Dungeon Master of None

Matt and Rob are joined by veteran board game and RPG designers, Elizabeth Hargrave and Sen-Foong Lim, to discuss the Tabletop Game Designers Association, a new trade organization for tabletop creatives of all types. The TTGDA will advocate, educate, and fight for living wages in our community and will need your solidarity! Learn more and sign-up for updates on the TTGDA here at ttgda.org Guests: Elizabeth Hargrave is the Kennerspiel des Jahres award-winning designer of numerous games including Wingspan, The Fox Experiment, and Mariposas. Her kickstarter for Undergrove, a game about how mushrooms and trees are friends, is live right now! Sen-Foong Lim is Gold ENnie award-winning designer whose credits include Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, the Revenant Society, Avatar: Legends, Mind MGMT, Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard, and Junk Art.  Fundraisers: Meguey Bakerhttps://www.mealtrain.com/trains/lk908w?rf=1 Jennell Jayquays https://www.gofundme.com/f/jennell-jaquays-has-a-long-road-back Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down Check out the DMofNone Patreon! Join us on Discord!

Tarot expert Nat joins Matt and Rob to discuss the basics of tarot, its history and use in D&D, using tarot cards for inspiration in RPGs, the problematic nature of Curse of Strahd and the tarot deck, incorporating tarot into D&D, tips for using tarot cards in a game, crafting the game based on readings, and using tarot cards in adventure writing and planning.

Matt and Rob strap on their goggles and top hats, ingest a few milliliters of laudanum, and review Vaesen, Free League Publishing's Nordic horror fantasy monster hunting RPG! No myrling or brook horse is safe! Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Grimm TV Show Theme Into the Woods - Witch's Lament Unsolved Mysteries Theme Finntroll - Trollhammeren  

What's your players' signs? DMs Rob and Matt take a look at the many different typologies, stereotypes, and taxonomies of players at your table and how you can best observe, identify, and harness these different motivations and goals to improve your game.  Some of the many lists of types of role-players.  Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord!

DMs Rob and Matt review MCDM's psionic system and psion class, The Talent. Long splat book short: it's pretty good. And it bodes well for the RPG system MCDM will be kickstarting in a couple months. While certain aspects of the class certainly stressed (strained?) us out, MCDM may have designed a better magic system for 5e than D&D's traditional Vancian casting.  Listen to the full episode on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone 

Matt and Rob return to Sigil to talk about the other two books in the Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse box set! This includes Sigil and the Outlands, which is exactly what it sounds like, and Morte's Planar Parade, a planar-focused monster manual. I hope you like opinions, berks, because we've got em! Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Heimdall - Haephestus Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You The Skye Boat Song - Kathryn Jones/Raya Yarbrough (Outlander Theme Song)

Listen up you berks, Matt and Rob are here to talk about Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse -- well, one part of it anyway, the Turn of Fortune's Wheel campaign. We hate to say it cagers, but these leatherheads really piked it. Sigil slang glossary Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Wheel of Fortune Theme Casino Royale Theme

Take us out to the black, because DMs Rob and Matt are reviewing Coriolis - The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing.  Coriolis RPG The Third Horizon Map Year Zero Engine SRD Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord!

Matt is down with COVID (don't worry, he's fine), so Rob is stealing the mic to talk about Baldur's Gate 3, the unexpected gaming phenomenon of the season. Turns out there's a lot of cool stuff you can do if you're willing to bend the rules of 5e (and have six years to polish a game). Check out our Patreon! Join us on Discord!

Happy spooky season, y'all! To celebrate, it's the Monster Mash...up...again! Listen to DMs Rob and Matt mix up on the fly the bugbear with the ankheg, a swarm of rats with a trademarked giant brain-eating worm, and a lion with a gladiator. Stick with it on that last one. Sounds boring, but it's worth it!  Check out our Patreon for the full stats of each monster! Join us on Discord!