Dungeon Master of None

The making of great TTRPG mixtape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You got to kick it off with a killer, to grab attention. Then, you got to take it up a notch, but you don't want to blow your wad. So, then you've got to cool it off a notch. Like anything with role-playing games, there are a lot of rules .  Anyway, we've started to make a tape, on the podcast, for ourselves and for our players. F...

Hey, we were working in the lab late one night...well, you know the rest! DMs Matt and Rob are here to discuss some of the best science fiction creatures, NPCs, allies, and antagonists to drop into your TTRPG, no matter what the genre. We've got aliens, things, shrikes, slake moths, bioraptors, and more!  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Alex Clippinger - Th...

Ready your vans and your airbrushes, because we are back to video and trip down memory lane to put into context the art of the new 2024 D&D Player's Handbook: cool art, bad art, trends, nitpicks, and more! Listen to the full video episode at https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; David Bowie - Andy Warhol. 

Matt and Rob discuss Gradient Descent , a module for Mothership and the greatest sci-fi megadungeon made out of an abandoned android manufacturing facility in deep space (and also maybe the best sci-fi megadungeon period). https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Soen - Monarch

Hey bud, listen up. Your D&D edition is going through some changes. Changes can be scary! But changes can also be good for us. The Ranger? No, not for the Ranger, but good for other better classes. Look, changes are how we grow. You can use Sleight of Hand to pick a lock now? Maybe! We don't actually know. In conclusion, Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, 2nd Edition (Revised 2024) is a land of con...

Matt and Rob review DUNGEON MASTERS, a very slickly produced audio drama podcast starring Wil Wheaton and Jon Hamm, which is even more confusing than it sounds. Spoiler: it's not very good! Listen to the whole episode at https://www.patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone  

Matt and Rob talk with Chase Carter of Rascal News about how Hasbro is trying to integrate AI into Dungeons and Dragons and what, if anything, we need to be worried about. rascal.news Corporate AI Will Save Creatives for Last Subscribe to the DMofNone Patreon for bonus episodes and homebrew!  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

This review "is a nonliving, distinct thing." After ten years of Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons, several years of playtesting and teasing, and many months of hype, the 2024 Revised Player's Handbook is here. Is it a perfect triumph? A tour de force? Slightly better than the 2014 one? Actually 5.5e? A missed opportunity? A sign of the stagnation and rot at the heart of firms in the core of the...

Draw Steel? Yes, we will! DMs Matt and Rob review the first backer playtest for MCDM's tactical heroic cinematic fantasy role-playing game,  Draw Steel !  Draw Steel Backerkit & Pre-Order MCDM Productions Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon for bonus episodes and homebrew!  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Carpenter Brut - Turb...

Matt & Rob review three more Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Jade Regent, Skull & Shackles, and Shattered Star! Ninjas, pirates, and, um, sin, we guess. https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Shogun Theme Alestorm - You Are a Pirate Flogging Molly - Seven Deadly Sins

We are come forth out of that First Mystery, which is the last mystery, that is the four-and-twentieth mystery! DMs Rob and Matt have returned with the hidden and secret rules in Dungeons and Dragons 5e! The weight of all past editions has burdened (or blessed) the current ruleset with occluded structures and strange leftovers that are often not fully explained in the text but are still there in t...

Matt and Rob review How To Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck , a collection of essays on adventure design by Goodman Games  -- a fascinating collection of advice and tips from over a dozen experienced TTRPG writers. Check out the whole episode on our Patreon !

Matt and Rob lay down the law with a list of DM commandments -- thou shalt not's and all that. Break them at your own peril! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

It's the final countdown of Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons adventures and campaigns. Classics like Curse of Strahd and Tomb of Annihilation stack up against the rest? Tune in to find out and to see the final rankings!  Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon  where you can watch the  video version of this episode in addition to all our bonus episodes and homebrew (including our best starting advent...

The March of Campaigns continues! Every single official 5e Dungeons and Dragons adventure, module, and anthology will be reviewed and ranked. Dungeon Masters will weep. Players will laugh. The end of Fifth Edition is nigh.  Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon  where you can watch the video version of this episode in addition to all our bonus episodes and homebrew!  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMa...

It's time to put the 2014 version of 2014 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons to bed. And what better way to say goodbye than judging and ranking every official D&D adventure, anthology, and campaign from the last ten years. Join us for the complete official and final 5e adventure tier list! Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon where you can watch the video version of this episode in addition to all ou...

Matt and Rob review the FINAL D&D 5e adventure, which is another anthology: Quests from the Infinite Staircase! Check out the whole episode at patreon.com/DungonMasterOfNone !

Game over, man! Game over! Rob and Matt review Mothership 1e, a TTRPG about the galaxy's worst jobs. There's sci-fi, horror, and some of the best game design and DM advice you'll read this century.  Mothership https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/collections/mothership-core-rules   Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: P...

Matt and Rob return to the archives to review three adventures each from back issues of Dungeon and Dragon magazines! Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Anna's Archive Steel Shadows Fedifensor Mightier Than the Sword The Chapel of Silence Chadranther's Bane The City Beyond the Gate Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Generique,...

DMs Rob and Matt attempt to roll a persuasion check on you the listener! Let us convince you that there are other and better ways to set the scene, the stakes, and the execution of social role-playing encounters. In three parts, we discuss why social encounters can be difficult or different, the interesting mechanics and prep to use from a myriad of TTRPG systems, and our favorite tips and tricks...

Matt and Rob discuss the Tian Xia world guide from Paizo, a triumphant return to the continent on Golarion and a much-needed update to some outdated regions, peoples, and ideas. Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Xian - Ancient Fantasy Journey Chinggis khaanii Magtaal - Batzorig Vaanchig Nort...

Have you ever played something that isn't a TTRPG? Well, it turns out there games out there that are not D&D or even a role-playing game that also generate story through play. In the first episode about things that are not RPGs, DMs Rob and Matt will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the wide world of narrative miniature wargaming.  Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/Du...

Happy Solstice! Rob and Matt are here to answer your Dungeon Master questions about starting sessions, Vecna/Kas shipping, old systems, failed MMOs, the benefits of classical education, X-COM, and more!  Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord! Links: Vecna and the Tears of Unmaking - Sly Flourish Vecna Remix - DMofNone Whatever...

Matt and Rob talk about Rogue Trader , the now-defunct Warhammer 40k TTRPG. It's got orks, it's got big gothic cathedral ships, it's got chonky weapons, it's got profits, folks, it's got it all! Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone   Join the DMofNone Discord!

DMs Rob and Matt clock into the Dice Workshop for a long shift working on custom dice mechanics and discuss dice probabilities and mechanics put in practice! Subscribe to the DMofNone  Patreon !  https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone