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All Episodes

Bandit’s Keep — 181 episodes

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1

Paladin "Have Sword, Will Travel"

2

Calls About High Level XP/Milestones

3

Kill Monsters, Take Treasure... and Then What?

4

An Unusual Choice for a Starting Adventure

5

On Trolls and Being Bloodied

6

Subtle Spells and Kenny G

7

Getting Bloodied in Melee

8

Reflecting on Medusa and Mirrors

9

Change the dice, not the target

10

D6 Dice Pools - What Skill System Works Best for Me - With Todd from Hexed Press

11

Is a Simple System Better For New Players?

12

Best Laid Plans of a Wandering Freebooter

13

A year of Dungeon 23

14

Meaningful Choices in Combat

15

Its not for everyone and that's ok

16

The Cult of RAW

17

High level gaming is amazing

18

Making Heroes (even more) heroic

19

North to High Adventure at CleriCon2023

20

My thoughts on the OSR (and a change to unchained) OSR October

21

Gunfighters and Cities of Barsoom (OSR October)

22

More Exciting New (for 1975) Monsters! Ghosts, Shriekers, and Shambling Mounds (OSR October)

23

So many pole arms, so little time (OSR October)

24

An Exciting New (in 1975) Class for (Original) Dungeons & Dragons - OSR October - The Ranger

25

OSR October - a look at a new (in 1975) monster

26

What the Solo Dungeon tells us about OD&D - OSR October

27

Unchained Alpha and OSR October Begins!

28

The Problem with Mummies in OD&D Unchained

29

Why is a black pudding tougher than a dragon? OD&D Unchained

30

How I handle Classes and Races in OD&D - Unchained

31

Unchained Magic - OD&D Spells Revamped

32

Only a Hero can Defeat a Dragon - Monsters in OD&D with Chainmail

33

The Final Pieces to the Puzzle: OD&D with Chainmail

34

Calls at the Gates of GenCon 2023

35

RPG a Day - 1 “First”

36

Dungeon and Chainmail - Fantasy Combat

37

Combining OD&D Alternative Combat and Chainmail

38

Once per Adventure? Spells in OD&D

39

How many orcs can you kill with one arrow? Missile fire in OD&D

40

How do you track time 1:1 in OD&D

41

Power Building your OD&D Character

42

Unchained Heroes - My new game in Beta/Draft

43

Magic Research in OD&D

44

Man vs Beast in OD&D with Chainmail

45

Chainmail and OD&D; 3 types of combat, when to use each.

46

Super Heroes and Wizards in OD&D

47

Making Monsters More Formidable in OD&D with Chainmail

48

Creating a Monk Class for OD&D with Chainmail

49

Fighting Giant Squid From the Back of a Dragon Turtle; Welcome to OD&D

50

Stocking a Mega-Dungeon One Room at a Time in OD&D

51

Roguish Bards, Shape Changers, and Single Player OD&D

52

Oh! a D&D Movie

53

How I Ran Seven Games in 4 Days and Lived to Tell About it

54

The World is Your Boss Fight

55

High Level OSR; Politics or Deeper Dungeons?

56

Awarding XP in OD&D; how it is different from other editions, and why I love it.

57

Unique Monsters, Unique Mechanics - OD&D

58

Unarmed Combat in Original Dungeons & Dragons

59

Talking Boot Hill - Western RPG with Jason

60

Learning to be a better D&D Player

61

Using GeoMorphs in OD&D

62

Narrative Gaming and High Level OD&D

63

Theatre of the Miniatures - OD&D at the Table

64

On Dragon Breath and Superheroes in OD&D

65

How are Spells Cast in OD&D?

66

On Economy and Space Travel in Original Dungeons & Dragons

67

More on Plot and The OSR

68

Why is "Plot" a Dirty Word in the OSR?

