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The Vintage RPG Podcast

Join Stu Horvath and John McGuire as they delve into their favorite tabletop roleplaying games from the past, present and future!

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27:08

Glorantha

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/03/14

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re back on RuneQuest, talking about some of the stuff that makes the world of Glorantha special, specifically its approach to mythology, time and its surprising meta-commentary on roleplaying games themselves! That’s two RuneQuest episodes and we’re still barely scratching the surface.

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20:50

King Kong

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/03/07

Scream for me, Fae Wray! This week, the Vintage RPG Podcast travels to Skull Island to discuss some of the surprising influences of the greatest monster movie ever made: King Kong! The 1933 version, of course, get that remake trash outta here. You can see the still from Son of Kong mentioned in the episode at the bottom of this post.

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30:13

Travellers

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/02/28

I recently came into possession of like five feet of Traveller and it made me realize, holy crap, there is a lot of Traveller! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at the span of the Traveller RPG through the 20th century. That’s a quick look at both versions of Classic Traveller (1977 and 1983), MegaTraveller (1986), New Era (1993), T4 (1996), GURPS Traveller (1998) and even the not really Traveller, Traveller: 2300 A.D. (1986). So many Travellers! We also chat with friend of the

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26:47

The Awards

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/02/21

You know what kind of sucks? Awards. Oscars, Grammys, whatever. RPG awards are no exception. But Joe DeSimone doesn’t think they need to be that way. So he’s starting his own awards for RPGs called The Awards. And you know what? They might suck, too! He’s upfront about that. But if they do, they’ll suck in a completely new way and maybe even pave the way for something good. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Joe about awards, The Awards and how we might be able to do better. * * * You

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23:15

RuneQuest

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/02/14

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we barely scratch the surface of RuneQuest (1978), Chaosium’s classic first foray into RPGs. We talk about the games origins in the earlier wargame, White Bear & Red Moon (1975), the skill-based RPG, the limitations of class as a concept, the different sorts of magic and, seriously, that’s more than enough for one half hour. We’ll be returning to RQ several times in the coming weeks to cover it all!

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25:48

Oracles and Stone Giants

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/02/07

Ever buy an old RPG box set and find some maps or a character sheet inside? For me, it conjures up a specific sort of warm feeling. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at some of Tim Hutchings’ efforts to preserve that sort gaming ephemera in The Habitation of the Stone Giant Lord, a book collecting homebrew D&D adventures written and illustrated by kids. We also look at Hutchings’ reprint of the short-live gaming zine The Oracle. A thrilling expedition into the dusty archives of

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22:39

Zine Month

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/01/31

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Hambone talks to Charlie Ferguson Avery and Alex Coggon of Feral Indie Studios about ZiMo 2022, their indie RPG zine showcase, running the whole month of February! ZINES! Get ‘em! * * * Stu will be back next week, promise!

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25:40

Neuromancer

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/01/24

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” That’s the first line of William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer and, just like that, he pretty much codified the aesthetic of cyberpunk. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we go ga-ga over the novel and look at the way it influenced cyberpunk RPGs. Or was ripped off by cyberpunk RPGs. We’ve heard it both ways. * * * In the episode, Stu mentions a post by Gibson about Shadowrun. If you have access to the text of

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26:11

Dungeon Crawl Classics

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/01/17

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we go way over the top and check out the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. It’s got gonzo for days, horrible dooms, epic spell failures, weird ass dice and enough old school style art to fill a museum with. What’s not to love?

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21:20

Warlock!

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/01/10

It ain’t just D&D that’s getting hacked and cloned! Want to play a system that retains the flavors of 80s-era British fantasy? Warlock, from Fire Ruby Designs, has you covered by being a bit more robust than Advanced Fighting Fantasy and a lot less cumbersome than Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. We check it out on this week’s Vintage RPG Podcast.

