Roll History

Roll History

Leisure EN ↓ 50 episodes

A low-DC dive into D&D through the ages! Join Sami and Vesper as they explore the history of each edition of everyone's favourite most-popular-RPG-in-the-world!

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Roll History

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Leisure

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rollhistory.libsyn.com

Latest episode

Aug 26, 2023

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Episodes

Roll History Presents: Fulcrum | Ep. 5 | Root & Bone 26.08.2023

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! Our party decides that to get to the bottom of what Sylvie's been dosed with, they need to head to Little Outside. Plus: The Noble Chicken's Children! All the Pies Are Crime! And SPECIAL GUEST The Bone Fairy! Featuring: Maxy Bee as (Gaston Impersonator—with the eggs I mean) Bluto Basher Raiven Barnard as (Number One Ally) Syl...

Roll History: Juiblex, Part 4 05.08.2023

Welcome back to the modern era! We have buckets of info and lore for you, as well as buckets of uh slime. Sorry. But there is Glabbagool! At least there's Glabbagool! Plus: Juiblex at a Party Doing Impressions of Christ, The Dichotomy of Shoes and Berries, "DM's Tip!" (Three Tips and Out), and A Gnome Is What Happens When You Don't Try Hard Enough. NOTE: There were some fairly major audio issues o...

Roll History Presents: Fulcrum | Ep. 4 | The Rats and the Well 15.07.2023

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! The Knight has caught our party. And there's more coming if they get out of this. Of course. Plus: Improv Assassins! Telepathic Rats on People's Heads! A Guy Who Looks Like a Well! And Quveli's House! Featuring: Maxy Bee as (Rolling Pin) Bluto Basher Raiven Barnard as (The Negotiator) Syllavana Perstina Sami as (Host with the...

Roll History: Juiblex, Part 3 01.07.2023

We're back in 4th Edition land and Juiblex is getting stinkier... and yet more majestic?  Plus: A Feeble and Wasting Toad, Mushroom Voice, Oaty Jug, and The Burning Piss (Oh No)! Find shownotes, Sami's episode art, and our episode gallery at RollHistory.co.uk !

Roll History Presents: Fulcrum | Ep. 3 | Auditor 17.06.2023

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! The Auditor advances on Sylvie with single-minded enmity. So our party jumps off a roof. Plus: Hey Fred Schneider! Rooftop Parkour! A Rat the Size of a Horse! And a Fight on Top of a Moving Truck! Featuring: Maxy Bee as (Deadlift Champion) Bluto Basher Raiven Barnard as (Self-Sacrificial Lamb) Syllavana Perstina Sami as (Gymn...

Roll History: Juiblex, Part 2 03.06.2023

Oh, it's a bumper one this time! What else would you expect from all the slime in 3rd Edition?! Plus: You Only Drown If the Ocean Hates You, Remember Orc, Slimebody Told Me, and I'm the Teacher! Show notes will be going up at  RollHistory.co.uk , as well as episode art by none other than Sami herself!

Roll History Presents: Fulcrum | Ep. 2 | Ostinato 20.05.2023

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! Our party follows the trail in hopes of sanctuary, but just because there are angels doesn't mean it's safe. Plus: Cheeky quest! Bad rolls! and Totally Normal Accents!   Featuring: Maxy Bee as (Pickled Cowboy) Bluto Basher Raiven Barnard as (Darling Daughter) Syllavana Perstina Sami as (Criminal Satyr) Quveli Carinae and 'Ale...

Roll History: Juiblex, Part 1 03.05.2023

Roll History is back with an unflinching look at a nine-foot-tall cone of slime, jelly, and assorted grey-and-yellow bits. We're holding a magnifying glass to a sort of green splotch on the side. Smearing some on a finger and tasting it, and saying "yes, that's definitely Juiblex" before immediately dying. Usual podcast stuff. Plus: Dr. Pluffie Smedger, Centaur Overpopulation Control, an Unearthed...

Roll History: Paladins: The Way of Water 14.01.2023

You thought Paladin Month was over years ago? You thought you'd escaped? Paladin Month will NEVER end. It's wet here. Plus: ASMR Pageturning, Roar (the Vegetarian Dragon) History, James Cameron's Critical Role, and 'You Can Kiss Underwater'!

Roll History: Festive Magic Items 31.12.2022

What do you get the adventurer who has everything? Try our Festive Gift Guide, in which we cover some of the worst possible magic items you could get for Christmas. Plus: The Bud of Christ, Gifts from Turn-A Gundam, "Blood Vision!" Boots of Slightly Different Boots, and Notes on Candle Safety!

Roll History: Ghost Tower of the Witchlight Fens 26.11.2022

Verner Potkettle, dragonborn paladin, travels to the Witchlight Fens and gets squeezed by a zombie in this 4e single-player adventure from September 2010! Plus: Plothooks Gone Unnoticed, Sponsored by Sunrod, 4th Edition Speedrun Strats, and Accidental Goldeneye!

