This week’s guest is Chris Prynoski , owner of Titmouse , and we talk about The Legend of Vox Machina , the upcoming Mighty Nein , the power he gained as steward of The Sandal of Gygax , and his game group the Murder Hobos. Follow Titmouse: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Facebook - Titmouse merch MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski This store has a portcullis separating you from the nugglets, zombie-like living testies that’ll chomp your nards. Hangin’ Brains, the seamstres...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 39
This week we talk about all the fun we had at PAX Unplugged 2023. Thursday : Andrew set up the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve said hi to Tony Vacinda (Plus One Exp), Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), Brian Colin (Vast Grimm), Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink) and Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands). Then they both went to a party hosted by 9th Level Games. Friday : Andrew worked the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve ran Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE: Old School Essential...
Dec 07, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week’s guest is Amy Vorpahl and we talk about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons , Candlekeep Mysteries , Dimension 20 , Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom , her latest album Behold Her Dreams , Geek & Sundry to Critical Role and her D&D Beyond show “ Jingleshearth .” Follow Amy: Website/Newsletter - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - TikTok - Bandcam — Ad-lib : “I know that (a PC) kissed (a silly name) underneath the (a silly place) and you had your (a silly object) in your left hand.” Chuckl...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 38
This week’s guest is Justin Nauman , president of Tabletop Gaymers . We talk about the GAYMER and ALLY Badge Ribbons that they pass out at conventions, Gayme Night for LGBTQ+ Community Centers and The Gaming Safe Space Initiative - in association with GAMA . Follow Tabletop Gaymers: Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitch - Discord MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman Two thin runways are above a 30-foot drop to a magnetic floor. You’re welcomed by the floating Bearbara Grizzelich , a d...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week’s guest is game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, and editor Jacqueline Bryk . We talk about her background in diplomacy and how that fits into how she designs games, TTRPG safety tools as a language of communicating with each other, and her surrealist fiction zine The Pinesorrow Collection, Vol. 1 , a love letter to atmospheric storytelling. We discuss her LARP games like Send N00ds and solo games like Just A Little Time , I Have No Railgun And I Must Scream , and Butterfly On The...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This week’s guest is Alex Roberts who won the Diana Jones Award for her game Star Crossed . We discuss Star Crossed, safety tools when playing TTRPGs, and her card-based storytelling game For the Queen . We also talk about the supplement Star Crossed: Love Letters which is crowdfunding now! BACK STAR CROSSED: LOVE LETTERS ON BACKERKIT Follow Alex: Website - Newsletter - Instagram - X/Twitter - Itch.io -- There’s a love triangle between Sluggoth , an elder space-slug deity with a 30’ aura of peac...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This week’s guest is Max Moon of Max Moon Games . We talk about his latest project Abyss of Hallucinations (Kickstarting via Exalted Funeral now), Book of Lies , The Demon Lord Expansion for Twelve Years RPG , Fairyland , and Cthulugans . Support the Abyss of Hallucinations Kickstarter here! Fully funded and all stretch goals are unlocked! Follow Max: Website - Instagram — This immaculate, gold-plated room has 1d100 gold heads scattered around the floor. Gold fairies are stoned and having a good...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This week we talk about all the fun we had at Cabin in the Woods Con & Gamehole Con 2023. At Cabin in the Woods Con 2023 we played: Pukeapocalypse - run by Andrew Bellury D&D 5E - “That Which Lurks Beneath” - run by Ryan Steffen D666 (Tiny Dungeon meets Maze Rats) “Wizard Robbers” where we rob the wizard manses from DCC ’s Dying Earth Box Set - Jeremy Deram The Dept. of Kids Who Know There are Monsters Under the Bed - original game playtest - run by Zach Cowan Mystic Punks - “The Thrill ...
