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Red Dice Diaries
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Tabletop DM from the Midlands in the UK, mostly run old-school style games and retroclones but every now and then dip into other types of RPG; also host of the Red Dice Diaries Youtube channel and podcast on Substack.

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In this episode of the podcast, Hannah and I are talking to one of our friends, streamer and LARPer Rob Benefer about his history with D&D, how he runs/preps games and what the perfect version of D&D would look like for him:

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Talking D&D with Rob Benefer
In this episode of the podcast Hannah and myself are talking to one of our friends Rob Benefer about his history with D&D, how he runs games and what his perfect version of the game would be.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Just had great fun chatting to my friend Rob Benefer about his history with D&D for the podcast, hopefully have that edited and uploaded for the end of the week 🙂👍
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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In session 21 of our #RoughNightsHardDays #WFRP2E campaign, Davandrel and Konrad confront the necromance Ulbrecht Von Dammit in his estate, things look grim but help arrives from an unexpected quarter:

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Rough Nights Hard Days session 20
☠ VON DAMMIT! ☠
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November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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When you're buying a new rug and you begin to wonder if your love of hex crawls has gone too far? 😉
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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In this episode of the #LastRolloftheWeek podcast I'm talking about one of the first books I read when I started getting interested in the hobby:

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Fantasy Wargaming: Games with Magic & Monsters
In this episode I’m going to be talking about one of the first books I read, way back in the 90s when I first started to dip my toes into the hobby.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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When you try to back up your Obsidian Notes TTRPG vault to GitHub and it doesn't work, you then check Down detector and see a massive spike of others having the same/similar problems 👾
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Now my chores are done for Sunday just a bit of time to noodle around with my campaign world of Altherra on #ObsidianNotes. Not all of this will be used in our next few campaigns, but I'm squeezing in a lot of stuff from supplements/campaigns that I like.

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November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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In this episode of the #LastRolloftheWeek podcast we're answering a voicemail from Riley of the Diagetic Advancement podcast and talk about how having an OOC interval can be valuable to your game:

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OOC Intervals
In this episode of the podcast we start by answering a voicemail from Riley of the Diagetic Advancement podcast and then move on to talk about some of the benefits of occasionally stepping out of…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Very enjoyable session of WFRP 2E this evening, where one of our heroes made the ultimate sacrifice to save his fellows 🗡️
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The latest write-up for our #RoughNightsHardDays #WFRP2E campaign is now out, the heroes find themselves cast on the shadowy shores of Morr's realm:

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Rough Nights Hard Days session 18
💀SOLD UP THE RIVER 💀
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November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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In session 17 of our #RoughNightsHardDays #WFRP2E campaign our heroes face spiritual trials in Athel Loren as hordes of orcs fall on both the forest and the dwarfhold of Karak Azgaraz.

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Rough Nights Hard Days session 17
🌿VISIONS OF THE WILD 🌿
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October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The spooky season is upon us, Hannah and myself have been watching horror films and some recent watches have made us think how cool a tavern, monster siege scenario could be in a tabletop RPG:

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Taverns vs Monsters
It’s getting near to the spooky time of year and, as is our tradition, Hannah and myself have been watching horror movies, a few that we saw recently have made us think about running a tavern siege…
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October 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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In our latest #WFRP4E session of #TheEnemyWithin campaign, our heroes attempt to infiltrate a Middenheim warehouse that they believe is serving as a base of operations for a powerful necromancer:

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The Enemy Within Campaign Session 33
💀 WAREHOUSE OF THE DEAD 💀
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October 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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That latest addition to my WFRP-adjacent collection.
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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In session 16 of our #WFRP2E campaign our heroes desperately hope to persuade the Asrai to join their alliance, but nothing is won without sacrifice beneath the boughs of the forest...

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Session 16 write-up for Rough Nights & Hard Days Campaign
FORESTS OF THE DEAD
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October 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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In the latest session of our #WFRP4E #TheEnemyWithin campaign, our heroes continue investigatingSkaven in Middenheim but discover a plot concerning a new dangerous drug on the streets:

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The Enemy Within Campaign Session 312
🕯︎ SEWER BOUND 🕯︎
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September 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In the most recent session of our #RoughNightsHardDays #WFRP2E campaign our heroes have been charged by the Green Knight with retrieving a suit of Bretonnian armour from the chaos-infested Blood Keep.

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Session 15 write-up for Rough Nights & Hard Days Campaign
CHARGE OF THE GREEN KNIGHT
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September 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Woohoo! My Dolmenwood delivery has just turned up 🌳🙂🌳
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September 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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These chunky boys arrived this morning, have been loving the pdfs so great to have the hard copies in my hand 🙂
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September 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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In session 31 of our #TheEnemyWithin #WFRP4E campaign our heroes begin to unravel the dastardly plans of the villainous Skaven who lurk below Middenheim:

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The Enemy Within Campaign Session 31
🐀 UNDER INVESTIGATION🐀
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September 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In our latest session of our #WFRP2E #RoughNightsHardDays campaign, our heroes are forced to face the minions of the plague god Nurgle in the small farming town of Hugeldal:

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Session 14 write-up for Rough Nights & Hard Days Campaign
NURGLE'S ROT
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September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I've been doing some more messing around with maps for a future campaign, set in the same world as my previous Smoke & Snow games:

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September 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Great article on Follow Me and Die about creating a campaign world to run games in:

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Building A New World For My Convention Scenarios | Follow Me And Die!
For the last few weeks I have been streaming on Friday night from 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm on Twitch.
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September 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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In today's episode, Hannah and myself are discussing lethal situations in RPGs, whether you should prepare your player party for them, we also answer a voicemail from Evil Jeff of Minions & Musings:

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Preparing for Lethal Situations in RPGs
In this episode Hannah and myself are discussing an upcoming, potential lethal situation in my WFRP 2nd ed campaign and how I’m planning to prepare the player group for it, we also talk about the…
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September 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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It’s the final day of #RPGaDay2025, Hannah and myself are rewarding ourselves by cracking open a couple of cold ones and talking about what we find to be the most rewarding part of the hobby.

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RPGaDay 31: Reward
It’s the final day of #RPGaDay2025, Hannah and myself are rewarding ourselves by cracking open a couple of cold ones and talking about what we find to be the most rewarding part of the hobby.
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August 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM