All Bark No Dice

Welcome to the first installment of All Bark No Dice's first miniseries: Off Screen - The Craft of Running The Game , a series where host Rowan Zeoli interviews Game Masters of various actual plays to discuss the differences between running a home game and running an actual play. 

Off Screen’s inaugural guest is Tony Kiger. In this first episode, Tony and I discuss their love of the Monsterhearts system, their theatrical improv background, and how their improvisational GM style can create more reactive stories to their player’s choices, but can sometimes get them into trouble.

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We're back! It's been a long winter but it's time for a big return! To kick things off, I had a chat with Deej Storer aka DnDeej about his time in the DM's chair, the growth of The Free Forge Community, and what it takes to keep a successful liveplay D&D stream going. Plus he gives me some background on Stay Alive, Free Forge's Survival Horror Twitch Actual Play, and a little peek at what might be in store in the next season.

(Apologies for sound, I was having some tech problems)

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This week I talk to Dylan Greene from Silver Lantern Games about his upcoming project Cloudrunner: Fate of the Skies, an original steampunk RPG using the FATE system. Starting out as an idea for a novel, Cloudrunner has been a longtime project for Dylan and it all comes to fruition this August on Kickstarter!

Silver Lantern Games

Fate of the Skies

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This week Dan has a chat with Oli Jeffries from Sinister Beard Games, publisher of games like Quietus and Night Rain. He gives the skinny on his newest game Extreme Meatpunks Forever, an adaptation of the hit itch.io game made in conjunction with the original's creator! Topics of discussion include the weird posthumous appeal of D&D 4e, the value of politics in tabletop games, and why punching nazis is still so satisfying.

Oli's Twitter

Sinister Beard Games on itch.io

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This week we have a chat with Kira Magrann, designer of games like Something Is Wrong Here and Cozy Nest as well as contributor to Quietus, Blue Rose, and most recently Van Richten's Guide To Ravenloft. We discuss failed games of Vampire, the body politics of fantasy, and what exactly good cyberpunk is.

Kira's Twitter

Kira's Patreon

Serpent Cyborg Games

More Seats At The Table

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In this episode, Dan talks to indie RPG designer Jay Dragon, who won an Ennie for Sleepaway and who's most recent release Wanderhome is currently taking the world of tabletop by storm with its charming setting and very different approach to tabletop storytelling.

We discuss how Jay got into RPG's, the queering of the tabletop space, and the magical power of itch.io. Then, we dig into Wanderhome to figure out what about it resonated so well with us during quarantine.

Jay's Twitter

Possum Creek Games

Sleepaway

Wanderhome

Dan has a chat with Tony Miller, one half of New Mill Industries and the brains behind games like Fire In The Library, Kabuto Sumo, and New Mill's newest game currently on Kickstarter: Rivet Heads. Tony gives some insight into his process in designing these games, founding New Mill with designer Daniel Newman, and just what it means to be a "punk rock" board game publisher.

Rivet Heads On Kickstarter

Tony On Twitter

New Mill Industries

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In the final episode of our Candlekeep Mysteries series, Dan talks with Toni Winslow-Brill, a supermom and sometimes half-dragon who also contributed "Xanthoria" to the new book, a dark and horrifying story of a power mad druid and her quest for lichdom. We discuss how she approaches storytelling in her writing, the editorial process in publishing, and whether D&D will get teenagers to think you're cool.

Toni on Twitter

Toni on Instagram

Baldman Games

4:00 - Getting Into D&D

10:00 - Approaching Stories

25:00 - Getting The Call...

This week I sit down with Graeme Barber aka POCGamer to discuss "The Book of Cylinders," his adventure in D&D's book Candlekeep Mysteries, as well as the rather complex relationship he's had with D&D since Fifth Edition launched. Plus, we delve into the colonialist aspects of the game and hash out how we might go about de-colonizing out game tables.

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Blue Planet

1:30 - Discovering Tabletop Games and Graeme's Relationship with D&D

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This week we're talking with another contributor to Candlekeep Mysteries, Jen Kretchmer, who is perhaps best known for her work on shows like Monsters & Fables, Silver & Steel, as well as her advocacy for accessibility in the tabletop hobby. We have a very frank discussion about the need for disability advocacy in D&D and other games, as well as the ways that players and DM's can help make their games more representative and understanding. Jen also gets into some of her inspirations as a storyteller and explains why tabletop streaming seems to have found a home in the entertainment...