Podcasts by Ego Check with The Id DM

Teos Abadia on Adventure Flowcharts&Visual Aids from 2021-08-18T02:53:27

Teos Abadia joins me to present his thoughts on visual aids in D&D adventures and The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook, a fantastic collection of practical ...

Mark Meredith on Rediscovering 4th Edition D&D from 2021-01-21T04:37:24

We start out 2021 by going in the "sorta-way-back machine" to discuss 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons with Mark Meredith. He has been writing for Dice Monkey<...

Ronen Givony on Not For You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense from 2020-11-24T20:38:02

Ronen Givony joins me to talk about his latest book, Not For You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense, which attempts to chronicle and place into context Pearl Jam's career. Ronen talks about his wo...

Matt Forbeck on Shotguns&Sorcery from 2020-09-14T14:38:07

Matt Forbeck joins me to discuss his career as a an author and game designer. He discusses his world of Dragon City, which has spawned numerous books and t...

Kelly Carlin on Legacy, Purpose&Resilience from 2020-06-09T03:17:55

Kelly Carlin joins me to talk about her life as the daughter of famed comedian, George Carlin. She previously wrote a memoir, Epic Tavern. In Epic Tavern, player...

Stacy King&Andrew Wheeler on Dungeons&Dragons: Wizards&Spells from 2020-03-19T03:58:47

I'm joined by Stacy King and Andrew Wheeler, two of the minds responsible for the wonderful from 2020-03-16T00:20:47

Keith Ammann joins me to discuss his book, The Monsters Know What They're Doing...

Megan Connell, PsyD on Therapeutic D&D and Coping with Creative Burnout from 2020-03-10T03:47

Dr. Connell comes back to Ego Check to talk about the developments in the therapeutic use of Dungeons & Dragons in therapy. She talks about how the game allows players to achieve personal growth...

Elizabeth&Jared Kilmer on Therapeutic D&D for Veterans from 2019-12-03T03:32:09

I'm joined by Elizabeth Kilmer (soon-to-be PhD) and Jared Kilmer, PhD this week as they discuss their use of Dungeons & Dragons in clinical settings with military veterans. They present how the ...

Dr. Rachel Kowert on Video Games&Mental Health from 2019-10-29T01:20:11

Dr. Rachel Kowert is a psychologist with years of published research examining the mental health effects of video games. She details how her research has N...

Matt Henderson on Designing Loke Battle Mats from 2019-10-17T01:46

Matt is the map designer for Loke Battle Mats, which has been releasing tabletop battle mats for roleplaying games in recent years. Matt talks about the ...

Matt Dixon on Illustrating Hearthstone from 2019-08-27T03:51:08

Matt Dixon talks about his career as a freelance illustrator and his work in digital spaces leading to his work with Blizzard. He talks about starting ...

Elisabeth de Kleer on Dungeons&Dragons Behind Bars from 2019-08-09T02:18:43

Elisabeth de Kleer is an award-winning documentary producer and director that has experience working in the true crime genre. She has been working for...

Teos Abadia on Designing Acquisitions Incorporated from 2019-07-30T04:00

Teos Abadia joins Ego Check once again to talk about how wonderfully diverse the tabletop roleplaying game hobby has become in recent years. He detail...

Jim Zub on Creating the Young Adventurer's Guides for Dungeons&Dragons from 2019-07-16T06:00

Jim Zub, writer and creator, joins me this week on Ego Check with The Id DM to talk about the from 2019-06-28T07:00

Grant Ellis joins me to talk about his efforts to create unique livestream tabletop roleplaying game content with a diverse cast of performers. He...

Allison Spence on Journalism, Marketing&Finding the "Why?" from 2019-06-27T11:10:56

Allison Spence joins me to talk about her early career as a journalist that resulted in her diving into a variety of difficult subject matters. She shares her views on the importance of emotiona...

Jason Massey from The Dungeons&Randomness Podcast on Building a Career out of D&D from 2019-05-14T09:58:09

Jason Massey joins the pod to talk about his start with 4th Edition D&D and how that evolved into a full-time career in creating the actual play po...

