Grumpy Dungeon Masters

The Grumpy Dungeon Masters are joined this week by none other than Ed Greenwood. He is the creator of the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons and a long time author. Enjoy!

The guys got a chance to sit down with authors Bruce & Carson Summers. Both of them are writers for the Legends of Greyhawk. An organized play campaign that is run at conventions that continues stories in the Dungeons & Dragons greyhawk setting.

Your Grumpy Dungeon Masters talk about a rule for 5.5 that should probably have more clarity, size categories for Dungeons & Dragons monsters, issues with categorizing large collections, and a Shadowdark hex crawl.

A deep talk on AI being used by ADHD people for their home games, a new Ravenloft book for Dungeons & Dragons, and the guys meeting up at a swap meet to trade games.

The GDM guys continue their talk from a couple of weeks ago about high level Dungeons & Dragons. This time they focus in on 4th and 5th editions of the game and why they break down at high levels. Enjoy!

The Grumpy Dungeon Masters sit down this week and talk Vikings with Erica Lowe, the creator of Ragnaborg. It's a Mork Borg system based game taking place during Ragnarok, where you get to play vikings and battle for your own survival! Listen in and enjoy!

The GDM guys talk about all the different editions of Dungeons & Dragons and how they each handle high level play. They also dive into the latest Wizards of the Coast fiasco and their digital downloads. Also a character death in Caverns of Thracia.

The Grumpy Dungeon Masters get a chance to talk with the creators of the Secret of Weepstone, Hunter & Heavy. It is a PC video game coming out that is based heavily on the old school Dungeons & Dragons systems. The game is atmospheric and everything roleplaying fans could want in a video game!

The guys are joined by Christopher's better half Shelley to talk about the Kickstarter Historica Arcanum: The Coven Of Salem. It's a Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5 setting based on historical events of the Salem Witch Trials. Also we get some more tales of Adventurers League!

The Grumpy Dungeon Masters sit down and talk with Sonja Akright, the Director of the Geneva Lake Museum. Having grown up in Lake Geneva she had an interesting childhood getting to play Dungeons & Dragons with many of the creators of the game. Many stories are told so listen in!

With the passing of Lou Zocchi, the dice world lost a legend. The Grumpy Dungeon Masters pay their respects. Also Dan plays Hero's Quest with his kid, Christopher loses at Adventures League again, and a renaissance festival!

Christopher continues to put his Adventurers League players through the meat grinder. The guys also talk about carousing in their Shadowdark game. Some people lost it all! Also Gygax's Appendix N and the inspirations within!

The guys talk about mega-dungeons this week. Both Castle Whiterock by Goodman Games and Castle Zagyg by Troll Lord Games opened up on backerkit recently. Also more info about Ravenloft: The Horrors Within and Dan got to play Greyhawk Wars.

This week the Grumpy Dungeon Masters finish up their tales from the Journey to Gary Con. It involves stories from Kingdoms of Keshenar, Indiana Jones, Ragnaborg, and Christopher running Adventures League.

The Grumpy Dungeon Masters sit down and talk with Dungeon Damsel & Xane Daniel, the creators of the Druskara setting for Shadowdark. It's a living setting with incredible art. Check out the Backerkit at https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dungeon-damsel-creations/druskara-a-twisted-fantasy-world-setting-for-shadowdark-rpg?gad_campaignid=23658262033

The guys return from Gary Con and talk about their adventures at the convention. This included several games of Pirate Borg, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, X-Crawl Classics, and some Call of Cthulhu.

Is Dungeons & Dragons starting dungeons the best way to introduce players to Role Playing Games or are their better games for it? The Grumpy Dungeon Masters look into it. Also Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures with a lich and a D&D game of Hunt the Tarrasque.

This week Wizards of the Coast released their road map for the current year. The guys take a look at what's ahead for Dungeons & Dragons. They fellas also take a look at Shadowdark Cursed Scroll #5, D&D with an AI Game Master, and play by email RPG's from the past.

The guys sit down and chat with Ahmed Suffety about his newest Kickstarter Tales From the Tape Deck. He and his partner have designed several one shot RPG's that are intended to be played along side of music to get the full experience. If you want to play some Mad Max style game to 80's hair metal, vampires missing their coffins, or possibly some androids trying to free their brethren then this is...

Kobolds have been a part of Dungeons & Dragons forever, but they often time get no love. Well the Grumpy Dungeon Masters are here to change that! Also we have even more Zines for Zine month and we even talk miniature wargaming!

This week the Grumpy Dungeon Masters talk about a dungeon design competition using 8 bit video games. Get 3 random Nintendo games and make a dungeon out of them. Also Dan dives into 2nd edition dragons and nearly loses his mind on how much there is.

This week the guys are joined by the Storytellers Collective guys, Rick Heinz and Erik Frankhouse. They created The Black Ballad, which is a Dungeons & Dragons 5E setting which begins when your character dies. Time to play around in the afterlife!

February is Zine month and the guys are going to talk about all the wonderful roleplaying zines they get to pick up this year. Christopher talks about scams running around the RPG community and he also dives into the latest Ed Greenwood Dungeons & Dragons novel.

The guys go through the latest Dungeons & Dragons Unearthed Arcana. They also dive into the current lawsuit against the company over Magic the Gathering. Also the Grumpy DM's list their top 5 RPG's of all time.

Lots of stories this week. Christopher went to Scarab Con and met a bunch of people. Dan & Kristian played Fabula Ultima, a JRPG. Kristian talks about Delve, Jay almost TPK's his players, and Christopher gets chased by a black bear.