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The Evil Dungeon Master Universe — 367 episodes

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1

The Cleric was never just the party healer.

2

The Dungeon Never Waited for You

3

Gen Con 2026: Games, Good Times & a Few Surprises

4

Why AD&D Trolls Were Nightmare Fuel

5

Why D&D Gave Gods Hit Points (Almost Everyone Gets It Wrong)

6

The Black Notebook Trailer

7

D&D Wants You to Play a Death Knight. AD&D Didn’t.

8

Why Every D&D Party Needed Hirelings...

9

Hook Horrors: The Monster You Hear Before You See

10

Save or Die: Was Classic D&D Too Brutal?

11

Tucker’s Kobolds, Why Weak Monsters Still Scare Players

12

Orcs were terrifying, here's why..

13

Why D&D Monsters Didn’t Fight to the Death

14

Why Wandering Monsters Mattered

15

Hopeless Characters, Aren't Hopeless..

16

Dragons Were Meant To Be Avoided

17

Does Low Intelligence Make Evil Stupid?

18

Seriously, Gnolls Are Creepy as Heck in AD&D

19

AD&D Magic Resistance Is Not What You Think It Is

20

Lawful Evil Isn’t Stupid...

21

The AD&D Druid Was Never Just a Nature Cleric

22

Why the AD&D Fighter Was Never Boring

23

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

24

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

25

White Dragons Are Meaner Than You Think

26

Empty Rooms Are Not Empty...

27

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

28

Let's Chat about Encumbrance Rules in AD&D

29

The Problem With AD&D 1 to 1 Time

30

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

31

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Son of Kyuss

32

Feather Fall: The Spell That Keeps Your Party Alive

33

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

34

Why 1 HP Makes Your Players Fear the Dungeon Again

35

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

36

How I Turned One Donjon Prompt Into a full gaming Idea

37

Why the Flail Snail Punishes Bad AD&D Habits

38

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 2

39

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

40

AD&D Manual of the Planes - Part 1

41

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

42

AD&D Custom Magic Item: the Ledger of Oaths

43

AD&D Podcast: The Character with Two Classes

44

AD&D - That's a Wrap on 2025

45

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

46

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

47

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Raise Dead

48

AD&D Adventure - Turkey Day!

49

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Shadow Demon

50

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Gambado

51

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Character Age

52

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

53

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Player Skill Bonuses

54

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Command Words for Magic Items

55

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Wraith

56

AD&D Monster Spotlight: Elementals

57

AD&D Rule Spotlight: Casting Spells Directly from Books

58

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Ring of Truth

59

AD&D Monster Spotlight: The Death Angel

60

AD&D Unearthed: The Ultimist Class

61

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Wall of Force

62

AD&D Magic Item Spotlight: Apparatus of Kwalish

63

AD&D Campaign Spotlight: The Role of Taxes

64

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Dig

65

AD&D Spell Spotlight: Heroism & Superheroism

66

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

67

AD&D Bucknard’s Everfull Purse

68

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

69

AD&D - The Black Dragon Game

70

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

71

AD&D Efreeti: Wishes, Fire, and Loopholes

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

AD&D Minotaur: The Brute with a Twist

81

AD&D Vanish Spell: The Ultimate Exit Spell?

82

AD&D Dire Corby: Doom in the Dark

83

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

84

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

85

AD&D - Using the Guand in your Campaign

86

AD&D - The Electrum Dragon the Philosopher

87

AD&D - Psionics, What was Gygax Thinking?

88

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

89

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

90

AD&D - Why Nobody Plays the Monk?

91

AD&D - Was the Thief Actually Useless?

92

AD&D Training Costs: The Rule Everyone Ignored?

93

AD&D Fighters: Powerhouses or Punching Bags?

94

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

95

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

96

AD&D - The Leprechaun!

97

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

98

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

99

AD&D - Shaman and Witch Doctor Spells..

100

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

101

AD&D - Elf subraces from UA

102

AD&D - Demons & Demon Amulets Thoughts.

103

AD&D - Grappling Rules from Unearthed Arcana

104

AD&D - The Death Spell!

105

AD&D - Orcs with Pig faces..

