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Is this game a hoax? A conversation with Amabel Holland & Michael Calleia Ep 103
Jun 22, 2026
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Be Afraid of This Game! A conversation with Kevin Crawford & Luke Gearing Ep. 102
Jun 15, 2026
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A Very Special Episode of D&D Outloud- Ep 101
Jun 8, 2026
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Daggerheart vs. Eem! A conversation with Rowan Hall, Spenser Starke, Ben Costa, & James Parks Ep. 100
May 25, 2026
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Scouts vs. Cthulhu! A conversation with Seth Skorkowsky and Paul Fricker- Ep 99
May 18, 2026
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() Is this game a hoax? A conversation with Amabel Holland & Michael Calleia Ep 103 | First up, we have fellow D&D historian Michael Calleia. For years, Dave Arneson & Gary Gygax hinted that they could not speak freely about the creation of D&D for legal reasons. Michael followed up this hints, searching archives and court documents all across the United States until he found a gem in Chicago. The July 1973 draft of Dungeons & Dragons. He is a master researcher and has been kind enough to share some of his gems with me. Michael, welcome to the show! Next up, we have game designer Amabel Holland. Her linkedin describes her as I design weird angry board games for a living and am extremely trash online . She is also arguably the game designer with the greatest clippings in America since The New Yorker did a 4,000 word profile of her and her work three years ago. She works at Holland Spiele where her title is, and I quote, GAMES WEIRDO. Her linkedin reads, "I design weird angry board games for a living and am extremely trash online." She is also the second former librarian turned game designer from Michigan I have had on in the past two weeks. She is here because Michael was quite taken by one of her more recent games... Check out Michael's deep dive into the National Archives here: https://chanceand.com/2024/02/27/a-journey-through-the-july-1973-draft-and-dds-foundational-saga/ Pick up Amabel's numerous amazing games at Holland Spiele: https://hollandspiele.com/ Michael was hanging out here when we recorded: http://www.nycwargames.com/ | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Be Afraid of This Game! A conversation with Kevin Crawford & Luke Gearing Ep. 102 | In which Producer Chris continues to mess with all our minds by leaving at least one obvious error in the show! Today, I have two masters of their craft, two gaming greats whose work is capable of standing on its own two feet and maybe even punching other games in the face, or gutting them like fish, or blasting them out the airlock depending on your genre. First up is Luke Gearing. He is one of the Mothership boys over at Tuesday Knight Games, and is known for Gradient Descent, Fever Swamp, and most relevant to my mind, WOLVES UPON THE COAST, which I am currently running. Welcome Luke! Second in order but by no means in significance we have Kevin Crawford, the man with the mind behind the WITHOUT NUMBER line of games. STARS WITHOUT NUMBER is the dream campaign which I seem eternally unable to get my gaming group to play. His successful crowdfunding campaigns outnumber my ex-girlfriends, and his influence on game design in the 21st century has been remarkable. He is also tremendously hard to lure into an interview, so I will publicly brag that this is the second time I've managed to seduce him into a conversation. Welcome Kevin! Support Kevin Crawford's current Kickstarter here! You can find a free adventure by Luke Gearing for VIOLENCE here! | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() A Very Special Episode of D&D Outloud- Ep 101 | This week, in honor of crossing 100 episodes, we take a peek behind the curtain of the show to have a chat about the pod itself. Where we're going, and where we've been, are both chewed over. Enjoy! | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Daggerheart vs. Eem! A conversation with Rowan Hall, Spenser Starke, Ben Costa, & James Parks Ep. 100 | Episode 100! And is this our best episode ever? A thing Wizards of the Coast has said is that 2024 D&D was the fastest selling version of that game ever produced. I predict that Wizards sold 50,000 copies in the first couple weeks and then made that boast. I would also predict that the other two people we have on the podcast beat that record, because we have Rowan Hall & Spenser Starke here. Starke and Hall are two of the