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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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46:41

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 10 - Return to Castle...

Rene Plays Games ·

2026/02/03

Welcome back for another episode of Colostle - Dungeons!Sybil returns to the major labyrinth Castle Revolving to reach the heart of the dungeon and find what lies within. Then, a new friend leads the crew straight to the Rookling Forge. Learn more about Colostle and the Dungeons supplement here! If you like all of the new additions and ideas constantly being added to the world of Colostle, I highly recommend checking out Nich's Patreon page! ----more---- Join the DMs After Dark Discord

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32:28

Design Diaries 2026 | Gardens of Rust Part 1

Rene Plays Games ·

2026/01/27

Helloooooo my favorite nerds.Welcome to the first episode of my monthly design diaries series here in 2026 where I am holding myself accountable toward putting out more games. I have already pivoted! The first episode was supposed to be about my upcoming playing card-based 2-player buddy cop TTRPG Decktectives, but the state of the modern world made me really not want to talk about any kind of law enforcement, so instead we're talking about a post-societal collapse game, which is way more

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48:35

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 9 - Stillnights

Rene Plays Games ·

2026/01/20

Welcome back for another episode of Colostle - Dungeons! After escaping the Castle Revolving major labyrinth, Sybil recovers back in Oubliette during a festival known as Stillnights. Learn more about Colostle and the Dungeons supplement here! If you like all of the new additions and ideas constantly being added to the world of Colostle, I highly recommend checking out Nich's Patreon page! ----more---- Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! I made a Ko-Fi if you feel absurdly generous and

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69:48

Perspective Checks | PJ (Solo Roleplayers Podcast) -...

Rene Plays Games ·

2026/01/13

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!We're kicking off 2026 with PJ Sack, a fellow solo podcaster and host of the excellent A Wasteland Story Fallout 2d20 solo AP as well as the incredible The Solo Roleplayers Podcast, which you will absolutely love if you're listening to me. PJ and I sat down to talk about solo roleplaying in general and PJ's oft-repeated advice: "Get

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60:59

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 8 - Castle Revolving

Rene Plays Games ·

2026/01/06

Welcome back for another episode of Colostle - Dungeons!Pressing on and into the major labyrinth Castle Revolving, Sybil and the rooklings (and Zorn) quickly realize this is not like the rest of the Dungeons. This labyrinth is hostile and brutally punishing on top of being a confusing maze to navigate. Sybil begins to figure out the way through, but the elemental attrition and Bastion defenders of the labyrinth force her to make an early exit back to Oubliette... Learn more about Colostle

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23:08

2025 Retrospective//Plans for 2026

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/12/30

Another year of the podcast is in the books! In this short episode I mostly just want to thank everyone for listening and share some insights from the year. Some big ones were: Over 10,000 downloads in 2025 (whoa, thank you) Better gender diversity in Perspective Checks (working on racial diversity, I promise) 15 different games on the podcast in 2025 (same as 2024, weird) And for 2026, I have small plans to slightly adjust the regularly scheduled offerings from the last 2 years by making 4th

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119:50

Christmas Is Coming | DMs After Dark Family Holiday...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/12/23

Happy Holidays! DO YOU HAVE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IN YOU? Welcome back to another DMs After Dark holiday one-shot! This year we decided to do a sequel to a previous holiday special - the Thursday time loop cheesy holiday movie set in a strange little bean tree town that we have appropriately named Beantree! This year, a group is traveling to avoid holiday get-togethers in a one-shot of Grant Howitt's Christmas Is Coming, a folk horror RPG, which, honestly tracks for how our holiday one-shots tend

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77:37

Tabletop Tutorial | The Time We Have with Troy from...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/12/16

Time for another Tabletop Tutorial, the series where I play two player TTRPGs with friends and we learn them together. BIG OL' CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: Death, Alcoholism, Inappropriate Crude Body Humor, Body Horror, and probably a whole lot more, be careful with this one, please. It's heavy. I'm once again joined by Troy from the DMs After Dark to play the heartbreaking two player TTRPG The Time We Have by Elliot Davis, a.k.a. moreblueberries, an excellent game designer as well as

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95:57

Perspective Checks | Kat The Dungeon Mom - TTRPGs as...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/12/09

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 last Perspective Checks of 2025 is a wonderful conversation with Kat The Dungeon Mom, a GM, actual play performer, teacher, mom, and so much more as a community member. We sit down to talk about raising the next generation of nerds, maintaining a curiosity and interested approach to new things in familiar spaces, and

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55:26

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 7 - No Going Back Now

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/12/05

Welcome back for another episode of Colostle - Dungeons! Sybil wants to return to Oubliette to have her new unique rookstone appraised, but she didn't get here alone, so she continues deeper into the Dungeons with Zorn and the rookling to find the lost rooklings and possibly a Rookling Forge. Sybil finds a way back to the surface, but with too many questions left unanswered, she stays in the Dungeons and finds yet another major labyrinth... Learn more about Colostle and the Dungeons

