Dungeon Master of None

Latest Episodes:

TEASER - Lessons from Baldur's Gate 3, Act 1 May 26, 2025

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Matt and Rob talk through the masterfully designed first act of the critically acclaimed CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3. The DMs cover what you can learn, what you can steal, and what's not so easy to do in a video game that you can effortlessly do at your table.

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355 - 5e Heartbreakers (Episode II: Attack of the Clones) May 21, 2025

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Matt and Rob continue to talk about the even more of the 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers published over the last year. This time we review Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant in Part 2 of 5e Heartbreakers series.

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354 - 5e Heartbreakers May 14, 2025

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Matt and Rob talk about the explosion of 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers, including what's good, what's bad, and what's this all about? We talk about Nimble 5e and DC20 in this episode, but there's more to come!

Fantasy Heartbreakers

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353 - Random Genre Worldbuilding May 07, 2025

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Open your Cortex RPG books to page 128, and get ready to rock, roll, and worldbuild. DMs Rob and Matt follow take three random genres and attempt to mash them together into settings and campaigns that are ready to run as TTRPGs.

The Genre Table:

1 Comedy 2 Dark Fantasy 3 Espionage 4 Giant Robots 5 High Fantasy 6 High School 7 Horror 8 Military 9 Post-Apocalyptic 10 Religious 11 Road Movie 12 Romance 13 Science Fiction 14 Superhero 15 Swashbuckler 16 Western

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Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Sonata in F major, Performed by Jinjoo Cho & Itamar Golan

TEASER - DM Clinic with Jess Parks Apr 27, 2025

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Jess Parks of the actual play, I Seduce the Dragon, is back with a Dungeon Master pickle. The best way to work through planning an arc is often to talk through the situation with some other DMs. And that's what DMs Rob and Matt are here to do for DM Jess. To listen to full episode, sign up at

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352 - DM Book Club: the Teixcalaan Series Apr 24, 2025

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Matt and Rob discuss the works of Arkady Martine, particularly her Teixcalaan Duology, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. We're big fans, and these are great books to read for inspiration on worldbuilding, politics, intrigue, culture, language, and much more!

Everyone's World is Ending All the Time

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Pac Div - Roll the Dice Alone - BoDleasons (via Pixabay)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Regarding Spotify Apr 21, 2025

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Spotify is removing some of our old episodes, but don't worry intrepid listener, you can still find them everywhere else. Pardon our dust while we work through the issue.

351 - iHunt: Dollars and Draculas Apr 16, 2025

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"The average American spends $10,345 a year on healthcare. That's two vampires."

DMs Rob and Matt are joined by Olivia Hill of Machine Age Dreams to chat about the new pay-what-you-want quickstart iHunt: Dollars & Draculas. Gather your precariat crew and swipe through the apps because it's time to bring monster hunting in the gig economy to the masses with this 5e D&D port of the best-selling FATE game, iHunt! And don't forget to leave a rating and review for taking out that nest of vampires clean!

#iHunt Dollars & Draculas https://machineage.itch.io/ihunt-dollars-draculas

Machine Age Dreams https://www.patreon.com/machineage

Dollars & Draculas: Adventure 02 - Blowback https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-ihunt-126723867

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350 - Unbalanced Encounters! Apr 14, 2025

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Matt and Rob talk with Patrick and Emily of Unbalanced Encounters! The DM quartet talks inspiration, running games, choosing your players, the state of actual play, choosing systems, and more!

Unbalanced Encounters The Cunning Folk

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349 - Springtime for Dungeon Masters Apr 02, 2025

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Letters! DMs Rob and Matt are here to answer your TTRPG questions and provide some wanted and unwanted advice for your game mastering.

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Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice, The Avett Brothers - Ten Thousand Words.