Part 2 of our UK Games Expo coverage including interviews with: Will from Chronicle, GM Dave, Steph from Fist Full of Crits, Russ and Jess from EN World (also sorry to Russ for suggesting that I would have the episode out quickly, you were right, I did not), Kirsty and Amy, the Women Who D&D, Panny from Leyline Press, Lenny from 1985 Games, Steve f…

After another long delay (I have a good excuse, I promise!), we're finally back and it's a UK Games Expo interview special! Richard chats to a bunch of the people he met at the UK Games Expo. We also have an exciting competition to announce! All you have to do is get in touch with us (by any means) to tell us what you were up to during the weekend …

Welcome back to the D20 Future Show's Everyday Heroes podcast. We're 11 episodes into a mini series we recorded in Lockdown, so I hope your lives are functioning better than mine! Everyday Heroes is the 5E powered roleplaying game of modern action cinema and is now fully published!

After an IT enforced hiatus, we're back! The Cheese Squad continue to investigate the Carrington Disappearance. If you're reading this, do let us know what you think of the show on Twitter, Bluesky or by just leaving us a 5 star review on your podcast app of choice. If you're at the UK Games Expo, I will be too. We're bound to run into each other a…

We're back, the Cheese squad are squading about and you are reading this!

You know the drill by now. The D20 Future Show is playing Everyday Heroes and you can listen to it. You might even be doing that now!

Welcome back to the D20 Future Show Everyday Heroes Adventure! It's been a while. It's been, quite frankly, too long. But we ARE back and the Carrington Disappearance is back on. We're so glad to be back, we hope you enjoy the show

It's that time again! Here's the traditional recording of Jason Statham's Big Vacation from the #PodcastZone. This time we have a delightful collection of podcasters from Penance RPG and Pretending With Dice. Thanks again to Geoff (or Jeff), Eden, Klepto and Belry!

We're back and, somehow, we're keeping up with the publishing schedule! This time we chat with TTRPG Industry legend and prolific author Gareth Hanrahan. We talk about Dragonmeet, his career and a fair bit about the Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game because I wanted to...

Hello and welcome! We're back. After sitting on the audio for 11 months, I have finally released our live recording from Dragonmeet 2022. Recorded with a hugely talented cast of TTRPG idiots including David and Rose from "Who Lives Who Dice", AJ from "Pretending With Dice" and Matt from "Merely Roleplayers", Richard Statham Masters the greatest one…

Hello and welcome! We're back. After sitting on the audio for 11 months, I have finally released our live recording from Dragonmeet 2022. Recorded with a hugely talented cast of TTRPG idiots including David and Rose from "Who Lives Who Dice", AJ from "Pretending With Dice" and Matt from "Merely Roleplayers", Richard Statham Masters the greatest one…

Hello Listener! We're back with a collection of interviews with delightful folks from the UK Games Expo 2023. we spoke to: Matt from Loke Battlemats Dav from Mammoth Factory Games Rich from Hatchling Games Jess and Russ from EN Publishing The Party RPG Sadly Podomatic has removed the ability to add links but look out for shoutouts to each of these …

After an epic wait, the D20 Future Show finally returns to our Everyday Heroes adventure The Carrington Disappearance. While the original Kickstarter was, of course, fully funded ages ago and is almost fulfilled (I got my parcel this week!) Evil Genius are already launching something new! The Legendary Bundle offers a Kong of Skull Island campaign …

Hello! We're back BABY! The D20 Future Show's Everyday Heroes adventure is back on the pod! The PIS were attacked by strange creatures last night (AKA several months ago... sorry about that) and now they have to work out what to do next. This Everyday Heroes season is in partnership with the delightful Evil Genius Games. You can check them out on T…

Welcome to the latest, and late, episode of the D20 Future Show's Everyday Heroes Adventure - The Carrington Disappearance. Our heroes, the Paranormal Investigation Squad of the UK's National Crime Agency are investigating a missing couple last seen in the town of Nether Wallsdale. Everyday Heroes is the soon to be released game from Evil Genius Ga…

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Everyday Heroes actual play, sponsored by Evil Genius Games. We're playing the, now fully funded on Kickstarter, Everyday Heroes. It's D20 Modern for the 5E generation and we really like it. To keep up with the news you can find Evil Genius on Twitter, on their Facebook page, Instagram and on their website www.evilgenius…

