
Dusty and Tanner return to Rokugan with Legend of the Five Rings! They talk about their latest session, including "mythology episodes", introducing supernatural elements into grounded games, GM backseat driving...


The show where you can learn from our mistakes...We talk about our games, and the lessons we learned while playing them.
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RPG Lessons Learned is hosted by RPGLLPodcast. The show has published 146 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "L5R5E Mini-Campaign, Part 3 (Legend of the Five Rings, 5E)" (14 September 2026, 34 minutes), "Tanner's Campaign: Churwood Concluded (The Tan Hack)" (7 September 2026, 25 minutes), and "L5R5E Mini-Campaign, Part 2 (Legend of the Five Rings, 5E)" (31 August 2026, 31 minutes).
RPG Lessons Learned publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 146 episodes.
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RPGLLPodcast hosts RPG Lessons Learned, a leisure podcast with 146 episodes published.
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Dusty and Tanner return to Rokugan with Legend of the Five Rings! They talk about their latest session, including "mythology episodes", introducing supernatural elements into grounded games, GM backseat driving...

Tanner talks with Dusty about the mixed conclusion to his homebrew OSR sandbox game. Topics of conversation include how to conclude an open-ended story, Macguffins that don't work, how random encounters can generate...

The Legend of the Five Rings mini-campaign continues! Dusty and Tanner talk about the second session, including an unexpected story climax, themes in RPG stories, misalignment driving storytelling, player monologues...

Tanner runs L5R 5E for Dusty as a start of a new campaign! They chat about telegraphing and predicting story moments, giving a player character a sidekick, making complex characters, role-playing in-character, how game...

Dusty and Tanner check out the G.I. Joe RPG! Topics include setting the tone before the game, adapting a group-focused game to 1 player, system cheat sheets, pre-made adventure structures, how an adventure teaches you a...

Dusty and Tanner conclude their trip through Closed Shell Castle in L5R 5E. They talk goal-oriented gaming, expectations of role-playing in the world of Rokugan, scene-based games with no procedure, role-playing...

Tanner runs L5R 5E for Dusty! It's maybe his favorite roleplaying game? They discuss the tendency of players to not do homework, the self-consciousness of playing Eastern fantasy, the game of twenty questions and...

Dusty runs 5E for the first time in ten years... let's see how it went. Topics include running a game for a system you don't even like, bad early 90s movies, techno-vampires, the power of re-skinning stat blocks and...

Episode #155
Dusty tells Tanner about Martin's latest campaign in a Wild West Call of Cthulhu! They talk the appeal of d100 systems, Japanese COC adventures, realism in historical settings, appropriate contents for horror games...

Episode #154
Tanner talks about tying together multiple dungeons into one overarching campaign for his home group! (Note: Tanner's mic sounds a little bit hot, but the issues clear up about 9 minutes in. Sorry!!!!). They chat about...

Episode #153
Dusty loves Cyberpunk 2077! But Tanner does not... listen as they compare notes! Discussions include the setting in the tabletop RPG and the video game, low-brow vs high-brow genre fiction, Keanu Reeves, playing male or...

Episode #152
Tanner ran "Dragon in the Dungeon" for his group! While Tanner's group didn't encounter Frog (will anyone ever?), they did turn on the guards! The guys talk hex dungeons once again, and there's a little discussion about...

Episode #151
Dusty finished the classic adventure The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh for Tanner! Long story short, Dusty needs to get better at re-capping prior sessions to recreate immersion. Scarlet Heroes by Sine Nomine Publishing...

Dusty describes running Andrew Kolb's Neverland for his daughter and her friends! They talk arts and crafts as a part of running RPGs, bucket list gaming, setting expectations about hex crawls, affordable gaming, the...

Dusty ran the classic adventure The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh for Tanner as a Hex Dungeon! Topics include adapting an old adventure for a Hex Dungeon, variety in published adventures, how damn good of a game Scarlet...

Episode #148
Tanner loves Baldur's Gate 3! But Dusty hates it... Listen to Tanner take Dusty to task! Note, there will be spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 in this episode. They talk about translating tabletop combat to video games, the...

Episode #147
Tanner and Dusty finish Slug House! They discuss the importance of an emotional hook, the current state of Tanner's system, the Tan Hack, and more! Slug House by Stromberg Press...

Episode #146
<p>Tanner tells Dusty about the end of his Lancer campaign, and they discuss the difference (if there is one) between short-term and long-term fun in TTRPGs!</p> LANCER RPG...

<p>Dusty and Tanner return to the slimy world of Slug House, talking wandering monsters and following your own advice. Then they switch gears, talking some of Dusty's at-home gaming time running a tried-and-true...

Episode #144
<p>Tanner runs Slug House for Dusty, an old-school dungeon that's a bit bigger than what they are used to! Topics of converstation include hacking together your own OSR system, one player running multiple characters...
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