The DM‘s Book Club

Mar 05 2025 259 ep. 56 mins 39
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Do you like a good book? Do you like Dungeons & Dragons? Fancy combining them? Us too! Come join Fiona & Hamilton for ‘The DM’s Book Club’: a weekly podcast where we read about some Dungeons and Dragons and discuss how we might include it in our role-playing campaigns!

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Episode #24: Scions of Elemental Evil!

Mar 05 2025 57 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton read through 'Scions of Elemental Evil', one of the free adventures made available as part of a yearlong celebration of Dungeons & Dragons and its 50th anniversary. Spoilers: They didn't like it.From the 'Scions of Elemental Evil' bio:'Beneath the Temple of Elemental Evil lies a labyrinth of tombs and ritual chambers. For years, these dun

Episode #23: Welcome to the Far North! Ten-Towns!

Feb 26 2025 67 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton wrap up warm and head out to explore Ten-Towns, a loose confederation of frontier villages found in Icewind Dale in the western Frozenfar, as described in 'Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden'. The communities of the Ten Towns attracted those people of Faerûn determined to find a life for themselves, and those desperate to leave their form

Episode #22: The Legend of Drizzt Book Club - Sojurn!

Feb 19 2025 57 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their actual book club of The Legend of Drizzt series of fantasy novels by R.A Salvatore. Starting in chronological order, our hosts continue with 'Sojourn', the third book in The Dark Elf Trilogy, a prequel to The Icewind Dale Trilogy. Published in 1991, 'Sojourn' follows Drizzt as he travels to the surface to escape the Underdark a

Bonus: FLASHBACK! Blades in the Dark!

Feb 12 2025 57 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost Michelle Kelly to talk about her love of 'Blades in the Dark': a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city.Written by John Harper and published by Evil Hat Productions, 'Blades in the Dark' tells tales of heists, chases, occult mysterie

Bonus: Eye sight isn't always 20/20: Perception Checks and how we could improve them!

Feb 05 2025 49 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona is joined by guest cohost Benjamin Gray from Roleplay Recon to talk about how the Perception Check, the go to information gathering move in D&D and other TTRPGs, isn't all it's cracked up to be! They discuss their thoughts on ways such sight based checks could be improved, thanks to 3 articles which focus on making both D&D more accessible and man

Episode #21: A belated 2024 retrospective of D&D (and a forward look at 2025!)

Jan 29 2025 46 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton take a moment to reflect on the 2024 WotC releases tied to the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons, as well as look ahead to what is in store for upcoming D&D release schedule.Consider using our affiliate link when using DM's Guild!#SupportyourFLGSCredits The DM's Book Club is hosted, recorded, edited, and produced by Fiona Howat and

Episode #20: It's like finding a button in a half built dungeon! Infernal Machine Rebuild (5e)!

Jan 22 2025 69 mins  
Show notesThis week, following on from their read through of 'Lost Laboratory of Kwalish', Fiona and Hamilton check out 'Infernal Machine Rebuild', a D&D 5e supplement which was published as part of Extra Life Fundraiser 2019.Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since its incepti

Bonus: Do you have what it takes? Grits & Glory

Jan 15 2025 59 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and guest cohost Michael, creator of 'The Thief' podcast, check out 'Grits & Glory', a free rules compendium for realistic, low fantasy, historical, survival, hardboiled 5E roleplaying!From the Grits & Glory bio:'Realistic, historic and low fantasy are among the most difficult to fit in the D&D ruleset. When heroes grow in power and become leg

Episode #19: Making Artisan Tools Useful in D&D! (Homebrew vs Official)

Jan 08 2025 72 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and guest co-host Shaghik explore how artisan tools have changed in the 2024 Player's Handbook and compare such changes to some of the homebrew creations over developed by Dump Stat. We pick out top 3 new/updated tools and consider their usage in our games.Shaghik's Dump Stat picksGlassblowing ToolsCartographer's ToolsForgery KitFiona's Dump Stat picksCor

Episode #18: The Legend of Drizzt Book Club - Exile!

Jan 01 2025 58 mins  
Show notesThis week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their actual book club of The Legend of Drizzt series of fantasy novels by R.A Salvatore. Starting in chronological order, our hosts set off with 'Exile', the second book in The Dark Elf Trilogy, a prequel to The Icewind Dale Trilogy. Published in 1990, 'Exile' follows Drizzt Do'Urden to the wilds of the Underdark. For