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The Diceology PodcastThe 2024 Wrap with Judd Karlman (Edited)In this episode, we reflect on our favorite tabletop RPG experiences of 2024 and discuss exciting upcoming games for 2025. We explore character creation, the importance of storytelling, and how strange mechanics add depth to our games.• Reflection on standout RPG experiences of 2024• Insights from Judd Karlman on tabletop storytelling• Exploration of the Ioun City game and its unique narrative• Importance of memorable NPCs and their impact on gameplay• Embracing the weirdness and unpredictability in RPGs• Anticipation of innovative games in 2025• Discussion of missed opportunities for gaming experiences• Tips for running engaging and memorable ga...
2024-12-2248 minThe Diceology PodcastFrom Hobby to Profession: The Life of Paid Game MastersHave you ever wondered what it's like to turn your tabletop gaming passion into a profession? Judd Karlman and I chat about our extraordinary path from hobbyists to professional game masters (GMs), revealing the quirky, exciting, and sometimes absurd adventures that come with the territory. From hilarious bachelor party RPG requests to the broader implications of monetizing our love for gaming, we peel back the curtain on a niche that's rapidly gaining traction. Join us as we reminisce about our initial foray into paid GMing and how it has evolved into a noteworthy part of our creative and community...
2023-12-241h 01
The Diceology PodcastJolt #5: Citrus Climax!Jolt and his family are hunkering down at a Hilton Garden Hotel in Jacksonville, guarded by Cherry Bomb's security. It's nearly midnight when Red-Eye calls Jolt... and it's not a "wyd?!" kinda call. Chimaera is making a move to grab Citrus Climax! And you know who's coming to the rescue? I bet ya do!Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to...
2023-12-211h 08
The Diceology PodcastJolt #4: Daye & Knight (Edit)Jolt #4 - Daye & KnightNate and Obie encounter some extraordinary security guards when they try to make off with goods from the secret lab they've robbed. Later after getting Jason to a hospital, they have a strange encounter with 3-Pain. That night Nate, Obie, and Maggie strategize for the coming days ahead.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to su...
2023-06-281h 02
The Diceology PodcastJolt #3 - Cherry Bomb!Ready for an action-packed hour of gaming discussion and adventure? Join Rich and me as we delve into the world of real life and role-playing games, exploring the connection between comic books and gaming, and discovering what it means to truly "play to find out." Experience the thrill of strategizing to keep our in-game characters, Sera and Mason, safe while handling new threats and enlisting help from old contacts. But tread carefully - who can we really trust in this thrilling adventure?Nathan "Jolt" and "OB" tackle planning the search for a warehouse and how to payoff...
2023-05-2647 min
The Diceology PodcastJolt #2 -Orange Blast!Jolt #2: Nathan interviews for the super spokesmodel position at Door Dash but gets an emergency text from his wife and leaves abruptly! 3Pain, the witness protection assassin, has made a house call! Later, Nathan and OB discuss OB's debt to Red-Eye, the wetwork job left undone, and a secret lab OB found while doing that job. Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get you...
2023-05-221h 02
The Diceology PodcastJolt #1Jolt #1 - Nathan is lured into a CHIMERA experiment as they trap him on the Buckman bridge to observe his abilities! Back home, it’s parent-teacher conference night for him Sarah and their kid Mason. OB stops by looking for a hanging-out buddy. And Danny “Red-Eye” comes looking for OB.It was a smooth session of #ChampionsNow, mostly - the area effect rules tripped me up a little. But We got to see Nathan put the slap down on some CHIMERA agents with his super speed.Send us a textSupport the showT...
2023-04-1757 minThe Diceology Podcast2Eleven: Jolt - Champions Now AP E00(Edit)2Eleven returns with Jolt!Welcome to Session Zero for Jolt! A Champions Now actual play. I feel like I must remind you I do not receive any kickbacks for the millions of Champions Now sessions, content, or name drops! 🤣Champions Now RPG has been a great source 0f fun for me, and I am thrilled to have Rich Rogers of +1 Forward fame along for the ride!Nathan Fellows was the Jolt! Cola Super Supermodel back in the day. Today, Nathan is an aging, unemployed speedster juggling multiple gigs in Jacksonville. He's got a w...
