A journey through the world of RPGs from the viewpoint of a long-time GM and player. RSS feed: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1812670.rss Where else to find me: https://wheretofind.me/@Reddicediaries Leave a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast reddicediaries.substack.com
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Ran my first game of Knave 2E
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing my recent experience running a one-shot (loosely) based on the Isle of Dread classic module, but using the streamlined Knave 2E by Ben Milton from Questing Beast. Knave …
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NPC Spell-casting in Shadowdark
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing a recent idea I had—inspired by The Monster Overhaul: A Practical Bestiary by Skerples—on how I might streamline spellcasting for NPCs/monsters in my Shadowdark games an…
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode Hannah and myself are discussing why we have both dinosaurs and dragons in popular RPGs. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going…
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Running a Shadowdark OT Game
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m discussing my thoughts on SHADOWDARK after running an open-table game set in Greg Gillespie’s BARROWMAZE using the system. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation s…
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. The good folk at ATELIER CLANDESTINE have kindly provided me with a review PDF of their book WHEN SEA IS CALLING, a guide for nautical adventures, in this video I give my opinion on it. I’d really lov…
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Strange Fruit Part 2
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Part one available here. Three visitors to the isolated, rotting corpse-town of Ebon Eaves find themselves trapped in a church, forced to fight for their leaves against both the dead and a horrible blasphemous form of life. - Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php - Tremulus available from https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/120260/tremulus #red…
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Three visitors arrive in the isolated American town of Ebon Eaves, two eager to claim their inheritance and another seeking a spiritual project to distract him from the trauma of his past, but little do they know that the tree blocking the way into town is the least of their troubles... - Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php - Tremulus availabl…
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Creating a cheatsheet for WFRP
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. I’m currently prepping to run The Enemy Within campaign for WFRP 4E, we’ve done a bit of character gen and I’m enthused to get started, but need to get myself up to speed on the current iteration of t…
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So you want to be a Game Master
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Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m talking about the book "So You Want to be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander that I picked up for Christmas. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get s…
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2024 Year of the Hammer
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m talking about some of my plans for podcasting and content in 2024 and why I’m unofficially referring to this as “the Year of the Hammer.” I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get som…
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D&D Collectable Magazine
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m joined by lovely wife Hannah as we discuss the recently released (at time of recording) D&D 5E collectable magazine from Wizards of the Coast. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can ge…
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m out and about again, and I’ve been thinking about some of the elements that tend to get “short-changed” in some of the streamlined versions of D&D that I’ve been looking at recently. I’d really love you to get i…
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A Spaghetti Fantasy with 5E Stank
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. I’ve recently acquired a book called Brancalonia which is a spaghetti fantasy campaign book using the 5th Edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game; reading through got me thinking about what I loved in it, but why I pro…
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How you guys handle dwindling enthusiasm for long-running campaigns
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. A short while ago I posted an episode give some thoughts about how to keep interest going in a long-running campaign and I asked for your thoughts, some listeners were kind enough to response, so in this episode I’m going to play t…
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Enthusiasm dwindling for a campaign?
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode—inspired by some #RPGaDay2023 correspondence and podcasts I’ve listened to—I’m talking about ways you can prevent your enthusiasm ebbing for an RPG campaign. I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation s…
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m taking a first look at the following Lamentations of the Flame Princess modules: * The Yellow Book of Brechewold * Meanderings of the Mine Mind * Black Chamber * A Gift for all of Norway * Do Not Accept this Que…
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode I’m taking a first look at the following Lamentations of the Flame Princess modules: * Galileo 2: Judgement Day * Temple of the Wurm * Winnie the S**t If you want to get involved in the conversation or give us some …
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Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games. In this episode we're offering 5 tips for creating a campaign mash-up. If you want to get involved in the conversation or give us some feedback you can leave us a voicemail at: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast Or email us at…
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RPG Review - Mythic Gamesmaster Emulator
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In our latest podcast episode we review the Mythic GM Emulator, available now from Drivethru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/422929/Mythic-Game-Master-Emulator-Second-Edition Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? * You can leave us a voice…
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RPG Review - Sandbox Creator
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In our latest podcast episode we review the Sandbox Creator by Atelier Clandestin, available now from Drivethru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/430675/Sandbox-Generator Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get involved in the conversation? * You can leave us a voicemail: …
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Revolvers & Katana - Session 2: Count & Countess Snaroc
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Having saved Count & Countess Snaroc from the unpleasantness on the Lightning Rail our heroes enjoy the hospitality of their estate, but find themselves drawn into issues with the local nobles and something sinister affecting the law in Last Hope. Frame Graphic License: Used under free license Attribution: Image by https://www.freepik.com/free-ve…
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Revolvers & Katana - Session 1: The Lightning Rail
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Our heroes seek to escape the monolithic grasp of the Steel Empire by making their way to the badlands and the small frontier town of Last Hope where they plan to lose themselves amongst the throngs of humanity and possibly plan how they can strike back against the Empire, but first they must reach their destination. Frame Graphic License: Used und…
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Voicemails - Skills, House-ruling systems and interesting players
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In this episode we're catching up on some voicemail about skills, house-ruling and the difficulties of getting players into TTRPGs. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Many thanks to our callers: Pink Phantom: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-pink-phantom Randy from Biggus Geek…
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System Mastery & Authorial Intent
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In this episode I'm continue my conversation with two of my regular players and GMs Mathew and Johannes, we're talking about some of the benefits of system mastery and also the important of authorial intent and good GM advice in games. Title Music: Fireworks by Alexander Nakarada (Public Domain) : https://freepd.com/electronic.php Want to get invol…
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An introduction to our current game Revolvers & Katanas, where we're using the EZD6 system to portray adventurers on the losing side of a Great War who now seek to forge their out destinies in a world ruled by a technological tyrant wielding unstable and little understood archeotech from a long-forgotten age before the fall of man to their current …
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