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Rene Plays Games

Hi! I’m Rene (pronounced Rainy) and I want to share my love of roleplaying games with you! Join me as I play through smaller publisher games, talk design and gaming topics with friends, and explore all the ways you can be a better game master or player.

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01:40:08

Perspective Checks | Steve Morrison (Errant...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/07/08

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! The first of two Perspective Checks this month on RPGs and their intersection with creative writing is with Steve Morrison of Errant Adventures, an excellent solo actual play podcast which has followed a sci-fi epic through multiple seasons (appropriately called Books) using different systems and more! Steve is also one half of the

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53:59

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 12 - The Dark Heart...

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2025/07/01

Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. As Cassidy & crew make their way to the Kyrody capital of Carcordia to make contact with the Ebb and find out what's next, Azriel Stirling avoids Kyrody law enforcement by hiding out down in the ruins below the capital, and he's not the only one down there... Learn more about Ironsworn here. ----more---- I made a Ko-Fi if you feel absurdly generous and

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01:16:16

Perspective Checks | Adrian & Alex (Dungeons &...

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2025/06/24

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! In the 2nd community-focused Perspective Checks of the month, Adrian & Alex from the Dungeons & Degrees Podcast come on to talk about navigating the TTRPG space and finding your people. We keep it silly, do a little self-therapy, but talk a lot about how important it is to not just look for a table where you feel like you can

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01:02:30

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 11 - Free From...

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2025/06/17

Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy and the crew of the Revenant are on their way back to the main island of Kyros to meet up with an Ebb contact in the capital city of Carcordia. Along the way, Cassidy attempts to reverse the Bloodsworn curse on Marama, but their ship is recognized in the middle of the ritual, and old grudges against Raskhar must finally be put to rest. Learn more

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01:22:27

Perspective Checks | Matt Caulder (Whatcha Doing?) -...

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2025/06/10

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! June is (apparently) community month here on Perspective Checks, and the first interview is with Matt Caulder, host of the Whatcha Doing? Podcast, a wonderful interview podcast with creators about their projects, as well as Twitch Streamer (video & card games), and more! I very much recommend Matt's podcast and streams as he is an

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50:25

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 10 - Disruption

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2025/06/04

Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. After cleansing the second altar, the Bloodsworn are affected and taken aboard the Revenant, which is also experiencing negative effects. The crew make for safe harbor on the island of Nuboka, headquarters of the Cynosure Society and Explorer's Guild to rest and recuperate, and Damaris Iver makes contact with an Ebb spy to relay information and make moves back

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54:10

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 9 - The Puzzle Altars

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2025/05/27

Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. The small crew of the Revenant scatter to fight the Bloodsworn who have ambushed them at the second altar, and when Cassidy enters the narrow tunnels of the sea cave system where the altar lies, she finds more traps and puzzles await... Learn more about Ironsworn here. ----more---- I made a Ko-Fi if you feel absurdly generous and want to help cover podcast

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01:39:57

Pespective Checks | A Couple of Drakes - Jammin' on...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/05/20

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! Perspective Checks #2 this month! I'm joined by the prolific duo A Couple of Drakes to talk about their journey in the TTRPG space. If you don't recognize the name, maybe you've heard of any of their incredible games out there, like: Court of Blades - Political Intrigue Forged in the Dark! Dead Belt - Solo/Co-op Space Salvage

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44:28

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 8 - Next Steps

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2025/05/13

Get MECH & more in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio Itch Bundle! Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy has an experience with the island of Nameera, but while she is unconscious her crew struggles to escape the island unscathed. After a short sojourn with the nomadic Sularia, the crew splits up to follow up on information from the expedition of Nameera, but both groups walk straight

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01:08:00

Perspective Checks | Game Master Mom - Tales of...