2023-04-1231 min
The Diceology PodcastLast week in Tabletop Games with Mad JayChampions NowJolt #2 -3 Nathan interviews for the super spokesmodel position at Door Dash but gets an emergency text from his wife and leaves abruptly! 3Pain, the witness protection assassin, has made a house call looking for 'Claire' AKA Sera, Nathan's wife, who's in the program. Later, Nathan and OB discuss OB's debt to Red-Eye, the wetwork job left undone, and a secret lab OB found doing that job. Next Jolt #3: Nathan and OB check out that secret lab with help from Cherry Bomb, Forbes CEO of the year! But they won't like what...
2023-04-0714 minThe Diceology PodcastLast week in Gaming with Whitney Delaglio!Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2023-03-1340 minThe Diceology PodcastGoing West with Jason Lutes (edit)My guests, Jason Lutes and Paul Beakley, and I get lost in the West Marches game style. Jason is currently running his second West Marches campaign using Freebooters on the Frontier and Arden Vul as the setting. I get an incredible amount of joy from running West Marches campaigns, and geeking out with both Jason and Paul on the subject was good stuff.I am very, very sorry for some of the audio. I recorded using a new audio platform and discovered issues with Paul's audio in the recording that didn't appear live. Hopefully, my a...
2022-12-0242 min
The Diceology PodcastLast week in Tabletop Games with Mad JayEasily the week of the West Marches. Starting with my halfling wizard’s Arden Vul adventure to helping my local gamers launch their own IRL West Marches games. It’s got me thinking about other non-fantasy applications.On the Gauntlet, we’ve wrapped up a three-session run of Fading Suns with Lowell Francis at the helm. He also hosted a Zoom talk about Legacy 2E: Life among the Ruins. Best practices, some thoughts around running the game, hacking the game. Pretty much talked me into running Legacy again on The Gauntlet using some of these new insights. Also w...
2022-10-1711 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming #25Fading SunsFading Suns on The Gauntlet. Lowell Francis trying out the system, and you can tell he’s down his prep. I’m playing an Ur-Ukar witch with TK-like abilities. We’ve taken up a mission from a noble to be his escort and eyes and ears in a hostile system. Fading Suns has pulled at me for some years now; I’m hoping to jump-start my future runs of it by playing it first. At its core, it is a Skill + ability roll under system. This was our session one, and we got a small, easy ski...
2022-09-1609 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming 0819Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2022-08-1909 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week In GamingMad Jay talks about Mythras and Glorantha, Twilight: 2000, Horizon Zero Dawn, Cortex and BX D&D with Old School Essentials!Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2022-06-1010 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Misha BSend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2022-05-2730 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Judd (Edit)My guest today is a gamer I admire for his style of DMing and asking players questions. He has the uncanny ability for generating gameable premises. He is the author of the Dictionary of Mu, a favorite sword and sorcery setting of mine. He's the host of the Daydreaming About Dragons podcast and my current Friday morning GM for Trophy Gold. Judd Karlman Blog: githyankidiaspora.comPodcast: https://anchor.fm/daydreaming-about-dragons Twitch.tv/ActualPlayTrophy Gold Worlds of Dungeons Dungeons & Dragons Hutt Cartel | Cartel RPG C...
2022-05-1231 min
Diceology PodcastStraight Outta Kalisz with Geoff Hunt and Neil CarverJoin the Mad Jay Hustle!You can find the full discussion on Patreon/MadJayZero.I’ve recorded this conversation with Geoff and Neil from my Twilight: 2000 Saturday morning game. This group, this time slot, and the game are a magical thing for me right now, and I suspect for the four players as well. I wanted to get their thoughts and feels 10 sessions in about the game, the group, and whatever else comes up.Content warning: Twilight: 2000 is a survival sandbox game set in war-torn Poland in the 2000s. There are parallels with th...
