The Red Dice Diaries

In this episode Johannes Paavola and myself conclude our conversation about ongoing campaigns and long-form campaigns in general. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe you can also leav...

In this episode I'm continuing my discussion with Johannes Paavola as we talk about our ongoing campaigns and long-form campaigns in general. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe...

In this episode I'm continuing my discussion with Johannes Paavola as we talk about our ongoing campaigns and long-form campaigns in general. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe...

In this episode I'm discussing some of the benefits of curated your collection of random tables and discussing some of the random tables that I use. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php If you're interested in the tables I use you can find links below: OSE Random Generators Weather Hexflower by Goblin's Henchman Advanced We...

In this episode I'm joined by  Johannes Paavola as we talk about our ongoing campaigns and long-form campaigns in general. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe you can also leave...

In this episode I'm highlighting some of the articles I particularly enjoyed out of the third issue of the Knock zine by the Merry Mushmen: It is available from the Merry Mushmen's website: https://www.themerrymushmen.com/shop/ Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voic...

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄 After  defeating the troll-like creatures our heroes have continued their  exploration of the Maw; discovering a buried tomb/chapel of the Solar  Knights they have battled the undead and passed through the fury of a  poltergeist and now seek to plumb the depths of the tomb complex. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-red-d...

In this episode I'm highlighting some of the articles I particularly enjoyed out of the second issue of the Knock zine by the Merry Mushmen: You can find it available as a PDF from DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/370832/Knock--Issue-2 It is also available from the Merry Mushmen's website: https://www.themerrymushmen.com/shop/ Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarad...

In this episode I'm highlighting some of the articles I particularly enjoyed out of the first issue of the  Knock  zine by the  Merry Mushmen: You can find it available as a PDF from DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/345695/Knock--Issue-1 It is also available from the Merry Mushmen's website: https://www.themerrymushmen.com/shop/ Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakar...

In this episode I'm taking a look through a recent gaming acquisition,  The Waking of Willowby Hall and old-school style adventure module written by  Ben Milton . You can find the module available as a PDF from DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348439/The-Waking-of-Willowby-Hall It is also available in hardcopy from SwordfishIslands.com : https://shop.swordfishislands.com/the...

Zak James left a comment on one of our Youtube episodes asking how GMs can hint at monster weaknesses, in this episode we're discussing why you should include such weaknesses and how your PCs might discover them. You can find our episode where we discuss  Lost Classes: The Arnesonian Classes  here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/977239/episodes/10269744 Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarad...

In today's episode I'm confessing to a subset of rules that I rarely (if ever) use when running games of Old-school Essentials. MY firend Rob's Twitch gaming channel can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/islandofrob Our previous episode on point-crawl dungeons can be found here: https://rddrpgpodcast.buzzsprout.com/977239/10290744-point-crawl-dungeon Title Music: Fireworks by Ale...

In this voicemail episode we're responding to call-ins from our listeners about episodes featuring aliens, we touch on the nature of chaos, chat a bit more about usage dice and discuss the potential origin of the bonux prime requisite XP system. Our callers this episode were: Joe from  Hindsightless Goblin's Henchman Jason of the Nerds RPG Variety Cast Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander...

In this episode of the podcast I'm talking about one of my favourite aspects of OSE, specifically Necrotic Gnome, adventures, Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe you can also lea...

In this episode I'm discussing some of the benefits and flaws of human-anologue aliens and more incomprehensible aliens in media and how you might represent such creatures in your RPGs. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast...

In this episode I'm talking about why having a short rest or comfort break during an RPG session can be very handy for both players and GMs. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe y...

In response to a call-in from Jason at the Nerds RPG Variety Cast podcast, I'm talking about how I go about creating taverns for my D&D game. You can check out Nerds RPG Variety Cast here: https://anchor.fm/jason376 Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https:...

In this episode I'm talking about generic/collective terms for monsters and why they can be a real boon to GMs. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe you can also leave a voicemail...

This episode is based on a suggestion by RFED (AKA. Darren Green) who called in asking about bonus XP for having high prime requisite scores in D&D attributes. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issue...

In this episode I'm frothing a bit about my recent acquisition of the dungeon-mapping software  Dungeon Alchemist that I originally backed on Kickstarter. Currently available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588530/Dungeon_Alchemist/ Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can l...

Having been thinking about evil npcs and the like, spurred on by our recent episode  Stupid Evil , I've been thinking about how middle-management/tax collectors could make excellent villains for certain campaigns. Check out our previous episode Stupid Evil: https://rddrpgpodcast.buzzsprout.com/977239/10318545-stupid-evil Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://f...

In this voicemail episode we're responding to call-ins from our listeners about using tokens in gaming, inspirational monster episodes, playing evil characters in games and how the zombie horde trope has been a bit over-used in the media. Our callers this episode were: BJ from the Arcane Alienist Randy from  Biggus Geekus Goblin's Henchman Jason of the Nerds RPG Variety Cast Title Music:...

Following on from our previous episode I'm talking about some of the fantasy brews that I particularly enjoyed in the Wormskin-zines from Necrotic Gnome and also offering some advice for making your own. Check out our previous episode on special brews here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/977239/10338718 Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.p...

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟐𝟗𝟓𝐀𝐄 Exploring  the depths of a crumbling, flooding temple dedicated to the Old God  known as the Great Serpent our heroes find themselves confronted by a  group of great clawed beasts that rise from the water dripping water and  rank weed from their rubbery bodies. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-red-dice-diaries/message T...

In this short episode I'm thinking about how adding a speciality brew to your taverns could add a lot more to your game. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? You can leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast If you're having issues with Speakpipe you can also leave a...