House Of Bards

By The Bards

Long-time friends Alex and Beth look at the challenges and techniques involved in tabletop roleplaying via the "shared narrative" style.... more

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about House Of Bards:

How many episodes does House Of Bards have?

The podcast currently has 42 episodes available.

House Of Bards episodes:

March 25, 2016 Playing Outside Yourself
As a partial excuse for Beth to publicly condemn The 100 showrunner Jason Rothenberg, the Bards discuss how best to handle playing a character who is emphatically not like their player.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h
February 21, 2016 The OGL and You
Wizards Of The Coast recently made an announcement that might be pretty important to some of you. Alex and Beth chat about the Open Gaming Licence and what it and similar policies mean for roleplaying games in general.
Link to the SRD: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
53min
January 31, 2016 PC Rivalries
How to be two people who don't like each other in the pretend, by Alex and Beth.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
46min
January 21, 2016 DM Improv
Alex and Beth talk about what it falls to a DM to do when a game goes off the rails.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
59min
December 03, 2015 Game Starts
Alex and Beth talk about what's wrong with some the "classic" ways to begin a campaign.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 6min
November 23, 2015 Class studies: The Bard
In the first episode of a new House Of Bards subseries, Alex and Beth discuss the titular Bard.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 15min
October 31, 2015 Crack a Monster Manual Part 2
In this two-part Halloween special, Alex and Beth embark on a journey through the 5th edition D&D monster manual's spookiest offerings.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 7min
October 31, 2015 Crack a Monster Manual Part 1
In this two-part Halloween special, Alex and Beth embark on a journey through the 5th edition D&D monster manual's spookiest offerings.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 15min
October 27, 2015 Worldbuilding from the ground up
Alex and Beth perhaps inadvisably try to fit the whole premise of the podcast itself into a single episode.
Standford University Polygon Map Generation: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 34min
October 11, 2015 Relationships
Alex and Beth tackle the tricky subject of inter-character relationships in RPGs.
"Crunk Knight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
...more
1h 8min

FAQs about House Of Bards:

How many episodes does House Of Bards have?

The podcast currently has 42 episodes available.