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Back for RPG A Day 2026

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So long and thanks for all the fish

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Season 2 Finale

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S2E45 Award Show for the One Game Company Contest

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S2E44 Social Conflict with Jason Hobbs

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S2 Calls and Conspiracies Bonus54

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S2E43 Swords Against The Shadows by D101 Games

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S2E42 What to look for in a Science Fiction RPG

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S2 Did Conan Die? Bonus53

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S2E41 New Contest, The Dungeon Plunger, and Listener Feedback

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S2 Six String Samurai the RPG with Runeslinger Bonus 52

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S2E40 Six String Samurai (1998) with Runeslinger

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S2 The Crow Bonus51

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S2 Double Dragon with Mirke Bonus50

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S2 OSR October Pt 3 Bonus49

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S2E39 Chatting with Daniel Norton

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S2 OSR October Pt 2 Bonus 48

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S2 OSR October Part 1 Bonus 47

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S2E38 ShireCon2025 Recap

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S2 The Headless Horseman (2022) Bonus 46

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S2E37 Double Header with Jason Hobbs & Arlen Walker

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S2 Call In Special Bonus 45

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S2 Solo West Marches? Bonus 44

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S2E36 Cimmerian September and The Wraith (1986)

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S2 Experience Points Bonus43

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Wk5 Bonus42

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S2 Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat movies Bonus41

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Wk4 Bonus40

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S2E35 Harrigan on Barbarians of Lemuria & Supers RPGs

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Wk3 Bonus39

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S2 Listener Calls and Spawn (1997) Bonus38

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Wk2 Bonus37

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S2E34 KR King on Gritty Police Films and Shadowdark

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Wk1 Bonus36

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S2 End of the month calls Bonus35

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S2 Superman Spoiler Review with BJ Bonus34

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S2E33 Chuck Norris Film to RPG with Daniel Norton

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S2 TBH campaigns, The Beekeeper and Robocop! Bonus33 Try2

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S2 #RPGaDAY2025 Bonus 32

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S2E32 Solo Play Tutorial with Sub Class Act

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S2E31 Jason and Jason on Jason: The Beekeeper (2024)

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S2 The Black Hack suitable for campaigns? Bonus31

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S2 The Reign of the Kingfisher Bonus 30

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S2E30 Jason and Jason Plunge the Fluff

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S2E29 RPG Skills & Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2 (1987)

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S2 Published settings aren't all bad? Bonus29

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S2E28 Invasion USA, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, oh my!

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S2 Lovely Listener Feedback Bonus28

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S2E27 RPG Philosophy and Sundiver (1980)

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S2 Everyone Loves James Knight Bonus27

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S2E26 Tunnels & Trolls Turns 50

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S2 Paul Revere's Ride Bonus26

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S2 Old Fashioned Call In Show Bonus25

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S2E25 Lifeforce and Prince of Darkness with James Knight

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S2E24 Rolemaster Ramble with GMsShadow

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Saint Patrick's Day Chat 2025 S2Bonus24

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S2E23 Wounds and Phenomena (1985)

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Reaver with Joe Salvador S2Bonus23

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S2E22 The Dungeon Plunger Cometh

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Send Reggie Bannister your love S2Bonus 22

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S2E21 Fight Club (1999)

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S2 Fudge RPG with GM Shadow Bonus 21

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S2E20 Espionage Adventures

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Bond, the Connery years S2Bonus 20

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S2 Blog Relaunch and Forest of the Moon Bonus19

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Daryl Davis S2Bonus18

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S2E19 Adapting Old Modules and The Conquest of Chaos

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The Anchorite APA S2Bonus17

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S2E18 Skirmish Wargames with Bandit's Keep

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S2B16 President Jimmy Carter Rest in Peace

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S2E17 TTRPGs for Low Fantasy and Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon

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S2B15 A Giallo Holiday

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S2E16 The Old Warlock

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S2B14 Adventure Site feedback with Coldlight Press

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S2E15 Red Dragon and Manhunter Panel

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S2B13 Approaching TTRPG Adventure Site Design

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S2E14 The Only Good Indians Panel Discussion

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S2B12 Halloween RPG Wrap Up

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S2E13 Wolfen with Nicky

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S2B11 Stay Frosty Remastered is coming!

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S2E12 Mork Borg panel and The Wind in the Willows book review

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S2B10 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

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S2B9 Eerie Games Fatebound plus Headless Halloween Jam

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S2E11 The Molly Maguires (1970) and I Was A Teenage Slasher book review

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S2E10 2024 NecronomiCon Providence

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S2E9 Calls, Fabula Ultima, and more Che Webster

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S2B8 Sleepy Hollow RPG Interview

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S2E8 Changing RPG tastes and You Like It Darker book review

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S2B7 Gena Rowlands and Solo Feedback

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S2E7 Hard Science Fiction Games and Movies

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S2B6 Reaver with Joe Salvador

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S2B5 Calls on Pendragon, RPG Art, and Hot Sauces with Karl

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S2B4 Hot Sauce, Bards and Crossroads

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S2E6 #RPGaDay2024 Panel Discussion

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S2E5 Bards in TTRPGs and Crossroads (1986)

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S2B3 Lonely Fun or Mindless Fun

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S2E4 Summer Spectacular featuring Pendragon 6E

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S2E3 Scientific Ghost Movies with KR King

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S2B2 Bay vs Maas and Listener Calls

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S2E2 RPG Theory Ramblings and Rebel Moon

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S2B1 The problem with White Box FMAG

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S2E1 Palladium's After the Bomb and Man's Best Friend (1993)

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RIP Roger Corman

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625 CODA

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624 The One Ring Response Episode

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623 Brewster's Millions with Joe

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622 The One Ring RPG panel discussion

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621 Procedural Tabletop Roleplaying Games

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620 Extreme Prejudice with Darkfluid again

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619 The Home Stretch

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618 One Shot RPG interview

112

617 48 Hrs. & Another 48 Hrs. with Joe Salvador

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O. J. Simpson

114

616 ROM Spaceknight

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615 Southern Comfort with Karl

116

614 Giving my notice

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RIP Louis Gossett Jr.

118

613 Feedback on 2D20, XP for missing players, and more!

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612 Solo RPGs with Sub Class Act

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611 Carrot and Stick Feedback

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610 St. Patrick's Day 2024 Mail Bag Show

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609 Modiphius 2D20 with Gabe

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608 The Long Riders with Eric

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Product warning!

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607 Carrot and Stick XP Rewards

126

606 Taking a sick day

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605 OSRIC or AD&D, get both

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604 Vera Cruz with Karl and KR

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Riverside Test 2 with MW

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Riverside Test

131

603 The Anchorpocalypse Part Deux

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602 The Warriors with MW

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601 A Different Look at AD&D Thief Skills

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600 Rule of Cool

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599 Happy 50th Birthday D&D

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598 Rules Cyclopedia Part Deux

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597 The D20 is not swingy and other discussions

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596 Hard Times with KR

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595 Are you using the right dice?

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594 Media Blitz! Dragons Beyond & Coldlight Press Adventure Site Contest

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593 New Beginnings

142

592 Rules Cyclopedia New Years Special

143

591 Last Call

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590 A Conan Christmas on Movie Monday

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589 Streets of Fire with Runeslinger

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588 Skills, Apocalypses and much more

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587 The Night Stalker 1972

148

586 Boston Tea Party 250th Anniversary

149

585 Ron's Old School Reader

150

584 Mean Guns 1997

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583 AD&D1E Sword Wielding Magic Users

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582 Willful Misreadings of D&D

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581 Comedy Gold Skills

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580 Krull on Movie Monday

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579 We Are Diminished

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578 Thanksgiving Mail Call

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577 Brainsmasher... A Love Story 1993

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576 Why Not A Gold Standard?

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575 Reconsidering TSR's Rules Cyclopedia

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574 OctOSR Mailbag Catch Up

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573 Zen and Art of USR

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572 OSR Healing and Hitpoints

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571 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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570 The Beastmaster on Movie Monday

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569 Ray Otus OSR World Tour

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568 OctSR Holmes & Clark

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567 OctSR Review Original Edition Campaign by Erik Johansson

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566 OctSR Friday Tidbits 3

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565 Alien From L.A. 1988

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564 OSR, what is so special about it?

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563 OctSR Friday Tidbits 2

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562 Fearful Ends Kickstarter

173

561 James Knight Out of the Cold Freeze

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560 OSR Oct Friday Tidbits

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559 Fish Out of Water Award Show

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558 Philip Reed interview

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557 Goblyn Market

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556 Ladyhawke on Movie Monday

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555 Radioactive Dreams 1985

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554 Night of the Ninja RPG Part Deux

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553 The Wild Angels 1966

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552 Nate wins the contest

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551 Macuahuitl - Whitebox Roleplaying in the Aztec Empire

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550 OSR October is right around the corner!

