The Splatbook

Your favorite table top RPG design topics podcast

Interview: Stephen Dewey
May 3, 2025 – 01:00:09
Chaos at the Table!
Apr 18, 2025 – 00:43:11
Why do we like physical RPG books so much?
Apr 4, 2025 – 00:54:14
RPG Friendships
Mar 21, 2025 – 00:56:29
Interview: Gareth Hanrahan on Moria
Mar 7, 2025 – 00:59:36
Actual Play: FÄNGELSEHÅLA
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:09:51
Pop up Episode! - Zine Month
Feb 13, 2025 – 00:43:16
White Whales: A response to RFT
Feb 7, 2025 – 01:05:22
Actual Play: Goblin Quest
Jan 23, 2025 – 01:37:25
New Podcast! Zombie Strains
Jan 16, 2025 – 01:03:24
What happens next with RPG design?
Jan 9, 2025 – 00:43:36
Actual Play: To Serve Her Wintry Hunger
Dec 27, 2024 – 01:57:19
Actual Play: Wick and Wander - Part 2
Dec 14, 2024 – 01:43:14
Actual Play: Wick and Wander - Part 1
Nov 28, 2024 – 01:07:56
Two Minute Drill
Nov 14, 2024 – 00:02:53
Actual Play: Air Boo-N-Boo
Oct 31, 2024 – 01:33:50
Game Design 101: Let's make a One Page RPG
Oct 24, 2024 – 01:23:02
Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition with Kenneth Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Oct 17, 2024 – 00:52:19
Fantasy Art with Hailee Smith
Oct 3, 2024 – 01:05:09
Play testing your game
Sep 19, 2024 – 01:03:44
Player's Handbook 2024
Sep 12, 2024 – 00:48:07
Tony Vasinda on GenCon, Zines, and when the OSR works
Sep 5, 2024 – 01:05:52
Appendix N: Alien: Romulus
Aug 28, 2024 – 01:13:34
Just the Bitlets
Aug 22, 2024 – 01:10:37
John and Kyle at GenCon 2024
Aug 8, 2024 – 00:25:37
Kyle and John VS the OSR: John goes full OSR
Jul 25, 2024 – 00:50:13
Bonus: The Path To Power by Robert A Caro
Jul 17, 2024 – 00:59:01
June 2024 Mail Bag
Jul 11, 2024 – 00:43:17
Actual Play: Star Borg - The Hypercore of Madness (Part 2)
Jun 27, 2024 – 01:07:25
Actual Play: Star Borg - The Ship of Doom, Part 1
Jun 13, 2024 – 01:05:26
The History of D&D Combat with Evan Torner
May 30, 2024 – 01:10:48
Zines, Star Borg, and YouTube with JP Coovert
May 16, 2024 – 01:14:57
RPGs and Internality
May 2, 2024 – 00:58:29
ADHD and RPGs
Apr 18, 2024 – 00:57:02
Game Design 101: Rules Platforms
Apr 4, 2024 – 00:59:54
Re-Release: Running Games in Middle Earth
Mar 21, 2024 – 00:34:59
Actual Play: Wraith Curse of the Night Sword, Part 2
Mar 8, 2024 – 01:11:41
Actual Play: Wraith Curse of the Night Sword, Part 1
Feb 22, 2024 – 01:17:37
Kyle and John VS The OSR: The Enchanted Wood
Feb 8, 2024 – 01:10:35
We're back baby!
Jan 25, 2024 – 01:06:03
What is the difference between two 8th level fighters?
Jan 11, 2024 – 01:24:34
Appendix N: The Apocalypse According to John Carpenter
Dec 28, 2023 – 01:22:40
2023 is a wrap!
Dec 14, 2023 – 01:03:55
Game Design Corner - Wick and Wander
Nov 30, 2023 – 01:05:09
WE TALK ABOUT TABLE TOP RPG DESIGN
Nov 16, 2023 – 01:13:35
Mail Bag!
Nov 2, 2023 – 01:02:50
Monstrous Funded!
Oct 19, 2023 – 01:00:16
Splatbook Live(ish)!
Oct 5, 2023 – 00:58:08
I got a bad case of diegesis
Sep 21, 2023 – 00:54:31
Wait, what?! there is a Blade Runner RPG?
Sep 14, 2023 – 01:00:38

Recent Reviews

Teem Dodger

What is the point?

I don’t know how you talk for 40 minutes about the new D&D book and say absolutely nothing, but this podcast manages it.
Stuart Cook

Best place on the internet for stories and meaning

If you like ttrpgs and want those games to have story and meaning, this podcast and the Mapcrow community are the best place on the internet to get ideas and hear thought provoking conversation.
daidalus

My favorite RPG podcast

Thoughtful, delightful, and energizing, this is my favorite podcast talking about tabletop role-playing games out there right now. Always a good time. Always gets my game design and game-master gears spinning.
Casualgamer07

Excellent RPG podcast!

The hosts Kyle and John provide their listeners to some humorous and candid discussions about RPGs, art, and related media. Their passion for table top role play games really shines!
jimbo29499

Great!

Excellent! Mind-blowing TTRPG ideas and well-edited. Love these folks — Kyle and John are hugely experienced and are complex, deep thinkers.
Manifold2

So much fun!

I really enjoy this show. It’s short, punchy, on-topic, and not especially plugging anything. Overall a wonderful experience.
Breen Draggledon

Like hanging out and talking rpgs with a good friend

Listening to Kyle and John sit and talk about rpgs helps sooth the ache of games lost to the pandemic. One day I’ll get my group back together but for now I can nerd out with these guys. Thank you, and please make more.
N. Collins 888

This podcast is pretty good

It’s a good podcast-listen to it. I am excited to see what will be in the next episodes.