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Duty Stations (Night Witches) with Ash Kreider

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Further Reading The Watch 2e is on Kickstarter now Night Witches by Jason Morningstar Socials Ash on Bluesky Ash's website

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Deckbuilding (Signs of the Sojourner) with Lady Tabletop

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Further Reading Signs of the Sojourner by Echo Dog Games Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam, on Kickstarter now Slay the Spire

Minigames (Firebrands) with Viditya Voleti

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Further Reading Band-Aids & Bullet Holes on Kickstarter Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands by Meguey & Vincent Baker The King Is

John Wick (2014) and Genre Emulation with Sam Roberts

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com My new game Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is still on Kickstarter! Check it out today. In honor of BABH, this month on Dice Explode

Character Nonmonogamy (Space Post) with Sidney Icarus

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Today is the launch of Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, my melodramatic action game of bloody revenge. It's a one shot, capsule game,

Calling Cards (Band-Aids & Bullet Holes) with Lady Tabletop and Seraphina

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com My first stand-alone print game, Band-Aids & Bullet Holes, goes live on Kickstarter next week on May 5th. I have a lot to say a

Keys (Lady Blackbird) with Whitney Delaglio

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com I love pregens! But why do I love pregens? I dug into this a bunch on an episode last year with Aaron Lim about the characters

Weak, Strong, and Regular Moves (Dream Askew / Dream Apart) with Austin Walker

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Austin Walker's new game Realis is on Kickstarter now, and it's been making splashes in the indie rpg scene since last year whe

The Awards 2024 with Nico MacDougall

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Follow Band-Aids & Bullet Holes on Kickstarter! The Awards are back! The rpg awards show with a bent towards indie games and t

Lures (Heaven in the Dust) with Barclay Travis and Bee Alexander

Transcripts are available at diceexploder.com Bee and Barclay are the hosts of Tabletop Book Club, a podcast that is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a show with such f

Always Give Them The Clue (GUMSHOE) with Tristan Zimmerman

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com My friend Tristan Zimmerman is currently crowdfunding Ballad Hunters, a GUMSHOE game, meaning it’s based on a core mechanic bui

The Voice of the Text (Triangle Agency) with Seraphina Garcia Ramirez

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com I bet you’ve heard of this game Triangle Agency. Big exciting Kickstarter, super flashy product design, a game with… spoilers i

Draw Maps, Leave Blanks (Dungeon World) with Tim Denee

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com If the thesis of last week’s episode was “hey the fiction of your game matters a lot and can even have mechanical effects,” how

Doskvol's Lightning Barriers (Blades in the Dark) with Nova

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com In Blades in the Dark, you play as criminals in Doskvol a haunted city where the ghosts are such a problem that they built gian

Setting Elements (Dream Askew / Dream Apart) with Kodi Gonzaga

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com There's many ways to decide who has authority over what in an RPG. Traditional games have a bunch of players with one PC each a

Afterimage: The Experimental Role-Playing Laboratory

Dice Exploder: Afterimage is alternative show format, a cross between play report and personal memoir. The Experimental Role-Playing Laboratory, or ERPL, was a thrice a

2025 Year End Bonanza

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com It's the Dice Exploder 2025 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Lin Codega and Diogo Nogueira to go over a whole bunch of

Inventory Tetris (Mausritter) with Quinns

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Mausritter is an old school dungeon crawling game where instead of playing as elves fighting dragons, you play as mice fleeing

The Brainer VS The Brain-Picker (Apocalypse World 2e/3e) with the Bakers

Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Apocalypse World 3rd edition is on Kickstarter right now. In many ways, it hasn’t changed much. In many ways, it's a whole new