I was recently hipped to "Revenge of the Iron Lich" by someone on Discord. It was given extremely high praise and, as it is currently FREE on DriveThruRPG, I thought: what do I have to lose? Join me on a jaunt into a mid-level dungeon from the forgotten edition that was 4E! Show Notes: * Revenge of the Iron Lich on DTRPG: https://hxpr.to/1ihiqw Like this content? Here's how you can show your support: * Become a Patron of my Patreon: http://hxpr.to/patreon * Buy me a coffee on ko-fi: http://hxpr....
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Yeah, yeah, I'm a bit late to the party with this one but as I keep seeing GMs reference Thanos as a template for their BBEGs, I figured that I would put together a video taking a look at it. For my money, what makes Thanos compelling isn't his powers or abilities but his motivations for amassing those powers and letting them loose on an unsuspecting universe. Let's talk about it. Are you a fan of this content? Here's how you can show your support: * Become a Patron of my Patreon: http://hxpr.to...
Apr 12, 2021•17 min
Hail and well met, Dungeon Masters! Recorded from my secret lair in Brooklyn, here's another episode of the Dungeon Master's Screed, in which I ramble through a handful of topics. This time, I touch on metagaming, TPKs, and what, if anything, constitutes a fair encounter. Don't leave me talking to myself, give me your thoughts in the comments on any of these topics or anything else. I'm ready to believe you! Show Notes: * "Ridgelands" hex: https://ko-fi.com/i/IR6R71PLYV Like What I Do? Here are ...
May 28, 2020•39 min
Hail and well met, Dungeon Masters! Follow me through the nostalgia tunnel to a time of great adventure! Where keeps were kept, the borderlands were well bordered, and the caves were filled to bursting with chaos! Listen well as we explore one of the more famous modules of antiquity, second of the "B" series, "The Keep on the Borderlands"! Show Notes: * "The Keep on the Borderlands" at DriveThruRPG: https://tinyurl.com/y9xysoo7 Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lig...
May 06, 2020•51 min
Hail and well met, Dungeon Masters! We got some psionically enhanced unearthed arcana last week that I wanted to take a look at so here I am, taking a look. Nothing is quite as divisive as psionics in Dungeons & Dragons. Let's see how Wizards tries to navigate this thorny expanse this time around. Allocate some psi points to defense and follow me! Show Notes: * "Unearthed Arcana": https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the L...
Apr 29, 2020•54 min
Hail and well met, Dungeon Masters! I posted a free one page hex to spice up your hexcrawl or wilderness campaign. Talking about that leads me down a path of exploring sprucing up your hex maps with unusual features, elemental planar crossovers, the Loch Ness monster, and more fodder and inspiration for your hex-centric Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Show Notes: * "A Grove of Red Delirium" at Patreon (free download): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36100061 Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That Yo...
Apr 22, 2020•28 min
Recorded on Easter Sunday so happy Easter, Dungeon Masters and Dungeon Delvers! In this extended ramble, I talk abou Rule of Cool and try to figure out how to use it in the context of the game without leaving it on to abuse. TLDR; let's mechanize it. I chose to tie it to Inspiration (and I talk about how to make Inspiration something more mechanically and transparently achievable) and put it into the players' hands to evoke. Show Notes: * Ideals and Flaws: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30713203 ...
Apr 13, 2020•30 min
I hope everyone is safe and healthy! I'm here with a quick chat about Adam Koebel and dealing with gaffes in our Dungeons and Dragons or other tabletop roleplaying game. They happen to the best of us and they will happen to us. If we can't avoid them, what can we do to mitigate them? Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * Like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Become a Patron of my Patreon: https://www.patreon...
Apr 06, 2020•10 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, happy Sunday! Recording is a challenge for me during these Coronavirus times but I'm trying! I got out of the house to stretch my legs in the park snd thought it would be as good a time as any to talk about running games using Theater of the Mind. Want to Support the channel so I can kee creating content? * like and subscribe! :) * Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hexedpress * Buy me a coffee on ki-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hexedpress * Subscribe to the channel!...
Mar 29, 2020•20 min
Another busy week for me outside gaming but I found a few minutes to talk about something that's been on my mind recently: the concept that the DM is resonsible for the players' fun. I don't think they are, at least not directly and definitely not solely. A GM has plenty of jobs and responsibilities in the game but it's the entire table that is responsible for the table's fun, not any one player. And the GM is a player too! Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights ...