The D20 Future Show is back! And we're once again bringing you an actual play episode of Evil Genius Games' Everyday Heroes. The Cheese Squad are on their way to Nether Wallsdale, but it seems there is trouble in this service station! The Everyday Heroes Kickstarter has funded and is smashing it's way through stretch goals. There couldn't be a bett…

Welcome to a new adventure! As part of the celebrations for the upcoming Kickstarter campaign, we're playing Everyday Heroes. Everyday Heroes is a 5E powered reboot of D20 Modern by many of the original creators of D20 Modern. If you want to check out the Kickstarter, follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/28nydvus. Our heroes make up the Paranornal…

Welcome to another episode of the D20 Future Show. Does anyone ever read these things? Yada yada yada https://twitch.tv/d20Futureshow Twitter @D20futureshow

Welcome to another episode of the D20 Future Show. Does anyone ever read these things? Yada yada yada https://twitch.tv/d20Futureshow Twitter @D20futureshow

The latest episode of the D20 Future Show features more action, more superpowers and more... just more! Get it in your ears/

Welcome to another D20 Future Show Superhero Adventure. Our heroes are still exploring the underground facility that belongs to the mysterious Society. Perhaps they might even meet the man behind all of this... Our Actual Play UK trailer this episode comes from OMEN Investigations. You can find us on Twitter https://twitter.com/D20FutureShow Or on …

We're back! It's another Super Hero Adventure episode. Out heroes are 5 normal people who have gained superpowers; 4 of them from touching a meteorite that they found and one from some bad guy experiments. The 5 have broken into a facility owned by some super hero bad guys: The Society. And something is coming to get them...…

This episode is part 2 of the seminar at Metatopia featuring Fred Hicks and Brennan Taylor discussing Kickstarter from the perspective of someone running a campaign. Show Notes Brennan Taylor Galileo Games Fred Hicks Evil Hat Productions

This episode is a seminar at Metatopia featuring Fred Hicks and Brennan Taylor discussing Kickstarter from the perspective of someone running a campaign. Show Notes Brennan Taylor Galileo Games Fred Hicks Evil Hat Productions

This is a recording from Metatopia that features most of the Evil Hat folks talking about Evil Hat and how it works. Show Notes Coming soon...

In this episode Fred and Chris, discuss Evil Hat's new Kickstarter for their card game Race to Adventure. They discuss what decisions they made well, which decisions could use improvement, and which decisions are basically a wash. Show Notes: The Race to Adventure Kickstarter The Race to Adventure Tutorial Video Race to Adventure on Board Game Geek…

This episode Fred talks with Rob Heinsoo, and Jonathan Tweet about the structure of Fire Opal Media, and their work on the upcoming 13th Age roleplaying game. Show Notes: Evil Hat Dinocaplyse Race to Adventure Pelgrane Press Fire Opal Media's Facebook Page Fire Opal Media's, Blog, Twitter, Google Plus. Rob Heinsoo's Twitter, and Google Plus. Jonath…

This week Fred is joined by none other than Steve Jackson (@SJGames), and Phillip Reed (@PhillipJReed) to talk about what SJG has been learning from the OGRE kickstarter. Show Notes Dinocalypse Car Wars Don't Read This Book

In this episode, Chris and Fred are joined by Evil Hat co-founder Rob Donoghue to talk about PAX: East, Kickstarter, and Race to Adventure. This one's all over the map!

This episode we have a scoop! Fred and Chris are joined by Phil Reed (@phillipjreed) and Andrew Hackard (@RedPenOfDoom) from Steve Jackson Games to talk about business at a big scale, and SJG's plans to launch the new, gigantic edition of Ogre via Kickstarter.

In this episode Fred and Chris talk with Chuck Wendig. They discuss the upcoming Dinocalypse Kickstarter, and Don't Read This Book, the upcoming Don't Rest Your Head anthology. Along the way they discuss the challenges of working on writing fiction that springs from an RPG, their collabration process, and more. Show Notes Chuck Wendig Dinocalypse D…

In this episode Fred and Chris examine Brand Maturity by talking about how Evil Hat has moved from two guys with a free hack of another free game to a company making board games, card games, RPGs, and fiction. Show Notes To come....

