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The Red Dice Diaries — 530 episodes
Talking D&D with Mathew Bryan
Talking D&D with Rob Benefer
Fantasy Wargaming: Games with Magic & Monsters
OOC Intervals
Taverns vs Monsters
Preparing for Lethal Situations in RPGs
RPGaDay 31: Reward
RPGaDay 30: Experience
RPGaDay 29: Connect
RPGaDay 28: Suspense
RPGaDay 27: Tactic
RPGaDay 26: Nemesis
RPGaDay 25: Challenge
RPGaDay 24: Reveal
RPGaDay 23: Recent
RPGaDay 22: Ally
RPGaDay 21: Unexpected
RPGaDay 20: Enter
RPGaDay 19: Destiny
RPGaDay 18: Sign
RPGaDay 17: Renew
RPGaDay 16: Overcome
RPGaDay 15: Deceit
RPGaDay 14: Mystery
RPGaDay 13: Darkness
RPGaDay 12: Path
RPGaDay 11: Flavour
RPGaDay 10: Origin
RPGaDay 9: Inspire
RPGaDay 8: How proud adventure?
RPGaDay 7: Journey
RPGaDay 6: Motive
RPGaDay 5: Ancient
RPGaDay 4: Message
RPGaDay 3: Tavern
RPGaDay 2: Prompt
RPGaDay 1: Patron
RPGaDay 0: What's it all about?
Ran my first game of Knave 2E
NPC Spell-casting in Shadowdark
Dinosaurs in D&D
Running a Shadowdark OT Game
WHEN SEA IS CALLING
Strange Fruit Part 2
Strange Fruit Part 1
Creating a cheatsheet for WFRP
So you want to be a Game Master
2024 Year of the Hammer
D&D Collectable Magazine
Liquid XP
A Spaghetti Fantasy with 5E Stank
How you guys handle dwindling enthusiasm for long-running campaigns
Enthusiasm dwindling for a campaign?
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
5 Tips for Creating a Campaign Mash-up
RPG Review - Mythic Gamesmaster Emulator
RPG Review - Sandbox Creator
Revolvers & Katana - Session 2: Count & Countess Snaroc
Revolvers & Katana - Session 1: The Lightning Rail
Voicemails - Skills, House-ruling systems and interesting players
System Mastery & Authorial Intent
Revolvers & Katanas - Introduction
First Look - Cities Without Number
Drop It Like It's Plot
Plot terriers and play assists
John talks games with Mathew and Johannes
The Tyranny of Dice
And a dungeon new year...
Voicemails - Electric Bastionland, Industrial Magical Revolution and Skills (oh my)
Skills in OSR Games
Five tips for drawing zone maps
Five tips for describing NPCs
Dead Among the Depths S01E06 - The Power of the Lord Compels You
Dead Among the Depths S01E05 - Down among the dead men let him lie
OSR October 8 - Voicemails
OSR October 7 - Electric Bastionland, OSR?
OSR October 6 - Zines
OSR October 3 - Principia Apocrypha
OSR October 4 - Voicemails
OSR October 5 - Principia Apocrypha
OSR October 2 - Magical Industrial Revolution
OSR October 1 - What the OSR means to me?
Give your sessions a title
GMs, share some of the descriptive load with your players
Dead Among the Depths S01E04 - Costruire o distruggere?
Dead Among the Depths S01E03 - Shades of the Past
Dead Among the Depths S01E02 - Secrets of Venice
Dead Among the Depths S01E01 - The Death of Faith
Dead Among the Depths S01E00 - Session Zero
Guns are a letdown in D&D
Bonus voicemail episode: Breaking the Rules, Book Snobbery & Facing the Folio
OMG I might be a book snob!
Face Folio Zinequest 4
Should PCs and monsters follow the same rules in D&D? ***
Bonus voicemail episode: Random wildernesses and the changing face of D&D
D&D Folklore Bestiary Preview
Picaro, the Story of D&D
Random Wilderness
Bonus voicemail episode: Cards, Telegraphing Campaign Ends and Future Fate
The End of Smoke & Snow
Smoke & Snow S02E11 - A Castle of Ice & Blood
It's all in the cards
Using the Realm Fables Sandbox Creator
Telegraphing the End of a Campaign
Social Class & Feudalism
Aren't you a little chunky to be a Stormtrooper?
