From Gracious Hostess to Shapeshifting Cosplayer and beyond, there isn’t anything quite like the cozy confidence and dedication Jade Valkyrie (She/They) brings to the table. This US-based creator focuses primarily on gaming, cosplaying, TTRPGs, and fashion. You may know her as a player from channels Mercs of Mischief, BlackwaterDND, and Feywild And Out. Jade also produced and performed in the FanologyPV The Boys Pride one-shot series titled, "Be Gay, Fight Crime." For general inquiries or show m...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Ron Ogden is the Co-DM & Surena Marie is a cast member on the new season of The Dungeon Run; the epic interactive D&D show available on Twitch and YouTube! Surena Marie is a performer and illustrator who can also be seen on the new season of Dimension20, "A Court of Fey & Flowers.” Ron Ogden is a performer, producer & dungeon master who's been with The Dungeon Run since the beginning and is also an avid miniature printer and painter. For general inquiries or show messages, please...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Jahara Jayde is a lifelong entertainer and US-based creator with a deep love for video games, anime, fantasy, cosplay, and her family. She enjoys streaming games that tell in-depth stories, and sharing her candid experience with her viewers through both the sad and happy tears. Known as one of the most prolific cosplayers in the anime and gaming community, Jahara has cosplayed all nine Sailor Scouts, as well as nine versions of Princess Zelda! Jahara strives to bring more representation for PoC ...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Kelly “Socks” Galten (she/her/they) is the Runemaker at Goblin Bros. Games and Gear in Petaluma, CA. She is a player and Dungeon Master, and she works hard to bring Dungeons and Dragons to a new generation. Goblin Bros. hosts Beginner’s D&D workshops for kids in their back garden game space. Socks runs a special adventure for young parties ages 12-16, where they learn the basics of the greatest role playing game. Socks and the Goblins have made every effort to embody the Friendly Local Game ...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Jamie Umanzor is a queer person of color, a child of immigrants, and has a passion for indigenous spirituality, anti-racism, LGBTQ+ advocacy, gaming, and Dungeons & Dragons. Jamie is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for Howard Brown Health, Board Chair for Human Values Collective, and the founder of C3 Equity, a DEI consulting firm. For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazz...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Abadonne Kilbride is a Black Indigenous non-binary TTRPG player, DM, writer, makeup artist, and voice actor who lives for collaborative storytelling that highlights what is unique and unusual about the human experience. They’re also the Owner, Producer, Creative Director, Editor, & Head of Social Media/Community Management for Exquisite Corpse Presents, a Home for Unusual TTRPGS. Abadonne specializes in storytelling, worldbuilding, homebrew content, social media, and community management. Ma...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 29 min
CJ McCullough (they/them) is a Tabletop Game Designer, Storyteller, and Performer. They love to tell stories of identity, queerness, and the fantastical mundane. They're passionate about world building, and safety within games. Above all else, they love to explore and use TTRPGs as a way of telling diverse and robust stories. Teos Abadía is a Colombian-American freelance author and developer working with Wizards of the Coast, Penny Arcade, MCDM, Hasbro, and several organized play programs. Teos ...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Molly Knox Ostertag is a writer and cartoonist known for the middle-grade graphic novel trilogy The Witch Boy, the YA romance The Girl From the Sea, and her work writing for animation. Xanthe Bouma is an illustrator, comics artist and colorist from southern California. Their recent works include The Dragon Prince: Through The Moon, the 5 Worlds series, and Dungeon Club: Roll Call. Justice Arman is an Iranian American Senior Game Designer on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG team. For general inquir...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 34 min
Chris Perkins is the Senior Game Designer for Wizards of the Coast. Chris Funk is best known as the multi-instrumentalist in the indie-rock band the Decemberists and is a Grammy-nominated artist who has also found much success as a music producer, composer and studio musician. Funk is also a founding member and co-writer in the acclaimed neo-gothic string band Black Prairie and has produced records for Red Fang, Langhorne Slim and Y La Bamba. For general inquiries or show messages, please email ...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Amanda Hamon is a Senior Designer working on Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. She is also an award-winning tabletop game designer, developer, writer, and editor, her work has appeared in dozens of releases from numerous publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and Kobold Press. Cameron and Tara Rout are a Canadian brother-sister duo who together founded D&D in a Castle in 2017, to live out their nerdy fantasy of gathering fellow make-believists in an epic retreat to ...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Chris Lindsay is a Product Marketing Specialist for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast where he works with the larger team to produce and market the tabletop RPG, and has been integral to the success of the fifth edition of the game. He is the architect for the Dungeon Masters Guild, and the head Dungeon Master for the D&D Adventurers League. Joining Shelly for How To DM are Thorin and Tony who are 2/3’s of Three Wise DM’s Podcast (along with the Rock n Roll DM Dave). They have b...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 23 min
R.A. Salvatore is one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors who’s books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 30,000,000 copies. Salvatore’s most recent original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. Salvatore's first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first volume ...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher is the author and illustrator of far more projects than is probably healthy. She has written over fifteen books for children, at least a dozen novels for adults, an epic webcomic called “Digger” and various short stories and other odds and ends. Kevin Sonney is a technology professional, media producer, and podcaster. A Linux Sysadmin and Open Source advocate, Kevin has over 30 years in the IT industry, with over 20 years in Open Source. Kevin hosts the weekly Pr...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Chris Porter is the writer/director/composer of SOLAR, a thrilling sci-fi narrative podcast starring Stephanie Beatriz, Alan Cumming, Helen Hunt and Jonathan Bangs. Chris is also a fan of D&D in general, with a regular and mostly bi-weekly campaign with friends! He's DM'd in the past (which lasted a year and a half) with a pretty complicated home-brew game of sorts. He has also named his new car after his current D&D character. He wrote some music for Monsters & Fables which aired in...