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The Red Dice Diaries — 530 episodes

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1

Talking D&D with Mathew Bryan

2

Talking D&D with Rob Benefer

3

Fantasy Wargaming: Games with Magic & Monsters

4

OOC Intervals

5

Taverns vs Monsters

6

Preparing for Lethal Situations in RPGs

7

RPGaDay 31: Reward

8

RPGaDay 30: Experience

9

RPGaDay 29: Connect

10

RPGaDay 28: Suspense

11

RPGaDay 27: Tactic

12

RPGaDay 26: Nemesis

13

RPGaDay 25: Challenge

14

RPGaDay 24: Reveal

15

RPGaDay 23: Recent

16

RPGaDay 22: Ally

17

RPGaDay 21: Unexpected

18

RPGaDay 20: Enter

19

RPGaDay 19: Destiny

20

RPGaDay 18: Sign

21

RPGaDay 17: Renew

22

RPGaDay 16: Overcome

23

RPGaDay 15: Deceit

24

RPGaDay 14: Mystery

25

RPGaDay 13: Darkness

26

RPGaDay 12: Path

27

RPGaDay 11: Flavour

28

RPGaDay 10: Origin

29

RPGaDay 9: Inspire

30

RPGaDay 8: How proud adventure?

31

RPGaDay 7: Journey

32

RPGaDay 6: Motive

33

RPGaDay 5: Ancient

34

RPGaDay 4: Message

35

RPGaDay 3: Tavern

36

RPGaDay 2: Prompt

37

RPGaDay 1: Patron

38

RPGaDay 0: What's it all about?

39

Ran my first game of Knave 2E

40

NPC Spell-casting in Shadowdark

41

Dinosaurs in D&D

42

Running a Shadowdark OT Game

43

WHEN SEA IS CALLING

44

Strange Fruit Part 2

45

Strange Fruit Part 1

46

Creating a cheatsheet for WFRP

47

So you want to be a Game Master

48

2024 Year of the Hammer

49

D&D Collectable Magazine

50

Liquid XP

51

A Spaghetti Fantasy with 5E Stank

52

How you guys handle dwindling enthusiasm for long-running campaigns

53

Enthusiasm dwindling for a campaign?

54

Lamentations of the Flame Princess

55

Lamentations of the Flame Princess

56

5 Tips for Creating a Campaign Mash-up

57

RPG Review - Mythic Gamesmaster Emulator

58

RPG Review - Sandbox Creator

59

Revolvers & Katana - Session 2: Count & Countess Snaroc

60

Revolvers & Katana - Session 1: The Lightning Rail

61

Voicemails - Skills, House-ruling systems and interesting players

62

System Mastery & Authorial Intent

63

Revolvers & Katanas - Introduction

64

First Look - Cities Without Number

65

Drop It Like It's Plot

66

Plot terriers and play assists

67

John talks games with Mathew and Johannes

68

The Tyranny of Dice

69

And a dungeon new year...

70

Voicemails - Electric Bastionland, Industrial Magical Revolution and Skills (oh my)

71

Skills in OSR Games

72

Five tips for drawing zone maps

73

Five tips for describing NPCs

74

Dead Among the Depths S01E06 - The Power of the Lord Compels You

75

Dead Among the Depths S01E05 - Down among the dead men let him lie

76

OSR October 8 - Voicemails

77

OSR October 7 - Electric Bastionland, OSR?

78

OSR October 6 - Zines

79

OSR October 3 - Principia Apocrypha

80

OSR October 4 - Voicemails

81

OSR October 5 - Principia Apocrypha

82

OSR October 2 - Magical Industrial Revolution

83

OSR October 1 - What the OSR means to me?

84

Give your sessions a title

85

GMs, share some of the descriptive load with your players

86

Dead Among the Depths S01E04 - Costruire o distruggere?