2022-04-0746 minThe Diceology PodcastStraight outta Kalisz with Geoff Hunt and Neil CarverI've recorded this conversation with Geoff and Neil from my Twilight: 2000 Saturday morning game. This group, this time slot, and the game are a magical thing for me right now, and I suspect for the four players as well. I wanted to get their thoughts and feels 10 sessions in about the game, the group, and whatever else comes up. Content warning. Twilight: 2000 is a survival sandbox game set in war-torn Poland in the 2000s. There are parallels with the current invasion of Ukraine and we talk about the early stage of the war in Ukraine. We...
2022-04-0646 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming - Legacy 2E ShenanigansStarted Mothership with Judd. I'm playing a character inspired by Fox Mulder. The pitch: Two scientists investigate the disappearance of their professor and the crew of a science vessel. Twilight: 2000: The discovery of a dead soldier stashed in the woods and a convoy heading toward Barnes's occupied Polish town, sends Bard and Justin off to extract Tracy and Janush. They decide to confront the polish spook, Phil before sneaking out of the encampment and back to their base in the woods.Legacy 2E: Gale and Manta-ray kill each other in the Endless city over control of th...
2022-03-1119 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming: Rich Rogers of Plus One Forward (Edit)Rich Rogers, co-host of Plus One Forward and designer of Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, an ENnie award-winning street-level supers RPG joins me to talk about his gaming week - it's like a mini-con!!Rich's Stone Top duet game with his wife, Vampire 5e, Bounty of the Week (Monster of the Week hack), Gravity Rip, Star Wars Blades in the Dark, Rascals, X-Crawl.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an epi...
2022-02-1029 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week In Gaming: The Whitehack DilemmaRunning:Whitehack + Dungeons and Dilemmas Twilight: 2000: Base building and sweet, sweet sandbox magic.Legacy 2E: Life Among the Ruins. Four families and bad virtual dice rolling!Wrath & Glory 1v1. Tech-Priest visiting a Space Hulk.PlayingAn ex-Stormtrooper in Bounty of the Week on twitch.tv/actualplay, Rich Rogers is running it.A Buzzard-headed god of death in Godbound Northern Death Pantheon.And thinking about Dragons.. 😉Send us a textSupport the showThanks for...
2022-02-0313 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Jay 0106The 2021 Mad Jay Picks!Some year-end metrics and my personal game picks for: Most Surprised Experience. The Old Man Logan Award.The Lethal Sessions AwardMost evocative settingClosest to my heart.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the commu...
2022-01-0611 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in gaming at PAX Unplugged!Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2021-12-1612 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming With Jay 12.08 The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs tracking down the fell sorcerer Gorlanc! Rich Rogers of +1 Forward takes the reigns and will run Bounty of the Week in the new year!Twilight: 2000 - Straight Outta Kalisz the Saturday sessions, we're two sessions into a gas station firefight! Combat is STRESSful! Whitehack RPG has been fun on Tuesday nights, I'm digging the fiction that gets generated as players use the groups and vocations they've picked. I r...
2021-12-0808 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Jay 11.03On the table3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the three sessions and the game so far, the good, the bad, and what's next. Spoilers: Elle is still game!I did a panel called Fresh Starts for Big Bad Con with Lowel Francis from the Gauntlet and Rich Rogers of +1 Forward fame. We talked about starting new games with new groups.I re-started a Twilight: 2000 limited series, a reboot of a one-shot I r...
2021-11-0315 minThe Diceology PodcastVena and the King of Nothing: Ep02 - ChoicesMad Elle and I continue our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. In this episode, she has to make some choices about the humans living in the millhouse she once stayed in with the ghost king. An Elven patrol finds her and her crew at the mill house. And Elle makes anamazing stake setting choice!You can check out our session zero and see how we got here!Vena, Ranger of the Wilderland.
2021-10-171h 06
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Jay 10.11It's a Bye Week!!!The One Ring was a Bye Week. Our Fellowship is in Bree to track down Gorlanc the sorcerer dwarf?! The One Ring has final PDFs released and we're pouring through looking updating our characters!My new Burning Wheel game Vena and the King of Nothing is two sessions in and on the Diceology podcast. Vena is pursued by elves, made an owlbear friend, and learned about Elven grief via human conflict. My lady friend, Elle had a fantastic rules breakthrough and we learned some hard truths about Vena her c...
