Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

On this week's special episode of Dragon Talk, we're taking you with us to Los Angeles as we unveil our brand new adventure, Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus from D&D Live 2019! First, Host Anna Prosser interviews Chris Perkins, Jeremy Crawford, and Kate Welch in the opening ceremonies with the official announcement. Later, Greg & Shelly interview a myriad of special guests on day one o...

Following another singing intro (don't worry folks, it doesn't last long), Greg and Shelly chat with an actual musician, Chris Funk of the Decemberists! Chris calls in to discuss Portland vs. Saltmarsh, upcoming musical recordings, and of course his appearance at D&D Live: The Descent. But first, Chris Perkins talks through the contentious Blood War in this episode's Lore You Should Know. Here...

Creator, actor, and storyteller Deborah Ann Woll comes on to discuss putting together Relics & Rarities, what the characters are like and what they'll be playing at D&D Live 2019: The Descent! The full schedule and updates, as well as a video dashboard to watch the entertainment and D&D play can all be found at dnd.wizards.com/dndlive2019. Relics & Rarities kicks everything off at...

Do you like pina coladas? Getting caught in the rain? How about joining Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble for this week's Dragon Talk! Eugenio Vargas (DM Jazzy Hands) joins them as Dungeon Master for the actual play podcast The Last Refuge (as well as a great many other projects). Plus, not six, not seven, but in today's Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins discusses The Dark Eight! Here's a guide to...

Shelly is back in town and we are super psyched to banter the night away on the mic about all of the happening at D&D Live 2019: The Descent (dnd.wizards.com/dndlive2019). Also in town are Wolfgang Baur and Steve Winter from Kobold Press in the studio to talk about their work bringing the adventures from Ghosts of Saltmarsh up to fifth edition, and to throw some 40-year-old fantasy shade. In L...

Reuben Bresler has put together an amazing story set in the world of Ravnica in collaboration with The Tome Show and that story is called The Broken Pact. Reuben and cast-members Ashlen Rose, and Jorden Pridgen join host Greg Tito to talk about what makes the show special, what it's like to play a city-based campaign in Ravnica, and what's exciting about the season two finale. Not to mention how e...

Greg invited multi-time Dragon Talk guest and social media expert Lysa Chen to take on co-hosting duties for this episode. We talk about what to expect at D&D Live 2019: The Descent (http://dnd.wizards.com/dndlive2019). 3-day badges on sale now! Then in the interview, Lysa and Greg chat with TK Johnson, Dungeon Master of Tales from the Mists and moderator on the D&D Twitch channel about th...

No Shelly makes Greg feel sad, but he is excited to speak with Stephen David Wark from Ludia on the new mobile game Warriors of Waterdeep available everywhere soon. Greg also talks about D&D Live 2019: The Descent coming to L.A. on May 17-19. You'll be able to watch it all livestreamed but fans can also buy 3-day badges to sit in the studio audience for the unveiling of the new storyline, watc...

Visiting the Wizards office was a dream for Tia Zimmer (@roleplayers_TV), and hosts Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito are known to MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE. Tia joins us for the introductions before we interview her on why Lolth and the Drow mean so much to her, how she got started playing D&D, and what she's streaming now: Hint @PlayNeverwinter! On Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins talks about t...

Dragon Talk hosts Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito talk about meta-gaming anxiety before they speak with Arnie Niekamp, creator and host of Hello from the Magic Tavern. The conversation with Arnie flows from game design, to improv comedy and dungeon mastering before getting into how the podcast Arnie hosts from the magical world of Foon was created. In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins goes into...

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito start this episode by laughing uncontrollably at each other's silly jokes before they bring on Jim Zub to talk about all of the awesome D&D things he is doing this year. And there is A LOT! From the Rick & Morty vs. D&D trade omnibus that's now in stores to the Young Adventurer's Guides he is writing to get young readers into the concepts behind playing...

They're back! The snows are gone, and Greg and Shelly finally return to the podcast studio! With Ghosts of Saltmarsh finally announced, Kate Welch joins the fun to talk through this seafaring adventure. But first, Kate kicks off the new Random Character Generator segment, creating a random character using D&D Beyond. Who exactly is Theramar? And what kind of patron does a tortle warlock serve?...