Bonus voicemail episode: Alignments, Investment and Hyperspace
It's legit to quit... or at least postpone
Progress in RPGs
Sandbox Creator
My "manual" method for presenting player-facing information
What we did at UK Games Expo 2022
Smoke & Snow S02E10 - Death to the Necromancer
Four Card Method
Pre-Gens for Cons
Bonus voicemail episode: OSE, Fave monsters and Kobolds
Random Character Generators
Why I love pig-faced orcs?
PCs Introducing Themselves
Kobolds, Dog or Dragon?
Our top three monsters
In used condition
Blood Island
Smoke & Snow S02E09 - Lost & Wounded in the Dark
Longform campaigns - part 4
Longform campaigns - part 3
Longform campaigns - part 2
Curate your random tables
Longform campaigns - part 1
Knock Issue #3
Smoke & Snow S02E08 - Church of the Blessed Lightbringer
Knock Issue #2
Knock Issue #1
The Waking of Willowby Hall
Hinting at monster weaknesses
Frequency of Rest, an OSE Confession
Bonus voicemail episode: Aliens, XP and Chaos
What I learnt from OSE adventures
How alien are your aliens?
Have a wee rest break
How I Create a Tavern
Collective Terms for Monsters
XP Bonuses for Prime Requisites
Dungeon Alchemist Froth
Corporate Evil
Special Brew II - The Slurpening
Bonus voicemail episode: Meeples, Monsters, Evil & Zombies
Smoke & Snow S02E07 - The Water Trolls
Special Brew
Bonus voicemail episode: Usage Dice
D&D Zombie Apocalypse
Cosmology, what 4E did right
Stupid Evil
Shiny Happy Meeples
+/- Usage Dice
Bonus voicemail episode: Cry havoc and let slip the skills of war!
Point Crawl Dungeon
Lost Classes: The Arnesonian Classes
FMAG Skills
Health Potions - Love or hate?
Bonus voicemail episode: Battle Cries and Old Books
Cities Supplement
Bonus voicemail episode: Mi-Go and Handling Thieves
Smoke & Snow S02E06 - Into the Maw
The Allure of Old Books
Bonus voicemail episode: Poisonous plants and multiple campaigns
Your Dungeons Need Rubbish!
Bonus voicemail episode: Drawing an Abominable Blank
Battle Cries & Heroic Speeches
The Problem with Thieves
The Fungi from Yuggoth
Bonus voicemail episode: Human and Back to Manual Games
The Abominable Snowman
Could I go back to old-school manual gaming?
Poisonous Plants
The Herbalist's Primer
What I do when I hit a blank spot
Bonus voicemail episode: Contentious titles, spreadsheets and multiple campaign games
Smoke & Snow S02E05 - A Noble Plot
Why is the treasure always in a chest?
Field Guide to Hot Springs Island
What I like to see in a character background as a GM
Spreadsheets in RPGs
Do you run more than one campaign in the same game-world?
Bonus Voicemail Episode: Money, NPCs and Humanocentric campaigns
Demi-human Stereotypes
Reviewing the LOTFP module Wight Power
Humanocentric Campaigns
How do you stat up your NPCs?
OMG it's a Bonus Voicemail Episode: Fudging, crafting and grabbing those maps!