Ryan Kelly, PhD on the Power&Dangers of Gaming from 2019-05-07T06:30

Dr. Ryan Kelly joins me this week to talk about his work on how to be use geek passions to grow. He is a psychologist and speaks about his work with a ...

Greg Leatherman on VRECast, Safe Spaces&Gay Representation in RPGs from 2019-04-16T06:00

Greg Leatherman, founder of VRECast, joins me to talk about his life as a gay man and what it's been like fo...

Adam Johns&Adam Davis on Critical Core&Autism from 2019-04-09T07:00

Adam Johns and Adam Davis from Game to Grow join the pod to tal...

Enrique Bertran on Streaming Star Wars&Launching a Patreon from 2019-04-05T07:00

Enrique "NewbieDM" Bertran joins Ego Check once again to talk about his new Patreon campaign. I wanted...

François Alliot on Reigns and Probabilistic&Adaptive Game Design from 2019-04-02T06:59

François Alliot, designer of the Reigns series of games, discusses his Tinder-inspired app...

Jana Flesher on RPG Systems, GM Tips& Midwifery from 2019-03-26T13:48:13

I'm joined by Jana Flesher, a professional nurse midwife who also happens to be both a player and DM in various RPG campaigns I've been involved with over the past three years. She talks about h...

James Haeck on Critical Role's Alignments and D&D Waterdeep from 2019-03-12T06:00

James Haeck, Lead Writer for D&D Beyond and Coauthor of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and Critical Role's Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting joins the pod to educate me about how Critical Role overlaps with e...

Marc Allie on D&D and Transformers from 2019-02-19T10:46:01

Marc Allie joins me to talk about his history of "being geeky when geeky wasn't cool." He talks about his early me...

Ed Grabianowski on Freelance Writing and Spacelord from 2019-02-12T11:47:16

Ed Grabianowski (aka, "The Grabster") joins me on the show to talk about his career as a freelance writer ...

Jase Nolan on Running D&D and Casting Hearthstone from 2019-01-22T10:48:59

I'm joined this week by Jase Nolan, also known as CinderAscendant on Twitter and Twitch. Jase talks about his style of preparing and running Dungeons & Dragons sessions. He shares how he got sta...

Kevin Hovdestad on Esports from 2018-12-23T15:24:39

Kevin Hovdestad joins the pod to educate me about his years of work in the realm of Esports. He talks about his years of experience as a freelance journalist writing about Esports and how that l...

Kyle Newman on Dungeons& Dragons Art& Arcana from 2018-12-11T13:09:56

I'm joined this week by Kyle Newman, one of the authors of Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History. You may also know Kyle as the Director of Fanboys (2009) and Barely Lethal (2015). K...

Elizabeth Roithmayr-Clemens on Suicide Prevention from 2018-12-04T12:46:52

I am joined this week by Elizabeth Roithmayr-Clemens, the New Jersey Area Director for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). She shares her experience organizing community activitie...

Steve Lubitz on Hearthstone's Meta& Potential Troubles from 2018-10-22T14:46:47

I'm joined this week by Steve Lubitz, host of the Off Curve podcast, a show about Hearthstone that Steve recor...

Danny Rupp on Worldbuilding& Mental Health in D&D from 2018-10-16T01:15:54

I'm joined by Danny Rupp, co-founder of Critical Hits.

I'm joined this week by Danny Rupp, co-founder of Critical Hits and a very active participant on social media discussing Dungeons & ...

Aaron Retka, Managing Editor for Geeks Who Drink from 2018-09-18T12:03:20

This week I'm joined by Aaron Retka, Managing Editor for Geeks Who Drink. For the uninitiated, Geeks Who Drink is "a homegrown Pub Trivia Quiz modele...

Eric Roth on Tabletop Gaming with a Physical Disability from 2018-09-04T12:02:26

I'm joined by Eric Roth, a veteran of tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Eric talks about growing up with a physical disablity that limits his mobility and kept ...

