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Send us Fan Mail Has this ever happened to you? Your party makes its way room to room through the dungeon fighting monsters at every turn. And then the climactic battle with the evil wizard and their minions. Three hours of dice rolling combat later you finally win. As your characters stand around and survey all the damage they have caused and gather the loot, the GM says “The volcano you’ve been...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Let’s kick things off with the seedy underbelly of publishing. https://www.enworld.org/threads/diamond-bankruptcy-settlement-hits-snag-as-sparkle-pop-files-objection.720559/ Well, maybe that’s not fair, although this is where my friends who aren’t fans of capitalism point to me and say “Told Ya So”....

Send us Fan Mail Ok, wait a minute…they’ve got rules for guns in this. Sweet! I remember saying that exact line when I first dove into Steve Jackson’s GURPS. The Generic Universal Roleplaying System had come out of their skirmish system Man to Man which I had loved. This was 1986 and the 18-year-old me was looking for new roleplaying games. Sure, I had done my early work on D&D. I had even pla...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Let’s start off with some news that’s close to our heart. Oddfish Games has announced that Wordleaf Media is joining their Leviathan Rising team. Wordleaf Media is a TTRPG focused publishing support company that provides professional editing, layout, graphic design, art, and creative content. This is...

Send us Fan Mail Alexander Dumas’s The Three Musketeers is one of my favorite books of all time. I first read the classic in junior high and I was immediately blown away. It was like reading my favorite super hero comics, but it was a classic. It’s one of those books that made me want to read, and that’s a love I have never lost. I tend to read a lot, rarely going back to books I’ve already finish...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Let’s start off with at the end, or the beginning of the end, or…well I guess it’s been going on for a while now, but…let’s just start with I told you so. https://www.enworld.org/threads/is-the-5-5e-dark-sun-going-to-remove-controversial-aspects-of-the-setting.720375/ Dark Suns, the very mature theme...

Send us Fan Mail For those of you that were lucky enough to get a chance to play Leviathan Rising at GenCon, you are welcome. It was a great time and we got to see players laugh, clap, applaud, cheer, and generally have as much fun as we were hoping. Leviathan Rising is a hit. But, it’s going to be better. The rules are written, it’s been playtested, and now we are going into pre-production to get...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it hear last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Paizo is in the news again. But this time it sounds like good news https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-may-finally-get-its-inventory-back-from-bankrupt-diamond.720248/ It seems that Paizo and Diamond Comics Distributors have reached an agreement to release millions of dollars of Paizo inventory the...

Send us Fan Mail Normally we'd all be sitting around the microphones, arguing over games, movies, roleplaying, and whatever other rabbit hole we decide to wander down. But this week... well... life got in the way in the best possible fashion. We went to Gen Con. You know, there are some places that just have an energy all their own. A baseball stadium on Opening Day. Walking into Disney for t...

Send us Fan Mail YHIHL S4E17 Let’s start off with some news that made me give an audible “Ohhh!” Renegade Games Studios has announced they will be launching Ann Rice’s Immortal Universe Roleplaying Game later this year through Backerkit. https://www.enworld.org/threads/anne-rices-supernatural-world-is-coming-to-a-ttrpg-near-you.719998/ That was one of those announcements that had me at hello. I am...

Send us Fan Mail On our last episode we started talking about turning roleplaying into a career. If you haven’t listened to that would I would recommend going back and diving into it. We planned on keeping it pretty conventional and immediately went off the rails into a deep dive on, well, starting a career in anything. For a quick recap I think we ended up with a few tips. One, Work Hard. Two, Be...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/pathfinder-is-ending-its-relationship-with-archives-of-nethys-updated.719899/ We start off with more Paizo News. Specifically, Paizo has ended its 8-year relationship with the Archives of Nethys, citing lack of earnings and financial issues. The Archives of Nethys has...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Mike, Christina and I are going to talk about professions that you can get into either directly involved in the roleplaying game industry or those professions that roleplaying will help you get into. Or at least that was the goal. You will see that we went an entirely different direction. Christina, as a Dr. of Education games and game designing has played a promin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Our first news article is going to kill two birds with one stone. https://ttrpgfans.com/origins-awards/ The Origins Awards winners were announced at this years Origins convention that was held in Colombus Ohio June 17th through the 21st. The Origins Awards are an annual award that recognizes excellen...

Send us Fan Mail I was sixteen years old in 1985, sitting around a table with a group of friends, a pile of dice, some character sheets, and a copy of the James Bond 007 roleplaying game. Now, I'd seen the movies. I'd watched Bond race across exotic locations, escape impossible situations, and somehow always come out on top. But that day was different. We weren't watching James Bond...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-laying-off-12-due-to-fallout-from-diamonds-bankruptcy.719446/ No one likes layoffs Piazo, the publisher of Pathfinder among other games has announced it will be laying off 12 employees due to the fallout from Diamond Comics bankruptcy last year. We discussed the...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had this awkward moment in your roleplaying game? “As you turn the corner you come face to face with an animated walking corpse! Give me a Fright Check” “Uh, this game doesn’t have fright checks.” “What, Seriously…hang on, surely it has a mechanic…crap.” If so, then you are not alone. I pretty much pulled that dialogue word for word out of one of the games I was runn...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last were we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Let’s start todays episode off with…WoW And I mean that in a good sense. https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-dragons-announces-gen-con-plans-including-a-takeover-of-6-story-building.719238/ Wizards of the Coast has released some of it’s plans for GenCon. And it’s pretty cool. The recently announc...

Send us Fan Mail I know this isn’t table top roleplaying, but stay with me for a moment. When I was a senior in high school the guy who ran our gaming and miniatures sessions invited us all to a Murder Mystery Party. We received an elaborate invitation with information about the “character” we were to play for the party. It also had suggestions for what to wear. When we showed up, his place was co...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w Several years ago, I stumbled across one of the greatest podcasts I have ever listened to. It was called the Lovecraft Investigations and it started with the Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I’m a huge fan of Call of Cthulhu and I’ve pretty much read all of Lovec...

Send us Fan Mail It started with a simple text to the Thursday Night Gaming Group. “Hey, Free League’s Twilight 2000 has a life path character creation system. Anybody interested in playing it?” And I have to say, of all the texts and emails I have sent to the group over the years that one got a lot of attention and the answer was an overwhelming yes. I had played the original Twilight 2000 as a t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it here last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-beyond-executives-explain-why-subscribers-cant-share-drops-content.719058/ Recently D&D Beyond has started providing Drops for their online subscriber-based system for releasing Dungeons and Dragons Material. The problem is, the new Drops, which include maps, c...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Mike, Christina and I talk about Romance. What it is, what it means to roleplaying games, and why you should try and incorporate elements of romance into your roleplaying.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news you’ve already heard. We are starting this episode off with one of Mike’s favorite settings; Fallout. (You thought I was going to say Star Wars) https://ttrpgfans.com/fallout-rpg-new-vegas-setting-guide/ Fallout is getting a new setting guide.  Modiphius is launching the “New Vegas Setting Guide” and is hoping to cash in o...

Send us Fan Mail I thought it was pretty simple. A distracted force with a brutal and possibly insane leader is holding an old mill. They have a machinegun nest and the guards frequently wander around the site. Our players have a wooded and elevated overwatch position only a few hundred yards away. They also clearly have surprise on their side. The Sniper can get into position and wait until sunri...