Dice in Mind

Friend of the podcast Jim Johnson is back! An accomplished author and project lead for Star Trek Adventures at Modiphius, Jim joins us to talk about the creative process behind the Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook. We see this latest expansion of the line as Jim's love letter to Star Trek. Join us for the second half of our two-part conversation on starships, Trek, and many things adjacent. Pl...

Friend of the podcast Jim Johnson is back! An accomplished author and project lead for Star Trek Adventures at Modiphius, Jim joins us to talk about the creative process behind the Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook. We see this latest expansion of the line as Jim's love letter to Star Trek. Join us for the first half of our two-part conversation on starships, Trek, and many things adjacent. Ple...

This Week's Guest: Dr. Erin Macdonald Erin Macdonald (PhD, Astrophysics) is a tattooed one-woman STEM career panel, with recognition as a researcher, speaker, engineer, and consultant before her current career. She lives in Los Angeles working as a writer and producer and is currently the science consultant for the entire Star Trek franchise. She is available for staff writing positions, consultin...

This Week's Guest: Steve Kenson Steve Kenson has been a professional RPG author and designer since 1995 and has worked on numerous books and games, including the award-winning Mutants & Masterminds, Freedom City, and Blue Rose for Green Ronin Publishing. He has written nine RPG tie-in novels and runs his own imprint, Ad Infinitum Adventures, which publishes material for Icons Superpowered Roleplay...

This Week's Guest: Laurie Ulster Laurie Ulster is a transplanted Canadian who somehow survived a very confusing adolescence as the lone female Star Trek fan in middle school, then fell in love with Manhattan about 10 minutes after her arrival at NYU. After many years as a television producer, where networks like MTV had her producing everything from musician interviews in dive bars all over the Ea...

This Week's Guest: Dr. Megan Connell Dr. Megan Connell is a board-certified psychologist in private practice who formerly served in the US Army. In her current work she utilizes tabletop role-playing games as a clinical intervention. In 2017 she co-founded the media company Geeks Like Us which focuses on geek and gaming culture. She is the author of the upcoming book Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy....

This Week's Guest: Dr. Gwendolyn Marshall Dr. Gwendolyn Marshall (she/her) is a full-time game designer for 2CGaming, as well as a frequent freelancer for Pinnacle Entertainment, MCDM, Archvillain Games, and more. She is also designer and co-owner of Arcanist Press, with whom she won two ENnie Awards. Her titles include Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e and S5e: Superheroic Roleplay...

This Week's Guest: Us! We take a step to the side this week from our regular schedule of interviews to chat about the joy (and potential) of worldbuilding. Along the way, Brad and Jason share their own creative processes of developing an entirely novel setting for D&D (Brad) and a new world-within-canon setting for Star Wars (Jason). It's time to grab a pencil and some paper! Welcome to Dice in Mi...

This Week's Guest: Ben Riggs Ben Riggs is a writer, teacher, and podcaster. He traveled the world teaching in his 20s. During his journeys, he tutored a princess, saw both the Sahara and Mt. Fuji at dawn, and discovered his wife and fellow traveler, Tara. He has settled down in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he teaches English and history, and he and Tara have a son, Simon. Ben’s RPG...

This Week's Guest: Travis Baldree Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate. Apparently, he now also writes books. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his very patient family and their small, nervous dog. Please also out Travis' creative...

This Week's Guest: David Mack Please join us as we chat with prolific New York Time's bestselling author and grandmaster David Mack about his writing in and beyond Star Trek, his thoughts about where science fiction is headed, and his insights into the business of writing and publishing novels. Please also out David's creative work: David Mack (website) David Mack (Amazon author page) @DavidAlanMa...

This week, we dive into the question of how to play a robot/android/droid as a PC or GM one as an NPC. It is a topic we have been thinking about for more than a year and finally had the time between interviews to record. Whether it be in the roleplaying worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Android, Starfinder, Dungeons & Dragons, or Red Dwarf (anyone? anyone?), we explore what it means to not be...

We are pleased to bring you this week our interview with author, editor, and improv-er (is that a word?) Karen Twelves. As you will hear, Karen has keen insight into the potential of improv to improve our game not only at the table, but also in the real world. She is also a dynamic and lovely individual. Enjoy the chat! Please also out Karen's creative work: Improv for Gamers (workshops) Improv fo...