In Free League's Vaesen, Fairies Capture Changing Culture
Nils Hintze is the lead writer of Vaesen, a Nordic horror role-playing game by Free League Publishing. In this game, fairies and other monsters manifest the anxieties of a rapidly-urbanizing 19th cent...
3 Touko 202128min
The Displacer Beast with A.E. Van Vogt - April Fool's special
The true and actual* origins of D&D's displacer beast with A. E. Van Vogt, author of science fiction short story Black Destroyer.*This episode was released April 1st. Celebrity voices were impersonate...
1 Huhti 202112min
The Monsters Know What They're Doing with Keith Ammann
Keith Ammann, author of Monsters Know What They're Doing, shows us how to decode a monster's game mechanics to discover its intended use. We also get into how culture makes monsters, both in game and ...
22 Maalis 202117min
The Raven Wizard - Coyote and Crow
The Cherokee myth of the Raven Wizard is retold in Connor Alexander's Coyote and Crow, a tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred.Full tr...
17 Maalis 202122min
Vo the Voice Snatcher, from the Bard College of Silence
From the Bard College of Silence by Kai Linder comes Vo the Voice Snatcher, an aberration capable of stealing the voice from your throat and adding it to its own. It's a kind of creepy that stays with...
8 Maalis 202119min
Bonus: Dvati - playing 2 characters across editions
Dvati is a race option for D&D to play 2 characters at once. An extra-long bonus episode 20 years in the making, bringing together the original Dvati designer, the 5th edition homebrewer, and maybe th...
22 Helmi 202150min
Wizmos from "D&D in Space" by Mage Hand Press
"They're capricious little scrap robots, and I love them." The Wizmos from Dark Matter (a sci-fi D&D conversion by Mage Hand Press) are just doing the best they can, and it isn't very good.Get one-pag...
15 Helmi 202119min
Niels RPG Toons makes a Monstrosity
What if the Kraken is too big to release? Niels RPG Toons uses cartoon-style fantasy art to tell vibrant, expressive stories, including one about a tentacle monster so big it's an ecosystem unto itsel...
1 Helmi 202120min
