Rocks Fall!
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe best board game and tabletop RPG news and reviews, creator interviews, and actual play!
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Episode 5: Tanares-The Preview!
September 29, 2021 13:59 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBThis week we're taking a special look at Dragori Games' newest Kickstarter, Tanares! Check out the show and follow the links below for more information on what this new 5th Edition TTRPG setting has to offer! *One slight correction I noticed upon editing the episode-the Lost Magic Researcher and Courage Domain are class options for existing 5e classes, not wholly separate classes of their own. Dragori Games: https://dragorigames.com/ Tanares Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/p...
Episode 4: Tales from Castle Rocks Fall Pt. 1-Inspiration!
February 14, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 8.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! Sometimes we all get tired of run of the mill fantasy adventures that are so prevalent in the tabletop world. Luckily there are ways to break out of the norm, but a Game Master may need a little inspiration to get the concept of a different world to play in just right. I look for inspiration in a lot of the things I read, play and watch, and I think ideas present in some video games are great...
Episode 3: DRAGONRAID-The Review!
January 31, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 6.05 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! You know... every so often Devon comes across a game he doesn't like (looking at you, World of Darkness), but this one may take the cake. Wrapped up in a pretty red box with decent production value lies probably the most distasteful game that still, surprisingly, holds a spot on the gaming shelf. This week, Devon reviews: DRAGONRAID Adventure Learning System: Building Warriors for Spiritual...
Episode 2: Troika!-The Review!
January 17, 2021 18:53 - 3 minutes - 3.05 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! Have you ever wanted your tabletop games to make you feel like you're on an acid trip while exploring a multiverse of infinite possibility? Then do we have a game for you! This week on Rocks Fall, Devon discusses one of his favorite books of all time: Troika!-Numinous Edition! Interested in the game? Check out the publisher! https://www.melsonia.com/ Also, Rocks Fall was just ranked...
Episode 1: Ryuutama-The Review!
September 23, 2020 21:14 - 7 minutes - 6.74 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! In the season premier of Rocks Fall, Devon talks about one of his favorite games of all time: Ryuutama! Follow along to find out what this nostalgic masterpiece is all about! Would you like to hear your tabletop product or RPG reviewed? Reach out and get in contact! We are always looking for input from creators! Send any material you’d like us to consider reviewing to: rocksfallpod@gmail...
Episode 24: Omicron Protocol 2-Developing a Game!
September 18, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBAs a lot of people in the TTRPG world may know, Matt, AKA, The Pickled Dragon, is in need of some help due to medical issues that have recently come up. His lovely family has set up a GoFundMe to help support them through this time and I'd consider it a personal favor if you did what you could to help out, even if it is just to share the campaign. Remember, we can rebuild him! GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/f49q6m-go-fund-matt Welcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the bes...
Episode 23: Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord-The Review!
August 18, 2019 16:48 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! Devon goes back to the PlaGMaDA archives in this episode and reviews "The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord and other adventures from our shared youth." Devon had the greatest of luck when he actually got to talk to Tim about Everything is Dolphins after the episode that went out last month. Tim graciously sent Rocks Fall a physical copy of this gem to take a look at. Thank you so much, Tim!...
Episode 22: Omicron Protocol-The Interview!
August 04, 2019 17:21 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! BIG NEWS! We've started a podcast network! Check the link below to find out more about Moundhousedude Studios! Piggybacking off of the awesome RAGECON panel, this week Devon sat down again with Bernie and Brendan from Dead Alive Games to dive deeper into their project, Omicron Protocol! They're doing amazing work, so follow the links below to see firsthand what's going on in their world. ...
Episode 21: Everything is Dolphins-A Review!
July 16, 2019 02:07 - 8 minutes - 7.42 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! This week, Devon channels his inner sea beast and reviews one of his favorite pieces on the collection shelf: Ray Weiss' and Timothy Hutchings' Everything is Dolphins! Seriously, you get to be dolphins. Find more about the creators below: Kickstarter (from 2012): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timh/everything-is-dolphins-an-rpg-and-art-book Tim Hutchings: http://timothyhutchings...
Episode 20-RAGECON 2019 Live Creator Panel!
June 30, 2019 22:48 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! Live from RAGECON 2019, Devon hosts a Q&A session with some of the freshest tabletop and RPG talent around! Go check out all the amazing things the panelists are up to! Bernie & Brendan: https://www.deadalivegames.com/ https://twitter.com/omicronprotocol?lang=en Ashley Warren: https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/ https://twitter.com/ashleynhwarren?lang=en Danny Devine: ...
Episode 20-RAGECON 2019 Live Creator Panel!
June 30, 2019 22:48 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! Live from RAGECON 2019, Devon hosts a Q&A session with some of the freshest tabletop and RPG talent around! Go check out all the amazing things the panelists are up to! Bernie & Brendan: https://www.deadalivegames.com/ https://twitter.com/omicronprotocol?lang=en Ashley Warren: https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/ https://twitter.com/ashleynhwarren?lang=en Danny Devine: ...
Episode 19: Shattered Worlds with Jeff Richardson-The Interview!
June 01, 2019 17:04 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! This week Devon sat down with the always cool Jeff Richardson, who makes just about as many podcasts as Devon does, to talk about his two separate TTRPG podcasts as well as "Everything is Awesome with Jeff and KC!" The recording on this episode gave both of us a lot of trouble, so apologies in advance for the occasionally buggy audio. You can find more about Jeff and his podcast empire here: Shattered Worlds: https://twitter.com/swrpgpod?lang=en TRA...
Episode 18: Lawful Stupid with Shain-The Interview!
April 11, 2019 17:47 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! This week Devon sits down with Shain from the actual play 5e podcast Lawful Stupid! We talk about feedback from fanbases, inspiring others in the actual play world, philanthropic use of your social media platform, and making sure all players have a seat at the table! Lawful Stupid participates in a ton of charitable events and will be kicking off their second annual Min/Max Mankind event i...
Episode 17: Follow the Leader with Dora-The Interview!
March 27, 2019 20:56 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! This week Devon chats with Dora, the producer and one part of the crew over at Follow the Leader, about the amazing concept behind their actual play podcast. We also discuss how a group handles games with no "leader", how this amazing group got together, tips on how to bring cohesion to a group of players, the importance of lines and veils, and some recommendations for games to try! Wan...
Episode 16: Lasers & Liches with Chris Lock-The Interview!
March 02, 2019 00:06 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and RPG news! This week Devon sat down with Chris Lock, one half of the team behind Lasers & Liches, which is currently in the middle of a wildly successful Kickstarter! We discuss building a Kickstarter, the origins of a vaporwave/techno D&D that doesn't just re-skin the vanilla game, developing a game to be inclusive from the ground up, ethical use of your social media platform, coming back from a proje...
Episode 15: Halli the DM-The Interview!
February 07, 2019 14:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best creator interviews, RPG news, and game reviews! This week Devon sat down with Halli, the DM from Small, Terrible, and a Dragonborn Party! We talk about how she ended up DMing a group of diverse gamers from around the world, in-depth narrative roleplaying with Vampire the Masquerade, how awesome Strahd is, and responsible philanthropic utilization of social media platforms! You can find all of the awesome stuff going on with STD here: ...
Episode 14: Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog-A Review!
January 25, 2019 01:49 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall, fellow gamers! Today I'm reviewing a little gem from the old days of TSR: Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog. This is a spectacular book and I think it's incredibly useful for a GM to help fill in the gaps of their world by offering everyday items to the players. Give it a shot and pick up your copy today! This episode is a short one, but only because I'm working on getting some great content to y'all right now. More on that soon! Would you like to hear your ta...
Episode 13: Eric Silver-The Interview!
January 02, 2019 01:55 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! To help ring in the New Year, I've got a fresh episode for y'all to enjoy! Today I speak with Eric Silver, a prodigious podcaster, creator, and fellow fan of D&D. We talk about podcasting with intention, inclusiveness in the game, Eric's history with D&D, our mutual love of The Adventure Zone and the McElroy family, generational preferences for different versions of the game, PodCon, and everything else in the future for Eric! You can find Eric and the am...
Episode 12: Extra Life Fundraiser-The Interview!
November 03, 2018 03:15 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBHello fellow gamers! This week we have an extra special episode where Devon sat down with a portion of the extremely talented and creative team behind Team NonZeroSum Games' Extra Life campaign. This episode is spent getting to know a part of the team (Patrick, Fedja, and Brandon) as well as discussing publishing, DM's Guild and their new medal ranking system, How we all got in this hobby, and some broad discussion about this industry and D&D as a whole for folks who may be newer to the h...
Episode 11: World of Darkness (2004)-A Review!
October 27, 2018 00:05 - 10 minutes - 9.86 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week Devon reviews perhaps his least favorite system in the entire world: White Wolf's 2004 World of Darkness. Strap in folks, its not pretty. Would you like to hear your tabletop product or RPG reviewed? Reach out and get in contact! We are always looking for input from creators! Send any material you’d like us to consider reviewing to: rocksfallp...
Episode 10: Tales from the Loop-A Review!
October 20, 2018 04:20 - 14 minutes - 13 MBHey everyone and welcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best game reviews, creator interviews, and actual play in the podcasting world! I’m your host, Devon, and this week we’re talking about Tales from the Loop-The Roleplaying Game from Free League and Modiphius Entertainment! You can find the physical book by using the first link, but it appears to be sold out at the moment. You can find the books on reseller sites but they are going for ridiculous amounts of money. I would sugges...
Episode 9: Character Lab #1 with Lauren from The Streamer's Guide to the Galaxy!
September 27, 2018 04:06 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week I'm joined by my favorite person in the world... MY WIFE (queue Borat Voice)! Lauren and I discuss the process of character creation from an expert and newbie perspective with one of our absolute favorite games, Tales from the Loop! Lauren brings a tone of fresh insight to the process of character creation and I'm very excited to do this again with...
Episode 8: Jordan from The Deck of Many-The Interview!
