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- HOW TO PLAY SHADOWDARK 2 - CHARACTER CREATION: Live Fast, Die Hard, Leave a Lootable Corpse · 39 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 137Welcome 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, Tyler…
- D&D 2024 PHB - RANGER CHANGES Remastered - What's stopping me from building a Ranged Fighter with Eldritch Knight and taking Magic Weapon · 1 h 9 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 136In 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 highlight the…
- ROLL FOR WARCRAFT - What if an MMO had opportunity attacks? · 1 h 11 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 135World of Warcraft has finally come to Dungeons & Dragons, which means decades of raids, questionable class balance, faction arguments, and deeply buried MMO trauma can now happen…
- PROJECT_LAMORDIA REVIEW - Frankenstein Had Better Workplace Safety Standards · 47 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 134What 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? · 1 h 1 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 133Creating 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 Handbook has…
- HOW TO PLAY SHADOWDARK 1 - CONCEPTS AND THEMES: I can promise you two things, there will be shadows, it will be dark. · 58 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 132What 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 game where…
- NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - AP FINALE: I just wanna see the machine do the big shiny explosions · 1 h 2 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 131The 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 is a…
- 2024 D&D PHB WEAPON MASTERY BREAKDOWN (Remastered): If you attack something, you're going to do damage · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 130For 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 a sword…
- NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - ACTUAL PLAY PT2: Pay attention, kids. Sometimes weird traditions are good. · 58 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 129Last 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 the…
- NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY: Actual Play 1 - I don't know what horses do, but they seem shifty... · 1 h 6 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 128What 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 that's been…
- HOW TO GM ROMANCE (Remastered) w/ Sebastian Yūe and Friday Strout - Building Meaningful Relationships in TTRPGs · 42 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 127You'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 awkwardness…
- NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT, CRAFTING AND COMMUNITIES: Someones Gonna Find a Tape Measure and Change Society · 53 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 126So 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. · 55 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 125Welcome to Numenera, where ancient technology is magic, character creation is an adventure, and Tyler is already looking for something dangerous to invent. This time, Randall…
- SECRET ROLLS (Remastered) - In Case You're Not Good at Lying to Your Players… · 58 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 124Today 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? · 56 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 123In 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 get to the…
- STARFINDER 2E TECH CORE - So many nerdy classes man. Like, just nerds! · 54 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 122Starfinder 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 · 1 h 4 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 121Welcome to Mechanus, the only plane in the D&D multiverse where showing up five minutes early is considered dangerously chaotic. Everything is perfectly balanced. Everything runs…
- DnD 2024 PHB CHARACTER CREATION REMASTERED - What if I told you there were three-ish types of feats? · 1 h 1 minCreating 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 Handbook has…
- NUMENERA HOW TO PLAY - CONCEPTS AND THEMES: Pitter Patter, Let's Get Going · 56 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 120Welcome to the Ninth World, where civilization has ended eight times, nobody understands how anything works, and sufficiently advanced technology is mostly an excuse to point at…
- UNDERDARK OPTIONS 2 UA - It's magical radiation. Everybody knows that, Ash. · 1 h 9 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 119Welcome 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 headache and…
- DnD 2014 WIZARDS featuring TREANTMONK - Levels 8 - 20 (Remastered) · 1 h 3 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 118Last 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 builds from…
- DEADFALL: ARCANA UNLEASHED - Seize the Means of Undead Production · 1 h 5 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 117Welcome 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…
- ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 3 - Everything was fine until Tyler read the rules.. · 1 h 17 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 116We 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 every…
- 2014 DnD 5e WIZARDS Levels 1 - 7 with Treantmonk! (Remastered) · 51 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 115Treantmonk joins us to talk about Wizards, which means we're about to spend an unreasonable amount of time discussing concentration saves, initiative bonuses, spell selection…
- ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 2 - Necromancer's Finally Get Nice Things · 59 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 114Four 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-magic…
- D&D ARCANA UNLEASHED Part 1 - The Best Arcane Archer Ever Is Still an Arcane Archer · 1 h 1 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 113Arcana Unleashed is here, bringing new subclasses, spells, feats, magic items, and—most importantly—fresh opportunities for Tyler to find loopholes Wizards of the Coast…
- 2014 DnD 5e BARBARIANS Levels 5 - 20 (Remastered): Woohoo! Smash, smash, smashy smash! · 52 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 112At 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 · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 111Most 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 dangerous…
