The World of RPGs

Overview

This podcast is about tabletop role-playing games around the world. In every episode, I interview RPG enthusiasts and professionals from a non-English speaking country about what games they play, what unique RPGs exist in their country, and how new people get into the hobby. Interviewees include regular gamers, club organizers, game shop owners, creators of actual play videos, RPG authors, and gaming studios.  While some places are known for their large role-playing scene and have a lot of local RPG systems, other regions of the world have smaller scenes and might not even have a single RPG in the local language. Every regular episode ends with a teaser for the next country – an excerpt from an actual play recording in that country’s language. The aim of this podcast is to broaden our horizon and find out about RPGs from all over the world. Enjoy!

Links

letscast.fm https://letscast.fm/podcasts/the-world-of-rpgs-84187839/feed - Feed and show notes spotify.com https://open.spotify.com/show/0z4WwX6EQ1uWSA2G0WybqK - Spotify feed podcasts.apple.com https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-world-of-rpgs/id1638334905 - Apple Podcasts feed

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RollQuest
Tools & Platforms

RollQuest

Virtual tabletop (VTT)
English
Dungeons & Dragons
RollQuest is a virtual tabletop (a VTT: software that stands in for the physical table when a group plays a tabletop roleplaying game online, or in the same room with a screen) that runs entirely in the browser. There is nothing to download and nothing to host. The Game Master opens a game, players open a link, and everyone sees the same map, tokens, dice and fog of war at the same moment. It is built for Dungeons & Dragons first. Both current rule sets are included as rules packs: 5e (the 2014 rules) and 5.5e (the 2024 rules), on the SRD 5.2.1. The GM picks one when creating a game, and the character sheets, conditions and combat follow it. The board itself, meaning the maps, tokens, lighting, fog, dice and audio, works for any system; the rules packs add the sheet maths and combat automation on top. The core table is free and does not expire. On the Free plan a GM gets fog of war with walls, doors and token vision; dynamic lighting with torches that follow tokens; physics-based 3D dice that everyone watches land; character sheets that calculate modifiers, saves, skills, hit points and spell slots, with a guided builder and ready-made pregens; Battle Mode, which rolls initiative, tracks turns on the map and puts conditions on tokens; scene music and a sound library; and chat with whispers and roll history. Up to eight players plus the GM can join a game on every plan. Content packs are whole campaigns ready to run: maps, scenes, tokens, NPCs, journal entries and handouts. Any plan can load one from the marketplace and have a session the same evening. Character sheets and decks live on a player's account rather than in one campaign, so they travel between games. RollQuest is in beta, and ships new features most months. The team takes feature requests and bug reports on its Discord server.

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HewnHero
Tools & Platforms

HewnHero

English
Free
Character sheets
HewnHero.app is a free D&D 5e and 5.5e Character builder that uses a GitHub-hosted, JSON-based, SRD-only (5.1 and 5.2) database that you can clone and add your own material.

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Sheet Goblin
Tools & Platforms

Sheet Goblin

English
Free
Character sheets
Sheet Goblin turns digital tabletop RPG characters into printable sheets. Sheet Goblin supports character generation for the Nimble RPG and translates your character abilities from dndbeyond and prints a reference Action Menu page sorted by the moment you’d use each thing — move, attack, defend, get hurt, heal. Free to try. Nothing to install.

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