Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

Geoffrey Zatkin (@geoffreyzatkin) and Demetri Detsaridis (@detsaridis) from Experiment 7 call in from GDC to unload their D&D-cred on us and the possibilities of VR starting with Dungeon Chess! Hosts Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito) do some time-traveling talk of snow. Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett (@Sernett) talks about the fun of the Moonshae Isles, an archipelago full of interesting and sometimes contrasting cultures. Thanks to @VeritableTwenty for the topic suggestion!

Jerry Holkins from Penny Arcade calls in to speak effusively about his Acquisitions Inc. C Team stream, what he's doing during PAX East, and blacking out on stage with a loopy Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo) and Greg Tito (@gregtito). Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett (@Sernett) goes into depth on White Plume Mountain, one of the adventures from Tales from the Yawning Portal.

Bart Carroll (@bart_carroll) and Trevor Kidd (@the_trevor_kidd) take over hosting duties as John Darnielle, leader of the folk-rock group The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats), dropped by the office to chat about his new novel Universal Harvester, his music and how D&D is a throughline. Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett (@Sernett) speaks with missing host Greg Tito on the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.

The veteran game designer from Cryptic Studios, Thomas Foss, rejoins the podcast to discuss the next module coming to Neverwinter based on four mages returning to the city. Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett (@Sernett) and Chris Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDND) go into the first series of adventure modules published by TSR, collectively called Against the Giants.

Tanya DePass (@cypheroftyr) has played D&D for years and she brings her experience in talking about diversity in gaming to creating D&D characters and her shared love of Dragon Age 2 with Greg Tito. Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett (@Sernett) and Chris Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDND) discuss the iconic Tomb of Horrors adventure in Tales from the Yawning Portal. Plus, guest host Bart Carroll joins the podcast to talk about Dragon+.

You may know Joe Manganiello (@JoeManganiello) from True Blood and the Magic Mike films, and he'll be playing Deathstroke in the next Batman movie. In talking to Greg Tito (@gregtito) and Shelly Mazzanoble (@shellymoo), Joe geeks out about all things D&D, fantasy, and comics. Sage Advice – Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) goes over reaction timing in initiative order.

Video game and fantasy writer Matt Colville (@mattcolville) talks with us about getting into Dungeon Mastering, which he expounds upon in his YouTube videos. Sage Advice – Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) discusses temporary hit points and some the design and confusion about it.

Two early adopters of streaming live D&D play online, J.P. McDaniel (@itmejp) and Adam Koebel (@skinnyghost) call in to chat with us about their inspiration. In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett go into detail on the recent happenings in the Forgotten Realms.

Kobold in Chief Wolfgang Baur visits the show to check in with us, talk about his recent DMing for Girl Scouts and what's coming down the pipe in 2017 for Kobold Press. In Sage Advice, Jeremy Crawford wades into the mire of spell targeting and clears away the muck to provide clarity.

The son of D&D co-creator Gary Gygax calls in to talk with about his father's legacy and the upcoming GaryCon he runs in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins talk more about Blackstaff and what that means in the Forgotten Realms.

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito speak to Monica Valentinelli, a prolific creative writer with heavy involvement in all forms of D&D from adventure writing to running and playing games with new players. In Lore You Should Know – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins jump into the Yawning Portal.

Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito talk with an old friend of Dragon Talk, Mr. Jeff Greiner from second longest running D&D podcast: The Tome Show! In Lore You Should Know, Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett go over holidays and the calendar in the Forgotten Realms. Happy Holidays! We're taking a few weeks off but Dragon Talk will return in 2017!

Special guest David Eddings from Gearbox Software calls in and talks (a lot) about how he got way into D&D late in life, how he recorded the voice of an iconic character from Borderlands, and how he spoke about his cousin the fantasy author with George R. R. Martin. Before that, Lore You Should Know jumps into a pivotal moment in the Forgotten Realms with Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins – the Sundering!

We hear from some of the folks (DM Reid and Kelsey who plays Brenna) behind the awesome Sneak Attack Podcast, a live play but slightly edited D&D audio adventure. The return of Lore You Should Know! – Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins join Greg Tito to discuss the positive and negative planes in D&D cosmology.

D&D is all about creativity and David Reid from MetaArcade (@pokethulhu) talks about a product he's bringing to mobile and PC to help burgeoning D&D players write their own simple adventures for their friends to enjoy. Sage Advice - Jeremy Crawford (@jeremyecrawford) sheds some light on how the Lucky feat interacts with advantage and disadvantage rolls.

On this special Thanksgiving Day episode, we are proud to present a previously unknown part of D&D history – a pilot for a D&D radio show created in 1982 by TSR. Archivist Jon Peterson uncovered this recording and allowed us to present it in full, with plenty of commentary from Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble.

Our friends from L.A., Satine Phoenix and Ruty Rutenberg call in to talk about starting a D&D live stream, playing Eberron in fifth edition and where to get good elf ears, not necessarily in order. We also introduce a new segment called Sage Advice with Jeremy Crawford, lead rules developer for D&D, to clarify rules that affect Armor Class like barkskin and cover.

Veteran author, Matt Forbeck, calls in to chat about his long history with D&D and what you can find in Dungeonology, an introduction to adventuring in the Forgotten Realms. Lore You Should Know – Goblins are crazy little jerks, but Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins talk about they sometimes work together with hobgoblins and bugbears.

The D&D team has honed the process of making books like Volo's Guide to Monsters down to a science and Jeremy Crawford and Emi Tanji are a big part of the reason why. Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble get them to open up about what you can find in that book in this episode's interview. Lore You Should Know – Orcs are pretty cool in Volo's Guide to Monsters, says Matt Sernett and Chris Perkins.

Rock musician Ben Kweller has been a fan of D&D for a long time and we spoke with him about what it's like to play with his crew while on tour, and getting his kids into the game. Lore You Should Know – Chris Perkins explains what makes gnolls special in Volo's Guide to Monsters.