- UNEARTHED ARCANA: UNDERDARK OPTIONS - We're unenlightened!!! · 1 h 21 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 110Welcome 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 more light…
- 2014 DnD 5e BARBARIAN Levels 1 - 4 (Remastered): The Frat Bro' of the DnD World · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 109Today 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. We've…
- PF2E WIZARDS Part 2 - Reality Is More of a Guideline · 1 h 9 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 108We're back with Pathfinder Wizards, and somehow giving Tyler ten more levels of spellcasting has not improved the situation. Ash has evolved from sneaky magical assassin into a…
- PF2E WIZARDS Part 1 - Fireball Is Not a Personality, Tyler · 1 h 11 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 107Tyler loves wizards. We know this because he told us. Repeatedly. For ninety minutes. So naturally, we gave him an entire episode to explain why the best solution to every…
- 2014 DnD 5e DRUID Levels 5 - 20 (Remastered): Summoning Cows to Fall from the Skies onto our Enemies · 1 h 4 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 106Nature is healing. Unfortunately, nature has chosen violence. We're taking the Druid from level 5 all the way to 20, which means summoning packs of velociraptors, turning into…
- PF2e IMPOSSIBLE MAGIC REVIEW Pt. 2: Tyler will never finish the Spell Guides · 1 h 8 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 105Last time on Impossible Magic, we discovered that the Magus can finally move, the Summoner can finally summon, and Pathfinder's three-action economy is apparently more of a…
- PF2e IMPOSSIBLE MAGIC REVIEW Pt. 1: Finally, the Summoner Reads It's Own Job Description · 1 h 3 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 104Impossible Magic promises to break the boundaries of spellcasting, which apparently means letting the Magus move, allowing the Summoner to actually summon things, and giving Ash…
- 2014 DnD 5e DRUIDS Levels 1 - 4 (Remastered) - Druidic is just Elvish for Hipsters · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 103Druids are what happens when a wizard looks at civilization and decides indoor plumbing was a mistake. You get questionable armor, inexplicable scimitar proficiency, the ability…
- CYBERPUNK RED: How to Play 6 Series Wrap - Cyberware or Groceries: Choose Wisely · 53 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 102After five episodes of Cyberpunk RED, we have finally reached the most dangerous part of Night City: giving each other constructive feedback. Randall begins with I mechanically…
- CYBERPUNK RED: How to Play 5 Actual Play Conclusion - Unpaid Internship Edition · 44 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 101The good news is we found J-ZK. The bad news is her skull is open, Dave is fighting a man inside the internet, Marky has replaced diplomacy with a hand chainsaw, and everyone…
- THE PLANE OF BYTOPIA (Remastered): Land of Nice Weather and Adamantine Dragons · 53 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 100Welcome to Bytopia, the Upper Plane for people who looked at Heaven and said, "This is nice, but could we make everyone work a little harder?" The weather is lovely, the…
- CYBERPUNK RED: How to Play 4 Actual Play - Capitalism Has a Boss Fight · 1 h 2 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 99Welcome back to Night City, where Tyler has acquired a another cat, Randall has acquired a bedazzled bulletproof vest, and Ash has apparently acquired the Cyberpunk equivalent of…
- CYBERPUNK RED: How to Play 3 Actual Play - We have Cyberware, but no affordable housing... · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 98Welcome to Night City, where housing is a shipping container, breakfast is kibble, and your most reliable neighbor is a rat named Greg. This week, Marky Day and Dave Costanzo…
- 2014 Ranger Part 2 (Remastered) - Yeah, I'm not going to be using Hunter's Mark either... · 54 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 97The ranger's journey from level 5 to 20 is a majestic tale of growth, survival, and discovering that Hunter's Mark may not actually deserve permanent custody of your…
- CYBERPUNK RED How to Play 2 - Character Creation: Mr. Rogers Builds a Cult · 52 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 96Character creation in Cyberpunk RED is simple. First, choose whether you want to be a violent criminal, a corporate criminal, or a musician who can accidentally start a cult…
- VAMPIRES: Children of the Night, What a Mess They Make · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 95Tonight, we're talking vampires, history's greatest transformation from suspiciously bloated corpse to immortal bisexual aristocrat with a castle, a cape, and absolutely no…
- 2014 DnD 5e RANGER (Remastered): Levels 1 - 4 - Archery to Beast Mastery: Choosing the Right Build · 1 h 10 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 94Welcome to Ranger levels 1 through 4, where you can become a deadly shadow archer, command your own miniature dragon, or sacrifice your entire action so that a flying snake with…
- 2026-2027 DND RELEASE SCHEDULE: A Roadmap Written in Blood and Marketing · 1 h 4 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 93Wizards of the Coast has revealed its plans for the future of Dungeons & Dragons, and apparently the strategy is simple: fix D&D Beyond, return to Gen Con, outsource adventures…
- CYBERPUNK RED: How to Play 1 - Talk Before You Glock · 1 h 3 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 92Welcome to Night City, chooms, where the sky is red, the rent is due, your landlord is probably armed, and health care arrives by helicopter only if your credit score has a body…
- PANDEMONIUM (Remastered) - Speaking of Things that are Chaotic... · 59 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 91Welcome to Pandemonium, the plane where the wind screams, gravity is a rumor, and every emergency exit has a reasonable chance of dropping you directly into the Abyss. Tyler…
- ARCHIVE OF MESS-US - Everyone Failed Their Diplomacy Check · 1 h 6 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 90Tonight, the RPGBOT.Podcast enters the discourse arena, where Paizo is financially bleeding, Archives of Nethys accidentally brought a flamethrower to a contract negotiation, and…
- UNEARTHED ARCANA - EVEN MORE VILLAINOUS OPTIONS: Evil Gets a Second Draft · 1 h 14 min · Säsong 6 Avsnitt 89We return to Wizards of the Coast's Villainous Options, now revised after the first round was lovingly pushed down the stairs by public feedback. Some subclasses survived…
