The Diceology Podcast
Welcome to Diceology — a podcast network for people who take their games seriously and their tables even more seriously.
I'm Mad Jay, GM-at-Large, and this feed used to be one show. Now it's four:
- Muses of Play — Sarah Doom and I muse about creativity and designers
- Dice Unknown — actual-play and behind-the-table stories pulled straight from the games I'm running.
- The Vault — All the episodes that have come before!
Think StoryCorps for gamers, spread across three shows instead of one feed doing everything badly. We talk about where games fit into people's lives, what early gaming was like, what life looks like after the dice are put away — and I still bring my own GM-at-Large adventures into it. What I'm playing, running, or prepping, at the table or online.
Whether you're chasing the latest TTRPG trends or just want the rest of the gamer's story, you're in the right feed.
Let's run those dice. 🎲 🎲 🎲
Episodes
91 episodes
Last Week in Gaming with Jay 0106
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 AwardMost evocative setting...
Last Week in Gaming With Jay 12.08
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 tracking down the fell sorcerer Gorlanc! R...
Last Week in Gaming with Jay 11.03
On the table3 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 three sessions and the game so far, the good, the bad, and what's next. Spoilers: Ell...
Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep02 - Choices
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 living in the millhouse ...
Last Week in Gaming with Jay 10.11
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 Burni...
Vena and the King of Nothing: Ep01 - Ghosts, Tengu and Owlbears!
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 forest, and an Owlbear!<...
Last Week in Gaming with Mad Jay
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
Last Week in Gaming with Mad Jay
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 ab...
Last Week in Gaming With Mad Jay
Kickstarters...WTF!!Hottest KS - Avatar Legends. The Upset -
Last Week in Gaming with Jay
Last week I ... Ran/Played:The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPla...
Last Week in Gaming with Jay
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
Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible content for blind and dyslexic students and train...
Talking NextPunk with Kira Magrann - Diceology 39
Kira is a multi-award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and LARP designer, queer nonbinary human, and snake friend living in Columbus, Ohio.Kira and I go from goth to future punk at the speed of Trans. We discuss how Kira got in...
Last Week in Gaming with Jay
Mad Jay covers his gaming from last week.Rio By Night. A Vampire the Masquerade ChronicleSorcerer: The Fallen. A Mage setting powered by
Last Week in Gaming with Rich Rogers (Edited)
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
Last Week in Gaming with Paul Beakley(Edit)
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 2015. It was a king's vault of opinions...
Last week in gaming with Jay
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!
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. Behind the scenes of
Out of the Ashes with Paul Mitchener - Diceology 33
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 and the newly Kickst...
Fifty Games over Fifty years.
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 16:20 I’ll be 50. Every year I get a skull tattoo to mark the years that I’m kicking diabetes as...