This is a special feed drop of a brand new actual play podcast - Realms' Blood on the Clocktower ! Do you love The Traitors, Werewolf and Mafia? Welcome to the next level of social deduction, Blood on the Clocktower. Each episode is stacked to the brim with subterfuge and betrayal! With guests from No Rolls Barred, The Pandemonium Institute, Dropout, Oxventure and beyond, you won't be able to stop listening. Subscribe for a new episode in our ten-episode first season on the last Tuesday of every...
Dec 04, 2024•41 min
Spoilers for 'Expedition to the Barrier Peaks' (Quests from the Infinite Staircase) Show notes This week, Hamilton convinces Fiona to read 'Expedition to the Barrier Peaks' adventure module from the latest D&D adventure anthology, ' Quests from the Infinite Staircase '. This anthology weaves a cosmic thread through six classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures, updated for the game’s fifth edition. Bio for the original 'Expedition to the Barrier Peaks' adventure: 'Published in 1980, Expediti...
Nov 27, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Show notes, This week, Fiona and Hamilton crack open the brand new Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) and have a look at the 'Greyhawk Gazetteer' (part of Chapter 5: Creating Campaigns). This is a fully customisable primer of one of the first campaign settings ever published for D&D, based on the home campaign of Gary Gygax, the game’s co-creator. Massive thanks to Wizards of the Coast & Yrs Truly for our gifted copies of the Dungeon Master's Guide and Player's Handbook! Chapter discussed: 'G...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Show notes This week, Fiona is back in the solo adventurer's seat as she continues her playthrough of Faerie Mound of Dragonkind , a solo quest adventure book set in Dragonlance! Written by Jean F. Blashfield and James M. Ward and published by TSR in 1987, Faerie Mound of Dragonkind is part of the CATACOMBS gamebook series which, according to the blurb, represents the ultimate challenge in role-playing adventure. Analytical powers would be tested to the utmost as readers must decide how to deal ...
Nov 13, 2024•43 min
Show notes This week, Fiona is back in the solo adventurer's seat as she continues her playthrough of Faerie Mound of Dragonkind , a solo quest adventure book set in Dragonlance! Written by Jean F. Blashfield and James M. Ward and published by TSR in 1987, Faerie Mound of Dragonkind is part of the CATACOMBS gamebook series which, according to the blurb, represents the ultimate challenge in role-playing adventure. Analytical powers would be tested to the utmost as readers must decide how to deal ...
Nov 06, 2024•46 min
Show notes This week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost, Matt from The Bad Spot , to talk about their joint love for ' The Between ' a Powered By The Apocoalyspe x Carved from Brindlewood tabletop roleplaying game by Jason Cordova about monster-hunters in Victorian-era London. From ' The Between ' bio: 'The hunters are residents of a place called Hargrave House, and their job is to investigate and neutralize monstrous threats terrorizing the city—threats that Scotland Yard won’t or can’t handle th...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Show notes This week, Fiona gives a quick announcement about what she is up to over the OneShot Podcast Network as part of their October Patreon Drive . She will be running ' You Awaken In A Strange Place ' on the OneShot Podcast Twitch channel on Wednesday 23rd October at 8pm EST with guests Brianna and Emily (from the Gamewoven Podcast) and Taylor and Dan (from Backwater Bastards ). ' You Awaken In A Strange Place ' by Jacob Andrews is a fully improvised TTRPG where everything is made up on th...
Oct 23, 2024•3 min
Show notes This week, Fiona is back in the solo adventurer's seat as she continues her playthrough of Faerie Mound of Dragonkind , a solo quest adventure book set in Dragonlance! Written by Jean F. Blashfield and James M. Ward and published by TSR in 1987, Faerie Mound of Dragonkind is part of the CATACOMBS gamebook series which, according to the blurb, represents the ultimate challenge in role-playing adventure. Analytical powers would be tested to the utmost as readers must decide how to deal ...
Oct 16, 2024•43 min
Show notes This week, Fiona is back in the solo adventurer's seat as she starts her playthrough of Faerie Mound of Dragonkind , a solo quest adventure book set in Dragonlance! Written by Jean F. Blashfield and James M. Ward and published by TSR in 1987, Faerie Mound of Dragonkind is part of the CATACOMBS gamebook series which, according to the blurb, represents the ultimate challenge in role-playing adventure. Analytical powers would be tested to the utmost as readers must decide how to deal wit...
Oct 09, 2024•41 min
Show Notes This episode originally aired on the What Am I Rolling? podcast on Sunday 29th September 2024 and we just wanted to signal boost it. Normal service will resume next week! From the WAIR show notes This episode is a little different to our usual fortnightly release as it’s an announcement kind of episode! WAIR's host Fiona talks through some exciting updates and announcements which have been happening over the last few weeks! Timestamps Intro: 00:00:00 Big announcement reveal: 00:00:30 ...
Oct 02, 2024•8 min
Show notes This week, Fiona sit down with guest co-host Shamini Bundell of the RPGeeks to talk about ways to develop your depictions of player characters (PCs) and non-player characters (NPC) and ways to stay in those characters. Shamini is part of the RPGeeks who stream every Wednesday at 7pm. Check out Once A Hero: D&D Series on the RPGeeks YouTube channel . Other series mentioned: Orbital Blues and Alien: Destroyer of Worlds . Consider using our affiliate link when using DM's Guild! #Supp...
Sep 25, 2024•46 min
Show notes This week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost Ty from Side Character Quest once again to discuss two different RPG tools/games to help supplement worldbuilding when running campaigns: Timeskip and Artefact . Timeskip by A.A. Voigt is a collaborative worldbuilding tool for jumping characters from a previously-established tabletop campaign into the future. Together with your table, imagine new outfits, new jobs, and even new family members that arrive in your characters' lives as time cont...
Sep 18, 2024•53 min
Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton talk about their first impressions of ' Quests from the Infinite Staircase ': a collection of six remastered quests will allow players to experience treasured adventures from D&D's first edition, updated for fifth edition. ' Quests from the Infinite Staircase ' Bio: 'Enter the Infinite Staircase - a dreamlike expanse with doors leading to fantastical worlds and planes of existence. Quests from the Infinite Staircase embraces the magic of the most belo...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their look at ' Eberron: Rising from the Last War ' - the Eberron campaign setting for the 5th edition. Created by game designer Keith Baker, Eberron was the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the D&D game. Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies such as trains, skyships, and mecha...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Show notes This week, Fiona and guest cohost Ty from Side Character Quest chat about their impressions of ' Dragons of Stormwreck Isle ' Starter Set. The ' Dragons of Stormwreck Isle ' Bio: ' The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle is your gateway to action-packed adventures in the cooperative storytelling game Dungeons & Dragons, where heroes battle monsters, find treasure, and undertake epic quests. ' Check out Side Character Quest wherever you listen to podcasts...
Aug 28, 2024•57 min
Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their look at ' Eberron: Rising from the Last War ' - the Eberron campaign setting for the 5th edition. Created by game designer Keith Baker, Eberron was the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the D&D game. Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies such as trains, skyships, and mecha...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton crack out their copies of ' Eberron: Rising from the Last War ' and start their initial exploration of the Eberron campaign setting for the 5th edition. Created by game designer Keith Baker, Eberron was the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the D&D game. Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technolo...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Show notes This week Fiona and guest cohost Naomi sit down to chat about Clerics - a playable class from the original 5e Player's Handbook. Both capable in combat and skilled in the use of divine magic, Clerics are often seen powerful healers whose divinely-granted abilities over life or death, give them to powers to repel or control undead creatures. According to the Player's Handbook (2014): 'Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as t...
Aug 07, 2024•49 min
Show notes This week, Fiona and guest co-host Liz sit down and chat about ' The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying: Guidelines and strategies for running PC-driven narratives in 5E adventures ' by Jonah and Tristan Fishel, writers and longtime RPG players. As part of the ' Game Master's Books ' series published by Media Lab Books, this book suggests that by putting the players and their characters in the driver’s seat, every battle has tension, every faction has a function and every...
Jul 31, 2024•59 min
Spoiler Warning for Vecna: Eve of Ruin (and a little bit of Curse of Strahd!) Show notes This week, Fiona and Hamilton give their verdict on ' Vecna: Eve of Ruin ': a high-stakes Dungeons & Dragons adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance! Vecna: Eve of Ruin bio: ' Save existence from annihilation in this epic, multiverse-spanning adventure. The notorious lich Vecna is weaving a ritual to eliminate good, obliterate the gods, and subjugate all worlds. To stop Vecna b...
Jul 24, 2024•50 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Show notes This week, in the lead up to the release of ' Vecna: Eve of Ruin ', Fiona and Hamilton discuss two tie in pre-quel products: ' The Vecna Dossier ' : A digital supplement released in June 2022, detailing the legacy and statistics of the Undying King himself! ' Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye ' : A low-level adventure as a digital-only preorder-exclusive tie-in prequel released in April 2024. The Vecna Dossier bio: 'The archlich Vecna is one of the most iconic villains of Dungeons &...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Show notes More of an update this week (due to Fiona's move, various life commitments and US holidays - normal service will resume next week!). Fiona will be heading to GenCon at the beginning of August as part of Rowan Rook and Decard , running some of their games, including Orc Borg and DIE the RPG and selling their wares! She has also been nominated for Best Podcast Host(s) at the CRIT Awards - find out more info on the CRIT Awards here . Feel free to drop by either Rowan Rook and Decard stan...
Jul 10, 2024•2 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, finish their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Quasielemental Planes of Salt & Vacuum. Markedly different than their positive counterparts, these four negative Quasielemental pl...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 19 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Quasielemental Planes of Ash & Dust. Markedly different than their positive counterparts, these four negative Quasielemental pla...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 17 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Quasielemental Planes of Radiance & Steam. The four positive Quasielemental Planes (also known as quasiplanes) hang suspended be...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Quasielemental Planes of Lightning & Mineral. The four positive Quasielemental Planes (also known as quasiplanes) hang suspended...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Paraelemental Planes of Ooze & Smoke. These intermediary areas form where aspects of one Elemental Plane mingle with those of an...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 27 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Paraelemental Planes of Ice & Magma. These intermediary areas form where aspects of one Elemental Plane mingle with those of ano...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 24 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Energy Planes of Positive & Negative. As their name implies, they're composed not of matter, but of energy. Both places are diff...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min
The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Our hosts, Fiona and Hamilton, continue their journey of the Inner Planes by visiting the Elemental Plane of Water: The source of all liquid substances and of fluidity itself, an endless mass of water, not too warm, not to...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min
