[#41] In this horror story, Greg tell us how a real-world disability collides with the clumsily ablist way many RPGs handle character creation multiplied by some deeply insensitive GMing. The Dark Eye is a fantasy heartbreake...
[#40] We get together to take a Buzzfeed-style D&D race quiz and see what happens. Essentialism aside, it's a fun exercise in exploring the assumptions the game makes about its core cultures, and we learned a little more abou...
[#39] Jim just played Odyssey Aquatica ! It's a playest for the Paragon system by John Harper. In this session, we mee the explorers, build our boat, and descend into the darkest depths of the Pacific to resuce the crew …
[#38] In Greg's personal horror story, a Pathfinder ( shudder ) campaign goes off the rails thanks to, among other things, a militant pacifist, a BBEG with plot immmunity, and a bell that can't be unrung. The hunchback has a …
[#37] It's our first DM Advice episode with the new crew! We try not to lose our heads as we talk about players made paranoid by the Feign Death spell, dumb magic items, excessive sassiness and tippling at the table. …
[#36] Jim just played Old School Essentials ! We're using this popular D&D retro-clone as the backbone for our run through the classic AD&D A1-4 Slave Lord series of modules. Old School Essentials is in print and available fr...
[#35] You'd think Planescape is a setting so cool you couldn't screw it up, but in this RPG Horror story from GenCon 1998, Jim (via his friend The Ferrett) impales that expectation on a wall full of razorvine. Jason, Josey, …
[#34] Hello, adventurers! This week Jason, Josey, Jim, and Greg dive down the rabbit hole of generating player character ability scores in D&D 5e. For some reason, some folks get pretty salty about the Standard Array There ar...
[#33] Jim just played Night Witches ! It's a pbta game by Fiasco designer Jason Morningtsar, and tells the story of Soviet airwomen in World War 2 who flew WWI-era byplanes in night-time bombing missions against the Nazis. Ni...
[#32] Jason tells the story about a group who killed a player off screen just because he got a girlfriend. Jason pines for high school, Josey and Greg agree, and Jim tries to remember high school. Read the story here …
Hello, adventurers! This week Jason, Josey, Jim and Greg settle into the Character Creation Corner to build The Darknight Detective in D&D 5e. That's this guy , in case you were unfamiliar. This is the Revised Ranger Jim was ...
Jim just played Found ! It's by David MK, and still in devleopment, so it's not yet available for general release. It's a playset for the Cortex Prime system about 'shared-consciousness clone conspiracy' in the spirit of Sens...
Josey tells the tale of Jason (not that Jason), a Game Master (yes they were playing Pathfinder) who created an impossible scenario for our hero Tristian. Read along with us HERE We tell horror stories every Friday! Check out...
Hello adventurers! We’re back! Jason and Josey along with new hosts Greg and Jim got into metagaming. Surprisingly no one got hurt... What exactly is "meta gaming"? How does metagming can hurt your game? How can we use metaga...
[#27] The party is taking a short rest over the holidays to take care of life stuff. We have some fun things planned for next year when we start up again and we can't wait to share it all with …
[#26] Jason and Josey chatted from an entire continent away to tell some stories they heard this past month: How 2 players over-roleplayed into ruining a new DM’s first one-shot The DMPC who wouldn’t go away The player who le...
[#25] Jack and Jason browse the top posts from r/DMAcademy and start handing out advice. Users asked: How to deal with players hiding their death saves Is this DM’s “IRL Timer” an ok thing to do? How to stop players …
[#24] The round table was getting all worked up over those Horror Stories so we thought it was time to get wholesome! We tell the tales of: The party who staged a burglary to play cupid The flirty Orc and …
[#23] THE PARTY REUNITES! After a month of wingin’ it solo we rejoin with Jason, Josey and Jack to tell some RPG horror stories! Is a LOTR “ripoff” boring or is it just you? Are the dice the actual BBEG? …
[#22] The last (very short) entry in our solo-’sodes month (also we kinda forgot there were 5 Fridays this month and had to hastily record one more). Jason visits a Halloween-themed RPG horror story about a possessed child. F...
[#21] The month of solo-’sodes continues with Josey finally stepping up to the plate. Her first semester as a Creative Writing major just started so she stepped back to see how her time playing Dungeons and Dragons has helped...
[#20] Continuing our run of solo adventures, Jason is back with an RPG horror story that left him asking “is anyone here the good guy?”. Take a listen because this story gets wild. Follow us on your favorite social media! …
[#19] Jack took the reins today to give Jason a much needed week off - and while Josey is still learning how to drive on the left side of the road in her new home. With a beer in hand …
[#18] Jason's all alone this week with no cohosts to podcast with and no players to play dnd with. Here's a few ways you can make good use of your downtime and be a good player even when there's no …