“Back once again with the renegade (games-)master", it's a new episode of Til Dice Do Us Part for the first time in quite a while! Our Pride Month special starts with a section on Queer Themes In Roleplaying Games. We discuss how LGBTQIA+ history intersects with roleplaying games - setting the scene for how world history developed alongside gaming - and then explore how players and GMs can (and should!) include queer characters and topics in your sessions. A big inspiration for th...

We couldn't let 2023 end without giving you another episode - even if George has been haunted by some ill tidings of late - and so here we are with a rather chaotic episode we hope you'll still enjoy. First up is a Quiz, where George once again asks Ailsa to guess the prices of the random nerdy tat he has purchased. (With a slight twist, this time - only 6 items are actually purchased, the seventh is a sort of red herring!) Join in on our social media to see the pictures of...

Our usual podcasting pair becomes a talking troika in this episode, as we are joined by education writer and RPG creator DC Bradshaw. With his help we aim to answer an Ask A GM in which the listener enquires about introducing roleplaying games to an audience of children and how you can tailor your rules and setting towards them. Since DC Bradshaw has written his very own D&D-for-kids version of 5E, "Little But Fierce", he's the perfect person to help us answer this question - ...

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley", as Robert Burns once said, but we've just about managed to get an episode published for January. Join the gang at Til Dice Towers as we talk roleplaying games but also Scotland in this latest Ask A GM - with Graeme from Vancouver asking us what is the most Scottish roleplaying game. That's a surprisingly complex question. What great games are written about Scotland? What great games are written by Scots? Wha...

After slaving away at a hot laptop, George and Ailsa bring you a bumper episode out of Til Dice Towers just in time for Christmas. Why not download this while you are travelling home to see family or friends and hear us talking about... well, travelling, as we discuss World Building and how the differing methods of getting around your campaign world can have a whole lot of knock-on effects on the rest of your game. Such Christmas-y topics as Icelandic volcanoes, methods of t...

What's this? A Til Dice episode appearing in your feed? Yes, that's right, we're here to let you know that we're getting ready to make a triumphant return - and even have a competition to announce to celebrate our second birthday. Tasty treatos all round! The Ramshackle Games website is https://ramshacklegames.co.uk/. You can find many miniatures for sale there, but in particular Twike the Social Media Goblin - https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/home/644-twike-social-media...

A little PSA follows to let you know our schedule is going to be a bit more relaxed for the next wee while. We're still going to be putting out content, but not as regularly as before. Thanks for your patience and your continued support - it means a lot to us. Contact us by email on tildicepodcast@gmail.com We can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under @tildicepodcast Our theme music is Funny Adventures by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6048-funny-adventure...

OK, this trip to London didn't go quite as planned... this episode has been edited in London City Airport while the Til Dice gang awaits the release of the Mailer Daemon from a crime he absolutely definitely did commit. Still, we recorded some stuff beforehand that we can share with you, including this World Building discussion on the topic of cities. They are an integral part of our real life and also our fiction - so here's some tips to help you design cities that are hopefully ...

Covid has come and gone from Til Dice Towers, which means we can finally get back to the studio and record you an episode again! We are opening with an Elevator Pitch for The Excellents, an RPG of being an Awesome Princess produced by the wonderful people at 9th Level Games. A game themed around media like She-Ra or Sailor Moon, we talk about the pros and cons of this little game and what happened when we tried running it. Glitter optional. (Except for George, apparent...

We may be a little late (and a little tired) but we got there in the end! It's Episode 29 of Til Dice Do Us Part and it starts with a return to the Ask A GM mailbag. The Mailer Daemon might be behaving a bit weird but he still brings us a letter from a player who is finding their GM's constant use of miniatures in every combat irritating. In our answer we'll talk about the history of miniature use in RPGs, how often we've used them, and even what figure made George's little ...

