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Dice of Doom Podcast 039: Goblins!, Fabled Lands, Mutants & Masterminds, and Using Skill Checks on PCs
In this episode we discuss our upcoming RPG Goblins!, review Fabled Lands, look at Mutants & Masterminds, and ask “Can you use skills on PCs?”. Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged Fabled Lands, mutants & masterminds, Roleplaying, rpgs Leave a comment
Dice of Doom Podcast 038: 12 Games/12 Months Wrap Up, Lady Blackbird Review and Spicing up Character Generation
In this episode we discuss our experiences of the 12 Games/12 Months Gaming Experiment, review Lady Blackbird and discuss ways to spice up character generation. Continue reading
Another awesome occasion
This weekend a wonderful event occurred. In front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, Ellisthion (also known as Duncan) finally got married to Michelle. We say finally as it has been quite the journey for the two of them involving government bureaucracies, international conspiracies, ninjas and pirates (actually, I’m lying about the last two…). Continue reading
Dice of Doom Podcast 037: Lady Blackbird, Religion in RPGs and Dealing with a Large Gaming Group
In this episode of the DoDcast we discuss our early impressions of Lady Blackbird, discuss the role of religions in roleplaying games and discuss ways of dealing with a large gaming group. Continue reading
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Announced (DnD5e)
Today, with very little surprise, Wizards of the Coast announced that they were working on the 5th edition of the venerable game Dungeons & Dragons. Rumours of the announcement have been swirling through the Internet for a while now, particularly after it was revealed that veteran D&D game designer Monte Cook had rejoined the R&D Team. Continue reading
Posted in Dungeons & Dragons, Gaming, Role Playing Games Tagged announcements, d&d, dnd, DnD5e, DnDNext, dungeons & dragons, WotC 3 Comments
Dice of Doom Podcast 036: Eclipse Phase, Screwing Characters, Tragedy, Ecology and Dwarven Women’s Grooming Habits
Eclipse Phase review, deliberately screwing with your players for plot, tragedy as a campaign genre, is a realistic campaign ecology important, and the age old question – beards and female dwarfs. Continue reading
Posted in Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged dnd, dungeons & dragons, Dwarfs, Eclipse Phase, gaming, Roleplaying, Roleplaying games, Tragedy 9 Comments
Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS Review
The port of Minecraft to iOS has been a long and uncomfortable wait for many. Despite an original announcement stating that iOS was going to be first off the rank, Android pipped iDevices to the post when Minecraft Pocket Edition was announced for the Xperia Play. Thankfully, for those of you with an iOS enabled device, the wait is over and you can now enjoy the fruits of Mojang’s labour in the form of a much cutdown version of everyone’s favourite sandboxed game. Continue reading
Posted in Computer Games, Gaming, iPhone Games Tagged Minecraft, minecraft pocket edition, mojang 4 Comments
Dice of Doom Podcast 035: Eclipse Phase First Impressions, When Good Rules Go Bad and Polarising Games
In this gripping episode of the DoDcast we discuss our first impressions of Eclipse Phase, debate what to do when good rules go bad (or, in Paul’s case, what the hell to do when you stuff up) and we look at polarising roleplaying games into left and right. Continue reading
Posted in Eclipse Phase, Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged dnd, dungeons & dragons, Eclipse Phase, Polarising Games 2 Comments
Recently, in one of our podcasts, we discussed the idea of rolling your skill checks first in response to a challenge and THEN roleplaying the resulting success or failure. For example, you would roll your diplomacy check, and then you’d roleplay the resulting success or failure based on the result. The idea has been picked up and run with by the guys at Roving Band of Misfits who discuss it at length, along with some very useful rule interpretations for implementing it in your D&D 4e game. It is well worth the read. Continue reading
Dice of Doom Podcast 034: Dragon Warriors Review, TPKs: Who’s to Blame? and Win your Character a set of Steak Knives
In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we review Dragon Warriors through hopefully not particularly rose coloured glasses. We discuss the question “Total Party Kills:Who’s to blame?” and what’s more, identify exactly who it is. We also, as part of Play a New RPG Month, are offering you the chance to win your Character a set of Steak Knives in game. Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged dnd, dragon warriors, dungeons & dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, GMing, PANRPG, play a new rpg, playanewrpg, Roleplaying Leave a comment
