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Arlen (Live From Pellam's Wasteland), BJ (The Arcane Alienist), Mirke (Mirke the Meek), and Karl (The GMologist Presents) talk about different magic systems in tabletop role playing games. You can leave a message on our Speakpipe  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/Cerebrevore⁠⁠⁠ You can send an email, you can even attach an audio file to it, to cerebrevore@gmail.com YouTube version here ⁠⁠ ⁠https:/...

Arlen (Live From Pellam's Wasteland), BJ (The Arcane Alienist), and Karl (The GMologist Presents) discuss the media that influence their gaming. Mirke the Meek episode referenced https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mirke-the-meek/episodes/Call-Ins-Catchup-Gaming-RewardsMotivations-e2im27e/a-abdmfb5 You can leave a message on the Spotify for Podcasters website for the podcast  ⁠⁠https://anc...

We got the band back together! Arlen (Live from Pellam's Wasteland), BJ (The Arcane Alienist), Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast), Karl (The GMologist Presents), and Mirke (Mirke the Meek) discuss the idea of rewarding players in game rewards like Inspiration or XP for out of game actions. You can leave a message on the Spotify for Podcasters website for the podcast  ⁠https://anchor.fm/cerebr...

In this rebroadcast of a 2021 episode of the Down in a Heap podcast Rob joins Jason for more classic monster movie talk. This time, it’s The Bride of Frankenstein from 1935. Enjoy! Spoiler alert for the film. Down in a Heap  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rob-c Nerd's RPG Variety Cast  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason376 You can leave a message on the Anchor website for t...

In this rebroadcast of a 2021 episode of the Down in a Heap podcast Rob joins Jason to talk about 1931's Frankenstein! Spoiler alert for the film.  Down in a Heap  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rob-c Nerd's RPG Variety Cast  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason376 You can leave a message on the Anchor website for the podcast  https://anchor.fm/cerebrevore You can leave a...

Time to buy Modiphius’ 2D20 Conan is running out! This is part six of our interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19,  Conan the Undaunted,  from 1984. We read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Conan should take and we pick back up two weeks later with whatever course of action is most...

This is part five of our interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19,  Conan the Undaunted,  from 1984. We read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Conan should take and we pick back up two weeks later with whatever course of action is most popular.  Voting for this episode ends on 14 Jun...

After fielding some listener feedback we continue with Conan's adventures. Feedback from Daniel of Bandit's Keep and Colin of Spikepit. Votes from Daniel and Joe. This is part four of our interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19,  Conan the Undaunted,  from 1984. We read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes liste...

In this rebroadcast of a 2021 episode of the Down in a Heap podcast Rob joins Jason to talk about 1931's Dracula! We also discuss the "Spanish Dracula", a Spanish language version that was filmed on the same sets at night during the production. Spoiler alert for both films. Down in a Heap  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rob-c Nerd's RPG Variety Cast  https://podcasters.s...

Part three of our interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19,  Conan the Undaunted,  from 1984. We read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Conan should take and we pick back up two weeks later with whatever course of action is most popular.  Voting for this episode ends on 17 May 2023....

Join Karl, Daniel and Jason for our impressions and a discussion of James Bond 007: Role-Playing In Her Majesty's Secret Service by Victory Games that was published from 1983 to 1987 and still stands out as a one of the premier espionage games to the present day. Classified RPG PDF & Print on DrivethruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/128259/Classified Classified RPG Print on Lulu h...

Part two of our interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19,  Conan the Undaunted,  from 1984. We read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Conan should take and we pick back up two weeks later with whatever course of action is most popular.  Voting for this episode ends on 3 May 2023. Tha...

Colin Green of the Spikepit podcast joins Jason to discuss how our gaming tastes have changed over the years and how Colin has gone about curating his collection to a manageable size. Find the panel members here: Colin on Spikepit https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spikepit Jason on Nerd's RPG Variety Cast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason376 Ways to reach the podcast: You can...

The start of a new interactive game book series using James M. Ward's Endless Quest Book #19, Conan the Undaunted, from 1984. I will read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Conan should take and I will pick back up in two weeks following whatever course of action as most popular.  Voting for this episode ends on 19 A...

We are still here! Feedback from Daniel and the way forward. Daniel (Bandit's Keep) YouTube  http://www.youtube.com/banditskeep  Twitter  https://twitter.com/banditskeep  Podcast  https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton  Bandit's Keep Discord Server  https://discord.gg/jvPhY8bRs6 You can leave a message on the Anchor website for the podcast  https://anchor.fm/cerebrevore You can leave a message on...

The start of our interactive game book series using Swen Harder's rock / comedy gamebook Metal Heroes and The Fate of Rock.  I will read the story to you, the listeners, up to each decision point.  Between episodes listeners will vote on what course Taylor should take and I will pick back up in two weeks following whatever course of action as most popular.  Voting for this episode e...

We discuss our favorite roleplaying games and campaigns from 2022 then discuss what we are looking forward to in 2023. Please let us know what your favorites from last year were and what you are excited for this year! Panel Members: Arlen (Live from Pellam's Wasteland) https://www.youtube.com/@LivefromPellamsWasteland/featured B.J. (The Arcane Alienist) https://anchor.fm/arcanealienist Eric (The O...

Join Daniel, Taylor and Jason for another discussion about using Chainmail as the combat system for D&D.  Article on skills in OD&D https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/2022/11/proficiency-dice-for-0e.html Panel Members:  Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast) https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co   Daniel (Bandit's Keep) YouTube http://www.youtube.com/banditskeep Twitter h...

Republished with the audio fixed. On this episode Arlen, Che Webster, and Jason discuss how certain settings and intellectual properties are continually recycled in table top roleplaying games.  Panel Members: Arlen (Live From Pellam's Wasteland) Podcast https://anchor.fm/pellamswasteland YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLoibMx57Anui2T4-zVBsQ   Che (Roleplay Rescue) https://rol...

Join Arlen, B.J. and Jason as they discuss the curious hobby of collecting tabletop roleplaying games. Panel Members: Arlen (Live From Pellam's Wasteland) Podcast https://anchor.fm/pellamswasteland YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLoibMx57Anui2T4-zVBsQ B.J. (The Arcane Alienist) https://anchor.fm/arcanealienist Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast) https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co Recorded...

We change things up today and bring you a couple one on one interviews. Amy and Joe talk to me about duet (one GM one player) gaming and Joe talks about how sometimes the GM has to make hard decisions before digressing into a ramble of various RPG related subjects.  Dicey Tales RPG (link to the Kickstarter at top of their page) https://diceytales.com BSer Con 2 https://tabletop.events/convent...

In this bonus episode we talk about campaigns we'd like to run and must see movies for the upcoming Christmas season. We discuss games set in the modern world, running mysteries, survivor horror fantasy apocalypse games, and After the Bomb 2E, Palladium Book's hopeful, anamorphic animal post-apocalyptic game. We also discuss how sustainable a long term Romero style zombie campaign would be.  ...

Karl grabs the reins and leads us in a discussion about how to do a sports-centric TTRPG. Panel Members Arlen (Live from Pellam's Wasteland) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLoibMx57Anui2T4-zVBsQ  Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast) https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co Karl (The GMologist Presents) https://anchor.fm/karl-rodriguez Recorded in November of 2022 Cover art by Ray Otus (Plundergroun...

Vic and MW join me to talk about playing AD&D in the 1980's through today the lessons that players today can take from those games. Panel Members Jason (Nerd's RPG Variety Cast) https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co MW (The World's of MW Lewis) https://anchor.fm/mwlewis Vic (DaveCon) https://www.davecon.net Link to the DaveCon ticket give-away Vic mentions https://s.surveyplanet.com/mh84y42y Gr...