Avsnitt
-
Almost everyone has house rules for their games, but are there house rules that are good for (nearly) every game? DMs Matt and Rob share over a dozen house rules from their games and their favorite systems that can (probably) be lifted and inserted into whatever TTRPG system your table plays.
Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join the DMofNone Discord!
Links to rules:
FATE CORE, "Declaring a Story Detail"
Year Zero Engine SRD, Chapter 4, "Rounds & Initiative"
Giffglyph, Darker Dungeons, "Chapter 20: Active Defense"
Traverse Fantasy, "Damage Roll as Attack Bonus"
13th Age SRD, Character Rules, "Choose Your One Unique Thing"
Cypher System SRD, Creating Your Character, "Character Descriptor, Type, and Focus"
Daggerheart Playtest 1.4, Open Playtest Manuscript, "Maps, Range, and Movement"
Odd Skull Blog, "Combat Maneuvers, The Easy Way"
Blades in the Dark SRD, "Progress Clocks"
Troll Smyth, "Shields Shall Be Splintered!"
Lich Van Winkle, "The Genealogy of Advantage and Disadvantage in RPG Mechanics"
5e SRD, Rules, "Advantage and Disadvantage"
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Odetta - Hit or Miss.
-
Matt and Rob travel back in time to the era of mullets and shoulderpads to talk about a strangely relevant article from 1984 in DRAGON MAGAZINE #82. What happens when your players have grown TOO POWERFUL?
Check out our Patreon!
Join the Discord! -
Saknas det avsnitt?
-
Brew your tea, pack your knitting needles, and put on your most comfortable jogging suit because DMs Matt and Rob are off to solve the coziest murder this side of Cape Cod!
Brindlewood Bay is a mystery RPG that combines the Golden Girls with Call of Cthulhu using an innovative set of mechanics to sidestep the frustration of running a whodunit. Then, head across the pond to gothic London for The Between, an anti-cozy game using the same "Carved From Brindlewood" mechanics.
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
Links:
Brindlewood Bay: A Dark and Cozy Mystery Game by Jason Cordova
https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/brindlewood-bay.htmlThe Between: A Game of Monster Hunters in Victorian London
https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/the-between.htmlMusic: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; John Addison - Murder, She Wrote Theme.
-
Here is a preview TWO of our subscriber episodes reviewing what could be the best published megadungeon and the best published hexcrawl. To listen to the full episodes subscribe below and check out these adventures for yourself.
Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls by Michael Curtis
The Dark of Hot Springs Island by Jacob Hurst, Evan Peterson, Donnie Garcia, and Gabriel Hernandez
-
DMs Matt and Rob wade into The Discourse discussing if “system matters” and “rules elide.”
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
Links:
Fireside Chat for Chapter 2 of World Beyond Number - Dimension 20
Detours and Lies (1, probably) - “What Is A D&D Anyway? - Combat Orientation and Stoves” - The Daily Blade
Rules Elide - Jared.blot (Archived)
The Baker-Care Principle - Emily Care Boss
The Fruitful Void - Lumpley Games
Stance Theory - Socratic Design
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Bruce Springsteen - Pony Boy.
-
Rob sits down with designer Andy Pressman to talk about, well, design, but also about games! The conversation ranges from Andy's active projects to onboarding players to mechanics to game jams and hacks and more.
Andy's Itch
Patchwork World
Errant
-
Matt and Rob cover the REST of the Daggerheart playtest, including the GM section, adversaries, maps, worldbuilding, and the included starting adventure -- there's a lot going on here!
Download the playtest materials here for free:
https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Slowdive - Dagger -
DM "Dagger" Matt and DM "Heart" Rob are here to chat about the recently released playtest of Daggerheart, a fantasy TTRPG by Darrington Press and Critical Role.
Download the playtest materials here for free:
https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Blondie - Heart of Glass.
-
Matt and Rob are joined by Daniel Kwan of Asians Represent to talk about his TTRPG of lethal melodrama, Wandering Blades! We talk wuxia, TTRPG design, playtesting, mechanics, inspirations, and more!
Daniel's Patreon
Daniel's Itch.io -
So you want to run an RPG. No, not the one you are running right now, but a different one. DMs Matt and Rob are here to talk through their method and tips for learning a new game system.