106

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

107

AD&D - Sticky Situations: The Adherer Unleashed

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

AD&D - Hex Mapping is loads of fun!

113

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

114

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

115

AD&D - Magical Item: Magical Eyes

116

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

117

AD&D - The Deadly Allure of the Medusa

118

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

119

AD&D - Let's reflect on magical mirrors

120

AD&D - FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION

121

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

122

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

123

Plague & Peril: Surviving Disease in AD&D

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

AD&D - Cleric Command Spell Thoughts..

128

AD&D - Changing up how Clerics get spells?

129

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

130

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

131

AD&D - Oriental Adventures Magical Items

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

AD&D - Cloak of Guarding from Dragon 91

136

AD&D - Designing For Unique Wilderness Encounters

137

AD&D - Magic Item - The LockStone

138

AD&D - Homebrew Vampire Hunter Sword

139

AD&D - Wand of Enemy Detection

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

AD&D - Cleric 5th Level Spell Rainbow

144

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

145

AD&D - Shadow Creatures

146

AD&D - Adding to the Thief Class

147

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

148

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

149

AD&D - Demonic Possession Rules..

150

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

151

AD&D - The Hound of Ill Omen

152

AD&D - Trick in your campaign

153

AD&D - Cantrips and Negative Levels..

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

AD&D - Elfin Chain Mail

158

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

159

AD&D - Holy Water Creation Process

160

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

161

AD&D - Gauntlets of Dexterity

162

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

163

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

164

The Dragon Slayer: AD&D Weapons of Legend?

165

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

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

AD&D - Gem of Seeing vs True Seeing Spell

175

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

176

AD&D Lamia Unleashed: Deadly Desert Encounters

177

AD&D - Intelligent Items With Guest DM Will

178

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

179

AD&D - The Jackalwere, Human Infiltrator!

180

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

181

AD&D - Using the Spectre in your game!

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

AD&D - How lucky is the LuckStone?

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

AD&D Magical Robes, Part 1

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

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

198

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

199

AD&D Sweet Water Potion, is it useful?

200

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

201

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

202

Braintoss: Notes You take as a GM

203

HARP - High Adventure Role Playing, is it fun?

204

Fumbling those tasks?

205

Why Comic Books Are PERFECT for Roleplaying Game Inspiration

206

Theater of the Mind: How Your Imagination Can Fool You

207

What is your 'go-to' game?

208

Ghosts: Your Campaign's Uninvited Guests?

209

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

210

Learn the System and Be An Adult!

211

Pass that Note DM!

212

DC Heroes Batman Campaign, The Puppetmaster!

213

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

214

Dragonlance comic books, fun read, interesting campaign?

215

AI Chat bots, Good or Bad?

216

Email Bag! Answering your questions!

217

Let's talk about the Gumshoe System for a moment

218

Generic Gaming Systems? What about FUDGE?

219

Encouraging Good In Game Behavior by a GM

220

Vampire Hunter Games and Gumshoe system?

221

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

222

Terminator Roleplaying Game by Nightfall Games

223

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

224

Starship Troopers the RPG & Some Gaming Advice

225

Converting Your Favorite System into the Game you want!

226

A Planet Where Apes Evolved from Men? Terra Primate!

227

Gencon 2011, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Game.

228

Drinking Potions during combat?

229

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

230

The ARC Character Background Method, do you use it?

231

GURPS, Its an interesting system.

232

TSR's Gangbusters, worth a look?

233

Cinematic Unisystem Detective Noir Game

234

Ash vs Evil Dead Gaming

235

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

236

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

237

Vampire: The Masquerade and Wolf Man Jack

238

DC Universe The Roleplaying Game by WEG

239

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

240

Fighting Fantasy Books are very cool!

241

Hidden Gems in Used Books!

242

Reponse to Friday's Fireside Chat!

243

Technology in Gaming, Good or Bad? You Decide!

244

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - The Sometimes Controversial Charm Monster Spell

245

Dungeons & Dragons - The Manual of Hexterity!

246

Shadowrun - Giving characters the spotlight?

247

Dungeons and Dragons - Keeping players on track with modules?