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549 Revenge of the Ninja 40th Anniversary Special

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548 Fish Out of Water Contest

187

547 Machine Guns & Magic

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546 I am a swine

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545 August Wrap Up

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544 #RPGaDAY2023 Week 5

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543 Hawk the Slayer on Movie Monday

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542 Vicious Lips 1986

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541 Killer Crosshairs not just for combat

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540 #RPGaDay2023 Week 4

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539 Severed Fate

196

538 Cacophony of Calls

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537 #RPGaDay2023 Week 3

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536 Night of the Ninja (1986) Retro RPG Review

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535 Mailbag Maelstrom

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534 #RPGaDAY2023 Week 2

201

533 Goodbye William Friedkin

202

532 Sons of Liberty RPG / Strategic Card Game

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531 Enter the Dragon 50th Anniversary

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530 #RPGaDAY2023 Week 1

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529 The Princess Bride on Movie Monday

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528 Gamma World

207

527 Time Enough at Last

208

526 Nations & Cannons

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525 Raven Hawk 1996

210

524 Humpday Hullabaloo

211

523 Breaking Infinity

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522 #RPGaDAY Contest

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521 Time Capsule Award Show

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520 Man, Myth & Magic on System Sunday

215

519 Feedback Friday

216

518 Celebrate 4th of July with American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

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517 Cutthroats & Thieves

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516 The Morrow Project with Runeslinger

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515 The Dungeonmaster on Movie Monday

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514 Timeship on System Sunday

221

513 Shenanigans

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512 Captain America 1990 with B.J.

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511 Happy Birthday Sho Kosugi!

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510 Politics in Old School Games or En Garde!

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509 Dragon Peak Publishing on System Sunday

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508 Time Capsule

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507 Mega Military May Award Show

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506 Old School But Still In Print

229

505 Live Large!

230

504 Clash of the Titans on Movie Night

231

503 Magnum Fury on System Sunday

232

502 The Agency is in the Dice Roll or REAVER and The Tree of Doom

233

501 HyperspaceD6 on System Sunday

234

500 Fang it!

235

499 Omega Doom with Daniel Norton

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498 Joe Deals in Lead

237

497 Classified on System Sunday

238

496 Gaming Red Dawn

239

495 Sandbox Generator by Atelier Clandestin on System Sunday

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494 Suppressive Fire Mechanics and a New Contest!

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493 Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter & Evilspeak Double Feature with YeOldeJeff

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492 Demonspore The Secret of the Shrooms on Spotlight Sunday

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491 Complexity in Roleplaying Games

244

490 Reavers of the Mailbag

245

489 Stay Frosty & Slipgate Chokepoint on System Sunday

246

488 The Wolf Man: Rob & Jason vs Universal Monsters Pt 6

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487 Ron's Old-School Compendium + Nemesis with Karl Rodriguez

248

486 Phone Call Friday

249

485 Monster & Character Encounters with JE Shields

250

484 Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades with Karl Rodriguez

251

483 Tag Team Match!

252

482 Martial Arts Award Show

253

481 Dollman with Joe Richter

254

480 How to kill a fan base (Tunnels & Trolls)

255

479 Runeslinger on PbtA

256

478 Bureau 13 Stalking the Night Fantastic on Spotlight Sunday

257

477 The Devil is in the Details

258

476 Media Blitz!

259

475 Iron Falcon Handbook of Monsters and All The World's Monsters on Spotlight Sunday

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474 Down but not out

261

473 Apocalypse World on Spotlight Sunday

262

472 Dirty Pair / Gunsmith Cats Disclaimer!

263

471 Double or Nothing on Spotlight Sunday

264

470 March Contest Announced

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469 ICRPG Black Light revisited

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468 In the Light of a Setting Sun on Spotlight Sunday

267

467 Cyborg with Joe Richter

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466 The Lovecraft Variant on System Sunday

269

465 January Contest Award Show with Jason Hobbs

270

464 Burn 2d6 with Kevin of Saltheart RPG

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463 Solo Gaming on System Sunday

272

462 Mailbags, Spies, & Cowboys

273

461 Covert Ops on System Sunday

274

460 BSer Con 2 and Mailbag

275

459 Soaring Lions on System Sunday

276

458 Special Interview with Real Play Games Podcast

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457 Nicomeiden's Tower Kickstarter on System Sunday

278

456 Spies Spillover!

279

455 The Sword and the Sorcerer with Jason Hobbs

280

454 Is James Bond Lawful Evil?

281

453 The Honest and Plain Village of Scio on System Sunday

282

452 Merc 2000 & the Bond Franchise with The GMologist

283

451 The 39 Steps with Spencer

284

450 Spies for Christmas with Runeslinger

285

449 John le Carre for Deception December

286

448 The Dekahedron Chicken Coop!

287

447 Top Secret with Daniel on System Sunday

288

446 Mission Impossible and SpyCraft 2.0 with Che Webster

289

445 Revisiting Boot Hill

290

444 REAVER Quick Start on System Sunday

291

443 Deception December with Joe

292

442 Saltheart RPG on System Sunday

293

441 Palladium Fantasy and listener calls on fear

294

440 Dicey Tales RPG Interview and November Contest Winners

295

439 Albert Pyun, we will mis you

296

438 A Dirty World with Ray Otus

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437 Thanksgiving Noir with Runeslinger

