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Rene Plays Games

Rene Legault

Leisure

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 151

Hi! I’m Rene (pronounced Rainy) and I want to share my love of roleplaying games with you! Join me as I play through smaller publisher games, talk design and gaming topics with friends, and explore all the ways you can be a better game master or player.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
07/08/2026
#74
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
06/08/2026
#53
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
28/07/2026
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - games
27/07/2026
#99

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https://www.monumentstudios.net/
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https://www.threads.net/@reneplaysgames?hl=fa
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https://tabletopaudio.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/reneplaysgames
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https://www.instagram.com/danfrombothbands
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https://www.instagram.com/luckoflegends
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https://www.facebook.com/people/Rene-Plays-Games-Podcast/61554446840662/
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Welcome to the Feed!

Episode 1

Friday, December 29, 2023 • Duration 04:10

Thanks for giving my nerdy little RPG podcast a chance. This is just a little introduction to me and what you can expect from this podcast feed. Stick around, I hope you like it and find something that inspires you to go start your own game!

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[Bonus] Call of Cthulhu | Mask of Desire Valentine's One-Shot

Episode 2

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 • Duration 01:46:29

Not every bonus episode has to be on a 5th Tuesday, holidays are good reason, too, right?

In this bonus one-shot, Rene ropes his wife Lynn into her first foray with Call of Cthulhu in a one-on-one scenario from the Does Love Forgive? collection.

Set in 1930s New York City amidst the bustling jazz scene, the scenario features a love triangle and questions just how far you'd go to achieve your goals. As Lynn's first dip into the system, it goes pretty off the rails in pretty fun ways!

As mentioned, one of the DMs After Dark, Christian, is a published Call of Cthulhu scenario writer. If you want to check out his stuff, go get The Night Mother's Moon!

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret |

Ironsworn: Sundered Isles | Episode 5 - Trouble on Isto Mavana

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 • Duration 43:23

Dyne & crew wait out the night on the island of Gamadar, afraid of being spotted by the Dominion sky ship that flew out to the Cynosure Society research station after Dyne's Trial of the Storm. The night does not go peacefully, and their delay in returning to Isto Mavana does not help their cause either - all villagers are being tested for sorcerous potential - and it only gets worse...

Pre-order Starforged physical books or get it digital from Modiphius!

Go learn more about everything Ironsworn and get your solo gaming on!

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | X/Twitter | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Shaman's Hollow from TabletopAudio.com

Escape the Shadow from TabletopAudio.com

Investigator's Office from TabletopAudio.com

Mining Media | Sea of Stars

Season 3 · Episode 2

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 • Duration 22:48

Welcome to this month's Mining Media where I help you think about ideas from other forms of entertainment that can elevate your tabletop RPG experience. In this episode we're talking about Sabotage Studio's retro JRPG inspired Sea of Stars - a love letter to the 90s/early 2000s 16-bit JRPGs of my youth.

The game itself is a beautiful game with very evocative locations and, most importantly for this episode, interesting combat mechanics that I think would work to spice up your RPG's combats in very cool ways. The main takeaways from this episode are to include mini-puzzle like conditions to be achieved by your PCs mid-fight in order to mitigate (or altogether stop) a powerful special attack from going off, as well as encouraging teamwork combos in battle through connections made between PCs in or out of combat.

I forgot to mention another great bit of Fabula Ultima's combat mechanics that would work well for that telegraph/countdown to special attack is their option to take the Objective action and work toward a clock that would change the battle. It is generally used for more "end the conflict overall" type of actions, but could be scaled back potentially for this kind of use.

Games Mentioned in this Episode:

Fabula Ultima TTJRPG | BREAK! RPG

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[Bonus] Leap Year REAP Year One-Shot

Episode 3

Thursday, February 29, 2024 • Duration 01:17:03

More bonus episodes because we get an extra day for the leap year, why not an extra episode?

