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Tycho's Tales

Tycho's Tales is an informal discussion podcast about tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. Episodes are released every Tuesday at 5 pm GMT (or, for the Kiwis, every Wednesday at 6 am NZST). Find out more about us at https://tychostales.com/about. If you enjoy the pod, please rate or review us on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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Podcasting since 2024 • 49 episodes

Tycho's Tales

Latest Episodes

Sharize's Charm of Differential Etherealness

We make up a dumb spell-of-the-week: https://tychostales.com/articles/sharizes-charm-differential-etherealness/

April 16, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 7 • 22:36

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Fantasy book club: The Wheel of Time

This episode contains a bunch of spoilers for The Wheel of Time. Obviously :)

April 09, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 6 • 58:24

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Spiral campaign development

We talk about Michael E. Shea's excellent essay on spiral campaign development, from the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding Volume 2 (Kobold Press).Michael also goes by Sly Flourish, and you can find a version of this essay on his website:

April 02, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 5 • 43:57

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First impressions of D&D: Part 2

We continue our chat with Matt about his experience playing D&D for the first time; character sheet nostalgia; player preparation etiquette; and, for some reason, again, LARPing.

March 26, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 4 • 32:14

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First impressions of D&D: Part 1

We're joined by special guest Matt to chat about his first time playing D&D. We talk about how difficult it is to get into roleplaying; discovering creativity; bad habits; and the possibly apocryphal Ocean Schlaggermine.

March 19, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 3 • 34:32

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