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Dice of Doom Podcast 022: Vampire: The Masquerade Review and Running an Investigative RPG

Dice of Doom Podcast

In this episode we review Vampire: The Masquerade which we have just finished playing as part of our Grand Gaming Experiment and we look at running investigative style roleplaying games. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom

If you’ve ever played D&D you’ve probably got into a discussion about the stat blocks of characters from movies, TV, books, etc. Well, Flickr user Remiel has decided he’d do the stat blocks of Futurama characters. I, personally, agree with about 90% of it, but you’ll have to check it out for yourself… Futurama Character Stat Blocks. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 020: Vampire: The Masquerade Initial Impressions and Making the Most of a Character’s Death

Dice of Doom Podcast

In this episode of the podcast we give our initial impressions of Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) and discuss how to make the most of a character death or end of a campaign. Continue reading

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Review: Dragon Chow Dice Bags (Updated)

Dragon Chow Dice Bags Review

In a recent podcast we talked about Dragon Chow Dice Bags and how awesome we thought they were. To do them justice, we thought we’d take the time to do a full review of the two that we received. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 019: Dragon Chow Dice Bags, All Flesh Must Be Eaten Review and Adding Social Themes to your Roleplaying Games

Dice of Doom Podcast

In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we review our Dragon Chow dice bags, we review the Zombie Apocalypse roleplaying game All Flesh Must Be Eaten and we discuss how to add social themes to your games. Continue reading

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senses

Recently we discussed using Five Senses Descriptions in roleplaying games as a means to further create immersive environments for your players to explore on our podcast. This idea has been taken and run with by Benoit over at Roving Band of Misfits blog. You can read the post here. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 018: Play a New RPG and What Makes a Successful Roleplaying Game Book

Dice of Doom Podcast

This week we talk about Play a New RPG (and Chocolate Coated Beer Marshmallows) and we discuss Roleplaying books and games in general, looking at some of our favourite editions and what we liked about them, and what made them, in our opinion, successful. We also discuss the desire for more widespread acceptance of PDF’s by the gaming industry as an addition to the purchase of regular books. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 017: Do Rules Really Matter and Manipulating Character Generation as the GM

Dice of Doom Podcast

In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we give an update on our All Flesh Must Be Eaten Campaign, we discuss Do Rules Really Matter and we investigate the topic of Manipulating Character Generation as one of the many roles of the GM. Continue reading

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WotC announces big changes to the DDI Adventure Tools

D&D Red Box (Essentials)

Wizards of the Coast sent out emails today announcing the release of a ‘new and improved’ series of Adventure Tools to the Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription. The changes are following in the footsteps of the Virtual Table and are being implemented in the form of a web based applications. Changes are being rolled out starting March 22 starting with the Monster Builder. The full email is included after the break. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 016: All Flesh Must Be Eaten First Impressions and Gamma World Review

Dice of Doom Podcast

In this episode of the podcast we lament the pulling of the Mountains of Madness movie, we discuss the Play a New RPG Month project, we give a brief update on our game Goblins!, we discuss our initial impressions of the zombie horror survivor game All Flesh Must Be Eaten and we review Gamma World. Continue reading

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