Minions and Musings

Wherein I respond to two calls that came in over the weeks from Che at Roleplay Rescue and Roi at Chaos Limb.  I also muse about Talislanta and D&D.  Also, an update on future podcasts of Minions and Musings. Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking Beats" by...

Wow, way to finish up Season 3 on the 99th episode!  This means that Season 4 will start with episode 100!  What will that mean for you the listener?  Will I do like other podcasters and do some sort of retrospective or something?  Hey!  Let's get through this podcast first! Let's see.... I've got a call from Roi!  This alone is worth the effort of making podcasts. &n...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. The subject of this podcast is the "Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide".  In part 2 on this book, we dive into s...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. The subject of this podcast is the "Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide".  Let's see what great and mighty magics...

More calls regarding my delve into the world of Talislanta.  Jason finally gets a moment to breathe in his busy schedule and lays out a lot of good calls.  You could comment as well.  The question is - why haven't you? Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. The subject of this podcast is "A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta".  Don't call it a Monster Manual! &nb...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. The subject of this podcast is The Chronicles of Talislanta, a book that gives a similar vibe to the D&D G...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. This is part four of a look into the first published book, The Talislanta Handbook. Logo artwork is from the h...

We start up the calls regarding my delve into the world of Talislanta.  Karl R of The GMologist Presents and Che Webster of Roleplay Rescue have some nice comments.  You could comment as well.  The question is - why haven't you? Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Blo...

We continue the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. This is part three of a look into the first published book, The Talislanta Handbook. Logo artwork is from the...

This begins the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. This is part two of a look into the first published book, The Talislanta Handbook. Logo artwork is from the ha...

This begins the dive into the Talislanta RPG.  I will (eventually) cover all six free editions.  The goal is to give you, the listener, an idea of the Talislanta system, the world of Talislanta (No Elves!!), and my thoughts as I read through the main books of the Talislanta RPG. This podcast begins with the first published book, The Talislanta Handbook.  Let's see what this RPG has...

Making the listeners wait for months to hear me speak has loosened their tongues!  Not exactly true but there are a fair number of calls that should be addressed in short order and continue some conversation about FATE in here as well.  I will probably add a FATE segment to the Talislanta content as well as I come up with new things. So, who called in with praise and adoration? (Not exac...

It is time to return behind the mic and start putting out content.  Let's catch up, hear some long held calls, and talk about recent games. I mentioned Che Webster and the interview he did with the players in his gaming experiment to give more immersion in his games.  Check it out here: https://anchor.fm/rpgrescue/episodes/Playing-With-Invisible-Rules-e1d0u4d Logo artwork is from the han...

Wherein you will hear a conversation/interview with my uncle.  I ask him questions about reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy in the early days and we go through several other things in under an hour.  One thing I need to say in regards to this episode: any call-ins that are negative towards things that were said by either myself or him, whether serious or in jest, will not be tolerated and they w...

Yeah, not as good of a title after writing it down as it was in my head but you get the idea.  Daniel Norton dug himself out of the OD&D hack long enough to catch up on many of the past podcasts and he had a few words for me.  Enough words for his own show.  Otherwise, putting everything together in the previous podcast would be a bit much.  So, you have the floor, Sir Band...

Jason and Karl are back, still working that vein of gold for XP and even trying to tap into a new vein of info!  Let's see what they wish to say today. Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking Beats" by The Chemical Brothers. Want to leave me a message?  Click Mes...

After hearing some talk about backgrounds from Joe at Hindsightless and Kevin at The Redcaps Podcast, I had to talk a bit about it.  Yeah, I've talked about it before but their conversation helped firm up things in my mind. PLUS!! A once in a lifetime event as the second half of the podcast.  Just what could it be?  You'll have to listen to find out or have listened to Jason at Nerd...

Time to hear back about gold for XP and other such things.  Thanks to Jason, Karl, and Che for calling in! Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking Beats" by The Chemical Brothers. Want to leave me a message?  Click Message Evil Jeff!  OR, if you prefer, send...

Another podcast, another musing.  There was some talk about magic swords in other podcasts that sparked some thoughts.  Now, you get to hear them.  That is, if you listen.  What do you say about my musing? Logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo! Music - "Cobalt" by Massivivid Want to leave me a message?  Click Message Evil Jeff!  OR, if you prefer, send an audi...

A podcast with an actual musing in it!  Yeah, it's been a while since I've put something down.  Herein I speak about what gaming I have done over that last months and then propose a question about barter and XP.  I am interested in hearing what others would say about this. New logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo! Music - "Cobalt" by Massivivid Want to leave me a message? &...

Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast calls in about comments from other Call-in Collectives. He's got something to say and he's saying it.  Plus, the first 10 people that contact him regarding the high level D&D game that he will put on in the future will be put on a list of people who contacted him about it.  ;-) New logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intr...

Part 8 of the BX Companion Deep Dive, info for just the Dragon Master.  Just like the Moldvay/Cook B/X rulesets, this is info that every aspiring DM needs.  Or do they?  These characters are 15th+ level!  Haven't you got a hold on what you are doing by now?  Listen in to see if there is something that you need for your high level game. And, Part 9 of the BX Companion is al...

Jason wanted equal time so he called in. And called in. And called in again.  Might as well listen to these, shall we? New logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking Beats" by The Chemical Brothers. Want to leave me a message?  Click Message Evil Jeff!  OR, if...

Apparently it is the "in" thing to have a show with only one person in it.  The call-ins were put together right after Daniel of Bandit's Keep called me. Let's hear his deep dive comments. New logo artwork is from the hand of Minion Bravo!  Vocals in the intro courtesy of Minion Delta, vocal in the outro courtesy of Minion Gamma. Music - "Block Rocking Beats" by The Chemical Brothers. Wa...