Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Curmudgeons And Dragons
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Curmudgeons And Dragons episodes
- 50 Tips for Dungeon Masters (Part 1: 1-10)[#43] In an extension of our regular DM Advice episodes, we take a look at a list of 50 DM tips and discuss which ones make our personal cut, how we'd revise them, and why Jason hates shopping.
- Our list comes courtesy of MT Black Games.
- We mentioned The Monsters Know What They're Doing.
- There's a host of internet rescources, and not just bleprints, dedicated to castles.
- Josey name-dropped Fallout: Nuka-World.
33 min - Just Played: Under Hollow Hills[#42] Jim just played Under Hollow Hills! Under Hollow Hills is a pbta game where you portray performers in a traveling circus made of fae and mortal beings. It’s by Vincent and Meguay Baker, the designers of the pbta system, and in this episode, we’ve got to entertain the Midsummer Court in the midst of a spat between King Oberon and Queen Titania.
- You can read about the game and pick up your own copy at the Lumpley Games site.
- We played online using Streamyard, a pretty good free Zoom alternative.
- For a refresher on Midsummer Night’s Dream, you can do worse than the 1999 Hollywood production starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline
11 min - RPG Horror Story: DM Doesn't Grant Player IRL Disability In-game[#41] In this horror story, Greg tell us how a real-world disability collides with the clumsily ablist way many RPGs handle character creation multiplied by some deeply insensitive GMing.
- The Dark Eye is a fantasy heartbreaker that originated in Germany.
- D&D 5e has its own well-discussed problems with disability representation.
- The Gauntlet Forums hosted an engaging short discussion about playing RPGs with a speech disorder.
13 min - Quizzes Redux Part 1 - Which D&D 5e Race Are You?[#40] We get together to take a Buzzfeed-style D&D race quiz and see what happens. Essentialism aside, it's a fun exercise in exploring the assumptions the game makes about its core cultures, and we learned a little more about each other along the way.
- There's a million such quizzes, but we used this one.
- We didn't get around to the D&D Class Quiz, but we had one picked out.
- As with D&D characters, there are levels of passive aggression.
- Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e from Arcanist Press is widely regarded as an excellent corrective to some of the problems with how 5e handles character races.
41 min - Just Played: Odyssey Aquatica[#39] Jim just played Odyssey Aquatica! It's a playest for the Paragon system by John Harper. In this session, we mee the explorers, build our boat, and descend into the darkest depths of the Pacific to rescue the crew of a Sealab in distress.
- The Paragon system debuted in the Agon RPG.
- Odyssey Aquatica is availabe via Old Dog Games.
- The game draws heavily from the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
16 min - RPG Horror Story: Quasimodo Is OP[#38] In Greg's personal horror story, a Pathfinder (shudder) campaign goes off the rails thanks to, among other things, a militant pacifist, a BBEG with plot immmunity, and a bell that can't be unrung.
- The hunchback has a long and storied history as a genre trope.
- You will definitely want Tome of Beasts 3 when it drops.
- Check out a few cool ideas for a pacifist cleric.
16 min - DM Advice II: Means Girls vs The Mad Decapitators[#37] It's our first DM Advice episode with the new crew! We try not to lose our heads as we talk about players made paranoid by the Feign Death spell, dumb magic items, excessive sassiness and tippling at the table.
- There's an entire magazine devoted to sassiness if you need information on it.
- Enjoy a D&D-themed beer if you allow that sort of thing at your table.
- Join the conversation at the DMAcademy subreddit.
42 min - Just Played: Old School Essentials A1-4[#36] Jim just played Old School Essentials! We're using this popular D&D retro-clone as the backbone for our run through the classic AD&D A1-4 Slave Lord series of modules.
- Old School Essentials is in print and available from Necrotic Gnome.
- We organized this session via The Gauntlet Online Gaming Community.
- Follow along in the official PDF reprint of the originals.
- Check out AP video of our game on Mike's YouTube channel.
13 min - RPG Horror Story: Flapjack Is Dead[#35] You'd think Planescape is a setting so cool you couldn't screw it up, but in this RPG Horror story from GenCon 1998, Jim (via his friend The Ferrett) impales that expectation on a wall full of razorvine. Jason, Josey, and Greg share in the horror.
- GenCon is still going strong, fortunately.
- Many veteran D&D players consider Planescape the finest setting ever released for D&D.
- Jim's pal Ferrett Steinmetz went on to become a published SF author.
- There's no official bariaur for 5e yet, which is a shame because they were the GOAT.
21 min - Alternate Stat Generation Methods[#34] Hello, adventurers! This week Jason, Josey, Jim, and Greg dive down the rabbit hole of generating player character ability scores in D&D 5e.
- For some reason, some folks get pretty salty about the Standard Array
- There are roughly as many ways to generate stats as there are DMs.
- Jason cites the Tic Tac Toe method.
- Jim is partial to the ability score draft.
49 min
About Curmudgeons And Dragons
From the publisher's feed
The party gathers at the round table to discuss your RPG horror stories, building interesting characters, and all things D&D! Join Jason, Josey, and Jim at the tavern for a pint of ale and share…
some stories!