Roll History: 4th Edition Character Creation 12.11.2022

"2008 called; it wants its stupid character creation process back!" That's a line from Mean Girls probably. But for real, the 4e character creation process is stupid and we didn't like it. Plus: Insanity Cheese, the Standard Weezer Array, and IF YOU ARE HUMAN

Roll History: Sorcerous Origins: Tokyo Drift 29.10.2022

We've finally emerged once more from the sorcery mines. We found an untapped seam of sorcerers; the town is saved!! Plus: The D-Word (Doberman), Tuppence for Birds, One Rune (For the Hip Hop Beats), Special Guest: the Bone Fairy, BN Biscuit Appropriation, and Frodo But He's a Pervert!

Roll History Presents: Fulcrum | Ep. 1 | Letting the Outside In 06.08.2022

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! In a world at the centre of an endless axis of alternates, a Fae runaway meets a gentlewoman-thief and an ailing, retired wrestler. Featuring: Maxy Bee as Bluto Basher Raiven Barnard as Syllavana Perstina Sami Gibbs as Quveli Carinae and the DM formerly known as Alex Woodward as everything else

Roll History: Revenge of the Sorcerous Origins 23.07.2022

Not content to tell you about the Sorcerers that are actually in the game, Sami & Alex bring you all you need to know about the Sorcerers from Unearthed Arcana! Plus: A Hundred False Starts, Burp Dubs, Hotlike Roar, and HOLD PERCY JACKSON

Roll History: More Sorcerous Origins 12.03.2022

What about the Sorcerers that weren't covered in our last two parts? Don't they deserve an hour and a half of semi-coherent nonsense? Apparently they do! Plus: Snickers in my Veins, Walf and Me (Doing Drugs on the Promenade), Strange Paul, and Fun with Numbers!

Roll History: Sorcerers, Part 2 26.02.2022

The real magic was inside you all along! Sorry it wasn't particularly good magic for a while there, though. Plus: A Slightly More Powerful Human, Having Too Much Skin is Bad For You, and Reversable Scales! This episode is sponsored by 3rd Space Gaming - head to www.3rdspacegaming.co.uk/ and use the code ROLLHISTORY at checkout for 10% off your order!

Roll History: Sorcerers, Part 1 12.02.2022

Wizards hate him! This guy does magic despite his INT of 3, thanks to this one weird tip!! LEARN HOW!!! Plus: The Magic of Cinema, Hold Me Closer Tiny Viper, and Bursts and Blasts; Whoa!! This episode is sponsored by 3rd Space Gaming - head to www.3rdspacegaming.co.uk/ and use the code ROLLHISTORY at checkout for 10% off your order!

Roll History: Ice Devils 18.12.2021

We're not festive yet, we're just cold! Probably because of this big bug, actually. Plus: Elton Jim, True Resurrection (Cold Version), and Magical Mister Mephistopheles.

Roll History: Heroes' Feast 27.11.2021

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it. We don't do it here in England because we're culturally ungrateful. Let's talk about a feast! Plus: Bees Are Very Different to Horses, MC Hammer's Embarrassing Turkey Hoarding, and Owl Milk!

Roll History: Rudolph van Richten, Part 3 15.11.2021

We did it, everyone. We finally reached the end of Dr. van Richten's story. Brace yourselves for the end of an era (and some Curse of Strahd spoilers sorry)! Plus: Darkvision Kisses, Hoofed Away, and The Van Richten Voice Victor (tm)

Roll History: Rudolph van Richten, Part 2 06.11.2021

Happy Halloween I mean November the 6th! You want more Van Richten?! Please take some of this Van Richten; we have far too much Plus: A Small Crew of Zombies on Electric Scooters, Fizzing From Your Butt, and Stephen King's "The Doctor Does Stuff".

Roll History: Rudolph van Richten, Part 1 31.10.2021

Happy Halloween; it's an extra episode! Find out all you need to know about D&D's premier he-who-fights-monsters! Plus: FREE GIFT Van Richten Voice, A Vampire Named Baron Meatfeast, and Young Man! There's No Need to be Shocked!

Roll History: Purple Worms, Part 2 23.10.2021

Join Sami and Alex for the conclusion of our look at worms, purple and otherwise! This one's got REAL WORLD FACTS too, good heavens Plus: "I'm a Dirt Swimmer, Baby", Horses as a System of Measurement, and There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Worm Edition)

Roll History: Purple Worms, Part 1 09.10.2021

It's long! It's cylindrical! It's a particular colour! What more is there to say? (About an hour of podcast, actually) Plus: Doctors Hate This Old Worm, It's Explicitly a Tube, and a Worm Wearing a Skimpy Bikini

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