Wandering DMs

Indigo mobilizes a group of commandos, Yeffi contemplates the taste of blood, Bruno almost gets a pair of pants, and Mina breaks Bruno's heart and other things. All this and a great golden dwarf to boot in the latest episode of Ten Dead Rats.

Join us in the latest installment of our Original Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy mash-up, and delight in the shenanigans of a group of so-called adventurers continuously find themselves in over their heads.

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Dan & Paul are joined by special guest Jonathan Tweet! The lead designer on D&D 3E and principal author of the 3E Player's Handbook. Lead designer of the early 2000's D&D Chainmail Miniatures wargame. Designer of EVERWAY and co-designer on the revolutionary RPGs Ars Magica and 13th Age. Author of books and games teaching the science of evolution to preschoolers. And he has a new Kickstarter for the Everway RPG Silver Anniversary Edition. We've got so much to ask him about!

Follow Jonathan on Twitter – https://twitter.com/JonathanMTweet

Visit Jonathan’s science-for-kids website – http://www.grandmotherfish.com

Support the Everway Anniversary Kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jessemcgatha/everway-roleplaying-game

Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering

Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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Can you learn to play and run D&D by reading the Dungeon Masters' Guide? Should you? Is it a good read, or a bad one? Was it ever different in the past? What other resources are as good, or better? Dan & Paul have markedly different opinions on this one.

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Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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The group goes out in search of their bald-headed halfling friend, and finds religion along the way. From fighting off skaven to investigating the dwarven engineering guild, they can't seem to avoid confronting the problem of how exactly to go about disposing of unwanted warpstone.

Join us in the latest installment of our Original Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy mash-up, and delight in the shenanigans of a group of so-called adventurers continuously find themselves in over their heads.

Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering

A Valentine's Day special: Dan is joined by Brooklyn food artist Isabelle Garbani to talk about food and surviving a plague in the Middle Ages. Gather your loved ones close for this one. Where are those disease tables?

Thy Links, As Thou Wishest:

"Introduction to the Decameron" by Rivka Galchen -- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/what-is-the-decameron.html

"What We Eat During a Plague" by Michael Snyder -- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/t-magazine/eating-food-during-plague.html

Decameron on the Web at Brown University -- https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/the_project/

The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 -- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8102

Le viandier de Taillevent by Taillevent (in French) -- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26567

Sur les routes du Pays Cathare (making bread with ancient grains, in French) -- https://youtu.be/ix21SPhGGl0?t=551

D&D Art (1974-1980) with Dan & Isabelle -- https://youtu.be/bFJOuDtvZnQ

Food in D&D (WDMs' White Gold Cookie recipe) -- https://youtu.be/AmOyCwEwyG4

Isabelle's Cow and Covid19 channel (pandemic & puppets) -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Wi6XhseT4RcxkeQoEBKGw

Thanks to viewer Jerry McDonnell for the title to this episode -- https://twitter.com/jdmcdonnell

Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering

Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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As the gang debates whether or not to follow the skaven invaders, something unusual happens in the Chaos Terrarium. Will Bruno be able to keep control of Francis, or is this just Gutbag all over again?

Join us in the latest installment of our Original Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy mash-up, and delight in the shenanigans of a group of so-called adventurers continuously find themselves in over their heads.

Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering

Dan & Paul get to chat with Jon Peterson, eminent historian of D&D and other TTRPGs. We've loved his earlier work, Playing at the World, to death -- and now we get to chat up his newest book, The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity! We explore his key observation that RPGs combined threads from two sometimes-combative camps of wargames vs. fantasy storytelling. (A lot like we have on the Wandering DMs channel itself!) What was the first game to model story dynamics instead of real-world physics? (We were shocked at how early that was!) And how have shifts in the culture transformed our games, and vice-versa?

Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering

Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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Further exploration of Castle Witgenstein reveal that the party may not be the only uninvited guests in the castle tonight. But can they stop bickering about ethics long enough to deal with this new threat?

Join us in the latest installment of our Original Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy mash-up, and delight in the shenanigans of a group of so-called adventurers continuously find themselves in over their heads.

Paul, Dan, and our live viewers discuss player-character expenses in D&D. A fool and his money are soon parted, but exactly how? What mixture of expenses is right for the DM to make the game balanced and rewarding? We discuss purchasing equipment, potions & scrolls, hiring specialists, big-ticket items like ships, general upkeep, major construction and carousing! Plus some other stuff from the first edition of the game you may have never heard about -- but should try!

Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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Dan & Paul get to chat with Griffith M. Morgan III, Writer and Directors of the Secrets of Blackmoor film -- documenting Griff's 6-year epic series of investigations and interviews with all the personalities around the Twin Cities gaming scene, Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign, and the earliest inception of TTRPGs as we know it. We get to hear Griff's ultimate takeaways from how things were done in the earliest days, thoughts about how D&D changed as a commercial product, looseness and customization of the DM playstyle, and evolutions over the years. Celebrating the 50 anniversary of Arneson inventing Blackmoor and dungeon-crawling RPGs!

Visit the Secrets of Blackmoor website for blogs & updates on release of the film -- https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/

Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time.

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