The Diceology Podcast

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  The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs tracking down the fell sorcerer Gorlanc! Rich Rogers of +1 Forward takes the reigns and will run Bounty of the Week in the new year! Twilight: 2000 - Straight Outta Kalisz the Saturday sessions, we're two sessions into a gas station firefight! Co...

On the table 3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the three sessions and the game so far, the good, the bad, and what's next. Spoilers: Elle is still game! I did a panel called Fresh Starts for Big Bad Con with Lowel Francis from the Gauntlet and Rich Rogers of +1 Forward fame.  We talked about startin...

Mad Elle and I continue our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. In this episode, she has to make some choices about the humans living in the millhouse she once stayed in with the ghost king. An Elven patrol finds her and her crew at the mill house. And Elle makes an amazing stake setting choice! You can ch...

It's a Bye Week!!! The One Ring was a Bye Week. Our Fellowship is in Bree to track down Gorlanc the sorcerer dwarf?! The One Ring has final PDFs released and we're pouring through looking updating our characters! My new Burning Wheel game Vena and the King of Nothing is two sessions in and on the Diceology podcast . Vena is pursued by elves,  made an owlbear friend, and learned about Elv...

We set off on our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. We learn a bit about the ghost of the murdered King, Tengu in an ancient forest, and an Owlbear! You can check out our session zero and see how we got here! Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology ! If you enjoyed the show, d...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology ! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾

We've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!! Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the Gauntlet folks GauntletCon Open Gaming is coming up and I'm running sessions of Twilight 2K and UVG.   My lady friend has burned up a 4LP Ranger elf for the Burning Wheel RPG....

It's been a couple of weeks and I have lots to cover! We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB! Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and pitched a premise inspired by...The Lion King. We also played the Harry Potter Hogwarts battle game , the co-op, and the PvP version. She LOVES Harry Potter. Two sessions of The...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology ! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾

Kickstarters...WTF!! Hottest KS - Avatar Legends.   The Upset - Tears of a Machine SC   Carbon Grey RPG   Chronicles of Drunagor   Dogmight’s GM screen.   Forbidden Lands RPG – Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch   A|State   Ran/Played: 2nd episode of The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay R3D - Lifted with Champions Now. On my campaign turn with Five Parsecs from Home , a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargam...

Last week I ...   Ran/Played: The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay Twilight: 2000 twice! Lifted with Champions Now two times! And thinking about an All-Star-Crisis session. Started Five Parsecs from Home , a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius. Lancer RPG. Reading/Prepping: Session Zero from Nahual   Reading Ruin Masters and the White Hack . And then there's Debtpunk. and some s...

I nerd-out about designing Debtpunk and Pinx via Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse essays and my Vampire game (SPOILERS) Played: Lancer RPG   Hutt Cartel - a Star Wars hack of Cartel Twilight: 2000 Tears of a Machine Sc - Live on Kickstarter!!   Prepping VtM:Rio by Night   The One Ring for Twitch/Actualplay Nahual A Tabletop RPG of Mexican Urban Fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse. What...

Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible content for blind and dyslexic students and training others to do the same. As a game designer, he created The Tears of a Machine, a game inspired by his love of science fiction stories and young adult melodrama. He hopes to further access and inclusion in...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology ! If you enjoyed the show, don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Want to support the show and get exclusive content? Head over to Play Fearless or My Patreon to subscribe and join the community! Let's make this our regular thing! 🤘🏾

Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio. Kira and I go from goth to future punk at the speed of Trans . We discuss how Kira got into games, her goto game to run and what she gets out of the gaming hobby. Check out her library of work including her latest games A Cozy Den and Something is Wrong Here....

Mad Jay covers his gaming from last week. Rio By Night. A Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle Sorcerer: The Fallen. A Mage setting powered by Sorcerer RPG.   Nibiru RPG on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay   Sorcerer of Marr'd. Yes another game of Sorcerer set in the Dictionary of Mu Lancer RPG with my kid. Lifted RPG teasers, Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology ! If you enjoy...

My good friend Rich Rogers and I talk about ALL the stuff he played last week! Rich is the creator of ENnie Award-winning Hit the Streets: Defend the Block , a ttRPG about street-level supers who protect their neighborhood. Co-host of +1 Forward podcast .   And it's Star Wars Sundays -not Saturdays! 😬 Light-Hearted RPG by Kurt Potts Once more Into the Void   Hutt Cartel and Cartel   Nibiru R...

This week Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club talks about what he played last week. Paul started the Indie Game Reading Club on Google+ in 2015. It was a king's vault of opinions, reviews, thoughts, and play experiences.  Today he covers a ton of small press games on his blog , there you can find links to his Patreon and the club’s slack. The lineup: Sig City of Blades - Jason Pitre P...

I'm back and covering the week of May 9th, let me know what you're playing in the comments or on Twitter at @madjayzero  Sorcerer & Sword & Dictionary of Mu with Judd. Lifted Universe with Champions Now with Kickstarter Backers Sorcerer: The Fallen a Mage setting with Brendan Rio  by Night a Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle Three from Kalisz using Twilight: 2000 Stars without Num...

Trying out something new by request. Here's how my gaming life played out last week! Let me know if this stuff is useful to you -I'll keep doing it.  Behind the scenes of Three From Kalisz , my Twilight: 2000 game. ActualPlay , where I play|stream Nibiru RPG, Sorcerer: Dictionary of Mu, Stars without Number. Tears of a Machine Kickstarter   Lifted . My supers setting about humans being s...

We get out on the existential side of things with Dr. Mitch, the virtual pub landlord. We start easy enough with beer, early gaming life in the UK, and the Virtual Pub origin story. We cover both his RPG works Liminal and the newly Kickstarter funded Out of the Ashes (of which I am a stretch goal writer) then we get off the path into consciousness, non-human intelligences, games we haven't bu...

It’s my birthday month. I had my midlife crisis back in my late 20s returning to civilian life after I left the military. On the 21st of January at 16:20 I’ll be 50. Every year I get a skull tattoo to mark the years that I’m kicking diabetes ass and I make a playlist of 21 songs that I’m currently feeling. This year I will also make playlist of the 50 most important songs and a list of the 50 most...

Happy Birthday to me! This is the full, part two version of my talk with Andy Kitkowski made possible by my Patreon supporters, my gift to you! Andy K on Twitter Heavy Kotdama Discord Liminal RPG   Raphael Chandler  Judd Karlman Stras Acimovic   Ars Magica   The Spire RPG   Shinobigami RPG   Dungeon World   Tenra Bansho Zero RPG   Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening to Diceology...

Andy and I talk for two hours and thirty minutes. After editing, I have two hours and fifteen minutes of conversation!  This, part one, is our first hour and while we cover a lot of topics, there's a central point that plays out, again, and again! Andy K on Twitter Heavy Kotdama Discord Liminal RPG   Raphael Chandler  Judd Karlman Stras Acimovic   Ars Magica   The Spire RPG   Shinobigami RPG...