The Contract is a tabletop roleplaying game about ambitious people who go on deadly missions to earn fantastic powers. Jessica Hancock speaks to Spencer Stecko on this week's episode of Not DnD to learn more. The Contract is 100% free-to-play via the website. This website's online guidebook and extensive integrated tools can be found at https://www.thecontractrpg.com/ The game is designed so that only the GM requires a full understanding of the game's rules. This allows brand new players to lear...
Mar 19, 2024•37 min•Ep. 93
This week Jessica interviews Alex White from Plane Sailing Games about The Long Road Home. The Long Road Home is a role-playing story game about friends returning from an epic fantasy quest, hoping they will find their loved ones safe back home. The game was inspired the idea of the Hobbits travelling home after the events of their great quest. Reminiscing together about the friends they made and lost along the way, and wondering whether they will find their touchstone back home. The Long Road H...
Mar 12, 2024•45 min•Ep. 92
A preview of what's coming later this month from Not DnD ----- Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing
Mar 04, 2024•1 min•Ep. 91
This week Jessica interviews momatoes, and Chiara Locatelli about The Magus The Magus is a solo RPG about “pathos, calamity, and the infinite loneliness of power”. The game promises crunchy narrative mechanics that inspire players to write the journey of a magus aspiring for ultimate power, while being forced to sacrifice who they love. Written by the award-winning Philippine designer momatoes (ARC: Doom), the game is currently crowdfunding for the first-ever English physical edition. Featuring ...
Feb 27, 2024•34 min•Ep. 90
Against the Darkmaster is a tabletop Epic Fantasy roleplaying game of high adventure, heroic action, and heavy metal combat. The game has a simple resolution mechanic using d100s and a flexible magic system. The passion & drive system encourages players to roleplay their characters' motivations and goals. Join Jessica and the team from Open Ended Games to learn more about this classic fantasy tabletop RPG that comes served with a healthy dose of classic Heavy Metal. ----- Discounted copy for...
Feb 13, 2024•50 min•Ep. 89
A preview of what's coming later this month from Not DnD ----- Watch live every week Mondays 10pm GMT at http://twitch.tv/enpublishing
Feb 05, 2024•2 min•Ep. 88
Join Jessica and the producers of the game, Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano & Simone Formicola of Two Little Mice, as we hear about Memento Mori. Memento Mori is a role-playing game in which Players take the role of Drifters, people sick with the plague who, despite their condition and the terrible reality of Medieval Europe, are determined to fulfill their Dream. Memento Mori is written and designed by Italian artists Marco B. Bucci and Andrea Felicioni, and produced by the independent studio Two...
Jan 29, 2024•38 min•Ep. 87
The world as you know it, early 21st century, Earth is nothing but a lie. In truth, it is a simulation called The Terminal, a lie to keep humanity under the control of the Robot Authority. This week's episode of Not DnD features a Digital Pirate Action TTRPG, built on a focused system to tell exciting and epic stories of grave consequence. Join Jessica Hancock as she interviews Kayla Dice about Terminal. ----- Buy the game: ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/terminal Follow Kayla: http://socials.ratwave.u...
Jan 23, 2024•39 min•Ep. 86
Designers Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines from Leyline Press are here to talk about Salvage Union. Learn more about this post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game powered by the Quest RPG. ----- Buy the Game: https://leyline.press/products/salvage-union-core-book Website: www.leyline.press Twitter: www.twitter.com/salvageunion EN World Article: https://www.enworld.org/threads/scrap-together-a-mech-family-in-salvage-union.701589/ ----- This episode was streamed live on January 15, 2024. Wa...
Jan 16, 2024•41 min•Ep. 85
When The Wolf Comes is a game of storytelling, heroism, and epic struggle set during a reimagined Norse End of Days - and powered by Robert J. Schwalb’s Shadow of the Demon Lord system. Join us for the live interview with creator Ian Sharpe. ----- When the Wolf Comes on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/443491/When-the-Wolf-Comes Space Vikings on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/461160/Space-Vikings Website: http://vikingverse.com Twitter: @vikingverse http://twitter.com/vik...
