Tales From the TTRPG Dust Pan

A break down of the hexploration session zero

An opinion piece about online vtt’s and how for me specifically, they present a barrier for entry.

Relaunching a campaign part2 Taking Tod’s advice and trying to keep each episode shorter. I digress a bunch in this one … but the points are there. The things you need to have in place to make a relaunch stick!

A talk about my long running D&D style campaign. The challenges of a soft restart. How I think there’s still more juice to squeeze from the old stories, and directions it could go. Next time in part 2 the challenges of reboot prep…

For the 100th episode of Tales from the TTRPG Dust bin Podcast, I have a very special guest in the stationary studio. OTTO who is the founder and organizer of OttoCon the Hudson valley's premier TTRPG con, which is moving into it's 5th year in 2026. I have been Lucky enough to have been friends with and gamed with Otto For the better part of 40 years. and it is absolutely my pleasure to ta...

The last show before the episode 100 super show! Please enjoy a few short notebook entries from the road.

A few ideas for determining weather patterns in your TTRPG and a few thoughts about how bad weather might affect your player characters.

This is talk about my projects and things coming soon to Drive-through Rpg. 97

In today's episode, we're taking a walk around the neighborhood and diving deep into one of the most fundamental questions in tabletop RPG design: What role should skills play in your game? We'll be pulling back the curtain on our own design process and exploring different approaches to building a skill system. We'll look at the various ways players can select skills for their char...

A ramble about the pod cast followed by my take on occasionally using a game session just to reset the board.

Taking modern life into consideration when writing TTRPG’s Also lots of weird things happened while I was recoding this one! 96

More on developing settings to Suport games and the need to have a clear vision of what the game is going to emulate. Also digressions. 95

Some game design launching off points .. what do I need to start? 94

A collection of short ideas from a crossed the week stitched together for you listening pleasure. This notebook touches on Balance, Cooperative design, exploration, and Space Kung-Fu. 92

A discussion of finding the unexpected and surprising. Is it a game-able experience? Or, is it a vibe that once mechanics are applied becomes stifled and well … too mechanical? Let’s talk about it. 91

Musings about how the terrain being covered affects almost every facet of travel and exploration. How I gameify terrain, and my temptation to over complicate things. 90

Wasn’t going to post this, but then I exchanged texts with a zombie this afternoon. I always said I don’t want this pod cast to sound like all the other TTRPG podcasts… this is a good example.

I talk about the challenges inherent in developing class based TTRPG’s 88

More Notebook entries from my rides to work. Are you ready for some strange ideas that don't quite reach the full episode threshold? I Bet you are! Enjoy Leave comments Roll Dice Be kind. 88

This is the story of the charisma attribute and why I think we could drop it altogether.

Five quick ideas and thoughts, that could not be whole episodes on their own. Presented here strung together for your listening pleasure. Use the comments to let me know if you like the Note-book format

A quick talk about my friend’s Bad Ass game VHS. Versatile Hero System … made for one shots .. perfect for con play!

An episode about what kind of gaming I’ve been up to an itch.io.. and more. Next episode is “Movie Night” Also listen to: The BAMF podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bamf-podcast/id1823544434 Also visit: Disoriented Ranger Publishing https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/11431/disoriented-ranger-publishing

Some things work better in media than they do in a table top role playing game. Part of the reason might be that players need events to have real stakes for their characters, mechanical consequences. Just empathizing with the characters plight may not be enough to keep everyone engaged.

World building in AAIE, the game master plays the song I wanna hear. Who don’t I ever attack the players home town?