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The Diceology Podcast

87 EpisodesProduced by MadJayZeroWebsite

Think Story Corp for gamers. I'll talk with the folks that play the games, facilitate the games, the folks behind the scenes that make cons go and certainly the game creators. We'll cover the rest of the gamers story, like where games fit in their lives, what's life after games look like? What was e… read more

87 Episodes | 2019 - 2024

Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

An important message from RadioPublic

From Hobby to Profession: The Life of Paid Game Masters

December 24th, 2023

1:01:28

Have you ever wondered what it's like to turn your tabletop gaming passion into a profession? Judd Karlman and I chat about our extraordinary path from hobbyists to professional game masters (GMs), revealing the quirky, …

Jolt #5: Citrus Climax!

December 21st, 2023

1:08:31

Jolt and his family are hunkering down at a Hilton Garden Hotel in Jacksonville, guarded by Cherry Bomb's security. It's nearly midnight when Red-Eye …

Jolt #4: Daye & Knight (Edit)

June 28th, 2023

1:02:10

Jolt #4 - Daye & Knight

Nate and Obie encounter some extraordinary security guards when they try to make off with goods from the secret lab …

Jolt #3 - Cherry Bomb!

May 26th, 2023

47:37

Ready for an action-packed hour of gaming discussion and adventure? Join Rich and me as we delve into the world of real life and role-playing games, …

Jolt #2 -Orange Blast!

May 22nd, 2023

1:02:39

Jolt #2: Nathan interviews for the super spokesmodel position at Door Dash but gets an emergency text from his wife and leaves abruptly! 3Pain, the …

Jolt #1

April 17th, 2023

57:56

Jolt #1 - Nathan is lured into a CHIMERA experiment as they trap him on the Buckman bridge to observe his abilities! Back home, it’s parent-teacher …

2Eleven: Jolt - Champions Now AP E00(Edit)

April 12th, 2023

31:42

2Eleven returns with Jolt!

Welcome to Session Zero for Jolt! A Champions Now actual play. I feel like I must remind you I do not receive any kickbacks …

Last week in Tabletop Games with Mad Jay

April 7th, 2023

14:29

Champions Now
Jolt #2 -3 Nathan interviews for the super spokesmodel position at Door Dash but gets an emergency text from his wife and leaves …

Last week in Gaming with Whitney Delaglio!

March 13th, 2023

40:12
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Going West with Jason Lutes (edit)

December 2nd, 2022

42:08

My guests, Jason Lutes and Paul Beakley, and I get lost in the West Marches game style. Jason is currently running his second West Marches campaign …

Last week in Tabletop Games with Mad Jay

October 17th, 2022

11:15

Easily the week of the West Marches. Starting with my halfling wizard’s Arden Vul adventure to helping my local gamers launch their own IRL West …

Last Week in Gaming #25

September 16th, 2022

9:34

Fading Suns

Fading Suns on The Gauntlet. Lowell Francis trying out the system, and you can tell he’s down his prep. I’m playing an Ur-Ukar witch with …

Last Week in Gaming 0819

August 19th, 2022

9:47
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Last Week In Gaming

June 10th, 2022

10:46

Mad Jay talks about Mythras and Glorantha, Twilight: 2000, Horizon Zero Dawn, Cortex and BX D&D with Old School Essentials!

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Last Week in Gaming with Misha B

May 27th, 2022

30:24
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Last Week in Gaming with Judd (Edit)

May 12th, 2022

31:45

My guest today is a gamer I admire for his style of DMing and asking players questions. He has the uncanny ability for generating gameable premises. He is the author of the Dictionary of Mu, a favorite sword and sorcery …

Straight outta Kalisz with Geoff Hunt and Neil Carver

April 6th, 2022

46:54

I've recorded this conversation with Geoff and Neil from my Twilight: 2000 Saturday morning game. This group, this time slot, and the game are a magical thing for me right now, and I suspect for the four players as …

Last Week in Gaming - Legacy 2E Shenanigans

March 11th, 2022

19:26

Started Mothership with Judd. I'm playing a character inspired by Fox Mulder.  The pitch: Two scientists investigate the disappearance of their …

Last Week in Gaming: Rich Rogers of Plus One Forward (Edit)

February 10th, 2022

29:56

Rich Rogers, co-host of Plus One Forward and designer of Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, an ENnie award-winning street-level supers RPG joins me to talk about his gaming week - it's like a mini-con!!

