Dungeon Master of None – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

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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!

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Music:

Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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. 

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Links:

Mordheim

Frostgrave

Rangers of Shadowdeep

One Page Rules - Age of Fantasy: Quest

Five Parsecs from Home

28 Magazine

Trench Crusade

Music:

Pac Div - Roll the Dice; The Dear Hunter - The Tank. 

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!

You can find VJ on Twitter, the DM's Guild, TikTok, their website, and on their podcast.

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? 

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and his brand new Dragonlance adventure!

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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. 

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The podcast Three Black Halflings does and excellent deep dive into the lore of the Hadozee in the new Spelljammer book.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. 

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.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. 

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.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks. 

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!

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Matt and Rob continue their review/deep read of the Pathfinder Gamemastery guide! This week they get to the really crunchy stuff.