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
-
Matt and Rob sit down with Lin Codega and Rowan Zeoli of rascal.news, the new independent TTRPG news site that is rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of, well, several other sites. We talk plans, the state of TTRPGs, the death of journalism, and more!
In Search of a Hot Pink Bitch Named BreakfastHarlem Hellfighters Never Die
-
DMs Rob and Matt are joined by Keri Blakinger, investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, to talk about her piece for New York Times Magazine, "The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row," which can be read for free at the Marshall Project, "When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row."
Links:
Keri Blakinger - The Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcjKeri Blakinger - Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272850/correctionsininkSmriti Mundhra - I Am Ready, Warden at Big Sky Film Festival
https://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2024-view/i_am_ready_warden/Books to Prisoners Programs
https://prisonbookprogram.org/prisonbooknetwork/Inside Books Project (Texas)
https://insidebooksproject.org/Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Lead Belly - The Gallis Pole.
-
Special West Marches Correspondent Andy joins Matt and Rob to explain a wonderous campaign where all are welcome: The Open Table! Learn what an open table-style game is, why you might want to ditch your old dedicated story-driven campaigns, and how to prepare and GM an open table game. Plus, learn the Five "S"s of Open Tables: Setting, System, Scheduling, Starting, Stopping!
Links:
Andy - Tales of the Iron league
https://ironleague.org/Tales of the Iron League Discord
https://discord.gg/xY8K7qS9Ben Robbins - West Marches
https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/Kelsey Dionne - Shadowdark: The Cursed Scroll
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/products/cursed-scroll-zine-vol-1-diablerie-printTrial of the Slime Lord
https://jordanrudd.itch.io/trial-of-the-slime-lordInkwell Ideas - Hexographer
https://store.inkwellideas.com/products/hexographer-hexographer-2-pro-versionOwlCon in Houston, Texas
https://owlcon.com/Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join DMofNone on Discord!
-
Matt and Rob talk about how to make role-playing adventures, player guides, and games look nice. Join us for a journey through design and layout tools from simple to complex.
Listen to the full episode on the DMofNone Patreon!
Links:
Homebrewery
GM Binder
GIMP
Cartographers' Guild
Explorers Design
Adobe InDesign
InDesign Template for 5e
DriveThruRPG - Stock Art
Open Access at The Met
-
Matt and Rob talk about how to run a one shot! As it turns out, finishing a whole adventure in one sitting is a lot more complicated than it sounds.
Rat Queens
They Want to Be Us
Savage Worlds One Sheets
Summer in December
The Great Grav Train Robbery
Bite Sized DungeonsCheck out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join us on Discord!
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Hamilton - Aaron Burr, Sir
Eminem - One Shot, Two Shot
Ferran - One Shot -
Rob abuses his power to force the podcast audience to listen to him ramble about his unfinished campaign setting, Thunder on the Steppe! We talk through the idea behind the campaign, issues with getting it presentable, next steps and takeaways.
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
Link to the Thunder on the Steppe Preview doc.
Join us on Discord!
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
The Hu - Wolf Totem -
Matt and Rob review So You Want to be a Game Master? by Justin Alexander (of thealexandrian.net), which is exactly what it says on the tin. We talk about Alexander's approach, what you'll find in the book, and what you can use in your games!
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Join us on Discord!
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Duck Tales Theme
Mission Impossible Theme
Jefferson Starship - We Built This City -
Matt and Rob reflect on the events of the year, go over the many (12!) systems they've reviewed, and talk about what they're looking forward to in 2024.
Listen to the rest of the episode (and an entire day's worth of premium episodes) on the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNoneJoin us on Discord!
Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Lorne Balfe - Juice of the Vine.
-
DMs Rob and Matt are back to answer your questions about Game Mastering! Plus, the triumphant return of Unwanted Advice!
Check out the DMofNone Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNoneJoin us on Discord!
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Du gamla, du fria - Sabaton; Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John. -
Matt and Rob review some more Pathfinder adventure paths, focusing on Serpent's Skull and Carrion Crown! One of these is good! One of them is not! Listen to find out which.
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Crab Rave!
Earth Wind and Fire - Serpentine Fire
Monster Squad Theme Song - Rock Until You Drop - Visa fler