Rich's Stone Top …

Last Week In Gaming: The Whitehack Dilemma

February 3rd, 2022

13:26

Running:

Whitehack + Dungeons and Dilemmas 

Twilight: 2000: Base building and sweet, sweet sandbox magic.

Legacy 2E: Life Among the Ruins. Four families …

Last Week in Gaming with Jay 0106

January 6th, 2022

11:48

The 2021 Mad Jay Picks!

Some year-end metrics and my personal game picks for:

  •  Most Surprised Experience. 
  • The Old Man Logan Award.
  • The  Lethal Sessions …

Last Week in gaming at PAX Unplugged!

December 16th, 2021

12:25
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Last Week in Gaming With Jay 12.08

December 8th, 2021

8:27

 The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs …

Last Week in Gaming with Jay 11.03

November 3rd, 2021

15:39

On the table

3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the …

Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep02 - Choices

October 17th, 2021

1:06:10

Mad Elle and I continue our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. In this episode, she has to make some choices about the humans …

Last Week in Gaming with Jay 10.11

October 11th, 2021

6:54

It's a Bye Week!!!

The One Ring was a Bye Week. Our Fellowship is in Bree to track down Gorlanc the sorcerer dwarf?! The One Ring has final PDFs released and we're pouring through looking updating our characters!

My new …

Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep01 - Ghosts, Tengu and Owlbears!

October 4th, 2021

1:17:11

We set off on our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. We learn a bit about the ghost of the murdered King, Tengu in an ancient …

Vena and the King of Nothing. Session Zero.

October 2nd, 2021

30:43
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Last Week in Gaming with Mad Jay

September 27th, 2021

8:54

We've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!!

Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the …

Last Week in Gaming with Mad Jay

September 13th, 2021

19:12

It's been a couple of weeks and I have lots to cover!

We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB!

Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and …

Last Week In Gaming With Mad Jay

August 16th, 2021

13:33
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Last Week in Gaming with Jay

July 30th, 2021

15:00

Last week I ... 

 Ran/Played:

Last Week in Gaming with Jay

July 17th, 2021

13:53

I nerd-out about designing Debtpunk and Pinx via Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse essays and my Vampire game (SPOILERS)

Played:

Tears of a Machine SC with Russell Collins(Edit) - Diceology 41

July 10th, 2021

46:11

Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible …

Last Week in Gaming with Jay

June 26th, 2021

7:03
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Talking NextPunk with Kira Magrann - Diceology 39

June 18th, 2021

35:11

Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio.

Kira and …

Last Week in Gaming with Jay

June 11th, 2021

9:24

Mad Jay covers his gaming from last week.

Last Week in Gaming with Rich Rogers (Edited)

June 5th, 2021

35:00

My good friend Rich Rogers and I talk about ALL the stuff he played last week! Rich is the creator of ENnie Award-winning Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, a ttRPG about street-level supers who protect their …

Last Week in Gaming with Paul Beakley(Edit)

May 28th, 2021

21:36

This week Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club talks about what he played last week.

Paul started the Indie Game Reading Club on Google+ in …

Last week in gaming with Jay

May 22nd, 2021

8:12


I'm back and covering the week of May 9th, let me know what you're playing in the comments or on Twitter at @madjayzero

  •  Sorcerer & Sword &

Last Week in Gaming with Jay!

May 15th, 2021

8:59

Trying out something new by request. Here's how my gaming life played out last week! Let me know if this stuff is useful to you -I'll keep doing it. 

Out of the Ashes with Paul Mitchener - Diceology 33

February 15th, 2021

1:24:05

We get out on the existential side of things with Dr. Mitch, the virtual pub landlord.

We start easy enough with beer, early gaming life in the UK, and the Virtual Pub origin story. We cover both his RPG works Liminal …

Fifty Games over Fifty years.

January 17th, 2021

10:17

It’s my birthday month. I had my midlife crisis back in my late 20s returning to civilian life after I left the military. On the 21st of January at …

All Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 2(Extended)

December 19th, 2020

1:22:53

Happy Birthday to me! This is the full, part two version of my talk with Andy Kitkowski made possible by my Patreon supporters, my gift to you!