In this episode, Fred and Chris discuss; Metatopia, what's interesting about Metatopia as a convention, the area the podcast is focused on, and trying to nail down a definition for what the Hobby Industry is exactly. Show Notes Peter Adkison Shannon Appelcline - Designers and Dragons Metatopia (Rob's take on Metatopia) Divine Cow Double Exposure (D…

It's this episode Chris and Fred talk to Peter Adkison about his time as the C.E.O. of Wizards of the Coast, which includes the time that period when WotC purchased TSR and acquired Dungeons and Dragons, among other things. This is a bit of a follow up on the last episode. It's very interesting and contains info I've never heard before. Show notes …

You thought it was podfaded? Season 3 Episode 01 is here to convince you otherwise. That's How We Roll is back with a vengeance. In this Episode Fred and Chris discuss what lead to the long hiatus, how they're planning to get back on track, and what they've been up to. They then dig into the main topic which is a discussion of Wizards of the Coast …

Chris visits Fred in Maryland. We talk about Jeni's Ice Creams, The Dresden Files RPG, distribution, The Leverage RPG, Happy Birthday Robot, and the role confidence plays in marketing your games.

[1h 2m 5s] Fred and Chris catch up on the last three months, including the impending release of the Dresden Files RPG at Origins 2010 and Chris's impotent rage about not getting to order Jeni's Ice Creams for delivery. Then on to talk about how they won't be picking up on last episode's cliffhanger and instead focusing talking about VSCA's approach…

Fred and Chris talk about:- Is it worth the effort to sell RPGs, as a retailer?- Not Attending GenCon - The Ennies Results- Dominion and the Diana Jones Award- Should NDAs exist?- Disclosure vs. SurpriseComments welcome!

In this abruptly shortened episode, Fred and Chris talk about Transparency. There would have been another half hour of material here, but unfortunately the recording software on each end of the call screwed up (differently), making the rest of the episode hard to listen to. We'll be publishing some "deleted scenes" elsewhere, away from the podcast'…

Fred and Chris talk about Origins, the Origins Awards, and the Ennies. (Also, Battletech, and other typical ramblings.)EDIT: We missed some "this needs editing" bits towards the end there, sorry! We've uploaded a new version of the show, so if you heard the "bad" one, you can pull down the revised copy now-ish.[Show notes pending volunteer effort!]…

Now featuring much, much improved audio. If you hated the audio in episode 1, don't worry -- it's all better now.0:oo - 1:30 Chris and Fred giving some intro thoughts 1:30 - 2:50 Fred talks some about layout for Hero 6th edition 2:50 - 9:00 Fred talks about the birth of his child 9:00 - 15:00 Chris and Fred get a bit meta 16:30 - 1:10:00 The talk t…

PLEASE NOTE: The audio on this episode is CRAP. Don't judge the podcast by the audio quality here. It improves significantly with episode 2.[1hr 6min] Season 2 kicks off with a "digital delve" into the topic of D&D Insider, PDFs, conventions, and some retail store community basics. Our sound on this was a little wonky -- a combination of Skype and …

Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan sit down to discuss the reinvention of That's How We Roll in the coming months. With season 2 of THWR on the horizon, it's time for a reroll.

[36min 37sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.Part 2 of this conversation veers off of Evil Hat speci…

[46min 7sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.Part 1 of this conversation focuses mostly on Evil Hat t…

[Approx 23 minutes] This podcast marks the start of another category of episodes for That's How We Roll, titled Out of Town, featuring conversations we have on the road with the cool folks we know who aren't necessarily a part of Evil Hat.On this episode, we sit down at Origins 2008 with "Have Games, Will Travel" podcaster Paul Tevis to talk about …

[32min 44sec] This finishes up the conversation with Lenny from our chat at the GAMA Trade Show 2008 in April. In this episode, you'll hear more conversation about the Dresden Files RPG, as well as a discussion about differing perspectives on Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age.

[45min 38sec] While in Las Vegas for GTS, Fred sits down with Lenny to talk about all sorts of things. In this first part, they cover what it means to be a game designer, the mayor of Las Vegas, and some of the things Lenny's been working on with the Dresden Files RPG.

[1hr 8min] In this episode, Fred Hicks sits down with Chris Hanrahan from 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction to talk about their impressions of the GAMA Trade Show, IPR, "the industry", selling RPGs as a retailer, and a ton of other stuff. No show notes for the moment! In the interests of putting out something super-current, Fred's skipping that part f…