Tag: role playing

The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 15: Sins of the Father

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:05 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 15 of our DnDNext Actual Play podcast. In this Episode Zaine meets with the Elven Chief and learns more about his Father’s last days before disappearing.  The sound quality of this episode was …

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Savage Worlds: Deadlands -Reloaded.

Savage Worlds: Deadlands-Reloaded.  Initial impressions Recently during a Dungeon Talk, Evan expressed the desire to try a different genre of Role-playing games. So far, he had only played D&D, though he had played 4e, 3.5 and currently the DnDNext play test packets.  I’m pretty much a Fantasy game purist, I likes to kill me some …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 17 – It ain’t easy out here for a DM

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:30 — 52.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 17 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.   When ran a little long this week because of a new segment we tried, so we don’t quite get to all our the Topics …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 14 – “That’s What I Thought Would Happen.”

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:56 — 47.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 14 of our DnD Next Actual Play Podcast. In the last Episode, the PC’s entered the Wastelands and headed toward the Old Stone Fort Tower. In this Episode we pick up right as …

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No roll before its time.

Hello all, Michael here with what I hope is a first post of many focused, for a change, on the Player. The majority of the posts we have here and our podcasts are aimed at helping new DM’s become better or at least give them something to think about and/or steal for their own games. …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 16 – A New Introduction is in Order

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:03 — 58.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 16 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.   The big news this week is that one of frequent commentors and Twitter Followers; @vanRPL,  has given us an intro upgrade!   So, if …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 13: Into The Wastelands

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:50 — 53.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, So, here is Episode 13 of our DnDNext Playtest game.  In this Episode the PC’s brave out into the Wastelands in an effort to reach the Old Stone Fort Tower. As I cover in my Intro; …

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GM’s Toolbox by Caleb G. Recurring Villains part 2

Ok, so you’ve decided to work a recurring enemy into your campaign.  You’ve crated a great story to bring your players into contact with the enemy and you’ve prepared the combat encounters and dungeons for the future battles.  But, with the endless resources and options available to you for character creation, where exactly do you …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 15 – Group discussions

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:12 — 60.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 15 of our Dungeon Talk Podcast. We kept to the segments again, but we added some special guests;  Niko, who you may know as Grexil, and Jared, who played Wang for a few …

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D&D and MTG: Synergy Part 1

A few days back, I had a half-formed idea. What if I bought a pack of MTG cards and used the cards in that pack as inspiration to design a session or start  a new D&D campaign?   I didn’t think it through very well but threw the idea out on Twitter to see if …

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