Til Dice Do Us Part

“Back once again with the renegade (games-)master" , it's a new episode of Til Dice Do Us Part for the first time in quite a while!  Our Pride Month special starts with a section on Queer Themes In Roleplaying Games.  We discuss how LGBTQIA+ history intersects with roleplaying games - setting the scene for how world history developed alongside gaming - and then explore how players and GM...

We couldn't let 2023 end without giving you another episode - even if George has been haunted by some ill tidings of late - and so here we are with a rather chaotic episode we hope you'll still enjoy.   First up is a Quiz , where George once again asks Ailsa to guess the prices of the random nerdy tat he has purchased.  (With a slight twist, this time - only 6 items are actually purchase...

Our usual podcasting pair becomes a talking troika in this episode, as we are joined by education writer and RPG creator DC Bradshaw .  With his help we aim to answer an Ask A GM in which the listener enquires about introducing roleplaying games to an audience of children and how you can tailor your rules and setting towards them.  Since DC Bradshaw has written his very own D&D-for-kids versio...

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley", as Robert Burns once said , but we've just about managed to get an episode published for January.  Join the gang at Til Dice Towers as we talk roleplaying games but also Scotland in this latest Ask A GM - with Graeme from Vancouver asking us what is the most Scottish roleplaying game.  That's a surprisingly complex question.  W...

After slaving away at a hot laptop, George and Ailsa bring you a bumper episode out of Til Dice Towers just in time for Christmas.  Why not download this while you are travelling home to see family or friends and hear us talking about... well, travelling, as we discuss World Building and how the differing methods of getting around your campaign world can have a whole lot of knock-on effects on the...

What's this?  A Til Dice episode appearing in your feed?  Yes, that's right, we're here to let you know that we're getting ready to make a triumphant return - and even have a competition to announce to celebrate our second birthday. Tasty treatos all round! The Ramshackle Games website is https://ramshacklegames.co.uk/.   You can find many miniatures for sale there, but in part...

A little PSA follows to let you know our schedule is going to be a bit more relaxed for the next wee while.  We're still going to be putting out content, but not as regularly as before. Thanks for your patience and your continued support - it means a lot to us. Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast Our theme mu...

OK, this trip to London didn't go quite as planned... this episode has been edited in London City Airport while the Til Dice gang awaits the release of the Mailer Daemon from a crime he absolutely definitely did commit.  Still, we recorded some stuff beforehand that we can share with you, including this World Building discussion on the topic of cities.  They are an integral part of our real l...

Covid has come and gone from Til Dice Towers, which means we can finally get back to the studio and record you an episode again!  We are opening with an Elevator Pitch for The Excellents , an RPG of being an Awesome Princess produced by the wonderful people at 9th Level Games .  A game themed around media like She-Ra or Sailor Moon , we talk about the pros and cons of this little game and what hap...

We may be a little late (and a little tired) but we got there in the end!  It's Episode 29 of Til Dice Do Us Part and it starts with a return to the Ask A GM mailbag.  The Mailer Daemon might be behaving a bit weird but he still brings us a letter from a player who is finding their GM's constant use of miniatures in every combat irritating.  In our answer we'll talk about the histor...

This episode it's sequel central at Til Dice Towers - both our sections are flashbacks of sorts to topics we have addressed before.  First off it's a Quiz about licensed role-playing games: ten true-or-false suggestions, just like Episode 4 .  This time it's a whole new mix of properties for Ailsa to guess if they really got a tabletop RPG release or if it's absolute nonsense. ...

Get yourself some popcorn, sit yourself down on your couch, and turn on the television - it's time for an Elevator Pitch that introduces Primetime Adventures .  This is a game we've mentioned a few times before in the podcast but not gone into any detail about until now.  We'll explain how the system works, how the unusual series planning operates, and hopefully not get lost backsta...

