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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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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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72:24

The Librarian's Apprentice | One-Player One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/09/30

It's time for another one-player one-shot! The Librarian's Apprentice is a solo game I've had near the top of my list to play for a LONG time, and it's a shame it's taken me so long to get this to the table. This is a game by friend of the channel Daniel Bronson-Lowe, a.k.a. Almost Bedtime Theater who you may remember from the Tabletop Tutorial episode of i'm sorry did you say street magic? where we built a city within this game's infinite library together on this podcast! This is a game about

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22:29

Mining Media | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/09/23

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an incredible new game by French developers Sandfall Interactive, and it is AMAZING. This is not a light lift for you TTRPG folks who may want to emulate the game at the table, but that doesn't mean there isn't a LOT for you to mine for your own games without having to try and replicate this masterpiece. Take home notes: Asymmetric design is awesome, and each character feeling like they're doing something unique and totally different is a great way to keep things

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62:39

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 2 - The Cistern

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/09/16

Welcome back to the new series of Colostle - Dungeons! In episode 2, we pick up with our main character Sybil as she emerges from the water deep below the surface where she fell at the end of episode 1. As she gets her bearings, she realizes she is in an ancient, underground mechanism with no way back to the surface, so the only way out is through. Luckily (or not), she rescues a small Rookling friend to join her as they navigate the major labyrinth known as The Cistern. Learn more about

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78:59

Perspective Checks | Willow (The RPG Goblin) -...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/09/09

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! There are a lot of tabletop roleplaying ganes, and there is an almost 100% chance you will never sit down and play them all, and even if you could, there would be a a lot of games you probably wouldn't enjoy. This month's episode is a chat with Willow, a.k.a. The RPG Goblin (which has to be one of the best internet user handles) all

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47:07

Colostle | Dungeons Episode 1 - Falling In

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/09/02

100 Episodes! That's pretty neat, and it feels right to go back to the very first series I ever played solo for a podcast - the incredibly wonderful Colostle by Nich Angell! In this series, we'll be playing a whole new character, so you don't have to have listened to my previous Colostle series on the DMs After Dark podcast feed, and I'll be going through all of the character creation, rules, and mechanics so new listeners can learn about the game through this series. However, we aren't going to

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22:45

Mining Media | Dungeon Crawler Carl

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/08/26

Welcome back to Mining Media where we turn your binging into better TTRPG experiences by telling the next episode or next book "You will not break me," and soldiering on anyway because goddamnit, Donut, someone's gotta try and save all these ideas. This month we're talking about the absurdly popular (and deserving) LitRPG book series Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. These books follow Carl and his ex-girlfriend's prize show champion cat Donut into a televised level-0 funnel on the newest

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52:42

BOW | One-Player One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/08/19

Let's do another one-player one-shot! This time it's BOW by the design duo (and team at) Hatchlings Games! BOW is a solo journaling game that uses the Carta SRD by Peach Garden Games, much like Hatchlings' other solo game Dragon Dowser (which you can hear me play in the backlog!). In BOW, you play a Praeloran diver going out in an annual competition known as The Shoaling, a grueling sailing race between strong candidates on the hunt for relics to bring back to their city and make it to their

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01:06:20

Two-Hand Path | One-Player One-Shot

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/08/12

Time for another one-player one-shot! This is Two-Hand Path, a modern roll-and-write dungeon crawler by Mikey Hamm, designer of Slugblaster. In Two-Hand Path you play a mage searching the cursed ruins of a post-fall city for loot and power after a supernatural war left everything destroyed. The mechanics use Yahtzee-style combinations with a full set of polyhedral dice, sending you through very simple but deadly dungeons with time pressure and limited HP before you "surge," after which every

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01:03:30

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 14 - Finale

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/08/05

Welcome to the finale of the Heart of the Dominion, season 2 of my Ironsworn: Sundered Isles series. Cassidy, Leigh, and the Captain continue to trek toward the center of the cursed Razor Isle at the heart of the Kyrody Dominion's myriad capital, with the Captain experiencing flashbacks to life in this ruined city's heyday. When they reach the three towering iron pillars at the city's center, everything falls apart at once. Learn more about Ironsworn here. ----more---- Join the DMs After Dark

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01:09:41

Perspective Checks | Mat (Role Play Chat) - GM-less...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/08/01

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 special 1st of the month Perspective Checks episode is with Mat of Role Play Chat, a similar interview-style TTRPG discussion podcast which I think you'll enjoy if you like these episodes! Mat comes on to talk about the wonder of GM-less games, how they foster collaboration and shared storytelling, including romance in your

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01:17:27

[Bonus] MECH Cities 2 | Hraunvollr

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/07/30

Get the 2 New MECH Cities Out Now (for Free!) Felt like a good time to play through a little bit of me & Raso's Carved by RUNE solo Mech vs. Kaiju TTRPG MECH! In this demo, I play through Hraunvollr, a city on a fjord below a volcano where a greedy energy company has awakened the ancient lava Dormant Surtr! ----more---- Join the DMs After Dark Discord channel! I made a Ko-Fi if you feel absurdly generous and want to help cover podcast hosting costs & all the upkeep. I'm still

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29:24

[Bonus] 2025 Designologue

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/07/29

I've heard people like this, so here's an update on some of the games I've got rattling around in my brain, in GoogleDocs, and in various levels of development on notebook pages, sticky notes, and half formed notes on my phone. If any of these sound like they're games you'd love to play, please let me know so I can get on it and see if I can't put out something you'll love! Looking forward to working on these more & hopefully hearing from all of you. May all your games go

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01:21:38

Perspective Checks | Clark R. Rowenson - Magic...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/07/22

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 second Perspective Checks this month on RPGs and their intersection with creative writing is with Clark R. Rowenson, a.k.a. The Magic Engineer on YouTube, an engineer, author, and writing coach with a lifelong interest in magic systems. We discuss magic system design, the importance of using the right kind of system for your

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51:34

Sundered Isles Season 2 | Episode 13 - Return to the...

Rene Plays Games ·

2025/07/15

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 penultimate episode sees Azriel Stirling send off Senator Minos and bring down the ruins beneath the Kyrody capital city of Carcordia, while Drake McCabe and others resurrected by the Church of the Enduring Servants find themselves with a strange new gift... Cassidy and the crew of the Revenant return to the Razor Isle, and the mysterious ghost bound to

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