Jan 09, 2024•53 min•Ep. 84
Happy New Year from Not DnD! Find out what to look forward to in January as Not DnD returns next week.
Jan 01, 2024•1 min•Ep. 83
A quick message from Jessica during the holiday season. Not DnD will come back on January 8, 2024!
Dec 25, 2023•43 sec•Ep. 82
Brindlewood Bay is a murder mystery tabletop role-playing game about elderly women amateur detectives, inspired by Murder, She Wrote and H. P. Lovecraft. ----- Brindlewood Bay official website https://www.brindlewoodbay.com/brindlewood-bay.html Brindelwood Bay on DriveThruRPG https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/410316/brindlewood-bay-kickstarter-edition?affiliate_id=36142 ----- This episode was streamed live on December 11, 2023. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm BST at http://twitch.tv...
Dec 12, 2023•38 min•Ep. 81
In December, as we come to the end of the year, we'll be interviewing creators who deal with endings on Not DnD. Brindlewood Bay lets you play as elderly women, who become amateur detectives. Death Throes is set at the end of the world, the early stages of a zombie outbreak.
Dec 04, 2023•1 min•Ep. 80
High fantasy in the Age of Industry. Steel & Scale is a complete and comprehensive Tabletop Role-Playing Game, based on a d20 system, designed to be simple for new players to pick up, with enough complexity to provide variety and tactical depth for experienced TTRPG players. With no fixed classes, and vast options for customisation, no two characters will be the same! ----- Website: steelandscale.com ----- This episode was pre-recorded and released on November 27, 2023. Watch live every week...
Nov 27, 2023•35 min•Ep. 79
The Electrum Archive is a science-fantasy TTRPG zine series inspired by the worlds of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Dark Sun and Ultraviolet Grasslands. ----- Electrum Archive website www.electrumarchive.com Emiel Boven on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/emielboven Emiel Boven on Substack https://emielboven.substack.com/ Emiel Boven on Itch.io https://emielboven.itch.io/ ----- This episode was pre-recorded and released on November 13, 2023. Watch live every week Mondays 10pm BST at http://tw...
Nov 20, 2023•23 min•Ep. 74
Oribtal Blues is roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light tabletop adventures in the style of space westerns such as Cowboy Bebop, Firefly and The Mandalorian. Afterburn is series of new books, adventures and merchandise for Orbital Blues, an RPG about sad space cowboys. ----- Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/orbital-blues-afterburn Website: https://soulmuppe...
Nov 14, 2023•48 min•Ep. 78
Jessica lets you know what to look forward to this month on Not DnD.
Nov 07, 2023•1 min•Ep. 77
A young bride is wed to an ugly, but powerful man with a blue beard. He invites her to explore the house… but one room is forbidden. Eventually, the young bride falls prey to her curiosity and opens it, discovering a gruesome display of prior brides’ corpses… Bluebeard's Bride is a gothic horror tabletop role-playing game based on the Bluebeard folktale. Join us as we speak to Marissa Kelly who created the game alongside Whitney "Strix" Beltrán, and Sarah Richardson. ----- Bluebeard's Bride on t...
Oct 30, 2023•32 min•Ep. 76
Gloom Tarot and Terror is a minimalist horror tabletop role playing game about a terrifying threat out to devour a small town, the group of young people responsible for stopping it, and the utterly oblivious adults in their lives. In Gloom Tarot and Terror, players weave compelling stories full of suspense and tension, with or without a game master. Narrative and actions are driven by cards drawn from a custom Tarot Deck, while six candles represent the encroaching evil in the form of the player...
Oct 23, 2023•30 min•Ep. 76
A unique legacy solo horror experience that has players live out their own found footage horror movie. With a twisted multiplayer options that allows you to curse other players to continue your story. The game goes beyond the tabletop as players get hands on creating artifacts, exploring the outside world, and scaring the €@&# out of themselves. ----- Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/327195066/dont-play-this-game-a-cursed-solo-rpg Website: www.dontplaythisga.me Demo Sign Up ...
