The Red Dice Diaries

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A journey through the world of RPGs from the viewpoint of a long-time GM and player. RSS feed: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1812670.rss Where else to find me: https://wheretofind.me/@Reddicediaries Leave a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/RDDRPGPodcast

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Ran my first game of Knave 2E

Jul 07 2024 13 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.In this episode I’m discussing my recent experience running a one-shot (loosely) based on the Isle of Dread classic module, but using the streamlined Knave 2E by Ben Milton from Questing Beast.Knave 1E can be acquired from DrivethruR

NPC Spell-casting in Shadowdark

Jun 28 2024 35 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.In this episode I’m discussing a recent idea I had—inspired by The Monster Overhaul: A Practical Bestiary by Skerples—on how I might streamline spellcasting for NPCs/monsters in my Shadowdark games and Hannah is chipping in with

Dinosaurs in D&D

Jun 23 2024 37 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.In this episode Hannah and myself are discussing why we have both dinosaurs and dragons in popular RPGs.I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this subject, you can leave us

Running a Shadowdark OT Game

Jun 10 2024 15 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.In this episode I’m discussing my thoughts on SHADOWDARK after running an open-table game set in Greg Gillespie’s BARROWMAZE using the system.I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-for

WHEN SEA IS CALLING

Apr 06 2024 11 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.The good folk at ATELIER CLANDESTINE have kindly provided me with a review PDF of their book WHEN SEA IS CALLING, a guide for nautical adventures, in this video I give my opinion on it.I’d really love you to get involved in the conve

Strange Fruit Part 2

Feb 03 2024 81 mins

Part one available here.Three visitors to the isolated, rotting corpse-town of Ebon Eaves find themselves trapped in a church, forced to fight for their leaves against both the dead and a horrible blasphemous form of life.- Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php- Tremulus available from https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/120260/tremulus#reddicediaries #rddrpg #tremulus #ttrpg #

Strange Fruit Part 1

Feb 03 2024 31 mins

Three visitors arrive in the isolated American town of Ebon Eaves, two eager to claim their inheritance and another seeking a spiritual project to distract him from the trauma of his past, but little do they know that the tree blocking the way into town is the least of their troubles... - Music from https://freepd.com/horror.php - Tremulus available from https://www.drivethrurpg.co

Creating a cheatsheet for WFRP

Jan 21 2024 13 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.I’m currently prepping to run The Enemy Within campaign for WFRP 4E, we’ve done a bit of character gen and I’m enthused to get started, but need to get myself up to speed on the current iteration of the rules. One of the things I

So you want to be a Game Master

Jan 14 2024 13 mins

Welcome to Last Roll of the Week with Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offer hints, review books and other stuff to use in your own games.In this episode I’m talking about the book "So You Want to be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander that I picked up for Christmas.I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on this

2024 Year of the Hammer

Jan 05 2024 10 mins

Welcome to the Red Dice Diaries, where we talk about RPGs, offering hints, reviews and stuff to use in your own games.In this episode I’m talking about some of my plans for podcasting and content in 2024 and why I’m unofficially referring to this as “the Year of the Hammer.”I’d really love you to get involved in the conversation so we can get some back-and-forth going on