Roll History

Roll History

A low-DC dive into D&D through the ages! Join Sami and Vesper as they explore the history of each edition of everyone’s favourite most-popular-RPG-in-the-world!

Episodes

August 26, 2023 79 mins

Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! Our party decides that to get to the bottom of what Sylvie's been dosed with, they need to head to Little Outside.

Plus: The Noble Chicken's Children! All the Pies Are Crime! And SPECIAL GUEST The Bone Fairy!

Featuring:

Maxy Bee as (Gaston Impersonator—with the eggs I mean) Bluto Basher

Raiven Barnard as (Number One Ally) Syllavana Perstina

Sami as (Literal Qu...

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Welcome back to the modern era! We have buckets of info and lore for you, as well as buckets of uh slime. Sorry. But there is Glabbagool! At least there's Glabbagool!

Plus: Juiblex at a Party Doing Impressions of Christ, The Dichotomy of Shoes and Berries, "DM's Tip!" (Three Tips and Out), and A Gnome Is What Happens When You Don't Try Hard Enough.

NOTE: There were some fairly major audio issues on this one that Alex has done their...

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Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! The Knight has caught our party. And there's more coming if they get out of this. Of course.

Plus: Improv Assassins! Telepathic Rats on People's Heads! A Guy Who Looks Like a Well! And Quveli's House!

Featuring:

Maxy Bee as (Rolling Pin) Bluto Basher

Raiven Barnard as (The Negotiator) Syllavana Perstina

Sami as (Host with the Ghost) Quveli Carinae

and 'Alex' W...

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July 1, 2023 115 mins

We're back in 4th Edition land and Juiblex is getting stinkier... and yet more majestic? 

Plus: A Feeble and Wasting Toad, Mushroom Voice, Oaty Jug, and The Burning Piss (Oh No)!

Find shownotes, Sami's episode art, and our episode gallery at RollHistory.co.uk!

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Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! The Auditor advances on Sylvie with single-minded enmity. So our party jumps off a roof.

Plus: Hey Fred Schneider! Rooftop Parkour! A Rat the Size of a Horse! And a Fight on Top of a Moving Truck!

Featuring:

Maxy Bee as (Deadlift Champion) Bluto Basher

Raiven Barnard as (Self-Sacrificial Lamb) Syllavana Perstina

Sami as (Gymnast Extraordinaire) Quveli Carinae

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June 3, 2023 117 mins

Oh, it's a bumper one this time! What else would you expect from all the slime in 3rd Edition?!

Plus: You Only Drown If the Ocean Hates You, Remember Orc, Slimebody Told Me, and I'm the Teacher!

Show notes will be going up at RollHistory.co.uk, as well as episode art by none other than Sami herself!

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Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! Our party follows the trail in hopes of sanctuary, but just because there are angels doesn't mean it's safe.

Plus: Cheeky quest! Bad rolls! and Totally Normal Accents!

 

Featuring:

Maxy Bee as (Pickled Cowboy) Bluto Basher

Raiven Barnard as (Darling Daughter) Syllavana Perstina

Sami as (Criminal Satyr) Quveli Carinae

and 'Alex' Woodward as everything else

 

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May 6, 2023 87 mins

Roll History is back with an unflinching look at a nine-foot-tall cone of slime, jelly, and assorted grey-and-yellow bits. We're holding a magnifying glass to a sort of green splotch on the side. Smearing some on a finger and tasting it, and saying "yes, that's definitely Juiblex" before immediately dying. Usual podcast stuff.

Plus: Dr. Pluffie Smedger, Centaur Overpopulation Control, an Unearthed Lost Blur Song, and Working at the...

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January 14, 2023 61 mins

You thought Paladin Month was over years ago? You thought you'd escaped? Paladin Month will NEVER end. It's wet here.

Plus: ASMR Pageturning, Roar (the Vegetarian Dragon) History, James Cameron's Critical Role, and 'You Can Kiss Underwater'!

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December 31, 2022 53 mins

What do you get the adventurer who has everything? Try our Festive Gift Guide, in which we cover some of the worst possible magic items you could get for Christmas.

Plus: The Bud of Christ, Gifts from Turn-A Gundam, "Blood Vision!" Boots of Slightly Different Boots, and Notes on Candle Safety!

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Verner Potkettle, dragonborn paladin, travels to the Witchlight Fens and gets squeezed by a zombie in this 4e single-player adventure from September 2010!

Plus: Plothooks Gone Unnoticed, Sponsored by Sunrod, 4th Edition Speedrun Strats, and Accidental Goldeneye!

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"2008 called; it wants its stupid character creation process back!" That's a line from Mean Girls probably. But for real, the 4e character creation process is stupid and we didn't like it.

Plus: Insanity Cheese, the Standard Weezer Array, and IF YOU ARE HUMAN

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We've finally emerged once more from the sorcery mines. We found an untapped seam of sorcerers; the town is saved!!

Plus: The D-Word (Doberman), Tuppence for Birds, One Rune (For the Hip Hop Beats), Special Guest: the Bone Fairy, BN Biscuit Appropriation, and Frodo But He's a Pervert!

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Join Roll History and Friends on an urban fantasy actual play adventure! In a world at the centre of an endless axis of alternates, a Fae runaway meets a gentlewoman-thief and an ailing, retired wrestler.

Featuring:

Maxy Bee as Bluto Basher

Raiven Barnard as Syllavana Perstina

Sami Gibbs as Quveli Carinae

and the DM formerly known as Alex Woodward as everything else

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Not content to tell you about the Sorcerers that are actually in the game, Sami & Alex bring you all you need to know about the Sorcerers from Unearthed Arcana!

Plus: A Hundred False Starts, Burp Dubs, Hotlike Roar, and HOLD PERCY JACKSON

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March 12, 2022 96 mins

What about the Sorcerers that weren't covered in our last two parts? Don't they deserve an hour and a half of semi-coherent nonsense? Apparently they do!

Plus: Snickers in my Veins, Walf and Me (Doing Drugs on the Promenade), Strange Paul, and Fun with Numbers!

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February 26, 2022 86 mins

The real magic was inside you all along! Sorry it wasn't particularly good magic for a while there, though.

Plus: A Slightly More Powerful Human, Having Too Much Skin is Bad For You, and Reversable Scales!

This episode is sponsored by 3rd Space Gaming - head to www.3rdspacegaming.co.uk/ and use the code ROLLHISTORY at checkout for 10% off your order!

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February 12, 2022 77 mins

Wizards hate him! This guy does magic despite his INT of 3, thanks to this one weird tip!! LEARN HOW!!!

Plus: The Magic of Cinema, Hold Me Closer Tiny Viper, and Bursts and Blasts; Whoa!!

This episode is sponsored by 3rd Space Gaming - head to www.3rdspacegaming.co.uk/ and use the code ROLLHISTORY at checkout for 10% off your order!

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December 18, 2021 89 mins

We're not festive yet, we're just cold! Probably because of this big bug, actually.

Plus: Elton Jim, True Resurrection (Cold Version), and Magical Mister Mephistopheles.

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November 27, 2021 81 mins

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it. We don't do it here in England because we're culturally ungrateful. Let's talk about a feast!

Plus: Bees Are Very Different to Horses, MC Hammer's Embarrassing Turkey Hoarding, and Owl Milk!

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