Til Dice Do Us Part
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -A tabletop RPG podcast by a nerdy couple from Glasgow, Scotland. We aim to introduce you to new games (both mainstream and indie), support storytellers with our Ask A GM feature, and amuse you with quizzes and Python-esque silliness. Ailsa is a mainly lawful, occasionally chaotic player, and lover of all things strange and unusual. George is the long-suffering forever GM with close to 20 years experience of running a vast array of games. Plus we have a menagerie of strange creatures living with us who occasionally pop in to say hello. Email: [email protected] Facebook: /tildicepodcast Twitter: @tildicepodcast Instagram: @tildicepodcast
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Episodes
Episode 35: Price Postulations & Taste Testing
December 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBWe couldn't let 2023 end without giving you another episode - even if George has been haunted by some ill tidings of late - and so here we are with a rather chaotic episode we hope you'll still enjoy. First up is a Quiz, where George once again asks Ailsa to guess the prices of the random nerdy tat he has purchased. (With a slight twist, this time - only 6 items are actually purchased, the seventh is a sort of red herring!) Join in on our social media to see the pictures of the items and...
Episode 34: Family Gaming & Faux Fairy Tales
June 16, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBOur usual podcasting pair becomes a talking troika in this episode, as we are joined by education writer and RPG creator DC Bradshaw. With his help we aim to answer an Ask A GM in which the listener enquires about introducing roleplaying games to an audience of children and how you can tailor your rules and setting towards them. Since DC Bradshaw has written his very own D&D-for-kids version of 5E, "Little But Fierce", he's the perfect person to help us answer this question - even if he vi...
Episode 33: Caledonian Campaigns & Edinburgh Escapades
January 31, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley", as Robert Burns once said, but we've just about managed to get an episode published for January. Join the gang at Til Dice Towers as we talk roleplaying games but also Scotland in this latest Ask A GM - with Graeme from Vancouver asking us what is the most Scottish roleplaying game. That's a surprisingly complex question. What great games are written about Scotland? What great games are written by Scots? What fictional properties a...
Episode 32: Vehicle Viewpoints & Theme-Park Trauma
December 23, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBAfter slaving away at a hot laptop, George and Ailsa bring you a bumper episode out of Til Dice Towers just in time for Christmas. Why not download this while you are travelling home to see family or friends and hear us talking about... well, travelling, as we discuss World Building and how the differing methods of getting around your campaign world can have a whole lot of knock-on effects on the rest of your game. Such Christmas-y topics as Icelandic volcanoes, methods of transport the S...
Minisode 31.9 - Grand Returns & Giveaways
November 27, 2022 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.26 MBWhat's this? A Til Dice episode appearing in your feed? Yes, that's right, we're here to let you know that we're getting ready to make a triumphant return - and even have a competition to announce to celebrate our second birthday. Tasty treatos all round! The Ramshackle Games website is https://ramshacklegames.co.uk/. You can find many miniatures for sale there, but in particular Twike the Social Media Goblin - https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/home/644-twike-social-media-goblin.html ...
Minisode 31.5 - Spoon Shortage & Schedule Slippage
May 27, 2022 05:00 - 4 minutes - 2.78 MBA little PSA follows to let you know our schedule is going to be a bit more relaxed for the next wee while. We're still going to be putting out content, but not as regularly as before. Thanks for your patience and your continued support - it means a lot to us. Contact us by email on [email protected] We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventures Li...
Episode 31: City Musings & Capital Wanderings
May 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBOK, this trip to London didn't go quite as planned... this episode has been edited in London City Airport while the Til Dice gang awaits the release of the Mailer Daemon from a crime he absolutely definitely did commit. Still, we recorded some stuff beforehand that we can share with you, including this World Building discussion on the topic of cities. They are an integral part of our real life and also our fiction - so here's some tips to help you design cities that are hopefully as worthy...
Episode 30: Excellent Princesses & Entangled Plans
April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBCovid has come and gone from Til Dice Towers, which means we can finally get back to the studio and record you an episode again! We are opening with an Elevator Pitch for The Excellents, an RPG of being an Awesome Princess produced by the wonderful people at 9th Level Games. A game themed around media like She-Ra or Sailor Moon, we talk about the pros and cons of this little game and what happened when we tried running it. Glitter optional. (Except for George, apparently) Then we unexpe...
Episode 29: Miniature Madness & Mysterious Mashups
March 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBWe may be a little late (and a little tired) but we got there in the end! It's Episode 29 of Til Dice Do Us Part and it starts with a return to the Ask A GM mailbag. The Mailer Daemon might be behaving a bit weird but he still brings us a letter from a player who is finding their GM's constant use of miniatures in every combat irritating. In our answer we'll talk about the history of miniature use in RPGs, how often we've used them, and even what figure made George's little cousins make a...
