DiceSized

Welcome to RnG! A show of thoughtful tangents where Rob and G talk with incredible guests from all over the TTRPG space. This episode features Elliot Davis. For a video version of this episode, head on over to Patreon.com/DiceSized.

He’s the Co-Host, Co-Creator, Producer, and Editor of Talk of the Table - A TTRPG talk show where he and Brian Flaherty talk with guests about all the coolest things happening in the TTRPG community.

He’s co-producer and a core cast member on My First Dungeon - The tabletop roleplaying podcast that helps game masters learn new games and make each one better than the last.

On top of that, he’s one of the finest game designers of whose work I have had the pleasure of playing.

You may know him better by his game design moniker “MoreBlueBerries,” who has brought amazing games to life including but not limited to:

Project ECCO, Rom Com Drama Bomb, and the incredibly moving The Time We Have and it's spiritual successor: To Feel Your Warmth

It’s Elliot Davis!

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Listen in as we touch on many topics including:

00:00 Introduction to the Guests and Their Work

01:57 Elliot's Journey into Game Design

04:35 The Role of Community in Game Development

07:09 Exploring Game Mechanics and Storytelling

09:42 The Conversation in Game Design

12:18 The Time We Have: A Deep Dive

14:39 Personal Reflections on Time and Identity

17:02 The Healing Power of Games

21:31 The Importance of Brotherhood

24:21 Exploring Anxiety and Vulnerability

26:48 Masculinity and Emotional Expression

30:18 The Role of Silence in Communication

33:28 Immersion Through Game Mechanics

39:08 The Power of Ritual in Game Design

44:39 The Evolution of Game Concepts

46:56 Game Mechanics and Storytelling

50:31 Actual Play and Game Design

52:49 Immersive Gameplay Experiences

58:19 The Impact of Game Language

01:02:14 Cultural Impact and Future Plans

01:02:33 Second Print Run and Anticipation

01:03:44 Future Plans and New Game Announcement

01:05:29 Exploring 'To Feel Your Warmth'

01:08:13 Game Mechanics and Player Agency

01:11:25 Empowering Storytelling in Game Design

01:15:15 Closing Thoughts and Random Number Reveal

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For more of Elliot Davis, head on over to:

To Feel Your Warmth - Kickstarter

ManySidedMedia.com

MoreBlueberries.com

MoreBluebuerries on Itch.io

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DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead.

With additional Dialogue Editing by: Sav

Original Music and Score by: George (madlymusicalmind)

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Please be sure to follow the show, get in the comments, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

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Welcome to Outlaws of the Outlands, a weird west adventure where our players act as Gunslingers of the sprawling Outlands of Planescape. Where Cosmic Concordance is the highest of planar law.

Last time… Birdie, Crank, and Rex were each recruited by a golden flickering and cosmically glitching metal minder — Aurelia, an aurumach Rilmani of the Spire - the highest of their order.

Told simply that “Cosmic Concordance necessitates their presence,” they all now find themselves lead into the dusty expanse of the Ringlands.

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This has been a bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told story told by yours truly:

Rob Whitehead

and brought to life by my players:

G as Crank Turner

Maya as Rex Sidewinder

Sav as Birdie October

And Rob Whitehead as their Game Master.

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DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead.

With Original Music and score by our very own madlymusicalmind.

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Like what you hear?

Be sure to follow the show, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

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In this clip from the patreon exclusive segment Critical Cuts, the DiceSized crew discusses our favorite things about being apart of the larger nerdom/rpg community.

If you like this, consider joining the DiceSized patreon. Head on over to Patreon.com/DiceSized. Or type DiceSized.com and we'll get you there.

Interested in hearing us discuss certain topics or entertain certain guests? Let us know in the comments!

Welcome to RnG! A show of thoughtful tangents where Rob and G talk with incredible guests from all over the TTRPG space. This episode features Max Volpert. For a video version of this episode, head on over to Patreon.com/DiceSized.

She’s our dear friend, as well as the co-founder of Spit It Out! Audio which offers handcrafted audio services in podcasting, television, film, video games, theatre, music composition, and more.

You may know her from her performance as Audrey in the 2016 Rutgers High School Musical Theater Academy production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Or perhaps as Daisy in Darcy Thompson’s short film “The Falling Star.”

Or as the creator of the introspective and moving stop motion short film “A Quiet Life in the Stars”

And of course, she’s one of the incredible cast and the brilliant sound design mind behind the critically acclaimed actual-play podcast, Rivers of Confluence.

It’s Max Volpert!

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Listen in as we touch on many topics including:

00:00 Introduction: Max Volpert & Audio Storytelling

02:23 Rapid-Fire Warm-Up

04:30 Building Rivers of Confluence Season 2

10:05 Character Voices & Performance Energy

19:13 Recording, Monitoring & Sound-Design Preparation

25:09 From Soccer to Musical Theater

34:55 Directing, Writing & Physical Theater

44:38 Finding Sound Design Through Theater

52:19 Live Mixing, Technical Pressure & Problem-Solving

62:10 Live Actual Play & Leaving Theater

65:49 From Theater to Game Audio

68:54 Epilogues & Storytelling Influences

72:10 Family, Fandom & Feminist Character Writing

84:21 Dialogue Editing, Pacing & Comedic Rhythm

96:01 Building the Rivers of Confluence Team

106:20 Friendship Through Collaborative Storytelling

111:12 Recording Rivers of Confluence Season 2 in Two Weeks

118:49 Closing Thoughts & Lucky Numbers

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For more of Max Volpert, head on over to:

RiversofConfluence.com for your podcasting pleasure

SpitItOutAudio.com for skillful sound design services

MaxVolpert.com for all Max's other projects.

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DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead.

Original Music and Score by: George (madlymusicalmind)

Like what you hear?

Please be sure to follow the show, get in the comments, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

That’s D-I-C-E S-I-Z-E-D.

For more like this, follow us on Instagram and find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceSized

This episode is a public Patreon preview.

While we now know something of our Gunslingin’ Outlaws of the Outlands, what about their Steeds? Today we learn a little about the pasts of these three Steeds.

Icarus, an arrogant and mythically amazing hero of heroes amongst Pegasi

Hover, an unlikely, legendary, living construct built from scratch

and Rufus, a donkey.

They meet upon Deaders' Draw... a tower of fateful meeting and fateful demise out in the Ringlands.

Atop the slanted tower is a is a circle of white chalk that, despite itself, continues to remain against the scouring wind. It's a place for folks who have something to settle betwixt ‘em.

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This has been a bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told story told by yours truly:

Rob Whitehead

and brought to life by my players:

G as Hover

Maya as Rufus

Sav as Icarus

And Rob Whitehead as their Game Master.

DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead.

With Original Music by our very own madlymusicalmind.

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Like what you hear?

Be sure to follow the show, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

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For more like this, follow us on Instagram and find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceSized

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Welcome to Outlaws of the Outlands, a weird west adventure where our players act as Gunslingers of the sprawling Outlands of Planescape. Where Cosmic Concordance is the highest of planar law. Last time, we met:

Crank Turner, a portal-fixing, half-a-body-missing planar mechanic from Automata who works on the Great Road, a path of portals that connects all the verses... damn near the whole song.

Rex Sidewinder, a giant-befriending, shield-salvage-sledding smuggler hailing from the plane of Ysgard. Now living in the Gatetown of Glorium, this Goliath descended from Cloud Giants had been runnin’ from heroism his whole life.

Birdie October, a bad-lad-nabbing, Xorn-kick-assing Bounty Hunter that keeps law and order ‘round the parts of Tradegate, the Gatetown of Bytopia. Birdie knows right from wrong and isn’t afraid to split hairs between what’s fair and what’s just.

These three gunslingers don't know it yet, but Cosmic Concordance necessitates their presence.

And it's just arrived in the form of an elegant woman with golden eyes - a Rilmani of the Spire.

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This has been a bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told story told by yours truly:

Rob Whitehead

and brought to life by my players:

G as Crank Turner

Maya as Rex Sidewinder

Sav as Birdie October

And Rob Whitehead as their Dungeon Master.

DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead.

With Original Music by our very own madlymusicalmind.

Like what you hear?

Be sure to follow the show, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

That’s D-I-C-E S-I-Z-E-D.

For more like this, follow us on Instagram and find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceSized

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Welcome to Outlaws of the Outlands - a weird west style adventure where our heroes play as gunslingers within the sprawling Outlands, the strange frontier of Planescape, where belief shapes reality and existence blurs at the edges.

Dust-choked trade roads stretch between gate-towns that each lean toward another plane of existence. One town might burn with the iron discipline of Hell; another might tremble on the edge of celestial glory. These settlements shift in allegiance, sometimes vanishing entirely if their beliefs tip too far. Between them lies open territory — badlands, razor-grass plains, ruined fortresses, and the bones of forgotten wars.

This arc follows gunslingers carving their names into that dust.

Where portals flicker in abandoned arches.

Where belief is currency.

Welcome to the Outlands.

Keep your irons ready, and don’t ride too close to the brink.

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DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead and brought to life by my players:

G as Crank Turner

Maya as Rex Sidewinder

Sav as Birdie October

and Rob Whitehead as their Dungeon Master.

Original Music by: George (madlymusicalmind)

Like what you hear?

Be sure to follow the show, get in the comments, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

That’s D-I-C-E S-I-Z-E-D.

For more like this, follow us on Instagram and find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceSized

Drop into this Arthurian-lore-inspired adventure where our players take on the role of knights in a grand tournament featuring special guest Max Volpert of Rivers of Confluence.

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Last time on A Knight’s Tale, our party of errant knights arrived Upon Avalon for a grand and mysterious tourney!

Sir Blastimus Ambrosius, aka Sir Blasty, Merlin Ambrosius' lesser known younger brother who is in search of the missing Wizard.

Sir Screw Loose, aka Sir Lou, a Warforged fighter turned dancing bard who sought to spread dance across the realms.

Sir Pitter-Patter, aka Sir Here-nor-there, a steel fairy knight of the seelie court who sensed something was amiss with this Grand Tourney.

And of course, Molbark the Ancient, a hulking Warforged, who is big as a tree, and was mistaken as a Green Knight at the tourney lists.

With Sir Lou having impressed Richard the Lionheart, aka Dick, to give them incredibly favorable standing in the lists, our Knights now begin the Grand Tourney of Coin, Queen, and Cup!

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DiceSized is produced and designed by Rob Whitehead, and A Knight’s Tale was brought to life by:

• G as Blastimus Ambrosious aka Sir Blast

• Maya as Pitter Patter aka Sir Here-nor-there

• Sav as Screw Loose aka Sir Lou

• Max Volpert as Molbark the Ancient

• Rob Whitehead as their DM

Original Music and Score by: George (madlymusicalmind)

Like the show? Get in the comments, drop a 5 star review, and tell a friend about us, so we can keeping making bite-sized, dice-rolled, twice-told stories.

To post about about the show, use #DiceSized.

That’s D-I-C-E S-I-Z-E-D.

For more like this, follow us on Instagram and find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceSized

For more Rivers of Confluence, head to https://www.riversofconfluence.com or anywhere you else you catch your podcasts.

Welcome to RnG! Listen to Rob and G talk with guests all across the TTRPG space discussing the creative process with a focus on all the elements that go into game design, actual play, and various other TTRPG careers.

Joining us for this episode is the talented artist and indie RPG game designer, Nathaniel Klein of Studio Zosimos.

In this episode, we discuss RPGs as Art through the lens of Nathaniel's work on the Prismatic Oracle - a keepsake junk journaling game which just launched on kickstarter and was fully funded within two hours.

• Studio Zosimos itch.io

• The Temple of Prismos by Nathaniel Klein of Studio Zosimos

• The Prismatic Oracle by Nathaniel Klein of Studio Zosimos

Are role playing games art? Are any games art?

Listen in as we touch on many topics including:

• The Creative Process of Indie Game Design

• Including Art as Part of Game Design Process

• Printmaking Art as a Protest against an era of AI slop

• Anti-AI Approach in regards to Game Design

• Appreciation for Analog Gaming to Inspire Connection

• Unique RPG Mechanics with Physical Artifacts as Resource Management

• Third Spaces for Artists and Gamers

• Indie TTRPG and Game Printing

• Letterpress

• Linocut

• Risograph

• Madison and Milwaukee Area Third Spaces for Game Design

  • Tabletop Bookshelf Game Design Night

  • Beefy Wizard Con

  • Magic Pixel Guild

  • Gamehole Con