Roleplay Geeks Podcast

The Roleplay Geeks look at pop culture influences on roleplay games and then at roleplay games influences on pop culture.  There's discussion of shows (Community, Big Bang Theory, IT Crowd, The Expanse), movies (Mazes and Monsters, Dungeons and Dragons), roleplay games (Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Serenity, Farscape, Battlestar),   and music (Billy Joel).  Stick around for the cage match, it's all in good fun!

From house rules to home brewed, we look at how you can make your favorite games customized to your style of play even if that means creating your own game from scratch.  

In this episode, we invite a veteran of the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop application software to hold our hands and take us on a tour of this amazing piece of software with a suspect interface.  Joins us for bad bards, exploding cars, Elvis sightings, and much more as we explore this amazing piece of software.

We are wrapping up our Call of Cthulhu adventure and it's been a wild ride!  Here we talk about H.P. Lovecraft's world and how we fared in it.  Stevo gives us insight into the game master's side of things while the rest of the gang talk about their experiences from the players side of the table.  It's all about the mythos, game mechanics and corpses with this latest dive into a great role-playing system.

Isn't every villain somebody's hero?  Is a force of nature a villain?  What was that whole "Cruella Di Vil" thing about?  The Roleplay Geeks get in line to signup for their individual takes on villains, making sure they brought enough gum for everyone.  From Darth Vader to Aliens and a return to Joseph Campbell and the hero's journey we explore the villains place in roleplay games leading us to question if the villain isn't really the hero.  

The Roleplay Geeks weigh in on what they think the ultimate gaming table would look like.  Snack compartments, dice trays and hover chairs make the cut.  Join us on this fun dive into the world of gaming table wish list to see what we missed and what we didn't.  Then jump over to the comments/reviews and let us know your thoughts on what would be included in your ultimate gaming table!

While COVID-19 and a national lockdown have us hunkered down waiting for the all clear, we take advantage of the Roll20 platform to play our games.  With a little time under our belt, we talk about what we like and don't like about the platform.

In this episode, we invite two brothers who are masters at the card game Magic the Gathering to discuss the relationship it has with D&D.  Along the way, we talk about the things we like and don't like, we talk about the D&D manual "Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica", elf transformations that anger card players, and sentence diagramming.  It's all about knowing when to hold them and when to fold them in this weeks episode of Roleplay Geeks.

In this week's episode we talk about D&D monsters.  We checkout the various manuals from the original Monster Manual to the latest manuals found in D&D 5e.  We identify the dumbest monsters and our favorites.  An in between, we talk about how we use them in our games.  It's a bumpy ride and more than once, you'll see a carbuncle and at least once, a flumph.