Dungeon Master of None

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TEASER - Trinity After Action Report Nov 30, 2025

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Matt and Rob talk about the most recent playtest of Rob's game-in-progress: Trinity! Listen in to hear about game design, playtesting, and how this can help you work through sticky problems with both your table and your prep!

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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UNLOCKED - Dice Workshop Nov 27, 2025

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We're unlocking one of our bonus Patreon episodes in anticipation of an upcoming project...

DMs Rob and Matt clock into the Dice Workshop for a long shift working on custom dice mechanics and discuss dice probabilities and mechanics put in practice!

Matt's Dice Mechanics Taxonomy

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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377 - The Wretched of Middle-Earth Nov 21, 2025

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DMs Rob and Matt hop back on the disk horse and ride into forest of world-building to find the roots of fantasy racism in Dungeons and Dragons. Guided by Adam Serwer and the late Charles W. Mills, they embark on this quest seeking the answer to the question: "Why is Elon Musk so mad about one paragraph in a D&D archival collection published last year?"

Adam Serwer - Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist: The fantastical roots of "scientific racism"

Charles W. Mills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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376 - The Auteurs Nov 13, 2025

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Rob and Matt advance an exciting new theory about who amongst the current crop of TTRPG creators could be considered "auteurs". It's not as pretentious as it sounds, we promise.

Chris McDowall Grant Howitt Meguey and Vincent Baker Monte Cook Jon Harper Tim Hutchings

Episode 35: Numenera Episode 280: Invisible Sun BONUS: Thousand Year Old Vampire

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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375 - Night's Black Agents Nov 06, 2025

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Here is a final "spooky" episode for everyone! DMs Rob and Matt review Kenneth Hite's Night's Black Agents. It's "Spies vs. Vampires" in a "mystery inside a thriller." While it may not be the perfect system, (or the perfect system for Matt and Rob), it is an endlessly fascinating bit of TTRPG design. It may have some of the most interesting and useful campaign building tools of any rule book. While it's maybe not for slacker DMs, if you like to prep your campaign using flow charts and story maps or if the phrase "dramatic villain response algorithm" fills you with glee, then NBA (Night's Black Agents) is for you! Plus, Rob and Matt finally get to chat about GUMSHOE.

Night's Black Agentshttps://pelgranepress.com/nights-black-agents/

GUMSHOE Systemhttps://pelgranepress.com/2018/02/14/gumshoe/

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TEASER - MORE Lessons from Baldur's Gate 3! Nov 03, 2025

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Two years late, but Matt has finally finished Baldur's Gate 3, which means we can talk about what you can take away from it as a game master! Here's a few tips and some advice about what to do, what not to do, what worked, and what didn't. Don't get mad at us.

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374 - Spooky Adventure Recommendations Oct 30, 2025

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Happy Halloween! Do you need a last minute one-shot (or two or three-shot) adventure to get your players into the holiday spirit? DMs Rob and Matt have 7 or so adventures to fright and delight your role-players!

Death House https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/Curse%20of%20Strahd%20Introductory%20Adventure.pdf

Mothership - Haunting of Ypsilon IV https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/the-haunting-of-ypsilon-14

Mothership - The Plea https://goatinthewoodgames.itch.io/the-plea-a-trifold-module

Pathfinder 1e - Carrion Hill https://paizo.com/products/btpy8baj?Pathfinder-Module-Carrion-Hill/1000

Vaesen - Summer in December https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/331182/summer-in-december

Delta Green - Observer Effect https://shop.arcdream.com/products/delta-green-observer-effect-paperback

Rippers - The Last Lion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/162471/rippers-resurrected-the-last-lion

Rippers - https://peginc.com/savage-settings/rippers/

Teeth - https://teethrpg.itch.io/

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373 - A Gathering of Gamers with Matt Shoemaker Oct 25, 2025

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Matt and Rob talk with historian, game designer, and GenCon expert Matt Shoemaker about his new book, Gathering of Gamers!

Free PDF: https://works.hcommons.org/records/kfcpx-xqb42

https://best50yearsingaming.com

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TEASER - Agnostic TTRPG Prep Oct 18, 2025

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Matt and Rob review and test out the Agnostic: TTRPG Prep Method , a zine from Map Crow and Cloud Curio that uses the books and materials that you already have lying around to help you generate a one-shot adventure! Come listen to us spin up a super weird adventure about holy books and ghosts!

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372 - The Joy of Mapping Oct 16, 2025

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Maps. We love them. Love reading them , love planning adventures. Love seeing how things relate topographically.

Maps are knowledge. Maps are a form of power. Maps are also fun! Let's talk about how to create them for your TTRPG games.

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