Tabletop creators, systems, and stories in conversation.
Snyder’s Return follows the people who make, run, publish, and celebrate tabletop roleplaying games. Episodes move from personal entry points into D&D and other systems to detailed chats about conventions, licensed RPGs, solo journaling games, and creative practice.
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Snyder’s Return is a UK-based tabletop roleplaying podcast with a broad view of the hobby. It is built mainly around interviews. The show brings in designers, writers, content creators, podcasters, convention organizers, and small-press publishers, then lets them explain how they found games and what they are making now. The tone is welcoming and enthusiastically prepared. Introductions are playful, often packed with references to a guest’s games, settings, credits, or fandoms, but the interviews themselves settle into clear conversational ground. A recurring pattern is the origin story. Guests talk about first encounters with Dungeons & Dragons, school libraries, theater-kid circles, family game rooms, conventions, trade shows, and the social shift that happens when roleplaying becomes a serious part of life. Those stories matter here. They make the show feel less like a product tour and more like an oral history of tabletop culture in motion. Recent episodes move through Tabletop Scotland, Renegade Games’ GI Joe and My Little Pony TTRPG work, Iron Kingdoms, Warhammer 40K roleplaying, Darker Days Radio, Black Armada Games, Wreck This Deck, Bite Marks, TTRPG scholarship, and the Marvel Multiverse roleplaying game. That range gives Snyder’s Return a useful mixed shelf: licensed systems, indie design, convention logistics, actual play culture, solo journaling games, and community support all sit in the same feed. The show is especially attentive to the people behind the curtain. It asks what they play, how they organize, how projects begin, and what excites them as gamers rather than only as professionals. Convention talk lands with real texture, from vendors and airport proximity to the value of spending a weekend immersed in the hobby. Design talk can get specific too, especially when a guest explains the spark behind an unusual mechanic, such as destroying a game component or adapting a beloved franchise for the table. Snyder’s Return suits listeners who want names, pathways, and context. It is not only about rules. It is about how the tabletop scene keeps renewing itself through local groups, publishers, creators, and players who keep showing up.
Made for: For tabletop roleplayers who enjoy creator interviews, convention culture, game design backstories, and the wider ecosystem around D&D, indie RPGs, licensed systems, and actual play. It also suits listeners who like hearing how people found their way into the hobby.
What sets it apart: Snyder’s Return stands out through its steady focus on the people and pathways behind tabletop games, not just the games themselves. The interviews connect personal origin stories, community infrastructure, publishing work, and current projects with a warm hobby-first sensibility.
UK based Tabletop Roleplaying Game Podcast featuring TTRPG Actual Play, Content Creator Interviews and GM/Player Guides. Find us on Twitter: @returnsnyder Patreon: Patreon.com/Snyder’s Return Discord: https://discord.gg/GBvavvAll Music and Sound Effects are from Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/4u0qhi/
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A lively design conversation about how destroying a game piece can become the heart of a tabletop experience.
Josh Fox and Becky Aniston of Black Armada Games turn a tabletop roleplaying interview into a close look at the moment when play starts to alter the object in front of the player.
Old-school GM craft, talked through plainly.
Shadowrun actual play with community signal.
World of Darkness books, argued at table depth.
Tabletop design, talked through slowly.
Horror RPG craft from the shadowed classroom.
Host Adam interviews Josh Fox and Becky Annison, founders of Black Armada Games, on the TTRPG podcast Snyder's Return.
An interview with TTRPG content creator Chris Hanley about his work on Warhammer and Iron Kingdoms RPGs.
An interview with Dr.
Host Adam interviews game designer Ryan Costello about his entry into tabletop roleplaying games.
An interview with game designer Matt Forbeck about the Marvel Multiverse roleplaying game and his career in TTRPGs.
David Wright describes discovering Dungeons & Dragons in 1984 before building Tabletop Scotland into a Scottish gaming convention.
Chris Birch, co-founder and game designer at Modiphius, explains how a childhood Dungeons & Dragons character named Brandon Carter shaped his approach to role-playing games.
Grant Howitt discusses his path from discovering Vampire: The Masquerade: Sabbat at Games Day 2000 to co-founding Rowan, Rook and Decard.
Snyder’s Return interviews game designer Banana Chan about The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio, a solo horror journaling game set during a late shift in Akron, Ohio.
Snyder’s Return interviews Danielle Lauzon about At The Gates, a StoryPath Ultra fantasy roleplaying game built around seven nations, magical gates, and extra-planar demons.
J Gray, line manager for Cyberpunk Red at R.
Magnus Seter, a Free League game designer who has written for tabletop RPGs since 1989, describes writing about 60 monsters for the 156-page Dragonbane Bestiary in two and a half months.
Game designer and illustrator Benjamin Tobitt describes Black Powder and Brimstone, a 200-page OSR tabletop game published with Free League that passed half a million crowns on Kickstarter with 17 days left.