

294

Little update about games and no Orcs, Goblins and Kobolds don't have feelings.

295

Updates and no, RFI Podcast will not be coming back, sorry!

296

its Monday! FASERIP Podcast is back!

297

A new show? Ramble-mania!

298

What are your first experiences with RPGS

299

Cookie Cutter Creatures, no way!

300

Escapism is the key to our hobby, start a new campaign!

301

Closer to 1K on YT and Talking Portal Worlds in your Campaign!

302

Talking about Older editions and why we play them

303

Monday morning, weekend recap of gaming and life

304

Dice, Dice, Dice.. dice everywhere!

305

GMless RPGs are......stupid?

306

Following up on a Voicemail, Comics and Horror movies!

307

Its cold outside, Youtube and a Cop RPG?

308

Monday Catch up and RFI has a lost episode?

309

Starting Magic-User spells for AD&D 1e, How do you handle it?

310

Email Question: More about me & Comics

311

What is up with D&D, WOTC? Huh?

312

Following up on a Voicemail about Character Death

313

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 19

314

Bringing Characters into AD&D games after Death, but at what level?

315

Space Operas and Scifi games

316

Enchanting Magical Items (AD&D 1e) and how it could be done

317

Following up on Solo RPGs and a Voicemail!

318

Episodical Adventure Planning

319

The Podfather is born and he interviews, Big Sal.

320

Solo RPG Thoughts, is it fun?

321

Character Creation is not a chore.

322

Back, talking youtube, podcasts and I'm no shill.

323

Too many options for players..

324

DMs, it’s your world, your rules, stand strong!

325

lol no it’s not cheating on your FLGS

326

I’m back, maybe? Quick update!

327

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 13 - Passing Notes & Electronics at the table

328

The Evil DM Podcast - Episode 12 - Voicemail from DM Carl

329

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 11 - Homebrew vs Premade

330

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 10 - The Brain Toss App & Talking new 1e Podcast

331

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 9 - Talking Diceless RPGs and people who annoy you

332

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 8 - Responding to another Voicemail

333

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 7 - Taking the game too seriously

334

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 6 - Talking Star Trek and Savage Worlds.

335

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 5a - Responding to a voicemail! (fixed)

336

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 4 - Talking about a Save vs... or die mechanic

337

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 3 - Gaming out of no where!

338

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 2 - Talking d6, Mini-Six, Mazes & Perils, the Cinematic 8 System

339

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 1 - The Evil DM has arrived.