Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Dungeon Master of None
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| TEASER - How To Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:05:56 | |
Matt and Rob review How To Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck, a collection of essays on adventure design by Goodman Games -- a fascinating collection of advice and tips from over a dozen experienced TTRPG writers. Check out the whole episode on our Patreon! | |||
| 323 - The DM Commandments | 23 Aug 2024 | 01:03:43 | |
Matt and Rob lay down the law with a list of DM commandments -- thou shalt not's and all that. Break them at your own peril! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice | |||
| 315 - Narrative Miniature Games | 01 Jul 2024 | 01:05:44 | |
Have you ever played something that isn't a TTRPG? Well, it turns out there games out there that are not D&D or even a role-playing game that also generate story through play. In the first episode about things that are not RPGs, DMs Rob and Matt will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the wide world of narrative miniature wargaming. Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Links: One Page Rules - Age of Fantasy: Quest Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; The Dear Hunter - The Tank. | |||
| 246 - D&D Parentages and more with VJ Harris | 15 Dec 2022 | 01:09:03 | |
Matt and Rob interview VJ Harris, GM, game designer, writer and most recently author of An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby. We talk about D&D races, DMing, some recent WotC news, and more! | |||
| 245 - OneDnD: Cleric and Revised Species | 09 Dec 2022 | 01:12:23 | |
There's even more OneDnD playtest rules. On deck are the rules for everyone's favorite effective yet bland class: the Cleric. Special Freelance Correspondent Alex Clippinger joins us to tell us why we were wrong about the Jump Action rules. Like the Great Bambino calling his shot home run shot, Alex lays down a prediction for the Counterspell mechanics. Last, listen to a thrilling Oxford-style debate on the motion: Are textbook style rules superior to natural language writing? Check out all of Alex's creations | |||
| 244 - Reaction Part 3: Frightful Presence | 23 Nov 2022 | 01:52:31 | |
Part three of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: the anti-diversity backlash, the never-ending outrage machine, an overwhelming fear of change, common contemporary reactionary arguments, and our final conclusions. Thank you for listening and a special thank you to all our Patreon supporters! You can write the hosts with questions, comments, or critiques here. And support the show on Patreon! Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. | |||
| 243 - Reaction Part 2: "A Hideous Little Polyp" | 22 Nov 2022 | 01:01:17 | |
Part two of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: the emergence of the right-wing D&D outrage machine from below and from above. Stay tuned for part 3 tomorrow! You can listen to the first episode of the series here. You can write the hosts with questions, comments, or critiques here. And support the show on Patreon! Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. | |||
| 242 - Reaction Part 1: Satan, Puppies, and Gamers | 21 Nov 2022 | 01:08:27 | |
Part one of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: defining our terms, the long consequences of the Satanic Panic, the anti-diversity campaign in speculative fiction, and GamerGate's influence on RPGs. Stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow! You can listen to our episode on the Satanic Panic and D&D here. You can write the hosts with questions, comments, or critiques here. And support the show on Patreon! Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. | |||
| TEASER - The Bards Are Back In Town - Track 1 | 18 Nov 2022 | 00:15:39 | |
It's another premium episode of Actual Prep. This time, put your head phones on for a hi-fi episode in which we build an open-ended, all-bard adventure: The Bards Are Back In Town! Listen to the full episode and get all our rockin' bonus content over at Parteon! | |||
| 241 - Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide Part Two | 10 Nov 2022 | 01:01:32 | |
Matt and Rob continue their review/deep read of the Pathfinder Gamemastery guide! This week they get to the really crunchy stuff. | |||
| 240 - Gamemastery Guide | 02 Nov 2022 | 01:02:30 | |
DMs Rob and Matt are back "in the garage" with a discussion of the Dungeon Master advice in Pathfinder 2e's Gamemastery Guide. | |||
| 239 - The Monster Mashup | 29 Oct 2022 | 00:49:47 | |
Matt and Rob get spooky and engage in highly unethical behavior by randomly mashing up classic D&D monsters! Listen to us deal with complicated physiological questions like how many limbs and other appendages mashed-up creatures should have, and more! You can download our full stats for 5e of each monster on our Patreon page. | |||
| TEASER - Bored of the Rings | 18 Oct 2022 | 00:14:40 | |
We discuss season 1 of The Rings of Power. Find out what we think of all your favorite characters: Frito, Spam, Gimlet, Legolam and the rest of the wacky gang. Wait, did the good guys lose because they forgot to unwrap the MacGuffin? | |||
| 314 - Hot DM Summer | 21 Jun 2024 | 00:59:19 | |
Happy Solstice! Rob and Matt are here to answer your Dungeon Master questions about starting sessions, Vecna/Kas shipping, old systems, failed MMOs, the benefits of classical education, X-COM, and more! Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Links: Vecna and the Tears of Unmaking - Sly Flourish Whatever Happened to Pathfinder Online, Anyway?- Kai Tave The Lost Universe - NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure | |||
| 238 - Liches Get Stiches | 15 Oct 2022 | 01:00:45 | |
Enter the long dark teatime of the soul with DMs Matt and Rob as they prepare to outlive--or unlive--the hell out of everybody through the profane miracle of becoming a lich. Listen for why liches are some of the best villains for your heroes and four or six alternative uses for our favorite immortal skeleton wizards. | |||
| 237 - OneDnd: Expert Classes | 06 Oct 2022 | 01:19:19 | |
There's more OneDnD playtest rules. This time it's personal. This time it's the expert classes: the bard, ranger, and rogue. DMs Matt and Rob jump into the rules with thoughts to help you process the newest round of updates to Dungeons and Dragons. | |||
| 236 - September Mailbag 2022 | 29 Sep 2022 | 01:10:04 | |
Matt and Rob answer your mail! They talk about magic items, fantasy authorities, wizard people, and more! Music: Trophy Hunter - Within Temptation | |||
| 235 - Helping Players Create Characters | 23 Sep 2022 | 01:18:49 | |
One of the many jobs that gets dumped on Dungeon Masters is the role of character builder and advisor. DMs Rob and Matt will help you get in the right mindset to help your players create interesting characters and walk you through building eight example characters for 5e Dungeons and Dragons. | |||
| 234 - A Starfinder is Born | 14 Sep 2022 | 01:16:53 | |
DM Matt and Rob discuss their favorite spacepunk/scifi/exploration/magitech/sequel/OGL role-playing game: Starfinder. Roll up a rat-person technomancer star pilot with necrograft tail, a spellbook, and freeze ray pistol and join us! | |||
| 233 - Light of Xaryxis | 07 Sep 2022 | 01:18:20 | |
Matt and Rob blast off into the 25th century -- or something like it, in any case, in their review of Light of Xaryxis, an adventure for 5th-level players included in the new Spelljammer boxed set. This one needs some work, but there's a lot of good ideas as well. Music Pac Div - Roll the Dice | |||
| 232 - Spelljammer 5e | 30 Aug 2022 | 01:11:39 | |
Crank up the volume on Ziggy Stardust and gaze into your favorite Christian Reisse Lassen print, because we are heading back to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism...Wildspace! It's DM Rob and Matt's review of the new Spelljammer boxed set for 5e! | |||
| 231 - A Hater's Guide to the Second Age | 26 Aug 2022 | 01:12:10 | |
Matt and Rob return to one of their favorite topics -- the many works of J.R.R. Tolkien, in anticipation of Amazon's new billion-dollar boondoggle, The Rings of Power! Listen to two dorks ramble about obscure lore that no one cares about and will likely be discarded on episode one of the new show. | |||
| BONUS - One D&D | 22 Aug 2022 | 00:34:25 | |
It's a (sort of) new (sort of) edition of Dungeons and Dragons: One D&D. Here's DM Matt and Rob's hot takes on the good (some nice things!) and bad (one major whiff) from the first set of playtest rules on character origins. Get the playtest rules and submit feedback to Wizards here. And support the show on Patreon! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Three Dog Night - One. | |||
| 230 - Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel (Part 2) | 19 Aug 2022 | 01:40:49 | |
DMs Rob and Matt are still on a bogus journey through the Radiant Citadel. Part 2 has 10, yes 10, adventure reviews. Talk to a dying snake god, eat a dream egg, fight infinite stone golems, solve a mystery full of plot holes, traverse a skybridge of dragon bones, debate philosophy in an underwater city, join an anarchist revolution against an angel, put a lava axolotl back to sleep, or just do it all! Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel And support the show on Patreon! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Spin Doctors - Two Princes; Bettye Swann - Angel of the Morning; The White Stripes - Blue Orchid. | |||
