Episode 23

Ep. 23: Role-playing games will change your life!

This is a two-part episode about roleplaying games and Dungeons and Dragons. This episode is a backgrounder on roleplaying games and how they could possibly change your life. And certainly, how they have changed mine.

Today’s episode features my friends Andres, Nik, Olli, Niall and Liisa. Over six years we have adventured through many worlds and told many stories. This episode is as much about them as it is about role-playing in general. Thank you!

A future episode will feature more of the stories, characters and worlds.

Links from today’s episode:

* All about Dungeons and Dragons: I suggest this primer video for those interested.

* Critical Role

* Daggerheart

* Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman

* R. A. Salvatore’s original Icewind Dale Trilogy that introduces Drizzt Do’Urden to the world

* Raymond E. Feist’s Magician


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Hosted by tech leader and storyteller Duleepa Wijayawardhana, this podcast explores the intersections of technology, fiction, and human adventure. Words create the worlds we live in—join us for weekly conversations that spark your imagination.

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Duleepa Wijayawardhana

It started with late nights, glue sticks, and a university newspaper / radio.

That early obsession with how words reach people took me from student journalism to a career spanning the globe. I’ve gone from designing newspapers and having radio shows to building systems at BioWare (yes, the RPG legends), managing data at MySQL, and now leading tech at Supermetrics in Helsinki.

But at my core, I’m still that geek who believes writing is just code for the human mind.

While a computer chip executes code exactly, your imagination runs stories based on your own unique wiring. Tales under the cat tree is where we run those programs together. Whether we're exploring the fiction that inspires us or the tech that defines us, my goal is to spark your imagination and—most importantly—never make you go "meh."

Words create the worlds we live in. Let's explore them.