Dan & Paul get to chat with Jon Peterson, eminent historian of D&D and other TTRPGs. We’ve loved his earlier work, Playing at the World, to death — and now we get to chat up his newest book, The Elusive…

Paul, Dan, and our live viewers discuss player-character expenses in D&D. A fool and his money are soon parted, but exactly how? What mixture of expenses is right for the DM to make the game balanced and rewarding? We discuss…

Dan & Paul get to chat with Griffith M. Morgan III, Writer and Directors of the Secrets of Blackmoor film — documenting Griff’s 6-year epic series of investigations and interviews with all the personalities around the Twin Cities gaming scene,…

Dan & Paul discuss Critical Hits in D&D and other TTRPGs: Where did they come from, how many styles and experiments have we seen over the years, what are our current preferences? (We don’t agree on everything!) Did the original…

Paul & Dan discuss the pros & cons of keeping your rosters, records, PC sheets, spells, and rules in a physical-vs-virtual format. In the online gaming era: do you still keep your physical books, or have you transitioned everything into…

Barbarians in D&D: are they the new Fighter? Where pulp or literary traditions do they come from, and when did they first appear in the game? Have they always been the same as, or different from, Berserkers? Does it make…