Episode 28: Guessing Licenses & Generating Knights
February 18, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBThis episode it's sequel central at Til Dice Towers - both our sections are flashbacks of sorts to topics we have addressed before. First off it's a Quiz about licensed role-playing games: ten true-or-false suggestions, just like Episode 4. This time it's a whole new mix of properties for Ailsa to guess if they really got a tabletop RPG release or if it's absolute nonsense. It's all brought to us by George's... OK, "George's friend" might be a bit much, but certainly someone he's done a l...
Episode 27: Primetime Television & Prominent Gamers
February 04, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBGet yourself some popcorn, sit yourself down on your couch, and turn on the television - it's time for an Elevator Pitch that introduces Primetime Adventures. This is a game we've mentioned a few times before in the podcast but not gone into any detail about until now. We'll explain how the system works, how the unusual series planning operates, and hopefully not get lost backstage as Ailsa takes us on a scene-setting journey to start with. We've also got a Quiz for you, in which we discu...
Episode 26: Evil Bloodsuckers & Edition Wars
January 21, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBThe new year is well and truly underway now, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume new episodes. First up it's an Elevator Pitch in which we discuss one of the most gothic of games: Vampire the Requiem, the 21st century reboot by White Wolf of their Vampire RPG. We hope to help you decide whether this is for you by discussing our experiences reading and playing this game, and along the way, we name check almost every Vampire movie we can think of, talk about our angsty teenage yea...
Episode 25: Festive Fun & Christmas Critters
December 24, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBIt's Christmas time! Join the Til Dice Do Us Part team for a party.... er, I mean avery sensible team meeting in this special podcast episode! First up, we've got some inspiration as George & Ailsa share their experiences at advent-themed adentures when they talk about Christmas In Gaming. They'll tell you about some Christmas-y themed adventures they have played in a few different games, including D&D, and give some suggestions for how you can come up with your own holiday special. The...
Episode 24: Conjuring Contemplations & Class Quizzes
December 10, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBThere has now been a whole year of the Til Dice Do Us Part podcast. Truly, that's a magical milestone.... and we've got a magical World Building discussion to start things off. Join us as we discuss things to consider with your game world involving magic-users, psychics, super-powered individuals and the like. How common are they? How are they trained? How are they legally controlled? Along the way we'll touch on a mixture of topics and reference points including 90s fantasy novels, 90...
Episode 23: Challenge Ratings & Cliffhangers
November 26, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBHonestly - we were only away for a week and it's absolute chaos here at Til Dice Do Us Part studios! We can still knock together an episode however, and in amongst the pandemonium we've got another Quiz for you. This time it's Play Your Monsters Right: a format inspired by the old British quiz show Play Your Cards Right (or Card Sharks if you want to get North American about this) in which Ailsa has to try and guess if a given monster from the 3rd Ed D&D Monster Manual is stronger or wea...
Episode 22: Partnership Presents & Camp Carnage
November 12, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThe secret is out - Ailsa and George got a Civil Partnership! This special episode of Til Dice Do Us Part takes you right into the thick of the geek social event of the decade, where the great and the good are all in attendance. We're going to take you to our hotel room right after the ceremony for a little Quiz where we'll be guessing the prices of some high quality, much desired items.... OK, no, actually it's more tat from Wish.Com, but hey - it's the thought that counts! (Also the bee...
Episode 21: Nostalgic Ghosts & Nasty Videos
October 29, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBWe're back! We've rested our bodies and minds and healed any alligator inflicted injuries, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume! Our first episode back is also our Halloween special, and we start proceedings with a bloodcurdlingly brilliant Elevator Pitch. The game we are talking about this time is Spooktacular by Yaruki Zero Games, a retro-clone that recreates the long out-of-print Ghostbusters RPG. Ailsa and George will give you a guide to this rules package which gets the me...
Episode 20: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure & Carbon-Copy Characters
August 20, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBGeorge might be a little.... blood-lossy, but he's still going to try and run Ailsa through a Quiz segment. We are talking about the choose-your-own-adventure style adventure gamebooks that so many of us grew up with - whether it was Fighting Fantasy books or more Famous Five. It seems everything had game books made of it in the 80s and 90s... or did it? With our true or false quiz we're going to see if we can spot the accurate adventures from the lying librums - will you be able to keep ...
Episode 19: Gaming Inspiration & Gig Economies
August 06, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 35 MBSometimes this podcast brings you carefully planned items with meticulously honed scripts.... and sometimes we just wing it, as we do in this episode's X Meets Y segment. Once again George and Ailsa have a list of 20 books, films, TV shows and games and they're going to try and randomly combine some pairs together to come up with some gaming inspiration. Hear us combine Netflix shows with Bill Murray vehicles! Wonder how we'll fuse respected English books with well-known manga series! E...
