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Special guest Leonard Pimentel comes on today to talk about developing games and how he got into it. Two of his games Prowlers & Paragons Ultimate Edition and By This Axe I Hack are both available on DriveThruRPG.

Today we discuss differences in styles of Role-Playing Games looking at the differences in running a Railroad vs a Sandbox. 

Food can be a big deal at the game table, from the snacks we bring to planned potlucks. Part of the fun of the hobby is often the social aspect, and food is a big shared social experience for people in general. Today we talk about potlucks and food in our game groups.

Today we take a look at Mothership the Sci-Fi Horror RPG Player's Survival Guide from Tuesday Knight Games. Gaining in popularity, this game has a simple mechanic that looks to be complex enough to really do a lot with at the table.

We talk a bit about magic systems in Role-Playing Games with an emphasis no the Vancian Magic system that is used by Dungeons & Dragons that was inspired by the works of Jack Vance. We talk a bit about other magic systems as well and look at ones we do like. 

Today we discuss the Old School Essentials official adventure by Gavin Norman, The Hole in the Oak. We talk about our experience playing and running the game in our OSE campaign. The Hole in the Oak is available on the Exalted Funeral site both in print and pdf . 

Being a bunch of Wobblies here, we are thrilled with the recent news of the United Paizo Workers going public. Today we talk a bit about what that means, what they have to look forward to, and how you can help. You can learn more at their site www.unitedpaizoworkers.org and visit the wobblies & wizards website to find the Union Busting Bingo there. 

Today we ask Jim Kelly author of Delver Magazine funded on Kickstarte r the question, What is the OSR? You can visit and support his patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/delver and you can join him in the Tabletop Engineer group on facebook .  Go check out some of his videos on YouTube as well at the Tabletop Engineer YouTube channel . 

We are asking others in the community the question, "What is the OSR?" Today we talk to Apocalypse Nerd from Podcast At Ground Zero the question, What is the OSR?

Jon joins us again today to reprimand Logar and Light for their blasphemy to the old school D&D gods. Logar and Light are repentant before the D&D gods for their ill-chosen words in our previous episode on D&D art.

Today we review the Old School Essentials (OSE) Module for the Dolmenwood setting, Winter's Daughter. The Dungeon Master who ran it and two of the players who played in the adventure all sound off on this module. 

If you could choose only one, what RPG book would you bring to a desert island? 

In today's episode, we discuss different ways to handle initiative. We look at different ways various games handle combat order and initiative as well as discuss what we have found has made combat fastest for our games. We look at a few creative and different ways to handle initiative. 

Today we talk about first level adventures to start a Lost Lands campaign. As a follow-up to the last Lost Lands episode we did on the Borderland Provinces we were asked about low-level first-level adventures to start a campaign in this region. In this episode we suggest looking at Grimmsgate , MCMLXXV (1975) , and Rogues in Remballo as first level starting adventures for the setting. We also look...

We continue our talk about the recent announcement by Hasbro of a new edition coming in 2024. We give a few opinions, thoughts and note a few things on our want lists for this new edition.

We talk about the recent announcement by Hasbro of a new edition coming in 2024. We give a few opinions, thoughts and note a few things on our want lists for this new edition.

What do we do when players do not show up to game? How do we handle this? Today Logar and Light talk about missing players.  How do  you handle a missing player?

Today we review Rebel Scum from 9th Level games. The self-proclaimed antifascist space opera focuses on fighting fascism throughout the galaxy. I also respond to a voice message from listener Apocalypse Nerd with an apology, I would not feel right responding to and addressing the comment that was brought up in the message. 

I take another look at the Lost Lands again with the Borderland Provinces book. This great resource for a sandbox-style campaign covers a region full of all sorts of adventure and is home to the dungeon of graves itself, Rappan Athuk as well as other great books and modules such as The Lost City of Barakus.

Today we briefly discuss hirelings in Dungeons & Dragons. We look at mostly OSR retro-clones and AD&D rules while discussing the concept. Do you use hirelings in your campaigns? Send us a voice message here and let us know.

Having such a social hobby, those of us who play Role-Playing Games often have unique close relationships with the others in our game groups. Today we talk about those friendships and relationships and the unique culture that is found in tabletop role-playing. References to yesterday's podcast are actually to Fridays episode.

Today we are joined by special guest Christopher Mennell to discuss Down We Go a new Role Playing Game currently available on itch.io and recently crowdfunded on Gamefound.com . We talk a bit about some of the innovative and streamlined mechanics and ideas behind the game. 

Logar The Barbarian and Light the Lite Fingered Thief discuss Role-Playing Games that they want to play and what is on their shortlist of to run or to play. What games are we itching to get to? 

Content Warning: This episode discusses racism, fascism, harassment, homophobia, sexism and more. Today we talk about establishing and keeping a gaming group that is welcoming and safe for players. Warning, Nazis might get punched this episode, so if violence against fascists triggers or offends you this might not be the episode for you. Always Anti Fascist

Cairn is a free download at DriveThruRPG , or you can find print to order copies through Amazon. We look at this minimalist RPG and talk a bit more about it. You can learn more about it at cairnrpg.com .