There’s no voicemail episode this Thursday but Hannah and myself have been doing a test recording for a Youtube series where we’re going to talk about fantasy films and how you can take RPG inspiration from them, in this bonus episode we talk about some of our reactions to the first episode of the classic […]
Here are my first draft rules for Streets with Numbers, my kludged Faction Rules for my OSR Midderlands, Greater Lunden game (although I’ll probably work for other games). Please give them a go, play around with them and let me know what you think.
I’ve long been a fan of the Stars Without Number game (written by Kevin Crawford), and am currently playing in an ongoing campaign run by Johannes Paavola, where I play Katherine O’Brien ship mechanic and recently awakened Artificial Intelligence. SWN uses an adapted and slightly more detailed version of the standard D&D/OSR ruleset with a […]
In the first episode of the Purple Worm podcast we talk about some recent games that have tickled our fancy and start delving into the subject of weird games: Our RSS feed is: https://anchor.fm/s/f74b65c/podcast/rss Check out our individual podcasts:- Pete @ Dragons are real: https://anchor.fm/dragonsarereal Dave @ dpercentile: https://anchor.fm/dave-aldridge Colin @ spikepit: https://anchor.fm/spikepit John @ […]
When you’re wandering around the streets of Great Lunden in the Midderlands there are a number of important buildings marked specifically on the map, but what about those buildings that aren’t marked?
Onwards to the Castle In the fourth episode of our Thousand Lands, B/X Essentials game our heroes press onwards from the ruined village of the Skylord towards Hoon Castle, eager to settle their score with the thieves cult known as the Dark Eye, but are they willing to pay the price?
It seems like today is my day for posting about things faded or disappearing (see my previous post on deleting my Google+ account). If you’ve been keeping up with the various games and actual-plays that I run you may have noticed that there was no session video for my Rose of Westhaven game last week. This is […]
Leaving the City The first session of our B/X Essentials campaign (rules published by Necrotic Gnome), in which a group of heroes venture beyond the sanctuary of the Last City to explore a land blasted by a sorcerous war, is now available on Youtube: An uncut version is available on Twitch (this also includes the character generation […]
Character Gen/Setting Discussion For those of you who aren’t aware, I’ve recently started running a campaign using the excellent B/X Essentials by Necrotic Gnome. The game takes place as people slowly begin to emerge from the safety of the magically protected Last City to explore a world ravaged by a sorcerous war. If you want more details about […]
Season 1 We’ve recently wrapped up season one of our Lamentations of the Flame Princess Midderlands Campaign, as of the time of writing we’ve already started season two, which has seen the timeline move forward by ten years and a switch to the For Coin & Blood rule set. Season One charts the rise and fall of the Locke Adventuring […]