Fiasco Rock Band| Live Play | Wandering DMs S02 E50
Dan & Paul are joined by guests Max & Andy from Ten Dead Rats to close out our 2nd season with a special live play session: let’s play Fiasco with the Touring Rock Band playset! Some of us are experts…
Dice Mechanics | Design, Art, and Strategy | Wandering DMs S02 E49
Dan & Paul discuss Dice Mechanics: How do you use them bones in your TTRPG games? Do you prefer the linear model of just a single d6 or d20? Or are multiple dice with bell-shaped results more interesting: summing dice,…
Dice Designs | Tools of the Trade | Wandering DMs S02 E48
Paul & Dan discuss dice in D&D and other TTRPGS: Where did they come from, and what was the historical imperatives that dictated their current use? Would it be preferable to use all classic six-siders? How close was D&D to…
Ability Scores | Methods and Modifiers | Wandering DMs S02 E47
Dan & Paul discuss Ability Scores for D&D player characters across the editions — Options for how they’re generated, what modifiers they produces, what in-game effects they have, and different ways to make an ability check. Considering all the different…
Grappling | Wrestling with Complexity | Wandering DMs S02 E46
Dan & Paul discuss Grappling rules in D&D and other TTRPGs over the years and editions. Should it be simple or complex? How much detail do you want included? Does it warrant a unique subsystem, or should it connect to…
City Adventures | Maps, Movement, and Chases | Wandering DMs S02 E45
Paul and Dan discuss running City Adventures in D&D and other RPGs. So many different mechanics have been tried over the years. What do the original texts say about cities — or did they leave them entirely off-screen? What’s the…
Shannon Applecline | Designers & Dragons | Wandering DMs S02 E44
Dan & Paul speak with special guest Shannon Applecline — author of the 4-volume series (and counting!) Designers & Dragons, the most encyclopedic overview to date of RPG companies, products, and history across the decades. Plus he wrote all of…
The Tomb of Ra-Hotep with Web DM
Special surprise for Halloween 2020 — the Wandering DMs host our friends from Web DM for a horrifying delve into the Lost Tomb of Ra-Hotep. It’s the adventure that predated and inspired Gary Gygax’s infamous Tomb of Horrors. Is this…
Games within Games | Expanding Your Game with Others | Wandering DMs S02 E43
How often does your D&D game contain other games? Dan & Paul discuss how very common this was in the early days of the hobby, and when it’s still a good idea now. Can your game be built on an…
Jeff Grubb | Forgotten Realms, Marvel, and More! | Wandering DMs S02 E42
Paul and Dan get an in-depth interview with long-time game designer Jeff Grubb and get answer to some questions we’ve been dying to ask for years. What were the AD&D Open tournament events like, such as Jeff designed and ran,…
