DMs After Dark – Details, episodes & analysis

The Company runs into foul weather and takes refuge with a new Ally. Old flames are reignited and new questions asked as the company looks to it's future.

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Music in the Episode:

DMs After Dark Theme by Dan Pomfret (@danfrombothbands)

Vindsvept - Windswept Realms, Volumes 1 - 3

The Company strikes the Lunar Slave Plantation on the night of the Red Goddess's most holy day. Can they escape without being caught?

Learn more about Runequest here.

In case you haven't heard, our Redbubble has incredible RuneQuest art by Katrin Dirim available as shirts, stickers, pillows, and more, so check out all our new DMs After Dark merch!!

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Music in the Episode:

New Lands by Monument Studios

Action 1 Hour Mix by Monument Studios

Cinematic Atmos 1 Hour by Monument Studios

1 Hour Drama Mix by Monument Studios

The Society members delve into the mystery of the Mudlarks. What they find is shocking.

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In case you haven't heard, our Redbubble has incredible RuneQuest art available as shirts, stickers, pillows, and more, so check out all our new DMs After Dark merch!!

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Music in the Episode:

DMs After Dark Theme by Dan Pomfret (@danfrombothbands)

Before it even starts, before a sword is swung, a blaster pulled, or punch thrown, the dramatic dance of words, taunts and snide remarks sets up that tension, the stakes, the honor on the line...

Welcome to our 2 player one-shot of Jess Levin (Jess from Online)'s wonderful new game I Have the High Ground, a wonderful collaborative game about banter, posturing, and capes in the moments that lead up to a confrontation. 

Christian & Rene reprise their roles from the very first series we ever streamed, Dragomir and Jaoved from Troy's Shadows of Esteren series.  First, it was a blast to revisit these characters and the world of Esteren.  Second, this game is so good at staying simple in its mechanics and out of its own way to just keep the drama high, help you come up with fun banter between rounds and interactions.  And third, it's concise with us playing in less than an hour and a half, two players is so accessible for people without big gaming groups, and even if you do have a big table, you can EASILY use this game as a little bonus mini-game to ramp up tension and roleplay in a pivotal scene (in fact, Rene already has a plan to use this in his homebrew game)!

Please, please, don't sleep on this one and go check it out, it's a BLAST!

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Music in the Episode:

Behind The Sword by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4755-behind-the-sword License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/

Yo ho! Ahoy! Arrgh ya landlubbers! Other vaguely piratey things to say!

Welcome to the Session 0 and Character Creation portion of our new series for Honor + Intrigue, a swashbuckling adventure RPG by Chris Rutkowsky, published by Basic Action Games.  Jess will be running us through her first series and we have a lot of fun exploring this game system and building some pretty cool characters, if we do say so ourselves.

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Music in the Episode:

Sailing Through The Wide Sea by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6243-sailing-through-the-wide-sea License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles

The Wellerman by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License

You know what time it is! Chaos time courtesy of Sara's brain child 1d6 | 1d4!

For the first time we only have 1 minute each to talk about our topic, and this week's topic is...

Our first ever hopefully annual award show - The DMies!  We're going full Hollywood and making a big ol' spectacle of ourselves to pat each other on the back, laugh about dumb stuff we've said on the internet, and occasionally actually compliment one another on awesome moments from our first year in streaming.

The DMies will be live sometime in late September, because (I think) that's when the awards season is, but I don't actually know.

Anyway, if you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so you can comment & chat with us about all things RPGs.  

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Music in the Episode:

Queen Of Hearts (remake) by Mikael Hellman Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6902-queen-of-hearts-remake License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://filmmusic.io/artists/mikael-hellman

Well hello there campers! Welcome to Camp Pine Island, a wonderful little tract of wilderness you'll be exploring all summer long!  Nothing at all is haunted, dangerous, or creepy at all, and the summer's going to be just peachy... right?

Thank you for checking out another installment of our one-shot shenanigans, this time with Rene running the DMs through he and Christian's original game Pine Island, a summer camp horror game using Caltrop Core, a d4 system by Lex Kim Bobrow and designed as part of DriveThruRPG's Pocket Quest game jam!

Join Christian, Sara, and Troy as they create campers to experience a pretty awful first night at summer camp!

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Music in the Episode:

Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/

Atmospheres #6: Lost by Brian Holtz Music Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7243-atmospheres-6-lost License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://brianholtzmusic.com

Roll dice. Flip cards. Spend tokens. Pull the wooden block.

This episode of Modified Rolls breaks down the different types of resolution mechanics in roleplaying games and why they're important for providing a certain kind of experience.  From the mathematics of probability underlying the success/failure ratio of games to the tactile aspect of cards (just ask Amber & Christian how they feel about cards), different mechanics just feel different and might be more or less appropriate for the game you're trying to play.

Disclaimer: Rene & Christian argued a little but it was all in good spirit and constructive criticism, we're still nerdy buds who make and play games together.

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Music in the episode:

Energetic Upbeat by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6033-energetic-upbeat License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://linktr.ee/taigasoundprod

Welcome to Hjem, we've got all things to make your house a Hjem... *sigh*...

In this one-shot between our Invisible Sun and upcoming Honor + Intrigue series, Sara runs us through Short Order Apocalypse Advanced by SaintBaileys on itch.io The game itself is available as Pay What You Want on Itch (https://saintbaileys.itch.io/), and is also featured in the Tiny Tome collection of short rules-light RPGs.

Christian, Jess, and Rene play as employees of a certain northern European based furniture store who have had enough of the retail grind and make a deal with a new employee, a one Lucy Fheir, to bring about the end of the world. The game is fast, funny, and super easy to jump right into.

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Music in the Episode:

Song: SFRNG, Madzi, Just Isac & Custody - No Way Back Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://NCS.io/NoWayBack

I don't know about all of you out there in RPG podcast-land, but I'm a pretty typical millennial, binging TV series on streaming platforms and dealing with piles of books to-be-read that somehow just keep growing despite my best efforts.  Well, what if I told you literally everything you ingest makes great building blocks for your RPGs?!  Your in luck, because all you gotta do is a little bit of work and all your favorite things you wanna talk to your friends about but they haven't seen or read is gold for your games!

Take Home Points: Re-skin & re-flavor - don't copy your favorite characters, locations, or villains without changing them to be appropriate for your game; practice capturing the feel of your favorite media with words, since you likely won't have visuals that portray that like on screen; imitate accents!

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Music in the episode:

Startup  by Alex-Productions Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/9439-startup- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license