248

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

249

Shadowrun - Bottled Demon Module is Excellent!

250

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

251

Shadowrun - Designing Missions Advice

252

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

253

Solo RPGs - Games you can play in your head!

254

Should a DM Give Players Advice & Warnings?

255

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

256

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

257

Paladins & Protection from Evil!

258

The Grievances about Heroes vs Anti-Heroes

259

Spell Preparation and Creation

260

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

261

Designing Campaigns from the ground up

262

Making Giant Monster End Bosses More Interesting

263

DMs, How do you control rowdy players?

264

DM Advice on running Mystery & Investigation sessions

265

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

266

Thoughts on the Men in Black Roleplaying Game

267

Players, let's make character backgrounds better!

268

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

269

DMs, Let's Talk Blue Dragons!

270

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

271

The Grievances about Firearms in Fantasy Gaming

272

Puzzles, GM Vs Player? hmm?

273

Starfinder, Its an interesting system.

274

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

275

DMs, Should Players talk during combat?

276

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

277

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

278

Let's talk about Min-Maxing

279

Let's Talk RIFTS and Optional Backgrounds

280

X-Men Adventures in Marvel Superheroes FASERIP

281

Cursed Item Talk: Crystal Hypnosis Ball

282

The Postal Pouch: Mailbag questions!

283

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

284

Twilight 2000 Italian Campaign

285

Dream Demons in your Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns

286

Negotiation & Communication in D&D

287

Careful What You Wish For...

288

Spycraft Session this weekend..

289

DC Heroes The Vortex Campaign

290

Figurines of Wondrous Power

291

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

292

Historical RPGs, Gangbusters?

293

Email Bag: Designing Custom D&D Deities..

294

Cortex Classic & Supernatural the Roleplaying Game

295

Hail to the King, Army of Darkness RPG

296

Let`s talk about an alignment system…

297

DC Heroes Infinity Rings, Circe Campaign

298

Conspiracy X, Bigfoot?

299

World of Aden, a d6 Fantasy Setting

300

Dungeon Design tips 101

301

Wrestling Talk, Attitude Era Wrestling is back!

302

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review and other stuff

303

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

304

Future plans for this space for this podcast

305

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

306

Unraveling the Mysteries of Palladium RPGs' Game Mechanics & Rules

307

RFI Mini #14 - Voicemail about Henchmen...

308

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

309

RFI Mini #12 - Talking Secret Hit points?

310

RFI Mini #11 - Email Question about percentile Attributes

311

RFI Mini #10 - Talking Magical Armor Savings throws rule

312

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

313

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

314

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

315

RFI Mini #6 - Voicemails and questions!

316

RFI Mini #5 - Email Question about Green Slimes!

317

RFI Mini #4 - Voicemails and Questions!

318

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

319

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

320

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

321

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

322

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

323

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

324

its Monday! FASERIP Podcast is back!

325

A new show? Ramble-mania!

326

What are your first experiences with RPGS

327

Cookie Cutter Creatures, no way!

328

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

329

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

330

Talking about Older editions and why we play them

331

Monday morning, weekend recap of gaming and life

332

Dice, Dice, Dice.. dice everywhere!

333

GMless RPGs are......stupid?

334

Following up on a Voicemail, Comics and Horror movies!

335

Its cold outside, Youtube and a Cop RPG?

336

Monday Catch up and RFI has a lost episode?

337

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

338

Email Question: More about me & Comics

339

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

340

Following up on a Voicemail about Character Death

341

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 19

342

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

343

Space Operas and Scifi games

344

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

345

Following up on Solo RPGs and a Voicemail!

346

Episodical Adventure Planning

347

The Podfather is born and he interviews, Big Sal.

348

Solo RPG Thoughts, is it fun?

349

Character Creation is not a chore.

350

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

351

Too many options for players..

352

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

353

lol no it’s not cheating on your FLGS

354

I’m back, maybe? Quick update!

355

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

356

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

357

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 11 - Homebrew vs Premade

358

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

359

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

360

The Evil DM Podcast Episode 8 - Responding to another Voicemail

361

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

362

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

363

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

364

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

365

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

366

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

367

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