Mantol-Derith concludes as the party receives crucial help for reaching Gravenhollow and also confronts the duergar enclave. More fallout from a player's rash action. A hungry xorn and Yantha's dramatic fate. Puzzling fences and mending gems. Can enlarging duergar be ...

Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 10/14/2017: D&D Character Rarity & OSR Gaming with Save or Die! Highlights: DM Carl & DM Chrispy of the Save or Die podcast join to talk D&D character rarity ...

More Mantol-Derith as the party discovers Fraz-Urb'luu is truly a gem of a demon lord. Grave Insults to Drow for Dummies. Not so fast with that loot, buckos. Beholder snacking habits. Dual wielding in 5E. Gelatinous cubes as projectiles. Thoughts ...

Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 10/7/2017: Frank Mentzer & Empyrea! Highlights: Frank Mentzer (of "Red Box" fame) shares D&D history and discusses Empyrea, his multi-system fantasy RPG setting. Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at ...

Mantol-Derith continues with plenty of svirfneblin, drow and zhentarim, oh my! An insane assassin, a rather ugly beholder, and a lovestruck gargoyle. That gem's not worth the price. Players taking unexpected courses of action. More thoughts on splitting the party ...

Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 9/30/2017: The Apple II and Gaming History with David L. Craddock! Highlights: Computer and gaming history with David L. Craddock, author of Break Out: How the Apple II Launched ...

Shane's D&D Rules Crawl, where we brave the dread labyrinth of D&D rules discussions and clarifications for fortune, fame and glory! This episode: Does a natural 20 or natural 1 apply to an ability check? What qualifies as an attack ...

Rhylfang's Lair starts with lots of spiders (shocker, that) plus plenty of drow and dreadful ritual victims. Hommet gets new threads. Shane gets annoyed that you can't put drow to sleep. This a let's play of the single player campaign ...

The Valley of Dead Heroes continues as we vicariously live as a series of six-eyed cats, meet a man who truly argues with himself, collapse a portal to another world and hope no one notices (sorry, Saint Prosper), drop the ...

Embiggened duergar vs. emblurried svirfneblin in Mantol-Derith. Surprise, surprise the madness is here. A familiar name from Blingdenstone comes up. Daggers's epilogue. What does the party makeup look like now compared to when Out of the Abyss began? Let's split ...

Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 9/16/2017: D&D with Gorebad of How Reroll (plus DM tips)! Highlights: D&D with veteran DM Gorebad of How Reroll (plus DM tips); Tomb of Annihilation is out; geek news. Shane Plays airs ...

Wrapping up the Ettenmoors as we rescue villagers from sticky, icky spider webs, go ingredient shopping for Andra, then confront her sudden but inevitable betrayal in a pretty tough fight. Next up: Rhylfang's Lair! This a let's play of the ...

Leaving Gauntlgrym for Mantol-Derith with a metric stank ton of redshirts, er, NPCs. The finer points of leadership and expedition management. Passing helpful DM advice via an NPC. The Zhentarim assure the group that Mantol-Derith is an orderly place (yeah, ...

Shane unboxes the brand new GURPS Dungeon Fantasy boxed set from Steve Jackson games. What's inside?! Dungeon Fantasy is powered by GURPS, but is a completely standalone RPG. Everything you need to play is in this box ...

Welcome to the Jungle! “Tomb of Annihilation is a story about death and the lengths individuals will go to avoid it.” -Chris Perkins, from the Foreword “Rest assured, your [playtest] characters didn’t die for nothing.” -Also from the Foreword If ...

Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 9/9/2017: Star Trek Fan Films Update! Highlights: Jonathan Lane of Fan Film Factor fills us in on current Star Trek Fan Film news, including Star Trek Continues, Axanar and James Cawley's Star ...

Gauntlgrym continues as the adventurers negotiate with various factions to secure support for an expedition back into the Underdark. Role play vs roll play sessions. Social Interaction rules. Giant lizards. The thematic difference between parts 1 & 2 of Out ...

The Valley of Dead Heroes begins as we tell some overbearing cultists to get to steppin', discover travel by minnim, meet another castoff (she's kinda rude) and learn more of the Endless Battle from a trio of deserters. Torment: Tides ...

Podcast for the Shane Plays radio show from 9/2/2017: Lindybeige! Highlights: Meet Lindybeige aka Lloyd: (in his own words) a YouTuber of videos about ancient and medieval warfare and technology, swing dancing, rants, geekery, and any other whims. You'll like ...

Great galloping googly mooglies, Attack of the D&D / RPG Memes is back like a guilty pleasure you'll never admit to anyone and that's actually much more guilt than pleasure. 4 out of 5 doctors agree you should never tell ...