Money in D&D
Smoke & Snow S02E04 - Out of the Abyss
When Might it be Okay to Fudge Dice-rolls - Part 2
When Might it be Okay to Fudge Dice-rolls - Part 1
Bonus Voicemail Episode: Summoned monsters, the return of Hannah & Pathfinder Demons
The Grab a Map Philosophy
Random Chart Tuesday - Snake Oil Salesmen
Monster Monday - Summoners
Terror in the Streets - LOTFP book flipthrough
No Rest for the Wicked - LOTFP book flipthrough
The Punchline - LOTFP book flipthrough
Green Messiah - LOTFP book flipthrough
In a Deadly Fashion - LOTFP book flipthrough
Smoke & Snow S02E03 - The Crimson Coin
The Future of the Podcast
Smoke & Snow S02E02 - The Towers of New Seal Land
Screaming Skulls
Smoke & Snow S02E01 - A Brave New World
Voicemails - Sword & Sorcery, Sub-genres and Well Wishes
Voicemails - Cepheus, Swords & Sorcery and Secondary Games
The Mari Lwyd
Smoke & Snow S01E35 - Nature of the Beast
Smoke & Snow S01E34 - The Ruined Abbey
Smoke & Snow S01E33 - In Search of Drune
Smoke & Snow S01E32 - The Poppy Cock Inn
Swords & Sorcery Game
Smoke & Snow S01E31 - A Desperate Pursuit
Smoke & Snow S01E30 - The Monster in the Woods
Voicemails - LARP, Level drain and large creatures
Why Level Drain Sucks
Smoke & Snow S01E29 - A Meeting Twixt Man & Beast
The Gathering 2021
Smoke & Snow S01E28 - How to Train Your Wyvern
Smoke & Snow S01E27 - The Sheltered Inlet
Smoke & Snow S01E26 - Ghost of the Sea
Voicemails - Dinosaurs, G-Strings, Secrets and Prep
The Tale of Steve the Shark
Smoke & Snow S01E25 - A Curious Proposal
Dinosaurs in RPGs
Smoke & Snow S01E24 - Return to Deersun
My Session Prepping the Lazy DM Way
Smoke & Snow S01E23 - Village of the Leng Mystics
Secrets & Clues
Smoke & Snow S01E22 - Child of Chaos
Very Large Monsters
Voicemails - Robots, Riches and Risqué Portrayals
Quartermasters
Smoke & Snow S01E21 - Down with the Sickness
Merfolk
Smoke & Snow S01E20 - Comes the Inquisition
Voicemails - Spaceships, Robots and Jenny Greenteeth
Why you should include a spaceship or giant robot in your D&D game
Smoke & Snow S01E19 - The Siege of Fort Kersey
Religious Ceremonies
Jenny Greenteeth
5 Things to Put in Your GM Pack
Zygoms
Voicemails - Vegepygmies, Maps and Inspiration
Maps as Visual Story/World-building Inspiration
Wemics
Maps as Inspiration
Smoke & Snow S01E18 - The Shadows Lengthen
Vegepygmy
Voicemails - Vargouilles, Save or Die and Illusionary Floors
Save or Die
Vargouilles
Smoke & Snow S01E17 - The Most Wonderful Metal
Voicemails - Mosslings, Moving Water and Missing Monsters
The Ultimate Encounter
Smoke & Snow S01E16 - In Search of Mithril
Devil Swine
Gaming Prep - Part 2
Smoke & Snow S01E15 - Death in the Caves
Obliviax
Gaming Prep - Part 1
Mongrelmen
Voicemails - Hags, Simulacra, Genre and Hanging Trees
Hags
Hangman Tree
Shoggoths, In the trees!
Gibbering Mouther
Multiple Plotline Games
Smoke & Snow S01E14 - The Caves of Chaos
Voicemails - Kickstarter, zines and the Froghemoth
Zinequest 3
Froghemoth!
Voicemails - Beastmaster, Cloakers, Simulcra and silly stories
Animal Companions
Smoke & Snow S01E13 - The Bandits of Whalesong Woods
Cloakers
Voicemails - OSR, mid-game breaks and random encounters
In-jokes and the Xmas Monkey
Cat Lord
Smoke & Snow S01E12 - The Haunted Forest
Random Encounters by Area
Barghests
Voicemails - goblins, great mysteries and giant numbers of foes
5 Tips for Staying in Character
Smoke & Snow S01E11 - An Unlikely Alliance
Smoke & Snow S01E10 - Silence will Fall
Goblins
Smoke & Snow S01E09 - What's in Your Head?
Voicemails - Mucus, missions and moaning
Did you know there were games other than D&D?
Smoke & Snow S01E08 - Return to Witch Isle
Aboleth
Voicemails - Monsters, Safety Tools & Session Zeroes
Damascus Sector Session 0
In the Pines
Smoke & Snow S01E07 - White Out
Fate, where art thou?
