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Epic Adventure

Are you ready for an epic adventure? Welcome to the Epic Adventure Podcast! Host Steve Kellams and guests discuss all things table top roleplaying. From TTRPG news and tabletop RPG game design to tips and tricks to make your games epic.

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10:20

You Heard it Here Last E3

Epic Adventure ·

2024/02/14

You Heard it Here Last[Insert Intro]Recently D&D Beyond released 2023 Unrolled: A Look Back at a Year of Adventure this article breaks down the stats from users of D&D Beyond in 2023. The results are interesting especially if you enjoy data. Mike and I love data.https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1648-2023-unrolled-a-look-back-at-a-year-of-adventure#SpeciesHere are a few that jumped out at me. Average Age of Character Created = 28, Most Popular Species = Human (beating the elf by almost 200K),

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48:00

Pacing

Epic Adventure ·

2024/02/07

PacingMy player characters entered the room and the Evil Wizard rose from the throne.“How dare you interrupt my plans” he snarled.Everyone roll for initiative.This was supposed to be the crowning battle in the adventure. An incredible, nail-biting conflict where anything could happen.It turned into a 6-hour slog and by the end, half of the players had bailed for a variety of reasons.Or should I say one reason.They got bored.A challenge game masters face is keeping the game interesting, moving

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6:24

You Heard It Here Last E2

Epic Adventure ·

2024/01/31

Latest news from around the world of table top roleplaying. On this episode, Mike and I talk WOTC and AI Art.

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47:17

Luke Stratton

Epic Adventure ·

2024/01/24

I love historical roleplaying games.Ok, maybe not straight up historical games, but I love games that take place in a world not too different from our own. I like to be able to use real pictures, real maps, real places, and in some instances real people to flesh out my games.My fantasy games tend to be low magic with the Vandals facing the Romans. I love Call of Cthulhu for its basis on our own world. Sci-fi games just build on tech we have now.And then there is age of sail. I love that period in

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10:49

You Heard It Here Last

Epic Adventure ·

2024/01/17

Welcome to Epic Adventure’s You Heard it Here Last.We find ourselves talking about gaming news before we record the podcast. Who did what, Who is making what, who screwed what up, so we decided to start recording these little news discussions and sprinkling them in with our regular episodes.So here we go, just chatting about gaming news that caught our

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42:53

Looking Forward

Epic Adventure ·

2024/01/10

Anticipation is the excitement you feel waiting for something you know is going to happen.As we kick off the new year, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk about anticipation, and particularly those things that we are looking forward to in 2024.Games, books, movies, events, conventions and really anything that gets us excited.But before I put Mike and Christina on the spot lets take a quick look back at 2023. Oddfish Games launched Radiance though a very successful Kickstarter, GenCon

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3:26

Downtime

Epic Adventure ·

2023/12/06

Downtime is that nebulous period between game sessions where the characters have an opportunity to pursue long term goals or simply handle a little organization, rest, and repair before the next big adventure.Players can use the downtime by announcing what their character will be doing over the next couple of weeks. Anything from buying equipment, crafting magic items, fighting in the arena, building a castle, or getting sloppy drunk at the local inn is possible. The game master rolls some dice and

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52:02

It's a Mystery

Epic Adventure ·

2023/11/22

“When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.”If you are familiar with that little

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54:07

Tools of the Trade

Epic Adventure ·

2023/11/08

Good tools are everything.What’s interesting is that the same concept applies to your table top roleplaying games. Without the proper tools it’s much harder. Sure, the only real things you need is an imagination, but trust me. If you have the right tools for the job everything just got easier.In this episode of Epic Adventure Mike and I are going to talk about tools, specifically the tools that can help you make your games epic. Mike, this is a topic that is near and dear to your heart. You are

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46:14

Call of Cthulhu

Epic Adventure ·

2023/10/25

In 1981 Chaosium Publishing released Call of Cthulhu written by Sandy Peterson and it has dominated Horror and Mystery Table Top Roleplaying ever since. Today it is on its 7th edition and it has spawned spinoffs like Delta Green, Board Games like Arkham Horror, as well as collectible card games, video games, animated shows and even television shows such as Lovecraft Country. Today we are joined byMike and Jen Howlet, the owners of Oddfish games to talk about one of my favorite ttrpg’s. But it is not