Episode 18: Responsible Consent & Ribald Darkness
July 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBContent Warning: This episode contains brief references to sexual assault, violence, racism, torture, starvation, child death, mental health, panic attacks and drug use. There is no detail to these mentions and no explicit language is used. Get your children out of the room, switch off Granny's hearing aid, and make sure that your boss can't hear what's on your headphones as we have some more risqué content for our 18th episode! That's not to say there isn't practical chat though, as Ail...
Episode 17: Appetising Adventures & Chipper Chums
July 09, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 31.7 MBSummer is here, and maybe you're out and about enjoying some barbeque foodstuffs or picnics, so we've got a food themed episode to get your geek taste buds going. First up is a World Building segment in which we discuss how to incorporate food into your settings when you are designing cities, countries, cultures and planets. What sort of food are your players likely to find in a local tavern or restaurant? How can you encode little bits of game data in the food that they are served and ho...
Episode 16: Differing Investment & Dear Editor
June 25, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 35.5 MBAnother fortnight has passed and once again the Til Dice Do Us Part gang are here! Let's open up proceedings with an Ask A GM and get the mailbag open - if Ailsa can arrive on time - and find out how to deal with a group where not everyone has the same level of investment in your setting. What do you do when one person knows everything about Marvel superheroes and another person can't remember which one is the big green one? How can you keep everyone in the group happy and avoid anyone co...
Episode 15: Bestiaries Quintupled & Bait and Switch Games
June 11, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 32.7 MBMaybe your brain is struggling in the summer heat, but we hope you can still give our latest Quiz a go. This time round, George has prepared a list of monsters where some but not all first originated in Monster Manual V - yes, third edition got up as far as a fifth Monster Manual! Ailsa is going to have to rack her brains to deduce which of these bizarre creatures are just bizarre enough to have been invented in the dying days of an edition when you've got to somehow fill out one more book...
Episode 14: Animated Amalgams & Golem Gaming
May 28, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBIt's been a while since we did one of our X Meets Y Mashups so lets get our D20 table of random TV shows, books, films and other media to see what we can do! George and Ailsa will try, with no preparation, to combine two franchises together for inspiration in creating RPG characters, adventures and campaigns. This time round we've got two Anime staples, a French comic book classic, and a film that almost killed the main star. Expect some odd ideas ahead! Then it's time to cue the Imagin...
Episode 13: Wacky Fiascos & Wish.Com Guessing
May 14, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBSome of you may have superstitions about the number 13, but we hope this vaguely luck themed episode isn't an ill omen for you! It commences with a little intro to the show for anyone who is new before we leap into another Elevator Pitch. This time we're discussing the game Fiasco - the game of crazy schemes, plots gone wrong and screwball comedy in the vein of a Coen Brothers movie. Ailsa and George will try and talk you through the games and what they think are its strengths and weaknes...
Episode 13: Wacky Fiacos & Wish.Com Guessing
May 14, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBSome of you may have superstitions about the number 13, but we hope this vaguely luck themed episode isn't an ill omen for you! It commences with a little intro to the show for anyone who is new before we leap into another Elevator Pitch. This time we're discussing the game Fiasco - the game of crazy schemes, plots gone wrong and screwball comedy in the vein of a Coen Brothers movie. Ailsa and George will try and talk you through the games and what they think are its strengths and weaknes...
Episode 12: Mental Health & Mischievous Monsters
April 30, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 32 MBContent Warning: This episode contains discussion of mental illness, eating disorders, and self-harm. If you are affected by any of the issues discussed and are struggling, please contact The Samaritans, Mind, or Breathing Space for support. We get things going this week - with a brief interruption involving Tuppy name-dropping - with a serious discussions about Mental Health in Role-playing Games. Most gamers have at least dabbled in a game that has rules for sanity loss, acquiring menta...
Episode 11: GMing For Beginners & Gothic Gaming
April 16, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 32.2 MBIt's time to crack open the mailbag again as the Mailer Daemon brings us another letter for Ask A GM. This one is from Jon from Yorkshire, who is taking their first steps into running games but is having some issues preparing to play and assembling a group. Some of this is general advice and some is more Covid-specific problems - how do you assemble a group in a era when you can't go to your local gaming group? Hopefully Jon and others will find value in this, and maybe you'll have your o...
Episode 10: Gallifreyan Gaming & Active Alliteration
April 02, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 39.7 MBThere's a heavy concentration of Arton energy, temporal phenomenon and wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey nonsense going on at Til Dice Do Us Part HQ. Hop into George's rather, erm, unique time machine and join us on an Elevator Pitch for Doctor Who by Cubicle 7. Learn how you can battle a Dalek with only six-sided dice, marvel at how useful running away can be as a life skill and discover just how different things are in the year 3021. After that we'll leap into the past for another Quiz, where...
Episode 9: Warrens & Word Use
March 19, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBThings are a bit manic here at Til Dice Do Us Part Headquarters so we don't have time for much prep - we just have to leap straight into our next Elevator Pitch, even if Ailsa's introduction is.... a bit suspect. But don't let that put you off - we've got a lot to say about The Warren, a game which lets you roleplay out the life of rabbits with a heavy dose of Watership Down. Find out what we make of it, how the rules handle lagomorph adventures, and what noise George makes when a Python r...
Episode 8: Real Adventures & Rules Lawyers
March 05, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 35.9 MBOnce again it's a battle of wills as George runs Ailsa through another Quiz of a tabletop persuasion. This time it's a True or False on a list of ten module titles, some of which are genuine pre-packaged adventures available for sale for a variety of high profile systems and others are terrible puns, rephrased titles and just terrible word vomit from George's imagination. Can Ailsa puzzle out the answers correctly, and will you take her side when she reveals the shameful opinion George hol...
Episode 7: Hockeysticks & Her Majesty's Service
February 19, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBNo content warning required for this episode as we go back to basics - or is that back to school? Find out in our Elevator Pitch in which we discuss Hellcats & Hockeysticks, a roleplaying game of anarchic schoolgirls in a decidedly British vein. We discuss our experiences of this game - George in running it, Ailsa in playing it - and why we think you should give it a spin Then we go back to a section from Episode 3 as we run another X Meets Y style mashup. It's our special method of get...
Episode 6: Romantic Worldbuilding & Raunchy Quizzing
February 05, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBContent Warning: Sex, Relationships, Sex Work, Pregnancy, Homophobia & Transphobia. No explicit language is used in this episode. Valentine's Day sees us do a slightly more risqué episode of the podcast, such as a section on World Building where we focus on how to be inspired in creating your characters and game worlds by questions of sex, sexuality, relationships and the like. So much of human history and our media is dependent on our understanding of these topics but all too often they ...
Episode 5: Core Rules Quiz & Clashing Characters
January 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 39 MBAnother Ask a GM question has come to us - from a different source than usual - and it asks us about playing in a game where one character just doesn't gel with the rest. You know the type: the Paladin in a party full of rogues, the loner superhero in the middle of a focused team or the Inch-High Incel in the cast of a socially liberal podcast. How do you deal with a game group that's pulling in two different directions? Is it better to stop it happening in the first place? Then there's...
Episode 4: Licensed Lies & Rocking Roleplay
January 08, 2021 07:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBThings might be a bit dark right now but the first show of 2021 opens with a bit of a laugh as we do our first Quiz section. This episode's theme for the quiz is Licensed RPGs - George has got a list that includes some genuine games and some balderdash books, but can Ailsa tell them apart? Feel free to play along, and possibly bemoan the games that shouldn't exist but do and vice versa. After that frivolity it's time for another Elevator Pitch, with small press game Umläut: Game of Metal...
Episode 3: Pick 'n' Mix & Player Paranoia
December 23, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBWe start the show off with an aid to your imagination via our X Meets Y section, in which we use our TOP SECRET FORMULA to come up with adventure and campaign ideas. Marvel as, armed with a D20 and no script, we come up with some brand spanking new ideas as we record! Be inspired to try the same thing yourself! Doubt that we really did manage to combine medieval literature and 60s sitcoms without any prep! There's also another installment of Ask A GM, in which we address a listener ques...
Episode 2: Warriors of Britain & Wheelchair Users
December 11, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBThis time round we bring you another Elevator Pitch - if Ailsa can stop making Python references long enough - and introduce you to King Arthur Pendragon, the Arthurian adventure game by the late Greg Stafford. We give you some pointers as to whether or not this game would be your cup of tea, both from Ailsa's perspective playing it and George's recollections of running it. There's also a chat on the topic of Disability in Role-playing Games, inspired by Sara Thompson, the Combat Wheelch...
Episode 1 - Night Witches & Nervous Players
November 23, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBTil Dice Do Us Part - A podcast by a nerdy Scottish couple sharing their thoughts and experiences on tabletop role-playing games. Our podcast makes its start with the first of many Elevator Pitches to introduce you to games you may not be familiar with. This time it's an introduction to Night Witches, a historical game of female pilots battling Nazis on the Eastern Front of World War II. (Terrible accents optional for you, mandatory for us.) We then move on to our agony aunt section Ask ...
Episode 1: Night Witches & Nervous Players
November 23, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBOur podcast makes its start with the first of many Elevator Pitches to introduce you to games you may not be familiar with. This time it's an introduction to Night Witches, a historical game of female pilots battling Nazis on the Eastern Front of World War II. (Terrible accents optional for you, mandatory for us.) We then move on to our agony aunt section Ask a GM and the topic of how to deal with a group of players who won't make any decisions. What do you do when they spend an hour ago...