69

Critical Hits in Original Dungeons & Dragons

70

Fighting Defensively in OD&D

71

Magic Sword vs Plate Mail

72

A few approaches to magic

73

31 days of OSR / The Age of Conan: OSR October

74

Operation White Box: OSR October

75

Warriors of the Red Planet: OSR October

76

Hyperborea : OSR October

77

Chromatic Soup: OSR October

78

the Hateful place: OSR October

79

Yoon-Suin: OSR October

80

Blogs on Tape : OSR October

81

Philotomy's Musings: OSR October

82

Fifty Fiends: OSR October

83

Deep Dungeon Gonzo Encounter Die Drop Table: OSR October

84

Barbarians & Basilisks: OSR October

85

An Echo Resounding: OSR October

86

A Thousand Thousand Islands: OSR October

87

The Colossal Wastes of Zhaar: OSR October

88

Ford's Faeries: OSR October

89

BX Blackrazor: OSR October

90

Wonder and Wickedness: OSR October

91

The Dungeon Minister: OSR October

92

Call in Show: OSR October (and others)

93

Black Pudding Heavy Helping: OSR October

94

Swords & Wizardry; Monstrosities

95

Against the Wicked City: OSR October

96

Petty Gods: OSR October

97

Goblin Punch d100 Minor Magic Items: OSR October

98

Are Retro Clones too retro? OSR October

99

C.L Moore; Jirel of Joiry: OSR October

100

Better OSR fighters made easy

101

OSR October Day 3: Knock!

102

The Palace of the Silver Princess: OSR October Day 2

103

OSR October Begins: What is the OSR to me

104

Why do I talk about gaming?

105

RPG A Day Part 2 (Days 16-31)

106

PVP “Playing the bad guys”

107

Hit points and Hit Dice

108

RPG A Day 2022 part 1 (days 1-15)

109

OD&D Meets GenCon

110

Design the game before the stats

111

Magic Armor +2 against political rants

112

Combat results and calls

113

A use for the usage die?

114

My players wouldn’t like that… or would they?

115

Form, Function and Fighting Ogres S2E4

116

I make my death save against call-ins! S2E3

117

The Lost Episode (Don't call it a comeback) S2E2

118

Garycon XIV recap - games and good friends

119

Emulating Fantasy Tropes with Chainmail (and OD&D) S2E2

120

Sword & Sorcery Unchained!

121

Unchained Sword and Sorcery RPG Characters

122

Join my Play Test for "Unchained" Sword and Sorcery Adventure game!

123

Why OD&D?

124

Ability scores and character builds in TnT

125

Mechanics = Play Style

126

A Smart Fighter, Min-Maxing in OD&D

127

Simultaneous initiative and Thews

128

Time and Wealth in XP for treasure games and Chainmail

129

Recap of OD&D with Chainmail and call ins on Sword and Sorcery

130

Non S&S call ins

131

Heroic Backstories

132

Sorcery and Swords

133

One hero or many in Sword & Sorcery

134

Listen Call show (not to be mistaken with call in shows on NRPGVC)

135

What do I want in a Sword & Sorcery game? (Vs epic fantasy)

136

Reading the rules

137

Knocking the rust off my chainmail

138

How do we play various species?

139

Cyber lemmings

140

"Actual" Actual Play - Slug God - OD&D with Chainmail

141

Making it up as I go along

142

Broken or just misunderstood?

143

The Jason show (with a pinch of Joe)

144

Arlen Walker takeover special

145

Counting Metal Sheep - calls ins and unboxings

146

Why you should not play a clumsy rogue (in 5e)

147

Power building might be ok I guess

148

Stats, classes, species, and a yeti

149

Choose your species!

150

PC class creation - species taboos and some calls

151

Call ins about elves, magic swords, and secret agents

152

Elves in my world - of two spirits.

153

Fumbles Critical Hits, Engagement and call ins - mixed bag today!

154

Great system recommendations from Arlen Walker

155

Chainmail battle reports from callers

156

Grab bag of rpg goodness

157

Chainmail Play Test Questions - Featuring Nick

158

Unboxing Episode - Small boxes, Big Content

159

The lost calls (AKA Daniel was too lazy to respond on time)

160

The Andy Goodman Show

161

Using Chainmail as a “Funnel”

162

Going full circle with OD&D / Chainmail

163

OD&D with Chainmail beta release

164

Nothing is happening

165

Thieves tools as skills

166

BX Grappling Rules - Read Through

167

Special Episode Unarmed Combat

168

The Light at the end of the Dungeon and some long buried calls

169

Being a good player and sanity mechanics

170

A way to streamline searching for traps?

171

Should I save Saving Throws?

172

Monsters, PC abilities and special attacks

173

Progress on the hack, some play tests and what I’ve learned

174

Actual Play Chainmail Combat with OD&D

175

Man to Man Combat

176

Narrative Combat

177

What are Hit Points Really?

178

My First Call in Episode!

179

Original Dungeons & Dragons combat with Chainmail

180

Core Mechanics, good or bad?

181

Who’s game is it anyway?