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39:34

Powered by the Apocalypse

Epic Adventure ·

2023/10/11

As I have said before Moldvay D&D was my gateway to roleplaying. Traveller, GURPS and Call of Cthulhu came shortly thereafter. Those 4 games heavily shaped the way I felt about roleplaying, from the settings to the mechanics. They were so different from one to the next. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, historical and horror roleplaying, what more could you ask for. D20’s, 2D6’s, 3D6’s, and percentile dice rounded out the mechanics. Seriously everything had been tried, everything had been discovered.Or so I

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50:27

Anatomy of a Campaign Part 2

Epic Adventure ·

2023/09/27

Steve and Christina pick right up from where they left off with the Pirates of the Drinax campaign.In this episode we get to see how the crew was introduced to life in the Traveller Universe from earning a living to paying a ship mortgage. We also discuss their introduction to combat and we end on some major plot points starting to develop.

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47:29

Baldur's Gate the Table Top Killer?

Epic Adventure ·

2023/09/13

In this episode of Epic Adventure Mike and Steve talk about Computer Roleplaying Games and are they ready to take over the Table Top Roleplaying Market. We specifically talk about Baldur's Gate, Star Citizen, and Starfield.

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54:54

Anatomy of a Campaign

Epic Adventure ·

2023/08/30

In this episode we are taking a deep dive into creating and running a campaign. Specifically the Pirates of Drinax from Mongoose Traveller. But to do this, we have decided to flip the script.For these episodes Christina will be our host and she will interview Steve about the campaign. How decisions were made, what type of preparation went into the game, how characters and plot developed and how the actual games deviated from the written material.This is the first in a series of episodes and beware,

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44:13

Convention Season

Epic Adventure ·

2023/08/16

In this episode Mike, Christina and I talk about the busiest month in gaming. Origins and GenCon are the two biggest table top gaming conventions in the United States and they happen roughly one month apart.Oddfish Games had a vendor booth at both conventions and we discuss our experiences with the events and dig into the good, bad, and even ugly.

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53:53

Fantasy Movies

Epic Adventure ·

2023/08/02

On this episode Christina and I are going to dive into Fantasy movies and talk about their impact on roleplaying games. We are going to point out a few of our favorites and how they have either leaned into the tropes of roleplaying or in many cases created those tropes.Now, before we dive to far into this topic, we have a caveat. We have decided that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Conan the Barbarian, and The Princess Bride are perfect films so we won’t be talking about those. Besides

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57:11

The Game Master

Epic Adventure ·

2023/07/19

Gamma World, the 1978 Post Apocalyptic roleplaying game from TSR. It was my very first TTRPG.I can still fondly remember picking the boxed set up from this hole in the wall gaming store. At the time, the store focused on selling model railroad accessories and miniatures for wargames, but they had one book shelf in the corner that held roleplaying books. The cover of the box had an image of a destroyed and overgrown city with men carrying laser rifles approaching it.I bought it immediately and read

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41:59

Metagaming

Epic Adventure ·

2023/07/05

It was my freshman year of high school and my buddy had gotten very excited about a new module. He wouldn’t tell me what it was, but for months all I heard about was how awesome it was going to be. He was reading it over and over again, making lists of items, writing down enemies and NPCs. It was going to be his first game as a GM. I was getting stoked for it.We gathered at his house; I had brought the Mt. Dew. Pizza was in the oven.That is when he revealed our new campaign with a flourish.Tomb of

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51:16

Is D&D Dead?

Epic Adventure ·

2023/06/21

In February of this year, we kicked off the Epic Adventure Podcast with D&D. Specifically we got together and talked about the D&D OGL Debacle. By now you are all familiar with that, but if you need a refresher go back and listen to episode 1. Mike does a great job breaking down the history of that mess.When Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast threw in the towel on the OGL everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But it was pretty clear based on the sort of apologizing and the obfuscating coming out

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1:33

We Are Going to Origins

Epic Adventure ·

2023/06/15

Origins Game Fair is one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions in the United States. And Oddfish Games is going to be there.If you are into roleplaying games, board games, miniatures, wargaming or any other tabletop game then you have likely heard of Origins. And if you haven’t then, well, now you have.Origins started in 1975 and since 1996 It’s been held in Columbus Ohio. It’s arguably the second largest gaming convention in the United States behind GenCon (by the way Oddfish Games will be at

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