Fiend Folio Troll Variants
Voicemails - Wish gains, grubs and good advice
RPG Concerns
Svirfneblin
Sentient Swords
Smoke & Snow S01E06 - Sword of the Sun
Sons of Kyuss
Skeleton Warriors
Voicemails - Swords, Wishes & Bar-room Brawls
Smoke & Snow S01E05 - Return to Beetledown Abbey
Wishes
Needleman
Eldritch Tales Feat System
Mephits
Smoke & Snow S01E04 - The Infested Abbey
Looking through the pre-release PDF of the OSE Advanced Fantasy Referee's Tome
Lizard Kings
Looking through the pre-release PDF of the OSE Advanced Fantasy Player's Tome
Reddit Rant
Heucuva
Fantasy Pub Crawls
Smoke & Snow S01E03 - Temple of the Sun
Smoke & Snow S01E02 - They Walk by Night
Smoke & Snow S01E01 - Summer in Valkonen
Fog Giants
Voicemails - Flailsnails, Monks and the Blind Dead
5 Tips for Running NPC Heavy Scenes
Flailsnails
Return of the Monk
Lung Wang, Dragons of the Sea
Enter the Monk
Death Knight
Voicemails - Castles, Railroading and Frogmen on the rampage
The Story is What Happens Now
The Crypt Thing
Castles
Bullywugs
Henchmen & Hirelings
Why Hannah loves the old AD&D 2E artwork
Giant Blood Worm
Voicemails - Screens, Smoke Powder and TPK stories
Star Trek Tech and Treknobabble
A Tale of Two TPKs
The Mantari
Sequence of Play
Gunpowder in D&D
Elementals
Voicemails - OSE game setup, kind words and scarecrows
Pre-planned vs. Sandboxes
Hexcrawls
Scarecrows
Voicemails - Hex flowers, inventories and stats
Next Game Musings
Different Stat Methods
I Death Tyrant
Inventories
The man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a barroom hex!
Voicemails - Background, Blasphemy and Bars
Voicemails - Cons, colonialism and bar brawls
Redcaps
Voicemails - Mystery boxes, Unicorns and Beginning by a Gravesite
Random Red Shirts
Leaving a Game
Release the Kraken!
Graveyards
Albacon 2020
Friend or Foe Friday - Unicorns
Wednesday Wisdom - Getting the Most Out of Taverns
Band of Blades Session 0 - Part 2
Band of Blades Session 0 - Part 1
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Reasons you Shouldn't do an Elaborate Background
I don't like Mondays - Mystery Boxes
Friend or Foe Friday - Satyrs & Korreds
Thursday Postbag - Movie recommendations, the D&D Cartoon and GM terminology
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Running a Game When You're Short of Inspiration
I don't like Mondays - Player Tangents
Friend or Foe Friday - Xorn
Thursday Bonus Episode - Reactions to the first episode of the D&D Cartoon
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Fantasy Movie Clichés you can use in RPGs
I don't like Mondays - Creating a Midderlands/ICRPG DT system
Friend or Foe Friday - Vampires in other systems & using them in your game
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Running Your First Session of a New System
I don't like Mondays - Adapting the Scum & Villainy DT system to use with ICRPG
Friend or Foe Friday - Vampires in D&D
Thursday Postbag - Hexflower court cases & feedback
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Using Language in Games
I don't like Mondays - Dolmenwood Playtest Character Generation
Friend or Foe Friday - Myconids
Thursday Postbag - Scum & Villainy, Court Room Dramas and New Format
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Amateur Map Makers
I don't like Mondays - Campfire Tales
Friend or Foe Friday - Mimic
Thursday Postbag - Online gaming solutions, Weird Dudes & Future Plans
Hannah Hi-jacks: Court Cases
I don't like Mondays - v5 Char Generation & Session 0
Friend or Foe Friday - Living Wall
Thursday Postbag - New podcast and 90 seconds
Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Gaming Online
I don't like Mondays - Scum & Villainy
Goodbye to you my trusted friend
Hannah Hi-jacks: Fate Star Trek
B,A,C,O,N,L,T, find out what it means to me
Voicemails about Grognards, meeting up in person and One Shots
Burton Sci-Fi & Fantasy Con RDD Report
Voicemails on shrooms, one shots, dogs & dice.
