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Hero Forge is in hot water with their community due to their recent partnership with Darrington Press / Daggerheart! Tune in to find out why not only the community is upset, but why we very much agree with their anger and disappointment.
Upcoming Event:
Quest in the West: Play some Daggerheart on the 20th November at Moon Dog Wild West in Footscray! Get tickets HERE
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Dungeons and Dragons have shown off a new way to cast and augment your spells! It's called circle magic and its a fun new way to..... wait.... oh gods I think this just makes the DM stronger instead!
Join Danny and Erin as they uncover this crazy new spell casting option for D&D 2024
00:00 Intro
04:06 What is Circle Magic?
12:01 The Mechanics
14:51 2 New Spells!
25:40 Oh...This is for DMs
28:49 Trying To Figure Out How This Will Work
41:00 Baldur's Gate
47:58 Wrap Up. What We've Been Up to and Upcoming Events
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PAX 2025 has come and gone! Join us as we try to stay awake talking all about not only our PAX weekend but our exciting time seeing Brennan Lee Mulligan (Critical Role, Dropout, Dimension 20) live at Margret Court Arena for his incredible Endless Dungeon show!
00:00 Intro
03:37 PAX 2025
07:41 What Were We Doing There?
15:01 Indie Video Games
23:02 The Big Tabletop Issue
33:09 What We Purchased
35:10 The Corporate Shift
41:06 Last Bit of PAX Thoughts
42:15 The Endless Dungeon
49:56 The Brilliance of Brennan
55:45 Dropout in AUS?
57:49 Wrap Up
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Another world building episode is upon us! This time its all about settlements! What's important to add? How many do you need? Is simplicity king or should you know every nook and cranny of every town or city you come up with?
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu! Join us for two nights of horror on the 8th and 9th of October. You can book tickets for the Old Melbourne Gaol games HERE and tickets for the Pentridge Prison games HERE
00:00 Intro
03:58 Our Experience with Creating Settlements
12:08 Picking The Main 'Thing' Your Settlement is Known For
16:30 How Much is Too Much?
22:31 What is The Settlement Saying About Your World/ Story?
29:51 Basing a Town Off its People / Basing a People Off Their Town?
33:37 One Note Towns And 'Crappy' Settlements
39:16 Letting Ideas Flow Naturally
44:43 DESTROY THE TOWN
45:52 Upcoming Events and PAX
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There's an all new starter set for D&D and SPOILER ALERT (It's pretty good).
We talk all about what you can find within this set and our biggest glaring issue with it.
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu! Join us for two nights of horror on the 8th and 9th of October. You can book tickets for the Old Melbourne Gaol games HERE and tickets for the Pentridge Prison games HERE
Quest in the West. Play Daggerheart at Moon Dog Wild West in Footscray on the 2nd of October! Book tickets HERE
00:00 Intro
03:30 What Is A D&D Starter Set?
17:57 What Is In The New Starter Set?
23:19 Cards and Character Boards
33:59 The Biggest Positive Is The Biggest Negative
39:00 Even More Goodies From The Set
42:08 Ranting About The Boards Again
46:02 Final Thoughts
54:04 Wrap Up/ Upcoming Events
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It's our 50th Episode!!! This week we are talking all about Scorched Basin, a system agnostic TTRPG setting currently on Kickstarter. Joining us this week is TTRPG content creator Arlentric (Arlo), who is actually one of the writers of Scorched Basin!
Interested in Scorched Basin? Check out their Kickstarter HERE
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu! Preview event on the 19th September, followed by two nights of horror on the 8th and 9th of October. You can book tickets for the Old Melbourne Gaol games HERE and tickets for the Pentridge Prison games HERE
Quest in the West. Play Daggerheart at Moon Dog Wild West in Footscray on the 2nd of October! Book tickets HERE
00:00 Intro
03:43 What is Scorched Basin?
08:04 System Agnostic Writing
17:48 Drawing is hard
21:58 Arlo's TTRPG Experience
26:26 Balancing The Mechanics of Other Systems
29:22 Themed Recipes and MORE
30:41 Diverting: What's a Glup Shitto?
33:07 Scorched Basin's Community Focus
38:08 Wrap Up: What we've been up to
45:39 Wrap Up: Upcoming Events
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Join us as I (Danny), explain the basic mechanics and rules of an all new 5e compatible TTRPG called Nimble to my co-hosts. Nimble is a fast-paced, tactical TTRPG that feels very similar to D&D but with some incredibly impactful time saving changes for both the players and the GM. Thank you so much to the Nimble team for sending us a free copy of the boxed set to check out.
