RPGBOT.Podcast

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

• Doctor Terry Macmullan @PhilosphyDM

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.podcast Episode 0 – The Adventure Begins
• RPGBOT.podcast Episode 3 – Metacurrencies in Tabletop RPGs

Dungeons and Dragons 5e

• Player's Handbook (affiliate link) or the Basic Rules
• Alignment

DnD 3.5

Alignment

• Atonement – It got rolled into Ceremony in DnD 5e
• Helm of Opposite Alignment – Did not make it into 5e

Other Stuff

• Adventurer's League
• Ayn Rand
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Breaking Bad
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Immanuel Kant
• Jane Addams
• Jeremy Bentham
• John Rawls
• John Stuart Mill
• Man in the Iron Mask
• Peter Singer
• Socrates
• The Addiction

In this episode of RPGBOT.News, we talk to Jim Powell of Tabula Sono, a free virtual tabletop launching later this year. We discuss Tabula Sono's Kickstarter campaign, their virtual tabletop's exciting features and accessibility, and we get an inside look into what the team has planned for the future.

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

Tabula Sono

• Kickstarter
• Discord
• TikTok
• Twitter

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss flight. We examine the state of flight rules in DnD 5e and PF2 and take a peek at DnD 3.x and PF1 for comparison, then we explore how to handle flying enemies from a player's perspective and how to handle flying players from a GM/DM perspective. We also take a brief aside into how cool airships are.

Special thanks to @SenChatterton on Twitter for the question of the week this week.

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.podcast Episode 2 – Mounted Combat
• RPGBOT.Podcast Episode 6 – The Tarrasque

Dungeons and Dragons 5e

• Player's Handbook (affiliate link)
• Eberron: Rising From the Last War (affiliate link)

Pathfinder 2e

• Core Rulebook (affiliate link)
• Gamemastery Guide (affiliate link)

DnD 3.5

• DnD 3.5 Flight Rules
• Races of the Wild (affiliate link)
• Savage Species (affiliate link)

Other Stuff

• BESM d20 Revised Edition (affiliate link)
• Final Fantasy 6
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
• Roll20 Equation for range while flying: [[[[(?{vertical distance|0}**2)+(?{Horizontal distance|0)**2)]]**.5]]
• X-Men: Fastball Special

Jonathan gave us some exciting news during the podcast, and he'll mail the first 5 people who can answer a question about it a free scratch and dent (meaning minor cosmetic damage) physical copy of Rise of the Drow for 5e.

US Only, please. Answers must be given in the AAW Games Discord channel.

Question: "AAW Games is bringing Rise of the Drow to virtual tabletops. Which ones?"

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

Jonathan G. Nelson and AAWGames

• AAW Games
• AAW Games Discord
• Rise of the Drow

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss random encounters. We examine what published adventures do wrong both in design and presentation of random encounters, and we explore why random encounters are useful, how to make them interesting without being a burden, and we create an example random encounter chart.

Special thanks to for the question of the week this week.

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.News – MOAR The Monsters Know What They're Doing with Keith Ammann

Dungeons and Dragons 5e

• Explorer's Guide to Wildemount
• Out of the Abyss
• Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
• Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Pathfinder 2e

• Core Rulebook (affiliate link)

Other Stuff

• Gloomhaven

In this episode of RPGBOT.News, we talk to Caleb Valerozo-Jones and his team. We Caleb's masters project, Neurodiversity, Dungeons, and Dragons: A guide to transforming and enriching Tabletop Role-playing games for Neurodivergent Adults. We dig into how we can make tabletop games and the world in general more welcoming, and how we can use skills learned in TTRPGs to make our lives better outside of the game.

Materials Referenced in this Episode

Caleb Valorozo-Jones (he/him)

• @qrnrd
• Neurodiversity, Dungeons, and Dragons: A guide to transforming and enriching TTRPGs for Neurodivergent Adult

Colin Jones (they/them)

• Colin didn't have anything to plug, but we still think they're great.

