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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

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

DnD 2014 WIZARDS featuring TREANTMONK - Levels 8 - 20 (Remastered)

Last time, we built Wizards who could survive long enough to become dangerous. That was apparently a mistake. Treantmonk is back as we take our 2014 D&D 5e Wizard bui

DEADFALL: ARCANA UNLEASHED - Seize the Means of Undead Production

Welcome to Thay, where the dress code is red, the government is run by homicidal wizards, and your spy agency's severance package is either magical memory loss or death.

ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 3 - Everything was fine until Tyler read the rules..

We survived the subclasses. We survived the wizard subclasses. Now Arcana Unleashed Part 3 asks the truly dangerous questions: What if every wizard got a Pokémon? What if

2014 DnD 5e WIZARDS Levels 1 - 7 with Treantmonk! (Remastered)

Treantmonk joins us to talk about Wizards, which means we're about to spend an unreasonable amount of time discussing concentration saves, initiative bonuses, spell selec

ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 2 - Necromancer's Finally Get Nice Things

Four Wizards walk into Arcana Unleashed. One teleports around insisting that swapping places is exciting. One looks like somebody's tiefling dad going through a stage-mag

D&D ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 1 - The Best Arcane Archer Ever Is Still an Arcane Archer

Arcana Unleashed is here, bringing new subclasses, spells, feats, magic items, and—most importantly—fresh opportunities for Tyler to find loopholes Wizards of the Coast a

2014 DnD 5e BARBARIANS Levels 5 - 20 (Remastered): Woohoo! Smash, smash, smashy smash!

At level 5, the Barbarian unlocks a revolutionary new combat technique: hitting the problem twice. From there, things escalate exactly as responsible game design intended

CREATURES SHARING SPACES

Most RPG rules questions start with something reasonable, like Can I jump over this pit? or Does fireball set the curtains on fire? This one starts with a much more dange

UNEARTHED ARCANA: UNDERDARK OPTIONS - We're unenlightened!!!

Welcome to the Underdark, where the sun doesn't shine, everyone wants to murder you, and Wizards of the Coast has apparently decided what this place really needed was mor

2014 DnD 5e BARBARIAN Levels 1 - 4 (Remastered): The Frat Bro' of the DnD World

Today we're building Barbarians, the D&D class for anyone who looked at tactical combat and thought, This needs fewer tactics and significantly more upper body strength.