87

Dead Among the Depths S01E03 - Shades of the Past

88

Dead Among the Depths S01E02 - Secrets of Venice

89

Dead Among the Depths S01E01 - The Death of Faith

90

Dead Among the Depths S01E00 - Session Zero

91

Guns are a letdown in D&D

92

Bonus voicemail episode: Breaking the Rules, Book Snobbery & Facing the Folio

93

OMG I might be a book snob!

94

Face Folio Zinequest 4

95

Should PCs and monsters follow the same rules in D&D? ***

96

Bonus voicemail episode: Random wildernesses and the changing face of D&D

97

D&D Folklore Bestiary Preview

98

Picaro, the Story of D&D

99

Random Wilderness

100

Bonus voicemail episode: Cards, Telegraphing Campaign Ends and Future Fate

101

The End of Smoke & Snow

102

Smoke & Snow S02E11 - A Castle of Ice & Blood

103

It's all in the cards

104

Using the Realm Fables Sandbox Creator

105

Telegraphing the End of a Campaign

106

Social Class & Feudalism

107

Aren't you a little chunky to be a Stormtrooper?

108

Bonus voicemail episode: Alignments, Investment and Hyperspace

109

It's legit to quit... or at least postpone

110

Progress in RPGs

111

Sandbox Creator

112

My "manual" method for presenting player-facing information

113

What we did at UK Games Expo 2022

114

Smoke & Snow S02E10 - Death to the Necromancer

115

Four Card Method

116

Pre-Gens for Cons

117

Bonus voicemail episode: OSE, Fave monsters and Kobolds

118

Random Character Generators

119

Why I love pig-faced orcs?

120

PCs Introducing Themselves

121

Kobolds, Dog or Dragon?

122

Our top three monsters

123

In used condition

124

Blood Island

125

Smoke & Snow S02E09 - Lost & Wounded in the Dark

126

Longform campaigns - part 4

127

Longform campaigns - part 3

128

Longform campaigns - part 2

129

Curate your random tables

130

Longform campaigns - part 1

131

Knock Issue #3

132

Smoke & Snow S02E08 - Church of the Blessed Lightbringer

133

Knock Issue #2

134

Knock Issue #1

135

The Waking of Willowby Hall

136

Hinting at monster weaknesses

137

Frequency of Rest, an OSE Confession

138

Bonus voicemail episode: Aliens, XP and Chaos

139

What I learnt from OSE adventures

140

How alien are your aliens?

141

Have a wee rest break

142

How I Create a Tavern

143

Collective Terms for Monsters

144

XP Bonuses for Prime Requisites

145

Dungeon Alchemist Froth

146

Corporate Evil

147

Special Brew II - The Slurpening

148

Bonus voicemail episode: Meeples, Monsters, Evil & Zombies

149

Smoke & Snow S02E07 - The Water Trolls

150

Special Brew

151

Bonus voicemail episode: Usage Dice

152

D&D Zombie Apocalypse

153

Cosmology, what 4E did right

154

Stupid Evil

155

Shiny Happy Meeples

156

+/- Usage Dice

157

Bonus voicemail episode: Cry havoc and let slip the skills of war!

158

Point Crawl Dungeon

159

Lost Classes: The Arnesonian Classes

160

FMAG Skills

161

Health Potions - Love or hate?

162

Bonus voicemail episode: Battle Cries and Old Books

163

Cities Supplement

164

Bonus voicemail episode: Mi-Go and Handling Thieves

165

Smoke & Snow S02E06 - Into the Maw

166

The Allure of Old Books

167

Bonus voicemail episode: Poisonous plants and multiple campaigns

168

Your Dungeons Need Rubbish!

169

Bonus voicemail episode: Drawing an Abominable Blank

170

Battle Cries & Heroic Speeches

171

The Problem with Thieves

172

The Fungi from Yuggoth

173

Bonus voicemail episode: Human and Back to Manual Games

174

The Abominable Snowman

175

Could I go back to old-school manual gaming?

176

Poisonous Plants

177

The Herbalist's Primer

178

What I do when I hit a blank spot

179

Bonus voicemail episode: Contentious titles, spreadsheets and multiple campaign games

180

Smoke & Snow S02E05 - A Noble Plot

181

Why is the treasure always in a chest?

182

Field Guide to Hot Springs Island

183

What I like to see in a character background as a GM

184

Spreadsheets in RPGs

185

Do you run more than one campaign in the same game-world?

186

Bonus Voicemail Episode: Money, NPCs and Humanocentric campaigns

187

Demi-human Stereotypes

188

Reviewing the LOTFP module Wight Power

189

Humanocentric Campaigns

190

How do you stat up your NPCs?

191

OMG it's a Bonus Voicemail Episode: Fudging, crafting and grabbing those maps!

192

Money in D&D

193

Smoke & Snow S02E04 - Out of the Abyss

194

When Might it be Okay to Fudge Dice-rolls - Part 2

195

When Might it be Okay to Fudge Dice-rolls - Part 1

196

Bonus Voicemail Episode: Summoned monsters, the return of Hannah & Pathfinder Demons

197

The Grab a Map Philosophy

198

Random Chart Tuesday - Snake Oil Salesmen

199

Monster Monday - Summoners

200

Terror in the Streets - LOTFP book flipthrough

201

No Rest for the Wicked - LOTFP book flipthrough

202

The Punchline - LOTFP book flipthrough

203

Green Messiah - LOTFP book flipthrough

204

In a Deadly Fashion - LOTFP book flipthrough

205

Smoke & Snow S02E03 - The Crimson Coin

206

The Future of the Podcast

207

Smoke & Snow S02E02 - The Towers of New Seal Land

208

Screaming Skulls

209

Smoke & Snow S02E01 - A Brave New World

210

Voicemails - Sword & Sorcery, Sub-genres and Well Wishes

211

Voicemails - Cepheus, Swords & Sorcery and Secondary Games

212

The Mari Lwyd

213

Smoke & Snow S01E35 - Nature of the Beast

214

Smoke & Snow S01E34 - The Ruined Abbey

215

Smoke & Snow S01E33 - In Search of Drune

216

Smoke & Snow S01E32 - The Poppy Cock Inn

217

Swords & Sorcery Game

218

Smoke & Snow S01E31 - A Desperate Pursuit

219

Smoke & Snow S01E30 - The Monster in the Woods

220

Voicemails - LARP, Level drain and large creatures

221

Why Level Drain Sucks

222

Smoke & Snow S01E29 - A Meeting Twixt Man & Beast

223

The Gathering 2021

224

Smoke & Snow S01E28 - How to Train Your Wyvern

225

Smoke & Snow S01E27 - The Sheltered Inlet

226

Smoke & Snow S01E26 - Ghost of the Sea

227

Voicemails - Dinosaurs, G-Strings, Secrets and Prep

228

The Tale of Steve the Shark

229

Smoke & Snow S01E25 - A Curious Proposal

230

Dinosaurs in RPGs

231

Smoke & Snow S01E24 - Return to Deersun

232

My Session Prepping the Lazy DM Way

233

Smoke & Snow S01E23 - Village of the Leng Mystics

234

Secrets & Clues

235

Smoke & Snow S01E22 - Child of Chaos

236

Very Large Monsters

237

Voicemails - Robots, Riches and Risqué Portrayals

238

Quartermasters

239

Smoke & Snow S01E21 - Down with the Sickness

240

Merfolk

241

Smoke & Snow S01E20 - Comes the Inquisition

242

Voicemails - Spaceships, Robots and Jenny Greenteeth

243

Why you should include a spaceship or giant robot in your D&D game

244

Smoke & Snow S01E19 - The Siege of Fort Kersey

245

Religious Ceremonies

246

Jenny Greenteeth

247

5 Things to Put in Your GM Pack

248

Zygoms

249

Voicemails - Vegepygmies, Maps and Inspiration

250

Maps as Visual Story/World-building Inspiration

251

Wemics

252

Maps as Inspiration

253

Smoke & Snow S01E18 - The Shadows Lengthen

254

Vegepygmy

255

Voicemails - Vargouilles, Save or Die and Illusionary Floors

256

Save or Die

257

