Mad Dungeon

This week, Donn Stroud joins us to talk about his work on Ruination Pilgrimage , Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion , The Isle of the Plangent Mage , and several standout Mothership titles, including Unconfirmed Contact Reports , A Pound of Flesh , and Dead Planet . We also dive into Exalted Funeral’s Abattoir Hymnal for Old-School Essentials and chat about some of pop culture’s most memorable dem...

 This week, our guest is Stu Horvath, creator of Vintage RPG and author of Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership . Stu is also part of Unwinnable and co-hosts Games People Play with Sara and Stu on WFMU . A contributor to Wired and former video game critic and photo editor for the New York Daily News, Stu is a photographer, a fa...

This week, our guest is Jeff Richard, now also known as The Bison Investigator. Jeff joined us to discuss some major anniversaries for Chaosium and Call of Cthulhu . We also talked about the RuneQuest Guide to Glorantha , HeroQuest Glorantha , and RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha ... so basically, Glorantha. Jeff has served as the creative director and editor-in-chief of all things Glorantha si...

This weeks guest is Chrys Sellers of Hectic Electron . We discuss with them the Defy the Gods RPG Kickstarter , Tabletop Gaymers , Racoon Sky Pirates , and Prison of the Mad Gods .  Follow Chrys: Bluesky , Tumbler , and Instagram Beware getting a Bouquet as a gift, IT MIGHT BE FULL OF SNAKES! Tiger Wizard’s Patreon : Super fun mini dungeons delivered to your inbox or mailbox on the regular. THE ME...

This week’s guest is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games . We talk Assemblage , GM-less, gamescience-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG, Against the Gloom and The Goodest Girls , her sequel to Psychic Trash Detectives .  Crowdfunding now is Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera . Follow Brigitte: website - IG - Bluesky - Itch Follow Scryptid: Website - IG - Bluesky - Facebook - YouTube MD 412 - T...

This week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries . We talk Weird Heroes of Public Access (WHPA) , Ooze Nun for Mothership (with art from Tiger Wizard ), Ninja City and his new adventure Resort to Violence , Sewer Rats (TTRPG collective) and the Joey Royale’s Pizza Party , and Joey and Tiger Wizard’s adventure Tails of the Night Market is part of Mausritter Month that’s happening all of N...

This week’s guest is John “Hambone” McGuire of 321 RPG and the Vintage RPG podcast . Hambone teaches us to make the perfect smashburger. We talk 321 RPG scenarios Hotel Exorcist and the upcoming Death by Dino (of which Tiger Wizard did some art) from the Children of UMA universe. We dip into Days of Future Fairhaven for Weird Heroes of Public Access (WHPA) . We get into Zombie Braineaters and Seas...

This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivorous . We talk about Mausritter Month (Nov. 2025), a group-collab project featuring an all-new setting for Mausritter JUNK CITY and new works from 16 of Mausritter's community of third-party creators, including our own Tiger Wizard . We discuss THE JOB , Hex World , The Dead Robotz ( Death Robot Jungle, Electric Mangrove, Putrescence Regnant: Bl...

This week’s guest is Brad Kerr , writer, editor, game designer and co-host of the podcast Between Two Cairns . We talk about his work with Necrotic Gnome ( Old-School Essentials Starter Set & Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire , Carcass Crawler ), The Dream Shrine , Hideous Daylight , Temple of 1000 Swords , Sun Bathers ( Old School Essentials - Adventure Anthologies Vol. 1 ). Follow Brad:...

This week’s guest is Brian Shutter . We talk about Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes upcoming miniatures skirmish game called Violence, Action, Cash and Prizes , and new supplement Deities and Demi-Bros , 1-900-Phantazy , Zombie Braineaters , Roller Brawl , Battle Binders , and announces Battle Binder Blitz month! Follow Brian: https://linktr.ee/NeonLordrpg MD 407 - Scissor Pit w/ Brian Shutter The E...

This week’s guest is CJ Somavia . We talk about Hothead Collective (which is pretty much CJ and whoever he’s working with), Grand Rituals (a system agnostic toolset to introduce big magical rituals into your fantasy TTRPG), and GLAIVE (a quarterly glossy magazine dedicated to gaming and its subcultures). We discuss the difference between a magazine and a zine. Follow CJ Somavia at Instagram , and...

This week’s guest is Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink , who’s on their 68th release! We talk Forbidden Psalms , Liminal Horror RPG , the Cairn 2E box set , The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain , Survivors of the Core Wars: an NPC deck for Mothership RPG , and Seas of Sand by Sam Sorensen Follow Jarrett Crader: Website - X - Instagram MD 405 - H.O.M.E.: Sly Motherships w/ Jarrett Crader On the top of...

This week’s guest is W.F. Smith of Prismatic Wastland . We talk about his new physical book Prismatic Wisdom & Barkeep on the Borderlands . We discuss his history with B2: Keep on the Borderlands (how Barkeep is a pseudo-sequel), pub crawls in Athens, GA, and how he’s a “pun-first” writer. We briefly touch on his games: Big Rock Candy Hexcrawl Pamphlet , Trouble in Paradisa , and Wonky Willie&...

This week’s guest is Rhodrick Magsino , owner and main designer of Alewood Games . We talk about the Baltimore indie TTRPG scene and how filmmaking and music production influence his game design. We dig into his games: Remember Frankie , Traysikel: Ride or Die! , ARKYVR , OMENDROME , The Revolution Will . Follow Rhodrick: Website - Bluesky - Itch — MD 403 - BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino BeakMaste...

This week’s guest is Andrew Kolb . We talk about his latest Role-Playing Setting of Wonderland (dungeon crawl) where he pulls from the surreal and silly collage art of people like Terry Gilliam. We talk about how all the Lewis Carroll characters are agro with Alice, and making their stat blocks and special moves (inspired by his love of Chrono Trigger). The locations as topsy-turvy geometric block...

Our guest this week is our Mad Dungeon producer, the Bat Alchemist himself, Zach Cowan , a location sound recordist and video producer located in Atlanta. We talk about what season four is all about: We’re making a zine of TTRPG content to use in your home games with each of our guests contributing a page or two, while continuing to utilize our ‘mad dice’ improv style of word play. Andrew has his...

Season Finale - Goblin Kings and Popstars Sing Bat Alchemist uses gym-kata to make his way through the swarm of goblins dance-fighting to Enrique Iglesias. He moves under the bleachers and sees bad-kid goblins smoking cigarettes and making out. He melts them with an acid potion. Warlock Rock hits a button that raises a fashion-show catwalk in the center of the room. She sashays her way to the Gobl...

Our guests this week are Erik & Heidi Gygax Garland (GAXLAND, Egg Con) and Matt Forbeck (Marvel Multiverse RPG, Shotguns & Sorcery, Warhammer 40k, Minecraft) as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk with Erik & Heidi about getting married, gun stuff, growing up Gygax, the Satanic panic, and moving back to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Th...

The Vat Spawn watch the Goblin King polymorph the missing Ariana from a beautiful pop star into a grotesque goblin. A hundred goblins cheer him on as the transformation occurs. “Goblins is people?” Dragon Warrior queried.  Bat Alchemist lights a joint from the demon dog’s fire breath to regain his lost health. Then he reverse engineered Warlock Roc’s listening device to play Enrique Iglesias throu...

Our guest this week is Stephen Radney-MacFarland as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk about Delve RPG , his passion-project meditation on d20 fantasy games. How he doesn’t agree with 5E’s advantage/disadvantage rules. Growing up in San Francisco, playing D&D as a kid, and using the Battleship board as a GM screen. Buying Tomb of Horror...

The Vat Spawn take out the final elite goblins. We meet Lotto, a 10-foot demon dog. Bat Alchemist sucks venom out of Warlock Roc. They explore further into the goblin museum, finding horrific paintings of former goblin kings, before discovering the current Goblin King’s chambers. ANNOUNCEMENTS Gamehole Con : October 17th through 20th in Madison, Wisconsin. We’ll have a booth right up front in the...

Our guest this week is David “Zeb” Cook as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk about his involvement in 49 of the 50 years of D&D’s existence and how satisfying it’s been for him to see his work impacting generations of people. We discuss his late 1970s start at TSR by editing Queen of the Demonweb Pits (Q1), writing Slave Pits of the Un...

309 Balls: Crystal, Disco & Fire - Rise of the Vat Spawn The Vat Spawn finish their fight with elite business goblins that includes disco floors, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-ing a dead goblin to find true love in secret nap spots, and lots of Nitar’s Fireballs were a’flyin’. A crystal ball houses a goblin spirit to find down-on-their-luck victims as part of a larger goblin conspiracy. And a fire-breat...

Our guest this week is John “Hambone” McGuire as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of D&D interviews. We talk about his 321 Action core book and the adventures he’s written to go along with it, including upcoming Hotel Exorcist , Braineaters! that he’s working on with Brian Shutter ( Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands ), and his love of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978). We discu...