Oct 16, 2023•36 min•Ep. 75
The Walking Dead has always been about characters facing impossible life and death choices. In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, you can face these choices head on, putting yourself in the world of The Walking Dead – at any time in the timeline, encountering familiar faces and places and brand-new ones and, making the biggest choice: Who are you going to be? We have seen many stories in The Walking Dead Universe, now it’s time to see yours. ----- The Walking Dead RPG https://www.thewal...
Oct 09, 2023•29 min•Ep. 72
No new episode this week, but Jessica is here to tell you what to expect for the Spooky Season of October here on Not DnD including The Walking Dead and Don't Play This Game!
Oct 02, 2023•1 min•Ep. 73
Coyote & Crow is a tabletop role playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Instead, advanced civilizations arose over hundreds of years after a massive climate disaster changed the history of the planet. You'll play as adventurers starting out in the city of Cahokia, a bustling, diverse metropolis along the Mississippi River. It's a world of science and spirituality where the future of technology and legends of the past will collide. Created b...
Sep 25, 2023•40 min•Ep. 70
Flabbergasted! is a highly comedic and narrative-driven roleplaying game drawing inspiration from the likes of Jeeves and Wooster and Fawlty Towers. Set in the height of the Roaring ‘20s, you’ll take on the role of either an affable Aristocrat, an eccentric Bohemian, an entrepreneurial Well-to-do, or one of the ever-ready and steadfast Staff. Together you and your friends will join an up-and-coming Social Club and get up to mischief, mayhem and many marvellous misadventures—all before your after...
Sep 18, 2023•34 min•Ep. 71
Moonlight on Roseville Beach: A Queer Game of Disco & Cosmic Horror is a tabletop roleplaying game about a queer beach town in 1979 and the residents who solve its strange, occult mysteries and protect it from elder gods, weird monsters, and greedy real-estate developers. ----- Buy the book: https://r-rook.itch.io/moonlight-on-roseville-beach Website: https://www.r-rook.studio/ Twitter & Instagram: @rrookstudio Zine series: https://r-rook.itch.io/roseville-beach-zine-1 & https://r-ro...
Sep 11, 2023•52 min•Ep. 69
You are a raccoon: a chittering, baggy-pants, ring-tailed burglar. You and your friends have built an implausible floating ship in the junkyard, and tonight you'll fly it across town to the suburbs in search of better trash. Together, you'll navigate the treacherous neighborhoods, find a ripe, free-standing house with cable internet, steal as much as you can carry, and fend off the Neighborhood Watch—all while trying not to explode. In Raccoon Sky Pirates, it's all for one and one for all. Flyin...
Sep 04, 2023•28 min•Ep. 68
Stories you make and play in ARC run against a timer. While heroes navigate and transform the world around them, the real-time Doomsday Clock ticks to an irreversibly cataclysmic event. ----- Arc Website: https://arc-rpg.com/ Designer: https://momatoes.com/ Buy the book: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/arc-doom-tabletop-rpg Free Demo: https://momatoes.itch.io/arc Across RPG Sea: https://across-rpgsea.com ----- This episode was originally streamed on August 28, 2023. Watch live every week...
Aug 28, 2023•28 min•Ep. 67
Monster Care Squad is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the tranquil world of Ald-Amura. You play as Monster Care Specialists, as the once unbreakable bond of harmony and respect between Humans and Monsters is on the brink of collapse, and it's up to you and your allies to set things right. ----- Guests: Gabriel, JN, and January from Sandy Pug Games. Website: https://spg.crd.co Buy on itch: https://sandypuggames.itch.io/monster-care-squad ----- This episode was originally streamed on July 17, 2...
Aug 14, 2023•51 min•Ep. 66
Lancer is a tabletop role playing game centered on shared narratives, customizable mechs, and the pilots who crew them. Set many thousands of years from the present day, Lancer imagines a future where a survivor humanity has spread to the stars after weathering terrible ecological collapse on Earth -- the end of the Anthropocene as a consequence of unrestrained consumption and poor stewardship. Lancer offers deep mech customization, a wide range of player backgrounds, and a system and setting wi...
Aug 08, 2023•47 min•Ep. 65
