Reading D&D Aloud

About Reading D&D Aloud

It's like Bible study for D&D fanatics! Slaying the Dragon author and historian Ben Riggs & TRPG scholar Dr. Scott M. Bruner read and analyze the most sacred texts of Dungeons & Dragons (from original edition rules to modern adventures)! They are often joined by special guests, including current and former Wizards employees, contemporary academics, and modern designers, to meditate on the inspirations, ambitions, past & future of the medium of tabletop roleplaying. Listen to a historian, an academic, and some special guests read D&D texts aloud and comment on them!

Publisher

Ben Riggs

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Mar 2024

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

117 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026

   The Vibes Are All in Game Design- A conversation with Rico Sirignano and Amit Moshe- Ep 116

   This conversation was incredible. Our first guest is Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano, co-founder of the Italian studio Two Little Mice, whose games have incredibly good game design and incredibly engaging premises, or as JRR Tolkien would say, absorbing secondary worlds. He's one of the minds behind Household, and Outgunned, the last of which took home a Silver ENNIE for Best Game and was named a 2024 ENNIE Product of the Year. If your idea of a role-playing game involves car chases, impossible stunts, tiny people living inside an abandoned house, or just making the book itself gorgeous enough to put on your coffee table, Rico probably has something for you. Welcome to the show, Rico Sirignano! I generally arrange shows by contacting one designer and asking who they'd like to speak to, and Rico dropped the name of Amit Moshe. He is the founder and creative director of Son of Oak Game Studio and the designer behind City of Mist, and Legend in the Mist. LEGEND was sort of the product that stood out at Gen Con this year, winning not one not two not three not four not five but six, that's right, SIX Ennie awards this year! Welcome to the show, Amit Moshe! You can follow Two Little Mice here: https://www.facebook.com/2littlemice/ And buy Son of Oak products here: https://sonofoak.com/?srsltid=AU7gw4Uahe2yD90pO064GwDZMZSCyleqIvpVine61_sJuOa_p3AEt8Cb

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   On Trench Crusade: A conversation with Mike Franchina & Chris Pramas Ep 115

   Trench Crusade is the gorgeous minis skirmish game that is sweeping the nation. I talk with Mike Franchina the artist who conceived it, and Green Ronin publisher Chris Pramas. Back Chris's current Kickstarter where you can play undead samurai out to kill Oda Nobunaga here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nikchick/nobunagas-black-castle And try out Trench Crusade here: https://www.trenchcrusade.com/product/carcass-front/

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   If you knew you were going to die, how much D&D would you play? Ep. 114

   Billy Wardlow was scheduled to be executed in just a few weeks. He decided to spend the little time he had left playing D&D. But why? This is a reading from the book I'm currently writing, tentatively titled, Critical Hit: How and Why D&D Conquered the World in the 21st Century. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Who has been a guest on Reading D&D Aloud

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Shannon Appelcline
• Jon Peterson
• Kevin Crawford
• Steve Winter
• Ryan Dancey

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

52,448

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

71

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Books guests

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