| 313 - Rogue Trader | 17 Jun 2024 | 01:04:33 | |
Matt and Rob talk about Rogue Trader, the now-defunct Warhammer 40k TTRPG. It's got orks, it's got big gothic cathedral ships, it's got chonky weapons, it's got profits, folks, it's got it all! Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon! | |||
| 229 - Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel (Part 1) | 18 Aug 2022 | 01:28:33 | |
Matt and Rob review Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, the newest book by WotC and one that features adventures exclusively written by PoC! Locations and inspirations run the gamut from Southern Gothic to pulp western and just about everything in between, so buckle up because this is at least a two-parter. Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice | |||
| 228 - Dragonlance with Meaghan J. | 08 Aug 2022 | 01:07:43 | |
DMs Matt and Rob are joined by special Krynn correspondent Meaghan J., host of the The Dragonlance Canticle podcast. We discuss all things Dragonlance: the history of the IP, why you should run a game using this campaign setting, what's coming down the pike for Dragonlance 5e, and how to deal with some of the problematic elements in Krynn. Follow Meaghan's RPG Creations Listen to the Dragonlance Canticle podcast Tasselhoff's Pouches of Everything, the free unofficial guide to Dragonlance for 5e players and DMs | |||
| 227 - Tales from the Loop | 27 Jul 2022 | 01:12:32 | |
Matt and Rob talk about the 80s -- nostalgia, bad haircuts, synthwave, neoliberalism ascendant, it's the decade that has it all folks! We review the RPG Tales from the Loop and talk about how to incorporate it into your games.
Music: Pac Div- Roll the Dice | |||
| 226 - Actual Prep: The Best First D&D Adventure (Part 2) | 20 Jul 2022 | 01:24:54 | |
It's Part 2 of our best and greatest starting adventure for a Dungeon and Dragons campaign. You can listen to part 1 here in episode 223 and read the first draft of the written adventure by joining our Patreon here. | |||
| TEASER - Midsummer Mailbag | 18 Jul 2022 | 00:10:56 | |
Your questions. Our answers. Pirate campaigns, play-by-post advice, good liches, Mechwarrior hacks, and more! | |||
| 225 - The Lost Omens World Guide | 13 Jul 2022 | 01:11:16 | |
Matt and Rob discuss the Lost Omens World Guide and the Golarion setting from Paizo. We talk about what works, what doesn't, what sorts of games you might want to run in Avistan and the Age of Lost Omens, and how you can use this in your own campaigns if not! Music | |||
| 224 - Designing Magic Items and Adventures with Sally Tamarkin | 05 Jul 2022 | 01:08:10 | |
Special guest, DM Sally Tamarkin, joins us to discuss designing magic items, working as a sensitivity reader on RPGs, and publishing your first adventure. Check out all the cool stuff Sally is creating below, including the brand new Cloud Curio project! | |||
| TEASER - B.A.D.D. Vibes | 30 Jun 2022 | 00:16:25 | |
TEASER - Subscribe to the Dungeon Master of None Patreon for the full episode! Rob takes Matt on a journey through history to talk about when America was great and Satan was real -- the 1980s! We talk about Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons, the Satanic Panic, Andy Rooney, and more! This one's kind of a doozie, hope you enjoy it! | |||
| 223 - Actual Prep: The Best First D&D Adventure (Part 1) | 21 Jun 2022 | 01:14:17 | |
Have you ever heard of Lost Mines of Phandelver, Sunless Citadel, the Village of Hommlett? Boring. Uninspired. Confusing. | |||
| 222 - How to Run Published Adventures | 15 Jun 2022 | 01:05:50 | |
DMs Rob and Matt break down how to prepare and run published adventure modules, paths, and campaigns for both new and experienced Dungeon Masters. And support the show on Patreon! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Nickel Creek - In the House of Tom Bombadil. | |||
| TEASER - Dice Workshop | 13 Jun 2024 | 00:07:43 | |
DMs Rob and Matt clock into the Dice Workshop for a long shift working on custom dice mechanics and discuss dice probabilities and mechanics put in practice! Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon! | |||
| 221 - The Best First D&D Adventure | 03 Jun 2022 | 01:01:11 | |
Okay, you are ready to start a new campaign or bring new people into the community...so, how do you do it? DM Matt analyzes the 7 criteria needed to run the best, no, the greatest starting adventure for Dungeon and Dragons for new group, new players, or a new Dungeon Master (or all three). | |||
| 220 - Monsters of the Multiverse | 20 May 2022 | 01:07:09 | |
