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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Epic Adventure’s You Heard it Here Last. We find ourselves talking about gaming news before we record the podcast. Who did what, Who is making what, who screwed what up, so we decided to start recording these little news discussions and sprinkling them in with our regular episodes. So here we go, just chatting about gaming news that caught our attention.  https://www.ho...

Send us Fan Mail Anticipation is the excitement you feel waiting for something you know is going to happen. As we kick off the new year, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk about anticipation, and particularly those things that we are looking forward to in 2024. Games, books, movies, events, conventions and really anything that gets us excited. But before I put Mike and Christina on...

Send us Fan Mail Downtime is that nebulous period between game sessions where the characters have an opportunity to pursue long term goals or simply handle a little organization, rest, and repair before the next big adventure. Players can use the downtime by announcing what their character will be doing over the next couple of weeks. Anything from buying equipment, crafting magic items, fighting i...

Send us Fan Mail “When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's...

Send us Fan Mail Good tools are everything. What’s interesting is that the same concept applies to your table top roleplaying games. Without the proper tools it’s much harder. Sure, the only real things you need is an imagination, but trust me. If you have the right tools for the job everything just got easier. In this episode of Epic Adventure Mike and I are going to talk about tools, specificall...

Send us Fan Mail In 1981 Chaosium Publishing released Call of Cthulhu written by Sandy Peterson and it has dominated Horror and Mystery Table Top Roleplaying ever since. Today it is on its 7th edition and it has spawned spinoffs like Delta Green, Board Games like Arkham Horror, as well as collectible card games, video games, animated shows and even television shows such as Lovecraft Country.  Toda...

Send us Fan Mail As I have said before Moldvay D&D was my gateway to roleplaying. Traveller, GURPS and Call of Cthulhu came shortly thereafter. Those 4 games heavily shaped the way I felt about roleplaying, from the settings to the mechanics. They were so different from one to the next. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, historical and horror roleplaying, what more could you ask for. D20’s, 2D6’s, 3D6’s, and pe...

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Christina pick right up from where they left off with the Pirates of the Drinax campaign. In this episode we get to see how the crew was introduced to life in the Traveller Universe from earning a living to paying a ship mortgage. We also discuss their introduction to combat and we end on some major plot points starting to develop.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Epic Adventure Mike and Steve talk about Computer Roleplaying Games and are they ready to take over the Table Top Roleplaying Market. We specifically talk about Baldur's Gate, Star Citizen, and Starfield.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are taking a deep dive into creating and running a campaign. Specifically the Pirates of Drinax from Mongoose Traveller. But to do this, we have decided to flip the script. For these episodes Christina will be our host and she will interview Steve about the campaign. How decisions were made, what type of preparation went into the game, how characters and plot de...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Mike, Christina and I talk about the busiest month in gaming. Origins and GenCon are the two biggest table top gaming conventions in the United States and they happen roughly one month apart. Oddfish Games had a vendor booth at both conventions and we discuss our experiences with the events and dig into the good, bad, and even ugly.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Christina and I are going to dive into Fantasy movies and talk about their impact on roleplaying games. We are going to point out a few of our favorites and how they have either leaned into the tropes of roleplaying or in many cases created those tropes. Now, before we dive to far into this topic, we have a caveat. We have decided that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the R...

Send us Fan Mail Gamma World, the 1978 Post Apocalyptic roleplaying game from TSR. It was my very first TTRPG. I can still fondly remember picking the boxed set up from this hole in the wall gaming store. At the time, the store focused on selling model railroad accessories and miniatures for wargames, but they had one book shelf in the corner that held roleplaying books.  The cover of the box had...

Send us Fan Mail It was my freshman year of high school and my buddy had gotten very excited about a new module. He wouldn’t tell me what it was, but for months all I heard about was how awesome it was going to be. He was reading it over and over again, making lists of items, writing down enemies and NPCs. It was going to be his first game as a GM.  I was getting stoked for it. We gathered at his...

Send us Fan Mail In February of this year, we kicked off the Epic Adventure Podcast with D&D. Specifically we got together and talked about the D&D OGL Debacle. By now you are all familiar with that, but if you need a refresher go back and listen to episode 1. Mike does a great job breaking down the history of that mess. When Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast threw in the towel on the OGL ev...

Send us Fan Mail Origins Game Fair is one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions in the United States. And Oddfish Games is going to be there. If you are into roleplaying games, board games, miniatures, wargaming or any other tabletop game then you have likely heard of Origins. And if you haven’t then, well, now you have. Origins started in 1975 and since 1996 It’s been held in Columbus Ohio....

Send us Fan Mail Over the last several episodes we have been showing you how you can use radiance as a GM tool to help you design adventures for your players. First, I put Christina on the spot by presenting her with some randomly drawn cards from Radiance and she did a great job coming up with a neat little adventure. Then, I used those same cards with Mike to showcase how versatile the cards are...

Send us Fan Mail These episode builds on our last one. This time Mike takes over and builds an Adventure using the same Radiance Cards used by Christina. It's amazing to see the similarities and differences. It also highlights the replay-ability of the game. https://oddfishgames.com/ https://oddfishgames.com/products/radiance

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Epic Adventure we are going to use Radiance cards to build an adventure for our players. Radiance Adventure Engine is a new game from Oddfish Games. These sets of cards and rules allow you to solo roleplay any of your favorite roleplaying games. The system is truly universal. It can also be used as an excellent GM tool to help you create campaigns, adventures, a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Epic Adventure Steve talks to Mike and Christina about the development of the Radiance Adventure Engine. Mike shares how The Shine Storytelling Engine morphed into Luminous and eventually Radiance. Christina gives us a breakdown of how the system works. And I talk about my play-testing experience.  Radiance is a new game from Oddfish Games, or should I say it&ap...

Send us Fan Mail I was 9 years old when I finally talked my mother into taking me to see this new movie my friends had been talking about. I still remember how excited I was when the lights went down and the music swelled from the movie screen. Star Wars When Luke and Han got their awards at the end, I remember wanting to be Luke Skywalker. Oh, sorry, I didn’t give you a spoiler alert. Wait… If I...

Send us Fan Mail My first campaign was Waterloo. That’s right, I said I got into tabletop roleplaying through miniatures and my first campaign was Waterloo. I played the Coldstream Guards and went into the game pumped because I thought they were so cool. It took us weeks to play, hours in my buddy’s garage, rearranging large sheets of plywood on sawhorses to set up the battle boards. Late nights w...

Send us Fan Mail You were curious what this D&D thing was all about. You saw the shows, and heard a few podcasts, you even enjoyed the trailer for the new movie.  So, you gave it a shot, and liked it. Now after a few games your eyes have been opened to the wonderful world of tabletop Roleplaying. What’s next?  Don’t worry, we’ve got your back.  On this episode of Epic Adventure Christina and I...

Send us Fan Mail Christina and I had such a great time with our last podcast we couldn’t wait to get back at it…  But what should we talk about next?  “What do you think, world building? Campaign creation? Game design?” I said….  “Why don’t we start basic with how to Roleplay” Christina responded  Wait, what…you mean like How to Roleplay, sure that should be easy…not.  Welcome to the most difficul...

Send us Fan Mail I’ll never forget one of the first games I played with Mike Howlett. I was a forever GM, and I really enjoyed running things, but I had just met Mike through a mutual friend, and he was firing up a Cyberpunk Red game. Color me intrigued…pun intended. Session Zero rolled around and Mike got us started. “If you click on the following link, it will take you to a website that has some...