Til Dice Do Us Part

Some of you may have superstitions about the number 13, but we hope this vaguely luck themed episode isn't an ill omen for you!  It commences with a little intro to the show for anyone who is new before we leap into another Elevator Pitch .  This time we're discussing the game Fiasco - the game of crazy schemes, plots gone wrong and screwball comedy in the vein of a Coen Brothers movie. ...

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of mental illness, eating disorders, and self-harm.  If you are affected by any of the issues discussed and are struggling, please contact The Samaritans , Mind , or Breathing Space for support. We get things going this week - with a brief interruption involving Tuppy name-dropping - with a serious discussions about Mental Health in Role-playing Ga...

It's time to crack open the mailbag again as the Mailer Daemon brings us another letter for Ask A GM.  This one is from Jon from Yorkshire, who is taking their first steps into running games but is having some issues preparing to play and assembling a group.  Some of this is general advice and some is more Covid-specific problems - how do you assemble a group in a era when you can't go t...

There's a heavy concentration of Arton energy, temporal phenomenon and wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey nonsense going on at Til Dice Do Us Part HQ.  Hop into George's rather, erm, unique time machine and join us on an Elevator Pitch for Doctor Who by Cubicle 7.  Learn how you can battle a Dalek with only six-sided dice, marvel at how useful running away can be as a life skill and discover just...

Things are a bit manic here at Til Dice Do Us Part Headquarters so we don't have time for much prep - we just have to leap straight into our next Elevator Pitch, even if Ailsa's introduction is.... a bit suspect.  But don't let that put you off - we've got a lot to say about The Warren , a game which lets you roleplay out the life of rabbits with a heavy dose of Watership Down...

Once again it's a battle of wills as George runs Ailsa through another Quiz of a tabletop persuasion.  This time it's a True or False on a list of ten module titles, some of which are genuine pre-packaged adventures available for sale for a variety of high profile systems and others are terrible puns, rephrased titles and just terrible word vomit from George's imagination.  Can Ails...

No content warning required for this episode as we go back to basics - or is that back to school?  Find out in our Elevator Pitch in which we discuss Hellcats & Hockeysticks , a roleplaying game of anarchic schoolgirls in a decidedly British vein.  We discuss our experiences of this game - George in running it, Ailsa in playing it - and why we think you should give it a spin Then we go back to...

Content Warning: Sex, Relationships, Sex Work, Pregnancy, Homophobia & Transphobia.  No explicit language is used in this episode. Valentine's Day sees us do a slightly more risqué episode of the podcast, such as a section on World Building where we focus on how to be inspired in creating your characters and game worlds by questions of sex, sexuality, relationships and the like.  So much...

Another Ask a GM  question has come to us - from a different source than usual - and it asks us about playing in a game where one character just doesn't gel with the rest.  You know the type: the Paladin in a party full of rogues, the loner superhero in the middle of a focused team or the Inch-High Incel in the cast of a socially liberal podcast.  How do you deal with a game group that's...

Things might be a bit dark right now but the first show of 2021 opens with a bit of a laugh as we do our first Quiz section.   This episode's theme for the quiz is Licensed RPGs - George has got a list that includes some genuine games and some balderdash books, but can Ailsa tell them apart?  Feel free to play along, and possibly bemoan the games that shouldn't exist but do and vice vers...

We start the show off with an aid to your imagination via our  X Meets Y section, in which we use our TOP SECRET FORMULA to come up with adventure and campaign ideas.  Marvel as, armed with a D20 and no script, we come up with some brand spanking new ideas as we record!  Be inspired to try the same thing yourself!  Doubt that we really did manage to combine medieval literature and 60s sitcoms with...

This time round we bring you another Elevator Pitch   - if Ailsa can stop making Python references long enough - and introduce you to King Arthur Pendragon ,  the Arthurian adventure game by the late Greg Stafford.  We give you some pointers as to whether or not this game would be your cup of tea, both from Ailsa's perspective playing it and George's recollections of running it. There&ap...

Our podcast makes its start with the first of many Elevator Pitches to introduce you to games you may not be familiar with.  This time it's an introduction to Night Witches , a historical game of female pilots battling Nazis on the Eastern Front of World War II.  (Terrible accents optional for you, mandatory for us.) We then move on to our agony aunt section Ask a GM and the topic of how to d...