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436 Keeping it fresh

299

435 Dirty Secrets with Ray Otus

300

434 Mailbags and Polygraphs

301

433 Virtual Grogmeet, Cyberpunk 2020 for Noir and Neo-Noir Recommendations

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432 Midnight Boulevard on System Sunday

303

431 Goodbye Kevin Conroy

304

430 The Big Clock and the perfect story hook for your next RPG adventure

305

429 Noir RPG showdown: Secrets & Lies and Cthulhu Confidential

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428 November Contest Announcement

307

427 System Sunday Delayed

308

426 OSR October to Noir November

309

425 Sci Fi Horror Award Show Halloween Special

310

424 Betrayal At The House On The Hill System Sunday

311

423 Goblinoid Games' Science Fantasy Titles for OSR October

312

422 Good Gaming Ideas From Bad Movies

313

421 Aces & Eights made it to the table!

314

420 Dead of Night on System Sunday

315

419 The Day of Might! A reading from a Brak story by John Jakes

316

417 Shifting definitions

317

418 Swords & Wizardry Light and Continual Light on OSR October Saturday

318

416 The Invisible Man, Rob & Jason on Universal Monsters

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414 Slasher Flick on System Sunday

321

Redux Sabres & Witchery without music for System Sunday

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413 Random Esoteric Creature Generator for Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and their Modern Simulacra for OSR October Saturday

323

412 A visit to Kane's Kiln

324

411 Cat People, Smoldering Dung, and Mailbags, oh my!

325

410 Sabres & Witchery on System Sunday

326

409 B/X Monster Reference Index for OSR October Saturday

327

408 Sci Fi Horror contest plus a mega unboxing

328

407 The last word on playing evil characters

329

406 Cthulhu Dark on System Sunday

330

405 What is OSR October?

331

404 Never Sleep Again Halloween module review

332

403 Are some characters or NPCs too evil to play?

333

402 Honor + Intrigue overview, System Sunday

334

401 Pirate Borg overview and mail bag

335

400 Favorite Pirate Media Contest Award Show

336

399 Crimson Cutlass, the 1528 page pirate RPG, System Sunday

337

398 Time Travel in our lifetime?

338

397 Blue Shadows & Boogiemen RPG or changing my approach to podcasting

339

396 AETHRJAMMR on Spotlight Sunday

340

395 Recaps and Mailbag! ICRPG Vigilante City, Star Frontiers and more! (Now with opening disclaimer)

341

394 Virtual OwlBear and Wizard’s Staff Convention

342

393 Back to Lemuria plus a new contest

343

392 Winter is Here or the Anchorpocalypse has passed

344

391 Colin and the Pits or I played 5E Spelljammer

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390 RPGaDay2022 Week 5

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389 Was 1982 The Best Year For Movies?

347

388 Red Dragon vs Shoggoth?

348

387 Falling in a Spikepit

349

386 RPGaDay2022 Week 4

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385 Lovecraftian Movie Contest Award Show