We are at the mountains with the monsters in the multiverse of madness. DMs Matt and Rob review the "Bestiary 2" of Dungeons and Dragons 5e: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. | |||
| 219 - You Wouldn't Steal a Map | 13 May 2022 | 01:00:41 | |
You wouldn't steal a map. You wouldn't steal a NPC. You wouldn't steal a monster. Stealing is against DragonLaw. Dungeon Mastering. It's a crime. No jokes in this one; it's a serious episode of solving Dungeon Mastering problems from your letters. | |||
| 218 - MNN Newsroom | 06 May 2022 | 01:09:44 | |
That's right folks, it's the news! DM's Woodward and Bernstein report on all the latest happenings from throughout the multiverse, from fresh information about Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, to the latest on Wizards of the Coast's brand expansion plans. | |||
| TEASER 214 - Building Ship Encounter Rules for 5e | 05 May 2022 | 00:11:49 | |
April, 1805. Vlaakith the Lich Queen is master of Astral Sea. Only the Dwarven fleet stands before her. The Crystal Spheres are now battlefields. It's time to build some ship encounter rules to celebrate the announcement of Spelljammer for 5e. We try to create rules for both abstract encounters and tactical grid combat. To listen to the whole episode and get a copy of our ship encounter rules, support us on Patreon! | |||
| BONUS - Best of Year Four | 30 Apr 2022 | 00:14:59 | |
It's yearly clip show time! Here are some of our favorite bits from the last year in Dungeon Master of None podcasting: organizing the first TTRPG union with the Paizo Workers Union, discussing Dune's origins and worldbuilding with Nat of Metamashina, learning GMing tips from Blades in the Dark, trashing D&D NFTs with Linda of i09, and interviewing Orion of Dimension 20. | |||
| 217 - D&D NFTs with Linda Codega | 21 Apr 2022 | 01:17:42 | |
Matt and Rob talk with Linda Codega (they/them) of io9 about their article "NFTs Are Here to Ruin Dungeons and Dragons", which is about Gripnr, the Web3/blockchain company behind The Glimmering, and why maybe that's not such a good idea, actually. | |||
| BONUS Flee, Mortals! With James Introcaso | 20 Apr 2022 | 00:53:02 | |
James Introcaso, Lead Designer of MCDM Productions, joins DMs Matt and Rob to chat about a new monster-focused book, Flee, Mortals!, and designing for 5e D&D. | |||
| 216 - Call of the Netherdeep Review | 12 Apr 2022 | 01:43:26 | |
DMs Rob and Matt do a netherdeep dive into Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep. This campaign has a lot to offer but, like any published module, it needs fixing to work well. We once again take the approach of trying not to just review and critique but to review, critique, and offer suggestions for improvement. Without getting into spoilers, this module has a very high ceiling for very cool sh*t. However, there is a lot of work to do to get that payoff. Listen to find out if this module is the right fit for you and your players. Join our Discord to discuss this campaign or any campaign with some cool DMs! You can also support the show and gets lots of bonus episodes by putting down $5 a month on Patreon. | |||
| TEASER - 215 Unpopular Opinions | 02 Apr 2022 | 00:11:06 | |
TEASER for our March Patreon episode! We head down into the darkness to the 666th level of the Abyss to discuss the most controversial DMing opinions ever. | |||
| 312 - Dice Hard with a Vengeance | 06 Jun 2024 | 01:02:14 | |
Matt and Rob talk about dice! Mechanics, systems, resolution, modifiers, taxonomies, the whole shebang! It's not boring, we promise. Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Links: Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice | |||
| 214 - Blades in the Dark Part 2: The Darkening | 01 Apr 2022 | 01:09:37 | |
Matt and Rob talk about the GMing section of BLADES IN THE DARK, which is very cool and stylish and full of good advice. Matt switches to his LATE NITE voice midway through because we were recording LATE at NIGHT.
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| 213 - Blades in the Dark | 22 Mar 2022 | 01:14:31 | |
Fire up your demon-powered lightning fence because Dungeon Master of None is taking the podcast to Doskvol for a game of Blades in the Dark. This is a great system and setting for any DM to read and run, and there is so much to learn about world-building, running heists, character creation and more! | |||
| 212 - Owlbear Pellets of Advice | 10 Mar 2022 | 01:00:17 | |
We are back with advice for your tables and worlds. How do balance Strength? Are Owlbear pellets canon? Can you run a "reverse level" campaign? What is a good length for a dungeon? Is it problematic to have magical and non-magical species? What does the cult of Tiamat need? Are really short sessions okay? | |||