Hook and Chance
Hook & Chance is a Dungeons and Dragons advice and game enrichment podcast for players and Dungeon Masters full of entertaining ideas for incredible games!
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
Rules of Engagement ft. Heavyarms
Every rule should engage. That's the episode. Playing D&D can feel like you're constantly getting buckets of rules tossed in your face, and you're trying to sort out which ones matter. Then there are…
01:00:43 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
Rust Monsters: The Biggest Rustholes
It's always tempting to use monsters like the rust monster because they seem iconic. Classics. Gotta try 'em at least once. The problem comes when we mix the original punishing design principles of D…
00:36:02 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
The Modron Mathematical Mayhem
So we've got dimension-surfing cyborgs with cultural values, motivations, and personalities. Now we have to plan for the inevitability that some frantic adventurer is gonna wanna throw down. But as t…
00:49:23 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
The Modron Metaphysical Motivation
Modrons capture attention and imagination—bio-mechanical beings from an alien plane, with reality-bending inspirations. But when we start unpacking the lore, we can't figure out how or why to use the…
00:56:20 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Find Familiars Unforgettable
These magical minions add so much to a character. They're tiny strategic powerhouses that possess pure condensed roleplay potential. They're the dark matter of RPGs. Yet the same problems pop up agai…
00:43:59 |
Mon 08 Aug 2022
A Chimera of Chaos
Chimeras are legendary creatures that have invaded folk's imagination since the ancient Greeks cooked them up. An epic three-headed beast conquered by the son of a god. Juicy. But have you ever been …
00:45:38 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Beyond D&D ft. The GM Tim
There are many games with near-infinite themes, genres, flavors, new ideas, and fresh inspiration. It's an exciting world of possibility, and we'd love to play them all. Of course, there's only so mu…
00:44:50 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Hazardous Hag Bargains
Hags offer so much potential as ruthless negotiators, incredibly clever antagonists and uneasy allies. But like many of the most brilliant monsters out there, their plots can be hard to actually conj…
00:43:13 |
Sat 02 Jul 2022
How to Win at Warlock Characters
Warlocks inspire a lot of wonder, right out of the gate. They've got an incredible story hook baked right in, and one can sit there considering how terrifying they look for ages. But where we've fall…
00:41:34 |
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Hold Person Handily
Hold Person is wildly powerful and feels pretty cool when you get to snag a baddie with it. But it's one of the classic save or suck spells, meaning that either nothing happens, or something absolute…
00:40:51 |
Mon 30 May 2022
A More Brutal Bulette
The Bulette is such a cool monster. A deadly tunneling, armored hunter, a leaping surprise attacker, a vicious apex predator. So then why does running one exactly as they allude to feel so lackluster…
00:45:34 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Pacing like a Producer ft. Roz Young
Ever find yourself scrambling to hit the gas, or notice that something is getting stale, but you just can't tell what? Well, this episode is packed with techniques that will keep everyone on the edge…
01:00:40 |
Mon 02 May 2022
A Study in Spectacular Sentient Items
Ever thrown in a sentient item, thinking it would be an epic fantasy moment, only to have it become a joke? Or forgotten? A forgotten joke? Nothing worse. In this episode, we get into how to avoid th…
00:46:59 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Show, Don't Tell ft. Ollo Clark
Those great sessions that are packed with character moments, epic fights, and emotional highs seem almost magical. Well, this episode unlocks a piece of that magic. We talk to Ollo Clark from Escape …
01:30:25 |
Mon 04 Apr 2022
Create a Cult Mystery
If you listened to our last episode, you've got an original cult to grip your players with their twisted, dastardly plans. Well, now it's time to play out those plans. And it's not always easy to pre…
00:52:51 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Essentials to Crafting a Diabolical Cult
D&D cults have some entertaining details, to be sure. Chanting, robes, and funky daggers are fun for the whole family. But what we've always run into is that beyond this, they're simply another group…
00:55:11 |
Mon 07 Mar 2022
5 Steps for Memorable Taverns ft. Escape Plan Games
We've all sat down in the tavern, only to not know where to go next. As GM we've accidentally described the blandest, most cookie-cutter fantasy drinking hole, and can't conjure up an NPC that does m…
01:14:10 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
The Tragic Backstory Made Useful
Have you ever felt the backstory pains that we used to? This was our strategy: We write an elaborate backstory full of murder, mystery, and utter loss. We imagine telling our friends around the gami…
00:50:08 |
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Fear, Cause Fear, and the Frightened Condition
When you're in the middle of an epic fight, whether you're the one inspiring the darkest fears in your enemies, or they're the one summoning the terror within you, it feels like that should be a big …
00:53:08 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
Moral Dilemmas Made Meaningful
Playing good vs. evil games is great! You get to take down baddies, fighting your way towards ultimate and definitive justice! Morality, though? That's a whole different kind of fun. For the role-pla…
00:56:07 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
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