All Episodes
Episode 37 — How Do You Handle Character Death in a Roleplaying Game?
What do you do when a character in your game bites the dust? If character death happens, how do you work it into your campaign, and how do you address the topic with your players? ...
Episode 36 — How Do You Make Dungeons Feel Adventurous? (with John Corey)
Are the dungeons in your game mysterious, exciting experiences, or dull, slow-moving grinds? Andy and Chris are joined by John Corey to discuss ways you can inject a little bit of ...
Episode 35 — How Do You Make In-game Travel Interesting?
Do you wince at the thought of roleplaying through a long journey? You’re not alone. Chris and Andy chat about what makes the difference between a travel sequence that is ted...
Episode 34 — Social Distancing Special: How Do You Run an Online Game?
If you’re a GM stuck at home during this time of social distancing, you’re almost certainly giving some thought to running your favorite RPG online. What should you kno...
Episode 33 – How do you run games when your group is just one or two players? (with Shel Kahn)
We’ve all been there. It’s game night and over the course of the day everyone is cancelling until you only have 1 or 2 players. Do you cancel? Do you play a board game ...
Episode 32 – How Do You Handle Romance and Shopping in Your Games?
Donn Stroud joins us to talk about two things that are a major part of life that sometimes get missed in tabletop games: romance and shopping! Unsurprisingly, we had more to say ab...
Episode 31 — How Do You Establish Mood and Avoid an “Adventure Slapstick” Tone in Your Games?
Joking around with your friends around the game table is great, but sometimes you want to steer away from that default “adventure slapstick” vibe. How do you establish ...
Episode 30 – When Do You Look Up Rules?
Chris and Andy chit-chat about some recent games they ran. Then we dive into our topic about the most fun part about games: referring to the rules! Rules are arguably what makes a ...
Episode 29 — Do You Run Published Adventures or Create Your Own? (with Jess Snyder)
Guest GM Jess Snyder joins Andy and Chris to address the timeless question: do you run published adventures or exclusively homemade ones? And how do you address the challenges that...
Episode 28 — How to Introduce a New Game to Your Gaming Group
How do you go about bringing a new RPG to the table? Andy and Chris discuss—and do a little reflecting on the first year of Roll for Topic....
Holiday Special Part 2: Live Play-a-dungeon!
Happy holidays everyone! We’re back with an episode in which we play through the dungeon that we made during the last episode. Andy is your esteemed GM for this one and we we...
Holiday Special Part 1: Live Build-a-Dungeon (with guest GM Kyle Latino)
As a change of pace for the holidays, Andy and Chris team up with previous guest Kyle to design a dungeon one-shot on the fly! Will the end result be a masterpiece of adventure des...
Listen Offline
Download your favorite episodes and listen anywhere, anytime.
Comments (0)