Feb 25, 2020•9 min
Had a full house in this installment of the RPG Breakfast Chat. Listen in as we talk up the frozen fantasy apocalypse RPG, "The Chronicles of Ember"; Tiger Balm, Cricket, and undead civil servants in FASA's 1879 RPG; and talk a little shop on printing posters through drivethrurpg with a bit of Judges Guild chatter mixed in. Show Notes: * Chronicles of Ember on drivethrurpg: https://tinyurl.com/wl5afp2 * 1879 Homepage: https://fasagames.com/1879-home/ * FASA Games at drivethrurpg: https://tinyurl...
Feb 09, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Hey everyone, I've got a special episode of the RPG Breakfast Chat here in which yours truly sits down virtually (though I'm sure we were both sitting down) with Matt Finch of Frog God Games and Fat Dragon Games. We go about two hours getting into Swords & Wizardry, OSR gaming, running convention games with twenty players (20!!!), and more besides! Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Listen on! Show Notes: * Swords & Wizardy Box Set at Kickstarter: https://tinyurl.com/rkaq5ca * Fro...
Feb 07, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Here's the TLDR, capsule review of my longer streamed read-through of the TPK Games, Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons, adventure, "Critical Hits: The Curse of Sapphire Lake". Check out the full stream for blow by blow, page by page coverage. Listen to the full stream here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/22276794 Show Notes: * "Critical Hits: The Curse of Sapphire Lake" on drivethrurpg: https://tinyurl.com/ur9vt4c Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Co...
Feb 02, 2020•14 min
Join me for this read through of a fifth edition D&D compatible low level adventure, "Critical Hits: The Curse of Sapphire Lake" by Neal Litherland and Brian Berg, published by Total Party Kill Games. Show Notes: * "Critical Hits: The Curse of Sapphire Lake" at drivethrurpg: https://tinyurl.com/ur9vt4c Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * Like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Become a Patron of my Patreon: ...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, interested in Necrotic Gnome's Old School Essentials ruleset? Join me as I read through the free basic rules document for the current king of OSR D&D b/x clones! Show Notes: * Old School Essential Basic Rules: https://tinyurl.com/rgujmj9 Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * Like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Become a Patron of my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hexedpress * Buy me a...
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, warlock patrons are wonderful entities to pull into your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, as full blown BBEGs or secondary villains, allies, or even just color. But before you pull the trigger on building your campaign elements around these entities, do one thing first: talk to your Warlock player! Not every Warlock player will be as excited or even on board at all with these decisions. Because a patron is so intricately and intimately connected to both the mechanical and ficti...
Jan 21, 2020•10 min
Audio from my YouTube livestream on demystifying random encounters. I try to explain a bit, at a high level, what they are, what they're for, and how you can leverage them for your campaigns. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may feel compelled to roll dice. Listen on, fellow Dungeon Delvers! Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Become a Patron of my Patreon: https://www.pa...
Jan 17, 2020•38 min
Wizards of the Coast has announced their first supplement for 2020, a sourcebook for the Critical Role setting, "Wildemount". The reception has been, in the corners that I frequent, decidely mixed. Here's my not-very-hot take on it. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Become a Patron of my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hexedpress * Buy me a coffee on ko-fi: https://...
Jan 15, 2020•16 min
Happy holidays! In this Out of Character episode, I talk to Will about Home Alone, the John Hughes penned Christman classic from the early nineties. As a bonus, we look at two holiday action films: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. Why has Die Hard been embraced as a Christmas film with Lethal Weapon has not? Perhaps Mr. Joshua knows. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * Like and subscribe to this content wherever you find it! :) * Beco...
Dec 16, 2019•54 min
CUT MY HEART OUT AND THROW ME TO THE WOLVES! A teaser for a new Dungeons & Dragons video game, "Dark Alliance", dropped and, yeah, dropped is the right word for it. Here's my reaction. I'm happy that a game is coming but this, judging by the trailer, may not be the game that I'm looking for. The wolves may be feasting on many hearts tonight but, hopefully, lessons will be learned and the final game will rise like a glorious phoenix from the ashes of Drizzt's fiery tears. Like What I Do? Here are...