351

384 Is Conan a Hero?

352

383 Monkeys & Mushrooms: ICRPG modules from Joseph D Stirling

353

382 The ‘80’s were the best!

354

381 RPGaDay2022 Week 3

355

380 In Defense of Call of Cthulhu

356

379 Reason, thy name is Hobbs

357

378 Random Thought Tuesday

358

377 John Lenin Fights Back From The Grave!

359

376 RPGaDay2022 Week 2

360

375 Is Call of Cthulhu Fun?

361

374 Premature Imagination Strikes Again

362

373 RPGaDay Week 1

363

372 Cancelling the Apocalypse

364

371 Anchorpocalypse plus a new contest

365

370 Premature Imagination

366

369 Which Came First The Description Or The Roll?

367

368 Listener React To The Sports Movie Contest

368

367 Interview with James from GrogTalk

369

366 Sports Movies Contest Award Show

370

365 More Player Facing Roll Feedback or Goodbye Mr. Caan

371

364 4th of July Mail Call Special

372

363 Player Facing Rolls or F Cancer

373

362 Valdez is Coming

374

361 Achilles Pancreas

375

360 A trip to Bizzaro World

376

359 Friends in low places

377

358 Your pizza is full price!

378

357 Kidnapped by Arlen & John!

379

356 Conan 2D20 first impressions

380

355 May Award Show

381

354 Political Editorial Feedback

382

353 The Troubleshooters and more VTT calls

383

352 Boomstick! first impressions

384

351 VTT Immersion Feedback and Politics

385

350 Tipsy Talk with Eric of The Omega 3D Chicken Coop

386

349 Do VTTs ruin immersion in play?

387

348 Colin takes the p!ss

388

347 Dennis Waterman passes plus more on usage dice

389

346 Reaper recap plus eating crow

390

345 Callers Assemble!

391

344 Star Wars Day 2022

392

343 May Contest Announcement and Listener Calls

393

342 The Northman (2022) panel discussion

394

341 AD&D Initiative & Fantasy vs Sci Fi or Why Podcast Back Catalogs Matter

395

340 A fistful of caffeine to your kisser

396

339 Marvel Multiverse RPG Play Test Session Report

397

Goodbye Mr. Gottfried

398

337 Feedback on March Contest

399

336 March Contest Award Show

400

335 Catching up and listener calls

401

334 In defense of D&D 5E

402

332 Julius Caesar Omnibus

403

331 Caller Controversy Corner

404

330 Take 2 The Troubleshooters RPG first impressions

405

Bonus: In Defense of Julius Caesar

406

328 Hidden Hit Points & More on Religion in RPGs

407

Saint Patrick's Day Tipsy Open Mic Night

408

327 Movies To RPG: Three the Hard Way (1974) & One Down, Two to Go (1982)

409

Daniel, Joe & MW hijack the show to respond to AD&D calls

410

326 Even More AD&D Listener Calls

411

325 Human Sacrifice in AD&D 1E

412

The Batman 2022 Spoiler Talk with BJ

413

324 Tough love from Spikepit or the AD&D 1E MegaCast

414

323 Rules or group? More calls on favorite RPGs

415

322 Top 5 movie kicks plus an unboxing and calls

416

321 Ray Otus’ 3 Favorite RPGs

417

320 February Contest Entries & Winner Announced!

418

Anchorpocalypse Final Report

419

319 Arm Wrestling! LARP Combat! This Episode Has It All!

420

Survival Guide to the Anchorpocalypse

421

Is the Anchorpocalypse upon us?

422

318 Gatekeeping or Are AD&D 1E Ratings Superfluous?

423

317 Listeners Declare Their Opinions About Initiative

424

Street Law (1974)

