The Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology Podcast

The Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology Podcast

The Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology Podcast is a TTRPG podcast that helps collaborative storytellers build great campaigns using psychology. Each episode dives into different aspects of tabletop roleplaying games, and offers listeners (psyclithids) tricks of the trade for how to improve their own games. Your host, Robert Walker, is a longtime DM and student of psychology and is the author of "Session Zero: The DMG to Writing Great Campaigns in any System."

Recent Episodes

From Hero to Villain: The Psychology of Moral Choices in Roleplaying Games

From Hero to Villain: The Psychology of Moral Choices in Roleplaying Games

May 21, 2023

Episode Details & Links Today we delve into the idea of falling from grace and how your heroes could slide down that slippery slope from hero to villain. Tricks of the Trade Information & Links For tricks I give you five ide…

S2E20: Sean K Reynolds of Campaign Setting Creation

S2E20: Sean K Reynolds of Campaign Setting Creation

May 14, 2023

Episode Details & Links What an exciting episode in store for you today! I'm joined by the one and only Sean K. Reynolds to discuss campaign setting creation! I ask Sean questions about his history in the gaming community an…

S2E19: Safely Running Darker Stories With Dan from Beddlym’s Social Hour

S2E19: Safely Running Darker Stories With Dan from Beddlym’s Social Hour

May 7, 2023

Episode Details & Links Today I'm joined by Dan from Beddlym’s Social Hour: A D&D Podcast to discuss how to safely run a story with darker themes. Tricks of the Trade Information & Links For Tricks we look a a few darker the…

S2E18: Understanding Player Archetypes

S2E18: Understanding Player Archetypes

April 30, 2023

Episode Details & Links Today is all about understanding the 5 archetypes that I believe are most representative of the player types you will encounter in your games. The power-gamer, the role-player, the specialist, the cas…

S2E17: Running the First Adventure in a Campaign

S2E17: Running the First Adventure in a Campaign

April 23, 2023

Episode Details & Links Today we are discussing writing and running your first adventure in a campaign! Tricks of the Trade Information & Links Our Tricks today features story prompts generated by AI through the use of the t…

S2E16: Writing your Introduction and NPCs

S2E16: Writing your Introduction and NPCs

April 16, 2023

Episode Details & Links Today we continue our discussion on building your campaign and discuss writing your introduction and how I like to "write" my NPCs Tricks of the Trade Information & Links In Tricks we discuss a few pl…