Tome Travelers

This week, John sits down with Jonathan G. Nelson of Adventureaweek.com to discuss his company and their current Kickstarter project, Adventure Omnibus! 

Host: John Thompson

Featuring: Jonathan G. Ne…

As we wind down Season 1 of Tome Travelers and Sam prepares to move out, we decided to dedicate the last two episodes of 2018 to the games he loves the most. This week, we break out all the books we …

(We had an audio-hiccough this episode, and our sound quality is not up to its normal standard. Still, we felt this was an episode that featured great commentary about a really solid property, and op…

This week, we had a great time chatting with John Hambone McGuire from The Vintage RPG Podcast (and others) to discuss the German fantasy roleplaying powerhouse, The Dark Eye! We have quite a collect…

Ethan Haas was right… Or so said a viral campaign in 2008 that referenced the writings and works of a prophet (Haas) who foretold a coming war. The campaign was launched to build intrigue around the …

This episode is going up in the rapture. Or not, but we are going to talk about Quintessential Mercy Studios’ 1995 release of Rapture: The Second Coming. Seeing as our three hosts come from different…

This week, we crack open John’s copy of Dark Sun, the highly-acclaimed setting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition. Join us as we discuss the history of the property and take a deeper look at…

Heroes in a half shell! Turtle Power! Right? Or are you like Sam and hate EVERYTHING about the beloved TMNT cartoon of the late 80s? This is the episode where Sam’s OG love of the comics and Roxy’s n…

While celebrating Free RPG Day here in our corner of the world, John met Debra Hoenig Parizek of ParDen Us Gaming, publisher of EVERYVERSE RPG. We were lucky enough to be able to schedule some time w…

Welcome to our first episode of Tome Travelers: Credits Page! In these special bonus episodes, our hosts will take a closer look at some of the influential women that have worked on the games that we…

Here at Passionerdly, we love anime. This month, we invited our friend and long-time anime fan, Sam, to join us in discussing the quintessential Japanese Anime RPG – Big Eyes, Small Mouth, or simply,…

Whatever edition of this game you prefer to use, Tokyo Brain Pop/Panty Explosion (Perfect) is a game whose original title was completely unrelated to the content, but certainly got consumers to stop …

Drawing inspiration from another superhero RPG, Roxy creates “Shadowscape”, a Nova with enhanced perception and super-stealth abilities in Aberrant, a 1999 release from White Wolf, now being publishe…

Welcome to the Trinity Universe! This week, we’re taking a look at the second era available in White Wolf’s foray into the world of superheroes: Aberrant. Roxy has strong feelings about the look of t…

Let’s create a Battlemech Pilot using the Battletech Classic RPG rules from Topps’ Fan Pro edition, circa mid-2000s.

Hosts: John & Roxy Thompson

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This month, we are going back to one of John’s very first introductions to tabletop gaming: Battletech, and its RPG counterpart, 1991’s MechWarrior by FASA. The property has been around for a long ti…

Taking her character inspiration from one of her favorite video games, Roxy attempts to create an inquisitor worthy of the grim dark future of the 41st Millennium. Dark Heresy was originally released…

In this episode, we find ourselves in the grim dark future of the 41st Millennium, as inquisitors in service of the God Emperor, the Carrion Lord of the Imperium. Dark Heresy was originally released …

In our second episode this month, Roxy attempts to use the Spycraft character creation rules to generate Agent 86 of CONTROL, the clumsy but lovable spy portrayed by Don Adams in Get Smart. Spycraft …

This week, John and Roxy travel don their black turtlenecks and night-vision goggles and dive into the action-packed world of secrets and espionage in Spycraft. Written by Patrick Kapera and Kevin Wi…