RPGMP3.com

The RPGMP3 Podcast, begun September 15 2004, is an audio review of the Alderac Entertainment Group Dungeons & Dragons campaign, The World's Largest Dungeon. In the audio files, available through the iTunes Podcast function or RPGMP3.com, The Dungeon Master for the group, Hal, runs Steve, Lindsay, Paul, Fin and Richard through the labyrinth. So far they have recorded 32 sessions totalling over three days worth of audio. Player and Character biographies are available on the site, which also hosts a small, but active forum.

A Short History

By Paul Maclean

It started out accidentally back in January 2003 when I unintentionally recorded part of a D&D game when testing out a new microphone for my MiniDisc recorder (I'd forgotten I'd left it on) - and ended up with over half-an-hour of us playing Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.

I found it on the MiniDisc a little later -listened to some of it and thought it was worth adding to my web site (Yog-Sothoth.com)as a curio.

It kind of took off.

With thousands of downloads and a number of emails saying how entertaining people found it. There are very few (if any) recordings of such games - so if you also want to justify it as recording for posterity, you can. :D (That's what you get when you're also a bunch of Archaeologists.) Anyway, I registered the domain name RPGMP3.com and the site was eventually born in early 2004, run by Richard 'Hal' Halpin and has been running ever since.

Once I discovered Podcasting in October 2004 it seemed a natural avenue to take as an alternative and convenient method of distribution.

As you'll have noticed the audio files are pretty much raw with very little or no editing. There are two main reasons for this - Time - because they are usually 2-3 hours per week and Realism - that's how we play, not a polished drama that you would normally expect hear on the radio.