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Send us Fan Mail I’ve got a lot of games on my book shelves. Some are old games that I have played a lot, others are games that looked good in the store and I picked them up, but never got around to playing them. And then there is my Kickstarter addiction. Yea, I’ve got several that I picked up through Kickstarter because they sounded good and then once I got them, I never broke them out and playe...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to you heard it hear last, where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Well, here we are in 2026 and this is our first episode of Season 4. We are having a great time and I hope you are as well. Speaking of great times our first bit of news is like a blast from the past for me. https://www.rascal.news/steve-jackson-games-announces-toon-second-edition/ Steve Jackson Gam...

Send us Fan Mail If I have read it once in an online forum I have read it a thousand times. “I want to play game X but my players won’t play anything but D&D” I always want to fire back with get new players, but that isn’t necessarily realistic and besides it’s not a good answer. Over the years I’ve played a ton of different games and game systems. I personally have never hard a difficult time...

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/tolkien%E2%80%99s-writing-desk-on-auction-at-christies.716325/ Christie’s Action House is hosting a live auction in December, 2025 called Groundbreakers: Icons of our Time and in that auction, you will find a simple 19th Century Merton’s College Desk that just happene...

Send us Fan Mail I remember being a young roleplayer diving into my first rpg’s. Character creation was similar in most of the games on the market. Make a very basic character, adventure with them, kill monsters, find treasure, gain experience points, gain levels, get more skills, rinse, repeat. Back in the day we would memorize the XP charts so we would know when our characters would level up. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. We have a little D&D announcement coming out of Wizards of the Coast that I’m actually kind of interested in. https://www.enworld.org/threads/wizards-of-the-coast-re-registers-dark-sun-with-uspto.716113/ Wizards of the Coast recently filed an application to register Dark Sun in the US, a sign tha...

Send us Fan Mail In 2023 I was already neck deep into my Kickstarter obsession when I saw an advertisement for a brand new OSR style roleplaying game called Shadowdark. It was the creation of Kelsey Dionne and it looked very cool. The book was large and black with silver script and silver artwork of what I thought was a beholder. I immediately backed it. But to be fair I was immediately backing a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Let’s start with my favorite Vin Diagram. Roleplayers and Cat Owners. It’s a perfect circle. And to prove it we are going to start with the King of Crits, 2025 Dice Advent Calendar. https://dnddice.com/products/dice-advent-calendar-2025?variant=46949401395426&country=US&currency=USD&utm_s...

Send us Fan Mail The internet is filled with hobby advice. From podcasts, to YouTube channels, you can probably find what you’re are looking for very quickly. Or not. That’s part of the problem. With so much out there it’s hard to figure out what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s really bad. Our friend Jen and Oddfish Games hooked me up with John Glavin. John is the creator of Two-Gun Pixie a Youtube...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s start off with one of my favorite things…D&D Licensing. https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-ds-beer-collaboration-continues-with-special-edition-beer-dice-tower-combo.715575/ We have talked about D&D’s collaboration with Mythical Meats a jerky company, I can remember one of Nabisco’s breakfast cereals having a D&D tie in. And, I think one of my friends had a D&...

Send us Fan Mail I can still remember the first time I stood in front of a classroom filled with my peers. I had spent the time researching and learning, writing and organizing, and now it was time to teach. A dozen of my co-workers, people that I spent hours with, ate lunches with, and worked with every day. But this was something different. Standing in front of the classroom. All eyes on me, the...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s start off with one of my favorite things…D&D Licensing. https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-ds-beer-collaboration-continues-with-special-edition-beer-dice-tower-combo.715575/ We have talked about D&D’s collaboration with Mythical Meats a jerky company, I can remember one of Nabisco’s breakfast cereals having a D&D tie in. And, I think one of my friends had a D&...

Send us Fan Mail It’s weird just how much of my life can be traced through television. As much time as I spent as a kid riding my bike down the gravel roads to friends houses and playing in the woods, I spent at least that much time watching TV. From the early years of Sunday Morning Cartoons and The Wonderful World of Disney to my teenage years, cruising North Park in Evansville Indiana and going...