Daniel H. Kwan (he/him)

• @danielhkwan
• Asians Represent Podcast
• Candlekeep Mysteries (affiliate link)
• Level Up Games

Naomi Hazlet (she/they)

• @naomi_hazlet
• Level Up Games
• Limitless Heroics on Kickstarter

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.News – DnD 5e Errata 3.0
• RPGBOT.Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 – The Move Toward Inclusion in Tabletop Gaming

Other Stuff

• DSM 5
• Dictionary: Self-Abnegation

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we review mundane medicine in fantasy games which typically also offer magical solutions to healing. We look at medicine skills across several RPGs and examine where different RPGs do things well or poorly, and what you can do make mundane medicine meaningful in games like DnD 5e.

Special thanks to October Sky for the question of the week this week.

Materials Referenced in this Episode

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.podcast Episode 1 – DnD 5e's Investigation Skill

Dungeons and Dragons 5e

• Player's Handbook (affiliate link)

Pathfinder 2e

• Core Rulebook (affiliate link)
• Gamemastery Guide (affiliate link

Fantasy Flight Star Wars

• Edge of the Empire (affiliate link)

Other Stuff

• DnD 3.5's heal Skill
• Etymology of the word "Mundane"
• PF1's Heal Skill

In this episode of RPGBOT.News, we talk to Matthew Whitby. We discuss Matt's newly-released adventure Tome of Silence, his podcast Dungeon Master's Guild House, and how to get started on DMsGuild.

Materials Referenced in this Episode

Matthew Whitby

• Tome of Silence: Attack of the Astral Sound Devourers on DMsGuild with a generous 50% discount for podcast listeners! (affiliate link)
• @WhitbyWrites
• Dungeon Master's Guild House on Youtube

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss adapting media to tabletop RPGs. We talk about identifying what you like about a piece of media and discuss picking the right RPG, adapting RPGs that you already know and love to fit the story you want to tell. Then, we follow our own advice and adapt some of our favorites

Due to the length of the episode, we've split this episode into two parts.

Materials Referenced in this Episode

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• Episode 0 – The Adventure Begins
• Season 2 Episode 3 – Why are you running your one shots at level 1 (or 2 or 3)?

Other Stuff

• .Dungeon Article on Polygon (not on The Verge as we said)
• Dark Souls on Steam
• Darkest Dungeon on Steam
• Dogfooding on Wikipedia
• Star Wars: Edge of the Empire (affiliate link)
• Edge of Tomorrow on IMDB
• Firefly RPG (affiliate link)
• GURPS 4e (affiliate link)
• List of Roleplaying Games on Wikipedia
• Massive Chalice on Steam
• Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (affiliate link)
• The Rings of Power on Prime Video (affiliate link)
• The One Ring RPG 2nd edition from Free League Publishing

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we discuss adapting media to tabletop RPGs. We talk about identifying what you like about a piece of media and discuss picking the right RPG, adapting RPGs that you already know and love to fit the story you want to tell. Then, we follow our own advice and adapt some of our favorites

Due to the length of the episode, we've split this episode into two parts.

Materials Referenced in this Episode

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• Episode 0 – The Adventure Begins
• Season 2 Episode 3 – Why are you running your one shots at level 1 (or 2 or 3)?

Other Stuff

• .Dungeon Article on Polygon (not on The Verge as we said)
• Dark Souls on Steam
• Darkest Dungeon on Steam
• Dogfooding on Wikipedia
• Star Wars: Edge of the Empire (affiliate link)
• Edge of Tomorrow on IMDB
• Firefly RPG (affiliate link)
• GURPS 4e (affiliate link)
• List of Roleplaying Games on Wikipedia
• Massive Chalice on Steam
• Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (affiliate link)
• The Rings of Power on Prime Video (affiliate link)
• The One Ring RPG 2nd edition from Free League Publishing