2021-10-1106 min
The Diceology PodcastVena and the King of Nothing: Ep01 - Ghosts, Tengu and Owlbears!We set off on our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. We learn a bit about the ghost of the murdered King, Tengu in an ancient forest, and an Owlbear!You can check out our session zero and see how we got here!Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can fi...
2021-10-041h 17
The Diceology PodcastVena and the King of Nothing. Session Zero.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2021-10-0230 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Mad JayWe've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!!Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the Gauntlet folksGauntletCon Open Gaming is coming up and I'm running sessions of Twilight 2K and UVG. My lady friend has burned up a 4LP Ranger elf for the Burning Wheel RPG. She's protecting the young elf prince she was supposed to kill for the queen. She has relationships with the murdered elf king's ghost, t...
2021-09-2708 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Mad JayIt's been a couple of weeks and I have lots to cover!We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB!Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and pitched a premise inspired by...The Lion King. We also played the Harry Potter Hogwarts battle game, the co-op, and the PvP version. She LOVES Harry Potter.Two sessions of The One Ring -now weekly on Twitch.tv/actualplay We visited a wight inhabited barrow-tomb! And experience some horse...
2021-09-1419 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week In Gaming With Mad JaySend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2021-08-1613 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming With Mad JayKickstarters...WTF!!Hottest KS - Avatar Legends. The Upset - Tears of a Machine SC Carbon Grey RPG Chronicles of Drunagor Dogmight’s GM screen. Forbidden Lands RPG – Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch A|State Ran/Played:2nd episode of The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlayR3D - Lifted with Champions Now.On my campaign turn with Five Parsecs from Home, a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius.Lancer RPG - The Long Rim.Reading/Prepping:Debtpunk iterating through moves and p...
2021-08-0912 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with JayLast week I ... Ran/Played:The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlayTwilight: 2000 twice!Lifted with Champions Now two times! And thinking about an All-Star-Crisis session.Started Five Parsecs from Home, a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius.Lancer RPG.Reading/Prepping:Session Zero from Nahual Reading Ruin Masters and the White Hack.And then there's Debtpunk.and some stuff about Jorune.What's on your play/read list?-Mad JaySend us a textSupport the...
2021-07-3015 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with JayI nerd-out about designing Debtpunk and Pinx via Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse essays and my Vampire game (SPOILERS)Played:Lancer RPG Hutt Cartel - a Star Wars hack of CartelTwilight: 2000Tears of a Machine Sc -Live on Kickstarter!! PreppingVtM:Rio by Night The One Ring for Twitch/ActualplayNahual A Tabletop RPG of Mexican Urban Fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse.What are you playing or nerding-out about?Send us a textSupport the showThanks for...
2021-07-1713 min
The Diceology PodcastTears of a Machine SC with Russell Collins(Edit) - Diceology 41Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible content for blind and dyslexic students and training others to do the same. As a game designer, he created The Tears of a Machine, a game inspired by his love of science fiction stories and young adult melodrama. He hopes to further access and inclusion in gaming. You can catch up with him at RobotClawTears of a Machine SC- Live on Kickstarter!! Send us a textSupport the show...
2021-07-1046 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with JaySend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2021-06-2607 min
The Diceology PodcastTalking NextPunk with Kira Magrann - Diceology 39Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio.Kira and I go from goth to future punk at the speed of Trans. We discuss how Kira got into games, her goto game to run and what she gets out of the gaming hobby. Check out her library of work including her latest games A Cozy Den and Something is Wrong Here. Kira is also on Patreon where she shares her work and design process.We've talked for a bit o...
2021-06-1835 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with JayMad Jay covers his gaming from last week.Rio By Night. A Vampire the Masquerade ChronicleSorcerer: The Fallen. A Mage setting powered by Sorcerer RPG. Nibiru RPG on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay Sorcerer of Marr'd. Yes another game of Sorcerer set in the Dictionary of MuLancer RPG with my kid.Lifted RPG teasers,Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your...
