Dungeon Master of None

Join Matt and Rob for an episode of actual design, where the GMs try to hash out a framework for encouraging interparty conversation and downtime interactions -- with as little input from you as possible. Want your players to argue? Build something? Make love? Fight? Let's see if we can't make that happen. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

GenCon! Rebel Scum! WotC layoffs! Plus, DMs Rob and Matt give a gaming update. Then, a call to arms and to battle from Founding Father Gary E. Gygax of the upmost importance. Gamers rise up! Rebel Scum delisted by Roll20 & DriveThruRPG - Chase Carter, Rascal News Rebel Scum 2nd Edition Our reading today, comes from Dragon Magazine #65, from September 1982. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice.

Matt and Rob discuss Pathfinder Adventure Paths #67-78, Reign of Winter and Wrath of the Righteous! We are almost through 2014 folks! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice.

It's part 2 of our review of the final release of Daggerheart, covering the Game Master and campaign advice in the new system. DMs Rob and Matt review GM advice, GM moves, adversaries, environments, and the six campaign "frames" published as part of the system: the Witherwild, Five Banners Burning, Beast Feast, Age of Umbra, Motherboard, and Colossus of the Drylands. Daggerheart SRD Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice.

Matt and Rob talk about names! Generating lists, how to come up with interesting ones, how to use them in your games, some ideas for saving time, and more! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! 1994 Fighting Baseball Rosters https://whgazetteer.org/ https://www.samcodes.co.uk/project/markov-namegen/ relatedwords.io

The full and final release of Daggerheart, a new TTRPG System from Critical Role and Darrington Press, is here. DMs Rob and Matt review it's "fiction first" approach, good math, smooth design, effortless character creation, and still hefty bit of crunch. Is it the fabled 5e dragon slayer? Daggerheart SRD Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Matt and Rob talk through the masterfully designed first act of the critically acclaimed CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3. The DMs cover what you can learn, what you can steal, and what's not so easy to do in a video game that you can effortlessly do at your table. For the full episode, head to patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone !

Matt and Rob continue to talk about the even more of the 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers published over the last year. This time we review Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant in Part 2 of 5e Heartbreakers series. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

Matt and Rob talk about the explosion of 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers, including what's good, what's bad, and what's this all about? We talk about Nimble 5e and DC20 in this episode, but there's more to come! Fantasy Heartbreakers Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

Open your Cortex RPG books to page 128, and get ready to rock, roll, and worldbuild. DMs Rob and Matt follow take three random genres and attempt to mash them together into settings and campaigns that are ready to run as TTRPGs. The Genre Table: Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Sonata in F major, Performed by Jinjoo Cho & Itamar Golan

Jess Parks of the actual play, I Seduce the Dragon, is back with a Dungeon Master pickle. The best way to work through planning an arc is often to talk through the situation with some other DMs. And that's what DMs Rob and Matt are here to do for DM Jess. To listen to full episode, sign up at https://patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone You can listen to at https://www.istdpod.com/

Matt and Rob discuss the works of Arkady Martine, particularly her Teixcalaan Duology, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. We're big fans, and these are great books to read for inspiration on worldbuilding, politics, intrigue, culture, language, and much more! Everyone's World is Ending All the Time Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Alone - BoDleasons (via Pixabay)

Spotify is removing some of our old episodes, but don't worry intrepid listener, you can still find them everywhere else. Pardon our dust while we work through the issue.

"The average American spends $10,345 a year on healthcare. That's two vampires." DMs Rob and Matt are joined by Olivia Hill of Machine Age Dreams to chat about the new pay-what-you-want quickstart iHunt: Dollars & Draculas. Gather your precariat crew and swipe through the apps because it's time to bring monster hunting in the gig economy to the masses with this 5e D&D port of the best-selling FATE game, iHunt! And don't forget to leave a rating and review for taking out that nest of vampires clean! #iHunt Dollars & Draculas https://machineage.itch.io/ihunt-dollars-draculas Machine Age Dreams https://www.patreon.com/machineage Dollars & Draculas: Adventure 02 - Blowback https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-ihunt-126723867 Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

Matt and Rob talk with Patrick and Emily of Unbalanced Encounters! The DM quartet talks inspiration, running games, choosing your players, the state of actual play, choosing systems, and more! Unbalanced Encounters The Cunning Folk Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

Letters! DMs Rob and Matt are here to answer your TTRPG questions and provide some wanted and unwanted advice for your game mastering. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice, The Avett Brothers - Ten Thousand Words.

Matt and Rob delve even deeper into the twisted mind of one John Wick (no, the other one). We invite you to imagine, if you will, a 35 year-old man winking and smirking at his 19 year-old female co-worker in the Neopets office... Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

DMs Rob and Matt are all by themselves! Get into to your gaming isolation tanks and get ready to play some great solo TTRPGs: Thousand Year Old Vampire Ironsworn Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log Anamnesis Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice, Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely.

Matt and Rob complete the trifecta and review the final core rulebook of the 2024/2025 5e update: the Monster Manual! Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

Wizards of the Coast finally realized its 3d virtual tabletop for 5.5e Dungeons and Dragons: Project Sigil. While DMs Rob and Matt agree it is technically 3d and virtual and a tabletop...is Project Sigil a good VTT? Also, are you Gleemaxing? Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice, Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity.