2024 Year in Review | Wandering DMs Season 6 | Wandering DMs S06 E41
Paul & Dan look back on the year 2024 for the Wandering DMs. It’s been a momentous year: The 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a new version of the D&D game, the Chinese Year of the Dragon, in-depth looks…
Crafting Villains | Creating Satisfying Foils for Your Players | Wandering DMs S06 E40
Dan and Paul discuss ways to create satisfying recurring villains in your D&D campaign. How do you balance the desire for epic, climactic showdowns with the unpredictable, open-ended nature of a TTRPG campaign? Should your villain be the untouchable mastermind…
Original vs. Basic D&D Part 3 | Combat! | Wandering DMs S06 E39
Dan & Paul revisit the Original vs. Basic Dungeon & Dragons collision. This time: As similar as the early editions are, a fundamental place where they differ is the combat turn sequence. Moldvay’s B/X rules have a unique turn sequence…
Dungeon Design Dash #5 Part 2 | Infested Perch of the Mammoth Egg | Wandering DMs S06 E38
Dan and Paul return to complete the dungeon design dash for the “Infested Perch of the Mammoth Egg”. Unfortunately one hour was just not enough this time around, so they’re coming back to complete the adventure, and reveal some of…
Dungeon Design Dash #5 | Creating a D&D Adventure in One Hour | Wandering DMs S06 E37
Dan and Paul are back at it again, creating an entire D&D adventure in just one hour! Armed with only their D&D source books, Matt Finch’s excellent Tome of Adventure Design, and the input from live viewers, they’ll create a…
Ghouls in D&D | Hungry for More | Wandering DMs S06 E36
Dan and Paul reflect on the many changing faces of ghouls in D&D and fantasy literature. How did they become one of the most feared monster types? What flavor is best: the one from Lovecraft, Howard, Leiber, Gygax, or Romero?…
Scaling D&D Adventures | Tips for Handling Any Group Size | Wandering DMs S06 E35
This week on Wandering DMs, Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins dive into one of the most common challenges DMs face: scaling D&D adventures when the number of players doesn’t match what the adventure was designed for. Whether you’re running…
Matt Finch | Tome of Worldbuilding | Wandering DMs S06 E34
Dan and Paul chat with Matt Finch, the ENNIE-award winning designer of the Swords & Wizardry game, and who also created OSRIC, and the Quick Primer for Old School Gaming. Plus he made our favorite Tome of Adventure Design, as…
Wrath of the Sea Lich | Luke Gygax & 50 Years of D&D | Wandering DMs S06 E33
Paul and Dan chat with Luke Gygax on the 50th anniversary of D&D and his new old-school mega-adventure, Wrath of the Sea Lich! Wrath of the Sea Lich is a reimagining of his hit series, “Oculus of Senrahbah” originally created…
D&D Party Size | Gathering the Right Number of Troops | Wandering DMs S06 E32
Dan and Paul, the Wandering DMs, discuss the right number of players for D&D and other TTRPGs. How many is too many? How few is too few? What factors play into choosing the right range of party size for your…