425

316 AD&D Ratings Listener Feedback

426

315 I Do Declare!

427

314 Performance Reviews in AD&D 1E & February Contest Announced!

428

313 Better Late Than Never?

429

312 Talking Pathfinder with Joe Richter of Weal or Woe

430

Bonus Menion Defends AD&D 2E

431

311 National Puzzle Day!

432

Bonus Episode: Arlen & AD&D 2E

433

310 Is AD&D the Giallo Movie of RPGs?

434

309 More AD&D 1E Calls

435

308 Is D&D 5E Adversarial?

436

307 Mixed bag including Talisman RPG session 0

437

306 REAVER recap: In the Shadow of Bromur's Seat

438

305 AD&D 1E Gotcha Monsters The Brain Mole

439

304 AD&D 1E Gotcha Monsters: Ear Seekers or Daniels & Dooplegangers

440

303 Pathfinder is No. 1 or Inaugural Mailbag Episode of 2022

441

302 The Adventure Begins

442

301 End of the Year Call In Extravaganza

443

300 Christmas Movie Special: Blood Beat (1982)

444

299 The Party Forms

445

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

446

297 Barbarians of Lemuria Tale of the Black Grimoire Campaign Recap

447

296 REAVER, Mailbag, and AD&D

448

294 DaveCon 2022

449

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

450

292 Listener Call In Show

451

291 Your cheating GM will make you weep

452

290 A call to reason

453

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

454

288 Is the OSR gross?

455

287 Saving Throws & Lycanthropes

456

286 Does player skill trump system mastery?

457

285 It’s true, Arduin is back!

458

284 The Mailbag of Fear

459

283 System Mastery Revisited

460

282 Mailbag Explosion

461

281 What scares you?

462

280 System Mastery

463

279 Cthulhu Call Collective

464

278 Variety in RPGs is good

465

277 Dean Stockwell, a look back

466

276 Joe vs The Food Pyramid

467

275 Cthulhu on Arrakis or how fast can you punch?

468

274 Dune RPG Controversy and Pathfinder 2

469

273 High Heels or More About Initiative

470

272 Spoiler statute of limitations with Red Dice Diaries

471

271 More TV horror ideas for your games and listener calls!

472

270 The October Initiative Contest Winner!

473

269 The Complete B/X Adventurer a decade later or I miss Dan Curtis

474

268 Mail Bag with The GMologist

475

267 Pathfinder 2, TOR & DCC Free RPG Day 2021

476

266 Rambling with Red Dice Diaries

477

265 Of Mesh Shirts and Men

478

264 And there was a firefight!

479

263 Bandits Keep Blathering

480

262 Cyberpunk 2020 Ep. 1

481

261 Mail Call Meta Currency & XP for Role Playing

482

260 Ballad of the Backstory

483

259 Mail Call with Joe Richter

484

258 d12GO

485

257 Taylor says give ‘em the d

486

256 Wrangling in a debacle or The October Initiative

487

255 Listener Call In Bonanza

488

254 Vorpal Cat o' Nine Tails or Are GM Narrative Mechanics Needed in RPGs?

489

Prelude to a Hard Rain

490

253 Listener Revolt!

491

252 Ahoy Mateys with the Dread Pirate Daniel

492

251 Jumping back in the deep end

493

250 State of the Podcast

494

249 Session recaps are back on the menu

495

248 Cyberpunk 2020 character creation with Joe Richter

496

247 Metal Up!

497

246 Cyberpunk System Beimo or Why Do The Scottish Drink?

498

245 ICRPG Master Edition & Viking Death Squad are here!

499

Tune in Monday for my 1st Impressions on ICRPG Master Edition & Viking Death Squad

500

244 Daniel Norton Messes With Texas!

501

243 Goodbye Sonny Chiba

502

242 The Death of Beer?

503

241 Happy Birthday Mr. Lovecraft?

504

240 Twilight 2000 session report

505

239 Froth’s 12v12 First Impressions

506

238 ASSH and Karl on being a good GM

507

237 No to notes and bad wrong ways of rolling dice

508

236 Throwing Stuff At The Wall

509

235 The Strange RPG starring Nic Cage

510

234 The way forward and an unboxing

511

233 Rule 0 Discussion Finale

512

232 Call in Bonanza

513

231 Troika Open Mike Night

514

230 Yet more Rule Zero & Arlen Walker joins me

515

229 More on Rule Zero plus a talk with Menion

516

228 Sinbad of the Seven Seas

517

227 Is Rule Zero Abusive DMing?

518

226 More bad movie shenanigans

519

225 Unboxing and listener calls

520

224 Bad Movie RPG Contest Winner

521

223 Troika!

522

222 Failing Forward vs Success at Cost

523

221 Is Jason really planning an actual play?

524

220 RPG lessons from Timerider

525

219 Richard Donner Retrospective

526

218 Independence Day 2021

527

217 More on Travel Rules in RPGs

528

216 Deadlands and Simpler RPG feedback

529

215 Keeping travel interesting in RPGs

530

214 Do we need simple RPGs in our life?

531

213 Knights of the Road RPG review

532

212 New Contest!

533

211 House keeping, mostly

534

210 Listener Feedback and The Vulcan Dairies

535

209 Barfights!

536

208 The Baroque Bestiary

537

207 Interview with James Sral of Sub-Class Act Podcast and Publishing

538

206 Science Fiction or Rules Systems?

539

205 Meanderings on rules for science fiction and science fantasy games

540

204 science fiction or science fantasy?

541

203 Listener feedback and where the show is headed

542

202 Real life strikes again, listener feedback, and gaming recaps

543

201 Edge of the Axe Exploitation Movie Special

544

200 Karl’s Games and Unboxings

545

199 Interview with Ninja City creator Joey Royale

546

198 Mother’s Day Movie Review Special

547

197 Downsizing Your Collection or Should We Fear The Reaper?

548

196 Ninja City DCC zine and Night of the Demon!

549

195 Wolf for Dinner or Barbarians of Lemuria session recap

550

194 Apologies are in order

551

193 Time Travel Listener Feedback

552

192 Barbarians of Lemuria session recap or Remember when Hawkgirl brained Cthulhu?

553

191 TSR vs WotC or It’s All D&D Feedback

554

190 On the Defensive!

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189 BattleLords of the 23rd Century

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188 Wrapping up Against the Darkmaster

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187 Barbarians of Lemuria Session 0/1

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186 TSR D&D versus WotC D&D

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185 Barbarians of Lemuria Back to Basics

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184 The Guard 2011

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183 Zack Snyder’s Justice League

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182 The Winner of the Contest is ...