If you want to check out Nimble for yourself you can do so HERE (Nimblerpg.com)
NOTE: There were a mistake during the announcements:
The Nimble website is Nimblerpg.com (as listed above) NOT Nimble dot com.
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu! Preview event on the 19th September, followed by two nights of horror on the 8th and 9th of October. You can book tickets for the Old Melbourne Gaol games HERE and tickets for the Pentridge Prison games HERE
Coteries of Carlton. A vampire the masquerade night at Elder Gods & Dragons in Carlton on 12th September.
Quest in the West. Play Daggerheart at Moon Dog Wild West in Footscray on the 2nd of October! Book tickets HERE
00:00 Intro
05:24 Intro to Nimble
08:07 Core Rules
12:35 Combat
34:36 Resting Mechanics
40:04 Character Sheet and more
42:21 Ancestries (Races)
45:59 Backgrounds
48:40 Spells
49:09 5E Compatibility
50:48 Monster Stat Blocks & The Monster Builder
57:59 Character Classes
01:03:26 Last Few Things
01:12:10 Wrap Up/ Upcoming Events
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Even when you're not playing online, technology can still play a massive part in enhancing the emersion factor at your table. Join us as we discuss different tech we've used at our own tables!
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu soon! Keep an eye out for upcoming details.
Coteries of Carlton. A vampire the masquerade night at Elder Gods & Dragons in Carlton on 12th September. Keep an eye out for tickets soon!
Quest in the West. Our Daggerheart event will be back soon! Stay tuned!
00:00 Intro
04:37 Tech At Your Table
10:21 Aaron's Projector Setup
18:49 Lighting and Stream Setups
26:48 Music Apps
41:38 Other Tech
52:03 Wrap Up
58:59 Upcoming Events
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ITS 1 YEAR OF MASTERS OF ALCHEMY THE PODCAST!!!!!!!
Thank you to everyone that has listened to, and supported us over the past year.
Join us as we try to navigate running a live episode while still talking about the crazy Critical Role news this week!!
This episode was recorded live on Twitch in the Let's Roll for Dragons studio so the audio will sound different and we may react to things that the live chat was saying.
D&D September Campaigns @ Fortress. Tickets are still on sale but get in quick so you don't miss out. Check them out HERE
Cell of Cthulhu. We're collaborating with Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison for more Call of Cthulhu soon! Keep an eye out for upcoming details.
Coteries of Carlton. A vampire the masquerade night at Elder Gods & Dragons in Carlton on 12th September. Keep an eye out for tickets soon!
00:00 Intro
05:33 Reflection and Answering Questions
27:12 Critical Role Campaign 4
48:06 Trying to Wrap Up
52:13 Upcoming Events
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We're talking about death again! However this time we're not only talking about the actual mechanics around death in Dungeons & Dragons but how to improve them!
Got a topic, question or system you want us to cover? Contact us @mastersofalchemypod on Instagram
THE PODCAST'S 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY STREAM! You can tune into our next episode LIVE over on Let's Roll For Dragons on Twitch! Join us on Tuesday 26th August at 6:30pm where we're not only recording the episode live, but then having fun and chatting to the community (that's you) afterwards! Please keep in mind there may be mature language when watching live, however that language will be censored when the recording releases on Thursday 28th.
00:00 Intro?
05:16 The Mechanics of Death
16:50 Aaron's Zombie Death Mechanic
22:59 Consequences of Revivification
28:47 Erin's D100 Table of Suffering
32:39 The Last Moment
34:35 Danny's Ghost Mechanic
40:06 It's Okay To Kill A PC
45:55 Players, You're Allowed to Retreat
47:32 Wrap Up/ Upcoming Events
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We were asked the question "What kids cartoon would you like to see get a TTRPG adaptation?" and BOY do we have some answers for you!
Join us as we go through some popular and obscure cartoon pulls and try to figure out how exactly they would work as TTRPGs.
If you've got a question that you'd like us to cover on this podcast please contact us @mastersofalchemypod on Instagram!
Quest in the West: D&D and Daggerheart at Moon Dog Wild West. Book tickets HERE
00:00 Intro
02:47 Cartoons as TTRPGs
07:09 Adventure Time
13:57 Gravity Falls
15:08 Classic Hero Cartoons
16:44 Wacky Races/ Biker Mice From Mars
19:26 Spliced
20:08 Total Drama Island
23:02 Skylanders and Pokemon
30:49 The Fairly OddParents
32:46 Random Quickfire Cartoons
37:25 Ben 10
39:52 The Best Cartoon To TTRPG Adaptation
40:59 Wrap Up
42:44 What we've been up to
48:43 Upcoming Events
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Guess what..... MORE CRITICAL ROLE NEWS!
The three of us talk all about the insane amount of Critical Role and Daggerheart news coming out of GenCon.
Critical Role is seemingly attempting to overhaul the entire TTRPG community with Daggerheart. This is truly an important episode to listen to if you want to be informed about the major changes occurring.
Splendour & Society: Pride, Prejudice & Pixies. 10th August. Come play Good Society, a Jane Austin inspired TTRPG at StoryVille. Book tickets HERE
Quest in the West: D&D and Daggerheart at Moon Dog Wild West
00:00 Intro
01:47 Daggerheart: New Campaign Frames
09:54 Daggerheart: New Collaborations
14:26 Daggerheart: New Products
17:33 Daggerheart: Playtest Material & Homebrew Kit
21:07 Critical Role: Age of Umbra 2
22:03 Amazon Prime: Seasons Galore!
24:48 Critical Role: Campaign 4!
37:47 Spider-Man?
40:31 Wrapping Up
43:14 Upcoming Events/ What we've been up to
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A big new announcement as Critical Role has announced the studio working on their upcoming video game! Join Aaron and Danny as they discuss their thoughts and speculation around this upcoming game.
00:00 Intro
03:11 Critical Role x AdHoc Studios
09:28 Narrative Driven Games
15:18 Our Ideal Critical Role Game
17:59 Is This The Perfect Partnership?
21:57 Gameplay Speculation
25:24 What is the Story?
29:40 The Benefit of TTRPG Video Games
32:16 Critical Role Animated Stuff
33:15 Wrap up, Gaming Talk and Upcoming Events
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Hello Alchemeanies! We've got a bit of a change happening starting this episode. From now on we're targeting a rough 30-45 min episode time structure! We'd love to know what you guys think of the new format!
This episode, Danny and Aaron talk superheroes and the difficulty of adapting that genre into Dungeons & Dragons.
Rollies results: Danny (16), Aaron (10).
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
00:00 Intro
03:11 July, The Month of Superheroes
05:40 Superhero TTRPGs
08:22 Superheroes and D&D
12:11 Superman in D&D
21:06 Thor in D&D
22:53 Adapting Other Heroes to D&D
25:16 A Superhero Film Tangent
29:08 Superhero D&D Advice
32:02 Magneto and The Thing in D&D
33:59 Wrap Up and Upcoming Evens
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A weird different episode this week as the three of us sit down to learn and play an upcoming TTRPG called Shift. That's right, we learn the system and play a mini game all in one episode (that's why it's nearly 2 hours).
If you're interested in SHIFT, download the FREE basic rules HERE
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
00:00 Intro
05:53 How to Play SHIFT
15:38 Creating Characters
34:29 Playing the Game
01:39:43 Our Thoughts
01:44:32 Wrap Up/ Upcoming Events
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In our 40th episode we talk all about our experiences with the Critical Role Australian tour. (Warning, we go full critter, I'm so sorry)
Aaron (3), Danny (2), Erin (1)
Topic 1: Humble Bundle RPG Mega Bundle. Want a crazy amount of TTRPG rule books for a crazy low price AND know that money is going to people in need? Check out this amazing humble bundle right HERE
Topic 2: Playtest for D&D and Daggerheart. We talk about a bunch of new playtest material has been released for both D&D and Daggerheart.
Topic 3: Pets & Sidekicks. An upcoming kickstarter compatible with D&D 2024 all about upgradable pets & sidekicks. Check it out HERE
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
Dungeons and Flagons July- Jump into a 4 session D&D mini campaign at Fortress Melbourne! Book Tickets HERE!
Indie Symphony 2- Witness the music of Baldur's Gate 3, UNDERTALE, Hades 2 and more! Visit this link OR use the code EARLYINDUSTRY at checkout for $20 off your ticket.
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This episode was recorded live in front of an audience at Fortress Melbourne on 26/06/2025.
Join us as we do answer an audience's burning TTRPG questions live! Erin and I (Danny) are joined by a special guest Stevie Schafer, founder of Melbourne Queer TTRPGs and host of the Aussie Role Call podcast.
