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Alex Morrison
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Writer & podcaster

Dice Company pod @dicecompany.bsky.social

Journalism book https://shorturl.at/UXpiE

Fiction https://alexmorrison.co.uk/fiction/

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I joke, but I absolutely love this. 😁
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I’m putting this down to time spent seeking out clips for social media (and prep for our forthcoming Christmas quiz) 🎄🎲
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I’m putting this down to time spent seeking out clips for social media (and prep for our forthcoming Christmas quiz) 🎄🎲
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December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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🚨 Truly unhinged thing alert 🚨

This week, it's Charlie's turn to pitch for new subscribers...

If you're persuaded (🤯) click here 🎲👉 www.patreon.com/cw/Dicecompany
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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🚨 ALARM 🚨

Chapter 90 of our Small Embers D&D campaign is out now!

This week, the gang get unlimited magic - and encounter some... um... adult artworks 😮
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Come escape with the worst band of D&D adventurers you've never heard of...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Crossover for authors here too: how do you write memorable minor characters?
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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How do you create memorable NPCs?

Please share your tips! Here’s a few from our DM @tcpatrick.bsky.social
Five Tips for Creating Memorable NPCs in Your TTRPG - Dice Company Podcast
By Tom Patrick Creating memorable NPCs (Non-Player Characters) is one of the best ways to bring your tabletop RPG world to life. Whether you’re running…
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November 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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What's the most brutal TTRPG you've ever played?

We played Mothership - and it threw our players into a terrifying doom loop

Listen to part one (of four) here 🚀🎲👉 podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/m...
Crew crisis in Mothership TTRPG
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November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Our podcast is already free so please continue to enjoy it ❤️🎲
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November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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📢 NEW ARTICLE 🗞️

In this one, we share five things we've learned from the Dice Company journey so far... 🎲🎙️
Five Lessons from Running an Actual-Play Podcast - Dice Company Podcast
1. Running an Actual-Play podcast is Actual Work No one wants to hear this, but running the Dice Company Actual-Play podcast has taken more work…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Our DM @tcpatrick.bsky.social has challenged the four players to advertise our Patreon

One ad will air each week on our show. Whoever gets the most subscribers (inc free) in their week wins 🏆

First up, Dave @benniequez.bsky.social explains why you should sign up 🎲👉 www.patreon.com/cw/Dicecompany
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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🚨 ALARM 🚨

Chapter 89 of our Small Embers D&D campaign is OUT NOW!

This week, we begin an epic dungeon crawl 💀🎲👇 dicecompanypodcast.com
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November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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📢 NEW ARTICLE: Five Tips for Creating Memorable NPCs in Your TTRPG

A debut article from our mighty DM @tcpatrick.bsky.social 🎲✍️
Five Tips for Creating Memorable NPCs in Your TTRPG - Dice Company Podcast
By Tom Patrick Creating memorable NPCs (Non-Player Characters) is one of the best ways to bring your tabletop RPG world to life. Whether you’re running…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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All mythology agrees that mortals shouldn't tangle with the gods

In the new episode of the Tales of Kale Vala, Piper Joe ignores this important rule...

Full episode here 🎧🎲👉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... @richaargh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Tales of Kale Vala tells stories from the Dice Company universe in audiobook form

It's written and narrated beautifully by Richard Godden @richaargh.bsky.social

Season 2 is in progress - with part 3 out now 🎧🎲👇
Dice Company: The Tales of Kale Vala
Comedy Fiction Podcast · Monthly series · Kale ’Finn’ Vala is an archivist, explorer, chronicler and archivist. He has made his his life’s work to produce The comprehensive history of the World of Ele...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🚨 ALARM 🚨

Chapter 88 of our Small Embers D&D campaign is OUT NOW!

This week, the gang reach the ruined city of Misery - where only good things will happen...

Join the misery (!) on Spotify 🎧🎲👇
Ep 88: Welcome to Misery - Small Embers A D&D Actual Play Podcast
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🚨 NEW THING ALERT 🚨

We've got a new "articles" section on our website - covering TTRPGs, podcasting and (let's face it) all sorts of other nonsense

Check out the first article - in which our very own @alexmorrison81.bsky.social talks about his GM debut (and how our lovely Bluesky followers helped)
GM debut: three things I learned - Dice Company Podcast
By Alex Morrison I recently ran a TTRPG for the first time. I’ve played a lot of D&D – plus other systems including Mothership and…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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GM/DMs - do you ever go OVERBOARD on prep?

What did you do? Did it improve the game?

We're currently recording a new Mothership series. Charlie is mildly obsessed - even writing "death letters" from the sinister corporation that has captured our players (absolving the corporation of blame)… 🎲📝
A letter on headed paper from Dark Star, saying: "Dearest, As you may have seen from my ‘out of office’, I’m dead. You can trust that the relevant checks have been done and that my current situation is extraordinarily final. While you might speculate about defective equipment, impossible deadlines and glaringly hazardous working conditions, I want you to know, without reservation, that my death was entirely my own fault. I can’t help but worry for some of my closest friends in the Dark Star Liabilities Team, who now face the delicate task of explaining my spectacular but completely preventable demise without attracting unfair media attention. Any suggestion that Dark Star bears even a flicker of responsibility is outrageous - and should you encounter grainy footage of my death on the news, just know, it doesn’t show that moment when I did the thing that made this all my fault. Please remember me not for surviving, but for the heroic and endearing way I always overestimated my abilities. I want to be celebrated for my cavalier attitude, so feel free to talk about that - and if you could also issue your public support for Dark Star during this difficult PR cycle, I’d be forever grateful. ASSET NAME_______________________________________________________________ ASSET EMPLOYEE NUMBER___________________________________________________ ASSET SIGNATURE __________________________________________________________"
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🚨 ALARM 🚨

Chapter 87 of our Small Embers adventure is OUT NOW!

This week, an immersive audio drama featuring a host of wonderful voices - including Richard Godden & Christopher Tester

The episode is called: A King's Tale 👑🎲👇
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November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Lots of chat on here recently about whether writing/podcasting/creating is “worth it”

Here’s my tuppence worth (on the uneasy balance of making something nice & being a bottomless pit of ambition) 👉 alexmorrison.co.uk/november-202...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Fascinating how sensitive people are to sound - poor audio, silences, crosstalk, sound FX/music, people eating/belching (seriously!)

We hear you. We work hard to provide a clean, crisp audio experience - cutting crosstalk without losing a sense of real people having fun around a table 🎧🎲
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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We’ll soon launch a Dice Company blog - with articles on TTRPGs, storytelling and podcasting

Any topics you’d like to suggest? 🎲
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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In the coming weeks, our four players will each pitch "why you should join our Patreon" to our listeners

Their submissions are... quite weird (as you'd expect)

If you want to beat the rush, sign up now ❤️🎲👇
Dice Company - A D&D Actual Play Podcast | Patreon
Come escape with us...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚨 ALARM 🚨

Our Small Embers D&D campaign is BACK!

This week, the gang get back together - and a mystery from Vander's past is resolved 🎧🎲👇
Dice Company Podcast
Come escape with the worst band of D&D adventurers you've never heard of...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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New listener? Please enjoy Dice Company Bingo - a list of things that happened A LOT in our early episodes 🎲

Try the trailer here 👉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

And here's episode 1 👉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I love this - the opening of The Body (the Stephen King story that became the film Stand By Me)
A photo of a book page that says: "The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM