Carpe DM: Make Your Game
Learn To Run RPGs!
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2018
Episode 11: Genetically Engineering the Perfect Player
Hey everyone, we are back from our quasi-impromptu hiatus with an episode all about getting and keeping players! We talk about scheduling, player-group composition, and which traps and pitfalls are b…
00:56:15 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Episode 10: Big Bad Con
Welcome to our Big Bad Con episode! We had a great time there, and interviewed some wonderful folks, including the founder of Big Bad Con, Sean Nitner! Interviewees: Brian Thomas Ian Norris Dev Purka…
00:48:23 |
Sun 10 Dec 2017
Episode 9: A Creature of Unutterable Foulness
We’re not dead!! We’re alive!! Kind of! Undead, maybe!! But we’re back, and we’re bringing you Episode 9 of Carpe DM! This episode, we talk about plotting out your first adventure arc, and reveal the…
00:55:57 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
Episode 8 (Actually 7.5): Turtle Cartography
In this episode, the gang puts together a map for Turtle Mountain itself, pointing at some of the interesting things that players will explore. We talk about the importance of blank spaces, vantage p…
00:51:54 |
Tue 10 Oct 2017
Episode 7: And Then It Eats You
Hey everyone, welcome to the (slightly belated) Episode 7. We split this one up into two eps for technical and content reasons, so 7.5 is coming out next week. This week, we're talking specifically a…
00:45:57 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Episode 6: Moaning in Ogre (Monsters)
Welcome to Episode 6 of Carpe DM. In this episode, we talk about the monsters that infest the various worlds of Dungeons and Dragons. How to read stat-blocks, choose monsters for encounters, and make…
01:08:34 |
Wed 06 Sep 2017
Episode 5: Hero Fatigue (NPCs Part 2)
Hey everyone, thanks for bearing with us through our technical difficulties. This week on Carpe DM we talk about NPCs as party members, a giant demon who explodes when you kill it, and we delve into …
01:00:06 |
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Episode 4: Dramatis Personae (NPCs Part 1)
This week, James Rouse Iniguez joins us to talk about the basics of sketching out a campaign's NPCs, or Non-Player Characters. We discuss making memorable NPCs, the Rule of Cool, and delve even more …
01:04:58 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
Episode 3: Into the Wilderness
On today's episode, we look at different structures for adventures, and talk about methods of introducing adventures and villains to make them exciting to players. We're joined by our now-permanent c…
01:23:13 |
Thu 27 Jul 2017
Episode 2: Flavors of Fantasy
In this episode, Meredith and Alexei dig into the fundamentals of setting up a campaign world. We talk about the various "underlying assumptions" that go into building a fantasy world, and how to com…
00:51:23 |
Tue 11 Jul 2017
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