Dungeon Master of None

DMs Rob and Matt review Flee, Mortals! The MCDM Monster Book. Spoilers: it's good. Discord Patreon

Matt and Rob discuss a contentious topic -- power gaming! Come listen to find out why it's cool and good, actually. Hey D&D Powergamers... On Power Gaming The Stormwind Fallacy Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Kanye West - Power Puiblic Enemy - Fight the Power

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Matt and Rob sink their teeth into the biggest, bloodiest, sexiest dracula-having RPG around: Vampire: the Masquerade! We only scratch (bite?) the surface of what's possible, but it should give you a taste of what's to store in this world of darkness... patreon.com/dungeonmasterofnone Discord Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings Buffy Theme Angel Theme Slayer - At Dawn They Sleep Def Leppard - Love Bites

Has an older sibling, friend, or classmate introduced you to "role playing fantasy games?" Make sure your parents are in the room for this one, as Matt and Rob take a trip through the tail end of the Satanic Panic in the Imagination Station to Odyssey, U.S.A. and the Focus on the Family's 1990 radio play, "Castles and Cauldrons."  Join us on Patreon for the full episode!

Rob reviews a fan translation of the Japanese Dark Souls TTRPG by Kadokawa. Is it better than the 5e version? Can he git gud or will he go hollow reading it? Matara Makes Games @Gahostan

Every couple years, DMs Rob and Matt get curious about which TTRPGs everyone is playing. Which system (that isn't D&D) is the most popular? Which adventure has been played the most? Unfortunately, there isn't a giant database of what everyone is playing, at least, not since the Orr Report ceased its quarterly publication back in 2021. So, we have done our best to compare the popularity of various systems, settings, adventures, and communities using social media subscriptions from Reddit.com. It's hard to draw too many specific conclusions from this dataset, so take any analysis with a grain of salt. Listen in for a comparison of D&D adventure popularity, a ranking of non-D&D systems, and an analysis of the gap between the number of Kickstarter backers and subscribers to a system.  Here's the full dataset.  Discord Patreon

Matt and Rob dig into the depths of the monster manual to find some underused and underappreciated monsters to use in your games. Discord Patreon Music Pac Div - Roll the Dice The Living Tombstone - Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire Attack on Titan Theme Song Kanye West - Monster

With the help of Special Playtest Correspondent Alex Clippinger, DM Matt dives into 127 pages of playtest material for OneDnD.  OneDnD Playtest 5 and Playtest 6 Asians Represent Podcast - Has WotC Fixed the D&D Monk? Alex Clippinger's RPG Design Discord Patreon

Hate the metaplayer, not the metagame. DMs Matt and Rob break down the common definitions and misconceptions around metagaming in TTRPGs as well as how Game Masters can leverage metagaming to improve play.  LegalKimchi - Metagaming in Roleplaying Games Metagames, Paragames and Orthogames: A New Vocabulary Discord Patreon