Dungeon Master of None

Every couple of years, DMs Matt and Rob get curious about what systems people are playing. While there isn't a lot of data out there over the last couple of months, we've been blessed with a couple interesting new TTRPG datasets: Bob the World Builder's RPG Poll Foundry VTT's System Percent Installed Time-Series (2024-2026) ratInASuit's Reddit /rpg TTRPG Community in 2025 Poll GenCon's Latest Events ICV2 Retail Survey Data compiled by EN World Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone ^Check it out for our cool data viz Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Sometimes a Game Masters needs something open, full of possibilities, a mother sauce for a GM and players to build on. Join DMs Matt and Rob to explore six generic universal role-playing games systems for when you need something vanilla for your campaigns. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Matt is reporting live from the hometown of Steve Jackson Games and as a result his audio is not great. Sorry!

Get ready to grind, because this installment of the Dungeon Master Book Club is entering Dungeon World: Earth (no, not that Dungeon World) to discuss the first several installments of DCC (no, not that DCC), the new hit LitRPG (no, not that LitRPG) series by author Matt Dinniman. Join Crawler #7137 Matt and Crawler #5039 Rob and listen, listen, listen! Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable Backerkit by Renegade Game Studios Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Feeling down in the DM dumps? DMs Rob and Matt conclude the big 400 with a discussion of campaigns, worlds, cities, places, and even histories that delight us as Game Masters. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Hey, it's our 400th numbered episode! Check it out. Big announcements about the podcast, plus the 400 (or so) reasons/feelings/vibes why we love being Dungeon Masters. The Oracle: https://open.spotify.com/show/6imtB64oHORHtrxVVoyZOm Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Brando Sanderson's multiverse of madness begins now! We review the Most Successful Crowdfunded Tabletop Roleplaying Game of All Time: Cosmere! Join our Patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone

Slips. Cicadas. Science-Fantasy. Welcome to the world of Cloud Empress, an ecological far-future fantasy TTRPG. DMs Rob and Matt love Mothership's PANIC Engine, and this game applies it a weird world of far-future environmental change, magic, and hyper-intelligent wizard giant bugs. Oh, and the rules are free! https://cloudempress.com/ Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft The Bright Sword from the bosom of author Lev Grossman, signifying by divine providence that DMs Matt and Rob, were to discuss knights, faeries, quests, questing beasts, and mythic fantasy. THAT is why this is your podcast episode. Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

The Neopets Role-Playing Game is the ideal kickstarter. It's got it all: licensed IP, lazy 5e mechanics, nostalgia mining, kitchen sink promises, missed deadlines, alleged missed wages, a combat system for a cozy setting, potential OGL violations, and drama! DMs Rob and Matt try their best to chart the history of Neopets, Geekify's missteps, the system, the playtest adventures, and the fallout. Plus, stay tuned for late-breaking Neopets News! Neopians, hack or play these TTRPGs instead: Golden Sky Stories by Ryo Kamiya Monster Care Squad by Sandy Pug Games Ryuutama by Atsuhiro Okada Neopets TTRPG Links: Neopets TTRPG Kickstarter "The Neopets RPG doesn't need mechanics, just your money" by Lin Codega Update on the Neopets Tabletop Roleplaying Game (Update 1) Update on the Neopets Tabletop Roleplaying Game (Update 2) Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

We don't have games, we got family. Have you ever wanted to play a Fast & Furious-inspired TTRPG? John Harper (of Blades in the Dark, Lady Blackbird, and Agon fame) has got you covered. Welcome to Ride or Die, a fast-paced, double-clutching game where you are invulnerable as long as you are in your car. Look at this dope draft character sheet! If are ready to jump into your souped-up Honda Civic to stop a global arms smuggling ring that also has mega computer virus with nothing but the power of expensive cars and found family, then stayed tuned to Evil Hat Games for Ride or Die's release in the near future. If you can't wait that long then head over to the crowd-funding campaign for Blades '68. It's Blades in the Dark in the swinging 60s. Groovy, baby! Or, check out John Harper-recommend survival horror TTRPG, Liminal Horror, by Josh Domanski and Goblin Archives. Salud mi familia! Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

It's back to the archives of Dragon magazine for DMs Rob and Matt. When is giving characters too much information too much of a good thing? Tune in to find out! Dragon Magazine #161: https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine161/page/20/mode/2up Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

DMs Rob and Matt are joined by a special guest: a random table! But this isn't just any random table, but a table of your over-used, loved or hated, fantasy tropes. Listen in as Matt and Rob attempt to remix and reuse these tropes into a workable bit of region, adventure, and faction prep. d12 Fantasy Trope 1 The Dark Lord in his Dark Tower Ruling his Dark Land 2 Metal, Elemental, Color-Based Powers or Magic 3 A Not-Arthur Rules a Not-Camelot 4 PCs are the Chosen Ones (sic) 5 Multiverse Hopscotch 6 Ancient Magical Rome That Is Now Gone 7 Magical Resource Extraction (Crystals, Spice, etc.) 8 Actually, Man is the Greatest Monster of All 9 The Orange-Blue Alignment Axis 10 The Gods are Grifters 11 This land is cursed 12 Of course it's a giant floating island Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!

"A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of stick! It makes me tired." Strap on your shield and get ready to seek some myths, Sir Rob and Sir Matt are reviewing Chris McDowall's Mythic Bastionland! Oak and iron guard us well, or else we're dead, and doomed to hell. Free Quickstart Rules: https://bit.ly/mbplaytest Digital rules: https://chrismcdee.itch.io/mythic-bastionland Print and PDF (Americas): https://plusoneexp.com/collections/bastionland-press/products/mythic-bastionland-1 Print and PDF (everyone else): https://bastionlandpress.com/products/damaged-mythic-bastionland-hardback-book-plus-pdf Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Follow Dungeon Master of None on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/dmofnone.bsky.social More socials Join our Patreon for bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DungeonMasterOfNone Join the DMofNone Discord!