A TTRPG Blog
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We’re Brenton & Courtney. We love tabletop roleplay games so much, we started a whole business around them and started writing about our experiences. Here on our TTRPG blog, you’ll find tips, tricks, and free encounters for Dungeon Masters, Artists, and Players. Enjoy!
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D&D/Mork Borg Mashup: Charnel Bridge
Show of hands: Who loves (or has played) Mork Borg? If you’re not familiar with the game, Mork Borg is a “rules-light”, Old School Renaissance
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061: Managing OneBookShelf’s Marketing with Lysa Penrose
061: Managing OneBookShelf’s Marketing with Lysa Penrose You know, when I first started to realize that there was a whole TTRPG community out there
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060: How Donathin Frye became a fulltime professional Dungeon Master
How would you like to be a full-time, professional game master? It sounds like a dream a lot of us have in this industry,
Tier 2 D&D Modron Adventure: Time is a Construct
We’re back with another Side Quest! This time I’m showing some love to the misunderstood mechanical minions of Mecanus: Modrons! I wanted to try something
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059: Balancing Disability & Entrepreneurship with Sara Thompson, creator of the Combat Wheelchair
Today, I have the absolute pleasure to introduce you to Sara Thompson. Sara is most widely known for the Combat Wheelchair they created for
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058: Game Design & Incorporating Safety Tools in your TTRPGs with Kienna Shaw
Kienna Shaw is our guest today. Kienna is known for doing more things than we were able to discuss in an hour, like the
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Tier 2 D&D Adventure: Beware the Crimelock
Woah look out, Side Quests are back, baby! As a quick primer, I started a new job with WizKids earlier this year, and while I
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057: Audio & editing tips for your actual play podcast with David of Reckless Attack
Our guest today is David, the player behind Kascorin and one of the podcast editors of Reckless Attack. If you are not familiar with
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056: Editing TTRPGs and developing your content strategy with Amber, TheSpaceJamber
Today’s guest is Amber TheSpaceJamber, a TTRPG editor and streamer. Amber tells us what your editor is actually thinking and looking for in your
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055: Bringing TTRPGs & dice with Indrani of Desis & Dragons
T I am really excited about this one, as today features Indrani, an absolutely amazing and kind creator from India. She is the co-founder of
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054: Growing your TTRPG Interview podcast with Derrick of How Not to DM
What happens when you interview an interviewer? You tend to compare notes. And that is what we do today. Our guest is Derrick, the
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053: Starting a TTRPG production company with Russell E Welch III of D20Tales
Today’s guest is Russell E Welch the III, the DM and CEO of D20Tales, a company putting on some very high quality D&D Actual
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052: Becoming a freelance TTRPG composer with Devin Nelson
Today’s guest is Devin Nelson, a very talented composer, musician, and game designer. We talk about how Devin quit their full-time job to pursue
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051: Orion D. Black is having a blast with Dimension 20
Our guest today is Orion D. Black, the Creative Director for Dimension 20 and a game designer with publications on itch.io. Orion has had
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050: 50th episode celebration! Aka how to start an interview podcast
It’s episode 50! It took a long time to get here, longer than it technically should for a weekly show, but we’re here. We
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049 – How to start a TTRPG discussion podcast with Emil of the DoubleDM podcast
Today we get the pleasure of hearing from Emil, one of the hosts of the DoubleDM podcast, which is a discussion show between two
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048 – Baking Pathfinder cookies with Karee of Critical Hit Cookies
Today’s guest is Karee, the owner of Critical Hit Cookies and a cast member of the Starfinder actual Play podcast: Horizons Unknown. We talk
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047 – Setting up your small business & painting miniatures with Andrea of Wolfwood Gaming
Today’s guest is Andrea Canerossi, the Managing Partner and Mini Painter for Wolfwood Gaming. She co-owns the company with her business partner, Deacon Wolfwood,
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046 – Painting Dice Boxes, Designing Merch & Managing Online Stores with Jay of 88Riddles
Today we get the pleasure of hearing from Jay, the owner and designer behind 88Riddles. You may have seen Jay for his painted dice
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045 – Blogging, Streaming, & Game Design: Making Inclusive & Diverse Content with DeAngelo Murillo
Our guest today is DeAngelo Murillo, a writer, streamer, game designer, and activist. He founded a really cool blog and website that puts a
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044 – From Comics to TTRPGs: Co-writing Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast with Lillie J. Harris & Mercedes Acosta
Spoiler Warning: I forgot to say this in the intro, but there are some mild spoilers about the character Yazeba’s backstory, starting at about