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HOW TO PLAY SHADOWDARK 2 - CHARACTER CREATION: Live Fast, Die Hard, Leave a Lootable Corpse

Welcome back to Shadowdark, where character creation is quick, the dice hate you, and your carefully crafted adventurer might get murdered by a household rat. This week,

D&D 2024 PHB - RANGER CHANGES Remastered - What's stopping me from building a Ranged Fighter with Eldritch Knight and taking Magic Weapon

In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we break down the changes to the Ranger class in the 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons. We go through each class feature and highl

ROLL FOR WARCRAFT - What if an MMO had opportunity attacks?

World of Warcraft has finally come to Dungeons & Dragons, which means decades of raids, questionable class balance, faction arguments, and deeply buried MMO trauma can no

PROJECT_LAMORDIA REVIEW - Frankenstein Had Better Workplace Safety Standards

What happens when you take Frankenstein, replace the lightning with artificial intelligence, and let a morally bankrupt tech CEO run the whole operation? You get Project

2024 D&D PHB Character Creation (Remastered): What if I told you there were 3-ish types of feats?

 Creating a D&D character used to be simple. Pick a race, choose a class, roll some dice, and invent a tragic backstory involving dead parents. But the 2024 Player's Hand

HOW TO PLAY SHADOWDARK 1 - CONCEPTS AND THEMES: I can promise you two things, there will be shadows, it will be dark.

What happens when you take old-school D&D, remove darkvision, put your torches on a real-world timer, and make every spell a potential disaster? You get Shadowdark, a gam

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - AP FINALE: I just wanna see the machine do the big shiny explosions

The fate of La Gorge hangs in the balance. An army is approaching, the ancient defenses are broken, and the only thing standing between civilization and total destruction

2024 D&D PHB WEAPON MASTERY BREAKDOWN (Remastered): If you attack something, you're going to do damage

For years, martial characters in D&D have had one job: hit things until they stop moving. Wizards rewrite reality, clerics summon divine power, and fighters get to swing

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - ACTUAL PLAY PT2: Pay attention, kids. Sometimes weird traditions are good.

Last time, we opened a door that had been sealed for thousands of years, murdered a dinosaur, adopted its baby, and turned a crank we probably shouldn't have touched. Now

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY: Actual Play 1 - I don't know what horses do, but they seem shifty...

What happens when a mysterious cowboy rides out of a deadly desert, introduces himself, and immediately falls off his horse? Naturally, you trust his god, open a door tha

HOW TO GM ROMANCE (Remastered) w/ Sebastian Yūe and Friday Strout - Building Meaningful Relationships in TTRPGs

You've slain dragons, defeated liches, and saved the kingdom. But now an NPC is flirting with you, and suddenly everyone at the table is making death saves against awkwar

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT, CRAFTING AND COMMUNITIES: Someones Gonna Find a Tape Measure and Change Society

So you've survived character creation in Numenera. Congratulations! Now it's time to level up, rummage through ancient garbage, and build a giant murder robot that might

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - CHARACTER CREATION: Pick a Type. Pick a Focus. Panic.

Welcome to Numenera, where ancient technology is magic, character creation is an adventure, and Tyler is already looking for something dangerous to invent. This time, Ran

SECRET ROLLS (Remastered) - In Case You're Not Good at Lying to Your Players…

Today on the RPGBOT.Podcast, we're talking about secret rolls, the wonderful tabletop RPG mechanic where the GM rolls your dice for you and then refuses to tell you what

STARFINDER 2E TECH CORE Pt 2 - There are EMOJI Spells...Like What?

In Part I of our Starfinder 2e Tech Core review, we covered the new ancestries, the Mechanic, cybernetics, Junkomancers, armed starfish, and hoverboard shields. Now we

STARFINDER 2E TECH CORE - So many nerdy classes man. Like, just nerds!

Starfinder 2e Tech Core is here, and apparently the answer to "How much weird science fiction nonsense can Paizo fit into one book?" is "Yes." Starfinder 2e: Tech Core

DnD 2024 PHB CHARACTER CREATION REMASTERED - What if I told you there were three-ish types of feats?

Creating a D&D character used to be simple. Pick a race, choose a class, roll some dice, and invent a tragic backstory involving dead parents. But the 2024 Player's Handb

THE PLANE OF MECHANUS (Remastered) - Where everything is lawful and orderly and predictable

Welcome to Mechanus, the only plane in the D&D multiverse where showing up five minutes early is considered dangerously chaotic. Everything is perfectly balanced. Everyth

NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - CONCEPTS AND THEMES: Pitter Patter, Let's Get Going

Welcome to the Ninth World, where civilization has ended eight times, nobody understands how anything works, and sufficiently advanced technology is mostly an excuse to p

UNDERDARK OPTIONS 2 UA - It's magical radiation. Everybody knows that, Ash.

Welcome back to the Underdark, where the mushrooms are telepathic, the fish can invent gods, and magical radiation apparently has the terrifying power to give you a heada