Dice Exploder

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>I love pregens! But why do I love pregens? I dug into this a bunch on an episode last year with Aaron Lim about the characters in Last Train to Bremen: I love being...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Austin Walker's new game Realis is on Kickstarter now, and it's been making splashes in the indie rpg scene since last year when the ashcan came out. The game's core...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Follow Band-Aids & Bullet Holes on Kickstarter!</p><p>The Awards are back! The rpg awards show with a bent towards indie games and the guaranteed worst SEO of all time...

<p>Transcripts are available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Bee and Barclay are the hosts of Tabletop Book Club, a podcast that is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a show with such fun energy, and of course good design...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>My friend Tristan Zimmerman is currently crowdfunding Ballad Hunters, a GUMSHOE game, meaning it’s based on a core mechanic built for investigation games and gathering...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>I bet you’ve heard of this game Triangle Agency. Big exciting Kickstarter, super flashy product design, a game with… spoilers in the back? It’s corporate horror, it’s...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>If the thesis of last week’s episode was “hey the fiction of your game matters a lot and can even have mechanical effects,” how do you know how deeply to define that...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>In Blades in the Dark, you play as criminals in Doskvol a haunted city where the ghosts are such a problem that they built giant lightning barriers around the whole...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>There's many ways to decide who has authority over what in an RPG. Traditional games have a bunch of players with one PC each and a GM responsible for everything else...

<p>Dice Exploder: Afterimage is alternative show format, a cross between play report and personal memoir.</p><p>The Experimental Role-Playing Laboratory, or ERPL, was a thrice a year mini convention put on by students...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>It's the Dice Exploder 2025 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Lin Codega and Diogo Nogueira to go over a whole bunch of game mechanics that we think represent...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Mausritter is an old school dungeon crawling game where instead of playing as elves fighting dragons, you play as mice fleeing from owls. It’s not unlike any number of...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Apocalypse World 3rd edition is on Kickstarter right now. In many ways, it hasn’t changed much. In many ways, it's a whole new apocalypse. So I thought it'd be fun to...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>To close out this miniseries on actual play, I wanted to feature a game that I think uses actual play as a game mechanic. Hear me out. Void 1680 AM is a solo...

<p>Transcripts available at diceexploder.com</p><p>Last Train to Brooklyn is an actual play from Twice Rolled Tales where they play Last Train to Bremen on a New York City subway car. It's also probably my favorite...