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 #5: Oops All Darts! Monks Pt. 2
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their deep dive into the Monk - a playable class from the original 5e Player's Handbook. Monks are spiritual ascetics and practitioners of a mystical …
Bonus: Doomed Treasure Hunters! Trophy Gold!
Show notes
This week Fiona and ever-returning guest cohost Rob read through 'Trophy Gold', a roleplaying game about a group of treasure-hunters entering the haunted and forgotten places of the world.
T…
Episode #4: Oops All Darts! Monks Pt. 1
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton take a deep dive into the Monk - a playable class from the original 5e Player's Handbook. Monks are spiritual ascetics and practitioners of a mystical energy k…
Bonus: Creating a setting from your favourite book series with Books To Last!
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This week, Fiona and guest cohost Jordanne, from the Books to Last podcast, work through a worldbuilding exercise from James D'Amato's 'The Ultimate RPG Game Masters' Worldbuilding Guide' t…
Episode #3: A viper's nest of schemes and schemers! Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer!
Show notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton read through the free Baldur's Gate Gazetteer available on DnD Beyond (originally from Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus published in 2019).
From the Baldur's…
Bonus: Encyclopedia Magica!
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This week, guest host Jess Jewell (@doctorbees)introduces Fiona to the wonderful, the weird, and the downright wild compendium: 'Encyclopedia Magica' - a four-volume series of accessories …
Episode #2: Epic mode ACTIVATED! Epic Legacy Player's Guide!
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This week, Fiona and Hamilton check out the epic-ness that players can achieve BEYOND level 20, with the 'Epic Legacy Player's Guide' by 2CGaming. The 'Epic Legacy Players' Guide' is a 5th …
Bonus: Agony Artificers of Faerûn - Dragonmeet 2023 Live Show!
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This week, it's a very special DM's Book Club live show! Recorded at Dragonmeet in December 2023, our cohosts Fiona & Hamilton took to the stage and answered some of our listeners' burning …
Episode #1: The Podcast of Many Things! The Book of Many Things - First Impressions!
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This week, Fiona and Hamilton sit down to discuss 'The Book of Many Things', a new collection containing two books and a pack of cards that will focus on the all-power artifact that has app…
Bonus - 'You'll know it when you see it': The Mortuary Pt. 3
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For our end-of-series/end-of-the-year multi-part special, Fiona takes Hamilton on a one-on-one adventure inside 'The Mortuary', the otherworldly and infamous home of the mysterious Heralds…
Bonus - 'You'll know it when you see it': The Mortuary Pt. 2
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For our end-of-series/end-of-the-year multi-part special, Fiona takes Hamilton on a one-on-one adventure inside 'The Mortuary', the otherworldly and infamous home of the mysterious Heralds…
Bonus - 'You'll know it when you see it': The Mortuary Pt. 1
Show notes
For our end-of-series/end-of-the-year multi-part special, Fiona takes Hamilton on a one-on-one adventure inside 'The Mortuary', the otherworldly and infamous home of the mysterious Heralds…
Episode #23: Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse Pt. 2 - Turn of Fortune's Wheel!
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This week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their review of 'Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse', an adventure and campaign setting boxset spanning the infinite realities of the world’s gr…
Episode #22: Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse Pt. 1 - Sigil and the Outlands & Morte’s Planar Parade!
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This week, Fiona and Hamilton finally get to sit down and give their first impressions of the latest release from Wizards of the Coast: 'Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse', an advent…
Bonus: DIY Podcasting: Editing, Sound Design, and How to Get Started (MCM Comic Con London 2023)
Show Notes
With Dragonmeet along the way at the beginning of December, we have a special bonus to tie us over til then - a live recording of the panel - DIY Podcasting: Editing, Sound Design, and How …
Episode #21: Base of Operations! Unearthed Arcana: Bastions!
Show notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton check out the new subsystem ruleset for introducing Bastions into your RPG campaigns, as presented in the latest Unearthed Arcana 2023: Bastions and Cantrips.
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Bonus: We're Are At MCM Comic Con London (Oct 2023)
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Live from the Sidequest Zone of MCM London, Fiona and Hamilton reflect on the wild TTRPG ride of the weekend they have had.
Bonus: Hamilton's Cheeky Monkey Joke!
Show notes
To tie us over until we have fully recovered from MCM London at the weekend - please enjoy Hamilton's favourite joke (and Fiona's reaction to it) which was cut from the previous episode!
Con…
Episode #20: Through the power of SONG! Bards Pt. 2
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton continue their deep dive into the Bard - a playable class from the original 5e Player's Handbook. Bards are a versatile group, capable of combat and of magic. …
Episode #19: Through the power of SONG! Bards Pt. 1
Show Notes
This week, Fiona and Hamilton take a deep dive into the Bard - a playable class from the original 5e Player's Handbook. Bards are a versatile group, capable of combat and of magic. They wea…