Legends of Tabletop Podcast

ENDLESS DARKNESS, ENDLESS CHAOS, ENDLESS WAR: THE COSMIC HORROR OF THE WARHAMMER UNIVERSE The Warhammer universe is as vast as it is grim, positing cosmic horror on a scale that boggles the imagination. Whether played out in the Age of Sigmar fantasy setting or the million embattled worlds of 40K, humanity is doomed to conflict against alien races, malign supernatural powers, and malevolent gods w...

Jack Nash – John (Prime) Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta) GM- Tod Foley Reggie and Nash head back into the viadome. While talking with D.A.N they learn that Dr. Mentaka was powering down D.A.N and using the external scans to draw mimics to the dome. Nash believes that Blanche Regardie knew the mimics were here. There’s a discussion about leaving but they decide to go and investigate the crashed ship,...

THE DREAMLANDS AND DREAM NARRATIVE IN HP Lovecraft Dreams figure prominently in the work of Lovecraft, both in his Dream Cycle stories and in other work. Our panelists explore the geography and denizens of the Dreamlands, and his use of dreams in general in fiction and poetry. What were the major influences on his dream writing and how did his own dreams invade his waking life? How have writers ex...

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Kayne wades into the fray challenging the command crew with his elite Xenos warriors. It will be a battle to the death but whose? https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order The...

I had a great conversation with Shane Hensley and I hope you enjoy it. In 1994, Shane started Pinnacle Entertainment Group, where he created the best-selling, award-winning Deadlands, Hell on Earth, Weird Wars, and later Savage Worlds and many of its settings. Since then he’s written dozens of books and several novels, and designed everything from card games to miniature games to computer games. h...

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Narrowly escaping a vicious sneak attack by Kayne, the crew heads back to the mining colony. Venari wants to talk with Brandt about what resources are available. Brandt is short with him reminding Venari that it was his responsibility to provide security f...

Wonderful sports anecdotes about locally relevant events for baseball enthusiasts. A valuable source of information for the writer wanting to learn more about the process of ghostwriting in general. https://www.birdscoffeecompany.com/coffees/legends-of-tabletop-legendary-brew Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod Javier transforms into a raven and flies over to scout out the F13 HQ. Javier hops around on the roof, looking down through the sunroof sections until he spots Tio Martin. Casper is standing over him and it seems he's losing patience with Martin who looks sad. There are F13 members outside the warehouse, an...

CREATING HISTORICAL SETTINGS FOR CALL OF CTHULHU – One of the freedoms presented by the Call of Cthulhu RPG is the ability to set your games in any era, from the Stone Age through the Roaring Twenties to the Modern-Day and beyond! With the 1920s/30s era being particularly popular, how does one go about creating the right flavor, tone, and feel of a particular epoch? Where do you start if creating...

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod Filippo has invited Javier to Gregorio's, an expensive Italian restaurant. He offers his apologies for the previous night, and proposes that the two of them work together to extract Tio Martin from his predicament. Javier is nonplussed, and doesn't think it sounds like a good idea: going up against either L...

Jack Crandall – Brett Randy Anders – Kurt Erin Shaughnessy – John GM – Neil Erin and Randy find the cave of the Wendigo. They scope out the area and Randy grabs a spot a little ways away with a clear line of fire towards the cave. Erin climbs up above the mouth of the cave and begins taunting the creature to come out. Just when they thought the plan would fail the Wendigo emerges. Erin and Randy b...

THE UNNAMABLE DOWN EAST: THE INFLUENCE OF LOVECRAFT ON THE WORKS OF STEPHEN KING What elements of Lovecraftian fiction have been incorporated by King into his narratives? Which stories of Lovecraft influenced his works the most? What are the differences and similarities between the two? What is Stephen King’s most Lovecraftian story? These themes and more will be explored by our panelists. Panelis...

Jack Crandall – Brett Randy Anders – Kurt Erin Shaughnessy – John GM – Neil Erin and Randy finish preparing the cabin and Sophia seems more at easy and quickly falls asleep. Erin sleeps on the floor near Sophia while Randy takes first watch. After about two hours Randy hears a knock on the door followed by a demonic voice taunting him. Randy does his best to ignore it but the noise winds up waking...

