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PODCAST

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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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) -...

Rene Plays Games ·

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...

Rene Plays Games ·

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...

Rene Plays Games ·

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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01:22:15

[Bonus] Star Crossed Valentine's Special!

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/02/11

Happy Heart Day! As a bonus episode for the month of February (and because we love a good reason to do a holiday themed session), I've brought my wife Lynn back for a Valentine's Day one-shot. Last year was the not-so-romantic Call of Cthulhu scenario, but this year we're really leaning into the theme with... Star Crossed by Alex Roberts! A game about two characters with a forbidden love, who really really want to, but really really can't! We decide to keep the TTRPG vibes strong and go with a

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47:10

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 2 - Vows in Blood...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/02/04

Welcome back to the Heart of the Dominion and season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. In this episode, Cassidy negotiates with Azriel - an Inquisitor of the Church of the Enduring Servants and the resurrected brother of her ghost lover Leigh Stirling. After swearing an iron vow to protect the Enduring Blade in the upcoming race to the sky isle, she then reflects on the vow made in blood to her ship, The Revenant, and travels to the city of Crania on the largest island of Kyros, home of

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01:25:56

Perspective Checks | Tanya Floaker - Mum Chums & the...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/02/01

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's episode is dropping on the first of the month because Tanya Floaker's newest game Mum Chums is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter! Tanya is a game designer, writer, and consultant out of Edinburgh, Scotland and they are someone I've always enjoyed hearing their WEALTH of knowledge about roleplaying games all over the

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02:01:16

Tabletop Tutorial | i'm sorry did you say street...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/01/28

A new series?! I hope so! I'd love to make this concept for a monthly episode happen, so if you have a game that you're itching to play but have no one to play it with, please email me at reneplaysgamespod@gmail.com ! For the very first Tabletop Tutorial I'm joined by Dan Bronson-Lowe of Almost Bedtime Theater, a podcast of a father and daughter (and her cousin) who learn and play TTRPGs together. You may also know Dan as the creator of the Crit Award winning solo TTRPG The Librarian's Apprentice

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59:02

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 1 - Threads Take Shape

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/01/21

Aaaaand it's officially begun! Ironsworn: Sundered Isles season 2 is underway with the first episode of this series. Cassidy makes her way to the Talan Flotilla, a neutral collection of traders dealing in vice and smuggling in Kyrody waters, to track down the captain of the Enduring Blade, who may or may not have valuable information toward achieving her goal of ridding herself of her ex-lover's ghost haunting her. Learn more about Ironsworn here. ----more---- If you haven't but you'd like to,

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53:28

Perspective Checks | Amber & Jess (DMs After Dark) -...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/01/14

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's episode is a late upload from last year, but it fits perfectly well to kick off 2025 - we're talking about getting into TTRPGs with Amber & Jess from DMs After Dark, my original RPGs on the internet homies! We talk about how to approach playing as a new player, where to find games, how to best communicate and find a

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01:23:59

Ironsworn: Sundered Isles | Season 2 - Campaign Creation

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/01/07

We're back for season 2 of Ironsworn: Sundered Isles and this time the story will be taking place shortly after the conclusion of Dyne's story from last year in a very different location - The Heart of the Kyrody Dominion itself! Rene goes through the campaign creation steps to adjust some of the Truths from season 1 to reflect for the new part of the world this story takes place in, creates his character for the game - Cassidy McCabe, a Haunted Cutthroat Spy - and makes a map of the Myriads we'll

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22:59

2024 Retrospective | Rene Plays Games, Year 1

Rene Plays Games ·

2024/12/31

Fill out the Google Form here! It has been 1 full year of my foray into the world of podcasting all on my own, and wow has it been a fulfilling one! I go over some stats, numbers, achievements, goals met and yet to be accomplished, and talk about some more I have for 2025. I am so grateful for anyone out there listening, and I really hope I've shown you a game that makes you want to explore a new way of playing games, or introduced you to a creator you've come to love, or anything that you

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45:24

Bucket of Bolts | Sleigh Full of Santas Holiday...

Rene Plays Games ·

2024/12/24

Happy Merry & hope your holidays are going wonderfully cozy, easy, and not at all stressful. In this Christmas Eve solo holiday special, I'm reskinning Jack Harrison a.k.a. Mousehole Press' Bucket of Bolts from a futuristic spaceship POV experience to inhabiting the iconic sleigh of St. Nicholas himself, instead playing as the sleigh for the many Santas throughout the centuries. It's short, simple, and fun, but definitely made me think about how I would run this game if I was playing in a

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03:01:55

LOOT | Sleigh Down Slayground - Holiday One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2024/12/17

Happy holidays! I'm a sucker for holiday themed one-shots, so here we are taking the very cool LOOT by GilaRPGs and reskinning all of its West Marches fantasy goodness into cartoon holiday movie shenanigans! I'm joined by Troy and Jess from the DMs After Dark, friend of the DMs Eileen (@comradeeileen.bsky.social), and home group homie returning to the show Raso (Raso's Beacon) as we play through a holiday themed LOOT sleigh down event. Santa has crashed the sleigh in Tinsel Town (really?) and

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01:08:54

Perspective Checks | Star (Characters Without...

Rene Plays Games ·

2024/12/10

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! 2024's Perspective Checks episodes come to a close with Star from the *amazing* Characters Without Stories podcast as we talk about failure in TTRPGs. Star is a wonderful person I've met this past year and have been lucky enough to chat with on a few occasions, and we break down how failure in games like D&D 5e can leave you

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