2021-06-1209 min
The Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Rich Rogers (Edited)My good friend Rich Rogers and I talk about ALL the stuff he played last week! Rich is the creator of ENnie Award-winning Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, a ttRPG about street-level supers who protect their neighborhood. Co-host of +1 Forward podcast. And it's Star Wars Sundays -not Saturdays! 😬Light-Hearted RPG by Kurt PottsOnce more Into the Void Hutt Cartel and Cartel Nibiru RPG Star Wars World Bounty of the Week hack of Monster of the Week Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you en...
2021-06-0535 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Paul Beakley(Edit)This week Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club talks about what he played last week.Paul started the Indie Game Reading Club on Google+ in 2015. It was a king's vault of opinions, reviews, thoughts, and play experiences. Today he covers a ton of small press games on his blog, there you can find links to his Patreon and the club’s slack.The lineup:Sig City of Blades - Jason PitrePlanescape Tears of a Machine: SC - Russel CollinsLifted : Champions Now - Mad JayTwilight Imperium Twilight: 2000 and the Goat Fi...
2021-05-2821 minThe Diceology PodcastLast week in gaming with JayI'm back and covering the week of May 9th, let me know what you're playing in the comments or on Twitter at @madjayzero Sorcerer & Sword & Dictionary of Mu with Judd.Lifted Universe with Champions Now with Kickstarter BackersSorcerer: The Fallen a Mage setting with BrendanRio by Night a Vampire the Masquerade ChronicleThree from Kalisz using Twilight: 2000Stars without Number finale with Misha & Judd on Twitch.tv/ActualPlaySend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you...
2021-05-2208 minThe Diceology PodcastLast Week in Gaming with Jay!Trying out something new by request. Here's how my gaming life played out last week! Let me know if this stuff is useful to you -I'll keep doing it. Behind the scenes of Three From Kalisz , my Twilight: 2000 game.ActualPlay, where I play|stream Nibiru RPG, Sorcerer: Dictionary of Mu, Stars without Number.Tears of a Machine Kickstarter Lifted. My supers setting about humans being suddenly 'uplifted' to something more.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you...
2021-05-1508 min
+1 ForwardTake an Advance... on Apocalypse WorldRach and Rich bring on Madjay Brown of Diceology and Mark Diaz Truman of Magpie Games to talk about ways to get the best out of an Apocalypse World game. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love. Timecodes: 0:05:29 - Apocalypse World for players 0:05:51 - Our Favorite Playbooks 0:11:29 - Some Great Basic Moves 0:21:13 - Apocalypse World for the MCs 0:30:11 - Challenges to Consider 0:37:18 - War Stories (from games we've played) You can find Madjay Brown's show here: https://www.diceology.com/ Madjay's Patreon is h...
2021-04-1249 minThe Diceology PodcastOut of the Ashes with Paul Mitchener - Diceology 33We get out on the existential side of things with Dr. Mitch, the virtual pub landlord.We start easy enough with beer, early gaming life in the UK, and the Virtual Pub origin story. We cover both his RPG works Liminal and the newly Kickstarter funded Out of the Ashes (of which I am a stretch goal writer) then we get off the path into consciousness, non-human intelligences, games we haven't but need to run, and post-cyberpunk. Lots of great book references in this one!Send us a textSupport the show
2021-02-151h 24The Diceology PodcastFifty Games over Fifty years.It’s my birthday month. I had my midlife crisis back in my late 20s returning to civilian life after I left the military. On the 21st of January at 16:20 I’ll be 50. Every year I get a skull tattoo to mark the years that I’m kicking diabetes ass and I make a playlist of 21 songs that I’m currently feeling. This year I will also make playlist of the 50 most important songs and a list of the 50 most important games in my life thus far. Lucky for you, I’ve already got that list of 50 games completed. I think th...
2021-01-1710 minThe Diceology PodcastAll Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 2(Extended)Happy Birthday to me! This is the full, part two version of my talk with Andy Kitkowski made possible by my Patreon supporters, my gift to you!Andy K on TwitterHeavy Kotdama DiscordLiminal RPG Raphael Chandler Judd KarlmanStras Acimovic Ars Magica The Spire RPG Shinobigami RPG Dungeon World Tenra Bansho Zero RPG Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and g...