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80:09

Midnight Melodies | One-Player One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/11/29

We're a few days late, but if it means anything to you, dear listener, it made me haul a lot of my music equipment up to my office and I am definitely going to try and do more original music for my episodes now! Welcome to another one-player one-shot where I play games I have been dying to get to the table all by myself. This time it's another by one of my favorite designers in the TTRPG community, Midnight Melodies by Cezar Capacle. In Midnight Melodies, you play as a jazz pianist confronted by

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60:18

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 6 - Whispers of Rookling...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/11/18

Welcome back for another episode of Colostle - Dungeons! Sybil and the Rookling are joined by the traveling Bastion monk, Zorn, who is searching for something known as a Rookling Forge after many of the rooklings from his monastery have left to destinations unknown. When their expedition hits a dead end, they are waylaid by a Lichen Rook and rush away only to find that Sybil's Whisperstone is pulling her somewhere. Remembering her strange experience with a Spectral Rook, she follows it into a

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78:05

Perspective Checks | Craig Hatler - Learning &...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/11/11

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's episode is with Craig Hatler (a.k.a. Tezrak the Impslayer most places on the internet), a game designer and educator who came on to talk about the importance of a game's communication and resources when sitting down to learn how to play, run the game, or even for designers before it goes out. We talk about his game

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51:48

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 5 - Spectral Chains &...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/11/04

Welcome back to the new series of Colostle - Dungeons! Sybil ventures out of the hanging city of Oubliette with her ice rookling in tow to attempt to find her way back to the surface. The two have more time to appreciate the immensity of the subterranean world and its architecture, but hear a cry for help while investigating a chained rook husk. The find a stranger bound with spectral chains, but before they can help, he is pulled away into the darkness below. When Sybil and the rookling give

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76:02

[Bonus] Halloween Star Crossed

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/31

Bonus Halloween day episode release and it's one we teased wayyyy back in February in our Valentine's Day bonus episode! I'm joined by my wife Lynn to play another game of Star Crossed (and in digital) by Alex Roberts, published by the wonderful Bully Pulpit Games, but this time we're not leaning hard into the expected romance tropes or characters, we're getting spooky! (spoiler: it is not, in fact, spooky). In this Halloween-flavored game of forbidden love, we take on the roles of a House and the

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62:45

Spellbook | One-Player One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/28

Can't forget to do a solo one-shot for spooky month, so here is my one-player one-shot experience of Spellbook by DValeris a.k.a. Edaureen Muhamad Nor! This game is based on a familiar game from last year's holiday one-shots, Bucket Of Bolts by Jason Price and uses the Lost & Found SRD to simulate the life of a sentient spellbook that is past down through the hands of witches over three Acts. It was a very fun session and I fully admit I fall hard into stereotypical Rene tropes (sorry not

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57:50

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 4 - The Hanging City of...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/21

Welcome back to the new series of Colostle - Dungeons! In episode 4, new friend Thorug guides Sybil and the Rooklings to the capital of the Dungeons - the Hanging City of Oubliette! This incredible city hangs from the top of an enormous cavern, lit up in all different colors in a perpetual nightlife. Run by four clans (Cups, Rings, Keys, and Shards), the city is both powerful and dangerous. What will Sybil find in Oubliette? Learn more about Colostle and the Dungeons supplement here! If you like

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74:34

Perspective Checks | Characters, Cosplay, and Don't...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/14

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 with Kate the Great Cosplays talking about the many, many angles she approaches the TTRPG scene through. Not only a cosplay event coordinator including TTRPG cosplay photo sessions and meet-ups, but an actual play performer and producer of the Don't Kill My Character stream, Kate does a lot in the games

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129:43

[Bonus] The Witch Is Dead

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/10

It's spooky month 2025, and that means bonus episodes! They can be Halloween-y, generally spooky, or related to common tropes of the season, but this year it's kicking off with a one-shot of The Witch Is Dead by the incomparable Grant Howitt! The Witch Is Dead is a one-page RPG by the master of the one-pager about a kind and good witch who is brutally and unfairly MURDERED by a witch-hunter! Luckily, you are the cute woodland animals this wonderful witch taught some spells, and she told you to

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51:19

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 3 - Nowhere To Go But...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/10/07

Welcome back to the new series of Colostle - Dungeons! In episode 3, Sybil has escaped the major labyrinth of the Cistern only to find herself forced to explore further down into the Dungeons, which turn out to be much more interesting than expected. Incredible architecture and mechanisms are in place from who knows when - a whole world beneath the surface of the Roomlands... But before she can do much investigating, one of her new rookling friends wanders into another labyrinth! Learn more

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