We're doing drugs again! Wait, that's not what I meant. We're checking out some more details about drugs. SUMMARY: This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're checking out drugs AGAIN! This week we take a look at frankincense, and take a hard look into our understandings of addiction and how it affects our narratives. If you'd like to get in touch via our social pages, you can reach us on @dungeondeepdive on facebook, twitter, and instagram, or email us at [email protected]   See...

We're doing drugs! Wait, that's not what I meant. We're looking at the widespread issues caused by rampant colonialism through the lens of drugs! This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're checking out drugs, and their effect on the world. Aaaaaand in true DDD fashion we got a little carried away. So this week you get to take a tour of drugs throughout history, our attitudes, restrictions, and uses. It's a wild time, so make sure you tune in, and catch us next time for part 2! If you'd like to get...

You've heard us get salty before, but now it's time to talk about salt! Again! SUMMARY: This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're joined again by our friendly neighbourhood DM Maddy! Picking up where we left off last week, now we're working through all the ways we could play with our newfound knowledge. If you'd like to get in touch via our social pages, you can reach us on @dungeondeepdive on facebook, twitter, and instagram, or email us at [email protected]   See acast.com/privacy for...

You've heard us get salty before, but now it's time to talk about salt! Again! This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're joined again by our friendly neighbourhood DM Maddy! Picking up where we left off last week, now we're working through all the ways we could play with our newfound knowledge. If you'd like to get in touch via our social pages, you can reach us on @dungeondeepdive on facebook, twitter, and instagram, or email us at [email protected]   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...

This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're joined by our friendly neighbourhood DM Maddy! Our journey begins in ancient China, with the history of salt currencies, and runs through the rules of salt in magic and region. Finally Grace eases or sorrows with the science of tears.

This week is a bit of a tour de Lachlan de force you could call it, as Tully and Grace get to learn all about flags right on the air because Lachlan did too much research! Flags are used by every country and by countless other groups as a symbol of their strength and unity, but why? Why were they so important in historic battles? And why exactly do different flags look the way the do? Find out the answers to these questions and relatively little else because the answers are kind of...

We're coming out of our cage and we've been doing just fine! Just kidding, we've missed you all terribly, but we're back! Aaaaaaand now we're back in the studio it's time to talk about Ogres. Far from our beloved silver screen idol Shrek, these giantfolk can be all sorts of things. Take a listen as we delve into the history and meaning behind ogres through history. While you're all safely tucked into your houses, please get in touch via our social pages @dungeondeepdive on facebook, twitter,...

Once again we're back, talking about the characters in our campaigns. This week, it's Adelaide, a gooey homebrewed oblex. Catch us for a chat about building your character's motivations through your background.

Once again we're back, talking about the characters in our campaigns. This week, it's Greebo, the labor rights goblin. Catch us for a chat about building your character's motivations through your background.

This week goes out to all our listeners DMing to cope, as we explore quarantine! We look at how confinement changed the landscape of the medieval world, check in with everyones favourite disease vector, and try to better understand how people historically understood medicine and plagues! It's a fun one, but obvious content warning for disease discussion all throughout. Stay safe out there to everyone protesting, take care of each other.

It's a character corner with guest Brooke Reilly!

While Lachlan takes a break this week, Grace brings Ned Kelly; a controversial figure that everyone, including our special guest Brooke Reilly, can agree is a daddy. Brooke introduces us to both some inspirational Mob Moms and a cheeky bit of Dick Turpin. Then Tully wraps it up with the timeless troublemaker Robin Hood,,, who may not actually be that cool a guy. While you're all safely tucked into your houses, please get in touch via our social pages @dungeondeepdive on facebook, twitter,...

The first 20 sided die dates back to Ptolemaic Egypt, but people have been playing games a long time before our favourite polyhedron was born. It's another week of recording at home, and an edit shipped off to a fan with far more RAM than us (thanks Brooke). We take a snapshot of children's games, wander through some game theory, argue about the monty hall problem, and show you all the games the Buddha wouldn't play. While you're all trapped in your houses, please get in touch via our social...

Since people learned to cover their naughty bits, we've been using textiles! While we recorded from separate houses (and any one of us COULD have been working in the nude), it was a great chat about fabric throughout time. Tully coloured our days with talk of dyeing in various forms. Grace gave us a glittering account of what *might* be the golden fleece. And Lachlan talks us through cloth currency and how it worked in West Africa.

This week, the gang are talking all about hair, and why that's important. Grace takes us through the history of hair care, and what sort of methods were used historically. Then Lachlan takes us through an insightful (if harrowing) look at the significance of hair and personhood (between 28:46 and 45:30), and Tully kicks off with a quick overview at how hair is used as a cultural signifier, for community, and for discrimination. Don't forget to give us a rate and review on your podcatcher of...

We've already told you how best to defend again a siege in your fancy freezing castle, but here's all the siege things you should keep in mind when you are the one besieging. Lachlan's gone deep into the political motivations for sieging and how people have gone about it in the past, Tully's all about how those nifty siege machines work and which ones aren't worth your time, and Grace is bringing you a whole bunch of cool spells to use and getting two DM's to give their opinion on the...

A quick update for everyone! As the year has grown nearly a whole month old, we've realised that we could be looking after ourselves better, and giving you a better podcast if we changed up the schedule. So from now on, we're going to a fortnightly schedule, so that we can continue this wild ride we've got going on. And in case you were wondering why the announcement is 45 minutes long... we've got some bits and pieces from history to throw your way, and to use in your games. Catch you in a...

It's a cheery episode this week as we here at DDD talk about funerals. Grace gets into some fun examples of interesting items people throughout history have been buried with, Lachlan gets into the concept of death and dying meant from back in ye olde days right up to our modern day approach to it, And then Tully shows us how people around the world say goodbye to those they love. We wrap it all up by giving you a fun adventure hook you can use to get your players really contemplating how they...

It's our first deep dive into a class specific ability! That's right, it's thieves' cant. Grace talks all about the rise of hobo symbols in the USA, and what they mean for you. Then Lachlan takes us on a linguistic journey into creoles and anti-languages, and finally Tully gives us some real terms to use in your cants. Then we throw in some amazing homebrews that we've found (links below) to implement it better in your game.

The gang go on a whopper of a deep dive, so big we split it in two! It really is amazing that for all these years, people have stuck by their guns through thick and through thin. Despite incredible cost, unpredictability, and risk of accidental death, we continued to use firearms until we got them right.

The gang go on a whopper of a deep dive, so big we split it in two! It really is amazing that for all these years, people have stuck by their guns through thick and through thin. Despite incredible cost, unpredictability, and risk of accidental death, we continued to use firearms until we got them right. In part 1, Grace talks all things combination weapons, from the aesthetics to the wild impracticality and everything in between. Then Tully runs us through all the ways a gun can go...

Lachlan and Tully are joined (officially) by their new host Grace, to explore what you need to know about castles.

The gang discuss the first sessions of the new campaigns, from DM and player perspectives.

We're taking a holiday hiatus, so here's a little teaser of what we have in store after the break ;)