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Special guest Alice Peng joins us today to discuss other games out there and her history with gaming, Babies with Blades her youtube channel and more. We discuss Wicked Pacts RPG available on DriveThruRPG , the Champion system, and a great deal more.

Today we have special guest, Alice Peng, to talk about her module for Frog God Games, Moon Daughter's Fate. 

Tracking time in dungeons through rounds, turns & segments. Today we look at some older dungeon crawling rules from AD&D and OSRIC as well as OSE

We continue our discussion on Old School Essentials (OSE) Our group has been playing OSE every other Wednesday over the last year and we talk a bit about our thoughts, what makes it so good,  and more. Might OSE be the game for you and your group? Why not listen and consider it if you are not playing it already.

Old School Essentials (OSE) is hot right now, it can't seem to keep in stock. Our group has been playing OSE every other Wednesday over the last year and we talk a bit about our thoughts, what makes it so good, and more. Might OSE be the game for you and your group? Why not listen and consider it if you are not playing it already.

Special guest Chris Mennell Joins us to discuss player autonomy. Getting rid of the idea that the Dungeon Master is the boss or in control can really change the game. We also talk a bit into playing D&D with our daughters a bit today.

Today we have Giuseppe Rotondo one of the creators of the Lands of Legends Zines joining us to talk about the project they did for Zinequest 3. You can find all five zines at DriveThruRPG in PDF and a few are already out in print. Lands of Legends is a great zine to flesh out your sandbox campaign giving it unique encounters and breathe life into it. You can check out Giuseppe Rotondo on his blog...

Light & Logar discuss skills and proficiencies over various editions and retro-clones to look at different ways they have been done or what has been done instead of skills in games.

Frog God Games Brings us The Blight, Richard Pett's Crooked City . A dark strange horror-themed campaign setting. Available for 5E, Pathfinder, or Swords & Wizardry this massive book brings enough content for years of play with a unique flavor that is very different from a traditional D&D campaign. 

With recent controversy online within the tabletop role-playing game industry, we discuss ways to hold those in power accountable. Is it time for a TTRPG Workers Union? How can you as a worker in an industry like that start to form a union? But, this is the dream job, why would I want to organize? Joined by Fellow Worker Nick, two wobblies from the IWW discuss organizing within TTRPGs. Who are the...

The game group comes back to discuss Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea for the second part of our group review of the game. We discuss the combat system with players coming from D&D 5e, the magic system and much more. AS&SH can be found online at hyperborea.tv .

Today our game group gets together for the first part of discussing our game and the system we are running Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. You can find AS&SH or Just Hyperborea at Hyperborea.tv . In this first part we discuss the character classes some and get into some details and differences between it and some other RPGs folks may be more familiar with. 

Special guest Christopher Mennell joins us today to discuss how we started into D&D and Role-Playing Games.

Today I am joined by my OSE DM Jon and we review the zine Dlever made for Old School Essentials and compatible with many other OSR and older editions. We have a bit of fun looking at some of the random encounter tables it offers.

This episode we discuss the rising price of role playing game books new and used. 

Special guest Tanya Floaker joins us today to talk about Side Quest. Side Quest is a crowdfunding event for the tabletop community where the creators are in control. Side Quest looks to bring indie creators together to advertise their work as a community, and promote independent works through networking and grass-roots publishing. Sidequest launches this November 2021.

We take a look at the Starship Warden from Troll Lord Games. A multi-generational colony ship by James Ward. 

This episode Logar and Light discuss RPG art of many games new and old. They look at innovative current design and art that is making trends and changes in game design and art as well as art that defined various RPGs.

This episode we experiment with a new longer weekend format. Today we  discuss The art of Dungeons & Dragons. We look at how it impacted us  and how we look at it through rose color glasses and what art we liked  over the decades.

Today we welcome our new co-host Light. We discuss the differences between the way we played in person at the table before COVID and the differences between virtual gaming. 

Based on the fantasy art of Arthur Rackham 1967 - 1939, this zine delivers a fantastic unique fun fairy tale feel of a setting that has a lot of potential to be a fun campaign. 

What do I prefer? Which is better? Do you homebrew your own campaign worlds, or do you play in a published setting? Today I talk about the two and what I do and have done.

Today I discuss the DIY nature and strong tradition in Table Top Role Playing Games over the history of the hobby. 

Coriolis RPG from Free League I can't suggest enough. It is one I have been very obsessed with and I just can't put the book down. I hope a few of you who have not checked it out yet get a chance to. This book review this week is more of a fanboy geek out over the great work Free League has done with this game.

I talk a bit about playing monsters in games and give a few ideas on how you might be able to make some monsters in your OSR game with some AD&D 2nd edition resources as I talk about the Complete Book of Humanoids from TSR. We also look at what Gary Gygax thought about playing monsters in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide.