It’s the leap month of the leap year, which is a great way to say welcome back to a new…
Let’s ring in 2024 with the first episode of the Forgot My Dice Podcast for the new year! In keeping…
Huzzah! The holidays are upon us, and so we the launch of the last episode of 2023! Jonathan, for one,…
That’s right everybody, during recording Robert and Jonathan joked about a lot of stuff and then less than 24 hours…
Never fear, we’re still here! The chaos is slowly winding down, so welcome back to another new episode of the…
They thought it was dead… but it’s back… from beyond the grave! It’s alive. It’s ALIVE! It’s ALIIIIIIIIIIVE!!! That’s right,…
The weather’s heating up, and a sizzling new episode of the Forgot My Dice Podcast has hit the internet! This…
Another episode of the Forgot My Dice Podcast returns, and it looks like we’ve discovered the podcast’s mission statement! (See…
We at Forgot My Dice love talking about games, Kickstarters, nerdy movies, tv shows, books etc.. We started this website,…
Fairy tales often involve heroes traveling from place to place, and encountering conflicts along the way, much like the classic D&D party. Most campaigns have used random encounter tables to represent this element, and I have done one here inspired by several sources that I was thinking about when we…
I’m proud to announce we will be having a monthly segment on the Super Board Bros podcast. The first episode we are in is up you can give us a listen right here! Our part is at 3:10:36 where Trevor and myself talk about our favorite articles on the site, and then…
We have fallen down a rabbit hole of trying out themes based on dares a couple of times now. So when we were at the shop talking about how the latest iteration of Scooby Doo is really good, the idea of making it the theme of the month came up….
Humans are social creatures, and one thing all cultures have in common is that we love to tell stories. Dangers in the deep dark woods have given rise to one of the first reoccurring antagonists, the Big Bad Wolf. Probably best known as the villain of Little Red Riding Hood,…
In a world where D&D exists, one of the questions I often find myself asking when I read fantasy RPG systems is this: Why am I playing this when I could be playing D&D? It’s a simple question, and not every game system has a satisfactory answer. Fantasy Age, however,…
“Jack” was a stock hero in Cornish and English mythology, famous from such stories as Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk. He was typically portrayed as a young man, unconcerned with values like hard work, and sharing many qualities with tricksters such as Loki and Reynard the…
We are closing in on a year of new content here at Forgot My Dice. Some of you out there may not know what we do, so this primer is for you. Every month we come up with a theme, and then structure articles around the theme in the form…
When we started working on fairy tale month, we had to decide how to tackle the giant marauding dragon in the genre. Disney has such a stranglehold on what we think of as fairy tales, ignoring it felt like a waste. So we started talking over what the “Disney” article…
Roman religion was very complex, and its concepts are so multifaceted they can be difficult to grasp. One key point was that every person, place and thing could have its own genius or Juno (the female equivalent in many ways, but distinct; named for the Roman queen of the gods),…
(While I was finishing up writing this article on backgrounds, I fell down a wikipedia spiral that resulted in the Bacchus/Maenad Warlock Path, which ended up being the main article this week. However, I did finish up this article as I was dreaming up the path. What that means to you gentle…
