TooFatLardies Oddcast

After a marathon round of events and globe-trotting fun, the lads get together with a gripping tale of their Odyssey. Join them as they reveal their adventures

The lads get together to discuss the world of Lard and to chew over the Big Issue, how to game raids.  

It's a busy time on Lard Island with the usual flurry of summer games day and show.  The lads assemble to discuss current projects, the Big Issue and what Rich uses instead of a brain.

Fifty Oddcasts and twenty years on, the lads talk about their memories and hopes for the future before being joined by Mark Backhouse to discuss Strength & Honour.

The gang meet up with a special guest to talk about events in the world of Lard including news about a major project for 2022. 

It's Christmas time on Lard Island and the three wise men have arrived at Roundwood Towers to discuss their own Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh moments of 2021.  Very rapidly it emerges that all is not it seems as events take a sinister turn...

Nick talks us through the inspiration he gets from maps and how they inform his game designs.

Rich talks about the thinking behind Deployment Points of various sorts in Lardy Games and how they are all part of one design journey.

The 22nd of December and Sidney is talking about how he finds inspiration and motivation from seeing what other fellow hobbyists are doing.   

Fat Nicholas emerges from behind his window to contemplate on how he has personally drawn inspiration from the Lardy community.

With just five days to go, Big Rich will undoubtedly be loitering near the eggnog, so now seems a good time to ask him about Fervour and how he has used it in his game design 

En garde!  With his rapier swirling above his head, Sidney introduces us to the inspiration he has gained from studying 17th century schools of fencing.  

With just a week until Christmas, Nick talks about the concept of 'Big Men' and Leadership within Lardy rules.

With twenty years of game designing experience behind him, the big fella reveals all, telling us which is his favourite game mechanism EVER!

Resplendent in his finery, Sidney arrives from Window 16 to wax lyrical on the politics of the French Court and how it has inspired him on so many levels.  

Starting wistfully at his long-unused boots, Nick muses on the much missed joys of battlefield walking and talks of how it has influenced his gaming.   

Card hand management features in a number of Lardy rule sets.  Here Big Rich discusses the journey of development that has resulted and the way it has influenced different games.  

Oft times found among dusty volumes in the Lard Island Library, Sidney brushes the dust off a weighty tome and tells us how memoirs have influenced his game design.  

Nick emerges from behind door 12 of the advent calendar to tell us how personal stories of warfare have influenced him as he designs rules and scenarios. 

Variable movement has been at the heart of Lardy games since the outset 20 years ago.  Here Rich talks through the inspiration for the mechanisms they use. 

Behind today's window we have Sidney who explains how he finds inspiration in the works of the great painters.  Splash a bit of red up here...have you guessed what it is yet?  

In the latest of our windows on game design inspiration, Big Rich tells us all about the Command Dice mechanism in Chain of Command and what inspired and drive his design choices. 

The smell of the crowd, the roar of the greasepaint; no, it's not Sidney in Panto in Prestatyn again, but he is here to tell us how the theatre has influenced the way he stages wargames.  Oh, yes he is!   

As window 7 breathes a sigh of relief, Nick explodes into view to talk about the exploits of the nautical but nice 'Sailor' Malan

Day Six and Rich talks about some of the inspiration behind creating Pint Size Campaigns