September 19, 2018 11:32 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Jordan from The Deck of Many! We discussed their amazing new lenticular animated spell card Kickstarter (link below), obscure tabletop RPGs that Jordan loves to play, and all the projects Jordan and the fine folks at The Deck of Many are a part of (there's a lot of them!)! You can find Jordan @MadeOfCartoons on ...
Episode 7: Christopher Walz-The Interview!
September 08, 2018 22:36 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week Devon sat down with another best-selling DM's Guild author to discuss the challenges of writing, developing inclusive material to bring in younger audiences, and the joys of creating this amazing content as a community! You can find Christopher's work here: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?keywords=christopher+walz&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=...
Episode 7: Christopher Walz-The Interview!
September 08, 2018 22:36 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week Devon sat down with another best-selling DM's Guild author to discuss the challenges of writing, developing inclusive material to bring in younger audiences, and the joys of creating this amazing content as a community! You can find Christopher's work here: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?keywords=christopher+walz&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=...
Episode 6: Ashley Warren-The Interview!
August 30, 2018 23:58 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week Devon had the distinct pleasure of talking to Ashley Warren, a DM's Guild Adept, writer, and all-around huge RPG fan! We talk about our histories with the game, representation in "The World's Greatest Roleplaying Game", the pitfalls of gaining attention on social media for your work, unfair expectations on yourself, and how ultimately this industry...
Episode 6: Ashley Warren-The Interview!
August 30, 2018 23:58 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! This week Devon had the distinct pleasure of talking to Ashley Warren, a DM's Guild Adept, writer, and all-around huge RPG fan! We talk about our histories with the game, representation in "The World's Greatest Roleplaying Game", the pitfalls of gaining attention on social media for your work, unfair expectations on yourself, and how ultimately this industry...
Episode 5: Tavern of Heroes-The Interview!
August 23, 2018 00:01 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! Today Devon has the distinct pleasure of talking to Michael and Stephen Stagliano about their groundbreaking tabletop RPG concept/procedural podcast, Tavern of Heroes! We discuss the development of their "gateway game" concept, our histories with the game itself, how to break down barriers for entry in the tabletop game world, and we geek out at homebrew ...
Episode 5: Tavern of Heroes-The Interview!
August 23, 2018 00:01 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! Today Devon has the distinct pleasure of talking to Michael and Stephen Stagliano about their groundbreaking tabletop RPG concept/procedural podcast, Tavern of Heroes! We discuss the development of their "gateway game" concept, our histories with the game itself, how to break down barriers for entry in the tabletop game world, and we geek out at homebrew ...
Episode 4: City of Mist-A Review!
August 09, 2018 22:43 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBHey everyone and welcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best game reviews, creator interviews, and actual play in the podcasting world! This week we’re talking about City of Mist from Amit Moshe and Son of Oak Studios. Find the book and the new Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sonofoak/city-of-mist-rpg-nights-of-payne-town https://www.cityofmist.co/ https://www.facebook.com/cityofmistrpg/ Free game materials! https://www.cityofmist.co/download You can...
Episode 4: City of Mist-A Review!
August 09, 2018 22:43 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBHey everyone and welcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best game reviews, creator interviews, and actual play in the podcasting world! This week we’re talking about City of Mist from Amit Moshe and Son of Oak Studios. Find the book and the new Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sonofoak/city-of-mist-rpg-nights-of-payne-town https://www.cityofmist.co/ https://www.facebook.com/cityofmistrpg/ Free game materials! https://www.cityofmist.co/download You can...
Episode 3-The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel-A Review!
July 31, 2018 07:00 - 9 minutes - 9.15 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your Home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, RPG news, and actual-play in all of podcasting! In this episode Devon discusses the wildly popular podcast-turned-graphic novel, The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins! You can find more of the McElroy's work at www.mcelroyshows.com and you can purchase the graphic novel anywhere books are sold as well as the publisher's website: https://read.macmillan.com/the-adventure-zone/ Like what you hear? le...
Episode 2: Russ Charles-The Interview!
July 25, 2018 01:40 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBWelcome back to Rocks Fall! Your home for the best creator interviews, game reviews, and actual-play in all of podcasting! Today we have a very special interview with Russ Charles, the creator behind the Kickstarter phenomenon Animal Adventures: Tales of Dungeons and Doggies! This is a game supplement that allows RPG players to role-play their favorite doggy as a main player character alongside the humanoid classes. It comes with 12 brilliantly sculpted plastic miniatures (plus one Kickst...
Episode 1: Cosmic Patrol-A Review!
July 19, 2018 02:29 - 9 minutes - 9.13 MBFor the very first episode of Rocks Fall, Devon reviews a little gem from Catalyst Game Labs (https://www.catalystgamelabs.com) called Cosmic Patrol! Ready to play in a universe-sized sandbox where the limits of your imagination can be tested in a cooperative RPG set in a galaxy not so far away? Then this episode is for you! Thank you for listening! Looking to get a copy of the game? Follow these links! https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/cosmic-patrol http://www.cosmicp...
Episode 0: Welcome!
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