Hobo's Collective

Today we discuss Delver issue number 2, Resources for the Random-Rolling Referee by James Floyd Kelly. You can get a lot more Resources for the Random-Rolling Referee at his Patreon just visit www.patreon.com/Delver .

Today we talk a little about magic items. Listen as we pull a few fun and odd ones out and talk a bit more about using magic items in our games

Today I talk briefly about Alternity, the short-lived SciFi RPG that TSR released in 1998. This is one I have always wished had a longer life than it did. Still in the era of AD&D 2nd edition it might border that line where we question what is old school gaming or the OSR

Today we discuss critical hits and critical failures. How do you use them at your table if you do?

Guest host Leonard Pimentel joins to discuss Random Character Creation vs having more power and control of rolling up a character. This is one we might have to get back to in the future as we covered a lot and it seemed we barely scratched the surface.

Today we talk about strongholds. We look at the rules from the Rules Cyclopedia, Swords & Wizardry and Old School Essentials and see what they all have to offer to your games.

Today we celebrate our 100th Episode. Thanks for listening and here's hoping for a hundred more to come. We talk a bit about doing the podcast itself.

Today we are joined by a special guest to talk about his current zine project as a part of Side Quest 2021 called S.A.D. Zines (Small and Delightful) . They are four zines that are lyric games and a bit different than what we might normally see. Logan tells us a bit about the games and how he got into making games. You can see more of his games at breathingstories.itch.io .

Today we have a little talk about character alignments and ethics in Role-Playing Games. We touch on the alternative alignment article from the wobbliesandwizards.com article which can be found at: http://www.wobbliesandwizards.com/an-alternative-alignment-approach-for-dd-and-other-rpgs/

Today we discuss Temples & Tombs, a Year Zero Engine RPG of Pulp action and adventure. Written by Christoper Grey the book is available at christopher.world or digitally at DriveThruRPG . 

Today we have Alex Rinehart on who is launching an RPG project for Side Quest this week called Close Encounters. You can find him on his itch.io page where it is crowdfunding at https://alrine.itch.io . If you want some rules lite SciFi dungeon crawling this might just be the game to back. Visit sidequest.info to see the other projects going on this month.

Today we are joined by guest host Scott Warren to talk about an older game that has been out of print for quite a while, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness and its supplement setting After the Bomb.

Today Logar the Barbarian and Light the Lite fingered thief discuss character classes.

Today we are joined by special guest Dan Sumption the author of Mostly Harmless Meetings: a zine of countryside encounters , as a part of SideQuest going on this month. You can back the project on Kickstarter right now. You can visit Dan's blog Peakrill on blogspot at peakrill.blogspot.com or you can find him on Twitter @dansumption . https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dansumption/mostly-harmles...

For our Zine this week we review The Vast in the Dark by Charlie Ferguson-Avery, a zine about exploring dark and alien megastructures of an infinite realm. You can find The Vast in the Dark at Ferak Indie Studios on Itch.io . https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/vast-in-the-dark

Some current recent events inspired a discussion about a problem in society that has at times leaked over into RPG communities. Today we discuss fascism and some of the elements that overlap into the community.

We give our initial thoughts after playing a first session of the Role Playing Game All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

We continue our previous talk about Hirelings and cover an array of editions and even the Science Fiction RPG Mothership. Looking at the Basic D&D Rules Cyclopedia, D&D 5E, Pathfinder, OSRIC and AD&D we look a bit at how the concept of hirelings differed from game to game.

It is Halloween today, so we figured we would talk about horror Role-Playing games and have a fun time just talking about the holiday, our excitement for it, and the games we are playing for the Holiday. Happy Halloween all!

Today we have a special guest, the host of the Secret Nerd Podcast , Navaar. A podcast where they think everyone should play tabletop RPGs and they give some reasons why. We talk a bit about the Secret Nerd Podcas t and what drove him to start it up and we go into talking about RPG's in general. 

Today we have a special guest from the United Paizo Workers here to tell us a bit about organizing over at Paizo. Brian Bauman software architect and freelance writer at Paizo gives some insight into organizing this historic union.

We are joined by special guest Tanya Floaker who is here to talk about the upcoming launch of Side Quest . You can visit sidequest.info to see all the awesome projects launching this November, or jump in and make a zine yourself. 

My very special guest Pearl joins us today to talk about getting into Table Top Role-Playing games for the first time. She addresses some things that others might consider in making their games a game others want to join and play in. If you are looking for new players this might be a helpful one for you.

This week we review the Old School Essentials Adventure by Brad Kerr, Hideous Daylight . Our game group ran the adventure and we talk about our experience with it and the fun and horror we had. Hideous Daylight is available in both PDF and print on demand through DrieveThruRPG .

Random Monsters and Random encounter tables are a big part of Fantasy Role-Playing, especially in the OSR and Old School Gaming. We talk about some of our missteps with them running a game and what we found helpful and works for our Role-Playing Games.