Gaming Disorder Panel with Adam Johns, LMFT and Drs. Connell, Kelly, and Bean from 2018-07-03T10:58:32

I was fortunate to moderate a panel with licensed mental health providers about the World Health Organization's (WHO) decision to classify Gaming Disorder as a mental health diagnosis. I'm joine...

Andy Hand on Designing 5th Edition Monsters to Raise Money for Suicide Prevention from 2018-06-26T16:04:42

A special episode this week as I welcome Andy Hand from Limitless Adventures, which offers quality gaming products for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Andy talks about the history of Limitless A...

Mike Shea on D&D Streaming& Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master from 2018-02-20T08:30

Mike Shea joins the show once again to talk about the changing dynamics of tabletop roleplaying games. He explores how technology like streaming has advanced the hobby and spread its growth. We ...

Tom Eastman on Developing Battle Chef Brigade from 2018-02-09T09:00

Tom Eastman, President of Trinket Studios, joins me to talk about their new release, Battle Chef Brigade, which is now available on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Tom talks about the four-year devel...

Cedric Van Dorpe on the Hearthstone Championship Tour and Mastering Arena from 2018-01-23T11:00

Cedric (@cedflanders) joins me from the Hearthstone Championship Tour in Amsterdam to offer a live report on the tournament. He details his experience at the event, and how he collected autograp...

Deven Rue on Cartography and Disability in TTRPGs from 2017-12-19T15:54:23

Deven joins me to discuss her art, approach to cartography, and her interactions with the roleplaying game community. She talks about being introduced to Dungeons & Dragons at the age of 14 and ...

Greg Tito on "What is D&D?" and the Growth of TTRPGs from 2017-12-05T13:47:29

Greg joins me this week to discuss his career path before joining Wizards of the Coast in 2015, and details his roles and responsibilities as Senior Co...

Megan Connell, Psy.D. on Using D&D in Therapy and Mental Health at the Table as a DM from 2017-11-21T13:11:03

I'm joined this week by Dr. Megan Connell, a licensed psychologist who is currently using Dungeons & Dragons in two therapy groups to teach children soci...

Jerry LeNeave on Gaming& Streaming, and Shadow of the Demon Lord from 2017-11-07T14:03:52

Jerry, known as The Dread Gazebo, talks about his views on the changing climate around tabletop and vidoegaming this decade. He speaks the lifespan of gamin...

Duane Sibilly on Collaboration, Diversity, and Representation from 2017-10-17T12:16:01

Duane has been cultivating Hammer Gaming, a community for like-minded players who wish to avoid the toxicity that is often found in online games. He speaks about consulting with other gamemaster...

Enrique Bertran on D&D Joining the Mainstream, and Reviewing Tomb of Annihilation from 2017-10-03T12:04:38

Listen to Enrique Bertran, better known as NewbieDM, discuss the evolving Dungeons & Dragons landscape during the past 10 years. He shares his insights about ...

Jeff Chin of Road to Infamy Games on Executing Kickstarter Campaigns from 2017-09-19T12:05:43

I'm joined by Jeff Chin, Co-Founder of Road to Infamy Games, and he speaks about lessons learned from successfully launching two prior games through Kickst...

Ohad Zach Details the Methodology for the Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper Report from 2017-06-20T12:15:08

I'm joined by Ohad Zach (ZachO), General Manager of Vicious Syndicate and writer of the weekly Data Reape...

Katrina Ostrander of Fantasy Flight Games on Anxiety and Being a Woman in the Gaming Industry from 2017-06-06T10:55:17

I'm joined this week by Katrina Ostrander, Fiction Editor for Fantasy Flight Games Fiction and Story Team Member for Listen

Chris Benefield on Magic: The Gathering, Digital Card Games, and GenCon 2012 from 2017-05-02T12:17:06

This week I'm joined by Chris Benefield, a longtime friend I first met during our days in graduate school way back in 1998. Chris has a masters degree in Educational Psychology, and is now worki...

Carina Kom on Crash Free-to-Play and Pay-to-Win Games&Iron Tides from 2017-04-18T12:17:41

I'm joined by Carina Kom,  Co-founder and CEO of Crash Wave Games, which successfully launched a Kickstarter campaign for their next game, Exploding Rogue Studios, and Creator of the webcomic, d20monkey. He c...

