The DM‘s Book Club

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Nandi discuss ' Stillfleet ' is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploring ruined spacecraft and habitable earth-like planets, cut off from contact with Terra for decades or centuries… Set in a paradoxically bleak and vibrant superfuture, ' Stillfleet ' empowers players with simple, intuitive mechanics and hundreds of options for powers. Built on a fou...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! Our hosts finish th...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! Our hosts continue...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! Our hosts continue...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! Our hosts continue...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! Our hosts start off...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! To start us off, ou...

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to Faerûn ! Inspired by the recent releases of ' Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn ' & ' Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn ', Fiona and Hamilton take a whistle stop tour around the forgotten realms and see the sights, meet the people and discover hidden treasures! The trailer theme m...

Show notes This week, Fiona is joined once again by guest cohost Pip Gladwin to talk about ' Nimble ', a fast, tactical TTRPG that eliminates the slog all too common in our game nights, letting the story and your choices take center stage. Nimble empowers players and GMs with more interesting choices, less waiting around, and have more fun playing epic stories. Find out more on the Nimble Co. webs...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Holly Musgrave talk about her love for Call of Cthulhu , using Tarot as inspiration for writing a set of scenario and, of course, Blood on the Clocktower ! Check out Holly's Twitch for her videogame streams and grab your tickets for her upcoming ' The Moon Witch Script (Album launch event) ' in May! Consider using our affiliate link when using DM's Guil...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Nandi sit down to discuss ' Girl Underground ': A tabletop RPG about a curious girl in a wondrous world. Published by Hedgemaze Press , ' Girl Underground ' follows a young girl’s journey of self-discovery through a whimsical fantasy land with the friends she meets along the way. Explore twisted, willowy woods filled with whisper-soft lies, or tricky fa...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Taylor Felicity come together to talk about ' Castles in the Air ' by Storybrewers Roleplaying . 'Castles in the Air is a collaborative RPG designed to tell stories like Little Women and Anne of Green Gables. Set in the late 19th century, it follows a group of children who grow up together and remain connected even as they head their separate ways. It’s...

Show notes This week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost Pip Gladwin to discuss ' TEETH ', a comic-horror TTRPG set in the remote, wind-blasted moors and sopping bogs of northern England in the year of 1780—a place blighted by an alchemical catastrophe that has breached reality itself. Check out Pip over on Start Playing and Realms of Peril and Glory ! Consider using our affiliate link when using DM'...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton try out some of the exercises from ‘ ⁠The Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide⁠ ’ by James D’Amato⁠ and ⁠Dillin Apelyan⁠ . From the ‘ ⁠The Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide⁠ bio: 'With its step-by-step processes, engaging prompts, and expert insights, ⁠The Ultimate RPG Villain Guide⁠ is an essential tool for game masters and RPG players seeking to craft...

Show Notes This bonus episode comes from our sibling podcast, ‘What Am I Rolling?’, a twice weekly RPG one-shot podcast where we try new tabletop systems and share interviews with game designers! Originally released on What Am I Rolling? Podcast on 29th March 2026. From the episode show notes: To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to game d...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton check out ' Netheril's Fall ', a digital-only supplement for the Forgotten Realms setting published by Wizards of the Coast. It released in November 2025 alongside Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn and Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn , covering ancient Netheril with historical and time-traveling adventure hooks. From the ' Netheril's Fall ' bio: 'St...

Show notes This week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost, Matt from The Bad Spot , to talk about Blades '68 , an official supplement for Blades in the Dark , moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s. From the Blades '68 backerkit: 'Inspired by Deathloop, powered by Blades in the Dark; dive into the high-voltage technicolor action of Blades '68. In Doskvol 968, an artificial sun shine...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton grit their teeth and read over the last 5 adventures in ' Dragon's Delves ', an adventure module anthology for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. From the ' Dragon's Delves ' Bio: ' Wonders await heroes with the courage to face a dragon. Dragon Delves presents ten short Dungeons & Dragons® adventures that showcase a...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton grit their teeth and read over the first 5 adventures in ' Dragon's Delves ', an adventure module anthology for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. From the ' Dragon's Delves ' Bio: ' Wonders await heroes with the courage to face a dragon. Dragon Delves presents ten short Dungeons & Dragons® adventures that showcase...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Taylor Felicity come together to talk about their love for ' Good Society: A Jane Austen Roleplaying Game ' by Storybrewers Roleplaying . 'Good Society is a collaborative roleplaying game that seeks to capture the heart, and the countenance, of Jane Austen’s work . It is a game of balls, estates, sly glances, and turns about the garden. At least on the...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton return to Eberron with ' Eberron: Forge of the Artificer ', a sourcebook for the Eberron setting using the 2024 rules. This sourcebook includes an updated Artificer class along with new subclasses, as well as revisits rules related to the lore of Eberron. Forge of the Artificer acts as a companion book rather than a replacement to Eberron: Rising from the L...

Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton return to Eberron with ' Eberron: Forge of the Artificer ', a sourcebook for the Eberron setting using the 2024 rules. This sourcebook includes an updated Artificer class along with new subclasses, as well as revisits rules related to the lore of Eberron. Forge of the Artificer acts as a companion book rather than a replacement to Eberron: Rising from the L...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Ty from Side Character Quest have a cursory look through The Cosmere RPG - an original system designed for heroic, character-driven stories, based on the best-selling novels by Brandon Sanderson and published by Brotherwise Games . According to the Brotherwise Games website: ' The Cosmere® RPG is a "living" RPG that will grow as Brandon Sanderson writes...

Show notes This week, hosts Fiona and Hamilton start off the new DMBC series with ' Astarion's Book of Hungers ', a digital-only supplement for the Forgotten Realms using the 5th-edition (revised) Dungeons & Dragons ® ruleset From the bio: ' Fight, flirt, or feast your way through the shadows of Baldur's Gate in this digital expansion, complete with new character options, devilish monsters, an...

Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Nandi go through ' The Walking Dead Universe RPG ' published by Free League Publishing, a zombie horror TTRPG inspired by the graphic novel and TV series of the same name!. The Walking Dead has always been about characters facing impossible choices in an unforgiving world. With this game, you enter into the world of the dead and must face these choices...