37 episodes
Til Dice Do Us Part Ailsa Longmuir & George Quail
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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A tabletop RPG podcast by a nerdy couple from Glasgow, Scotland. We aim to introduce you to new games (both mainstream and indie), support storytellers with our Ask A GM feature, and amuse you with quizzes and Python-esque silliness. Ailsa is a mainly lawful, occasionally chaotic player, and lover of all things strange and unusual. George is the long-suffering forever GM with close to 20 years experience of running a vast array of games. Plus we have a menagerie of strange creatures living with us who occasionally pop in to say hello. Email: tildicepodcast@gmail.com Facebook: /tildicepodcast Twitter: @tildicepodcast Instagram: @tildicepodcast
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Episode 35: Price Postulations & Taste Testing
We couldn't let 2023 end without giving you another episode - even if George has been haunted by some ill tidings of late - and so here we are with a rather chaotic episode we hope you'll still enjoy. First up is a Quiz, where George once again asks Ailsa to guess the prices of the random nerdy tat he has purchased. (With a slight twist, this time - only 6 items are actually purchased, the seventh is a sort of red herring!) Join in on our social media to see the pictures of the items and work out if you would want to be the owner of some of them too - and if Ailsa thinks George was ripped off.....
After that we have a first (and possibly only) appearance of Twike's Tasty Treatoes as a real, honest to goodness section of the podcast. Yes, the Social Media Goblin herself is in charge of a chunk of this episode and has some food and drink for Ailsa and George to try - and frankly, it has more RPG content than the previous section, so who can complain?
Along the way you'll find out what happened to Beboke the Goblin; discover what animal is used in the Inch High Incel's vitamin supplements; question if we could have done more to edit the chewing out; made a reference to Cleopatra (the girl group, not the queen) and hopefully had a bit of fun after a long period of no Til Dice activity.
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! We hope to produce more content in 2024 for you all.
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Additional music is Fun And Games by Claus Appel
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4690-fun-and-games
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on Twitter under @neilslorance or Facebook as "Art by Neil Slorance"
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Episode 34: Family Gaming & Faux Fairy Tales
Our usual podcasting pair becomes a talking troika in this episode, as we are joined by education writer and RPG creator DC Bradshaw. With his help we aim to answer an Ask A GM in which the listener enquires about introducing roleplaying games to an audience of children and how you can tailor your rules and setting towards them. Since DC Bradshaw has written his very own D&D-for-kids version of 5E, "Little But Fierce", he's the perfect person to help us answer this question - even if he visits the podcast by a slightly unorthodox transport method
After that, it's a Til Dice staple in the form of a Quiz. But with three people in the room the format changes up - George and Ailsa must team up to answer questions posed to them by their guest, who has brought ten lines of RPG game text that have been bowdlerized into something more "family friendly". Can the Til Dice Team work out what the games in question are and roughly what the sentence should be? What games have fluffy bunnies, chocolate milk and Cyril Sneer been inserted into?
Along the way you can expect the usual mish-mash of in-jokes, references, side-rambles and flensing knives. Find out which member of the Til Dice team has to be a stand-in Carol Smillie, who deals with the Inch-High Incel when he interrupts three people simultaneously, what colours of box the 80s D&D starter sets came in, and what Twike's important question to ask a guest is. On top of all that, this episode's sponsored segment sees Acerarak the Demilich makes a return - and he wants to take five children into a world of pure imagination.
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Buy your own Twike mini figure from Ramshackle Games!
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Additional music is Fromage by Steven OBrien
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10409-fromage
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on social media @neilslorance or neilslorance.com
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Episode 33: Caledonian Campaigns & Edinburgh Escapades
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley", as Robert Burns once said, but we've just about managed to get an episode published for January. Join the gang at Til Dice Towers as we talk roleplaying games but also Scotland in this latest Ask A GM - with Graeme from Vancouver asking us what is the most Scottish roleplaying game. That's a surprisingly complex question. What great games are written about Scotland? What great games are written by Scots? What fictional properties and characters are more Scottish than you think? Join us for some patriotic patter.
Then you can join us on our Edinburgh Travelogue. We are nipping across to the East side of Scotland and its capital city to have a wander around the historical monuments and nerdy shops as we take you on a trip through the city we are forced to admit is prettier than Glasgow. We'll tell you what Edinburgh Castle is built on top of, take shelter in Black Lion Games from a depressing familiar face, and even find time to give some food reviews.
Along the way you will learn the answer to questions like: what connects Tony Blair and James Bond? What author of "Scotch" fiction did George pick a fight with on Twitter? What street in Edinburgh is the Mailer Daemon determined to visit? Who arrives at our door to be our first footer? Most importantly of all, what Antipodean Adventurer has got a slot in our advert break to tell you all about his hunt for the most famous of Scottish cryptids? Crikey!
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Buy your own Twike mini figure from Ramshackle Games!
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Additional music is Adventure by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6092-adventure
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on social media @neilslorance or neilslorance.com
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Episode 32: Vehicle Viewpoints & Theme-Park Trauma
After slaving away at a hot laptop, George and Ailsa bring you a bumper episode out of Til Dice Towers just in time for Christmas. Why not download this while you are travelling home to see family or friends and hear us talking about... well, travelling, as we discuss World Building and how the differing methods of getting around your campaign world can have a whole lot of knock-on effects on the rest of your game. Such Christmas-y topics as Icelandic volcanoes, methods of transport the Simpsons ruined and rock songs about time dilation. Plus you can find out which member of our cast doesn't travel well by sea.
After that it's into one of our Elevator Pitch segments which comes with a content warning for suicide, human remains and child endangerment. Here, we take time out of being stuck in a theme park to tell you about a roleplaying game that's about being stuck in a theme park. The game is The Happiest Apocalypse On Earth by Christopher Grey, and we're here to give you some insight on the game from having both read and played it.
Along the way we'll catch up with some of our extended cast to find out what they've been up to, discuss the favourite feel good comedy of the Nether Realms, some love for Figment the Dragon, some worrying Secret Santa presents that are perhaps less useful than we'd like, and even a little bonus Christmas gift for our listeners in the form of an extra segment. Plus a sponsored segment with one of our cast giving you a taster of the second series of their own show with a pretty dreadful guest star from the Domains of Dread.
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Buy your own Twike mini figure from Ramshackle Games!
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Additional music is X-Mas In The House by Frank Schroeter
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7140-x-mas-in-the-house
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Additional music is Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on social media @neilslorance or neilslorance.com
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/tildicepodcast)
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Minisode 31.9 - Grand Returns & Giveaways
What's this? A Til Dice episode appearing in your feed? Yes, that's right, we're here to let you know that we're getting ready to make a triumphant return - and even have a competition to announce to celebrate our second birthday. Tasty treatos all round!
The Ramshackle Games website is https://ramshacklegames.co.uk/. You can find many miniatures for sale there, but in particular Twike the Social Media Goblin - https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/home/644-twike-social-media-goblin.html
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on Twitter under @neilslorance or Facebook as "Art by Neil Slorance"
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/tildicepodcast)
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Minisode 31.5 - Spoon Shortage & Schedule Slippage
A little PSA follows to let you know our schedule is going to be a bit more relaxed for the next wee while. We're still going to be putting out content, but not as regularly as before.
Thanks for your patience and your continued support - it means a lot to us.
Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com
We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast
Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Our logo is by Neil Slorance - check out his work on Twitter under @neilslorance or Facebook as "Art by Neil Slorance"
Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/tildicepodcast)
Support the show
Customer Reviews
Fun, open, and informative
Ailsa and George produce a great podcast that’s informative on the world of roleplaying games in general. Both D&D which is, let’s face it, the gateway drug for most of us and the most popular game around. But also other systems, settings, and worlds. They’ll paint verbal pictures of how these could make for different, unique, but just as fun roleplay experiences. From the obscure to the well known they cover everything. (Eventually I hope)
They have a great chemistry together, like those friends who seem to be made for one another and always have been together regardless of how long they actually are together. Yet at the same time they’ll never grow old and boring as they’ll keep their young playful hearts. That chemistry distils though the podcast into your ears in such a way listening to them is almost as fun as actually playing a game.
They’re also responsive via their social media and open to feedback. Plus they invite us to contact them with questions so they can share their experience, insights, joy, and love for games.
The result is a podcast that’s great for old hands like me who started playing three decades ago as well as for new players who’ve only discovered the joy of dice and the idea of rpgs just a few days ago.
Plus, they’re Scots, complete with the accent, kilt, bagpipes and a haggis as pet. What’s not to love?
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