Brian Patterson on Creating d20monkey and Karthun from 2017-04-04T11:53:30

I'm joined by Brian Patterson, Co-Owner of Exploding Rogue Studios, and Creator of the webcomic, d20monkey. He c...

Dr. Janina Scarlet on Superhero Therapy and Personal Experience as a Refugee to the United States from 2017-03-21T12:25:48

I am joined this week by Dr. Janina Scarlet, and we talk about her upcoming book, from 2017-03-07T12:15:30

This week's MEGA Hearthstone episode celebrates the annoucement of the next expansion, Journey to Un'Goro. First, Dr. Peter Whalen, Senior Game Designer for Hearthstone, joins me to discuss his ...

Dr. Peter Whalen on Hearthstone: Journey to Un'Goro, Dr. Tzachi Zach on Vicious Syndicate from 2017-03-07T12:15:30

This week's MEGA Hearthstone episode celebrates the annoucement of the next expansion, Journey to Un'Goro. First, Dr. Peter Whalen, Senior Game Designer for Hearthstone, joins me to discuss his ...

Shanna Germain on Writing and Advocacy in the Gaming Community from 2017-02-21T13:23:25

My guest for Episode 9 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Shanna Germain, co-founder of Monte Cook Games, an...

Allison Rossi on Starting Dungeons&Dragons and Competitive Overwatch from 2017-02-07T12:31:54

My guest for Episode 8 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Allison Rossi, Dungeon Master for Adventurer's League and Social Media Manager for a Competi...

Allison Rossi on Starting Dungeons & Dragons and Competitive Overwatch from 2017-02-07T12:31:54

My guest for Episode 8 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Allison Rossi, Dungeon Master for Adventurer's League and Social Media Manager for a Competi...

Hawke Robinson on the RPG Research Project from 2017-01-17T18:41:43

My guest for Episode 7 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Hawke Robinson, founder of the R...

Hawke Robinson on the RPG Research Project from 2017-01-17T18:41:43

My guest for Episode 7 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Hawke Robinson, founder of the R...

Susan J. Morris on Writing and Editing in Tabletop RPGs from 2017-01-03T13:33:31

My guest for Episode 6 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Susan J. Morris, a fantasy author and editor that is best known for her work editing Forgotten Re...

Susan J. Morris on Writing and Editing in Tabletop RPGs from 2017-01-03T13:33:31

My guest for Episode 6 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Susan J. Morris, a fantasy author and editor that is best known for her work editing Forgotten Re...

Adam Johns& Adam Davis on Using Tabletop RPGs to Teach Social Skills from 2016-12-20T11:28:08

My guests for Episode 5 of Ego Check with The Id DM are Adam Johns and Adam Davis from Adam Johns and Adam Davis from Felix Mak, software engineer for Vicious Syndicate,...

Felix Mak on Constructing Hearthstone Data Reaper Reports for Vicious Syndicate from 2016-12-06T11:16:50

My guest for Episode 4 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Felix Mak, software engineer for Vicious Syndicate,...

Teos Abadia on D&D Organized Play and Diversity in RPGs from 2016-11-15T11:18:05

My guest for Episode 3 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Teos Abadia, writer for companies such as Wizards of the Coast and Kobold Press. Mr. Abadia is very ac...

Chris Bourassa on Creating Darkest Dungeon from 2016-11-01T11:00:38

My guest this week for Episode 2 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Chris Bourassa, Co-Owner of Red Hook Studios<...

Chris Bourassa on Creating Darkest Dungeon from 2016-11-01T11:00:38

My guest this week for Episode 2 of Ego Check with The Id DM is Chris Bourassa, Co-Owner of Red Hook Studios<...

Mike Shea on Mindfulness in Tabletop RPGs from 2016-10-14T04:34:54

Mike Shea, also known as  Listen

Mike Shea on Mindfulness in Tabletop RPGs from 2016-10-14T04:34:54

Mike Shea, also known as  Listen