From behind the vault, it's one of our premium episodes: Making Villains ! DMs Matt and Rob build four foes for use in your next campaign. Links: You can also get the statblocks for all four villains along with all our premium episodes, adventures, and homebrews by joining our Patreon. We would also love to see you over at the DM Union Hall on Discord. Drop by for discussions and friendly game advice!...
Pack your bags and stuff your turkeys! Let's discuss building calendars and holidays for your campaigns and one-shots. Attached below (for patrons) is our set of tables and hooks for various types of holidays to throw into your current game. Join our Patreon for four one-shot adventures, two custom class documents, monsters, NPCs, magic items, and a whole work day of bonus episodes.
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, friends! DMs Matt and Rob get out their ter'angreal, tug on their braids, and swear on the Oathrod to speak no word that is not true about the new Amazon The Wheel of Time TV show and the classic fantasy doorstoppers by Robert Jordan. Join our Discord here! Sign up for our Patreon bonus episodes and content here! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; Robert Berry - Ladies of the Tower; Robert Berry - Theme for the Wheel of Time....
Matt and Rob answer more letters, and one very unusual voicemail. Random encounters, spicing up humanoid encounters, setting boundaries at the table, and more! Discord Patreon Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Dream Theater - Invisible Monster RUSTAGE - Yu-gi-oh Rap ("Time to Duel")
Hey, the boys are back in town! DMs Rob and Matt are recording in the same room and they have a treat for you! Today, it's time to grab your StarLot and practice your WordRunes as we dive into DragonRaid Adventure Learning System, the RPG written by your cool Youth Pastor. It's a blast from the 1980s past, so come with us to Sunday School to play a Biblical D&D. DragonRaid Image Gallery
Get out your textbooks everyone because Matt and Rob are talking about what the D&D genre is -- is it fantasy? Is it something else? How does the structure of the game affect the stories you tell? Does any of this matter? Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice James Horner - Pagemaster Theme James Horner - Storyteller Theme Earth, Wind, and Fire - Fantasy
Fizban, your favorite fourth wall-breaking, wise-cracking DMPC is here to sing, stat, and chat about dragons in our review of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. DMofNone Patreon
Don't Split the Party! We are honored to be joined by two members of the Paizo Workers Union : Jason Tondro and Andrew White. They tell us about the unionization drive at Paizo and how everyone can help support Paizo writers, editors, artists, designers, engineers, warehouse workers, and freelancers. To help, you should: Email the Paizo executives ( Jeff Alvarez , Erik Mona , and Lisa Stevens ) politely requesting that they voluntarily accept the union. Post your support for the union on the Pai...
DMs Matt and Rob answer the silliest spooky season RPG questions. First, we take a look at the new Unearthed Arcana: Travelers of the Multiverse and the new revised monster stat blocks . Join us on Discord ; and subscribe to our Patreon !...
Matt and Rob finally get around to talking about superheroes, which they somehow haven't managed to do yet? They discuss MUTANTS AND MASTERMINDS by Green Ronin games, how to run a superhero game, lycra vs. spandex, and more! Discord Patreon Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Three Doors Down - Kryptonite Nickelback - Hero David Guetta & Bowie - Just for One Day Seal - Kiss from a Rose...
Celebrate! Good times! Come on! DMs Rob and Matt discuss the future releases from Wizards of the Coast and 50th anniversary edition update to 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons before tumbling through the looking glass into the newest hardcover adventure for D&D: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight . The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Discord - The Dungeon Master Union Hall DMofNone Patreon...
Matt and Rob talk about GOLD -- specifically, what to spend it on, how to reward your players, what to do about the broken economy in 5e, exchange value vs use value, the works. Sane Magic Item Prices Kingdoms and Warfare Discord Patreon Songs: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Pink Floyd - Money Smash Mouth - All Star Death Cab for Cutie - Gold Rush Kanye West - Gold Digger...
DMs Matt and Rob spent a Night at the Museum and all the cool stuff came to life and turned into magic items. Join them as they build 5e stats for five open source historical objects and a discussion what makes a magic item great in Dungeons and Dragons. Object Gallery Listen to the full episode and get the document with all the item stats, here, on our Patreon .
Fantastic Animals and How to Homebrew Them! DMs Rob and Matt take real animals and turn into cuddle, strange, or terrifying monsters for your campaigns. Follow along with the link below: Real Animals - Fake Monsters You can also join our Discord here for DM advice from other listeners or sign up for our P atreon for more homebrew stuff !...
Matt and Rob answer your letters! We talk about undead, problem players, reverse Indiana Jones, The Elder Scrolls, and more! Check out our Patreon and Discord below and if you can please consider donating to one of the charities we've linked to help protect reproductive rights in Texas and elsewhere. patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Discord Frontera Fund Fund Texas Choice Texas Equal Access Fund West Fund Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Cee Lo Green - Fuck You JT Music - Undead Lullaby Internation...
Listeners, if you can, please help the people of Texas and give to the following organizations: Frontera Fund Fund Texas Choice Texas Equal Access Fund West Fund Strap on your coolant vest, plug in your neurohelmet, and power up your fusion XL engine because its Battletech! DM Matt explains the entire history of Battletech franchise and lore to DM Rob. We've got international IP lawsuits, Neo feudalism, stompy robots, hard sci-fi worldbuilding, corporate mismanagement, 40k exiles, thinly-veiled ...
Hop into the WABAC machine as DM "Mr. Peabody" Rob takes DM "Sherman" Matt on a journey to Dragon Magazine #63, "Plan before you play: Think it over, then map it out" by Ed Greenwood. Lots of good advice in this one, folks! https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Rob is flying solo today, talking about one of his longest running campaigns, and hopefully imparting some useful advice about what NOT to do and how to avoid making the same mistakes.
I do not roll with my hand. They who roll with their hand have forgotten the face of their father. I roll with my heart. It's time to talk about cannons, blunderbusses, shattershots, fowling pieces, tanegashimas, arquebuses, fire lances, flintlocks, wheellocks, matchlocks, snaplocks, pepper boxes, and muskets. DMs Matt and Rob discuss how to include gunslingers and firearms in your campaigns. But first, a kickstarter updates on two popular and cool RPG campaigns: The Devil Made Us Do It Avatar L...
Nat ( @ashesforfoxes ) of Metamashina joins Matt and Rob to talk about Frank Herbert's 1965 novel DUNE -- which you may have heard, is being made into a major motion picture -- as well as the myriad prequels, sequels, and spinoffs that the book has produced.
It's a mailbag episode! Time to help Dungeon Masters with their notes and organization, running fantasy cops, GMing for neurodivergent players, worldbuilding better planar cosmologies, and more!
TEASER for our July patron episode: 🐉🐉🐉 Have you talked with your players about Dragonology? We are here to help! It's a dive deep into one of our favorite supplements from 3e, Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons . Time to think deep about dragon ecology, colors, and metals. Let's put some engaging dragons into your world. 🐉🐉🐉 https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone
Grab your wands and quills because MAGIC SCHOOL is in session. Inspired by the upcoming release of STRIXHAVEN for D&D, DMs Rob and Matt discuss the stories and pitfalls of using a magical school, college, or university as your campaign.
Matt and Rob discuss recent book announcements, read a classic Dragon Magazine article, and dig into the biology and behavior of your favorite RPG monsters! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Skillet - Monster Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber - Monster
It's the Great Railroading Debate! Get your ticket punched and head into our dining car for a discussion of railroading and player agency. Choo choo, Dungeon Masters. You can access our June patreon reward (and all our patreon rewards) by subscribing now. It's a spooky mythos murder mystery one-shot with coal mines, Yog-Sothoth, snake-handlers, and Egyptology in Appalachia!
It's time to talk about the train wreck that is the corpse of TSR a.k.a. the "New TSR Games" a.k.a. "Weekend at Ernie's." Matt introduces Rob to the cast of grifters and bigots behind this company before getting to some dungeon master advice on handling difficult spells and introducing new players to the Forgotten Realms.
Preview of our June 2021 Patreon exclusive episode! Join us at https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone for the full episode for a discussion of DMing for Jack Black, Railroading, playing other systems, and speculation about future D&D releases.
Our favorite historian, Paul Sturtevant of the Public Medievalist , is back to talk with us about the barbarian and paladin . But first...flails are cancelled! Then, stick around for a great conversation on history, colonialism, Basques, and Smite Evil. You can read Paul's article on the barbarian here and his short Twitter presentation on the paladin here ....
Rob sits down to talk with Caleb Stokes about his many many many projects, especially his upcoming Kickstarter, Fae's Anatomy ! More links: http://redmarketsrpg.com/ http://slangdesign.com/rppr/ https://arcdream.com/home/ https://www.patreon.com/dgdc https://www.patreon.com/themixedsix...
Our favorite D&D writer from St. Louis (who is NOT a member of the Veiled Prophet ball) is back to share his experience publishing his stuff, writing for larger projects, and running horror games. Alex also takes us into his own personal Domain of Dread: a forever posting war in reactionary D&D Facebook groups. Links to some of Alex's projects: Ezmerelda's Encyclopedia of Evil Eldritch Sands Kickstart & Eldritch Sands Preview They Want to Be Us: A 5E Adventure...