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Epic Levels is a D&D/TTRPG hip-hop music outfit that's slowly growing into producing podcasts, game accessories, apparel, and RPG books all under the same banner. The Mad Dungeon podcast features the Epic Levels musicians Steve Albertson AKA DRAGON WARRIOR (he/him), Andrew Bellury AKA TIGER WIZARD (he/him), Rob Bellury AKA WARLOCK ROC (they/them), and a guest from the RPG community. Together they create a playable adventure that are released in a one page format with the episodes every month...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Glenn Goddard is a retired Brigadier General in the US Army. Glenn started playing D&D back in 1976 when there were only five rule books for the game. He was a Forever DM through high school and college. After college he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Private but worked his way up to Brigadier General over a 35-year career. Twice deployed to Iraq, he even played D&D in a war zone as a break from 90-hour work weeks. Glenn received numerous awards including the Bronze Star, Defense Service...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show and handle the introductions. Later, D&D Game Designer Makenzie DeArmas returns for a brand new edition of Meet Your Monsters. This week, Makenzie gives us a deep dive on the Mage Hunter. Our special interview this week is with long time friend of the show and host of Star Wars: The High Republic, Krystina Arielle! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazz...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Greg and Shelly handle our introductions and discuss Stranger Things 4, Volume 1. Afterwards, the two are joined by Theo Teris and Chase O’Neill to discuss their new musical, Here There Be Dragons! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show production by Lisa Carr & Ryan Marth of Siren Sound. Podcast recording, editing, mixing and mastering by Ryan Marth &am...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show. Later, Shelly welcomes freelance copy editor and game designer Laura Hirsbrunner for a new edition of How To DM. This week, Laura talks with Shelly about making your NPC’s more three dimensional. Our special interview this week is with the two project leads for Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, Ajit George and Wes Schneider! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, ...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Greg and Shelly handle the welcomes, show overview and the rest of the preliminaries. Afterwards, the two are welcomed by Digital Marketing Manager for WoTC and D&D, Bart Carroll, for a brand new edition of Insight Check. Our special interview this week is two of the contributing writers for Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, Justice Arman and Felice Kuan! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show and take care of the introductions. Later, Shelly welcomes back author and professor of philosophy, Terrance MacMullan for a brand new edition of How To DM. This week, Terrance speaks on DMing for new friends. Our special interview this week is with host and producer of Making a Monster and freelance narrative designer, Lucas Zellers! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg T...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 50 min
Greg and Shelly handle the introductions and get everyone settled in for the show. Afterwards, we welcome D&D Game Designer Dan Dillon back for a brand new edition of Meet Your Monsters. This time, we discuss the beloved Flumph. Our special interview this week is with Magic: The Gathering Game Designer, Corey Bowen! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show, then discuss the brand new Dragon Talk book, Welcome To DragonTalk! Our special interview this week is with the Executive Producer for Cryptic Studios Neverwinter MMORPG, Brett Norton! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show production by Lisa Carr & Ryan Marth of Siren Sound. Podcast recording, editing, mixing and...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to Dragon Talk! Greg and Shelly handle the introductions and D&D headlines. Later, we welcome voice actor and educator Zac Clay for a brand new edition of How To DM. This week, Shelly and Zac discuss D&D for kids. Our special interview this week is with Content Producer for D&D Beyond, Amy Dallen! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show pr...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 47 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show. Afterwards, we welcome back Associate Game Designer Makenzie De Armas for another edition of Meet Your Monsters. This week, Mackenzie discusses the Bakunawa. Our special interview this week is with former Game Designer for D&D and now one of the creators of Mysterious Alchemy, Adam Lee! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The ...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 28 min
After our welcome and a few special announcements, Greg & Shelly welcome D&D Graphic Designer Matt Cole to the show for another edition of Insight Check. Matt gives us a peak behind the curtain on how graphic design and UX converge with D&D. Our special interview this week is with comic and game writer, Jim Zub! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. ...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show. Afterwards, Shelly welcomes back Derrick from HN2DM for another edition of How To DM. This week, Derrick gives Shelly a top 5 list on ways to engage and immerse your players. Our special interview this week is with the Global Healthy Living Foundation’s James Dybisz and Grayson Schultz! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of the Coas...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 40 min
After your hosts Greg and Shelly welcome you to the show, the two welcome back D&D Game Designer Dan Dillion for another edition of Meet Your Monsters! This week, Dan discusses all the wonders and terrors of Mindflayers. Our special interview this week is with professional TTRPG performer Michael Sinclair II! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show produc...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Welcome to Dragon Talk! After Greg and Shelly handle the introductions, Greg welcomes author and game designer James Haeck back for another round of Call of the Netherdeep themed Lore You Should Know. This week, the two discuss Xhorhas. Our special interview this week is with the creator and host of the Secret Nerd Podcast, Navaar Seik-Jackson! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & W...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Greg & Shelly welcome everyone to the show, especially Shelly’s Dad who may just listen for the very first time. Later, Shelly is joined by Derrick from the How Not To DM podcast. This week, Derrick shares his top five “Do’s and Dont’s” of DMing. Our special interview this week is with American Football player and Fullback for the Cleveland Browns, Johnny Stanton! For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, S...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 49 min
