Twice a month (nominally) podcast about tabletop role playing games, exploitation movies, board games, miniature war games, and whatever else attracts my interest.
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Ray Otus provided the coffee cup clip art and TJ provides my music.
Politics in RPGs? Yes please!
Calls from from Karl (The GMologist Presents), Jason Hobbs (Random Screed, Hobbs & Friends), Joe (Raven God Games)
MUTATION RPG Quickstart https://www.drivethrurpg.co…
Stefan from Dragon Peak Publishing joins me to talk about his products, an upcoming kickstarter, and Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Where you can find Stefan:
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projec…
In this episode I wrestle with Spotify’s crappy interface, announce a new contest, remember an infamous date 1230 years ago, and field listener calls.
Calls from Daniel (Bandit’s Keep) David ( Betel…
Here is the award show for the military media contest. Thank you to Eric from The Omega 3D Chicken Coop for joining me to discuss the entries. Entries from Kevin Borrup, Jason Hobbs, Daniel, Karl, De…
Not all old school games are hard to find or expensive!
Moldvay Basic https://www.drivet…
On this episode I open up the mailbag and field calls on a variety of topics.
"Live Large!" is a quote from author Don Pendleton. It means you should live your life to the fullest.
Calls from Runesl…
Our inaugural movie for our monthly movie night (thanks again to Goblin's Henchmen for the idea) is Clash of the Titans.
This episode features submissions about the movie from from MW Lewis, Joe, Ch…
Need a system for your action packed one shot based on your favorite 1980's action movie? Look no further than Magnum Fury by LakeSide Games.
LakeSide Games on DriveThruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.…
I talk about a recent session of REAVER and field more calls on suppressive fire amongst other topics.
Calls from Spencer aka Free Thrall (Keep off the Borderlands), Safer (Safer Fantasy Crafting), …
After saying goodbye to Jim Brown and Russ Nicholson I discuss Matt Click's HyperspaceD6, a simplified descendent of the WEG Star Wars RPG.
Things and people discussed:
HyperspaceD6 (follow the lin…
I'm on vacation this week but couldn't skip my 500th episode so I talk about what I see going forward, discuss a very generous gift, and open the mail bag to play calls from James, Joe, Tim, & Daniel…
In the fifth entry in this Year of Pyun where I celebrate the movies of Albert Pyun my friend Daniel from Bandit's Keep joins me to discuss the 1996 movie Omega Doom starring Rutger Hauer. We also di…
Joe from Hindsightless joins me to discuss We Deal in Lead, do a surprise unboxing, and dip into the mailbag for some feedback on my Gaming Red Dawn episode. Don't forget to send me your favorite mil…
Today we talk about Classified The Role Playing Game of Covert Operations by Expeditious Retreat Press. This is a retro clone of Victory Games' James Bond 007 RPG from the 1980's.
Cerebrevore Episod…
I discuss board and role playing games in occupied America, some of which were inspired by John Milius' 1984 movie Red Dawn, and open the mail bag.
Fantasy Games Unlimited https://www.fantasygamesunl…
On this System Sunday I talk about the amazing Sandbox Generator by Atelier Clandestin!
Atelier Clandestin Home Page https://atelierclandestin.wixsite.com/home
Sandbox Generator https://www.drivethr…
I announce the May Contest, we get some great listener responses about suppressive fire mechanics in RPGs, and Sam tells us about how his feelings for Palladium Games' Recon have changed over the yea…
Jeff joins me to talk about Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter from 1974 which is a very D&D movie and in honor of Chaosium's release of Elder, an AI powered chatbot, we also discuss the cautionary docum…
This week I highlight Matt Finch's mid level Swords and Wizardry adventure Demonspore The Secret of the Shrooms. This is a 3rd to 6th level adventure for 4 to 8 adventurers that you could use with an…
In this mailbag extravaganza the listeners discuss their thoughts on complexity in roleplaying games. Sam also talks suppressive fire and I say something nice about GURPS! Calls from Joe, Anthony, Am…