Podcast appearances and mentions of Orion D Black

A discussion with the incredible Orion D. Black, a writer and former Creative Director of Dimension 20. We talk about how the carrying capacity of a teenage musician, how to look Actual Play performance with a birds eye view, and why being Creative Director was such a perfect fit. Follow Orion on Twitter @OrionDBlack If you enjoyed the podcast, please help us grow by leaving a review, subscribing, and sharing with friends. You can also support by going to patreon.com/secretnerdpodcast! You can contact us at secretnerdpodcast@gmail.com, as well as the many options in the Anchor app (anchor.fm/). Follow us on twitter: @SecretNrdSocial Follow us on Instagram: @secretnerdpodcast Join the Patreon at patreon.com/secretnerpodcast Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/secretnerd-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/secretnerd-podcast/support

Our guest today is Orion D. Black, the Creative Director for Dimension 20 and a game designer with publications on itch.io. Orion has had a huge impact on the TTRPG scene, and it was an absolute honor to have them on the show. We talked about how Orion went from playing D&D to designing their own indie games, to working with the incredible crew of Dimension 20. Find Orion D. Black at:TwitterItch.ioDimension 20Find Roll Play Grow:Show PagePatreonDiscordLightheart Adventures WebsiteLightheart TwitterLightheart InstagramFriday Afternoon Tea Grab a cup of tea with blends based on your favorite nerdy series. Use lightheartadv for 10% offSupport the show

Dungeon Master, game designer, and actual play creative director Orion D. Black joins the show to talk about game design, creating actual plays, and world-building, and shows us what we can learn from the current wave of creative and inspiring DMs and RPG shows.  Follow Orion on Twitter Dimension 20 plot ARMOR single-player RPG Transplanar RPG  Bee Zelda

Welcome to Rules and Roles, a tabletop RPG podcast in two parts. In this episode, we discuss the inaugural mission for the Beefcake Squad in Orion D. Black's Mutants in the Night. Listen as we discuss character inspirations, the differences between fun and enjoyment, and some heavy talk about misery tourism. But also where does a giant eyeball man sleep? Follow us on Twitter: @rulesrolespod Send us questions and comments at rulesandrolespod@gmail.com. Our theme music is Interplanetary Forest, by Meydän. Find out more about them and their music on their Soundcloud.

Welcome to Rules and Roles, a tabletop RPG podcast in two parts. In this episode, we hit the streets of the Manhattan MSZ in Orion D. Black's Mutants in the Night. Listen as we continuously wonder if it's vampires, struggle to roll one single success, and flaunt a dangerous disregard for all walls, everywhere. Follow us on Twitter: @rulesrolespod Send us questions and comments at rulesandrolespod@gmail.com. Our theme music is Interplanetary Forest, by Meydän. Find out more about them and their music on their Soundcloud.

Hi everyone, this is Jono speaking on behalf of the entire Goofballs & Goblins team. You’ve probably noticed that we’ve taken some time off recently. This is in part due to the state of the world right now, partly because we still haven’t quite figured out remote recording, and partly because of recent events in the TTRPG community. We’d like to take this moment to properly address those events. As many of you may know, Wizards of the Coast, the company who makes D&D, let slip over a month ago that they were still working with Mike Mearls, who they had previously claimed was no longer employed by them in the TTRPG department. For those who don't know, Mearls was involved in enabling abuse within the tabletop community, in addition to further endangering abuse survivors by exposing them to their abuser. We firmly believe- and I cannot stress this enough- that Wizards of the Coast needs to fire Mike Mearls. When we initially wrote our statement regarding Wizards, this was the most recent news. We were still hopeful that they would appropriately and publicly address this failure on their part and work to rectify the situation. It was our belief that once that action was taken we could perhaps continue playing D&D with a clear conscience, and what’s more we planned to use this platform (however small it may be) to uplift and showcase indie creators making D&D content. I recognize now that that belief comes from a place of privilege and naivete, especially after this past weekend. On July 3rd, Orion D. Black, a Black nonbinary former Wizards of the Coast employee, posted a thread of their experiences working for them and the continual mistreatment they received during their time there. If you’ve not seen it or read it yet, their statement will be linked in the transcript for this recording on our website. (https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sra9pq) This was the last straw for a lot of people, ourselves included. After reading about the hypocrisy, toxicity, and unwillingness to change that Wizards has shown time and again (not to mention their deafening silence when it comes to #FireMikeMearls), we cannot in good conscience continue to play Dungeons and Dragons on this show. To do so would be to give our tacit support to them, and I speak for all of us when I say we do not now nor will we ever support this kind of behavior. So, what does this mean for Goofballs and Goblins? The details are as of yet unclear, but I can assure you that the Frighty Fellows’ story will continue using a different system as the medium. We have found several options that we will be privately trying out over the next few weeks. Once we find something that works for us as a group, we’ll transfer this story over and get back to bringing you the content of dubious quality that you’re used to. As for the several backlogged episodes that we hadn’t released before everything went down, we’ve decided as a group that we’re just not comfortable putting D&D content into the world anymore. But at the same time, it would be really hard to recreate three to four episodes of actual-play tabletop role-playing, so as a compromise, you can look forward to what I’m sure will be a sizeable and pretty bad plot recap of those episodes from me! We will have those out shortly before we begin putting out new content, which will be all brand-new starting fresh where we as players left off. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience as we figure out our next steps. Hopefully we’ll continue the adventures of the Frighty Fellows real soon.

DMs Matt and Rob attempt to take stock of the failures of the corporations that control Dungeons and Dragons (Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, and OneBookShelf) over the past decade and discuss recent goings on in both D&D and Magic: The Gathering. Then, we answer your letters on dealing with overpowered homebrew classes and speeding up combat with large parties!  Links of stuff discussed: Orion D. Black's Itch Page Eat the Rich Anthology Asians Represent Podcast Oliver Clegg's DMG Page Olivia Hill's #iHunt: The RPG Zaiem Beg, "The Wizards I Know" Lizbeth Eden  "Wizards of the Coast, Nic Kelman, & Hypocrisy" by A.E. Marling Send Us a One-Page RPG by Sunday July 12th  Performance of She Kills Monsters on July 12th 7pm    Contact Us: Email or at the DM Hotline (774) 203-4629‬   Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice The Coup - The Guillotine  Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime Rodriguez - This In Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues lyrics