2020-12-191h 22
The Diceology PodcastAll Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 1.Andy and I talk for two hours and thirty minutes. After editing, I have two hours and fifteen minutes of conversation! This, part one, is our first hour and while we cover a lot of topics, there's a central point that plays out, again, and again!Andy K on TwitterHeavy Kotdama DiscordLiminal RPG Raphael Chandler Judd KarlmanStras Acimovic Ars Magica The Spire RPG Shinobigami RPG Dungeon World Tenra Bansho Zero RPG Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you neve...
2020-12-1946 min
The Diceology PodcastHard Talk with Paul BeakleyPaul and I talk about capitalism, evil races, inclusion vs representation, safety tools, abortion...then we get into our Ars Magica game. Lots of triggery content. Be warned. We recorded this some months back, but I held it because the stuff we talk about is hard, for some folks emotional and full of triggers. Know this: Paul and I do not have the Answers. We talk to get clear on how we game and our approaches to gaming and to be better, safer at it. You can get the extended version of this recording at m...
2020-10-2534 min
The Diceology PodcastSeptember! With Jason CordovaSomewhere along the line, I dropped a couple of podcasts... it's Catch-up weekend! Jason Cordova and I have a solid conversation on the origins of the Gauntlet, our shared challenges of race and what's giving him life!Jason Cordova on TwittterThe GauntletTrophy Gold RPGThe Golden GirlsSend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to su...
2020-10-1041 min
The Diceology PodcastThe Idols of AhrepoPriest returns from the crypts victorious and we discuss the *real* trials of Priest and his new quest! We are playing B/X D&D using the Old School Essentials from Necrotic Gnome Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the commu...
2020-10-0839 min
The Diceology PodcastIn the deep end with Whitney Delaglio - Diceology 28Whitney Delaglio, game designer but wanted to be a Lawful Evil Dolphin. We chat about Play by post games, Aquatic paladins, and the making of her indie game Prism. It turns out we both enjoyed the Netflix series Marco Polo and Scott Bakula. If you're paying attention, there's a Bret Gillan game designer reference and wisdom in here too!Whitney DelaglioWhitney on TwitterIndie Game Reading ClubThe Faceless PlaybookMarco Polo on NetflixSend us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so...
2020-07-2132 min
The Diceology PodcastIt's Goths...all the way down with Lucian Khan - Diceology 27I got a chance to sit down with Lucian Khan and talk about quarantine life in NY. His early game roots with NES, and playing "secret" Vampire the masquerade games! Lucian is the creator of Dead Friend RPG (it's about necromancy!) and he's wrapping up Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths RPG. We talk about his approach to micro-creations and macro-creations. Lucian and I play in a Liminal RPG game on twitch with the folks from Off the Table where he plays a werewolf priest that is all about the forbidden books...
2020-06-2831 min
The Diceology PodcastBig Damn Hero #03: That Damn Cat!In Champions Now Edwards talks about the Now, the stuff that's already in action at the start of a session. We are 'playing it cool' with the Now in this session. There are several conversations our anti-hero Kurt has with the authorities and one Charles requested to see play out. And a cliffhanger ending!Creed "Kat" makes another appearance this issue. You know I'm an X-Man fan. I find Sabretooth fascinating in all his incarnations. Creed is inspired by Sabretooth. In Big Damn Hero we already know she was part of the super-villain group Kurt left and i...
2020-06-0644 minThe Diceology PodcastHappy Anniversary!!I catch up with Maxwell before rambling on about the stuff you talk about when you're celebrating your one year anniversary.Lumpley Games Lucian Khan - Visigoths vs Mall Goths Whitney Delaglio - Prism RPG Andy K - Shinobigami Alien RPG Symbaroum Trudvang RPG Anthony Bourdain w/Luther Campbell (Parts Unknown S05E02) Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support...
2020-05-2618 min
The Diceology Podcastwith Rich RogersRich Rogers joins me today and we run the bases!!We start with his current play of Minimum Rage RPG, a spin-off of the Mutant Year Zero Engine then we get into his various sessions of Star Wars Themed RPGsDogs in the vineyard Star Wars World PBTA AW Burned-Over Cartel/ Hutt Cartel Bounty of the WeekWe talk about Fantasy Flight Games Genesys Shadow of the Beanstalk and about running a Lando Calrissian Chronicles game, and a reality-tv-ish Alien RPG with a big cast. We talk ourse...