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20:32

The Broken Sword

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2022/01/03

Happy New Year! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we return to Appendix N and check out The Broken Sword, a novel by Poul Anderson. Unlike Three Hearts and Three Lions, it’s a fantastic, violent and often unparalleled work of influential fantasy.

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23:03

Monstrous Compendium

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/12/27

We got you some monsters for Christmas! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about the Monstrous Compendium (1989) for second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. You know what else we talk about? Office supplies and how great they are. Join us for another thrilling episode!

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19:46

Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/12/20

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about the Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide (1990), the first Dungeon Masters Guide expansion for second edition Dungeons & Dragons. That might sound dull, but I promise you, it is a wild ride into the substrate of the RPG psyche — it’s one part deconstruction of the hobby and one part a kind of everyperson’s treatise on RPG design theory, written largely by the always engaging Jennell Jaquays. A lot of folks think the blue and silver books are just

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21:23

Alien Post-Mortem

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/12/13

Back in October, Stu ran “Chariot of the Gods,” the cinematic scenario in the Alien Starter Set. Not once, but twice! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast we talk about how it went. Who survived? What was left of them? Well, we aren’t telling because that would spoil the fun. But we do dig into Stu’s general impressions of how the game works and the experience it delivers.

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18:45

Holiday Gift Guide (sorta)

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/12/06

It’s a little late for a holiday gift guide, even without the worldwide supply chain issues and shipping delays, so let’s call this episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast “Cool RPG stuff that came out this year (and is maybe made by our friends).” While it may be too late for the December holidays (though PDFs make for fine gifts, too!), the monopoly December has on gift giving is silly. Give your tabletop pals a cool book in January or February, it’ll make their month! Those dreary months need some

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25:37

Escape the Dark Castle

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/11/29

We did Fighting Fantasy last week, so this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, it seemed like a fun idea to take a look at a board game inspired by Fighting Fantasy, the spectacular Escape the Dark Castle, from Themeborne. So many great things about this game: the gnarly throwback art, the punishing difficulty, the narrative focus, the incredible ease of learning it. Snag it, throw it on the table, learn while you go and die, repeatedly. Fantastic stuff! We also chat with Henry Taylor about his

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40:29

Fighting Fantasy

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/11/22

On the Vintage RPG Podcast this week, the guys talk about the famed adventure gamebook franchise, Fighting Fantasy, developed by Ian Livingstone and (English) Steve Jackson. Hambone also has a chat with Ryan Verniere about his forthcoming RPG, Blackbirds, now up for pre-order on BackerKit. This forthright post is brought to you by Stu’s head cold. We’ll return to our regular number of exclamation points next week. * * * Correction: Ryan discovered Berserk in 1992 not 1982.

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19:24

Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/11/15

Did you know that there’s a Rocky and Bullwinkle RPG? Yup: the Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game! Do you even have a clue who Rocky and Bullwinkle are? Did you get that the first line of this post is a reference to their cartoon? Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t, but that doesn’t change the fact that this particular cartoon license is a bit of a head-scratcher for TSR circa 1988, and doesn’t get any less odd here in 2021. We get into that and check out the game itself, which has some

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30:11

Treasure Hunt

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/11/08

Ships and desert islands and sea shanties and secret treasures: we’re getting nautical on this week’s episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast. First up, N4 — Treasure Hunt (1986), one of the finest introductory scenarios for first edition Dungeons & Dragons. It’s one of the only modules to successfully pull of the “you’ve been captured and lost all your stuff” trope and introduces the underloved idea of zero-level characters (at least until Dungeon Crawl Classics came around). Good stuff all around! We

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23:52

Point Nemo

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/11/01

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking 3, 2, 1… Action! with 3, 2, 1… Action! creator Hambone! You probably remember Hambone kickstarted an adventure for the system, Rocket to Russia, back in February during ZineQuest. That scenario is a prelude to Point Nemo, which is hitting Kickstarter on Tuesday. Follow now to be notified on launch! We chat a little bit about Point Nemo and a lot about the underlying system, which is rules light and aims to be welcoming for players of all levels of

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