Oct 26, 2023•56 min
This week’s guest is Alex Kammer , director of Gamehole Con . We talk about what to expect at this year’s Gamehole Con, October 19th - 22nd, 2023 in Madison, WI. We also discuss his upcoming D&D campaign book, The End of Everything that he wrote with Alan Patrick (out via Frog God Games). Sign up for The End of Everything Kickstarter pre-launch HERE . Follow Alex: Website - XTwitter — The Fen is a mix of nuclear waste and slimy frog skin. Nuclear barrels float next to hundreds of bowling-bal...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week’s guest is James D’Amato of the One Shot Podcast Network and we talk about Campaign: Skyjacks and where the the crew of the Uhuru is headed next, his home game Campaign Starwhal: Odyssey and how this is helping him build the game mechanics that will be the Skyjacks roleplaying game system, and his The Ultimate RPG series including his upcoming Game Master's Guide: Advice and Tools to Run the Best Game Ever . Follow James: Website - XTwitter - Patreon MD 232 Paper Pirates of the Renegad...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week’s guest is Tyler Crumrine of Possible World Games and we talk about his map-labeling game Beak, Feather, & Bone and its Ennie -winning (Best Cartography) expansion Claw Atlas . We talked about his one-shot games like Dating.Sim , what he’s learned from teaching game design at Carnegie Mellon University, and his upcoming RPG card project BAD BAD BAD . Follow Tyler: Website - Discord - XTwitter - Instagram - Facebook -- MD 231 - Tiny Tarts with Big Hearts As you enter Tiny Tarts , a ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 231
This week’s guest is Andrew Clayton and we talk about his Foundry Virtual Tabletop and how it started with his own curiosity and playing online with his friends. We discuss Foundry’s place in the TTRPG community, its low barrier to entry for basic functions and how it’s great for technical folks who love to tinker. Andrew also answers several questions from friend of the show Jeremy Deram of People Them With Monsters . Follow Foundry VTT: Website - XTwitter - Bluesky -- This room is covered in a...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week’s guest is Luke Crane and we get into the philosophy behind TTRPG creation. We talk about making games as a teen, creating his games Burning Wheel , Mouse Guard and Torchbearer . We talk about his LARP Inheritance , and Luke and Steve playing it together at Gen Con 2023. Follow Luke Crane: Website -- Flaming blood drips from the ceiling onto narrow ledges over a pool of fire-blood that’ll stick to you like napalm. Trap! A portcullis drops down in the doorway you came through, cutting y...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week’s guest is Matthew Grau of WildFire Games and we talked about his upcoming CthulhuTech: The Shadow War Quick-Start Rules (V2), working with the scumdogs of the universe to create his deck-building game Gwar vs. Time , his stint at Riot Games building the world of League of Legends , and growing up in the Twin Cities with D&D’s Dave Arneson in his life. — Follow WildFire Games : Website - FB - Discord This pleasant cafe’s walls are lined with tables and cat-condos covered in a menag...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week we recap our time at Dragon Con 2023 , including their group costume as characters from the Disney Wasteland, wrestling, RPG panels, and of course tons of gaming! Steve ran our Mad Dungeon rooms using both Mystic Punks RPG and OSE - Old School Essentials , and playtested his Cursed Cabin RPG . Andrew playtested his upcoming game Postcards from the Apocalypse , and finally got to play Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (by Corey Konieczka, Fantasy Flight Games, 2008) and Teenage Mutan...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week’s guest is Chris O’Neill of 9th Level Games . We talk Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying , Kobolds Ate My Baby and his latest Return to Dark Tower RPG . Follow 9th Level Games: Website - FB - IG - XTwitter - YouTube - TikTok - You step into the interior of a slot machine . The floor is an unstable pile of 10-foot diameter wooden nickels. In front of you are three massive wheels that spin vertically every time the giant troll Gorm Gasher puts a new nickel in the slot hundreds of feet above you. ...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week’s guest is Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome . We talk about OSE - Old School Essentials , and his incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for Dolmenwood RPG with Exalted Funeral . The Kickstarter is live now though Sep. 8, 2023. Follow Necrotic Gnome: Website - FB - IG - XTwitter -- In the center of the room is the Cauldron of Sadness. It has arms to stir itself and quick legs that dance and leap, yet it never spills a drop. It has a duality of goblin faces on either side. One is the ...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week’s guest is Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard’s forever dungeon master Joshua Therrien . We talk about game mastering, preparing to run campaigns and deep diving into world building his campaign settings for The Scouring Campaign, The Wasteland Campaign and The Malagorn Campaign. -- Catwalks look down into the Idea Pool where aquatic creatures swim through liquid infinity. Elias Thugburger tells you the rules. Pay him a meaningful memory (lose it forever), and in exchange you may put toge...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week we recap Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard's time at Gen Con 2023. Steve ran season 2 Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE - Old School Essentials . He attended The Ennies ceremony, attended several panels and played Hackmaster , Rocket Age and was invited by Luke Crane to play in his LARP, Inheritance . Andrew manned the booth selling Epic Levels wares alongside Justin Sirois ( Severed Books ) and Brian Colin ( Creature Curations , Vast Grimm ). He also watched the band Magic Sword perform, play...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 25
