Dungeon Master of None

"The average American spends $10,345 a year on healthcare. That's two vampires." DMs Rob and Matt are joined by  Olivia Hill of Machine Age Dreams to chat about the new pay-what-you-want quickstart iHunt: Dollars & Draculas .  Gather your precariat crew and swipe through the apps because it's time to bring monster hunting in the gig economy to the masses with this 5e D&D port of the best-selling F...

Matt and Rob talk with Patrick and Emily of Unbalanced Encounters ! The DM quartet talks inspiration, running games, choosing your players, the state of actual play, choosing systems, and more! Unbalanced Encounters 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 Discord!

Letters! DMs Rob and Matt are here to answer your TTRPG questions and provide some wanted and unwanted advice for your game mastering.  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, The Avett Brothers - Ten Thousand Words.

Matt and Rob delve even deeper into the twisted mind of one John Wick (no, the other one). We invite you to imagine, if you will, a 35 year-old man winking and smirking at his 19 year-old female co-worker in the Neopets office... 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 are all by themselves! Get into to your gaming isolation tanks and get ready to play some great solo TTRPGs: Thousand Year Old Vampire Ironsworn Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log Anamnesis 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...

Matt and Rob complete the trifecta and review the final core rulebook of the 2024/2025 5e update: the Monster Manual! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

Wizards of the Coast finally realized its 3d virtual tabletop for 5.5e Dungeons and Dragons: Project Sigil. While DMs Rob and Matt agree it is technically 3d and virtual and a tabletop...is Project Sigil a good VTT? Also, are you Gleemaxing?  Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone...

Matt and Rob sit down with Jess, Cristina, and Ryan of I Seduce the Dragon to talk about D&D, actual plays, rockets, pornography, home games, dungeon mastering, and more! Thanks to the ISTD for coming on and talking with us! https://www.istdpod.com/ YouTube Patreon

WARNING: The second half of this episode is for GENERAL MANAGERS ONLY .  DMs Rob and Matt understand that your boss is a S.O.B. Triangle Agency is weird game ( X-Files meets Severance meets 2025 capitalism). It is a great game. It may be one of the best designed TTRPGs we've ever read. Clock in. Save the world? Triangle Agency https://www.hauntedtable.games/   Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blu...

Matt regales Rob with tales from his favorite (now abandoned) setting: Crimson Skies! Flying aces take on sky pirates over the plains of a shattered America in a cool dieselpunk environment. We talk about what's cool, what you can take away, and how you might adapt Crimson Skies for a game of your own. Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   ht...

Recorded this whole podcast in an hour. Cool down. Cool down. Rob and Matt suffer through one of the edgiest and worst books of Game Master ever published, John Wick's  Play Dirty . Head over to our Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone) to hear the full episode! 

Matt and Rob talk about how to run chases -- whether it's pursuing a suspect through a crowded market, blazing down the highway in your cybercar, or weaving through asteroid canyons in your trusty starfighter, we've got you covered. Systems: D&D 4e/5e Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition Blades in the Dark Genesys Pathfinder 2e Call of Cthulhu 7e Night's Black Agents Follow  Dungeon Master of None on...

Put on your scarves, cook some curry, and launch your wind gliders into the skies of Ophoi, because DMs Matt and Rob are reviewing Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities,  a fascinating game that is radical different in its world-building, goals, and mechanics from most TTRPGs. Zephyr Rules Preview Zephyr Store at Araukana Media Follow  Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky....

Matt and Rob strap on their spurs and ride off into the sunset with Keith Baker and the Eberron crew, reviewing Frontiers of Eberron , the latest (and maybe last?) Eberron splatbook for 5e. It's got a gazetteer, a starting town, an adventure, monstrous races, warforged cowboys, and more! Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone https://www.dmsguild.com/product/493112/Frontiers-of-Eberron-Quickstone   Foll...

What if a currency was  meta ? DMs Rob and Matt discuss the systems, strategies, tips, and tricks for deploying your TTRPG's bennies/fate/destiny/power/plot/hero points effectively. 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, Serengeti; Odd Nosd...

Matt and Rob dig deeper into the 2024 edition of the Dungeon Master's Guide! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

Or, anti-gift guide...look, we all, as game masters, get nice gifts from our players, but in this episode, we take a look at the mostly cheap stuff that is nice to buy for yourself.  Join DMs Rob and Matt and head over to the art supply store, the craft store, the office store, and maybe, the game store for our first "shopping episode." Plus, a secret discussion at a tool of eldritch power...the s...

Matt and Rob talk about the new Amazon Prime short film anthology, Secret Level, especially the episode about Dungeons and Dragons! It's got dragons, it's got paladins, it's got spells (it does NOT have dungeons) -- come find out how we managed to talk for an hour about a fifteen minute short. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky :  https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social   https://www....

DMs Rob and Matt are here to wish you a happy holiday season and to answer your Dungeon Master and TTRPG questions and letters: how to start a campaign collaboratively, dealing with identity with games and SF&F, reading RPG books quickly, learning new systems. and a dozen or so ideas for weird space worlds! Then, Matt and Rob are invited to test out a new AI-based RPG by a publisher that definitel...

Matt and Rob return to Greyhawk to talk about the setting guide included in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, discuss what's there, and what you can use for your games.

John Harper is back in Doskvol with an expansion set of rules, lore, and systems for  Blades in the Dark . DMs Matt and Rob discuss the great set of ideas for anyone who runs a Forged in the Dark game, or is just interested in good TTRPG design.  Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts https://johnharper.itch.io/deep-cuts   https://bladesinthedark.com/   Previous BitD episodes: https://dmofnone.libsyn.com/2...

Rob talks about Pillars of Eternity,  one of the best CRPGs of the last twenty years, what's cool about it, what you can learn from it, and how to incorporate it into your games. https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Pack your bags and stuff your turkeys! Let's discuss building calendars and holidays for your campaigns and one-shots. 

DMs Rob and Matt are back  to discuss the good, the bad, and baffling of the new 2024 5th edition (revised!) Dungeon Master's Guide .  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Weezer - In the Garage.

Matt and Rob talk about some exciting news in the TTRPG world, talk through some sticky bits in their games, and reflect on the state of the world and the hobby (but in a chill way, we promise) https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)