In this episode I play REAP by Gila RPGs (aka Spencer Campbell) - a soulslike solo RPG and companion game to RUNE, where you take on the role of a Reaper - a necromancer wandering the realms of the dying world Obron, harvesting souls from the evil horrors that plague the denizens of their domains and helping the world find peace in its end.

The mechanics are super fun and easy to learn, but the game honors its source material - it is not easy! You constantly have to deal with your resource management, enemy tactics, and luck of the dice to get you through any fight. I had a great time playing it and loved the tactile appeal of the game, which doesn't translate super well into audio, but I strongly recommend you go check out REAP and RUNE (which I believe still has a free quickstart rules guide so you can test it out), and begin your reaper's journey!

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Court of the Count from Tabletop Audio

Ironsworn: Sundered Isles | Episode 6 - Escape from Vega's Cave

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 • Duration 51:05

Dyne is taken prisoner by Captain Vega and brought to a secret sea cave the Kyrody sailor has been stockpiling equipment in, as well as where he is experimenting with sky iron. An escape is attempted, but this episode keeps riding the dice luck of the previous, and things just keep getting worse...

You can sign up to be notified when Sundered Isles goes live on Kickstarter and/or pre-order Starforged physical books or get it digital from Modiphius!

Go learn more about everything Ironsworn and get your solo gaming on!

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | X/Twitter | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Covert Ops from TabletopAudio.com

Drowned Sailors from TabletopAudio.com

Perspective Checks | Liz Greene - Geek Therapy

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 • Duration 01:11:18

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the tabletop roleplaying game world and discuss a topic of their choice!

This time Rene is joined once again by Troy from the DMs After Dark to talk with Liz Greene, LMHC MFT TGM/DM GT, a licensed Geek Therapist who uses games and popular media in her sessions! We discuss games as a community, using characters as buffers to experiences, practicing social skills, and putting consequences into perspective, and more.

Please check out these amazing resources and tell us about experiences at the table you've had that have helped you in hard times!

You can find Liz at Serenity Coaching & Counseling, Psychology Today, and find other geek therapists in your area at Geek Therapeutics.

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret |

Ironsworn: Sundered Isles | Episode 7 - The Trial of the Sea

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 • Duration 49:28

Dyne is dragged out to sea after swearing an iron vow on the sky iron shard in Vega's Cave. The flooding recesses and pulls all of Captain Vega's Kyrody sailors out to a watery grave, but Dyne finds himself on a dry circle of sea floor at the bottom of a maelstrom - a shipwreck graveyard... What awaits him for his Trial of the Sea?

Go check out the sample guidebook and back Sundered Isles on Kickstarter!

Go learn more about everything Ironsworn and get your solo gaming on!

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

Instagram | Facebook | X/Twitter | Threads | DMs After Dark

email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Trireme from TabletopAudio.com

High Seas Pursuit from TabletopAudio.com

Sunken Temple from TabletopAudio.com

Mining Media | Delicious In Dungeon

Season 3 · Episode 3

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 • Duration 21:03

Welcome to another Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences. In this episode we're talking about Delicious In Dungeon - a manga turned anime currently streaming on Netflix about a group of adventurers delving a massive dungeon and eating the monsters they encounter along the way!

This show is so obviously inspired by traditional TTRPGs from decades past, but does such an incredible job of environmental storytelling through meticulously designing each level of the titular Dungeon to portray a well thought out, functioning ecosystem. As a biologist/ecologist by day, this show is inspiring in its devotion to depicting believable dungeon ecology that helps tell a cohesive story and makes for much more interesting monsters/encounters.

So the next time you're prepping (as a GM) or exploring (as a player) a dungeon, take the time to think about how every creature here is carving out its place in the food web/ecosystem, what resources are abundant or scarce and how that affects survival or behaviors in the nearby region, and ask questions about how you can use them to your advantage!

If you want to read it, here's Sage Latorra's A 16 HP Dragon article!

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