Phantom Thoughts

Exploring the notion of Theatre of the Mind RPG play that seems very widespread in OSR groups -  Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376  -   The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps  -   Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ring...

Call-in from Evil Jeff of Minions and Musings and Jason from Nerds' RPG Variety Cast about Rulings over rules and Jason on Player skill  -  Check out their podcasts on #OctOSR -  Minions and Musings https://anchor.fm/eviljeff -  Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376  -  Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Th...

Campaigns are a staple of OSR play.  But how many ways are there  to do a campaign? And is railroading always bad? Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376  -   The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps  -   Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anch...

Player skill in OSR games -  Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376  -   The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps  -   Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail  -   Down in a Heap (with Rob) https://anchor.fm/rob-...

Call-ins covering domain play, the main character in OSR campaigns,  and does rules light mean procedural heavy -  Evil Jeff's take on ruling over rules: https://anchor.fm/eviljeff/episodes/OSRtober---My-explanation-of-Rulings-over-Rules-e1oln46 -  Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376 &...

Talking about domain play as an extension of the party centered play of the OSR. OctOSR related episodes: https://anchor.fm/rob-c/episodes/OSR-October-Thursday-Theories---Life-is-Cheap-e1osfad https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/OctOSR---Day-Three-Heroic--not-Super-Heroic-e1oct1f Also check out these podcasters participating in OctOSR:  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason...

A brief talk about old school characters  -   Check out these other podcasts participating in #OctOSR  -   Nerd's RPG VarietyCast (with Jason) https://anchor.fm/jason376  -   The Redcaps Podcast (with Kevin) https://anchor.fm/theredcaps  -   Clerics Wear Ringmail (with Taylor) https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail  -   Down in a Heap (with Rob) h...

Call ins about Critical Hits and Rulings over Rules  -   Thanks to Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast, Kevin of the Redcaps Podcast and Joe of the Hindsightless Podcast  -   Check out thier links below as well as links podcasts participating in OctOSR  -   https://anchor.fm/jason376  -   https://anchor.fm/theredcaps  -   https://anchor.fm/joe-ric...

OctOSR is a month long celebration of old school game play Today I talk about Rulings not Rules Check out OctOSR related content from:  https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail  https://anchor.fm/rob-c  https://anchor.fm/theredcaps https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/

A call-in bonanza! Using cards as randomizers, critical hits for fighters, metagaming and metacurrency, more on the positive and negative people in the OSR spheres Credit to Rob of Down in a Heap podcast for his podcasts talking about magical weapons and crits https://anchor.fm/rob-c Thanks to my callers: Jason - https://anchor.fm/jason376 Kevin - https://anchor.fm/theredcaps Spencer aka Free Thra...

Goblin's Henchman episode on 'magic reservoirs' - https://anchor.fm/ghench/episodes/130---unusable-magic-system--updates-e1nnic8 Goblin's Henchman podcast - https://anchor.fm/ghench Redcaps podcast (Kevin) - https://anchor.fm/theredcaps Hindsightless (Joe) - https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Keep off the Borderlands (Spencer/Free Thrall) - https://anchor.fm/free-thrall Wobblies and Wizards - https://...

An overview of the Space kings RPG and a Call in from Joe from Hindsightless https://supertry.itch.io/spacekings https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Message me on Anchor https://anchor.fm/the-pink-phantom/ Email me at thepinkphantom1@gmail.com Tweet at me twitter.com/ThePinkPhantom

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A discussion of Metagaming, Player Skill, and System Mastery Inspired by this episode of Clerics wear Ringmail podcast https://anchor.fm/clerics-wear-ringmail/episodes/Regarding-Player-Skill-e1mse9p

A brief overview of parts of the Grok?! RPG, Call-ins from various Anchorite luminaries, more talk about highlighting old school RPG games/play in October Find Grok?! at https://lestortoise.itch.io/grok https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395261/GROK?term=grok Check out the caller's podcasts! Redcaps Podcast Hindsightless Clerics Wear Ringmail Down in a Heap Nerd's RPG Variety Cast You can find l...

Calls in from Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Podcast on the Anchorpocalypse and Suns My take on the potential for increasing awareness and positive promotion of the OSR in October

Guns in D&D, Podinbox hosting, Inked Adventures Map & Dice playing cards https://www.etsy.com/listing/526074766/inked-adventures-map-dice-playing-cards?click_key=e2fabe9eab380782ebca2f760560a8e1d72ad1db%3A526074766&click_sum=53e6838e&ref=user_profile&bes=1 https://www.podinbox.com/

Calls from Jason of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast (https://anchor.fm/jason376) and talk about the Anchorpocalypse and potential hosting options

Covering the Dungeons and Debacles actual play podcast http://dungeonsanddebaclespodcast.com/ Also discussing the Campaign Carnival put on by World of Weirth https://world-of-weirth.itch.io/campaign-carnival-2022 https://www.youtube.com/user/atStephen/featured https://twitter.com/WorldofWeirth http://journal.stephenpsmith.com/blog/

How prevalent is 3d6 in order in D&D? What does "in order" mean? And what does it mean to the ability of the characters created?

Delving into The Verse to discuss a worldbuilding podcast by Dakota Brown and Ryan land that has succumbed to the scourge of podfading! "Strength of the Titans" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0...

Are the PC's in D&D at a disadvantage if the critical hit rule is used? Opening theme: "Strength of the Titans" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ End theme: "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org...

An Episode 0 starting point for listeners. Opening music: "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Episode music: "Adventures of Flying Jack" Alexander Nakarada Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/