It's the end of the world and we know it!
This spooky season, join us for our recap of our first time playing Shadow of the Demon Lord, a medieval-renaissance fantasy roleplaying game at the end of the world. Did our heroes* stop the Demon Lord from rising? Did they die trying? Did Matt drink demon breastmilk straight from the witch's titties?
The answers lie within. Happy Halloween!
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We're back and better than ever on SEASON 2 of Dungeons & Dialectics! After a year's hiatus, catch up with your favorite podcast about tabletop RPGs, philosophy and theology.
Part II of our dive into sin! Sounds like Joe does believe in sin, but as always, he's obnoxiously pedantic about it. Can Matt get a straight answer out of this guy and settle the debate once and for all?
There's only one way to find out... PART II
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We're back and better than ever on SEASON 2 of Dungeons & Dialectics! After a year's hiatus, catch up with your favorite podcast about tabletop RPGs, philosophy and theology.
What is sin??? Does Joe even believe in sin? And what would Dietrich Bonhoeffer have to say about shooting your friend in the back on accident?
There's only one way to find out...
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Take the Quiz here before Matt does!
Welcome back travelers! We're celebrating TWO YEARS of Tabletop RPGs, philosophy and theology by finishing up this big, bad quiz about EVERYTHING we've ever said on the podcast! Go toe to toe with Matt and Joe as we finish the quiz and reveal more secrets.
Take the Quiz here before Matt does!
Welcome travelers! We're celebrating TWO YEARS of Tabletop RPGs, philosophy and theology with a big, bad quiz about EVERYTHING we've discussed on the podcast so far! REAL fans can test their knowledge of the deep deep lore of Dungeons & Dialectics and compare their results to Matt's score after he takes the quiz LIVE on our podcast. Today.
Where does Christmas come from? Some of you may have heard it's secretly a pagan subterfuge infiltrating our beloved Jesus's bday with trees and demon worship. Some of you may have heard actually all that plus the rampant consumerism was all part of God's plan! Matt and Joe are here to set the record straight once and for all about the magical beginnings of Christmas.
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Sources
Arthur George. "Yahweh’s Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden". 2014.
Joe Wheeler. Saint Nicholas. 2010.
Kirk Cameron. Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas. 2014.
Paul Bradshaw. "The Dating of Christmas". The Oxford Handbook of Christmas. 2020.
Wikipedia. "Feast of the Annunciation". 2023.
Biblica. The Holy Bible (New International Version). 1973.
More than just a review of the hot new TTRPG Mothership! Hear about our new favorite sci-fi horror RPG by Sean McCoy, and dive into the meaning of technology and how viewing technology through Heidegger's analysis can help us understand capitalism: the true horror of Mothership.
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Sources:
Guignion, David. Theory and Philosophy Podcast: "Martin Heidegger’s ”Being and Time” (Part 1/8)". 2023.
Heidegger. The Question Concerning Technology. 1954.
Matt and Joe. "32. One D&D and the Future of D&D". 2023.
McCoy, Sean. Mothership 1e. 2023.
Quick disclaimer: Heidegger was a terrible person and a dedicated Nazi, and we will dive into what is useful about his philosophy as well as the ways his antisemitism are ingrained in his philosophy.
More than just a review of the hot new TTRPG Mothership! Hear about our new favorite sci-fi horror RPG by Sean McCoy, and dive into the meaning of technology and how viewing technology through Heidegger's analysis can help us understand capitalism: the true horror of Mothership.
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Sources:
Heidegger. The Question Concerning Technology. 1954.
Matt and Joe. "32. One D&D and the Future of D&D". 2023.
McCoy, Sean. Mothership 1e. 2023.
Quick disclaimer: Heidegger was a terrible person and a dedicated Nazi, and we will dive into what is useful about his philosophy as well as the ways his antisemitism are ingrained in his philosophy.
THERE'S MORE??? Hell yea there is! Learn about the future potentials of AI in D&D and other TTRPGs... What about an AI for every NPC in history??? Is this exciting... or terrifying?
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Sources:
The vast knowledge of Faraz
Owen S. Good, D&D publisher updates policies after AI art discovered in latest book, 2023.
Today, continue our WAY TOO LONG deep dive into AI in the game as we ask our guest Faraz about what we could do with AI. Could AI replace DMs? What about artists? Has it done so... already??? And if that's the case, does this say more about art, technology or capitalism itself?
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Sources:
The vast knowledge of Faraz
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sysiphus, 1942.
Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1957.
Owen S. Good, D&D publisher updates policies after AI art discovered in latest book, 2023.
Last time we talked about what is Artificial Intelligence. Today, we ask our guest Faraz about the limits of AI. What COULDN'T we do with AI? Is Joe's job as a professional DM in danger??? Is the PODCAST IN DANGER??? The answer to this and more today on Dungeons & Dialectics.
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Sources:
The vast knowledge of Faraz
Join us for the follow-up on this month's interview with Faraz on AI in TTRPGs like D&D, Pathfinder and Mothership. Today, we dive into what AI means for the game and for our lives! How can we use it? What does it mean?
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Sources:
The vast knowledge of Faraz
AI has the potential to change the world, but more importantly, to change the way we play TTRPGs! Join Matt and Joe as they probe the mind of artificial intelligence EXPERT and friend of the channel Faraz to find out how AI works and what that means for roleplaying games like D&D, Pathfinder and Mothership, and life as we know it.
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Sources:
The vast knowledge of Faraz
In this THRILLING episode, Matt and Joe discuss their favorite Gods--money, medicine, and sports! Given the ambiguous nature of religion, how might one play a non-standard cleric who isn't bogged down by Abrahamic presuppositions? Could my cleric score a home run while performing a triple bypass heart surgery? Seek the answers within.
Matt is being attacked from all angles by a heinous hoard of the Lord's many cruelties, so we will be back next week with a full episode. In the meantime, this is the perfect chance to acquire intimate knowledge of the person whom my bank teller won't shut up about: God "the Rod" Jehovah.
Matt offers the definitive definition of religion that captures all that we want and also everything else in this can't miss episode of DnD!
Further Adventures in the World of Metagaming from Matt and Joe
Back in 3.5 there was a terrible feat called Leadership. Find out about the surprising history of this feat and the ways it tries to solve problems and just makes more. Keep in mind, Joe has never played with this feat, but that has never stopped him from having strong opinions before!
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Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams. Dungeon Master's Guide. 2003.
We begin our journey into the most despised tactic any player of TTRPG's can deploy--metagaming! In this first episode on the subject, Joey investigates some of Matt's intuitions on what is and is not metagaming. Matt is revealed to be a weirdo with janky intuitions that don't track the phenomenon at all. Shocking!
One day, Joe woke up at 4am, spent 12 hours traveling through Panamá and Colombia, got drunk and played a game of Blades in the Dark with some friends. Listen as he struggles to remember whether or not he liked the game or even what he did, while Matt berates him for his life choices.
If we've convinced you, check out Blades in the Dark, a low-prep heist TTRPG. It's either great or terrible depending on Joe's mood.
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