The RPG Academy - ARCHIVES

Hello all,

Here is Episode 18 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.   We had Niko and Rob joining us tonight. We have moved back to recording my house again and there’s a little background noise to deal with. We’ve actually invested in some higher-end recording equipment which should drastically improve our ability to mitigate that backgroud noise, so hopefully this will be the last DT with those problems (we’re still backlogged on Made Men Podcasts by about 8 or 9 episodes before the new ones will start).

Here are this week’s segment topics:

1. Next News: We review the current Death and Dying rules in DnDNext.

2. Table Topics 1 – we transition into dealing with a PC’s death. Evan (as a DM) had his first PC death (Niko’s Rouge Flynn) in our last game. How it happened and how to move on.

3. Mailbag – We cover a couple different techniques for keeping up with various and multiple status effects that might be on a PC at a given time.

4. Table topics  2 –  We go back to the one we missed last week and talk about understanding that DM’s and Players generally have a different level of investment in a game and how to maximize the Players investment.

Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy.

Comments and Feedback are always welcome.

Hello all,

Here is Episode 15 of our DnDNext Actual Play podcast. In this Episode Zaine meets with the Elven Chief and learns more about his Father’s last days before disappearing.  The sound quality of this episode was very up and down. I spent way too much time trying to equalize the highs and lows.

As always, thanks for listening and please take a moment to rate us on Itunes. The more ratings (and the better the ratings) we get helps us stay on the top of lists and searches so more people can find us.

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles.

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 17 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.   When ran a little long this week because of a new segment we tried, so we don’t quite get to all our the Topics we said we would. Thought both our Table Topics intertwined quite a bit so most of it came out in one form or another.

Here are this week’s segment topics:

1. Table topics  1 – Changing your presentation style as a DM, based on Player’s reactions.

2. Mailbag – Barriers from becoming a DM/GM

3. Syngergy – Evan and I open a pack of Magic cards and create a campaign/session starter.

4. Table topics  2 –  we didn’t get to it this week.

As always, thanks for listening and comments/feedback are welcomeThanks!!

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 14 of our DnD Next Actual Play Podcast. In the last Episode, the PC’s entered the Wastelands and headed toward the Old Stone Fort Tower.

In this Episode we pick up right as the PC’s enter the tower as the entire Elven Nation sits and watches.

From a technical standpoint, I was able to figure out NOISE REDUCTION in Audacity and fixed the major issue of the last episode which had a terrible amount of background noise in it. This one sounds much much better.

As always, thanks for listening.

Comments and Feedback are always appreciated.

Until next time . . .

Thanks!!

Michael

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Well as promised a while ago, here is Episode # 1 of our new Podcast: Show & Tell. Essentially this is our take of the How Did This Get Made Podcast (of which, I am a huge fan) where we will be watching D&D or RPG related movies and then discussing them afterwards.

Our first movie was, of course, Dungeons & Dragons the Movie.

We hope this will become a regular podcast, but that doesn’t mean it will be on a time schedule. Only that we want to do it again. Our next feature will be Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God.

Hope you enjoy!

As always, thanks for listening and please take a moment to rate us on Itunes. The more ratings (and the better the ratings) we get helps us stay on the top of lists and searches so more people can find us.

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 16 of  Dungeon Talk; our General advice/discussion podcast.   The big news this week is that one of frequent commentors and Twitter Followers; @vanRPL,  has given us an intro upgrade!   So, if you normally skip over the music intro, please go back and give this one a listen –  Ryan also submitted this week’s Mailbag question and is now entered into our SWAG drawing, so a big thank you, again, to Ryan.   Here are this week’s segment topics:

1. Table topics  1 – Session Balance; combining the elements of your game to the best result.

2. Mailbag – Using “Lucky” Numbers or Crit tables in a game: Pro’s and Con’s.

3. Next News: New Exploration Rules.

4. Table topics  2 – Adding Players to an established group.

As always, thanks for listening and comments/feedback are welcomeThanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles.

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

So, here is Episode 13 of our DnDNext Playtest game.  In this Episode the PC’s brave out into the Wastelands in an effort to reach the Old Stone Fort Tower.

As I cover in my Intro; this was the first game I ran since having my surgery and I was definitely a little off my game.

Our most recent game we started recording at Evan’s house. He has a better set up and less kids so the quality should be better once we get to those games.

As always, thanks for listening and please take a moment to rate us on Itunes. The more ratings (and the better the ratings) we get helps us stay on the top of lists and searches so more people can find us.

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles.

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 15 of our Dungeon Talk Podcast. We kept to the segments again, but we added some special guests;  Niko, who you may know as Grexil, and Jared, who played Wang for a few sessions on the the Made Men Podcast, joined us for Ep 15.

Segments

1. Table topics  1 – Giving your players their “MOMENT” in a game.

2. Mailbag – If you use battle maps, which is better; pre-published or hand drawn?

3. Table topics  2 – Changing an encounter on the fly

4. Next news – We discuss the current chatter about the Warlord Class

As always, thanks for listening and comments/feedback are welcomeThanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 12 of our Made Men DnDnext actual play podcast.

Had a return of a few technical glitches this episode. Lots of background noise and pops and clicks. Also, in two different places there are side conversations going on that muddle the sound pretty badly. Luckily both times it is pretty brief, but I will make a point going forward of having the side conversations wait for a pause. In both cases it’s good stuff happening,just bad timing.

As always, comments and feedback is welcome and thanks for listening!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy

Hello all,

Here is Episode 14 of Dugeon Talk.  Evan and I are still experimenting with the format and in this Episode we tried out a more formalized format with specialized segments. We liked it a lot. Hope you do too.

Segments:

1. Tabletopics – Setting tone in your RPG game.  We had a session where it just didn’t work.

2. Message for you Sir – we answer an E-mail question sent in on our podcast(at)dndacademy.com e-mail. Our question this time was about any food rituals our group has.

3.Tabletopics – Ret Con and it’s place in our game and yours

4. Next news – we discus the current version of the DnDNext Fighter class.

As always, thanks for listening. Comments and feedback are always welcome.

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles.

E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy