Tavern Chat

What is more important, the game or the connections we make as gamers?

Jon JoetheLawyer & Tenkar, as they talk all things gaming related, and touch upon the new playtest of Joe's Bonze Age Heartbreaker.

Mike & Tenkar are joined by Zach Glazar (Frog God Games) and Joe Bingaman, currently Kickstarting The World of Durmin: A campaign setting for Old-School Roleplaying Games

Bad Mike & Tenkar are joined by Alyssa Faden, mapper extraordinaire. You have been warned...

Join Bad Mike & Tenkar for a special Friday Night Talking Crit LiveStream. Dungeons, Dragons & Discourse will return in two weeks.

Bad Mike & Tenkar are back with their weekly Talking Crit Livestream. News, events, This Week in Gaming Stupid - its all here.  The GoFundMe for Steve Perrin's Wife's medical expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-the-phoenix Mystara Player's Guide Download Pages: https://rpgmp3.com/mystara-players-guide/

Bad Mike & Tenkar will be joined by Mark Greenberg (Necropolis Kickstarter - Necromancer Games/Frog God Games). The second half of the livestream will be covering This Week in RPG Stupid.

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that we will be losing Doug Rhea - founder of NTRPG Con - in the coming days. Doug is the founder and driving force behind NTRPG Con, and his presence will be sorely missed.

Earlier tonight I played in Session Zero of JoetheLawyer's Fantasy Heartbreaker. The session was a blast, not because of the system (which is fine and mostly familiar) but because of the players. If your online group already knows each other, emulating a face-to-face experience is easier than many think.

We are reaching critical mass when it comes to the first generation of RPG creators, and it no longer surprises me to find out we've lost another, although it saddens me just the same as it ever did. Social media allows you to reach and thank those that have had an influence on your life, as a gamer and beyond. Thank them now, because tomorrow may be too late.

You know the trope: you all meet at a tavern. But why is that? What makes a Tavern, the local watering hole, such an integral part of kicking off so many RPG adventures? There is a certain brush you paint with when members of your development group and playtesters leave glowing reviews for your product and fail to mention their connections to it. I try to mention the connections I have to individu...

GenCon 2021 has announced that there will be a mask mandate in effect for all attendees, vaccinated or not. They also hint that a vaccination mandate may come into effect prior to the convention.   https://gencon.blog/2021/08/06/august-health-and-safety-update/ I don't care what your personal beliefs are if you want to be friends on social media. I want to discuss what we share in common...

We often talk about the skills one needs to learn as a GM/DM, but what is often overlooked are the skills one needs as a player. These skills are often real-life social skills, and I touch upon them in this installment of Tavern Chat. Our dog Danke enjoys exploring on her walks. We let her lead the way most times, but on occasions, we must redirect her or even take the lead. Its the same in your c...

Many jobs have moved to work from home and many tabletop campaigns have moved to Virtual Tabletops -VTTs-. Are we picking up new creators as folks either work from home or are home with enhanced unemployment benefits? Are the changes we have seen in the method of play - the jump in virtual play and virtual conventions - here to stay? Benoit hit his 2nd Monday Goal and the backers of the Marmoreal...

D&D Beyond canceled a contest where they offered digital prizes and claimed rights to use all entries. Lesson learned the hard way. Yep, TSR3 has or is in the process of, abandoning at least three graphical trademarks.  There is an update on the Marmoreal Tomb Kickstarter - Benoist has hit his first due date and succeeded. Sadly, Brian Fitzpatrick of Moebius Adventures passed away this we...

Bad Mike and Tenkar unbox the new Swords & Wizardry Boxed Set, discuss upcoming projects, and cover the latest update on the Marmoreal Tomb Kickstarter.

Join Bad Mike & Tenkar, as they sit down with Greg Christopher to discuss Avarice & Ambition 2e and then delve into current events in the tabletop RPG hobby. Here's the link to Ambition & Avarice 2e (note, it is an affiliate link) https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/359780/Ambition--Avarice-2nd-Edition?affiliate_id=1446

Rach & Tenkar return with two Gamers' Health LiveStreams. Listen as they talk about their own successes and failures and remember that you are not alone.

Joe & Tenkar talk about various houserules, campaign styles, and wherever the live audience takes them.

I need to choose a style of play for my next campaign. It will have my old group of players from high school and college and will be either an adventure path, episodic, a hex crawl, or a mega-dungeon. Wherein I talk a little bit about BFRPG, the OSR's oft-forgotten gem, and a bargain too. This is an affiliate link to BFRPG on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Aii3Ib, Your purchase goes to support this chan...

Over 40% of D&D 5e players are under 25. How do we get the OSR to tap into that demographic?  I was watching Professor Dungeon Master over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6ERRdXrF2IZ0R888G8PQgand I realized he had it right. A sandbox is about choices, but not limitless ones, at least not if the DM wishes to retain his sanity ;)

Social media in the OSR has been a shit show for the last two weeks or so. When official business accounts argue with the gaming community and try to win arguments, you know it isn't going to be good. A look at some Kickstarter that have failed to deliver, years after they claimed they would. Far West, Ernest Gary Gygax Jr.'s Marmoreal Tomb Campaign Starter, Appendix N Adventure Toolkits and City...

Bad Mike & Tenkar return to the scene of the crime, with a follow-up and updates to last week's episode on the latest iteration of TSR. Plus, LaNasa threats of legal action are nothing new.  Edit: Forgot to add this to the notes: Giantlands at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKCJVI9pRc

Mike & Tenkar look at the latest company to bear the initials TSR. Who are they, what have they produced, are they the inheritors of the Original TSR, what are their plans for the company and more.

There's a press release stating that the original studio of TSR Games is back. As a homage, perhaps. But this isn't the REAL TSR, which is owned lock, stock, and barrel by WotC. And just who the heck is Woderfilled and why did they put out the press release? There's a new TSR, which claims to be the return of the original TSR. What is it, what is it not, and what obligations do its owners owe the...