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A spirited discussion about topics in and around the gaming sphere, including role playing games, board games, video games, and beyond! Join James and Riley and their guests as they talk, sometimes serious, usually silly but always fun and interesting! We hope you enjoy!
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
62 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Canada
14 episodes
since Aug. 10, 2026
episodic
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Richard Garfield joins us for this absolutely mind blowing episode, and we were extremely honoured to have him on! There is no doubt that his contributions to games over the past 3 plus decades, most notably with Magic the Gathering, have had their own legacy. He is also the designer of Netrunner, …
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In this episode of Cold Calls & Dice, we talk to Diogo Nogueira, esteemed designer and writer of such titles as Primal Quest, Dark Streets & Darker Secrets and the Ennie winning Halls of the Blood King. He’s currently the lead game designer at White Wolf for the future design of the World o…
In today’s genuinely special episode, we talk with Pavlo Vasylkov, a relatively new rpg creator and blogger. We had the great pleasure of meeting him at Kamcon in 2025 and again in 2026. None of us knew this guy, and what he was about, where he came from and what his whole deal was. But we played w…
James is joined by RPG writer and podcaster John Hook, Kamcon Lead Coordinator Tyler Carpentier, local Anime enthusiast and DJ Jeremy Androsoff and board game designer Rob Sieb! In this live recorded episode at Kamcon in Kamloops BC, Canada, we talk about conventions and game events, how we partici…
James and Riley talk to John Godek, one of the principal designer and developer of the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG from Renegade Game Studios! Our conversation goes from working with existing intellectual properties (IP's), to the tasks and challenges there in, and creating a good team to bring that g…
On this week's episode we talk with Owen KC Stephens, longtime game developer of such games as Star Wars D20, Pathfinder and Starfinder. Our discussion explores playing and running games cooperatively, how to make all players responsible for everyone's fun around the table, and our own great and ba…
This episode we talk video games with Gord Cooper of Riyo Games, combat designer of the upcoming 'Threads of Time'. We discuss design, teaching and fostering creativity within the video game industry. We touch on the precarious nature of the industry today and coping with the sometimes less than sa…
Aaron “Floxypox” Holmes is a growing YouTube video game pundit, and he joins us to talk about not only how video games have changed, but how our own relationships with games have changed. We all love video games, but it seems like things are different... Is it the industry? Is it us? Could it be bo…
Toren Atkinson has been in the gaming adjacent space for decades, be it as a designer, a writer, an actor, an artist, and of course as a musician as part of the legendary Lovecraftian rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. And while he has opinions, skills and experience with so much in th…
With the modern day perils of ownership, digital and physical, what DO we own? The ttrpgs space is shifting to a stronger digital model, with big companies like Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro making moves that feel like diminishing value, not added. What are our options? Our guest, Travis Diffende…
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