Dec 14, 2019•8 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, I'm back with another Appendix N entry: Highlander! (The original one, do not ask me about the sequels. Do. Not. Ask.) This quirky swords without sorcery flick has always been a favorite of mine: Sean Connery playing an Egyptian, a Frenchman playing a Scotsman, a Kurgan, it has it all! If you've seen it, comment with your thoughts. Have you borrowed anything from Highlander for your Dungeons & Dragons or other RPG campaign? If you haven't seen it, go watch it now (NOW!) and ...
Dec 12, 2019•13 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, the holiday season is in full swing for this DM Tip: be generous! Help your players out if they're clearly working off of wrong assumptions or mistaken memories. Sure, ultimately, it's there responsibility to know their stuff but you can be a good sammaritan by helping them out rather than watch them flounder. Your players will thank you for it. Watch the video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32150256 Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On ...
Dec 06, 2019•7 min
Hey Dungeon Masters, I'm checking in with a quick DM Tips video about being transparent with your table about how you make decisions and adjudicate situations in your D&D or other RPG game. It's never a bad idea to let your players know how situations will play out mechanically-- not what will happen-- but what sorts of results are in play and how those results will be calculated. An educated party is the most capable of making informed decisions and less likely to be aggravated by outcomes that...
Dec 05, 2019•8 min
On this episode of the RPG Breakfast Club chat, I chew the fat with Lucia of Monstrous Incantation and HTTPaladin about their upcoming fantastic Philippines RPG product, The Islands of Sina Una, fancy dice, Beadle and Grimm's, and much, much more! Show Notes: * The Islands of Sina Una on Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-islands-of-sina-una-philippines-ttrpg-book * Monstrous Incantation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/M_Incantation * HTTPaladin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/htt...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 28 min
Let's talk about Fetts, baby. Boba, Jango, you and me, all the good things and the bounties that may be, let's talk about Fetts. Listen as Will and I take an audio journey through the annals of old Mandalore. We sit down to take a deep dive through the history of the Fett family, the lore of the Mandalorians, and the first episode (Spoilers Alert!) of the new Mandalorian show on Disney+. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * like a...
Nov 23, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Join me for another RPG Breakfast Chat! in the virtual diner with me this time are returning guest hosts, Mystara Glen and, from Gamer+, Larry Heyl. We riff on a few different topics, all for your listening pleasure. Links: * Glen's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3NteHN3fWXXMaLXjMMHRkA * Gamer+ Book Club: https://gamerplus.org/groups/28 * Gamer+ Actual Play Group: https://gamerplus.org/groups/26 Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Co...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 25 min
Appendix N was the section in the classic, First Edition, Dungeon Master's Guide, in which Gygax listed a number of books and stories that he found inspirational. In this series, I will be creating my on Appendix N of media that I find inspirational for fantasy roleplaying. In this video, I take a quick look at Ron Howard's fantasy flick from 1998, "Willow". Have you seen it? Let me know what you think about it. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooki...
Nov 19, 2019•19 min
Recorded on November 10, 2019, this installment of the RPG Breakfast Chat sees me shoot the breeze with Don from Hellebarde Games. Where to Find Hellebarde Games: * Facebook: HellebardeGames * Twitter: @HellebardeG * MeWe: Hellebarde Games * DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/browser/publisher/13621?affiliate_id=516659 * Webstore: https://hellebardegames.com/shop?olsPage=products * Converting 1e-> C&C https://hellebardegames.com/blog/f/converting-1e-modules-to-cc?blogcategory=OSRIC Like What ...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 30 min
Galvanized by the release of the newest entry in the Terminator franchise, "Dark Fate", Will and I sit down to discuss the Terminator movie franchise, despite having failed to see this latest film. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * like and subscribe! :) * Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hexedpress * Buy me a coffee on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hexedpress...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 44 min
It's all Mystara in this installment of the RPG Breakfast Chat, recorded live from Tenkar's Tavern Discord on November 3, 2019. Like What I Do? Here are Some Ways That You Can Help Me Keep the Lights On and Cooking More Content: * like and subscribe! :) * Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hexedpress * Buy me a coffee on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hexedpress...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 49 min
