The DM‘s Book Club
Do you like a good book? Do you like Dungeons & Dragons? Fancy combining them? Us too!
Come join Fiona & Hamilton for ‘The DM’s Book Club’: a weekly podcast where we read about some Dungeons and Dragons and discuss how we might include it in our role-playing campaigns!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 286
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode #22: A dark sisterhood - Hags!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest host Hamilton (from Dragon's Duel) discuss one of the most underrated D&D enemies - Hags! Crones who represent the corruption of ideals and goals, and they deligh…
Episode #21: Visions of the Multiverse - Factions of Sigil!
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This week, guest host Hamilton (from Dragon's Duel) takes Fiona on a tour of the many different factions of Sigil and the outer planes, originally written about in the AD&D campaign setting…
Episode #20: Thank you for your Patronage! Warlocks!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest host David take a deep dive into Warlocks, a class where players make pacts with mysterious beings of supernatural power to unlock magical effects both subtle and…
Episode #19: Reflections of the Material Plane - Feywild & Shadowfell!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest host Darren take a deeper look at the Feywild and the Shadowfell: two very different planes of existence which reside in the same cosmological space as the Materi…
Bonus - The Monsters Know What They're Doing! Interview with Keith Ammann!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona chats with Keith Ammann, ENnie-winning author of the 5th edition D&D-focused blog 'The Monsters Know What They're Doing'.
Keith's blog unpacks strategies, tactics, and moti…
Episode #18: Mages of Strixhaven (UA)!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Ryan explore some brand new unearthed arcana (for a change) with 'Mages of Strixhaven'! This playtest document contains 5 unique subclasses, each of which allows charac…
Episode #17: Scratch that - Worldbuilding prompts!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Ryan don their creative hats once again and delve into more world-building with James D'Amato's brand new book 'The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide'.
Book…
Episode #16: Don't forget us - Halflings & Gnomes!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Ryan take a deeper look at Halflings and Gnomes: Two groups of peaceful folk who have found niches for themselves away from the battles and rivalries that fill the live…
Episode #15: Items of tremendous power - Creating Artifacts!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona have a go at creating Artifacts, unique magic items of tremendous power, with their own origin and history.
Artifacts might have been created by gods or mortals of…
Episode #14: Harnessing the power of the Dragon(borns) (UA)
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona look at harnessing the power of dragons with 'Unearthed Arcana 2021: Draconic Options'!
This playtest document presents race, feat, and spell options related to dra…
Episode #13: Into the Feywild, Folks! (UA)
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona look at new playtest race options for D&D characters inspired by the Feywild, the plane of Faerie. The new races include:
- Fairy - Wee folk infused with Fey magic.
- Ho…
Episode #12: Permeated by preternatural forces - Supernatural regions!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona explore how to add fantastical challenges to any locale and ways to further bring an adventure’s setting to life with supernatural regions. Supernatural regions ar…
Episode #11: Born for great deeds and greater adventures - playable races of Theros!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona take another dive into the 'Mythic Odysseys of Theros', a Greek-inspired 5e campaign setting originally created for Magic: The Gathering. This time, we look at the…
Bonus: Defining horror with Van Ritchen's Guide To Ravenloft
Show Notes
This week, Fiona is joined by guest co-host, Jon, in talking about how horror influences their DMing and RPG games along with their first impressions of the latest Dungeons and Dragons' sou…
Bonus: Of Myconids and Men!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona is joined by guest co-host, Sam, to discuss one of the earliest Encounter of the Week articles on DnD Beyond - 'Mystery of the Myconid Mausoleum' by James Haeck.
Whilst havi…
Episode #10: This is your life! Creating engaging and compelling backstories!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Ryan are put through their creative paces by completing some of the activities in James D'Amato's 'The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide', a book dedicated to crea…
Episode #9: Ready to Troll?
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona have a deeper look at Trolls, the fearsome giant-like monsters with regenerative properties who eat anything and everything they catch. Moreover, we will be explor…
Bonus: Fangs for the memories! Strahd Must Die Tonight! Again! IN SPACE!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest co-host Dee talk through 3 related articles from DnD Beyond, all of which focus on a common goal - creating a scenario in which it’s possible to kill the infamous…
Bonus: Games which mean something! Using indie RPGs to get players invested in your campaigns
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This week, Fiona and guest co-host Dee look at some alternative indie RPGs which have helped personalise Dee's homebrew D&D campaigns for their players. We spotlight two very influential RP…
Episode #8: Two sides of a coin - Tieflings & Aasimars!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona have a chat about the playable races Tieflings and Aasimars, the human-based plane touched, native outsiders that are infused either with the touch of some fiendis…