Send us Fan Mail I swear they are listening to us? Who is “They”?  You now, “Them”!  On Season 3 Episode 16 of You Heard It Here Last, Christina and I talked about the fact that somebody at EN World really loved Deathstalker. I just found out that by the time you hear this episode Deathstalker will once again be in movie theaters. That’s right they are remaking the campy Conan rip-off, and it look...

Send us Fan Mail                Clarice emerges from the bathroom in a half-crouch, arms                 out, both hands on the gun, extended just below the level of                 her unseeing eyes. She stops, listens. In her raw-nerved                 darkness, every SOUND is unnaturally magnified - the HUM of                 the refrigerator... the TRICKLE of water... her own terrified       ...

Send us Fan Mail 15 years ago, the TTRPG world as we new it came to an end and a new era began. The postapocalyptic era, an era powered by the apocalypse. In 2010 Apocalypse World changed everything. The new take on traditional RPGs quickly changed the landscape from crunchy numbers-based games to one that flowed with the narrative and allowed players the freedom to affect the game unlike anything...

Send us Fan Mail One of the things we are passionate about at the Epic Adventure Podcast is spontaneous story telling. I have been a low prep game master for a very long time, preferring to let my players actions push the narrative and typically filling in the gaps between the sessions to make it feel like I’ve pre written an epic storyline, when in reality I’m just making it up as I go along. Chr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to You Heard it Here Last where we talk about news, you’ve already heard. Ever since Critical Roll announced that Brennen Lee Mulligan would be taking over as GM there has been a ton of buzz around the long running Actual Play show. We were going to see Daggerheart played by its creators, the Critical Roll team, with one of the best Actual Play game masters around at the h...

Send us Fan Mail In 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped into the sandals of one of pulp’s most celebrated heroes and, what was likely the most on point casting in the history of cinema, became legend. Conan the Barbarian. There is a common quote from that film, bandied about by fans, but it’s not my favorite. My favorite quote from the film and my favorite scene come at the end of the picture. “Cro...

Send us Fan Mail We have talked about AI a lot on this podcast and we plan on talking about it more. It’s the future, whether you like it or not. Personally, I don’t think the problem is going to be AI. I think the problem, as usual, is going to be people. https://youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?si=179uCtun2WcHLHNz I am a music fan and watch many of the big music theory channels on YouTube. Rhett Shull is a...

Send us Fan Mail I waved goodbye to Mike and Christina and made my way through the throngs of people getting their last chance to shop in the exhibit hall. By 1pm on Sunday of GenCon 2025 I was tapping out. I was exhausted, hungry, and my capacity for patience was at an all-time low. By the time I got back to my car and put Indianapolis in the rearview mirror I started to settle down and even thou...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/godzilla-franchise-enters-new-era-with-multiple-sequels-in-the-works/ar-AA1ISBUf Oh No, there Goes Tokyo, Go Go Godzilla. No, this story isn’t about Blue Oyster Cult, but we could do a full episode on the Long Island Psychedelic Rock Band that gave us Don’t Fear the Reaper and of course Godzilla. No, this story is about Godzilla himself. T...

Send us Fan Mail I have a thing for Kickstarter. I find myself backing a lot of roleplaying games so it’s not unusual for me to browsing the new Kickstarters looking for something that might spark my imagination. And that’s when I saw it.  Singularity. A brand-new massive adventure for Mongoose Traveller. Longtime listeners know our love of Traveller on this show and you might have even listened t...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s start with something different. https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/09/04/learning-brain-make-ai-more-energy-efficient/ This article from the Human Brain Project outlines the power requirements for the human brain and the results are staggering. The human brain uses only 20 watts of power to work. That’s the equivalent of a computer monitor…on sleep mode...

Send us Fan Mail Sisterhood: Nuns with Guns. What a great title for a game. You’ve already heard Mike, Christina and I talk about this game when we saw it drop on Backerkit. We didn’t have a ton of information on the game, but the imagery and the concept were so evocative that both Christina and I backed it on the spot. Fast forward to our 100th episode where we talked about wanting to do more int...