The god-like presence of actor Matthew Lillard and his gaming group partner-in-crime Bill Rehor stopped by the studio to talk to Shelly and Greg about Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse newest offering. Coming off of the recent announcement of the new adventure book coming from D&D, Beadle & Grimm's will be releasing a Sinister Silver edition of the adventure. Matt and Jon also jok...

The podcast is coming from inside the house! Once more, our hosts are buried under Seattle snow and recording this episode from their homes. Kelli Butler, aka The Opera Geek, joins them to talk about how to be a real-life bard as well as infusing bardic inspiration into all classes. In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins discusses history "across the pond" at TSR's UK offices. Here's a guide to wh...

Braving the snow and ice from Seattle's strange wintry storms, Greg and Shelly run this podcast remotely! Their guest this week: Michael Mallen, Ph. D. a licensed psychologist who has been writing about Dungeons & Dragons and other gaming topics from a psychological perspective since 2011. Then in Lore You Should Know: Chris Perkins treks through the snow to Shelly's house to discuss sahuagin,...

It's birthday day on Dragon Talk! Happy Birthday Shelly! The amazing cartographer Deven Rue joins Greg & Shelly on her own birthday to talk about how she got started making maps (Hint: It has to do with D&D!), how she thinks about creating maps for Dungeon Masters, and her general awesomeness. Lore You Should Know - Mike Mearls jumps in to tell us about his thoughts about the Greyhawk sett...

Two extremely funny people are on this episode and we don't mean Greg and Shelly. Comedians Dan Telfer & Blaine Capatch from the Nerd Poker podcast call in from sunny L.A. to talk through how the podcast began all the way back in 2012, what the new campaign is like, and what kind of a DM Dan is. Sage Advice: Jeremy Crawford returns to talk about bonus action timing and all the fun that entails...

The return of Shelly Mazzanoble in the introduction is immediately felt when we talk about the Bachelor and D&D before setting up the rest of the segments. As for the interview, it's hard to be aware of the medium of comic books and not realize the effect Fiona Staples has had in the last decade. She has won multiple Eisner, Harvey, and Hugo awards for the series called Saga, a mature galaxy-s...

Dragon Talk returns with guest hosts Satine Phoenix & Tanya DePass joining Greg Tito chatting it up before Satine and Greg bring on JP McDaniel (@itmejp) & Max Gonzalez (@gassymexican) to talk about the big milestone episode coming up for their long-running D&D liveplay show on @RollPlay, Court of Swords! 100 episodes is nothing to sneeze at, and we discuss how the show came about, wha...

Happy Holidays everyone! Shelly and Greg speak to James D'Amato, founder of one Shot RPG studio and podcast network in Chicago. Greg takes a moment to thank the listeners for sticking around all year long! For Lore You Should Know on what's becoming a tradition, we go back to a segment recorded in 2016 on the holidays and calendars of the Forgotten Realms. Here's a guide to when each segment on th...

It's not often you get to talk to fan of Dungeons & Dragons who also happens to be involved in governing at the state level. Steve Hobbs is a State Senator and he splits sessions at the Capitol building in Olympia with D&D sessions with his friends. He is the co-founder of OrcaCon, a budding convention in Bellevue, and even has a podcast of his own called Geeks of Cascadia. Shelly and Greg...

Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos have been playing D&D together for years, writing intricate backstories they shared only with other members of their group. They decided to channel that love of cooperative storytelling - and their experience editing books - to work in authoring their own fantasy tale together in a unique way. Greg and Shelly may have author envy. LYSK - Chris Perkins return...

Behind every great game designers is… D&D. Rob Daviau, creator of the Legacy type of board game, calls in to speak to Greg and Shelly about where his career in games began: July 1981 with his first session of D&D. He then discusses how legacy games in which you play a series of board game sessions and change the components and rules over time was inspired by the storytelling of a continuou...

It should make sense that improv comedians have jumped into playing D&D but it's one of those things we need to speak to performers to really understand. Justin Michael and Eric Martin are two such performers and they essentially Dungeon Mastered an original Audible series of comedians telling a crazy story about the movie-popcorn butter capital of Northern California. The plot points were out...

We at Dragon Talk believe the children are our future. We plan to teach them well and let them lead the way by reading them the amazing children's books – The ABCs of D&D and The 123s of D&D – out everywhere now. Author Ivan Van Norman & illustrator Caleb Cleveland join hosts Greg Tito & Shelly Mazzanoble for a fun interview detailing their experiences introducing D&D to their...