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 #20: Don't look a Giff soldier in the musket!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk all things Giff, the 7-foot-tall, hippopotamus-headed humanoids attired in gaudy military uniforms, with gleaming pistols and muskets. These space-faring merc…
Episode #19: Honor, Sanity and other optional adventuring rules
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk more alternative rules which could be used in your RPG campaigns or one-shots, including:
- Honor and Sanity as Ability Scores
- Rules for Fear & Horror to help sus…
Bonus: Barbarians aka intensive care givers!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest co-host David talk about Barbarians, a playable class in Dungeons and Dragons, who come alive in the chaos of combat and use their rage as their drive and motivat…
Episode #18: Try tracking the initiative? Combat options and variants
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about combat combat combat! Looking at the main and variant ways of tracking initiative during a combat encounter, improvising damage, adjudicating areas of s…
Episode #17: Loot! Loot my pretties! Treasure Tables!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about all things treasure-related! Including magic items and the placement of treasure in an adventure.
Chapter discussed: 'Chapter 7: Treasure' (p133 - 149)
Bo…
Episode #16: Combat Wheelchair by Sara Thompson (@mustangart)
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about the 'Combat Wheelchair' homebrew rules created by RPG designer Sara Thompson (@mustangsart). The 'Combat Wheelchair' describes itself as 'supportive and…
Episode #15: The Goblins know what they are doing! Creating Monstrous Adventurers
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about how to go about using monstrous races, including, Bugbears, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Kobolds, Orcs and Yuan-Ti as adventurers in an RPG setting!
Chapter disc…
Bonus: The sleepy fishing village of Saltmarsh and the tides of chaos
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest co-host Sam talk about Saltmarsh, a sleepy fishing village nestled on the coast of the Azure sea and is one of the main campaign locations for 'Ghosts of Saltmars…
Episode #14: Changelings, Kalashtars, Shifters and Warforged! Oh my!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about the four brand new races made canon for the Eberron setting:
- Changelings - a humanoid race of shapechangers.
- Kalashtars - a compound race created from th…
Episode #13: Around Khorvaire in Fifty Days - Encounters of the Week in Eberron
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about the first two instalments in the 'Around Khorvaire in Fifty Days' encounters of the week series on DnD Beyond: 'Departure from Skydock Six' and 'Storm o…
Bonus: Paladins and the different faces of Righteousness!
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest co-host David talk about Paladins, a playable class in Dungeons and Dragons which swears to uphold justice and righteousness, to stand with the good things of the…
Episode #12: The (custom) makings of a monster!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about how to go about making your own custom monsters (and related stat blocks) in D&D, using the Dungeon Master's Guide's 'Creating a Monster Stat Block' pro…
Episode #11: To the outer planes...AND BEYOND!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about the Outer Planes, a subset of the known planes of existence in various cosmology models used in the Forgotten Realms.
Chapter discussed: 'Outer Planes' …
Bonus: Acquisitions Incorporated Company Positions - Terms and Conditions apply!
Show Notes:
This week, Fiona and guest co-host Jacob talk about the different company positions in a franchise as described in the Acquisitions Incorporated sourcebook: Cartographer, Decisionist, Docu…
Episode #10: 'Style doesn't pay the bills!' - I.S.T.A.R. Facilities
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about 'I.S.T.A.R Facilities', a short D&D experience that captures the details of Patrick Rothfuss’s one-shot adventure run at the Acquisitions Incorporated l…
Episode #9: That sinking feeling? Ships, sails and the open sea
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about all things ship, looking at the optional rules for using ships in play, managing the officers and crew needed to run a ship, creating your own ships and…
Bonus: Oblex - 'The best thing about memories is eating them!'
CW/TW: Memory Loss/Forgetfulness
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and guest co-host Sam talk about the Oblex, an extraordinarily intelligent ooze created by Mind Flayers that fed on other creatures' memorie…
Episode #8: Artificers aka Proficient in the 'good with tech' skill
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about the Artificer class, a playable character class which first appeared the 3.5 edition of D&D and is a unique base class that reflects many of the core th…
Episode #7: Epic monsters and how to fight them
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about high-level combat, and what happens when your character reaches Level 20! Featuring epic boons and 3 case studies of hard and deadly encounters: Astral …
Episode #6: Now you are playing with Tortles!
Show Notes
This week, Ryan and Fiona talk about Tortles, a race of intelligent tortoise-like humanoids indigenous to southern Chult in the Forgotten Realms (as depicted in the Tomb of Annihilation sup…