Dice Exploder

Sam Dunnewold
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Dice Exploder

A show about tabletop RPG design. Each episode we bring you a single mechanic and break it down as deep as we possibly can. Co-hosted by Sam Dunnewold and a rotating roster of designers. diceexploder.com

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    Dice Exploder is on Patreon, plus Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com The show is on Patreon! There's not going to be a lot behind the paywall, but there is right now a pilot episode for a new podcast that's part play report, part games criticism, and part personal memoir. This pilot is about the excellent game Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and you can listen to it now on the brand new Dice Exploder patreon. https://www.patreon.com/DiceExploder

    5 min

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    Embodiment with Kate Hill

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com In a lot of tabletop rpgs, to do something in the fictional world, we engage with abstraction: to pick someone’s pocket, we describe picking their pocket, or we roll a die to see how well we pick it. But in larp, sometimes the action is the action. I pick your pocket... by picking your pocket. This embodiment of play, where my real life actions equal my fictional character's actions, might be what many people understand as the core difference between larp and tabletop games. Today, Kate Hill and I get into the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful of embodied play. Further Reading Playing to Lift, Not Just to Lose by Susanne Vejdemo Bluebeard’s Bride New World Magischola Chasing Bleed – An American Fantasy Larper at Wizard School by Tara M. Clapper Golden Cobra Challenge Find Larp Shack on Facebook! Two Hand Path and the Dice Exploder episode about it Ad Links We Three Shall Meet Again by Sam Dunnewold Socials Kate on Bluesky. Kate’s actual play Path of Glory on twitch. Sam on Bluesky and itch. The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    51 min

  3. 18 FÉVR.

    Just Read the Card (Ghost Court) with Randy Lubin

    Transcripts are available at diceexploder.com Larp! It’s that thing where you dress up like wizards, go into the woods, and hit each other with sticks. Right? Well.. yeah! Except no, because it’s a million other things, too. Today I'm gonna introduce you to the world of larp. If you've ever been intimidated by it, this is a place to start. Because I think tabletop designers have so much we could learn from larp, so much that this is the start of a big series on larp. And where better to start than with a mechanic that makes getting into larp easier than ever: just pick up a card and read what it says. Further Reading Ghost Court by Jason Morningstar We Are Roommates Now by Wendy Gorman Space Larps by Jason Morningstar Welcome Guests by Jason Morningstar The Climb by Jason Morningstar So Mom I Made This Sex Tape by Susanne Vejdemo Behind the Magic by Randy Lubin The Hench Union Larp by Sam Dunnewold Socials Randy onBluesky Randy’s foresight games are at leveragedplay.com Randy’s consumer games are at diegeticgames.com Randy’s online games platformStorySynth Sam onBluesky anditch The Dice Exploder blog is atdiceexploder.com Our logo was designed bysporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song isSunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join theDice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    43 min

  4. 11 FÉVR.

    Mule (Last Train to Bremen) and Pregenerated Characters with Aaron Lim

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Pregens! They're not just a tool to get started playing quicker, they're also a way for a designer to take you by the hand and guide you to a very specific place, and they're a shared language across every table that picks up your game. Today, Aaron Lim and I break down all the joys and beauty of pregens, up to and including Aaron's meme charts. Aaron’s Kickstarter Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition and What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course Ad Links A Perfect Rock  Growing Thylacine: A Pamphlet Zine TTRPG Further Reading Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion Caro Asercion on Dice Exploder Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games Lady Blackbird by John Harper Larp Design and the chapter BASICS OF CHARACTER DESIGN by Juhana Pettersson Socials Aaron onBluesky anditch. Sam onBluesky anditch. The Dice Exploder blog is atdiceexploder.com Our logo was designed bysporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song isSunset Bridge by Purely Grey. This episode was edited by Chris Greenbriar and Sam Dunnewold. Join theDice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    47 min

  5. 4 FÉVR.

    Coloring Book Character Sheet (Two Hand Path) with Jeeyon Shim

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com What’s the best way to convey the emotional experience of being a post-apocalyptic demon-fighting wizard action hero? Did you say “a coloring book with some Yahtzee on the side?” Because that’s what Two Hand Path designer Mikey Hamm landed on. Last week was an episode all about the joy of destruction and transgression, and I wanted to balance that out today with another episode on physicality in games and the act of creation. But because I’m joined by the wonderful and prolific Jeeyon Shim, this spilled out into so much more: Jeeyon's background in child education, solo games that ask you to do a verb other than journal, how important it is for our humanity to take breaks and touch grass sometimes, and just how much fun art can be. Further Reading Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm Making Comics by Linda Barry Field Guide to Memory by Shing Yin Khor and Jeeyon Shim A Mending by Shing Yin Khor Ad Links Sock Puppets Mission ImPAWsible Socials Jeeyon on Patreon, Bluesky, and itch. Sam on Bluesky and itch. The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    56 min

  6. 28 JANV.

