Role-playing game designer and Saturday Morning Scenarios founder Matt Corley joins me on the podcast today. We discuss his career as a writer and creator of RPG adventures and campaigns. Plus we talk about what makes a good RPG encounter and his new horror 5e campaign Horror in the Windy City. TTRPG Designer Matt Corley […]
The Monster Professor returns to the podcast for the third time. We start our wide-ranging conversation with infectious monsters then talk about lake monsters. We veer into D&D territory to discuss Owlbears and Beholders. Along the way, we touch on vampires, zombies, 80’s movies, Godzilla, and more. THE MONSTER PROFESSOR – Josh Woods Check Josh’s
Author of Play Unsafe and designer of Cthulhu Dark, Graham Walmsley, joins me on the podcast today. We discuss his books and his role-playing games as well as his gamemaster advice for running tabletop role-playing games. Graham Walmsley Links Please check out Graham’s books and RPGs by clicking the links below. Graham Walmsley on DriveThruRPG
Adron Buske, the host of the FICTITIOUS podcast, returns to the show to discuss becoming a better gamemaster by studying stories. We talk about creating compelling villains, plot points, story structure, plus share tips for playing online. We share stories from our role-playing game campaigns, movie references, and much more. How Gamemasters Can Tell Better
Graeme Davis is one of the original designers of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay as well as a designer of Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North video game. On the podcast, we discuss his career, WFRP, and we sprinkle in some gamemaster advice. Plus we talk about low fantasy vs. high fantasy and more. Graeme Davis
Dr. Michael Drout is a professor of English as well as a leading Tolkien scholar. In our conversation on the podcast, we discuss common misconceptions about The Lord of Rings as well as ancient texts that influenced Tolkien’s writing. At first, we talk about Dr. Drout’s career and his interest in LotR from an early
Darren W. Pearce was kind enough to join me on the Dicegeeks podcast today. He is a writer and game designer with lots of experience in the tabletop RPG industry. Some of his game design credits include Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD, the Doctor Who RPG, as well as Shaintar from Savage
My guest today is Matt Wilson the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Privateer Press, a miniatures game company. We discuss his career including a couple of tours at Wizards of the Coast. We discuss the state of the gaming industry as well as self-publishing. Matt describes the Iron Kingdoms and War Machine some of
James Introcaso is a tabletop role-playing game designer for D&D and the host of the Table Top Babble podcast. He has worked on Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, Waterdeep Dragon Heist, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and more. He is also a prolific contributor to numerous adventures on the DMs Guild. On
Novelist and podcaster Van Allen Plexico joins me on the podcast today to discuss his novels and writing. We touch on a variety of subjects from self-publishing to why the superhero genre is so popular. Van gives us insight into his novels Lucian and Sentinels. In addition to writing novels, Van has several podcasts two
Want gamemaster and player advice for tabletop RPGs? Well, Nate from WASD20 joins me on the show today to talk about those topics. We learn how Nate started playing role-playing games as well as producing videos about them. We touch on how to jump into being a dungeon master. Plus how you can up your
Author, critic, speaker, and D&D player Ethan Gilsdorf joins me on the podcast to discuss the question of whether or not Dungeons and Dragons is good for you. We share stories of growing up playing D&D and its benefits. The conversation crosses into D&D’s resurgence in popularity and the factors that have played into it.
Prolific film and TV director David Winning joins me on the podcast to discuss his career, filmmaking, and TV industry. David has directed episodes of Earth: Final Conflict, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, Stargate Atlantis, Van Helsing as well as many feature films and movies of the week. We learn David’s love of the original Star Trek
Today I interview Chris van der Linden the founder of the tabletop RPG publisher LoreSmyth. Chris and I discuss his book Remarkable Inns & Their Drinks as well as his Dungeon Discoveries Cards. We talk gamemaster advice and publishing tabletop role-playing games. LoreSmyth Links loresmyth.com – Official website LoreSmyth on DriveThruRPG Remarkable Inns & Their
Game designer Jason Carruth drops in to talk about his new cyberpunk tabletop role-playing Dystopia 23. We discuss the rules system, character creation options, cybernetic implants, and the setting. We learn that Jason likes big, crunchy RPGs filled with outstanding details. Official Links for Dystopia 23 dystopia23.com – The official website for Dystopia 23. If