2020-04-2850 min
The Diceology PodcastBig Damn Hero #2: SolidsDetective Armstead brings Kurt on a witness relocation job, only someone has plans to move that witness to the grave. Join Charles Picard and I as we continue our Champions Now series. We talk about presence attacks, hazards, and Armstead, Kurt's Hunted Situation.10 Hunted: Detective Armstead, Spokane PD (one person, manipulative), Marine veteran.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so...
2020-04-231h 02
The Diceology PodcastBig Damn Hero #1: IdahoThe Witness Protection Services in Spokane, WA. gets a brand new client. Kurt Renfro. He's a mid-level super-villain F.K.A Bone from the east. He's settling into his new life in the WitSec program.Welcome to our run of Champions Now by Ron Edwards and Hero Games. Charles Picard is playing Kurt Renfro. We start with me monologuing about what we're doing then Charles and I jump right into our first session of Champions Now. We walk around a day in Kurt's new life Now and engage some of the game's mechanics.Here's a...
2020-04-161h 09
The Diceology PodcastThe Young Mandalorian Actual Play - Two Clients, One Bounty.In Episode Two, the Young Mandalorian returns to the Steel having taken on a new bounty...from two different clients!We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire with the books: No Disintegrations (Bounty Hunters), Lords of Nal Hutta(Hutts) and Allies and Adversaries (LOADS of baddies)Cast:Tara720 (Gank) and IG-3OJ - Enforcers for BaelDirector Oshoh - The Imperial Clientand special guest, a IG-100 unit.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to su...
2020-04-1428 min
The Diceology PodcastStepping into the ring with Nathan D. PaolettaOn today’s show, we chat up Nathan D. Paoletta about the 2nd edition of World Wide Wrestling RPG which is running on Kickstarter. We cover NDP game Carry, a game about war RPG and The Things They Carried novel. We also cover Imp of the perverse and a Paul Beakely story. $200 a day podcast about the Rockford files, and a little teaser about Black, Red and White! We spend some time talking through Patreon, Itch, DriveThru and Where to put your content online and what works for Nathan. The joy of the games...
2020-04-101h 24
The Diceology PodcastChanging the Script with Beau SheldonToday we welcome game designer, Beau Sheldon, to the show to talk about his life in gaming. Beau is the creator of Script Change and the author behind Thoughty! He has created several games, the most recent and dear of these being Turn. Beau explains his family background and upbringing and how these have informed creating and playing games in his life. Turn is essentially an exploration of the feelings of alienation and fear he experienced in a small town growing up. It deals with ideas of privilege and hiding, shapeshifting and courage. We discuss games more broadly and...
2020-03-3141 min
The Diceology PodcastThe Young Mandalorian Actual PlayWe begin our Young Mandalorian series on the Steel, a floating shadow port tracking down an AWOL stormtrooper. We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire. One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join th...
2020-03-0928 min
The Diceology PodcastThe Incredible Misha BJoining us is game designer and extraordinary player, Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and More Seats at the Table! Show notes Black Girl Game Works More Seats at the table Orun and New Agenda Publishing Earthdawn Rolemaster by I.C.E Rolegate - a play by chat web app. Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support...
2020-03-0935 min
Daydreaming about DragonsEpisode 47 - AP: Play to find out & Keep the story feral / IG: Green Knight trailerLinks
Lumpley Games |
https://lumpley.games/lumpley-games/ |
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony |
https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/ |
Green Knight Trailer |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJc2tH3WBw|
PATREONS
Daniel Kwan |
https://www.patreon.com/danielhkwan/posts |
Margaret Killjoy |
https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy/posts |
The Indie Games Reading Club |
https://www.patreon.com/igrc/posts |
Rose Bailey |
https://www.patreon.com/fantasyheartbreaker/posts
Madjay Z...
