The Tome Show

There are many D&D podcasts in the world today, and in this episode I'm looking to expose you to a few of them. You will hear about the Official D&D podcast, Icosohedraphelia (if that's how you spell it), Radio Free Hommlet, 3.5 Private Sanctuary/Know Direction, and Critical Hit from Major Spoilers. There are many others out there and if you'd like me to do another show like this looking at podcasts or blogs say the word at the Vorpal Network forums.

Sponsors:

FRP Pick of the Episode - Azagar's Book of Rituals

Links:

Vorpal Network Forums

D&D's Official Website (including the podcast)

Icosahedraphelia

Radio Free Hommlet

3.5 Private Sanctuary

Major Spoilers (with the Critical Hit podcast)

Skill Challenges have been a long developing, changing, and debated topic in 4e D&D. This month (April) I am calling Skill Challenge Month and towards that goal I am planning a couple of episodes of how to make them work and be awesome. To those ends, I am joined in this episode by Dave Chalker where we are going to build a Skill Challenge from scratch and talk about how to get the most out of a skill challenge as a player.

Sponsors:

FRP Games Pick of the Episode - Plane Above

Links:

Critical Hits

Forums

I am joined by Andrew Wilson of Silent7Seven Games and we set out to build a Drow Priestess of Lolth, discuss how to pick monsters for your encounters, and Sly Flourish bring us advice on how to use Divine Power to inspire your DMing.

Sponsors:

Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - Selling

Links:

Return of the Vorpal Forums!!!

Silent7Seven

Sly Flourish

Jeff's Drow Druid Level 1

Jeff's Drow Druid Level 11

Andrew's Drow Druid Level 1

To look at the PH3 I called on veteran Tome contributors Will Wong and Quinn Murphy from the At-Will blog. We examined the new races, new classes, and new features, like psionics, hybrid classes, and skill powers. All in all, we decided that this is the "psionics handbook" with some divine and primal thrown in along the way, especially when it came to classes, but that said, there is some GREAT stuff in this book.

Sponsors:

Noble Knight Pick of the Episodes - Diamond Dice set from GameScience

Links:

At-Will Blog

Vorpal Network (now with Forums again!!!)

Jeff's Underdark review at Fist Full of Comics and Games

Martial Power 2 is designed to give more options for your fighter, rogue, ranger, or warlord. To see if the book is successful at that I brought in Dave Chalker from Critical Hits as well as Jared Glenn from the Power Source podcast.

Sponsor:

Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - D&D Miniatures

Amazon via The Tome

Links:

Vorpal Network Forums (that's right, we're back!!!)

Critical Hits

The Power Source

Underdark is a book designed to make the dangerous underground setting easier to use as a setting for your adventures. In this episode I am joined by the Newbie DM Enrique, Chris from Icosohedraphelia, and Mark from the Dicemonkey's and RPG Circus.

Sponsor:

Pick of the episode - Dragonborn

Links:

NewbieDM Blog

Icosohedraphelia Podcast

RPG Circus Podcast

DiceMonkey Blog

Wolfgang Baur joins me in this episode where we build a monster called a Spark based on a Pathfinder RPG monster built by Adam Daigle for a monster contest at Kobold Quarterly. We then talk about how to make your character work in a group even though you like to always be the exception to the rule, the loner, the odd-ball.

Sponsor:

Picks of the Episode - Planes of Chaos and Kobold Quarterly

The Original Spark

Jeff's Version of the Spark

Wolfgang's Version of the Spark (provided with permission from Kobold Quarterly)

Links:

Kobold Quarterly

Wolfgang Baur on Twitter

This episode is a collection of mini-reviews of a slew of 3rd party products (products usable for D&D but not by Wizards of the Coast). Chris Heard from Icosohedraphelia gives us reviews of the Chessex Dice Boot, Sonic Legends Soundscapes, and Paizo GameMastery Flip-Pad Mats, Jeremiah McCoy from the Basics of the Game gives us a look at Tieflings from Goodman Games, Marcelo Dior from Voices of the Third Earth (a Portuegese language show) talks about iPlay4e, and Donny (from my gaming group) brings you a look at In Search of Adventure from Goodman Games. Oh, and I also did some reviewing. Goodman Games products I reviewed includes Scions of Punjar and The Forgotten Portal and I also looked at Q-Workshop Steampunk dice, Fat Dragon Games' Ultimate GM Screen II, DM Tracker, and Precis Intermedia's Disposable Heroes - Fantasy 6 paper miniatures.

You can get many of these from our Sponsor:

Chessex Dice Boot

Q-Workshop Dice

Tieflings

In Search of Adventure

GameMastery Flip-Mats

Forgotten Portal

Scions of Punjar

Links:

Jeff's Review of Swords of Eveningstar at Fist Full of Comics and Games

At-Will blog, which will have a regular feature from Jeff called Characters with Character

Icosohedraphelia (D&D actual play podcast and more)

Voices of the Third Earth (Portuguese language gaming podcast)

Basics of the Game (reviews of game systems)

Sonic Legends

Goodman Games

Chessex

Q-Workshop

iPlay4e

DM's Tracker

Mike Shea of Sly Flourish joins me for a discussion where we build an encounter at a portal to the Fey Wild based around Foulspawn and then we talk about finding the balance of using collaborative storytelling in your game as a DM and a player.

Sponsor:

Pick of the episode - Paizo's Flip-Mats

Amazon Through the Tome Show's Store

Links:

Sly Flourish

Sly Flourish DM Tips on Twitter

4e Blogs

I am joined in this episode by Matt James to talk about what he's doing in the D&D world, as well as building a Shadar-Kai Swordmage and giving advice on how to start a new campaign.

Sponsors:

Pick of the Episode - Plane Below

Character Build (PDFs):

Jeff's Build at Level 1

Jeff's Build at Level 11

Matt's Build at Level 15

Links:

Loremaster

Matt James on Twitter

James' Brothers on Facebook