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181 St. Patrick's Day with Rob & Ray

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180 GURPS Dungeon Fantasy & OSE Find Traps

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179 Boot Hill is great or have you met Arlen?

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178 OSE Barrowmaze

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177 The Magical Draught of Malice Kickstarter Plus What Fuels Joe's Soul?

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176 Masks A New Generation and Listener Feedback!

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175 ZineQuest3 Roundup with Red Dice Diaries

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174 Against the Darkmaster using Owlbear Rodeo

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173 Beowulf and Knife Shenanigans

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172 The Nice Guys, RPG Complexity, and a Contest!

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171 Unboxing and Listener Feedback

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170 RPGs Played & Recent Calls

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169 Human Versatility and Ms. 45

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168 Cthulhu Skill Check Listener Feedback

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167 Call of Cthulhu Broken?

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166 How Do You Fix A DM Brainfart In Dungeons & Dragons 5E Or Any Other TTRPG?

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165 Cypher, Puzzles and Noir Movies Listener Feedback

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164 Noir & PI Caller Feedback and Discussion with Rob C.

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All Dogs Go To Heaven

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162 Cypher Revisited

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161 Cypher System and an Overdue Goodbye

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160 Down in the Hindsightless Heap More on Player vs Character Skill

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159 Puzzles with Spencer, Joe & Daniel

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158 Puzzles in RPGs, Private Eye Fiction and Noir Films

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157 More on one shot characters and player vs character skill

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156 One Shot Tips

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155 Lost Episode: Collecting with Rob from Down in a Heap

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154 Rules & Game Enjoyment with John Alan Large of the Red Dice Diaries RPG Podcast

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153 Quick Gaming Recap

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152 More games played and 80’s movies

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151 Barbarians of Lemuria and other recent games

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150 Third time is the charm, Cyberpunk Red IP system

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149 Cyberpunk Red IP clarification and call ins

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148 Cyberpunk Red makes an offering to the Ludic Behemoth

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147 I Pity the Fool! B.A. on dice.

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145 How often should we roll dice? UPDATED

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146 Caller Response to How Often Should We Roll Dice?

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144 Mailbag

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143 All About Hackmaster

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142 Call of Cthulhu Invictus Wrap Up With Karl Rodriguez

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141 Mailbag!!

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140 Tribute to Sir Thomas Sean Connery

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139 Maniac Cop Trilogy

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138 Games I’ve Played or don’t break up a dog fight by putting your hand in the pit bull’s mouth

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137 The Being, Chinatown, Hack-O-Lantern, Enola Holmes, and Die, Monster, Die!

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136 Eric and I talk about GM fun and player agency

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135 Mailbag!

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134 Cody’s RPG Reading Corner and format change to the show

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133 Where I overreach and step out of my lane

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Mutton Chops and Gimlets

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132 Remix Response

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131 A little of this and a lot of that

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130 Live From Pellam’s Wasteland Middle Earth Preview

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Tipsy MERP AAR with Menion

617

128 Bundle of Humpday

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MERP Character Creation

619

126 The Question of Tommy Lee Jones

620

125 The Overstuffed Episode

621

124 Keep off Miller’s Crossing

622

123 Matching System and Genre with Arlen & Free Thrall

623

122 What Joe Richter doesn't like

624

121 Listeners weigh in on story versus player agency

625

120 Arduin and games I am running

626

119 Talking Blood Simple with Andy Goodman

627

118 The Glaive Zine Interview

628

117 When does story trump player agency?

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116 Games, TV Reviews, Dogs, and Mailbag

630

115 Missouri Breaks with Loco Ludus

631

114 The Keep NOT on the borderland

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113 Mailbag and Andy owes me a rug

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112 Conflicts in Game Play Styles

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111 Den's dead baby, Den's dead

635

110 Tipsy Traveller Character Generation

636

109 Pick a Tyger by the tail

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108 Return of the Reading Corner, Bill & Ted movie review, game recaps and listener calls!

638

107 RPG A Day Week 5

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106 Falling Into The Spikepit

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Special Episode with Joe From Weal or Woe

641

105 A Little Help From My Friends

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104 RPG A Day Week 4

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103 Ordure Fantasy With Creator Michael Raston & Combat Wheelchairs

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102 Contests or Mini-Games in RPGs with Two Guests!

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101 RPG A Day Week 3

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100 Cthulhu Invictus Time Jump Interview

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99 Double the Interviews, Double the Fun!

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98 RPG A DAY Week 2

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97 The Real Eurovision Song Contest

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96 Where I apologize for misrepresenting everyone

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95 RPG A Day Week 1

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94 Wilford Brimley Tribute

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93 Shaw Brother’s 1982 Human Lanterns

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92 More Karl with Surprise Random Screed Tie In!

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91 All Arlen Walker, All The Time!

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90 Remembering John Saxon

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89 Palladium’s Revised Recon review and play report

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88 Cody's RPG Reading Corner, Session Recaps, and Listener Calls Galore

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87 Controversy Strikes!

660

86 MERP Settings with Karl

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85 Cthulhu Invictus game report and some great listener feedback

662

84 RoleMaster Retrospective with SIX guests!

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83 Call In Extravaganza

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82 Beware of the Sewers

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81 Karl is in the house plus Sinister Red!

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Happy 100th Birthday Ray Harryhausen!

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80 William Girdler Movie Retrospective Spoiler Cast

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79 The Calls Stacked Up!

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78 Hiatus

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77 Games played and planned

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76 Lethargy

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Think before you hit send!

673

75 Is this the end?

674

74 GM Tips from Witchfinding and RPG Session Reports

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73 More RPG Lessons From Movies

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72 Ramblecast

677

71 Scarlet Heroes, the perfect system for drop in / drop out games?

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70 Play by Post Character Generation

679

69 The Runs

680

68 Sorcerer review

681

67 Lots of Weekend Gaming!

682

66 Romance of the Perilous Land!

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65 Splish Splash

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64 Explicit Voicemails and Unboxings

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63 ICRPG Altered State Deep Dive

686

62 Answering a few call ins

687

61 Star Dogs Referee's Handbook Review

688

60 5E Hardcore Mode by Runehammer Review

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59 Locke & Key review and what you can nick for your games

690

58 Near And Far Boardgame

691

57 Putting the "variety" back in Variety Cast

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56 Talking Space 1999 with Ray Otus

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55 January Cyberpunk Entries and Winner

694

54 Unboxings & Ramblings

695

53 Daisho: Samurai Adventure RPG by Deep7 review

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52 Samurai Game Using Daisho

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51 Game Prep and Phone Calls

698

50 Urban Fantasy or was that a leprechaun working at the bank?

699

49 Anachronism and a bit more on Hallucinations

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48 Realistic Period Psychological Horror Films

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47 Hallucinations in Games

702

46 January Contest & What OSR Means To Me

703

45 Solution to The Question of How to Zoom In and Out of Combat

704

44 Combat length and the possible need for multiple combat mechanisms

705

43 Happy Holidays

706

42 RPG Combat Length, Is There a Sweet Spot?

707

41 ICRPG Colonial Gothic and other recent games

708

40 Mystery Unboxing, Announcement of January 2020 Contest and Listener Calls

709

39 Cyberpunk the ICRPG way, Altered State Quick Start session recap and Pete Jones on Board Games

710

38 call ins, mystery unboxing, New Year’s resolutions and a lesson learned?

711

37 adapting films to games

712

36 Dave Discusses D&D 4E and other Listener Calls

713

35 Late Entry to the Nov Contest, Overbooking Your Schedule and Listener Calls

714

34 Dave this one’s for you! Interview with RFED on Boardgames

715

33 November Contest Entries and Winner

716

32 Star Dog Random Generation and Listener Calls

717

31 Space Special! Star Dog Players Handbook Review

718

30 Player Facing Rolls and Hidden Knowledge

719

29 unboxing, game reports, & call ins

720

28 ICRPG Xeno Dead Zone Special Play Report

721

27 Mystery Unboxing and First November Contest Entry

722

26 November Novel to RPG Contest & Upcoming Game Plans

723

25 listen to this BEFORE episode 24

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24 Managing NPC Conversations

725

23 Thoughts on my Weekend Games and GM/Player Responsibilities

726

22 The Black Hack 2E After Action Report!

727

21 BASI6, The Infinite Game, and more!

728

20 Halloween 2019 Contest Entries and Winner

729

19 This is the End, of Arneson month

730

18 Thoughts on the Infinite Game

731

17 Armor Class Clown

732

Barbarians of Lemuria special episode

733

15 The Unexpected Podcast

734

14 Roll Over

735

13 Armor Class Action Lawsuit

736

12 Cul de sac

737

11 HDWG Have Dice Will Game

738

10 Ear Hole of Vecna

739

9 Operation Underhill

740

8 RPGASAP

741

7 Fall In

742

6 One Sided Die

743

5 Podcast of Vecna

744

4 Ameritrash Gamer

745

3 Jason’s Podcast

746

2 Beholder Bacon

747

1 Part 2 Another Artisinal Artifact

748

1 Part 1 Another Artisinal Artifact

749

0.5 International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2019

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Pilot

751

Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast (Trailer)