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Aladdin Part 2

Back with Aladdin part 2. I think this was the weekend we crammed in three different episode recordings over three day period and this was the last day, and you can tell we're a little loopy. 

Jon, as always, does a fabulous job in the DM chair. It's so interesting for me, now having d...

Aladdin Part 1

Well the most immediately interesting thing to say about this episode is that it was recorded over a year ago. Welcome to the scheduling nightmare that is the Film Reroll, this seems as good a time as any to shed some light on why we often end up airing episodes we recorded so long ago, as it see...

Licence to Kill!

Hard episode to talk about without you hearing it, so I won't talk details in this one. I sure loved playing it. It's a unique episode, as you'll soon hear. 

I think it's our first three-hour episode. It sets up another in our long list of upcoming promised sequels (as you'l...

Goonies Part 5

What an adventure! Sometimes you're working hard to spin what the dice give you into a satisfying story. And sometimes the dice just give you gifts. This episode definitely falls into the latter camp.

Goonies is in a way our biggest episode so far. Rogue One was just as long, but that was o...

Goonies 4

I can't even explain to you the narrative richness of the backstories on Peartree island.  There's at least three Checkhov plays worth of conflict and history on that island. It's honestly just what my brain does when I start to think about a setting, but normally I get to do it with more fa...

Goonies Part 3

Part 3 of Goonies. Where it really goes off rails. Like really. 

It's been kind of challenging to channel Goonies, which is sort of a scattered movie. The real power of it is that doing crazy adventure junk feels like it fits into the movie. It sort of encourages a sense of abandon in ...

Goonies part 2

Another episode in the books, as the Goonies saga will be among our longer ones. I really love the vibe in the room when we have these big sessions with a lot of actors, but it's pretty hard to manage the game in our set-up and get the audio right, and rangle everyone, so it stays a rare treat wh...

Goonies (Part 1)

This one's gonna be a saga, folks. Very excited to be getting this one out there. I think it's a ton of fun. And while this one's really ended up being very different from the original. I think Goonies is less a plot and more a sort of attitude which has suffused the whole proceedings. So I hope ...

John Wick (Part 2)

We're back with John Wick part 2. This is officially the only Film Reroll movie I (Paulo) haven't seen. And I still haven't seen it. Now I feel like I need to do something for when I finally see it after all this anticipation.

Andy is such a blast to play with. He has such a great energy th...

John Wick (Part 1)

We've been talking about unconventional castings almost since the first episode of the show. And we've definitely had weird casting forced on us because main characters fell out of the story, or were never introduced, or because extras got elevated to principals through the story. But this is the...

The "Select a Scene" Tier...

Hi all,

You may have noticed by now that we no longer have the $100 "Select a Scene" tier! We're sorry- we hate removing options, but honestly you've helped us grow to the point where we aren't able to accommodate these short one-off scenes; we need all our free time to keep going on full-f...

Weekend At Bernie's Part 3

Another finished movie in the can, and I gotta say I love this one. It becomes a very different movie in a way that I particularly love.

In other news, we've hit our 50th episode! It's crazy to me that we've done 50 of these. They're each such an undertaking. But it's such a joy to make these and ...

Weekend at Bernie's (Part 2)

What can I say about this episode? This whole Weekend At Bernie's saga is pretty bonkers, but the original movie was pretty bonkers to begin with. I can't decide if the original movie intended its characters to be loathsome, or if it was an unfortunate combination of characteristics of the era, that...

Reroll Theme Song (full version)

I've gotten a lot of requests to post the Reroll theme song so here you go. The theme song was created by me in an improv and there was more to that improv than the 32 bars you hear at the beginning of the show, but putting it out there meant me finding it and editing and generally cleaning it up, c...

Even More Character Sheets

Another dump of character sheets from our old campaigns. Slowly working our way through these. If you have any technical questions about how to run stuff, or character questions about why I built characters this way and not some other, feel free to ask them here and I'll try to knock them down.

Go...

Weekend at Bernie's (Part 1)

New episode is up!

Once you get past the bizarre central premise, a lot of Weekend at Bernie's is a tribute to 80's me-decade obsessive hedonistic capitalism. The percentage to which the movie is a parody of that culture is somewhere between 0% and 60%, but the exact number is difficult to determi...

Friday the 13th: part 2

Ok we're back with the thrilling conclusion of this movie. And I gotta say, this one was really thrilling to play, I hope it was as thrilling to listen to. The genre switch definitely upped the tension at the table, and the players were stressed out when Jason was coming for them.

If there's one t...

Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (Part 1)

Hooboy, this was fun. So like a month and a half ago I decided to do a Friday the 13th movie and not tell the players we were doing a horror movie. I started working on the concept and watching Friday 13th movies, and the whole time I had this great idea that I had to keep secret from the players, a...

Jurassic Park (Part 3)

We did it! After being half-finished for like a year, Jurassic Park is complete! Probably the most requested movie we would get, and it's finally all complete.

Big thanks to all of you who have enabled this new  bi-weekly schedule to become a reality. So far so good on releasing every other T...

Jurassic Park (Part 2)

So far so good on the new predictable release schedule. Thanks again to all the Patreon supporters who make this possible. You guys are the best! It's still a difficult schedule for us to maintain, but this will be the status quo going forward, and we'll post to the twitter or to here if there's a d...

Jurassic Park (Part 1)

Some of you figured out we were doing Jurassic Park ages ago based on careful examination of a picture that Pitr put on twitter. The actual reason JP took so long to get here is because we hadn't finished it. Jonathan left town to do a show, and when he had got back we'd lost Andy to a contract bein...

Rogue One Part 5

It's our longest movie yet, but it's officially over, and I think it was quite the romp. I can only judge by how much fun we had doing it, but this one had us cackling like idiots throughout. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

In other news, it's always been our goal to get ourselves on a regula...

More Character Sheets

Another dump of old character sheets for your enjoyment.

How do you make a character sheet from a movie character? 

First: Watch the movie carefully and note everything they do. They gotta have every skill and attribute they exhibit in the movie. Now, how good are they at these things? ...

Rogue One part four

We're back on Rogue One! We're getting into a little action here and then some politics. Spoiler warning: this is not the last episode of Rogue One! Curious to hear all your thoughts on long campaigns like this one versus the shorter ones.

Rogue One is fun so far. Even though it doesn...

From Dusk Till Dawn Part 2

New episode is out! Definitely our most combat and mechanics heavy episode. It's always a lot of fun to play, but for me the trick is always how to make it fun to listen to. That's always what I'm thinking about and what I'm most worried about succeeding in. Let me know if you like episodes like thi...

From Dusk Till Dawn (Part 1)

New episode is up! We had some serious technical difficulties associate with this episode so I'm glad it sounds ok in the end. It was a tremendously fun episode to record. We had more people on mic than we'd ever attempted before. This was supposed to be just a short scene to add to an episode of Ro...

Character Sheets!

Hey folks, I'm sure some of you remember the Dice Talk Blog, in which Jon was going to go into detail with game mechanics stuff. Well . . . he never really had enough free time to run it, and frankly the percentage of our audience that was interested in getting into the crunchy numbers wasn't high e...

Rogue One (Part 3)

We're back with Rogue One Part 3! I was really encouraged by how well this one went, it gets very dungeon-crawlery and I wasn't sure that would make good radio (after our thrown-out Die Hard episode kinda made me nervous about those kind of adventures) but I think it turned out very enjoyable...

Rogue One (Part Two)

Ok, little behind the scenes story for the patreon. Pitr likes to riff a lot, while Scott tries to stay in character throughout. They were talking about this before the episode, and Pitr gave Scott three tokens to be used at any point within Rogue One, which when spent, means Pitr cannot say anythin...

Rogue One (Part 1)

Ok, here we go off into a long one. I spent a while researching Star Wars systems, but ultimately decided that for this movie, which is light on Force users, our regular GURPS would be better (our players are used to it and all.)

Rogue One has so many interesting possible story deviations, and I h...