S10E7: HeroesWanted - John Rodriguez

I'm joined by Sean Winningham known on TikTok and YouTube as Crit Hit The Giant. He creates hilarious and insightful content helping gamers understand the new 2024 DnD rules and is now the co-host of the new hit podcast, Lore of the Realms.

My featured guest is Kat Mahony, a Visual Storyteller & Life Skills EDUtainer, with KatBratEDU. She brings over two decades of experience in visual storytelling, edutainment, and gamification, with a particular focus on work life balance for personal and professional growth through geek skills and edutainment. She is currently working on an animated web series with my daughter called Madness & Misfits. She presents speaking engagements and workshops focusing on integrating gamification and edutainment workshops and seminars into school curriculums, organizational causes, and business development for customer loyalty and employee retention.

I'm joined by John Rodriguez the creator of HeroesWanted.Kids. John shares his story of finding D&D and what inspired him to create an online D&D and Minecraft community for kids and teens that is safe, improves social skills, and creates lasting friendships.

I am joined by Luis Loza, the Creative Director, for Paizo's Pathfinder RPG. We discuss the Lost Omens campaign setting, 1st and 2nd editions of Pathfinder, and an exclusive sneak peak at the newest Pathfinder 2E books coming out later this year.

Celebrate 2025 with us as we feature Jenny Jarzabski, senior developer for Paizo's Starfinder 2nd Edition. We talk about how to go from fan to freelance writer, gaming with family, and even get some exclusive sneak peeks at what's coming for Starfinder 2nd Edition this year!

Roll20 is the most popular Virtual Tabletop (VTT) for gathering friends and family from around the world together to play table top roleplaying games online. Today's featured guest is Riley Dutton the Founder in Residence for Roll20. We discuss the difference between the TTRPG experience online vs in person, the origin of Roll20, and the newest features such as Jumpgate and DungeonScrawl.

I'm joined by Autumn Wade, the founder of Coaches & Dragons, who helps people with their personal development goals through Tabletop Role Playing Games. Autumn shares her personal breakthroughs thanks to Dungeons & Dragons and also how her methods have given people the role playing tools to over come the sabotaging gremlins in their lives.

Join us for a special episode that brings you the co-founders of Beadle & Grimm’s! Bill Rehor, the Host, and Jon Ciccolini, the DM, of the hilarious DnD TV show "Faster Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!" We discuss how they started playing Dungeons and Dragons to introducing their own children to tabletop role playing games!

Season 10 kicks off with the president of Chaosium, Rick Meints. Rick shares his journey from his childhood playing the original D&D to falling in love with RuneQuest to introducing his own children to TTRPGs. We discuss the return of Chaosium's Elfquest RPG box set now live on Kickstarter.

Our season finale is an actual play episode featuring an international ensemble of DnD enthusiasts from around the globe. We share the first 45 minutes of our playing the OSR adventure module, Castle Brookmere by Izegrim Creations. Castle Brookmere is a reimaging of the classic Endless Quest book Return to Brookmere. Special thank you to Monument Studios for the music and sound effects featured during this adventure.