cooks sweating over the stove and serving us Daggerheart from Darrington Press. Daggerheart sold out its initial print run in two weeks, even though it was supposed to last a year. All of which is prelude to say, Hall and Starke are bestselling game designers whose work has broken out of the nerd ghetto to run riot in the culture at large. ENWorld praised Daggerheart as a high fantasy mash up of D&D 4th Edition, the Genesys System, Blades in the Dark, and the Cypher System, producing high fantasy combat in a collaborative storytelling environment. Also on the show, we have Ben Costa and James Parks! They are the ENnie-award winning creators of Land of Eem, a warm, funny, and charming fantasy RPG. Before that, they created the world of Eem in their graphic novel Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo, and I am delighted to have them on the show. Welcome Ben & James! Check out LAND OF EEM here! And of course, DAGGERHEART can be found almost everywhere, but here's a link anyway. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Scouts vs. Cthulhu! A conversation with Seth Skorkowsky and Paul Fricker- Ep 99 | First up, we have the gamer's friend, Seth Skorkowsky! Seth is a novelist, YouTuber, multiple ENnie winner, and nerd about town. His YouTube channel is a smorgasbord of RPG goodness, with a tentacle in practically every foetid pool of our beloved hobby. As a historian, I thought his piece on the three waves of moral panics around RPGs was particularly excellent and if you're listening to me, you should check that video out. Welcome Seth! Next up, we have not a game designer, no no but a foul necromancer. The early 21st century was a dark time for fans of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, my favorite RPG. Releases for the game were rare as hen's teeth. Then, ownership shifted, the start rolled right, and Call of Cthulhu 7th edition was unleashed upon the world. Paul, you and Mike Mason managed a feat akin to that of the D&D 5th edition team in bringing back a beloved game and making it relevant to a new era. Since then, it has been something of a Golden Age for CoC gaming, with your latest release being CAMPFIRE TALES: SCOUTS AGAINST CTHULHU! Welcome Paul! Pick up SCOUTS AGAINST CTHULHU here! Find Seth Skorkowsky's excellent fiction here, and you thrilling YouTube channel here! Support this channel on Patreon here! | — | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() A Luciferean Library of Hellish Hardbacks, Satanic Scrolls, & Possessed Pamphlets! A conversation with Nicholas Montegriffo & Allen Hall Ep. 98 | Today we are diving deep on the demonic, and imagine what if, instead of running away from demons and devils in Dungeons & Dragons, creators and companies ran towards it? Recently, we had Gavin Norman of Old School Essentials fame to talk about the Demonic Grimoire which is funding on Backerkit as you hear this. But May is Old School Essentials month on Backerkit, and Gavin Norman and the other Necrotic Gnomes celebrating an Exalted Funeral have gathered an entire cult of creators to summon an entire Luciferean library. Hellish hardbacks! Possessed pamphlets! Satanic scrolls! Cthonic codices! Malevolent manuals of memes from Mephistopheles! The wicked works of Woland, the only demon brave enough to visit Stalin's Moscow! Today we have two of the eldritch elders, monstrous masters whose manuscripts will be birthed unto this wicked world whether we would have them or no. First up is Nicholas Montegriffo. His contribution to this macabre and malign month is HELLBLASTER: AGAINST THE CYBERFIENDS! The adventure's pitch reads thusly: "Under a burning sky rent asunder by eldritch storms, a jagged wreck from an unknown world vomits corruption. Abominations of fiendish flesh and mirrored chrome spit hot plasma death from iron orifices. Amid howls for blood and cries of pain, priceless artifacts of alien technology sound a call to adventure. Inspired by classic modules and early-90s dark industrial aesthetics, HELLBLASTER: Against the Cyberfiends is a location-based adventure for high-level characters, set in a crashed spaceship captured by the forces of hell." Also joining us is Luciferean luminary and accursed augur, Allen Hall. Allen's works include UHF CONTACT, a series of adventures for LIMINAL HORROR, & THE MOUNTAIN OF POWER, an awesome pamphlet adventure for Old School Essentials. His contribution to OSE Month is titled "Out of the Iron Labyrinth" and it's described thuslhy: "OUT OF THE IRON LABYRINTH is a hell escape adventure built for play with Old School Essentials. Whether they were kidnapped by a cult, traded to a demon by an evil wizard, or accidentally banished by an errant spell, your character must navigate the Court of Yllthrax, one corner of the infinite Iron Labyrinth, in order to find a way back to the Material Plane. Designed for play by one player character, Out of the Iron Labyrinth can be played with a GM or as a solo adventure using the included solo tools. Perfect as a self-contained module or as a side adventure when the party in your campaign gets split up (or when only one player can make it to game night)." Back HELLBLASTER here! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/bloodstar-productions/hellblaster-against-the-cyberfiends Back OUT OF THE IRON LABYRINTH here! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m-allen-hall/out-of-the-iron-labyrinth | — | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | ![]() What if a D&D designer designed the next American government? Mike Mearls & Christopher Robichaud: Ep 97✨ | D&D designAmerican government+3 | Mike MearlsChristopher Robichaud | Harvard's Kennedy School of Government | United States | D&Dgovernment design+3 | — | 56m 15s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Bloodmatch Obliteration! D&D 5e vs. Old School Essentials: Mike Mearls & Gavin Norman conversation! Ep. 96✨ | Dungeons & DragonsOld School Essentials+4 | Mike MearlsGavin Norman | DEMONIC GRIMOIRE5E D&D+6 | — | D&DOld School Essentials+6 | — | 52m 33s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Is this map of medieval Hungary a good adventure seed? A conversation with Jason Lutes and JP Coovert- Ep 95✨ | TTRPGcartoonists+3 | Jason LutesJP Coovert | The Perilous VoidSTAR BORG+5 | — | TTRPGThe Perilous Void+3 | — | 53m 35s | |
| 4/12/26 | ![]() Into Faerun- A conversation with Ed Greenwood & Jon Hage: Ep. 94✨ | Forgotten RealmsDungeons & Dragons+3 | Ed GreenwoodJon Hage | Sleeping Giant GamingHamel's House of Oddities+2 | — | Ed GreenwoodForgotten Realms+6 | — | 57m 31s | |
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| 3/30/26 | ![]() What is the purpose of horror? A conversation with Graham Walmsley & Alex Roberts- Ep 93✨ | horrorgame design+4 | Alex RobertsGraham Walmsley | STAR CROSSEDFOR THE QUEEN+5 | — | horrorgame design+7 | — | 58m 25s | |
| 3/23/26 | ![]() Monsters & Blades & Kiwis Oh My! A conversation with Michael Sands & Tim Denee: Ep. 92✨ | tabletop roleplayinggame design+4 | Michael SandsTim Denee | Monster of the WeekTome of Mysteries+7 | Wellington | Monster of the WeekDeathmatch Island+5 | — | 57m 30s | |
| 3/16/26 | ![]() Jenga as Game Design: A conversation with Epidiah Ravachol & Quinn Murphy: Ep 91✨ | tabletop gamingRPG design+3 | Epidiah RavacholQuinn Murphy | Swords Without MasterCOMMUNITY RADIO+2 | — | JengaDread+5 | — | 50m 42s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() IS THIS FOURTH WING THE RPG? A conversation with Chris Lindsay- Ep 90✨ | Dungeons & Dragonsgame design+3 | Chris Lindsay | THE DRAGONRIDER'S PRIMERDM's Guild+1 | — | 5Edragon mounts+3 | — | 55m 31s | |
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Luke Gearing Is My Rival and He Doesn't Even Know It! A conversation with Brad Kerr & WF Smith: D&D Outloud Ep 89✨ | D&D designOSR blogs+3 | W.F. SmithBrad Kerr | Prismatic WastelandNecrotic Gnome+6 | — | D&DOSR+3 | — | 56m 55s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() In Which We Discuss Snake Genitalia: A conversation with Josh McCrowell & Emily Allen: Ep 88✨ | snake genitaliaRPG design+4 | Emily AllenJosh McCrowell | The Gardens of YnnHis Majesty the Worm+2 | — | hemepenesRPG books+4 | — | 59m 53s | |
| 2/9/26 | ![]() Charcuterie Generator Table- A conversation with Jamie Perez & Adam Good: Ep 87 | If you know Infinity of Ships, you know their vibe: big imagination, tight design, and the kind of tables-and-ideas toolkit that makes a GM's brain start sprinting. Their latest release, 100 Strangers, gives us NPCs with story fuel, despite how incredibly clipped they are. That's right. Today, I've got Adam Good and Jaimie Perez, the creative engines behind STATIONS. Adam and Jaimie build for the moment at the table when you look up and say, "Okay, what happens next?" and suddenly you've got an answer that's surprising, usable, and weird in exactly the right way. Hop on the next STATIONS project with 100 Strange Spaces! Click here to be notified on launch, or if it's Tuesday or after, back it! On Patreon, I posted my Gamehole Con seminar where I went over 18 years of leaked D&D sales data. You can enjoy it posthaste if you subscribe to my Patreon! It's only $3 a month! Click here! | — | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() The Wild 90s in TTRPGs! A conversation with Wolfgang Baur & Satyros Phil Brucato Ep- 86 | The Wild 90s in TTRPGs! This conversation was a great one! First up today is Wolfgang Baur, a creator and businessperson whose fingerprints are all over the hobby. He can write fantasy like Tolkien and run a business like, uh, someone whose geeky, good at running a business, and not at all ethically challenged in this year of 2026. He's the creator of the MIDGARD campaign setting and the founder of Kobold Press. My other guest today is Satyros Phil Brucato: a name that radiates pure 90s occult bookshelf energy in the best possible way. Phil is a designer who helped define an era: Mage: The Ascension, Werewolf, Wraith; games that didn't just ask "What do you do?" but "What do you believe?" and "What does it cost you?" Phil's work sits right at the crossroads of myth, philosophy, and punk-rock metaphysics. Support Baur's current Kickstarter for a 5E game of astonishing nocturnal horror here! You have a magnificent multiplicity of ways to support Satyros Phil Brucato! Buy Brucato's MAGE MADE EASY here! Support his Patreon here! Buy his novel RED SHOES here! Buy 13 tales of darkness by Satyros here! A collection of 27 more short stories here! Brucato's game of rock 'n roll and fairies can be found here! On Patreon, I posted my Gamehole Con seminar where I went over 18 years of leaked D&D sales data. You can enjoy it posthaste if you subscribe to my Patreon! It's only $3 a month! Click here! | — | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | ![]() His Game Uses Tarot Cards Instead of Dice- A conversation with Joshua McCrowell- Ep. 85 D&D Outloud | Today we welcome back Joshua McCrowell, designer of His Majesty the Worm, a game that looks at the classic dungeon crawl and hits it with a Tarot deck. The Worm won ENnies for best rules and best game this year. Josh has a gift for taking old-school adventure DNA, labyrinths, delving, danger and giving it a new spine. Welcome Josh! Pick up Josh's work here! On Patreon, I posted my Gamehole Con seminar where I went over 18 years of leaked D&D sales data. You can enjoy it posthaste if you subscribe to my Patreon! It's only $3 a month! Click here! | — | ||||||
| 1/18/26 | ![]() Are these the most influential RPG designers of all time? A conversation with Jonathan Tweet, Meguey Baker, & Vincent Baker: Ep 84 | This conversation was incredible. The participants in today's talk designed the following games: D&D 3rd Edition, Apocalypse World, Ars Magica, Over the Edge, and even an "Additional Writing" credit on Daggerheart. You have to check this out. First up: Jonathan Tweet! A legend with a designer's designer résumé, the kind of mind that can build a rules engine and make it sing. Lead designer of 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, Jonathan's sticky fingerprints are all over modern tabletop, and somehow he's still out here pushing the form forward like it's the year 2000 and we just discovered fire. Batman and Robin. Nick and Nora. Sherlock and Watson. Mario & Luigi. Chocolate and peanut butter. Vincent Baker and Meg Baker. Designers. Provocateurs. They are the Marx & Lenin of the Powered by the Apocalypse revolution. Like Jonathan, to count the games and designers who owe a debt to Vincent and Meg would be to try to count the stars. All three of you have been on the show before. So this isn't a first date. This is the sequel. the stakes are higher, and this conversation I hope will be dangerously good. Check out Jonathan's book about evolution for kids, Grandmother Fish! (My 4-year-old fully endorses this book.) Embrace the work of the Bakers with In Dreaming Avalon, wherein Arthurian knights meet Shakespearean fairies. | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() The Exorcism Letters- A conversation with Joe Laycock & Dan Harms Ep 83 D&D Outloud | Tonight on D&D Outloud, I'm joined by Joseph Laycock, a scholar of religion who explores what happens when belief, culture, and controversy collide. Joe is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Texas State University, and he's written some incredibly relevant work for anyone who remembers when D&D was treated like a portal to perdition, including Dangerous Games, his sharp look at the moral panic over role-playing games. He's also the editor of The Penguin Book of Exorcisms and the Penguin Book of Cults, because apparently he collects moral panics like some people collect dice. Also joining me tonight is Daniel Harms, a librarian, researcher, and one of the