All Day Replay with Andy Kitkowski, pt 1.

December 19th, 2020

46:20

Andy and I talk for two hours and thirty minutes. After editing, I have two hours and fifteen minutes of conversation!  This, part one, is our first hour and while we cover a lot of topics, there's a central point that …

Hard Talk with Paul Beakley

October 25th, 2020

34:46

Paul and I talk about capitalism, evil races, inclusion vs representation, safety tools, abortion...then we get into our Ars Magica game. Lots of …

September! With Jason Cordova

October 10th, 2020

41:01

Somewhere along the line, I dropped a couple of podcasts... it's Catch-up weekend! Jason Cordova and I have a solid conversation on the origins of …

The Idols of Ahrepo

October 8th, 2020

39:13

Priest returns from the crypts victorious and we discuss the *real* trials of Priest and his new quest! We are playing B/X D&D using the  Old …

In the deep end with Whitney Delaglio - Diceology 28

July 21st, 2020

32:40

Whitney Delaglio, game designer but wanted to be a Lawful Evil Dolphin. We chat about Play by post games, Aquatic paladins, and the making of her …

It's Goths...all the way down with Lucian Khan - Diceology 27

June 28th, 2020

31:56



I got a chance to sit down with Lucian Khan and talk about quarantine life in NY. His early game roots with NES, and playing "secret" Vampire the masquerade games! Lucian is the creator of Dead Friend RPG (it's about …

Big Damn Hero #03: That Damn Cat!

June 6th, 2020

44:46

In Champions Now Edwards talks about the Now, the stuff that's already in action at the start of a session. We are 'playing it cool' with the Now in …

Happy Anniversary!!

May 26th, 2020

18:49

I catch up with Maxwell before rambling on about the stuff you talk about when you're celebrating your one year anniversary.

with Rich Rogers

April 28th, 2020

50:52

Rich Rogers joins me today and we run the bases!!

We start with his current play of Minimum Rage RPG, a spin-off of the Mutant Year Zero Engine then …

Big Damn Hero #2: Solids

April 23rd, 2020

1:02:08

Detective Armstead brings Kurt on a witness relocation job, only someone has plans to move that witness to the grave. Join Charles Picard and I as we continue our Champions Now series. We talk about presence attacks, …

Big Damn Hero #1: Idaho

April 16th, 2020

1:09:55

The Witness Protection Services in Spokane, WA. gets a brand new client. Kurt Renfro. He's a mid-level super-villain F.K.A Bone from the east. He's settling into his new life in the WitSec program.

Welcome to our run of

The Young Mandalorian Actual Play - Two Clients, One Bounty.

April 14th, 2020

28:00

In Episode Two, the Young Mandalorian returns to the Steel having taken on a new bounty...from two different clients!

We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire with the books: No Disintegrations (Bounty …

Stepping into the ring with Nathan D. Paoletta

April 10th, 2020

1:24:43

On today’s show, we chat up Nathan D. Paoletta about the 2nd edition of World Wide Wrestling RPG which is running on Kickstarter

We cover NDP game

Changing the Script with Beau Sheldon

March 31st, 2020

41:29

Today we welcome game designer, Beau Sheldon, to the show to talk about his life in gaming. Beau is the creator of Script Change and the author behind Thoughty! He has created several games, the most recent and dear of …

The Young Mandalorian Actual Play

March 9th, 2020

28:03

We begin our Young Mandalorian series on the Steel, a floating shadow port tracking down an AWOL stormtrooper. We're playing Fantasy Flight Games: Edge of the Empire. One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.

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The Incredible Misha B

March 9th, 2020

35:53

Joining us is game designer and extraordinary player, Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and More Seats at the Table!

Show notes

James Mendez-Hodes pilots the Funkadelic Mothership

February 1st, 2020

1:21:00

From the starships, Jersey City and Manhattan to the OG rapping Greeks and the Wu-Tang Larp, James and I go long and wide in this episode most …

Happy New year with Rich Rogers

January 21st, 2020

1:00:47

I catch up with Rich after the holidays and talk about what's ahead for 2020. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, …

2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E03

November 7th, 2019

38:16

Max and I continue playing D&D using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome. Max is playing Priest the Cleric of the god of Ahrepo. We are …

2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E02

October 7th, 2019

41:52

We continue our 'Trials of Priest' D&D B/X game using the Old school Essentials from Necrotic Gnome Old dogs and new faces come for those idols …

Free League's Mattias Haake on Symbaroum RPG

October 3rd, 2019

38:46

We cover a lot of Symbaroum ground and the origins of Fria Ligan! We get into the new Alien RPG and Mattias talks about what he likes best about …

2Eleven: BX D&D with Maxwell E01

September 19th, 2019

8:50

In this VERY short actual play, Priest returns to Westhold with a strange raven idol.

