Dice of Doom

We present to you, most patient listener, a lost episode of the Dice of Doom Podcast recorded sometime last year. The bits and bytes of the recording languished in a forgotten folder on a computer where it matured and gained new and fragrant characteristics. Once it had reached the pinnacle of its potential, it was edited and cut down, spliced together then thrown to the public to listen to as they please. Topics covered are our impressions of D&D 5th edition and where D&D stands going into the future. We also have a heated discussion about the various editions and fail to agree on anything. To make matters worse, we then wrap up our experience with the original AD&D 1st Edition Temple of Elemental Evil campaign...

In this carrot dangling episode we discuss rules mechanics and how they can be used to enhance roleplaying games. In particular we discuss how this is done in Rolemaster, Deadlands and Spirit of the Century. We also answer some listener questions, namely our thoughts on DnDNext, Palladium, and how to craft a classic "Who Dun It?" mystery in your games. All this, and a collection of stupid character names to boot!

In this, the first episode of the Dice of Doom podcast of 2014, we go through a massive back log of listener's questions regarding various aspects of games, gaming and philosophy. We also discuss our thoughts on playing through the Temple of Elemental Evil campaign for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition.

In this episode of the Dice of Doom Podcast we discuss our first impressions of the roleplaying game Rogue Trader set in the dystopian future of Warhammer 40k universe. Having to spend time waiting for people to turn up to games night has meant that we have started playing a lot of board games, so we review Pandemic. We also have a long rambling discussion loosely based around our our thoughts on Splitting the Party, its evils and James Bond.

In this fibre packed episode of the DoDCast (good for you in so many ways) we talk to Paul about his recent foray into teaching his kids about roleplaying games. We also discuss the role of sourcebooks in your campaign - just how rigidly should you adhere to them in your game. Sam from Tw33t_RPG joins us for an interview on his upcoming tweet roleplaying game. And, as a bonus, we include our first impressions of the Mouse Guard RPG, just because we're nice like that.

In this podcast we review Mutants & Masterminds and, due to a delay in recording the second half of the podcast, Shadowrun 20th Anniversary edition as well. We look at ways to reset a GM who thinks that you are always playing the same type of characters regardless of their stats or personality (thanks CrookRook!). We also do a mini-review of the D&D Boardgame Wrath of Ashardalon.

In this, admittedly belated, episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we discuss how you (yes you!) can be part of the play testing experience for our new RPG Goblins! We discuss the games that we will be playing this year (Fabled Lands, Mutants & Masterminds, Shadowrun, Mouse Guard, Ars Magica, The One Ring, Traveller, Deadlands). We also review Fabled Lands.

For our discussion topic this episode we are asked the question by Michael S on our Facebook page "Should you be able to use your skills, like Diplomacy and Intimidate on other players?" We have to apologise to Michael S as we forgot to give him a shout out in the podcast.

In this, the final podcast recorded in 2011 (don't worry, we've started recording 2012 podcasts), we discuss the awesomeness of the 20th Anniversary Vampire: The Masquerade Ultimate Everything In It Leave Nothing Out 500 Bazillion Pages Edition (not its real name), we review Lady Blackbird and answer a question from Symatt on ways to spice up character creation.

In what we hope is a solid case of better late than never we present episode 037 of the DoDCast recorded in mid October of last year. This episode we discuss our initial impressions of Lady Blackbird (the Ennie Award winning free Indie RPG), discuss the effective use of religions in your roleplaying campaigns (via Symatt) and we look at ways to deal with an extremely large gaming group (via Jrronimo).

As means of a Holiday Gift we decided to get off our butts and pause writing Goblins! long enough to issue forth this final edition of the Dice of Doom podcast for the year.

Topics:

* Our final thoughts on the Sci-fi Post Apocalyptic Transhuman Horror game Eclipse Phase.

* Deliberately screwing with your player's characters for the purposes of plot. Is it OK to?

* Tragedy as a genre for a Campaign Setting (Oedipus the Roleplaying Game, anyone?)

* Realistic Ecology in Roleplaying Campaign Settings. Is it important? (Thank you HairyDM for the topic).

* Beards on Dwarven Women. Yes or no? (Thank you PizzaKarin for the topic).