great cartographers of the weird. Dan's work lives at that crossroads where folklore shakes hands with grimoires, and the footnotes start whispering back. He's written and edited a stack of essential occult reference works, including The Necronomicon Files, a deep dive into the "truth behind the legend," and he's spent years tracking the history of magical texts, ritual traditions, and the kind of lore that feels one inch away from becoming an adventure hook. He wrote the Encyclopedia Cthuliana, which is the indispensable source for Cthulhu mythos knowledge. If your idea of fun is "primary sources, but make it eldritch," you're in good company. You can find Joe's book on cults here. And Dan's amazing book on the Necronomicon here, and updates on Encyclopedia Cthuliana here. | — | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | ![]() Shared RPG Worlds, Shared RPG History: A conversation with Jim Lowder & Pat Kilbane Ep 82 | Jim Lowder is a writer, an editor, a lore architect, and if we're being honest, a kind of Indiana Jones of shared worlds. From Ravenloft to Forgotten Realms to the trenches of TSR itself, Jim has chronicled the industry, shaped it, and occasionally had to wrestle it into coherence with nothing but a red pen and stubborn Massachusetts resolve. He brings history, insight, and the kind of war stories that remind us this hobby was built by humans, not dragons. Our second guest is a man whose career arc reads like it was designed by a particularly chaotic bard. Pat Kilbane is an actor, comedian, documentarian, and now one of our most energetic chroniclers of Dungeons & Dragons history. You might know him from MADtv, but in the last few years he's become a relentless investigator of the game's past, digging through archives, tracking down lost media, and turning old TSR ephemera into modern revelations. Pat is equal parts entertainer and excavator; he's here not just to tell stories, but to figure out why they matter. Pat Kilbane, welcome to D&D Outloud. | — | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | ![]() "I am the experimental weapons division." A conversation with Mark Diaz Truman and Jay Dragon Ep. 81 | Today, we converse with two firehoses of the human imagination: Mark Diaz Truman and Jay Dragon! Some people play games. Some people publish games. And then there are the people who change how the whole industry works. Mark Diaz Truman is one of the architects of the modern tabletop renaissance; designer, publisher, organizer, and strategic mastermind behind Magpie Games, one of the forces that helped bring Powered by the Apocalypse roaring into the mainstream. From Masks to Avatar Legends, Mark doesn't just build games. He builds movements, communities, and launchpads for new voices. We are living in a future Mark helped to chart. Jay Dragon is a creative force. I am over the moon to have her back on because our last conversation was one of my favorites. Jay's the mind behind Wanderhome, and Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, games that blend gentle heartbreak with radical imagination. She is currently the head of design at Steve Jackson Games. Please welcome the pastoral prophet of indie RPGs, Jay Dragon! You can find more of Mark's work here: https://magpiegames.com/ And more of Jay Dragon's work here: https://warehouse23.com/collections/possum-creek | — | ||||||
| 11/24/25 | ![]() Writing Geeky Nonfiction: A Seminar from Gamehole Con 2025- with Keith Amman & Ben Riggs- Ep 80 | Happy Thanksgiving Americans! Here's a seminar from Gamehole Con 2025 about why YOU should be writing geeky nonfiction. | — | ||||||
| 11/17/25 | ![]() 3 Poets Turn to RPG Design- A conversation with Adam Good, Jamie Perez, & Justin Sirois Episode 79 | My favorite RPG book of the year is a book of spaceship p*rn designed by two poets! INFINITY OF SHIPS is random tables for spaceship creation along with stunning artwork and essays that are as fun as they are engaging. The book was brought to us by Adam Good & Jamie Perez, and the pair have another book Kickstarting right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/72stations/100-strangers-misfits-weirdos-and-outcasts-for-sci-fi-rpgs The show also features Justin Sirois, publisher at Severed Books and author of Sickest Witch, a D20 Folk Horror RPG which can be found here: https://www.severedbooks.com/ On Patreon, I posted my Gamehole Con seminar where I went over 18 years of leaked D&D sales data. You can enjoy it posthaste if you subscribe to my Patreon! It's only $3 a month! Click here! | — | ||||||
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