Vargouilles

258

Smoke & Snow S01E17 - The Most Wonderful Metal

259

Voicemails - Mosslings, Moving Water and Missing Monsters

260

The Ultimate Encounter

261

Smoke & Snow S01E16 - In Search of Mithril

262

Devil Swine

263

Gaming Prep - Part 2

264

Smoke & Snow S01E15 - Death in the Caves

265

Obliviax

266

Gaming Prep - Part 1

267

Mongrelmen

268

Voicemails - Hags, Simulacra, Genre and Hanging Trees

269

Hags

270

Hangman Tree

271

Shoggoths, In the trees!

272

Gibbering Mouther

273

Multiple Plotline Games

274

Smoke & Snow S01E14 - The Caves of Chaos

275

Voicemails - Kickstarter, zines and the Froghemoth

276

Zinequest 3

277

Froghemoth!

278

Voicemails - Beastmaster, Cloakers, Simulcra and silly stories

279

Animal Companions

280

Smoke & Snow S01E13 - The Bandits of Whalesong Woods

281

Cloakers

282

Voicemails - OSR, mid-game breaks and random encounters

283

In-jokes and the Xmas Monkey

284

Cat Lord

285

Smoke & Snow S01E12 - The Haunted Forest

286

Random Encounters by Area

287

Barghests

288

Voicemails - goblins, great mysteries and giant numbers of foes

289

5 Tips for Staying in Character

290

Smoke & Snow S01E11 - An Unlikely Alliance

291

Smoke & Snow S01E10 - Silence will Fall

292

Goblins

293

Smoke & Snow S01E09 - What's in Your Head?

294

Voicemails - Mucus, missions and moaning

295

Did you know there were games other than D&D?

296

Smoke & Snow S01E08 - Return to Witch Isle

297

Aboleth

298

Voicemails - Monsters, Safety Tools & Session Zeroes

299

Damascus Sector Session 0

300

In the Pines

301

Smoke & Snow S01E07 - White Out

302

Fate, where art thou?

303

Fiend Folio Troll Variants

304

Voicemails - Wish gains, grubs and good advice

305

RPG Concerns

306

Svirfneblin

307

Sentient Swords

308

Smoke & Snow S01E06 - Sword of the Sun

309

Sons of Kyuss

310

Skeleton Warriors

311

Voicemails - Swords, Wishes & Bar-room Brawls

312

Smoke & Snow S01E05 - Return to Beetledown Abbey

313

Wishes

314

Needleman

315

Eldritch Tales Feat System

316

Mephits

317

Smoke & Snow S01E04 - The Infested Abbey

318

Looking through the pre-release PDF of the OSE Advanced Fantasy Referee's Tome

319

Lizard Kings

320

Looking through the pre-release PDF of the OSE Advanced Fantasy Player's Tome

321

Reddit Rant

322

Heucuva

323

Fantasy Pub Crawls

324

Smoke & Snow S01E03 - Temple of the Sun

325

Smoke & Snow S01E02 - They Walk by Night

326

Smoke & Snow S01E01 - Summer in Valkonen

327

Fog Giants

328

Voicemails - Flailsnails, Monks and the Blind Dead

329

5 Tips for Running NPC Heavy Scenes

330

Flailsnails

331

Return of the Monk

332

Lung Wang, Dragons of the Sea

333

Enter the Monk

334

Death Knight

335

Voicemails - Castles, Railroading and Frogmen on the rampage

336

The Story is What Happens Now

337

The Crypt Thing

338

Castles

339

Bullywugs

340

Henchmen & Hirelings

341

Why Hannah loves the old AD&D 2E artwork

342

Giant Blood Worm

343

Voicemails - Screens, Smoke Powder and TPK stories

344

Star Trek Tech and Treknobabble

345

A Tale of Two TPKs

346

The Mantari

347

Sequence of Play

348

Gunpowder in D&D

349

Elementals

350

Voicemails - OSE game setup, kind words and scarecrows

351

Pre-planned vs. Sandboxes

352

Hexcrawls

353

Scarecrows

354

Voicemails - Hex flowers, inventories and stats

355

Next Game Musings

356

Different Stat Methods

357

I Death Tyrant

358

Inventories

359

The man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a barroom hex!

360

Voicemails - Background, Blasphemy and Bars

361

Voicemails - Cons, colonialism and bar brawls

362

Redcaps

363

Voicemails - Mystery boxes, Unicorns and Beginning by a Gravesite

364

Random Red Shirts

365

Leaving a Game

366

Release the Kraken!

367

Graveyards

368

Albacon 2020

369

Friend or Foe Friday - Unicorns

370

Wednesday Wisdom - Getting the Most Out of Taverns

371

Band of Blades Session 0 - Part 2

372

Band of Blades Session 0 - Part 1

373

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Reasons you Shouldn't do an Elaborate Background

374

I don't like Mondays - Mystery Boxes

375

Friend or Foe Friday - Satyrs & Korreds

376

Thursday Postbag - Movie recommendations, the D&D Cartoon and GM terminology

377

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Running a Game When You're Short of Inspiration

378

I don't like Mondays - Player Tangents

379

Friend or Foe Friday - Xorn

380

Thursday Bonus Episode - Reactions to the first episode of the D&D Cartoon

381

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Fantasy Movie Clichés you can use in RPGs

382

I don't like Mondays - Creating a Midderlands/ICRPG DT system

383

Friend or Foe Friday - Vampires in other systems & using them in your game

384

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Running Your First Session of a New System

385

I don't like Mondays - Adapting the Scum & Villainy DT system to use with ICRPG

386

Friend or Foe Friday - Vampires in D&D

387

Thursday Postbag - Hexflower court cases & feedback

388

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Using Language in Games

389

I don't like Mondays - Dolmenwood Playtest Character Generation

390

Friend or Foe Friday - Myconids

391

Thursday Postbag - Scum & Villainy, Court Room Dramas and New Format

392

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Amateur Map Makers

393

I don't like Mondays - Campfire Tales

394

Friend or Foe Friday - Mimic

395

Thursday Postbag - Online gaming solutions, Weird Dudes & Future Plans

396

Hannah Hi-jacks: Court Cases

397

I don't like Mondays - v5 Char Generation & Session 0

398

Friend or Foe Friday - Living Wall

399

Thursday Postbag - New podcast and 90 seconds

400

Wednesday Wisdom - Top 10 Tips for Gaming Online

401

I don't like Mondays - Scum & Villainy

402

Goodbye to you my trusted friend

403

Hannah Hi-jacks: Fate Star Trek

404

B,A,C,O,N,L,T, find out what it means to me

405

Voicemails about Grognards, meeting up in person and One Shots

406

Burton Sci-Fi & Fantasy Con RDD Report

407

Voicemails on shrooms, one shots, dogs & dice.

408

Out of love with one shots

409

OSR, why all the Shrooms?

410

Reviewing The Islands of Purple Haunted Putresence (Part 1)

411

Voicemails about the OSR, labels and cavemen

412

What the OSR means to me?

413

Meanderthals

414

Happy 2020 and 30 days of Colonial Blackpowder

415

New Year's Eve Simian Meanderings

416

D6 Thieves, Strange Races and Photogenic Dice

417

Gorilla Podcasting

418

Voicemails, Thieves, Notable Firsts, Pink and Green Dice Diaries

419

RPG Bugbears: But, I want to play a werelockadinpire

420

Thieves, First Dice and Theme Songs

421

You Never Forget your First

422

Thief call in and Discussion

423

RPG Bugbears: Thieves Stealing from the Player Party

424

Voicemails, Lamentations, Encumbrance and Burning Wheel.