    Flauros the Demon (Wreck This Deck) with Audrey Stolze

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com Don't you hate it when one card in a deck gets a little bent? You ever have someone spill their coffee on your cards while you're playing and wish death upon them? What if I told you there was a game that told you to do these things and worse... on purpose? We're kicking off season 5 of Dice Exploder with two episodes on physicality in games. Today that's Wreck This Deck, and the transgressive feeling you get when the core mechanic of a game is to f**k up a bunch of playing cards. Specifically, we're talking about the revenge demon Flauros and what exactly he demands you do to your deck. Further Reading Audrey’s podcast Alone At The Table podcast and the Wreck This Deck episodes specifically Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings Birds Love Dirt by Emily Jankowski Under the Autumn Strangely by Graham Gentz Balatro This video about a particularly infamous Magic: the Gathering commander deck Rookwood by Nerdy Pup Games Ad Links Sword Opera Shownotes Sam on Bluesky and itch. The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    51 min

  7. 10/12/2024 · BONUS

    2024 Year End Bonanza

    Transcripts can be found at diceexploder.com It's the Dice Exploder 2024 year end bonanza! This year I'm joined by Aaron Voigt, Rowan Zeoli, and MintRabbit plus a cavalcade of friends of the show to go over games and adjacent things we loved from 2024. Come reminisce about the year with us! Aaron on Youtube and Bluesky Rowan on Bluesky MintRabbit on Tumblr Aaron’s picks Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion  Fealty by Michael Elliot and Galen Pejeau Helvetia by Bully Pulpit Games/Jason Morningstar  Rascal News/Scrying on Iran's Tabletop Scene The Most Important Essay in RPG History  Rowan’s picks The Time We Have by Elliot Davis Seven Part Pact by Jay Dragon Oceanie 2084 Voices in The Wood, a Void 1680 Actual Play. Rowan’s article on Voices in the Woods. Former World of Game Design Employees Claim Tabletop Company Exploits Workers and Clients Mint’s picks The Gas Station, by DNGNCLUB shadow/giant by PsychHound Games Flyover Country, by Headstone Hills In Defense of Fiction, by MeatCastle Games Mint Plays Games: Rotted Capes (And the Lesson I Keep Learning This Year) Sam’s picks Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm Florilegium by Nick Wedig A Visit to the Lonely Oak by Victor Lane The Disc 2 jam, organized by Ken Lowrey, and specifically the Wanderhome designer commentary Kiss Me If You Can by Sam Dunnewold, and actual play from Third Floor Wars Other Picks Kurt Refling’s pick: Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games Michael Elliott’s pick: Two Hand Path by Mikey Hamm Alex Roberts on The Highlander II: The Quickening Unofficial Roleplaying Game by Adam Decamp Jason Morningstar on The Big Store by Nathan D. Paoletta Randy Lubin’s pick: the Dice Exploder Discord Hendrik ten Napel on Eat the Reich by Rowan Rook and Deckard Sharang Biswas’s pick: Combat in Dungeons & Dragons by Evan Torner Audrey Stolze’s pick: Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam Dunnewold Sydney Icarus’s pick: Working the Case by Randy Lubin Seraphina’s pick: Triangle Agency Socials Sam Dunnewold on Bluesky and itch. The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    1 h 35 min

  8. 26/11/2024 · BONUS

    The Challenge Deck (Wickedness) with Audrey Stolze and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez

    Transcripts available at diceexploder.com A few weeks back, a conversation on the Dice Exploder discord lead to a new game jam: the Femininomenon Jam, a jam about femininity and whatever that means to you, happening now on itch.io through February 11th. To help kick off your thinking on what a game in this theme might look like, today two of the hosts of that jam sit down to talk about the challenge deck from Wickedness by M. Veselak. In this game about a coven of three witches, the challenge deck is a bespoke oracle for conflict resolution. And right out of the gate we get to dive into the deep end with this jam's topic as we ask: is this mechanic "feminine"? What would that even mean? Further Reading: Wickedness by M. Veselak The Femininomenon Jam Socials Audrey Stolze / Lady Tabletop on itch and tumblr Seraphina on itch and bluesky Audrey’s solo games podcast Alone At The Table Sam D on Bluesky and itch The Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.com Our logo was designed by sporgory, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey. Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!

    33 min
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A show about tabletop RPG design. Each episode we bring you a single mechanic and break it down as deep as we possibly can. Co-hosted by Sam Dunnewold and a rotating roster of designers. diceexploder.com

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  • Création
    Sam Dunnewold
  • Années d’activité
    2023 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    62
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
  • Copyright
    © Sam Dunnewold
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    Dice Exploder

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