Public vs. Private Games | How Watchers Change an RPG | Wandering DMs S02 E41
Dan and Paul reflect on the axes of visibility for an RPG in 2020: public vs. private, and also in-person vs. offline. Since we’ve done every combination of those measures, what are the take-aways we’ve learned? When you take a…
Epidiah Ravachol | Designer of Dread | Wandering DMs S02 E40
Dan & Paul speak with Epidiah Ravachol, the designer of the Dread RPG (winner of the Ennie for Innovation in gaming award), the game-as-prog-rock-album Wolfspell, and the Worlds Without Master e-zine. In one of our most intense interviews to date,…
Blowing Up Your D&D Game | Ultimate Unexpected Events | Wandering DMs S02 E39
Have you ever accidentally blown up your entire D&D campaign? Party ignores all warnings and marches into a TPK? Time-traveling mishaps throws them in far future? Give player a nuke and they use it? Players intentionally derail your well-laid adventure…
James Maliszewski | Grognardia Returns! | Wandering DMs S02 E38
James Maliszewski is back, and so is Grognardia! As the creator of one of the OSR’s most esteemed blogs from 2008-2012, he took a well-earned break which wound up lasting 8 years. But now it’s 2020, and he’s returned just…
Action Economy 2 | Second Attacks | Wandering DMs S02 E37
Dan and Paul once again spar over how much stuff you can do in one round of D&D. Do you like your fighters with fractional attacks, double attacks, attacks by weapon type, or as many attacks as they have levels?…
Sean K. Reynolds | From TSR to Monte Cook Games | Wandering DMs S02 E36
Dan & Paul are joined with special guest Sean K. Reynolds, who has a long and storied career with D&D and fantasy RPGs: design & development for D&D 2E, 3E, Pathfinder, Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, now working on Numenera and 5E…
Action Economy in D&D | What Can I Do in a Round? | Wandering DMs S02 E35
The action economy in D&D: what can you do in one round? How long is a round in D&D anyway — does it depend on edition or DM choice? How have the terms changed? How have initiative and turn-sequence rules…
Philosophy and D&D | Wandering DMs Season 02 Episode 34
Dan and Paul are joined by Professor of Philosophy Landon Schurtz to take advantage of his work in the fields of games, design, and aesthetics. What do we count as a game, and why? Does the definition of “roleplaying game”…
TPKs in D&D (Total Party Kills) | Wandering DMs Season 02 Episode 33
Dan & Paul discuss the possibility of TPKs (Total Party Kills) in D&D of any edition. A lively, wide-ranging discussion that touches on the very roots of D&D. Do you permit it, promote it, or prohibit it? How often do…
Alignment in D&D | Wandering DMs Season 02 Episode 32
Paul & Dan take sides on the great D&D Alignment debate. Pretty sure we’ll resolve this in the hour.