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2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 05

September 18th, 2019

39:39

Rich Rogers resumes GM duties for his superhero game Hit the Streets: Defend the Block. I play the 'grinking' hero Traceur. Tonight it's Traceur Vs. BetaMax!

The extended version of this episode where we discuss our …

Free Spacer with Christoph Sapinsky

September 13th, 2019

46:41

Christoph Sapinsky and I talk about sci-fi sandboxes and Free Spacer, then we squeeze in some Dungeon World! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We …

My Life in a 1970s girl gang and the mutant problem.

August 30th, 2019

13:21

Sarah Doombringer runs Velvet Glove and I get shanked in the school bathroom! Listen to me nerd out about Hickman's X-Men and what it means to me. …

2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 02

August 27th, 2019

29:27

Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.

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2Eleven: Hit the Streets: Defend the Block 01

August 27th, 2019

31:49

Rich Rogers and I dive into his Kickstarter funded game of street-level supers. Hit the Streets: Defend the Block One Player. One GM. One Hour. To Eleven.

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There has to be an Invisible Sun

August 23rd, 2019

50:13

Paul Beakley of Indie Game Reading Club fame and I cover Paul's initial reads and thoughts of Invisible Sun RPG. Spendy games and my own largest game …

Getting HARDWIRED with Mike Pondsmith

August 8th, 2019

30:53

At GenCon 2019 I got to sit and talk with Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk, Mekton, and Macross! Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks …

What I did at Gencon 2019

August 6th, 2019

14:11

GenCon 2019 Recap.

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Game designer Liz Chaipriditkul

July 23rd, 2019

36:27

Liz Chaipriditkul and I talk about gaming with friends, the Afterlife RPG Kickstarter and Invisible Sun. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to …

Hitting the Streets with Rich Rogers

July 16th, 2019

38:00

Rich and I nerd out on Star Wars, hacking games and Play-by-post games and Hutt Cartel. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that …

Game Designer Camdon Wright : Ep 08

June 28th, 2019

32:45

I sit down and talk with the incredibly human, Camdon Wright about his 50 state gaming tour and his successful Kickstarter _One Child's Heart_ and …

Origins 2019 Recap : Ep07

June 21st, 2019

29:33

Jeremiah and I recap our games at Origins 2019 and Games on Demand. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and …

Game Designer Chris Spivey : Ep05

June 14th, 2019

43:22

Talking Scotch, Military Service and Cthulhu with Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios. Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that …

MadJay muses : Ep04

June 7th, 2019

13:27

Mad Jay muses about the Year Zero Engine OGL, Planet 9 and West Marches gaming.

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Game designer Sarah Doombringer : Ep03

May 31st, 2019

34:51

Episode 03: Sarah Doombringer talks with me about horror, the 70s, babies and her dream table! Think NPR’s Story Corp for gamers. I’ll talk to gamers, facilitators and creators. I’m a fan of all the things that bring us …

Game Talk with Paul Beakley : Ep02

May 23rd, 2019

30:30

We spout game-wise with Paul Beakley of Indie Game Reading Club about game convention schedules, Paid DMing, LARPs, and game campaign length. Think …

Diceology Bonus Show: 2Eleven with Rich Rogers

May 21st, 2019

21:58

Diceology Bonus episode of 2Eleven. 1 GM. 1Player. 1 Hour. We go to Eleven. Rich returns to his character of Samir in our series two run of Coriolis. …

Pilot : Ep01

May 17th, 2019

10:07

Think Story Corp for gamers. I'll talk with the folks that play the games, facilitate the games, the folks behind the scenes that make cons go and …

New Podcast Who dis? Ep: 000

May 1st, 2019

5:18

What's Diceology all about?

Think NPR Story Corps for gamers. We talk to the folks that play, facilitate and create games.

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