425

What is the RPG Bugbears series?

426

Hireling & Property rules in LOTFP

427

Further Burning Wheel Discussion

428

Voicemails margins, holdings and accessibility

429

Massive Margin Syndrome

430

Wormsign! The first episode of the Purple Worm draws near

431

Property & Domain in D&D

432

I know arse all about Arneson

433

Landscape Format Books

434

Potions

435

Magic Items

436

Barrowmazing

437

Thoughts on the Stygian Library

438

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 12: Friendship

439

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 11: Examine

440

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 10: Focus

441

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 9: Critical

442

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 8: Obscure

443

RPGaDay 2019 - Episode 7: Familiar

444

Voicemails are in the Air, everywhere you look around

445

Controversy Sicko

446

Voicemails from the Borderlands

447

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 6: Ancient

448

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 5: Space

449

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 4: Share

450

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 3: Engage

451

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 2: Unique

452

RPGaDay2019 - Episode 1: First

453

Talking about Burning Wheel

454

Interviewing Jarin DnD about the L'Gat Vol 3 Kickstarter

455

CSI Midderlands Session 0

456

Elegant Creature Generator

457

Midweek Voicemails

458

Monday Moan: The X Card

459

Setting Agnostic vs Setting Specific

460

Under SIEGE

461

GMing Rough Spot

462

White Star

463

SWN and Faction Turns

464

Eldritch Tales

465

Alas for the Awful Sea

466

UK Games Expo 2019 and Games on Demand

467

CSI Midderlands

468

The Role of the GM

469

Out in Coventry

470

LARP & RP friends

471

Roll on the Weekend

472

Answering Voicemails & Recent session

473

Android Revelation

474

Voicemails & Thoughts following first B/X Essentials Session

475

Answering voicemails

476

Discussing future Sci-fi collaboration project with JP

477

State of the Bullet Journal

478

Stars Without Number Unique Foci

479

Kalmatta Madness

480

Give & Take

481

Downtimes in RPGs

482

Hannah talks about Behind the Walls & Star Trek

483

Midderlands, 5E, Sci-fi and other projects

484

Old school prepping and bullet journalling

485

Westhaven, Gomans and the dreaded TPK

486

Getting a Campaign Started

487

Google Hangout is Trash

488

Cyberpunk

489

Am I too old for the World of Darkness?

490

Over-production in RPGs

491

Running a City like a Dungeon

492

5 RPG Commandments

493

Listener messages about the OSR & V5

494

Combat in RPGs

495

V5 first impressions

496

I'm spoilt by the OSR

497

The Virtue of Playing a Goodie

498

JP & John talk OSR and Stars Without Number

499

Discussing V20 and the WOD with JP

500

Differences between B/X Essentials and BFRPG

501

How Conventions Taught me to Love Dice Again

502

The Value of GMs Playing in Games

503

History, maintain the Mystery

504

Ideas for a B/X Campaign Setting

505

RPGaDay questions part 3

506

RPGaDay questions part 2

507

RPGaDay questions part 1

508

But isn't it just the old B/X rules?

509

Sounds Issues, Tech support and Faction Turns

510

WFRP and Me

511

Hannah Talks Star Trek

512

Countdowns & Consequences

513

B/X Essential Planetary Fantasy Idea

514

B/X Essentials and Table Fables

515

How Hannah Looks at RPG Books

516

Random Tables & Charts

517

Maps, coolness vs. functionality

518

Responding to voicemails about D&D market dominance

519

Playing LOTFP

520

D&D Market Dominance

521

The Simple Life

522

RIP Undying Lands

523

Tremulus

524

Make a Character Focused on the Bits of a Game You Enjoy

525

Con +1 is coming

526

Just Get to the Damn Game

527

Find Your Fun

528

That Elusive Page Turning Quality

529

Hannah Talks about the Midderlands

530

Making a DFAE Character