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Artist Brent Chumley joins me on the Dicegeek.com Tabletop RPG Show this week. We discuss his career creating art for role-playing games and card games like Shadowrun and Legend of the Five Rings. We also get into his process and what it is like to be a working artist in the RPG industry. Find Brent Chumley Online Make sure you …

John Scott Tynes (co-creator of Delta Green) stops by the podcast to talk about running investigative RPG sessions, his career in the gaming industry, and his new sourcebook Delta Green: The Labyrinth. John is currently the Design Director of Digital Games at Wizards of the Coast and has worked for Microsoft creating video games in addition to his extensive work …

Spaceships and Starwyrms is a 5E supplement that takes the D&D OGL into a whole other galaxy. Ben Quiggins the co-designer stops by the podcast to share the details on Spaceships and Starwyrms. We delve into the character and class options, the original setting, playable races, plus we discuss influences on the creation of the supplement. Spaceships and Starwyrms Links …

Tabletop RPG industry myths and mistakes are tackled on the podcast today by Pelgrane Press CEO Cat Tobin. What is the RPG industry like? How do you get a job in the RPG industry? How do you self-publish content for existing company products? We touch on all of those topics and more. We also discuss how Cat was introduced to …

Owen KC Stephens joins me on the podcast today to discuss his amazing journey from parking garage manager to Starfinder Design Lead. We look at his career of writing for role-playing games from Star Wars Roleplaying Game to Pathfinder to Starfinder and more. We also discuss self-publishing, writing for publishing companies, gamemastering, and more. Owen has worked for Wizards of …

Want to add some mythology into your D&D games? Game designer and creator of Age of Myth, Brett Peterson, joins me on the podcast to discuss the 5E supplement. Age of Myth is an ancient world setting for D&D 5E that focuses on elements from Greece, Roman, Egyptian, and the ancient Mediterranean. In the podcast, we talk about the new …

The Monster Professor (author, professor, and podcaster Josh Woods) returns to the show for a fascinating discussion about whether or not dragons are monsters, how Frankenstein the novel differs from the film portrayals, orcs, and goblins. Josh gives advice on how to make goblins dangerous again in tabletop RPGs by referencing Gremlins 2. Plus we dash in some thoughts on …

Comic book writer and gamemaster Josh Barbeau drops in on the podcast today. We discuss writing comic books, stories, publishing, running RPGs, gamemaster characters, and much more. Find Josh Barbeau’s Comic Books Hollow Harbor – Josh’s comic book company @JoshBarbeau – Follow Josh on Twitter TYRANTS – From the official website: “TYRANTS revolves around the relationship between a young man …

Real history provides an excellent foundation for tabletop RPG campaigns. Today writer and role-player Tristan Zimmerman and I discuss three different historical topics and explore how they can be used in your tabletop RPG sessions. We examine The Secret Basque Fishing Grounds, The Wreck of the Ma’adin Ijafen, and The Alesia Gauntlet, so you don’t want to miss it. Tristan …

Richard C. White details his journey from comic book writer to novelist in today’s episode of The Dicegeeks.com Tabletop RPG Show. We discuss Rich’s book on world-building Terra Incognito. Plus we talk about his long love of tabletop role-playing games as well as his work on Star Trek, Dr. Who, and video game media tie-in novels and stories. Richard C. …

Game designer Yitzi Santer fills us in on his RPG called Soulshards. We discuss the rule system, character creation, and more. We also learn how Yitzi began playing tabletop RPGs (D&D, Pathfinder), why he began designing Soulshards, and how he prepares to run RPG sessions. Yitzi explains how his original D12 system works and gives us insight into the highly-customizable …

Gamemaster and game designer Ty Rucker visits the Dicegeeks.com Tabletop RPG Show today. We talk about running tabletop RPGs as well as how Ty and his gaming group play the Realms of Understreet 5e campaign setting I created. Ty is also one of the founders of Crypt Monkey Games and we discuss his games Jack the Ripper, House of Possession, …

I talk role-playing games and video games with Webster University Assistant Professor, Mike Breault. Mike’s gaming industry career began at TSR in the 1980s working on Advanced Dungeons & Dungeons. After working on Pool of Radiance, the first D&D video game, Mike left TSR to focus on digital games. That switch led him to work on Call of Duty, Far …

Role-player and podcast host Adron Buske joins me today for a wide-ranging conversation. We touch on a variety of topics concerning gamemasters and how they can tell better stories and run better RPGs. About the FICTITIOUS Podcast The Fictitious podcast, hosted by Adron Buske, delves into the craft of Science Fiction and Fantasy storytelling through interviews with authors and other …

Filmmaker, actor, and special effects artist Wyatt Weed drops in on the Dicegeeks.com Tabletop RPG Show. We discuss his career in the film industry and much more. Wyatt shares stories about his special effects work. Plus we talk about his appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Predator 2. The history of Star Trek: The Motion Picture …