This week’s guest is New Zealand writer, artist, musician and game designer Darcy Perry . We talk about his Ennie nominated RPG DuckQuest , Star Hat Miniatures , Petty Gods , and Quack Keep . Follow Darcy: Website - FB - IG - Twitter -- Citrol the Orang-a-Tang : He was born a glowing star troll, but was cursed to be the tree of memory and thought in the center of this room. The moranges grow from his boughs. He knows which person each fruit is linked to. He has the face of an orangutan-troll in ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week’s guest is Gavriel Quiroga and we talk about his Worlds of Quiroga projects: Hell Night , Neurocity , and Warpland . Check out the Hell Night playlist . Follow Gavriel: at Website - FB - FB Group - IG - Twitter - Spotify — In the corner is a titanic skull-shaped wasp hive that has a steady stream of gooey acid pouring from its mouth. Consuming acid from the pool gives you a psychedelic experience. In the hive are horse-sized drones and one queen named Avispa the Wild Child . All of the...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This week’s guest is psychedelic indie-rock musician Levi Nunez of Loot the Body . We talk about Skate Wizards RPG , his #Dungeon23 project where he’s writing one song a month based on other creator’s #Dungeon23 projects, including “Ricksanthemum Garden” based on Mad Dungeon episode 206 w/ Brendan LaSalle , and his latest EP +5EP . Follow Levi: at Bandcamp - YouTube - IG - Twitter - Mastodon -- Changarro : This temple is a simple restaurant covered by a tent with strings of lights. An Aztec-styl...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week’s guest is Jarrett Crader . We talk about his history of editing and proofreading RPGs and the launch of his new company Space Penguin Ink , and discuss the products he’s selling: Adrift , Beyond the Silver Scream , Distress Signals , Dread Nights , Garden of Corda . Follow Jarrett: at Website - IG - Twitter -- General Paste , an anthropomorphic tube of toothpaste, rides on a storm cloud that rains down green rock candy that he wants you to eat. Rock candy floods from a large mouth int...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This week we celebrate Andrew's birthday by renting a castle and playing a pile of games: Thunder Road: Vendetta • Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza • Billiards (Cut Throat) • Jenga • Wavelength • BattleCards • Magic the Hammering ( MtG Warhammer 40k commander meets Warhammer 40k Kill Team ) • Dragon Death Race • Postcards from the Apocalypse • Fishbowl (Celebrity) • MtG: Lord of the Rings Commander -- Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest ! The winners will be selected by our host of cel...
Jul 05, 2023•48 min
This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivourous . We talk about Hex Omnivourous , ( Undying Sands , Bottled Sea and The Hexcrawl Toolbox ), Mausritter by Isaac Williams, Manifestus Omnivorous , Frontier Scum , Death Robot Jungle LP , Putrescence Regnant ( MÖRK BORG LP) and playing music in general. Follow Andre: at Website - IG - Twitter — This sandy beach has a deep pool of water in the center containing The Locktopus , a large skeletal octopus with bone tentacles that each end in a key n...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries . We talk about Weird Heroes of Public Access - Tales From Fairhaven Vol. 1 , Get Haunted Industries , Darkest Dice RPG and Chick Tracts in general, Ninja City (DCC) , One of Us #1 (DCC) , and Stay Sick! Follow Joey HERE and Etsy — Pizza Parlor : There are eight tables set with pizza accouterments. In the center of each table is a pizza sculpture shaped like your favorite pizza mascots. The Get Haunt-afire Explosion is a two-piece (drums...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week’s guest is Ian McGarty of Silver Bulette . We talk about Jungle Incursion into the Lair of the Batmen for MCC , Fantastic Geographic Issue 2 and upcoming issue 3 , A Night at the Lamb’s Bray , Fire In The MOHLE (MCC), and the Independent Publisher’s Union . Follow Ian at: Website - FB - DriveThruRPG — Eel Team Six , humanoid eels in full SWAT gear with assault rifles, are finishing their briefing to take down the cartel leader Mermethod Man. They explode a hole in the coral reef floor ...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 18
This week’s guest is Banana Chan of Game and a Curry , and we talk about their latest project Forgery , a solo horror paint-by-numbers TTRPG about an art forger commissioned to recreate a cursed painting. Follow Banana Chan at: Website - IG - YouTube - Twitter - TikTok -- A blue graffgoyle sits on a stained couch holding the can of Blue Demon. He loves hip hop culture. Can of Blue Demon : Spray paint a power word: LOCK (lock or unlock all the doors). SHOW (see the outlines of the people in the b...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This week’s guest is Levi Combs of Planet X Games . We talk about his currently Kickstarting project Chainsaw Warlock, Hecatomb Creeps and Other Ungodly Bastards , all about evil NPCs. Follow Levi at: Exalted Funeral - IG - FB - Twitter -- This primeval room of stone has jagged, ornamental spikes protruding from the floor, and a jar dispenser at each door. Hundreds of bulging, slime-filled polyps hang from the ceiling. Three spigots : Each gargoyle-faced spigot has a vat on top where you are to ...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This week’s guest is Brenda Ho of Weird Works . We talk about their tarot decks Adventurer's Tarot: Empress Deck and Eldritch Overload . Follow Weird Works at: FB - IG - Twitter - TikToc - Patreon — Jewel of Jarnjeeves : The self-mummified corpse of the turban-wearing mystic Jarnjeeves sits in meditation, holding a magic orb, at the top of a tall pedestal that’s surrounded by a treacherous and trapped staircase (false steps, spikes, turns into a slide, etc.). Jarnjeeves separated himself into tw...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 15
