Between Two Cairns

Yochai & Brad review Broken Heart of the Castle by Cloud Curio , and answer some mailbag questions. What do you think about web-based tools? What makes a good social hub? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more...

To mark our year of podcasting, Yochai & Brad review Kavlov's Sanctuary by  Jean Luc Lariviere-Lacombe , and answer a whole heap of questions regarding the show! Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Betw...

Yochai & Brad are joined by Chris McDowall to review The Bureau by Josh Domanski and Goblin Archives , and answer a mailbag question. Question: What makes a good non-combat encounter? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also sticker...

In another entry in our Gamer Blasts from the Past , Brad & Yochai are joined by Sam Mameli (aka Skullboy) to review G1-3 Against the Giants , and answer a question from the mailbag. Question: How do you whether to write more, or less? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Che...

Yochai & Brad review The Queen of Elfland's Son by Michael Curtis , and answer a mailbag question. Should we review/consider blog adventures  as well? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Between Two Cai...

Yochai & Brad review Bottomless Pit of Zorth by G. Hawkins , and answer a question from the mootsack . Question: Tips and tricks on navigating the ttrpg scene on Discord? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more...

Yochai & Brad review Holy Mountain Shaker by Luka Rejec , and answer a question from the mailbag. Question: Thoughts on Dungeon Synth? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Between Two Cairns here . Hosted on...

Yochai & Brad are joined by special guest Directsun to discuss Arnold Kemp's Lair of the Lamb , and answer a mailbag question. Mailbag: Do you look to other modules or similar media for inspiration? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support th...

Yochai & Brad review Date of Expiration by Graphite Prime , and answer a letter from the mailbag. Question: How do you playtest? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Between Two Cairns here . Hosted on Acast....

Yochai & Brad review Mission Excalibur (print version here ) by Seann McAnally , and answer a mailbag question.  Mailbag: What material should be in a sandbox setting? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Bet...

Yochai & Brad spend an entire show reading letters from the mailbag. Questions answered: What do your home games look like? What system are you using, what houserules or hacks? Biggest delta between impression and actual reading/playing? Staple, perfect, ring...? How do you prefer to play games? Is it different from how you prefer to run games? How do you organize important information? What m...

Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli (aka Skullboy) to review the classic adventure White Plume Mountain by Lawrence Schick .  Question: What small RPGs or adventures would you give out? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also st...

Yochai & Brad are joined by guest Leo Hunt (of Vaults of Vaarn fame) to review two pamphlet adventures: Extraction From Demon-F***ked Cleveland 1996 by Logan Dean & The Chair by Zach Hazard Vaupen . Parental advisory: this episode contains foul language. Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweent...

Yochai & Brad review Fronds of Benevolence by Andrew Walter , and answer some mailbag questions. Question 1: Advice on running an open table? Question 2: How do you narrate combat? Tire Guys Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also...

Yochai & Brad review The Spire of Iron and Crystal by Matt Finch , and answer some mailbag questions. Mailbag 1: What do we think about crowdfunding and ttrpgs? Mailbag 2: What modules have good endings? 00:09:01 Mailbag: What do you think about crowdfunding and RPGs? 00:16:36 Mailbag: What modules have good endings? 00:26:05 Main Review 00:44:47 Deep Dive Send us your comments or questions! T...

Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli aka Skullboy for our inaugural Gamer Blasts From The Past , where we review the "1981" module Palace of the Silver Princess by Jean Wells.  Question: What settings do you wish were more popular? Skullboy's Your Princess Is In Another Castle Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! Fo...

Yochai & Brad review Cold Wind Whispering by Markus Linderum , and answer a three-part question from Gus L. Questions: When you use someone else's adventure at your table - what do you look for? Best adventure about pyramids? What would it take to write a good adventure about Orcs in a hole? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers!...

Yochai & Brad review Sepulchre of Dusk by Cutter Mountain Simulations. Question 1: What are your writing habits? Question 2: What do you think of the ORC license? Question 3: Do rules define what an RPG is about? Question 4: Will we see a return to "physicality" in game design? Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For list...

Yochai & Brad review Shadow of the Beakmen by Harley Stroh , and answer a question from the mailbag. Mailbag: How do you choose a module to review/run? Hereticwerks Collections on Itch 00:00:50 Mailbag: How do you choose a module? 00:14:00 Mailbag: How do you organize your PDFs? 00:20:53 Main Review (Deep Dive only!)   Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show&ap...

Yochai & Brad review Monkey Murder Manor by Ripley Caldwell , and answer some questions from the mailbag. Question 1: How do you make puzzles "good"? Question 2:  Do you get tired of running modules more than once? Soviet Ants Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Ch...

Yochai & Brad review Dogtooth Valley by Nate Treme (aka Highland Paranormal Society) and answer THREE questions from the mailbag.  Question 1:  How involved do you like to get when making characters, or when others make characters in games you GM? Question 2:  When you run a campaign, how do YOU end it? And what (if any)  kind of procedures or guidance do you wish game texts would offer to hel...

Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli (aka skullboy ) to review The Isle of the Plangent Mage by Donn Stroud . Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also stickers. Find more Between Two Cairns here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

Yochai & Brad review Magical Murder Mansion by Skerples , and answer a question from the mailbag. Mailbag: What makes a good RPG gift? 00:38 Mailbag 15:15 Main Review 41:29 Deep Dive   Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bumpers! For listener questions, email betweentwocairns@gmail.com! Check out our Patreon to support the show. Also sticke...

Yochai & Brad review The Frost Spire by Jacob Hurst , and answer a question from the mailbag. Mailbag: Do you take notes about what voices or mannerisms an NPC has? 0:27 Mailbag  12:02 Main Review 19:47 Deep Dive Note: Apparently one of the guys from Blackalicious died, We didn't know that. RIP. Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bobby McElver for the show's music and bump...

Yochai & Brad do another Show & Tell! Mailbag: How important are starter adventures? Brad: Old School & Cool Vol 3 Yochai: Do Not Let Us Die in the Dark Night of this Cold Winter Yochai: Dialect 0:41 Mailbag 10:07 Show & Tell 11:24 Old School & Cool Vol 3 27:05 Do Not Let Us Die in the Dark Night of this Cold Winter 33:13 Dialect Send us your comments or questions! Thanks to Bo...