WE'RE BACK. Your boys - Chris and Grant - are back at it again with the RPG design, or rather, back at it again with a LOT of chat about Sheffield nightlife and some tangential Games Content. In this week's episode:- How Things Are Different

Six Reasons Why We Haven't Recorded Hearty Dice Friends In A Month

Aug 18th, 2021 5m 41s

Look: here are some reasons. And they double as content. Rest easy, little reader.- G x

Episode 188 - Dungeon Cubed

Jul 23rd, 2021 1h 1m

Once again we turn to Twitter for some ideas, we even left out some of the truly upsetting ideas! Except for the ones about serial killers and dog wands, that gold stayed in.Biggest of loves,G + C

Episode 187 - Alan Shearer's Infinite Downhill

Jul 2nd, 2021 49m 55s

A brace of sad news items this week kick the show off with a melancholy bang. We look at the potential to exploit others for personal gain with some sort of football game? Well it certainly starts off that way.The hugest of loves,G + C

Episode 186 - Three Games Are Better Than None

Jun 16th, 2021 54m 22s

Look! An episode!So yeah, it's been a weird time and we have been late with episodes. We get it. So Grant and Chris have squashed themselves into a tiny office in the middle of a blazing heatwave in an attempt to bring you, valued listener, s

Episode 185 - Bloodstained

May 14th, 2021 45m 43s

We smoosh together some vampires and investigative crime drama this week. I know we normally try and do tabletop games but this would work so well as video game we went with that instead. Now if we can just get a thick 8ft tall vampire lady to

Episode 184 - TRAINWAR

May 1st, 2021 54m 29s

You've got to wonder: why aren't there more wargames about massive trains trying to kill each other? And if you think the answer is "trains are on fixed tracks which makes a competitive game about them fighting a bit boring" then, buddy, you ar

Episode 183 - Quadd Damage: Not about Quake

Apr 17th, 2021 53m 35s

What if you could use any weapon in a game? Tiny chainsaws launched from repeating tonfas, a bucket full of hand grenades, or and assault rifle that had no barrel but 9 scopes? Sounds like you'd be playing this weeks game which has nothing to d

Episode 182 - 100 Acre Blood LIVE

Apr 2nd, 2021 50m 1s

We are LIVE from the comfort of our own homes as part of HDF Easter-Con. We streamed this episode on Twitch.tv/gshowitt and made a grim reboot of Winnie The Pooh. Join us for Easter-con! Or don't! I'm not your dad!xoxoxoxoG + C

Episode 181 - Crabs To Riches

Mar 19th, 2021 50m 10s

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Episode 180 - Harried Flight

Mar 5th, 2021 41m 6s

We are back once again with the ill behaviour and a structured and focused RPG design session featuring incisive commentary and insider secrets.Hugs and kisses,Grant + Chris[Editor's note:] The bird Grant was trying to remember was a Cass

Hearty Dice Hiatus

Jan 29th, 2021 4m 56s

We're doing a hiatus because neither of us is really in the right place to be funny and engaging and insightful for a full hour on mic right now. We'll be back (baby!) on March 5th with episode 180, so please hang tight until then.The attache

Episode 179 - A Perfect Family

Jan 15th, 2021 38m 48s

The four of you have two human skinsuits, two robotic children, an overbearing overlord for a boss, and Henry down the road has just gotten himself a boat. How will this injustice be dealt with? How will you very slowly take over the world one

Episode 178 - Chimerca

Jan 8th, 2021 46m 19s

This week we forget to make a game and instead make two ways to be able to play the game we didn't design. It's confusing. A technological marvel and a playground toy scaled up. Lots of love- G + C

Episode 177 - Christmas 2020

Dec 25th, 2020 38m 19s

Merry Christmas! Mr Christmash. Merr Chrzmo. Mondo Coolmas.In this episode:- Malfunctioning cat dicks- Can you do game mechanics with Christmas decorations? No. Do we try? Not really.- Crackers, and how they could be better- Santa Wants

Episode 176 - Sports Day Death

Dec 18th, 2020 44m 57s

After an awful bus crash on your way to the global sports day summit , you and your classmates (and possibly Bill Clinton and some Civil War generals) must compete against death itself in the egg & spoon race. Also the javelin.And just who ca

Episode 175 - Christmas Damage

Dec 11th, 2020 43m 53s

There aren't enough games about Christmas - even fewer about managing the correct amount of festive cheer, lest the Spirit overwhelm you and try to hunt you down until you LEARN. Well: now there's one. Well: now there's the IDEA of one. So ma

Episode 174 - Bilbur Draggins Musical Journey

Nov 20th, 2020 43m 41s

What if, right, Lord of the Rings was guitar hero? What if Gandalf summoned dubstep? Who lives under my stairs? Where am i? Some of these questions will be answered in this very podcast!We love you. Like, a lot.- G + C

Episode 173 - Big Venus Adventure Feat: Grimes

Nov 13th, 2020 37m 51s

Welcome to Mars(Venus)! While enjoying the Venusian(Martian)sunsets please remember to fill out your self-assessment forms, do the dishes, eat, socialise correctly, and not succumb to the crushing mundanity of everyday life. In this immersive V

Episode 172 - Designated Despot

Nov 6th, 2020 47m 13s

Drinking: it's fun, but is it fun enough? We engage in a flight of fancy more fantastical than elves, aliens or magic: being able to meet in large groups in enclosed spaces. Can we create a drinking game that a) factors in non-drinkers as playe

Episode 171 - Monster Mash

Oct 30th, 2020 35m 21s

Happy Halloween! It's SPOOKY how short this episode is!Real talk: your boys aren't doing so great. We're both mad - and not in the wacky, fun-time way, more in the medicated staring at the walls sort of way. But! We've pulled it together enou

Episode 170 - Spotlight

Oct 16th, 2020 45m 12s

In this week’s episode, we briefly consider the prospect of a game for dogs before we kick that to one side and spend forty minutes developing a spy game that’s quite similar to James Bond but not so similar that we’d get sued into the ground.

Episode 169 - Chat It's Fate!

Oct 12th, 2020 51m 43s

You wouldn't think that there'd be much of a game inherent in supernatural gossip mags, but you'd be wrong. We knew better. That's why we make the BIG BUCKS in game design. Okay, full disclosure: the SMALL to MEDIUM BUCKS.Anyway. Enjoy the sh

Episode 168 - 420 Blaze It

Oct 2nd, 2020 47m 14s

This week we get weird. I mean that we have gone weird, in the head, and then done the podcast anyway. It is a strange one where we go back to answering questions for a week, sink some boats in the name of love, get angry at hypocritical govern