Oct 27, 20261h 23mS2
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This rare 2nd Perspective Checks in one month is one...
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Rene Plays Games
Hosted by Rene Legault · leisure · EN
About this Podcast:
Hi, I’m Rene from the DMs After Dark, and I want to share some underappreciated tabletop RPGs with you through actual play series, discussions with folks from the hobby, and dives into how to get more ideas for your gaming table.
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What is Rene Plays Games about?
Hi, I’m Rene from the DMs After Dark, and I want to share some underappreciated tabletop RPGs with you through actual play series, discussions with folks from the hobby, and dives into how to get more ideas for your gaming table.
Who hosts Rene Plays Games?
Rene Plays Games is hosted by Rene Legault. The show has published 163 episodes to date.
What has Rene Plays Games covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Perspective Checks | Rangers of a Broken World with Leon Richardson" (27 October 2026, 83 minutes), "Tabletop Tutorial | Ghost + Human" (21 October 2026, 75 minutes), and "Perspective Checks | Exploring Trauma Safely in TTRPGs with Mistress Winter (All Our Faults)" (13 October 2026, 68 minutes).
How often does Rene Plays Games publish?
Rene Plays Games publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 163 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Rene Plays Games?
Booking probability for Rene Plays Games is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Rene Plays Games requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Rene Plays Games's contact route on record: verified email.
About the host
Rene Legault hosts Rene Plays Games, a leisure podcast with 163 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #5
Tabletop Tutorial | Ghost + Human
Oct 21, 20261h 15mS4Slowly adding players to the spooky month episodes, this time I'm joined by returning guest (and wife, I guess that's important) Lynn for a game of Ghost + Human by friend of the pod Dan Bronson-Lowe a.k.a. Almost...
Episode #37
Perspective Checks | Exploring Trauma Safely in TTRPGs with Mistress Winter (All Our Faults)
Oct 13, 20261h 8mS2Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month's episode is one that took months of...
Episode #84
Blood in the Margins | One-Player One-Shot
Oct 8, 20261h 15mS1Spooky month is upon us, and thus we play horror! It begins alone, and, in this game, it ends alone. Blood in the Margins by Chris Bissette is another of his incredible Wretched & Alone games about a student who, along...
- Sep 30, 202653 minS1
I'm squeezing in one more episode for Solo September and it's one of the games I've wanted to play (and solo!) the longest - Primal Quest by Diogo Nogueira ! There are also a bunch of supplements for Primal Quest...
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Episode #82
Mappa Mundi (Solo) | One-Player One-Shot
Sep 23, 20261h 5mS1Solo September rolls on and this week's one-player one-shot is the Exploration & Ecology RPG Mappa Mundi by Three Sails Studio ! This game was thrown at me A LOT during its crowdfunding, and I totally get why. The pitch...
- Sep 16, 202646 minS1
Solo September is fully in swing! Time for another one-player one-shot and this time it's one of the solo games I've had in my collection and on my list for the longest: Princess With a Cursed Sword by Anna Anthropy...
- Sep 9, 20261h 11mS2
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month's episode is with the incomparable...
- Sep 4, 20261h 9mS1
Beneath the Tree of Woe, the wicked towering tree at the heart of the forest of Eryn Vorn, Iorlas wields his ancestral blade, Nimloth's Tear, against the Flame in the Dark, an ancient nameless thing of evil. With a...
Episode #79
One-Player One-Shot | Ronin by Thiago Junges
Aug 25, 202658 minS1Quick pivot to play a recommended one-player one-shot of Tiago Junges' Ronin, recommended by this month's Perspective Checks guest Cezar Capacle! Ronin is a solo TTRPG that was the mechanical and framework precursor to...
Episode #77
The One Ring 2e | Episode 10 - Entmoot
Aug 19, 202656 minS1Iorlas encounters a population of Ents long separated from their kin in Fangorn Forest out on the cape of Eryn Vorn. It takes some time, but he convinces them to bring him to the heart of the forest where the corruption...
- Aug 12, 20261h 4mS2
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month I'm honored to have sat down and talked...
- Aug 5, 202645 minS1
After the ambush in the barn, Iorlas rides southeast toward the dark forested cape of Eryn Vorn. Long have the steads and rolling hills of Minhiriath laid unpopulated after the Great Plague, and the massive pine forest...
- Jul 29, 202647 minS1
I've decided to continue my playtesting of the (few years out) upcoming Ironsworn: Legacies! Five months after releasing the enormous elder shadow wolf god from the glacier, Tessa and Farina - along with some new...
- Jul 22, 202648 minS1
Iorlas departs Bree and heads south along the Greenway between the Barrow Downs and South Downs, a perilous place to travel... Not long after he sets out does he realize his progress is now being observed and his...
- Jul 14, 20261h 23mS2
Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month I'm joined by Ciera, a.k.a...
Episode #73
The One Ring 2e | Episode 7 - Scars & Songs
Jul 7, 202655 minS1After falling through the floor in the ruins of Fornost, Iorlas discovers something worse than orcs or evil Men. Luckily he gets out and makes it back to Bree, where he begins to recover from the terrifying ordeal and...
- Jun 30, 202651 minS1
Playtest session 2 of Ironsworn: Legacies! Tessa and the hunters get Farina to the site of her dreams on a massive frozen glacial valley, but a broken opening holds sacred secrets of the past, as well as old, corrupt...
Episode #71
Ironsworn Legacies | 1: Escort the Dreamer
Jun 24, 202652 minS1A little late, but it's going to turn into 2 episodes of the playtest materials for the upcoming Ironsworn: Legacies from Shawn Tomkin instead of just the one bonus one for next week! I am SUPER excited to be able to...
- Jun 16, 202645 minS1
Iorlas fights the wraith that rose in the ruins of the plaza in Fornost Erain and gains insight into the past. Going further in he traces the steps of Rangers who came before him, but one wrong step sends him deeper...
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