Wandering DMs
315 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsDan "Delta" Collins and Paul Siegel host weekly discussions on topics relating to old school D&D, tabletop RPGs, DM advice, and D&D history.
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Episodes
Episode 15: Infravision
August 22, 2019 13:51 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBDan and Paul discuss infravision in old school D&D. We touch on combat vs. exploration, how it plays into other visibility effects such as invisibility and detection magic, and a variety of other related topics.
Episode 14: Technology and Software
August 22, 2019 13:50 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBDan and Paul discuss technology and software they have used or in some cases created for their D&D games.
Episode 13: Level Disparity
August 22, 2019 13:49 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBDan and Paul discuss how to deal with level disparity in your D&D campaign.
Episode 12: Henchmen
August 22, 2019 13:43 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBDan and Paul discuss the pros and cons of hiring in some help to your D&D adventuring party.
Episode 11: Intelligent Swords
August 22, 2019 13:42 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBDan and Paul discuss the frequency of intelligent swords, their powers, how to adjudicate battles for control, and share some stories of using intelligent swords in their own games. Visit Paul's Gameblog for: A comparison of contested will rules across editions of D&D. A simplified system for adjudicating battles of will.
Episode 10: Death, Crits, and Resurrection
August 22, 2019 03:24 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBDan and Paul discuss the deadliness of old school gaming, and how they handle critical hits, death, and resurrection.
Episode 9: HelgaCon
August 22, 2019 03:10 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBDan and Paul wrap up their experiences playing at a local house-convention.
Episode 8: Conventions vs. Campaigns
August 22, 2019 03:06 - 48 minutes - 44 MBDan and Paul discuss the differences between running an ongoing never-ending home campaign, and a short 4-hour convention session.
Episode 7: Dragons
August 22, 2019 02:51 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBDan and Paul discuss dragons, and how they differ across editions.
Episode 6: Hex Crawls
August 22, 2019 02:17 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBDan and Paul discuss their experiences playing and running hex-crawls. They explore what worked, what didn't, and give advice on what they think makes for a really good hex-crawl adventure.
Episode 5: Tomb of Horrors
August 22, 2019 02:12 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBDan and Paul discuss the module S1: Tomb or Horrors, including the history of the module and their experience running and playing it.
Episode 4: Clerics
August 22, 2019 02:09 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBDan and Paul discuss the cleric class, and why they have been removed from OED.
Episode 3: Thieves
August 22, 2019 01:58 - 48 minutes - 44 MBDan and Paul discuss the history of the thief class, and how they use thieves in their own campaigns.
Episode 2: Improv and New DMs
August 22, 2019 01:39 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBDan and Paul chat about improvisation as a DM tool, and how we teach such things to bourgeoning DMs.
Episode 1: What is Old School?
August 19, 2019 00:49 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBDan and Paul discuss what exactly qualifies as "old school", or at least agree that it's impossible to qualify.