JON PADGETT is the creator and co-administrator of Thomas Ligotti Online. Padgett’s first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine. He has work out or forthcoming in Weird Fiction Review, PseudoPod, Lovecraft eZine, Xnoybis, and the anthologies A Walk on the Weird Side, Wound of Wounds, Phantasm/Chimera, and For Mortal...

Jack Nash – John (Prime) Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta) GM- Tod Foley Visibility on Drir is severely limited, so Reggie asks Reggie Jr to scan the area with radar. Nash follows that up by sending the drone out to recon up to the vidome. The drone shows a dog sized form running from the vidome. With no sign of the crew Reggie and Nash head up to the dome. As soon as they enter the dome proper, they...

THE WEIRD ON A BLACK AND WHITE SCREEN: CLASSIC WEIRD TELEVISION The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kolchak the Night Stalker – For decades, classic television brought the weird into living rooms across America. Our panelists explore the classic era of weird television. What did they do well and not so well? How did they influence generations of creators and fans of wei...

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Bento debriefs Reggie and Nash about their mission to Caladena. He’s concerned about the status of Doctor Charybdis and what that might mean for Dark Matter but lets it pass. Reggie and Nash head back to work with the team on the holodeck. During a lull in...

Géza A. G. Reilly is a Canadian expatriate living in the wilds of Florida with his wife, Andrea, and their cat, Jay Jay Von Meow Meow. He is a university literature professor and author, having returned to writing fiction after an absence of ten years. His works tend towards being dark, often with a bit of wry humor, and are informed by the punk and industrial milieux he came from. https://www.psp...

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil Venari spend some time shmoozing with the troops and finds out that morale is good. In the morning the crew heads out in the shuttle to see if they can find any trace of Kayne. Scanning the dense forest doesn’t turn up anything but Venari happens to catch...

Venari Hallerman (Rogue Trader) – John Kynnoch (Navigator) – Jesse Jarnan Morgun (Missionary) – Jon Emmaus Kore (Void Master) – Kevin GM – Neil The security footage has revealed that Kayne has been leading indigenous life forms on raids against the mining colony. They have been talking weapons and high-end supplies. So far no one has been injured but Kayne has very easily evaded capture. Venari ta...

ENDARKENMENT: NIHILISM AS LIBERATION IN WEIRD FICTION Thomas Ligotti once wrote that ” Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones” and, in doing so, joined a host of writers and philosophers dabbling in what’s generally scoffed at as ‘nihilism.’ But what if that lack of meaning could le...

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod In the evening, Filippo is hanging around backstage, where he hopes to meet a friendly contact. Instead, he sees his friend's rival, Mister Cisco. He'd hoped to broker a peace between them, but Filippo doesn't want to confront Cisco alone, so he sits in the back of the theater, listening to the scolding voi...

WELCOME TO THE WEIRD: A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WEIRD FICTION – New to the weird fiction scene? Know a lot, but want to fill in the corners and better understand how it all fits together? Where is the fuzzy boundary that separates “weird fiction” from horror, dark fantasy, and other genres? Join our experts as they provide a survey of weird fiction in history and today, tracing the roots, concerns, tre...

Filippo "The Great" Pacini - Shawn Manny Velazquez - Jesse Javier Castilllo - John GM – Tod Camera sails back from La Cueva Milagro over the cemetery, where the Dia de Muerte festival is beginning. We see the rising spirits of deceased little children, greeting their families and following them home. We see a busload of political activists heading for the Theatro Alahambra, where Filippo steps out...

Join me as I talk with Oscar Rios about about his latest Kickstarter, The Lovecraft Country Holiday Collection. If you enjoyed the holiday themed scenarios "Halloween in Dunwich" and "Christmas in Kingsport" from the old Chaosium monographs Halloween Horror and Christmas In Kingsport, then you’ll want to back this, the 11th Kickstarter from Golden Goblin Press. This campaign features two books, a...