2020-03-0218 min
What People DoEpisode prequel: Brendan Howard tries to make podcastsI had an amazing interview with Jahmal Brown, somebody who gets people and games and nerd culture and is an all-around exciting person to bounce ideas off of. I even got to meet his awesome dog. And my own user error scuttled it all. So. Yeah. His website is madjayzero.com. Check it out.
2020-02-1205 min
The Diceology PodcastJames Mendez-Hodes pilots the Funkadelic MothershipFrom the starships, Jersey City and Manhattan to the OG rapping Greeks and the Wu-Tang Larp, James and I go long and wide in this episode most funkadelic. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to...
2020-02-011h 21
The Diceology PodcastHappy New year with Rich RogersI catch up with Rich after the holidays and talk about what's ahead for 2020. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make th...
2020-01-211h 00
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E03Max and I continue playing D&D using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome. Max is playing Priest the Cleric of the god of Ahrepo. We are using the Mad Lands 'rulings'. Priest and Jefferies track the gnolls to an old village and descend into the crypts beneath. I'm using The Church of Morlorrim for inspiration for the crypts beneath the village.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can fi...
2019-11-0738 min
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E02We continue our 'Trials of Priest' D&D B/X game using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome Old dogs and new faces come for those idols that Priest has.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make th...
2019-10-0741 min
The Diceology PodcastFree League's Mattias Haake on Symbaroum RPGWe cover a lot of Symbaroum ground and the origins of Fria Ligan! We get into the new Alien RPG and Mattias talks about what he likes best about making games. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive co...
2019-10-0338 min
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E01In this VERY short actual play, Priest returns to Westhold with a strange raven idol.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2019-09-1908 min
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 05Rich Rogers resumes GM duties for his superhero game Hit the Streets: Defend the Block. I play the 'grinking' hero Traceur. Tonight it's Traceur Vs. BetaMax! The extended version of this episode where we discuss our Kickstarter experiences is available on my Patreon.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to...
2019-09-1839 min
The Diceology PodcastFree Spacer with Christoph SapinskyChristoph Sapinsky and I talk about sci-fi sandboxes and Free Spacer, then we squeeze in some Dungeon World! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join th...
2019-09-1346 min
The Diceology PodcastMy Life in a 1970s girl gang and the mutant problem.Sarah Doombringer runs Velvet Glove and I get shanked in the school bathroom! Listen to me nerd out about Hickman's X-Men and what it means to me. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Pl...
2019-08-3013 min
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 02Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2019-08-2729 min
The Diceology Podcast2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 01Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2019-08-2731 min
The Diceology PodcastThere has to be an Invisible SunPaul Beakley of Indie Game Reading Club fame and I cover Paul's initial reads and thoughts of Invisible Sun RPG. Spendy games and my own largest game purchase 😱. We get a little into 'paying your people' and my limited 2-Kickstarter experience in this area. Then we sprinkle on a little Into The Mad Lands talk. RinCon is the convention we talk about but never named! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Dic...
2019-08-2450 min
The Diceology PodcastGetting HARDWIRED with Mike PondsmithAt GenCon 2019 I got to sit and talk with Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk, Mekton, and Macross! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Le...
2019-08-0830 min
The Diceology PodcastWhat I did at Gencon 2019GenCon 2019 Recap.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾
2019-08-0614 min
The Diceology PodcastGame designer Liz ChaipriditkulLiz Chaipriditkul and I talk about gaming with friends, the Afterlife RPG Kickstarter and Invisible Sun. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Le...
2019-07-2336 min
The Diceology PodcastHitting the Streets with Rich RogersRich and I nerd out on Star Wars, hacking games and Play-by-post games and Hutt Cartel. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Le...
2019-07-1638 min
The Diceology PodcastGame Designer Camdon Wright : Ep 08I sit down and talk with the incredibly human, Camdon Wright about his 50 state gaming tour and his successful Kickstarter _One Child's Heart_ and getting smoked at Apex Legends. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head ov...
2019-06-2832 min
The Diceology PodcastOrigins 2019 Recap : Ep07Jeremiah and I recap our games at Origins 2019 and Games on Demand. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.Send us a textSupport the showThanks for listening to Diceology! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our re...
2019-06-2129 min