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The Evil Dungeon Master Universe — 347 episodes

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1

The AD&D Druid Was Never Just a Nature Cleric

2

Why the AD&D Fighter Was Never Boring

3

AD&D is Not Fair... That's the Point!

4

Why AD&D Is Still the Gold Standard....

5

White Dragons Are Meaner Than You Think

6

Empty Rooms Are Not Empty...

7

Bonus Episode - Let’s Chat About Gold for XP in AD&D

8

Let's Chat about Encumbrance Rules in AD&D

9

The Problem With AD&D 1 to 1 Time

10

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

11

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Son of Kyuss

12

Feather Fall: The Spell That Keeps Your Party Alive

13

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

14

Why 1 HP Makes Your Players Fear the Dungeon Again

15

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

16

How I Turned One Donjon Prompt Into a full gaming Idea

17

Why the Flail Snail Punishes Bad AD&D Habits

18

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 2

19

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

20

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 1

21

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

22

AD&D Custom Magic Item: the Ledger of Oaths

23

AD&D Podcast: The Character with Two Classes

24

AD&D - That's a Wrap on 2025

25

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

26

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

27

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Raise Dead

28

AD&D Adventure - Turkey Day!

29

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Shadow Demon

30

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Gambado

31

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Character Age

32

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

33

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Player Skill Bonuses

34

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Command Words for Magic Items

35

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Wraith

36

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Elementals

37

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Casting Spells Directly from Books

38

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Ring of Truth

39

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Death Angel

40

AD&D Unearthed: The Ultimist Class

41

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Wall of Force

42

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Apparatus of Kwalish

43

AD&D Campaign Spotlight: The Role of Taxes

44

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Dig

45

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Heroism & Superheroism

46

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

47

AD&D Bucknard’s Everfull Purse

48

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

49

AD&D - The Black Dragon Game

50

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

51

AD&D Efreeti: Wishes, Fire, and Loopholes

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

AD&D Minotaur: The Brute with a Twist

61

AD&D Vanish Spell: The Ultimate Exit Spell?

62

AD&D Dire Corby: Doom in the Dark

63

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

64

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

65

AD&D - Using the Guand in your Campaign

66

AD&D - The Electrum Dragon the Philosopher

67

AD&D - Psionics, What was Gygax Thinking?

68

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

69

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

70

AD&D - Why Nobody Plays the Monk?

71

AD&D - Was the Thief Actually Useless?

72

AD&D Training Costs: The Rule Everyone Ignored?

73

AD&D Fighters: Powerhouses or Punching Bags?

74

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

75

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

76

AD&D - The Leprechaun!

77

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

78

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

79

AD&D - Shaman and Witch Doctor Spells..

80

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

81

AD&D - Elf subraces from UA

82

AD&D - Demons & Demon Amulets Thoughts.

83

AD&D - Grappling Rules from Unearthed Arcana

84

AD&D - The Death Spell!

85

AD&D - Orcs with Pig faces..

86

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

87

AD&D - Sticky Situations: The Adherer Unleashed

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

AD&D - Hex Mapping is loads of fun!

93

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

94

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

95

AD&D - Magical Item: Magical Eyes

96

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

97

AD&D - The Deadly Allure of the Medusa

98

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

99

AD&D - Let's reflect on magical mirrors

100

AD&D - FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION

101

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

102

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

103

Plague & Peril: Surviving Disease in AD&D

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

AD&D - Cleric Command Spell Thoughts..

108

AD&D - Changing up how Clerics get spells?

109

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

110

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

111

AD&D - Oriental Adventures Magical Items

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

AD&D - Cloak of Guarding from Dragon 91

116

AD&D - Designing For Unique Wilderness Encounters

117

AD&D - Magic Item - The LockStone

118

AD&D - Homebrew Vampire Hunter Sword

119

AD&D - Wand of Enemy Detection

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

AD&D - Cleric 5th Level Spell Rainbow

124

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

125

AD&D - Shadow Creatures

126

AD&D - Adding to the Thief Class

127

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

128

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

129

AD&D - Demonic Possession Rules..

130

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

131

AD&D - The Hound of Ill Omen

132

AD&D - Trick in your campaign

133

AD&D - Cantrips and Negative Levels..

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

AD&D - Elfin Chain Mail

138

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

139

AD&D - Holy Water Creation Process

140

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

141

AD&D - Gauntlets of Dexterity

142

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

143

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

144

The Dragon Slayer: AD&D Weapons of Legend?

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

AD&D - Gem of Seeing vs True Seeing Spell

155

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

156

AD&D Lamia Unleashed: Deadly Desert Encounters

157

AD&D - Intelligent Items With Guest DM Will

158

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

159

AD&D - The Jackalwere, Human Infiltrator!

160

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

161

AD&D - Using the Spectre in your game!

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

AD&D - How lucky is the LuckStone?

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

AD&D Magical Robes, Part 1

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

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

179

AD&D Sweet Water Potion, is it useful?

180

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

181

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

182

Braintoss: Notes You take as a GM

183

HARP - High Adventure Role Playing, is it fun?

184

Fumbling those tasks?

185

Why Comic Books Are PERFECT for Roleplaying Game Inspiration

186

Theater of the Mind: How Your Imagination Can Fool You

187

What is your 'go-to' game?

188

Ghosts: Your Campaign's Uninvited Guests?

189

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

190

Learn the System and Be An Adult!

191

Pass that Note DM!

192

DC Heroes Batman Campaign, The Puppetmaster!

193

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

194

Dragonlance comic books, fun read, interesting campaign?