The new year is well and truly underway now, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume new episodes. First up it's  an Elevator Pitch in which we discuss one of the most gothic of games:  Vampire the Requiem , the 21st century reboot by White Wolf of their Vampire RPG.  We hope to help you decide whether this is for you by discussing our experiences reading and playing this game, an...

It's Christmas time!  Join the Til Dice Do Us Part team for a party.... er, I mean a very sensible team meeting in this special podcast episode!  First up, we've got some inspiration as George & Ailsa share their experiences at advent-themed adentures when they talk about Christmas In Gaming. They'll tell you about some Christmas-y themed adventures they have played in a few dif...

There has now been a whole year of the Til Dice Do Us Part podcast.  Truly, that's a magical milestone.... and we've got a magical World Building discussion to start things off.  Join us as we discuss things to consider with your game world involving magic-users, psychics, super-powered individuals and the like.  How common are they?  How are they trained?  How are they legally controlle...

Honestly  - we were only away for a week and it's absolute chaos here at Til Dice Do Us Part studios!  We can still knock together an episode however, and in amongst the pandemonium we've got another Quiz for you.  This time it's Play Your Monsters Right : a format inspired by the old British quiz show Play Your Cards Right   (or Card Sharks if you want to get North American about t...

The secret is out - Ailsa and George got a Civil Partnership!  This special episode of Til Dice Do Us Part takes you right into the thick of the geek social event of the decade, where the great and the good are all in attendance.  We're going to take you to our hotel room right after the ceremony for a little Quiz where we'll be guessing the prices of some high quality, much desired item...

We're back!  We've rested our bodies and minds and healed any alligator inflicted injuries, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume!  Our first episode back is also our Halloween special, and we start proceedings with a bloodcurdlingly brilliant  Elevator Pitch.  The game we are talking about this time is Spooktacular by Yaruki Zero Games , a retro-clone that recreates the lo...

George might be a little.... blood-lossy, but he's still going to try and run Ailsa through a Quiz segment.  We are talking about the choose-your-own-adventure style adventure gamebooks that so many of us grew up with - whether it was Fighting Fantasy books or more Famous Five .  It seems everything had game books made of it in the 80s and 90s... or did it?  With our true or false quiz we&apo...

Sometimes this podcast brings you carefully planned items with meticulously honed scripts.... and sometimes we just wing it, as we do in this episode's X Meets Y segment.  Once again George and Ailsa have a list of 20 books, films, TV shows and games and they're going to try and randomly combine some pairs together to come up with some gaming inspiration.  Hear us combine Netflix shows w...

Content Warning: This episode contains brief references to sexual assault, violence, racism, torture, starvation, child death, mental health, panic attacks and drug use.  There is no detail to these mentions and no explicit language is used. Get your children out of the room, switch off Granny's hearing aid, and make sure that your boss can't hear what's on your headphones as we hav...

Summer is here, and maybe you're out and about enjoying some barbeque foodstuffs or picnics, so we've got a food themed episode to get your geek taste buds going.  First up is a World Building segment in which we discuss how to incorporate food into your settings when you are designing cities, countries, cultures and planets.  What sort of food are your players likely to find in a local...

Another fortnight has passed and once again the Til Dice Do Us Part gang are here!  Let's open up proceedings with an Ask A GM and get the mailbag open - if Ailsa can arrive on time - and find out how to deal with a group where not everyone has the same level of investment in your setting.  What do you do when one person knows everything about Marvel superheroes and another person can't...

Maybe your brain is struggling in the summer heat, but we hope you can still give our latest Quiz a go.  This time round, George has prepared a list of monsters where some but not all first originated in Monster Manual V - yes, third edition got up as far as a fifth Monster Manual!  Ailsa is going to have to rack her brains to deduce which of these bizarre creatures are just bizarre enough to have...

It's been a while since we did one of our X Meets Y Mashups so lets get our D20 table of random TV shows, books, films and other media to see what we can do!  George and Ailsa will try, with no preparation, to combine two franchises together for inspiration in creating RPG characters, adventures and campaigns.  This time round we've got two Anime staples, a French comic book classic, and...