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2025/05/06

Go check out Tales of Aetheria - An Unexpected Quest on Kickstarter now! Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! For the first Perspective Checks this month I'm joined by Nicole, a.k.a. Game Master Mom to talk about playing TTRPGs with kids and her upcoming children's book / TTRPG for kids Tales of Aetheria! Nicole has an amazing social media persona where she gives great

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47:04

Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard | One-Player One-Shot

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2025/04/22

Get MECH & more in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio Itch Bundle! Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Time for a little one-player one-shot! I sat down to play Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard by Amanda P! This is a prompt-based solo game about playing the last knight or other capable member of the Sun Guard setting off on a pilgrimage to an ancient holy site for the order. It captures a lot of classic romantic stories, myths, and more but as soon as I was done I just wanted to run it

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50:50

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 7 - Writing on the...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/04/15

Get MECH & more in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio Itch Bundle! Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy & Senator Minos explore the cavern full of mysterious glyphs, but struggle to make sense of the complicated language. Leigh does his best to interpret for the island's bound souls but trouble is closing in on all sides, and Cassidy pushes herself too far. Learn more about

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01:01:46

Perspective Checks | Peach (the Dice Sisters) -...

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2025/04/08

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month I'm joined by Peach of The Dice Sisters discord! They're a community who helps curate and provide safe gaming space for women, nonbinary, and trans TTRPG players. As I say early on in the episode, I'd love to believe that the community at large is as welcoming and accepting a place as I believe it to be because of fortunate

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57:02

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 6 - Undercurrents

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/04/01

Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy leads the Revenant to a mysterious island at the behest of Senator Minos. Along the way, Damaris Iver describes the terrible secrets he began to uncover about the Kyrody Dominion's use of sky iron, the nature of these islands in the Heart of the Dominion, and the picture begins to come into focus. On the island, Cassidy and Senator Minos rush into a

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01:21:03

Tabletop Tutorial | Hunt(er/ed) with Troy from DMs...

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2025/03/25

Join the DMs After Dark discord! Tabletop Two-torial! It's the second episode of this two-player "learn a game together" series and this time I'm joined by Troy from the DMs After Dark for a game of Hunt(er/ed) by Meghan Cross & Dillin Apelyan of the One Shot Podcast Network! Hunt(er/ed) is a game of a hunter and a monster, and the back and forth in the game of life and death between them. The mechanics are SO fun and involve literally racing to try and roll doubles on dice faster, and then

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54:26

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 5 - Severed...

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2025/03/18

Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy has reached Damaris Iver in the guise of the companion Blythe Bannister, but Leigh senses trouble coming to stop their prison break. Someone much higher up the social power ladder has taken an interest into the unfolding events that Cassidy has found herself wrapped up in, and she may just be overmatched... Learn more about Ironsworn here. ----more---- I made a Ko-Fi if you feel absurdly

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01:05:24

Perspective Checks | Christian (DMs After Dark) -...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/03/11

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with friends and folks from the TTRPG world and discuss what they love about this wonderful hobby! This month is LONG overdue and is a sit down and chat with Christian from the DMs After Dark about playing games in sandbox worlds. Christian and I have been friends for many years now and have been fueling one another's RPG collecting and dissecting obsessions, and it's always great to sit down with him and talk games. Christian

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56:58

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 4 - Narrow Escapes

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/03/04

Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Having fled the horrible ambush on the sky island, Cassidy gets back to the Revenant just as several ships close in on the sky island for their own chance to reap the rare sky iron resources - known in the Dominion as oléthrios iron. She musters the crew and sails boldly back through the ships and meets back up with Quon to plan out the jailbreak of Damaris Iver, an Ebb Investigator currently being held

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24:59

Mining Media | Rom-Coms & Romance at the Table

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/02/25

Welcome back to Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences by missing my chance to say the right thing, then botching the chance I got to redeem myself, then thinking it's all hopeless until the stars align and we're standing across from one another in the first place we ever met... We're talking Romance! Continuing our February Valentine's theme through to Mining Media, let's talk about the oft-ill-handled but ever so tempting and promising idea of romantic plots in your

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49:51

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 3 - Races Against Time

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/02/18

Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. After a brief conversation with Quon, the clockwork contact for the Ebb, about freeing an important prisoner in Deepwater Harbor's dungeons, Cassidy rushes to fulfill her iron vow to Church of the Enduring Servant's Inquisitor Azriel Stirling to protect the crew of the Enduring Blade as they claim it for resources. However, when the Revenant arrives before any others, Cassidy investigates the sky island

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