Pain in the Dice – Details, episodes & analysis

Ben Riggs argues that a large active D&D fanbase is what creates a stable RPG environment for everything else and that the issues with the OGL and D&D Next cause unnecessary splintering that may hurt everyone

Slaying the Dragon - Ben's book on D&D in the 90s

Reading D&D Aloud - Ben's new project

RPG academics is a growing field and Dr. Scott Bruner joins to talk about the shared realities, defining a game, and the persistence of Dungeons & Dragons.

Plot Points podcast

Dr. Bruners masters thesis

Bleak Spirit

Microscope

Fiasco

Pain in the Dice Plays Scion: Hero Second Edition! This is the first of three parts in which Chazz storyguides for various people and a train is involved.

Terry LARPs for the first time and Chazz plays Mork Borg and Fall of Magic. Hear if they'll ever do either ever again.

Fall of Magic - The big scroll game

Mork Borg - an OSR artbook game

Jackalope Studios - The company whose staff put on The House of the Glass Atlas

TSR made the most popular RPG of all time yet was 30m in debt entering 1997. How did it get there? What mis-steps did it make and what can learn from them? Ben Riggs, author of Slaying the Dragon (out July 19th, 2022) tells its tale.

Plot Points Podcast - Ben's regular podcast

Pre-order for Slaying the Dragon - Ben's book

Book plate for pre-orders - if you pre-ordered, sign up to get a book plate here

What goes into a kitting out an actual play? What equipment do you need? How do you balance the books? Patrick McNamara from Dogfood Studios joins to talk Mage of Sail and how to make it as an actual play.  Patrick McNamara on Twitter

Patrick McNamara on Patreon

Patrick McNamara on Twitch

Equipment discussed:

Shure SM7B - High quality desktop mic

Shure SM58LC - A more manageable XLR

Yeti Blue - A perfectly fine mic

Do you need stats for a wall of snakes, a candleflame that makes heart's explode, bears wearing armor, a mile tall elemental, or a sentient dead house? Hundred Devils Night Parade has it and Chazz and Terry walk you through it.

Hundred Devils Night Parade - This book 

Exalted 3e Core - The core book for Exalted

Systematic Understanding of Everything - Our previous Exalted explainer podcast

Time is meaningless and is both passing rapidly and also at a crawl. So let's talk about what we did in 2021! Chazz and Terry are joined by SUoE cohost Monica Speca to talk what we did and what we hope to do.

Guest Michael Parker walks us through what an RPG distributor does, their role in the market, and how they've adapted to the rise of Amazon, digital distribution, Kickstarter and the changing nature of local game stores.

Heirs to the Shogunate outlines cadet houses, forest witches, outcastes, notable Dragon-Blooded, new charms, a civil war, and more. Chazz and Terry walk through what the book offers and how they think it fits into the evolving 3rd Edition.