Out of love with one shots
OSR, why all the Shrooms?
Reviewing The Islands of Purple Haunted Putresence (Part 1)
Voicemails about the OSR, labels and cavemen
What the OSR means to me?
Meanderthals
Happy 2020 and 30 days of Colonial Blackpowder
New Year's Eve Simian Meanderings
D6 Thieves, Strange Races and Photogenic Dice
Gorilla Podcasting
Voicemails, Thieves, Notable Firsts, Pink and Green Dice Diaries
RPG Bugbears: But, I want to play a werelockadinpire
Thieves, First Dice and Theme Songs
You Never Forget your First
Thief call in and Discussion
RPG Bugbears: Thieves Stealing from the Player Party
Voicemails, Lamentations, Encumbrance and Burning Wheel.
What is the RPG Bugbears series?
Hireling & Property rules in LOTFP
Further Burning Wheel Discussion
Voicemails margins, holdings and accessibility
Massive Margin Syndrome
Wormsign! The first episode of the Purple Worm draws near
Property & Domain in D&D
I know arse all about Arneson
Landscape Format Books
Potions
Magic Items
Barrowmazing
Thoughts on the Stygian Library
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 12: Friendship
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 11: Examine
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 10: Focus
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 9: Critical
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 8: Obscure
RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 7: Familiar
Voicemails are in the Air, everywhere you look around
Controversy Sicko
Voicemails from the Borderlands
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 6: Ancient
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 5: Space
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 4: Share
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 3: Engage
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 2: Unique
RPGaDay2019 - Episode 1: First
Talking about Burning Wheel
Interviewing Jarin DnD about the L'Gat Vol 3 Kickstarter
CSI Midderlands Session 0
Elegant Creature Generator
Midweek Voicemails
Monday Moan: The X Card
Setting Agnostic vs Setting Specific
Under SIEGE
GMing Rough Spot
White Star
SWN and Faction Turns
Eldritch Tales
Alas for the Awful Sea
UK Games Expo 2019 and Games on Demand
CSI Midderlands
The Role of the GM
Out in Coventry
LARP & RP friends
Roll on the Weekend
Answering Voicemails & Recent session
Android Revelation
Voicemails & Thoughts following first B/X Essentials Session
Answering voicemails
Discussing future Sci-fi collaboration project with JP
State of the Bullet Journal
Stars Without Number Unique Foci
Kalmatta Madness
Give & Take
Downtimes in RPGs
Hannah talks about Behind the Walls & Star Trek
Midderlands, 5E, Sci-fi and other projects
Old school prepping and bullet journalling
Westhaven, Gomans and the dreaded TPK
Getting a Campaign Started
Google Hangout is Trash
Cyberpunk
Am I too old for the World of Darkness?
Over-production in RPGs
Running a City like a Dungeon
5 RPG Commandments
Listener messages about the OSR & V5
Combat in RPGs
V5 first impressions
I'm spoilt by the OSR
The Virtue of Playing a Goodie
JP & John talk OSR and Stars Without Number
Discussing V20 and the WOD with JP
Differences between B/X Essentials and BFRPG
How Conventions Taught me to Love Dice Again
The Value of GMs Playing in Games
History, maintain the Mystery
Ideas for a B/X Campaign Setting
RPGaDay questions part 3
RPGaDay questions part 2
RPGaDay questions part 1
But isn't it just the old B/X rules?
Sounds Issues, Tech support and Faction Turns
WFRP and Me
Hannah Talks Star Trek
Countdowns & Consequences
B/X Essential Planetary Fantasy Idea
B/X Essentials and Table Fables
How Hannah Looks at RPG Books
Random Tables & Charts
Maps, coolness vs. functionality
Responding to voicemails about D&D market dominance
Playing LOTFP
D&D Market Dominance
The Simple Life
RIP Undying Lands
Tremulus
Make a Character Focused on the Bits of a Game You Enjoy
Con +1 is coming
Just Get to the Damn Game
Find Your Fun
That Elusive Page Turning Quality
Hannah Talks about the Midderlands
Making a DFAE Character