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Matt and Rob are back for the second book of the new MCDM RPG  Draw Steel , now the the time of Monsters .  https://www.mcdmproductions.com/   Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

Matt and Rob review the new MCDM RPG Draw Steel, now fully finished and released into the wild! Learn more about heroic, tactical, cinematic, fantasy combat and you! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

DMs Rob and Matt review what might be the best pointcrawl ever designed, Luka Rejec's Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City 2e . Forests of meat, underwater VOMEs, psychic cats, and not-quite-liches await your caravan as you transverse the prismatic heavy metal wastes on a definitely Dying Earth. It rules. It rocks. Check it out.  Ultraviolet Grasslands 2e: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/colle...

What if Pathfinder was...rational? What if the ruling House Thrune of Cheliax embraced effective altruism as an economic and social policy? What if you taught the god Nethys game theory? What if hot women wanted to listen to lectures about intelligence-promoting alleles and arbitrage? Tune in for the answers to all these questions and more (and by more we mean this game's harems, torture, rape, an...

We talked to Mason Allen about his new game, Ivory Tower! Be a terrible immortal archmage in a fallen world and resolve your disagreements with committee meetings ! https://riftkidgames. itch.io/ivory-tower http://sky.app/profile/riftkidgsmes.bsky.social YouTube.com/@riftkidgames Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/Du...

Matt and Rob report back to you, dear listeners, on what we learned from GenCon, the biggest collection of TTRPG enthusiasts/sweaty nerds in the world! https://playstorypress.org/books/gathering-of-gamers/ Jon Peterson The Cunning Folk Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discor...

Listen to the full episode here !  DMofNone is back from GenCon and over GenCon sicknesses for another edition of Your Kickstarter Sucks: Tabletop Edition (here are entries  one and two ). This time, DMs Rob and Matt are talking about Tabletop News , a crowd-funded video news show, that unlike our previous projects, actually delivered what it promised in a timely fashion. Our discussion gets into...

Matt and Rob talk about writing and presenting good descriptions -- what to do, what not to do, with lots of examples! NOT a writing course! No one wants to hear your gratuitous description of horse fetlocks, Robert Jordan! Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

Matt and Rob do some more campaign prep live, expanding on their sandbox, building more points, and then (the fun part) linking the nodes together! Part 1: 362 - Actual Prep: Sandbox Related Past Actual Preps: The Best Starting Adventure (Part 1) The Best Starting Adventure (Part 2) Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.co...

Matt and Rob do some campaign prep live, this time with a sandbox. We get a little weird with it and only make it about halfway, so stay tuned for part two! Past Actual Preps: The Best Starting Adventure (Part 1) The Best Starting Adventure (Part 2) Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the D...

Matt and Rob return to Greyhawk to talk about the setting guide included in the new 2024 DMG, discuss what's there, and what you can use for your games. Our discussion of the Greyhawk setting: https://dmofnone.libsyn.com/ep-80-greyhawk Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discor...

The savage cries of its defenders now silent and still as its ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction. A 16 HP Dragon - Sage LaTorra Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice.  

Join Matt and Rob for an episode of actual design, where the GMs try to hash out a framework for encouraging interparty conversation and downtime interactions -- with as little input from you as possible. Want your players to argue? Build something? Make love? Fight? Let's see if we can't make that happen. Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...

GenCon! Rebel Scum! WotC layoffs! Plus, DMs Rob and Matt give a gaming update. Then, a call to arms and to battle from Founding Father Gary E. Gygax of the upmost importance. Gamers rise up! Rebel Scum delisted by Roll20 & DriveThruRPG - Chase Carter, Rascal News Rebel Scum 2nd Edition Our reading today, comes from Dragon Magazine #65 , from September 1982.  Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue...

Matt and Rob discuss Pathfinder Adventure Paths #67-78, Reign of Winter and Wrath of the Righteous! We are almost through 2014 folks! Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice.

It's part 2 of our review of the final release of Daggerheart , covering the Game Master and campaign advice in the new system. DMs Rob and Matt review GM advice, GM moves, adversaries, environments, and the six campaign "frames" published as part of the system: the Witherwild, Five Banners Burning, Beast Feast, Age of Umbra, Motherboard, and Colossus of the Drylands.  Daggerheart SRD Follow  Dung...

Matt and Rob talk about names! Generating lists, how to come up with interesting ones, how to use them in your games, some ideas for saving time, and more! Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! 1994 Fighting Baseball Rosters https://whgazetteer.org/ https://www.samcodes....

The full and final release of Daggerheart , a new TTRPG System from Critical Role and Darrington Press, is here. DMs Rob and Matt review it's "fiction first" approach, good math, smooth design, effortless character creation, and still hefty bit of crunch. Is it the fabled 5e dragon slayer?  Daggerheart SRD Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social...

Matt and Rob talk through the masterfully designed first act of the critically acclaimed CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3. The DMs cover what you can learn, what you can steal, and what's not so easy to do in a video game that you can effortlessly do at your table. For the full episode, head to patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone !

Matt and Rob continue to talk about the even more of the 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers published over the last year. This time we review Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant in Part 2 of 5e Heartbreakers series . Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

Matt and Rob talk about the explosion of 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers, including what's good, what's bad, and what's this all about? We talk about Nimble 5e and DC20 in this episode, but there's more to come! Fantasy Heartbreakers Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!  

Open your Cortex RPG books to page 128, and get ready to rock, roll, and worldbuild. DMs Rob and Matt follow take three random genres and attempt to mash them together into settings and campaigns that are ready to run as TTRPGs.  The Genre Table: 1 Comedy 2 Dark Fantasy 3 Espionage 4 Giant Robots 5 High Fantasy 6 High School 7 Horror 8 Military 9 Post-Apocalyptic 10 Religious 11 Road Movie 12 Roma...

Jess Parks of the actual play, I Seduce the Dragon , is back with a Dungeon Master pickle. The best way to work through planning an arc is often to talk through the situation with some other DMs. And that's what DMs Rob and Matt are here to do for DM Jess. To listen to full episode, sign up at  https://patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone   You can listen to at https://www.istdpod.com/  

Matt and Rob discuss the works of Arkady Martine, particularly her Teixcalaan Duology, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace . We're big fans, and these are great books to read for inspiration on worldbuilding, politics, intrigue, culture, language, and much more! Everyone's World is Ending All the Time Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.b...

Spotify is removing some of our old episodes, but don't worry intrepid listener, you can still find them everywhere else. Pardon our dust while we work through the issue.