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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240 Twilight 2000 session report

Twilight 2000 session recap, some wonderful calls on troupe play and Daniel continues our discussion on the future of transportation. Clip of politician wanting to ‘turn the screws’ on seniors with f…

01:13:35 | Wed 18 Aug 2021

239 Froth’s 12v12 First Impressions

We start with apologies to Menion (AKA Rob) and Colin Green then move onto a discussion of troupe play, a session recap, an initial take on Froth’s 12v12 RPG and a slew of call ins. The documentary m…

01:16:43 | Sun 15 Aug 2021

238 ASSH and Karl on being a good GM

Gaming recap, podcast recommendations, spoiler free thoughts on MotU & Batman, and unboxing. If you aren’t interested in the Vulcan Dairies you can stop listening 44 minutes in. Kevin (The Redcaps Po…

01:07:22 | Wed 11 Aug 2021

237 No to notes and bad wrong ways of rolling dice

Alternate D&D combat, hidden rolls, unboxings plus calls from Spencer (Keep Off The Borderlands) https://anchor.fm/free-thrall Joe (Hindsightless) https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Kevin (The Redcaps Po…

01:23:38 | Sun 08 Aug 2021

236 Throwing Stuff At The Wall

Short segments on: player engagement, a Twilight 2000 4K session recap, and RPG-A-Day month. Calls from Amy’s husband Karl (The GMologist Presents) https://anchor.fm/karl-rodriguez Randy (Biggus Geek…

00:36:54 | Wed 04 Aug 2021

235 The Strange RPG starring Nic Cage

WotC’s statement on canon, The Strange session recap, character creation in The One Ring 2E and calls from Joe & Karl Rodriguez (only one of which is Amy’s husband) Rule 0 video by Bandit’s Keep http…

00:38:11 | Sun 01 Aug 2021

234 The way forward and an unboxing

Unboxing of Breaker Press Games’ The Precipice of Corruption & The Tome of Debasement for DCC. Calls from Karl (The GMologist Presents) https://anchor.fm/karl-rodriguez Daniel (The Bandit’s Keep) htt…

00:24:28 | Fri 30 Jul 2021

233 Rule 0 Discussion Finale

Discussion over, for now. Calls from Joe, Daniel and Arlen. If you want more ‘what is D&D’ discussion check out my Episode 186 TSR D&D vs WotC D&D. If you want more Rule 0 content check out Barry’s S…

00:23:45 | Thu 29 Jul 2021

232 Call in Bonanza

Calls about Joe Richter, rule zero and the X card. Proper show notes at the end of the week, calls from Daniel of Bandit’s Keep, Karl from The GMologist Presents, Taylor from Clerics Wear Ringmail, P…

00:39:30 | Wed 28 Jul 2021

231 Troika Open Mike Night

I talk about preparing to play in The Strange and Bonecrunch plus give a session report on Troika! Listener feedback on Rule 0 and the X Card next episode.

00:25:24 | Tue 27 Jul 2021

230 Yet more Rule Zero & Arlen Walker joins me

Listener feed back about Rule Zero from Kevin, Joe, and Karl, plus a talk with Arlen Walker, will additional cans of worms be opened by all these dynamic podcasters? Plus stay tuned for The Blind Rat…

00:55:36 | Mon 26 Jul 2021

229 More on Rule Zero plus a talk with Menion

Menion and I talk about Joe Richter, Robin Hood, Pendragon, Rule Zero, Rulings over Rules, the Rule of Cool, and published adventures. Also calls from Arlen, Barney, Daniel, Joey and Rob C.!

Adventur…

01:52:10 | Sat 24 Jul 2021

228 Sinbad of the Seven Seas

I discuss a contender for the best Dungeons & Dragons movie, Lou Ferrigno’s Italian Sinbad movie! Also unboxings and calls from Amy, Amy’s husband Karl & Arlen.

00:36:07 | Fri 23 Jul 2021

227 Is Rule Zero Abusive DMing?

In this week’s episode Mary tries to keep Lester from finding out that one of Sandra’s boyfriends tried to pick up Brenda. Whoops, wrong 227!

Actually I do a session recap for a recent Twilight 2000 …

01:02:55 | Thu 22 Jul 2021

226 More bad movie shenanigans

Calls from Joe, Randy, and Arlen regarding bad movies. Minimum RPG content in this one folks although there is an unboxing and a little on systems for bad Robin Hood movies.

00:23:52 | Wed 21 Jul 2021

225 Unboxing and listener calls

Calls from B.J., Karl, Daniel, Joe, Barney and Taylor. Link to the interview with Jeff about Hyperborea https://youtu.be/GleeIRxhpIg and here is the trailer for Shakma, perhaps my favorite trailer of…

00:27:50 | Fri 16 Jul 2021