195

AI Chat bots, Good or Bad?

196

Email Bag! Answering your questions!

197

Let's talk about the Gumshoe System for a moment

198

Generic Gaming Systems? What about FUDGE?

199

Encouraging Good In Game Behavior by a GM

200

Vampire Hunter Games and Gumshoe system?

201

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

202

Terminator Roleplaying Game by Nightfall Games

203

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

204

Starship Troopers the RPG & Some Gaming Advice

205

Converting Your Favorite System into the Game you want!

206

A Planet Where Apes Evolved from Men? Terra Primate!

207

Gencon 2011, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Game.

208

Drinking Potions during combat?

209

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

210

The ARC Character Background Method, do you use it?

211

GURPS, Its an interesting system.

212

TSR's Gangbusters, worth a look?

213

Cinematic Unisystem Detective Noir Game

214

Ash vs Evil Dead Gaming

215

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

216

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

217

Vampire: The Masquerade and Wolf Man Jack

218

DC Universe The Roleplaying Game by WEG

219

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

220

Fighting Fantasy Books are very cool!

221

Hidden Gems in Used Books!

222

Reponse to Friday's Fireside Chat!

223

Technology in Gaming, Good or Bad? You Decide!

224

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - The Sometimes Controversial Charm Monster Spell

225

Dungeons & Dragons - The Manual of Hexterity!

226

Shadowrun - Giving characters the spotlight?

227

Dungeons and Dragons - Keeping players on track with modules?

228

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

229

Shadowrun - Bottled Demon Module is Excellent!

230

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

231

Shadowrun - Designing Missions Advice

232

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

233

Solo RPGs - Games you can play in your head!

234

Should a DM Give Players Advice & Warnings?

235

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

236

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

237

Paladins & Protection from Evil!

238

The Grievances about Heroes vs Anti-Heroes

239

Spell Preparation and Creation

240

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

241

Designing Campaigns from the ground up

242

Making Giant Monster End Bosses More Interesting

243

DMs, How do you control rowdy players?

244

DM Advice on running Mystery & Investigation sessions

245

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

246

Thoughts on the Men in Black Roleplaying Game

247

Players, let's make character backgrounds better!

248

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

249

DMs, Let's Talk Blue Dragons!

250

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

251

The Grievances about Firearms in Fantasy Gaming

252

Puzzles, GM Vs Player? hmm?

253

Starfinder, Its an interesting system.

254

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

255

DMs, Should Players talk during combat?

256

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

257

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

258

Let's talk about Min-Maxing

259

Let's Talk RIFTS and Optional Backgrounds

260

X-Men Adventures in Marvel Superheroes FASERIP

261

Cursed Item Talk: Crystal Hypnosis Ball

262

The Postal Pouch: Mailbag questions!

263

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

264

Twilight 2000 Italian Campaign

265

Dream Demons in your Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns

266

Negotiation & Communication in D&D

267

Careful What You Wish For...

268

Spycraft Session this weekend..

269

DC Heroes The Vortex Campaign

270

Figurines of Wondrous Power

271

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

272

Historical RPGs, Gangbusters?

273

Email Bag: Designing Custom D&D Deities..

274

Cortex Classic & Supernatural the Roleplaying Game

275

Hail to the King, Army of Darkness RPG

276

Let`s talk about an alignment system…

277

DC Heroes Infinity Rings, Circe Campaign

278

Conspiracy X, Bigfoot?

279

World of Aden, a d6 Fantasy Setting

280

Dungeon Design tips 101

281

Wrestling Talk, Attitude Era Wrestling is back!

282

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review and other stuff

283

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

284

Future plans for this space for this podcast

285

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

286

Unraveling the Mysteries of Palladium RPGs' Game Mechanics & Rules

287

RFI Mini #14 - Voicemail about Henchmen...

288

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

289

RFI Mini #12 - Talking Secret Hit points?

290

RFI Mini #11 - Email Question about percentile Attributes

291

RFI Mini #10 - Talking Magical Armor Savings throws rule

292

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

293

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

294

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

295

RFI Mini #6 - Voicemails and questions!

296

RFI Mini #5 - Email Question about Green Slimes!

297

RFI Mini #4 - Voicemails and Questions!

298

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

299

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

300

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

301

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

302

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

303

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

304

its Monday! FASERIP Podcast is back!

305

A new show? Ramble-mania!

306

What are your first experiences with RPGS

307

Cookie Cutter Creatures, no way!

308

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

309

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

310

Talking about Older editions and why we play them

311

Monday morning, weekend recap of gaming and life

312

Dice, Dice, Dice.. dice everywhere!

313

GMless RPGs are......stupid?

314

Following up on a Voicemail, Comics and Horror movies!

315

Its cold outside, Youtube and a Cop RPG?

316

Monday Catch up and RFI has a lost episode?

317

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

318

Email Question: More about me & Comics

319

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

320

Following up on a Voicemail about Character Death

321

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 19

322

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

323

Space Operas and Scifi games

324

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

325

Following up on Solo RPGs and a Voicemail!

326

Episodical Adventure Planning

327

The Podfather is born and he interviews, Big Sal.

328

Solo RPG Thoughts, is it fun?

329

Character Creation is not a chore.

330

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

331

Too many options for players..

332

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

333

lol no it’s not cheating on your FLGS

334

I’m back, maybe? Quick update!

335

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

336

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

337

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 11 - Homebrew vs Premade

338

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

339

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

340

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 8 - Responding to another Voicemail

341

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

342

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

343

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

344

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

345

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

346

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

347

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