Matt and Rob talk about all the various and wonderful ways to reward your players beyond just loot and experience.

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Every couple of years, DMs Matt and Rob get curious about what systems people are playing. While there isn't a lot of data out there over the last couple of months, we've been blessed with a couple interesting new TTRPG datasets:

Bob the World Builder's RPG Poll

Foundry VTT's System Percent Installed Time-Series (2024-2026)

ratInASuit's Reddit /rpg TTRPG Community in 2025 Poll

GenCon's Latest Events

ICV2 Retail Survey Data compiled by EN World

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Matt and Rob work through some thorny issues in Rob's ongoing West Marches-style Mothership campaign. We talk about balance, character progression, loot, combat, and more! Remember, in space, no one can hear you scream (unless you pay your monthly scream subscription).

• https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53237/roleplaying-games/tempest-cluster

• https://smamwise.itch.io/weapon-stat-block-gen

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Sometimes a Game Masters needs something open, full of possibilities, a mother sauce for a GM and players to build on. Join DMs Matt and Rob to explore six generic universal role-playing games systems for when you need something vanilla for your campaigns.

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Matt is reporting live from the hometown of Steve Jackson Games and as a result his audio is not great. Sorry!

Matt and Rob do some actual prep, but this time it's a linear adventure (boo! hiss!) We sketch out a quest to bring down a decadent nobleman who is cheating death and causing mayhem with his party that never ends! Can the intrepid DMs beat the odds and make a direct line a little bit more interesting? Listen and find out!

Magnolia's Blog

Get ready to grind, because this installment of the Dungeon Master Book Club is entering Dungeon World: Earth (no, not that Dungeon World) to discuss the first several installments of DCC (no, not that DCC), the new hit LitRPG (no, not that LitRPG) series by author Matt Dinniman. Join Crawler #7137 Matt and Crawler #5039 Rob and listen, listen, listen!

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable Backerkit by Renegade Game Studios

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Matt and Rob discuss a very good blog post about old-school renaissance games: The OSR Onion. We ask important questions like: What is the philosophy of OSR? What kind of games does this philosophy enable? What does 'old' mean? Does anyone read blogs anymore?

Further reading:

Principia Apocrypha
A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming

(And many more linked in the blog, check it out!)

Feeling down in the DM dumps? DMs Rob and Matt conclude the big 400 with a discussion of campaigns, worlds, cities, places, and even histories that delight us as Game Masters.

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