You can find Stevie HERE
You can find Melbourne Queer TTRPGs HERE
Alchemical Pride - A MOA pride event at Grouse Melbourne! Come along to enjoy a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Kids on Bikes, or Big Gay Orcs on June 28th!
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
Dungeons and Flagons July- Jump into a 4 session D&D mini campaign at Fortress Melbourne! Book Tickets HERE!
Indie Symphony 2- Witness the music of Baldur's Gate 3, UNDERTALE, Hades 2 and more! Visit this link OR use the code EARLYINDUSTRY at checkout for $20 off your ticket.
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Off the heels off of some major news relating to Critical Role and Darrington Press, we decide to talk all about the company's future, the impact they're making on the TTRPG space and exactly what it means for Dungeons & Dragons.
No extra news topics today, just AAALLLLLLL Critical Role. (Also we talk about Mario Kart World for like 5 minutes at the end).
Fangs in Fitzroy - Experience Vampire the Masquerade at Pause Menu on June 20th. Book tickets HERE!
Critical Role at Pentridge- Celebrate Critical Role's upcoming Australian appearance by playing Daggerheart, Candela Obscura and D&D in Exandria on June 23rd & 24th. Book tickets HERE!
Alchemical Pride - A MOA pride event at Grouse Melbourne! Come along to enjoy a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Kids on Bikes, or Big Gay Orcs on June 28th!
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
00:00 Intro
03:27 HUGE CRITICAL ROLE NEWS
15:17 The Future of Critical Role
33:32 The Future of D&D
39:28 Our Predictions
47:45 Final Thoughts
53:59 Wrap Up/ Mario Kart
01:02:13 Upcoming Events
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Episode 37 brings another part of out 'World Building' series! This week we talk all about the importance of the genre and tone that you want your world to centre itself around.
Danny (18), Aaron (18), Erin (12)
Topic 1: Marvel Multiverse RPG: Spider-Verse. I (Danny) managed to get my grubby little hands on this expansion and wanted to share my thoughts.
Topic 2: Demeo x D&D. A new Dungeons and Dragons themed DLC coming to popular dungeon crawling videogame Demeo!
Topic 3: Riddle Register. A collection of 300+ riddles that you can add to your TTRPG game! Back now on Kickstarter HERE
Fangs in Fitzroy - Experience Vampire the Masquerade at Pause Menu on June 20th. Book tickets HERE!
Critical Role at Pentridge- Celebrate Critical Role's upcoming Australian appearance by playing Daggerheart, Candela Obscura and D&D in Exandria on June 23rd & 24th. Book tickets HERE!
Alchemical Pride - A MOA pride event at Grouse Melbourne! Come along to enjoy a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Kids on Bikes, or Big Gay Orcs on June 28th!
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
00:00 Intro
04:19 Topic 1: Marvel Multiverse RPG: Spider-Verse
19:04 Topic 2: Demio X D&D
27:19 Topic 3: Riddle Register
34:54 Main Topic: World Building: Genre/Tone
01:04:39 Wrap Up/ Upcoming Events
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It's episode 36 and this week Danny, Aaron and Erin talk all about the strange and wacky world of D&D homebrew!
Topic Initiative Order:
Aaron (13), Erin (11), Danny (2)
Topic 1: The Book of Dragons. An upcoming official book all about the lore and anatomy of dragons in the world of Dungeons and Dragons!
Topic 2: New D&D Video Game Announcement. We discuss a new video game set in the world of Dungeons and Dragons.
Topic 3: The Scion. We talk all about a new Unearthed Arcana surrounding a brand new official class for D&D called The Scion!
Fangs in Fitzroy - Experience Vampire the Masquerade at Pause Menu on June 20th. Book tickets HERE!
Critical Role at Pentridge- Celebrate Critical Role's upcoming Australian appearance by playing Daggerheart, Candela Obscura and D&D in Exandria on June 23rd & 24th. Book tickets HERE!
Alchemical Pride - A MOA pride event at Grouse Melbourne! Come along to enjoy a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Kids on Bikes, or Big Gay Orcs on June 28th!
Shadows Inside Pentridge - Lose your sanity and embrace the dark horrors of the occult by playing Call of Cthulhu at Pentridge Prison on July 23rd. Book tickets HERE!
00:00 Intro
06:18 Topic 1: The Book of Dragons
10:22 Topic 2: D&D Video Game Announced
22:06 Topic 3: The Psion
47:48 Main Topic: Homebrew in D&D
01:21:34 Upcoming Events
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