This episode it's sequel central at Til Dice Towers - both our sections are flashbacks of sorts to topics we have addressed before. First off it's a Quiz about licensed role-playing games: ten true-or-false suggestions, just like Episode 4. This time it's a whole new mix of properties for Ailsa to guess if they really got a tabletop RPG release or if it's absolute nonsense. It's all brought to us by George's... OK, "George's friend" might be a bit much, but certainly someone...

Get yourself some popcorn, sit yourself down on your couch, and turn on the television - it's time for an Elevator Pitch that introduces Primetime Adventures. This is a game we've mentioned a few times before in the podcast but not gone into any detail about until now. We'll explain how the system works, how the unusual series planning operates, and hopefully not get lost backstage as Ailsa takes us on a scene-setting journey to start with. We've also got a Quiz for you, in which...

The new year is well and truly underway now, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume new episodes. First up it's an Elevator Pitch in which we discuss one of the most gothic of games: Vampire the Requiem, the 21st century reboot by White Wolf of their Vampire RPG. We hope to help you decide whether this is for you by discussing our experiences reading and playing this game, and along the way, we name check almost every Vampire movie we can think of, talk about our angs...

It's Christmas time! Join the Til Dice Do Us Part team for a party.... er, I mean avery sensible team meeting in this special podcast episode! First up, we've got some inspiration as George & Ailsa share their experiences at advent-themed adentures when they talk about Christmas In Gaming. They'll tell you about some Christmas-y themed adventures they have played in a few different games, including D&D, and give some suggestions for how you can come up with your own holida...

There has now been a whole year of the Til Dice Do Us Part podcast. Truly, that's a magical milestone.... and we've got a magical World Building discussion to start things off. Join us as we discuss things to consider with your game world involving magic-users, psychics, super-powered individuals and the like. How common are they? How are they trained? How are they legally controlled? Along the way we'll touch on a mixture of topics and reference points inc...

Honestly - we were only away for a week and it's absolute chaos here at Til Dice Do Us Part studios! We can still knock together an episode however, and in amongst the pandemonium we've got another Quiz for you. This time it's Play Your Monsters Right: a format inspired by the old British quiz show Play Your Cards Right (or Card Sharks if you want to get North American about this) in which Ailsa has to try and guess if a given monster from the 3rd Ed D&D Monster Ma...

The secret is out - Ailsa and George got a Civil Partnership! This special episode of Til Dice Do Us Part takes you right into the thick of the geek social event of the decade, where the great and the good are all in attendance. We're going to take you to our hotel room right after the ceremony for a little Quiz where we'll be guessing the prices of some high quality, much desired items.... OK, no, actually it's more tat from Wish.Com, but hey - it's the thought that counts! ...

We're back! We've rested our bodies and minds and healed any alligator inflicted injuries, so it's time for Til Dice Do Us Part to resume! Our first episode back is also our Halloween special, and we start proceedings with a bloodcurdlingly brilliant Elevator Pitch. The game we are talking about this time is Spooktacular by Yaruki Zero Games, a retro-clone that recreates the long out-of-print Ghostbusters RPG. Ailsa and George will give you a guide to this rules packag...

George might be a little.... blood-lossy, but he's still going to try and run Ailsa through a Quiz segment. We are talking about the choose-your-own-adventure style adventure gamebooks that so many of us grew up with - whether it was Fighting Fantasy books or more Famous Five. It seems everything had game books made of it in the 80s and 90s... or did it? With our true or false quiz we're going to see if we can spot the accurate adventures from the lying librums - will you be...

Sometimes this podcast brings you carefully planned items with meticulously honed scripts.... and sometimes we just wing it, as we do in this episode's X Meets Y segment. Once again George and Ailsa have a list of 20 books, films, TV shows and games and they're going to try and randomly combine some pairs together to come up with some gaming inspiration. Hear us combine Netflix shows with Bill Murray vehicles! Wonder how we'll fuse respected English books with well-kno...