Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast

Twice a month (nominally) podcast about tabletop role playing games, exploitation movies, board games, miniature war games, and whatever else attracts my interest.

Callers can use my Speakpipe account

https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast

you can also send an email to nerdsrpgvarietycast 'at' gmail 'dot' com or find me on a variety of discords including the Audio Dungeon Discord.

Ray Otus provided the coffee cup clip art and TJ provides my music.

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Update frequency: every 5 days
Average duration: 40 minutes
Episodes: 728
Years Active: 2019 - 2025

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299 The Party Forms

GURPS Traveller session recap. Mail Bag. AD&D 1E actual play. If you don’t want to listen to the actual play (wise choice) you can stop 27 minutes and 30 seconds into the show.

Calls from Amy Lee (T…

00:47:25 | Wed 22 Dec 2021

298 OD&D and AD&D and Listener Calls, oh my!

AD&D 1E session recap. An unboxing with highs and lows. I open the mail bag. Finally at the end of the episode you’ll find part two of the AD&D 1E actual play segment. Grogtalk Episode 94 Holiday S…

00:41:32 | Sun 19 Dec 2021

297 Barbarians of Lemuria Tale of the Black Grimoire Campaign Recap

Now that it is finished I look back on our Barbarians of Lemuria: Tale of the Black Grimoire campaign. This episode is all "BoL" all the time with an overview of the system, a recap of the events of …

00:45:08 | Sat 18 Dec 2021

296 REAVER, Mailbag, and AD&D

REAVER session recap, I open the mail bag, do some unboxings and parse through some ability scores in the first segment of my actual play AD&D game. Next show on 18 Dec. Music for the actual play seg…

00:33:53 | Wed 15 Dec 2021

294 DaveCon 2022

I speak to Victor Dorso of Angry Dwarf Games, the coordinator for DaveCon 2022, a gaming convention in Minneapolis, MN from 8-10 April 2022. Listen for a special Blackmoor related announcement! Guest…

00:44:13 | Sun 12 Dec 2021

293 AD&D 1E is back on the menu!

AD&D 1E session recap. Plus calls from Rob (Down in a Heap) https://anchor.fm/rob-c Daniel (Bandit’s Keep) https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton First Age (Gaming From the First Age) https://anchor.fm/firs…

00:36:46 | Sat 11 Dec 2021

292 Listener Call In Show

Mail bag episode. Calls from Joe (Hindsightless) Rob (Down in a Heap) Joe (Raven God Games) Barry (Shadow of the GM) Karl (The GMologist Presents) Evil Jeff (Minions & Musings) Daniel (Bandit’s Keep)…

00:41:02 | Thu 09 Dec 2021

291 Your cheating GM will make you weep

Is the GM cheating if they use short cuts to build NPCs? Also OD&D Oddities and I solicit feedback regarding a proposed AD&D 1E actual play segment on this show. Thread I reference for the proposed A…

00:23:32 | Wed 08 Dec 2021

290 A call to reason

All listener feedback all the time! The start of Menion’s RuneQuest Glorantha series https://anchor.fm/menion/episodes/Entering-RuneQuests-Glorantha-6-Seasons-in-Sartar-e1a751e Alarums & Excursions…

00:45:01 | Sun 05 Dec 2021

289 Return to Oz, the 1980’s and AD&D 1E

In this oversized episode I review Goblin’s Henchmen’s new In the Heart of the Land of the Wizard of Oz procedural sandbox setting as well as the 1980’s based DCC funnel Blackout in Crater Valley. Al…

00:43:56 | Sat 04 Dec 2021

288 Is the OSR gross?

Opening the mail bag about OD&D, system mastery, They Live and Cowboy Bebop. Read Jason Vet’s article here https://wastedlandsfantasy.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-is-osr-do-we-need-to-define-it.html?m=1…

00:36:04 | Thu 02 Dec 2021

287 Saving Throws & Lycanthropes

In the OD&D Oddities segment we talk saving throws and lycanthropes. After that I do short spoiler free discussions of the new Wheel of Time and Hawkeye TV shows. Link to the spoiler filled Wheel of …

00:26:30 | Wed 01 Dec 2021

286 Does player skill trump system mastery?

Mailbag episode where we discuss system mastery, player skill and Karl discuss his games. Jason Vey on old school vs new school play https://wastedlandsfantasy.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-is-osr-do-we-…

00:36:08 | Sun 28 Nov 2021

285 It’s true, Arduin is back!

Clerics & Anti-Clerics in OD&D, Dungeon Crawl Classics session recap, and two very special unboxings. To buy Arduin go to https://empcho.com/

00:25:52 | Sat 27 Nov 2021

284 The Mailbag of Fear

More calls regarding episode “281 What scares you?” Also in addition to unboxings we have a boxing! Calls from Karl (The GMologist Presents) https://anchor.fm/karl-rodriguez B.J. (The Arcane Alienist…

00:25:55 | Thu 25 Nov 2021

283 System Mastery Revisited

Does a low bar of entry mean a ruleset wouldn’t benefit from system mastery? Plus infravision in OD&D, a REAVER session recap, and short review of Masters of the Universe Revelation Part 2. Topic pro…

00:30:43 | Wed 24 Nov 2021

282 Mailbag Explosion

I talk a little bit about my desire to run some traditional games (one with a twist), the woes of my new work schedule, and I open the mail bag. Calls from Joe (Hindsightless) https://anchor.fm/joe-r…

00:41:25 | Sun 21 Nov 2021

281 What scares you?

Find out what scares my listeners, they bare all! Thank you Taylor for the topic. Calls from Spencer (Keep off the Borderlands) https://anchor.fm/free-thrall B.J. aka GameDoc (The Arcane Alienist) ht…

00:39:31 | Wed 17 Nov 2021

280 System Mastery

Dungeon Crawl Classics session recap. Also in this episode we talk about system mastery and I don’t mean the podcast! Stay around for one (or two) stingers at the end. Calls from Daniel (Bandit’s Kee…

00:31:29 | Sat 13 Nov 2021

279 Cthulhu Call Collective

More discussion on whether Cthulhu is still scary and a request for listeners to call in with what they find scary today. Also discussed Demons (1985) and Prince of Darkness (1987) Calls from B.J. (T…

00:31:55 | Thu 11 Nov 2021

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