Welcome to our fifth (and Final) Postmortem Review episode! Continuing with the new format, we wanted to offer an episode that is more like our original content. Now that we Continue readingPostmortem Review 05 – Mistborn AdventuresKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fifth AP Review game. We hosted a poll on our website that decided that our next game would be Mistborn Adventure Game by Crafty Games. … Continue readingAP Review 05 – Mistborn Adventure Game – Session 2Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fifth AP Review game. We hosted a poll on our website that decided that our next game would be Mistborn Adventure Game by Crafty Games. … Continue readingAP Review 05 – Mistborn Adventure Game – Session 1Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fifth AP Review game. We hosted a poll on our website that decided that our next game would be Mistborn Adventure Game by Crafty Games. … Continue readingAP Review 05 – Mistborn Adventure Game – Session 0, Part 2Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fifth AP Review game. We hosted a poll on our website that decided that our next game would be Mistborn Adventure Game by Crafty Games. … Continue readingAP Review 05 – Mistborn Adventure Game – Session 0, Part 1Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fourth Postmortem Review episode! With the new format, we wanted to offer an episode that is more like our original content. … Continue readingPostmortem Review 04 – Scion 2nd EditionKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to the third session of our fourth AP Review game, Scion 2nd Edition by Onyx Path Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 04 – Scion 2nd Edition – Session 03Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to the second session of our fourth AP Review game, Scion 2nd Edition by Onyx Path Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 04 – Scion 2nd Edition – Session 02Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our fourth AP Review game. Our Facebook followers decided that our next game (via Poll) would be Scion 2nd Edition by Onyx Path Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 04 – Scion 2nd Edition – Session 01Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our third Postmortem Review episode! Continuing with the new format, we wanted to offer an episode that is more like our original content. Now that we have finished Continue readingPostmortem Review 03 – Don’t Rest Your HeadKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to the last episode of our third AP Review game, Don't Rest Your Head by Evil Hat Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 03 – Don’t Rest Your Head – Session 02Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to the next episode of our third AP Review game, Don't Rest Your Head by Evil Hat Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 03 – Don’t Rest Your Head – Session 01Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our third AP Review game. Our Patreon backers decided that our next game would be Don't Rest Your Head by Evil Hat Productions. … Continue readingAP Review 03 – Don’t Rest Your Head – Character Creation + PreludeKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our first Postmortem Review episode! With the new format, we wanted to offer an episode that is more like our previous content. Now that we have finished our Continue readingPostmortem Review 02 – MASKSKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome back to the third round of our new AP Review series. This our second and final Game Play session of MASKS: A New Generation by Magpie Games. I ended Continue readingAP Review 02 – MASKS RPG – Session 02Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome back to our second round of our new AP Review series. This our first Game Play session of MASKS: A New Generation by Magpie Games. … Continue readingAP Review 02 – MASKS RPG – Session 01Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our second round of our new AP Review series. This time we had our Patreon Backers decide our next game and they chose MASKS: A New Generation by Magpie Games. … Continue readingAP Review 02 – MASKS RPG – Character CreationKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our first Postmortem Review episode! With the new format, we wanted to offer an episode that is more like our previous content. Now that we have finished our Continue readingPostmortem Review 01 – Fiasco – Dragon SlayersKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Here is the third (and final) part of our first Actual Play Review for Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games. … Continue readingAP Review 01 – Fiasco – Dragon Slayers – Act 2 & AftermathKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Here is the second part of our first Actual Play Review for Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games. Below is our whiteboard after we finished the session. Use this to follow Continue readingAP Review 01 – Fiasco – Dragon Slayers – Act 1 & TiltKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Welcome to our first Actual Play Review! We have decided to go back to focusing on Reviews, with the twist of making Actual Plays of the reviewed systems. … Continue readingAP Review 01 – Fiasco – Dragon Slayers – SetupKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we talk about our convention experience with 1d4Con 2019, Queen City Con, and Origins. We also explain the changes that coming to the podcast. We have been Continue readingEpisode 55 – Time to Change It Up!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we tackle another round our favorite supplements, ranging from additive to transformative to toolkits; only this time with Katie. Again, each host picked two of their favorite Continue readingEpisode 54 – Our Favorite RPG Supplements (Round 2)Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we talk about our favorite supplements, ranging from additive to transformative to toolkits. Each host picked two of their favorite supplements (from all sorts of game worlds Continue readingEpisode 53 – Our Favorite RPG Supplements (Round 1)Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we revisit the Headline topic from August 2018’s episode. With a bunch of headlines submitted by David H. and some others that we researched, we attempt to Continue readingEpisode 52 – Gaming the Headlines, Part 2Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

CONTEST ~GIVEAWAY~ Congratulations to Zac C.! Not only did he send in the only entry, he gave us much more than we were asking for. For those reasons, he was sent all three Continue readingEpisode 51 – Reviewing GodboundKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This episode, Henry takes the reigns and leads the discussion on using tables (from Sine Nomine's Stars Without Number) to generate planets or utilize as a useful setting building tool. … Continue readingEpisode 50 – Randomly Generating Planets Where No GM Has Generated BeforeKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

CONTEST ~GIVEAWAY~ We are giving away ONE softcover copy of THE SPRAWL to a lucky winner. For 2 runner-ups (2nd and 3rd place), we will have a hardcover of the Continue readingEpisode 49 – Unlikely AdventuresKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

September has come and gone, so here is a podcast episode that we managed to record even though my work schedule has been nuts. CONTEST ~GIVEAWAY~ We are giving away Continue readingEpisode 48 – Lets Get Into CharacterKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

Happy 8 years everyone! Holy cow, how did we ever make it this far? Will we be around for the 9th? We know it’s not consistent. We don’t post an Continue readingEpisode 47 – Gaming the HeadlinesKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

AND WE ARE BACK ON A MONTHLY ROTATION… at least we have a strong start. Our main topic for this short episode is about “Avoiding the Murderhobo Trope” in tabletop Continue readingEpisode 46 – Combating Murderhobo SyndromeKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

After an almost 5 month hiatus, we at 1d4Cast come back strong with all of the crew on this episode. We start with some light talk about 1d4Con 2018 (held Continue readingEpisode 45 – Taking This to the Next LevelKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

1d4Con 2018 is less than two months away! It all happens on April 13-15 at the Holiday Inn of Martinsburg, WV. We have a ton of games posted, whether you Continue reading1d4Con is Coming!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This is the first episode of 2018! In this first month of 2018’s episode, we talk about all manner of ways that one can play Tabletop RPGs on the internet. Continue readingEpisode 44 – Online PlayKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This is December 2017’s Episode. In this final month of 2017, we talk about handling and working with power scale in various RPGs and formats. Many of the discussion questions Continue readingEpisode 43 – Now You’re Playing With Power!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This is November 2017’s Episode. This month we talk about our favorite Character Building subsystems within various RPGs. We ask ourselves (and each other) the tough questions and take a Continue readingEpisode 42 – Building CharacterKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This was supposed to be August 2017’s episode, however between personal things and crazy work hours for James, it wasn’t recorded until September. Also due to crazy work issues, James Continue reading7th Year Anniversary & Halloween Special AP – Shadow of the Demon LordKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This is June 2017’s Episode. This month we talk about our favorite Combat and other Conflict Resolution subsystems within various RPGs. If you have any comments, feedback, system you want Continue readingEpisode 41 – It’s Clobbering TimeKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This month we talk about our favorite Skills subsystems within various RPGs. We also discuss our time at and running 1d4Con 2017 as well. Thank you to Zac C. for Continue readingEpisode 40 – A Particular Set of SkillsKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This month we talk about our favorite Magic subsystems within various RPGs. We discuss and play a promotional plug for 1d4Con 2017. We also play a promotional plug for TsunamiCon Continue readingEpisode 39 – Favorite RPG Subsystems: Magic!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This month the gang gets together (sans Katie) to talk abouth One Roll Engine games. We get dwon into the gritty details of how to create your dicepool and interpret Continue readingEpisode 38 – It Only Takes One RollKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

We had planned to talk about One Roll Engine games. However, with Henry sick and Paul unable to attend the recording, we decided to talk about board games. Some of Continue readingEpisode 37 – Board Games and Card Games are AWESOME!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This episode is a little bit of a tangent. With only Steve, Paul, and James recording this month, we focus on games that have been made into movies. While we Continue readingBonus Ep 08 – Games Turned To FilmKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This episode is a little bit of a tribute to the late Steven Russell of Rite Publishing, who tragically died in a car accident a few months ago. We are Continue readingEpisode 36 – Diceless GamingKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

This episode marks our 6th year as a podcast! Happy Anniversary to us! Despite the several months of off again and on again hiatus, we have done our best to Continue readingInterview with Neall and Monica about Scion 2nd EditionKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we perform a system analysis on Savage Worlds. We go throught the general rules as laid out in the Savage Worlds Deluxe 2nd Edition (we specifically reference Continue readingEpisode 35 – You are all Savages!Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

“Back once again for the renegade master, d4 damager, power to the people!” – Wildchild – Renegade Master (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR_dX8i0ww) In this episode, we are missing John (Yet again, maybe forever?), Continue readingEpisode 34 – All of the ConventionsKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

We are officially back in action after a 7 month hiatus! In this episode, we are missing John again and Andy was unable to be a guest, but we have Continue readingEpisode 33 – Game ComplexityKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

In this episode, we are missing John, and broadcasting LIVE with Google Hangouts “On Air”. We ran into a few glitches here and there, so the sound quality does suffer Continue readingEpisode 32 – Powered by the Apocalypse (LIVE)Kirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul

HAPPY 5 YEARS TO US!!!!! In this episode, we are missing Katie, but we carry on regardless and talk a little bit about games we have run or played in Continue readingEpisode 31 – Campaign Design Part 2: Tools We UseKirjoittanut James, Steve, Monica, Heather, Katie, and Paul