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Episode 7 is up, with special guest Rob Conley - topic: worldbuilding. 'Nuff said. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tcagp/episodes/Worldbuilding-and-Sandbox-Play-e2gh8qv

Hyqueous Vaults is a highly acclaimed old school dungeon https://hyqueousvaults.blogspot.com/p/the-hyqueous-vaults.html Reviews: https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=3996 https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/review-hyqueous-vaults-osric-true-believers/...

Now that holidays are over and I have a bit of time to catch up, in the final breaths of 2023 Gus dropped an episode discussing the recent CauldronCon put on by our very own Settembrini earlier this fall. A crew of attendees discussed what made the weekend such a great experience, with general...

Likely because we're in an unusual place, where professional presentation is an excellent indicator the product itself - apart from art and layout - is crap. I suspect this will be more normal going forward, with recent (and future) tech changes and AI.

Episode 4 dropped on the day before Thanksgiving, so just now making the rounds. It's an episode with a new guest, Arbrethil, who's got a lot of great discussion on large group combat at the table. Enjoy! https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/vdAhtoaxVEb

The paladin apparently isn't a D&D class, it's a Rorschach Test. (Any definition given to something in D&D that precludes core gameplay function it's shown to have in published materials is ipso facto a personal idiosyncrasy of the interpreter. There is not one single archetypal class in D&D...

I'm in too - looking forward to this one!

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/niWGFDq8FEb Episode 3 is out - the difference in fantasy adventure gaming culture and RPG culture (recruiting, etc.)

After 82 pages, the thread has belatedly accepted the reality of what is Post-OSR content

Fantasy wargaming might accurately describe chainmail, but is too narrow for AD&D in which wargaming is only a part of the experience (and more often at higher levels). RE: the "unfortunate acronym", I'm not going to stop using perfectly good and accurate names because some chud wants to go there

Fantasy Adventure Gaming! We deliberately reject the OSR as a label and want to differentiate from it, not associate with it. But yes, the podcast is all about playing the game as you've mentioned your high school DM was doing :cool:

Loathing it is fine but the simple reality is, that people buy from those who they feel they get to know on RPG social media. If you want to emulate the success of other kickstarters, you'll have to reach out to people who run OSR youtubes, do the interview rounds, etc. Ask yourself "How many...

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Fortunately we've already lived through the TSR books being pulled from point of sale twice, and neither time did it achieve anything. It's even easier now to get your own copies if WOTC decides it doesn't want your money than it was then. We'll be fine. Embrace the power of being rejected...

Communicating is excellent. Communicating well is essential the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing process. Where there is no performing end point and it's just never-ending debating for entertainment value with people who like where they're at but enjoy arguing with people who believe...