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10 Candles (10 Candles) with Jay Dragon
Season 5 Episode 14
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
This is, at long last, the end of this Dice Exploder miniseries on larp. And I wanted to send it off by returning to the question I kicked it off with: what c…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Experience Design with Caro Murphy
Season 5 Episode 13
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Here near the end of Dice Exploder's larp series, I wanted to have on Caro Murphy (Galactic Starcruiser) to talk about experience design, and specifically how…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Safety Tools, and Players Are More Important Than The Game, with Sarah Lynne Bowman
Season 5 Episode 12
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Safety in RPGs and larp is a huge topic, one I’ve wanted to cover on Dice Exploder for a long time, but one I’ve avoided it because it feels hard to approach …
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Beats (Heart: the City Beneath) with Aaron Voigt
Season 5 Episode 11
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Last week, indie rpg YouTube essayist Aaron Voigt and I delved into Heart: the City Beneath, a surreal and maximalist dungeon crawler with lots to love. But w…
Published on 4 months ago
Zenith Abilities (Heart: the City Beneath) with Aaron Voigt
Season 5 Episode 10
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Heart: the City Beneath. It’s a surreal and bloody dungeon crawler full of so much to love… plus some bits that drive me up the wall. This week and next I’m d…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Elf Motors with Chris Duffy
Season 5
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Over on the Dice Exploder discord, we welcome new members by asking them what their favorite mechanic is. It’s a great tradition, kicks off a lot of great con…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Fateplay Scenes (House of Craving) with Sharang Biswas
Season 5 Episode 9
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Last week was a show about how it might work to frame a scene when you get to decide whatever you want that scene to look like. But this week, we're looking a…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Spotlight Scenes with Moyra Turkington
Season 5 Episode 8
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
When you’re playing roleplay-heavy D&D, what does a scene look like? Since the game doesn’t give you much in the way of tools for doing so, are you framing sc…
Published on 5 months ago
Shadows with Elin Dalstål
Season 5 Episode 7
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Shadows are a metatechnique in larp where you have players in the role of something other than a traditional larp or rpg player character. Maybe they’re stage…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Workshops with Marc Majcher
Season 5 Episode 6
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
There's this period of time between when we've all agreed we're going to play a game now and when we start "actually playing." We've got to learn the rules, l…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago