Jun 18, 2026 · 45 min · 9 segments
In the newest episode of The Dice Cabinet, Secretary of Spice, Max Weinberg, is joined by some of coolest people in the TTRPG industry to take on their spiciest takes. Today's Cabinet includes…
Max WeinbergHostAre you saying just get straight into it, or do you think that it is valuable to have a, what is this TTRPG section?
This is kind of where it gets spicier as you dig deeper on this, is that I think that if your game needs it, the rest of it isn't doing enough work.
Like, it's one of those of, like, if you have to, like, explain the joke, the joke was not good.
Well, I'm thinking, I mean, I fully agree with you, but also I'm thinking of all of the new kind of existing IPs that are creating TTRPGs around them.
Like, for instance, like Cosmere from Brandon Sanderson's universe, like someone who's read... and loves those books might pick up this rule book and really only do it because they love Mistborn.
I don't think anybody picking up an individual game needs to be told the broader context of what it is.
When I open up a video game, it does not have a screen that comes up that goes the following experience is a video game.
It's like a different game, but you play it on your TV screen like that would be insane.
Like, a video game you can interface only in ways that you play a video game, right? Like, you go to a video game store, like, you have to interact with it a lot of the time by putting it into a video game player.
Whereas the TTRPG, like, you can pick up a book and then find out it's a game simultaneously.
Are you saying just get straight into it, or do you think that it is valuable to have a, what is this TTRPG section?
This is kind of where it gets spicier as you dig deeper on this, is that I think that if your game needs it, the rest of it isn't doing enough work.
Like, it's one of those of, like, if you have to, like, explain the joke, the joke was not good.
Well, I'm thinking, I mean, I fully agree with you, but also I'm thinking of all of the new kind of existing IPs that are creating TTRPGs around them.
Like, for instance, like Cosmere from Brandon Sanderson's universe, like someone who's read... and loves those books might pick up this rule book and really only do it because they love Mistborn.
I don't think anybody picking up an individual game needs to be told the broader context of what it is.
When I open up a video game, it does not have a screen that comes up that goes the following experience is a video game.
It's like a different game, but you play it on your TV screen like that would be insane.
Like, a video game you can interface only in ways that you play a video game, right? Like, you go to a video game store, like, you have to interact with it a lot of the time by putting it into a video game player.
Whereas the TTRPG, like, you can pick up a book and then find out it's a game simultaneously.
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