Dungeons and Dragons is the grand-daddy of all RPGs. Its influence is so far reaching, its amazing. If you ever killed a monster, took its stuff, got experience points and then leveled up you owe DnD a huge debt.

We interviewed Mike Mearls the current lead designer of Dungeons and Dragons. We discuss with him the design challenges inherent with designing a game which so much history; both in terms of previous editions of the game, and the large volumes of official DnD fiction. We also discuss Mike's work on pre-written adventures, and on how Indie RPGs have influenced his design process.

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Pandemic is a cooperative board game about saving the Earth from deadly diseases. We discuss with Matt Leacock the challenges unique to cooperative board games

In this episode we talk to Vincent Baker about his rpg Poison'd. We discuss with him the his intent in designing the game. We also talk about what its like to reuse / re-purpose ideas (like escalation) in a new RPG. Also we talk about the controversy (so listen to the end)

In this episode we talk about Are You the Traitor with Andrew Looney of Looney Labs. Are You the Traitor is a party game for 4 - 10+ people where the object is to find the traitor. The game is very similar to the popular party game Werewolf(aka Mafia). In fact Are you the Traitor was inspired by Werewolf. Andy said, i love Werewolf, but i could make it better. We talk to him about how to "fix" a game that you really love.