Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design

Ep 2 (repost) – It’s all about the cardboard… Fetishising Over Smallworld & Other Board Games

It’s Episode 2 and we’re talking Smallworld, board game design, online gaming and, for some reason cardboard… What’s We’re Talking This is a live episode, recorded after

Episode 19 – World Building Part 2 (repost)

00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:35 Martin Vaux joins us to talk Lords of War – a Kickstarter update 00:19:55 Martin tells us how he went about creating a world for the game.

Episode 18 – World Building Part 1 (repost)

00:01:45 Updates – RAEX games, kickstarter, Once upon a time, B movie, Battlestar Galactica, Lords of War, Blackbox Games, Sedition Wars, DreadBall, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle

Frostgrave, Stargrave, Silver Bayonet, & the Worlds of Joe McCullough

Frostgrave is one of the most recognisable games in the tabletop miniature wargame hobby. It's also one of the most popular outwith the Games Workshop Empire. On this ep

Top Warhammer Alternatives for Tabletop Fantasy Battles

Big units of troops marching across a scenery packed 6 by 4 table – there’s no aesthetic quite like it. For most of us growing up, there was only one option when it came

What’s the Appeal of Tabletop Wargaming? | Dicing With Design Episode 33

What draws people in to the tabletop hobby? Is it the collecting and painting of miniatures? Or the actual gaming? Or is it the storyworlds and “fluff”? The post What’s

Games You Love, Games You Loved | Dicing With Design Episode 32

Find out which games helped introduce us and win us over to the miniature and tabletop world. The post Games You Love, Games You Loved | Dicing With Design Episode 32 ap

First Contact With Tabletop Wargaming & Miniatures | Dicing With Design Episode 31

Colin and Matthew discuss their respective introductions to miniatures, Games Workshop, and tabletop wargaming in general. The post First Contact With Tabletop Wargaming

Introducing, Hostile Worlds

Hey folks! I wanted to tell you about another show we’ve been working on, called Hostile Worlds. It’s a documentary drama crossover show, set in space, which aims to take

Episode 30 – Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale

Live Kickstarter special! In this episode Joe tells us all about the Kickstarter for his game, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale. Find out how to help bring this fast furious c

Episode 29 – Warhammer End Times

In this episode we have an update on PWBR and a look at Warhammer End Times. Enjoy!Episode 29 – Warhammer End Times 00:00:00 Introductions 00:04:10 What we’ve been pla

Episode 28 – Archipelago

There’s a lot to catch up on at the start of this episode, then we talk about our first try of the roleplaying game, Archipelago. 00:00:00 Intro and Updates: Warpack, S

Dungeon Saga Podcast 03 – Day 2 Stretch Goals

Important news: The Dungeon Saga Podcast has its own feed now. If you’re subscribing through the Dicing with Design feed then from now on you’ll want to subscribe to the

Dungeon Saga Podcast 02 – Basic Components Overview

In this episode I go over some potential topics for future discussion and give my two cents on the basic components of Dungeon Saga as it appeared at the start of the Kic

Dungeon Saga Podcast – Episode 1

Welcome everyone to a short introductory episode of the unofficial Dungeon Saga Podcast. Over the course of the next month I’m aiming to keep you up to date with news and

Episode 26 – What is a Game?

In today’s episode we discuss: What is a game? We also go into what types of fun there are and how our games activate these modes of fun, from Dungeons and Dragons to day

Episode 25 – Those Who Play Kickstarter interview with Danny Boyle

In this special episode Grant talks to Danny Boyle about his roleplaying game Those Who Play, a narrative-focused roleplaying system. With only a few days left to go on t

Episode 24: Conpulsion and Carronade Post-event reports

00:00:00 Introductions and gaming updates: X-Wing, Warpack, 40K, Warhammer, Stag Quest, Heroquest, Hex Hex XL, Space Cadets Dice Duel 00:25:25 Conpulsion Gaming Conventi

Episode 23 – Solo Gaming, Swords of the Skulltakers, X Wing and DreadBall

Welcome to the latest episode! This time, our main topic is solo gaming and Joe tells us about his solo roleplaying game, Swords of the Skultakers. Our updates went into

Episode 22 – Player Numbers and Pumpkin Bomb Playtesting

In this episode we aimed to talk about how the number of players in games affected games design. Our initial aim was to talk about solo games, including Joe’s Swords of t