Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

You may know Joe Manganiello (@JoeManganiello) from True Blood and the Magic Mike films, and he'll be playing Deathstroke in the next Batman movie. In talking to Greg Tito (@gregtito) and Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo), Joe geeks out about all things D&D, fantasy, and comics. Sage Advice – Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) goes over reaction timing in initiative order.

Video game and fantasy writer Matt Colville (@mattcolville) talks with us about getting into Dungeon Mastering, which he expounds upon in his YouTube videos. Sage Advice – Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) discusses temporary hit points and some the design and confusion about it.

Two early adopters of streaming live D&D play online, J.P. McDaniel (@itmejp) and Adam Koebel (@skinnyghost) call in to chat with us about their inspiration. In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett go into detail on the recent happenings in the Forgotten Realms.

Kobold in Chief Wolfgang Baur visits the show to check in with us, talk about his recent DMing for Girl Scouts and what's coming down the pipe in 2017 for Kobold Press. In Sage Advice, Jeremy Crawford wades into the mire of spell targeting and clears away the muck to provide clarity.

The son of D&D co-creator Gary Gygax calls in to talk with about his father's legacy and the upcoming GaryCon he runs in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins talk more about Blackstaff and what that means in the Forgotten Realms.

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito speak to Monica Valentinelli, a prolific creative writer with heavy involvement in all forms of D&D from adventure writing to running and playing games with new players. In Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins jump into the Yawning Portal.

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito talk with an old friend of Dragon Talk, Mr. Jeff Greiner from second longest running D&D podcast: The Tome Show! In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett go over holidays and the calendar in the Forgotten Realms. Happy Holidays! We're taking a few weeks off but Dragon Talk will return in 2017!

Special guest David Eddings from Gearbox Software calls in and talks (a lot) about how he got way into D&D late in life, how he recorded the voice of an iconic character from Borderlands, and how he spoke about his cousin the fantasy author with George R. R. Martin. Before that, Lore You Should Know jumps into a pivotal moment in the Forgotten Realms with Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins – the S...

We hear from some of the folks (DM Reid and Kelsey who plays Brenna) behind the awesome Sneak Attack Podcast, a live play but slightly edited D&D audio adventure. The return of Lore You Should Know! – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins join Greg Tito to discuss the positive and negative planes in D&D cosmology.

D&D is all about creativity and David Reid from MetaArcade (@pokethulhu) talks about a product he's bringing to mobile and PC to help burgeoning D&D players write their own simple adventures for their friends to enjoy. Sage Advice - Jeremy Crawford (@jeremyecrawford) sheds some light on how the Lucky feat interacts with advantage and disadvantage rolls.

On this special Thanksgiving Day episode, we are proud to present a previously unknown part of D&D history – a pilot for a D&D radio show created in 1982 by TSR. Archivist Jon Peterson uncovered this recording and allowed us to present it in full, with plenty of commentary from Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble.

Our friends from L.A., Satine Phoenix and Ruty Rutenberg call in to talk about starting a D&D live stream, playing Eberron in fifth edition and where to get good elf ears, not necessarily in order. We also introduce a new segment called Sage Advice with Jeremy Crawford, lead rules developer for D&D, to clarify rules that affect Armor Class like barkskin and cover.

Veteran author, Matt Forbeck, calls in to chat about his long history with D&D and what you can find in Dungeonology, an introduction to adventuring in the Forgotten Realms. Lore You Should Know – Goblins are crazy little jerks, but Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins talk about they sometimes work together with hobgoblins and bugbears.

The D&D team has honed the process of making books like Volo's Guide to Monsters down to a science and Jeremy Crawford and Emi Tanji are a big part of the reason why. Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble get them to open up about what you can find in that book in this episode's interview. Lore You Should Know – Orcs are pretty cool in Volo's Guide to Monsters, says Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins.

Rock musician Ben Kweller has been a fan of D&D for a long time and we spoke with him about what it's like to play with his crew while on tour, and getting his kids into the game. Lore You Should Know – Chris Perkins explains what makes gnolls special in Volo's Guide to Monsters.

The author of the Legend of Drizzt Do'Urden finishes up the Homecoming series with Hero due out on October 25th, and R.A. Salvatore calls in to speak with Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito) about the book. Lore You Should Know – Chris Perkins dishes about one of his favorite enemies appearing in Volo's Guide to Monsters, the yuan-ti. (No, thank you.)

The Decemberists are big fans of gaming and D&D, and they asked Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) of Eberron fame to design a game based on their album, The Hazards of Love. Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito) asked guitarist Chris Funk (@MRCHRISFUNK) about that process and how the band unwinds playing games on the road. Chris Perkins gives some insight on Mindflayers in Lore Yo...

Erin M. Evans (@erinmevans) calls Trevor Kidd (@the_trevor_kidd) and Greg Tito (@gregtito) to chat about what it's like writing the conclusion to the Brimstone Angels saga. Chris Perkins goes over the Shadwfell in Lore You Should Know.

Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur (@monkeyking) drops by the D&D offices again to show off a copy of Tome of Beasts from Kobold Press to Shelly (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito). Lore You Should Know – Chris and Matt discuss the relationship between Volo and Elminster.

Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito) speak with a special guest Ben Cameron on his experiences running D&D for kids' events, as well as games for adults, all within the same shard universe created by his crazy imagination. Lore You Should Know – Chris Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnd) and Matt Sernett (@sernett) discuss the Feywild!

Recorded June 2016. Two of the cast members of Critical Role come on to chat about what it's like playing twin characters for more than three years, while in Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett jump into discussing an elusive group in the Forgotten Realms called the Kraken Society.

A new D&D show emerges from FunHaus in L.A., and we speak to Dungeon Master Dan Schneider and player Elyse Willems about the crazy shenanigans on Twits & Crits. In LYSK, we delve into the final faction, the Emerald Enclave, and talk about what a new group is doing during Storm King's Thunder.

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito pick Chris Perkins' brain about how he writes such epic adventures like Storm King's Thunder, and what to expect in the book that will be available everywhere on September 6th. Lore You Should Know - Matt and Chris move on from last week's segment to discuss Waterdeep, City of Splendors.

The latest module for Neverwinter is out and it's a doozie. Thomas Foss, the new (old) lead designer of Neverwinter comes on Dragon Talk to talk about the three new zones, characters you'll meet and playing Chainmail in 80s. An apt Lore You Should Know segment has Perkins and Sernett discussing the history of the city of Neverwinter.

Caleb Gillombardo and Michael Ross from the RPG Academy podcast stop in to talk about Michael's Gen Con experience and their D&D origin stories. Lore You Should Know - Matt and Chris delve into the Zhentarim and the Order of the Gauntlet factions and what they are doing with Storm King's Thunder.