The Red Dice Diaries

It’s day 12 of #RPGaDay2025, Hannah and myself are discussing paths and how choices can make a game more meaningful. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

It’s day eleven of #RPGaDay2025 and a slightly laboured metaphor sends Hannah and myself down a flavour rabbit-hole. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Origin”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

It’s day nine of RPGaDay2025, Hannah and I are talking about sources of inspiration and what inspires us in our games. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

It’s day eight of RPGaDay 2025, but since Hannah and myself talking so much about exploring in the previous episode, we decided to roll a random alternative for this episode and ended up with the prompt “How proud adventure.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Journey”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Motive”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

It’s day five of #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are delving into the ancient secrets that make RPG worlds and campaigns interesting. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Message". This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

It’s day three of #RPGaDay2025 and we’re talking about that staple of pseudo-medieval RPG games, the tavern. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this first episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Prompt”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

In this first episode for #RPGaDay2025 Hannah and I are looking at the prompt “Patron”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

Prior to our first “official” episode for #RPGaDay2025, I wanted to record a quick episode explaining what I think RPGaDay is and why it’s a great thing within our hobby. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reddicediaries.substack.com

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing my recent experience running a one-shot (loosely) based on the Isle of Dread classic module, but using the streamlined Knave 2E by Ben Milton from Questing Beast . Knave 1E can be acquired from DrivethruRPG or itch.io ,...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing a recent idea I had—inspired by The Monster Overhaul: A Practical Bestiary by Skerples —on how I might streamline spellcasting for NPCs/monsters in my Shadowdark games and Hannah is chipping in with her thoughts on the...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode Hannah and myself are discussing why we have both dinosaurs and dragons in popular RPGs. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this subject, you can leave us a voicemail at:...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing my thoughts on SHADOWDARK after running an open-table game set in Greg Gillespie’s BARROWMAZE using the system. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this sub...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. The good folk at ATELIER CLANDESTINE have kindly provided me with a review PDF of their book WHEN SEA IS CALLING, a guide for nautical adventures, in this video I give my opinion on it. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we ca...

Part one available here . Three visitors to the isolated, rotting corpse-town of Ebon Eaves find themselves trapped in a church, forced to fight for their leaves against both the dead and a horrible blasphemous form of life. - Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php - Tremulus available from https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/120260/tremulus #reddicediaries #rddrpg #tremulus #ttrpg #actualplay...

Three visitors arrive in the isolated American town of Ebon Eaves, two eager to claim their inheritance and another seeking a spiritual project to distract him from the trauma of his past, but little do they know that the tree blocking the way into town is the least of their troubles... - Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php - Tremulus available from https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/120260...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. I’m currently prepping to run The Enemy Within campaign for WFRP 4E, we’ve done a bit of character gen and I’m enthused to get started, but need to get myself up to speed on the current iteration of the rules. One of the things I find useful is a che...

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m talking about the book "So You Want to be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander that I picked up for Christmas. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this subject, you can...

Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m talking about some of my plans for podcasting and content in 2024 and why I’m unofficially referring to this as “the Year of the Hammer.” I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this subject, you can le...

Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m joined by lovely wife Hannah as we discuss the recently released (at time of recording) D&D 5E collectable magazine from Wizards of the Coast. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this subject, you c...

Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m out and about again, and I’ve been thinking about some of the elements that tend to get “short-changed” in some of the streamlined versions of D&D that I’ve been looking at recently. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some bac...