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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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22:56

Babes in the Wood

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/10/25

Halloween is nearly upon us! For the last few years, we’ve reserved this week to chat about Ravenloft, but this year we thought we’d talk about a game that seems truer to the spirit of the season: Babes in the Wood, from World Champ Game Company. It’s a delightfully spooky game about being a child lost in the woods on an endless Halloween. What could be better? But that’s not all! Comic writer Mark Sable is back for a chat, this time to tell us about his new comic, Chaotic Neutral, which ponders

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24:18

Impossible Landscapes

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/10/18

Have you seen the Yellow Sign? We sure have. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we tackle the massive new Delta Green campaign Impossible Landscapes (2021). It instantly takes its places as one of the definitive RPG takes on Robert W. Chambers’ infamous King in Yellow, delivering an unprecedented, mind-bending experience — and that’s just reading the book. Playing the campaign is likely something the folks at your table will never forget. A solid gold modern classic. Stu doesn’t generally care

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18:03

Kult

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/10/11

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we have such sights to show you. Wait, no, wrong horror franchise. But pretty close — we’re talking about Kult, the mature existential urban horror RPG imported from Sweden by Terry Amthor and Metropolis Ltd. The designers clearly had Clive Barker on their minds. We honestly barely scratch the surface, though, talking more about the edginess of the 90s, the trend of investigating secret histories in RPGs and all that pre-millennial tension that was in the air

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26:25

Amanda Lee Franck Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/10/04

We’re excited to have game designer and artist Amanda Lee Franck back on the Vintage RPG Podcast this week! Amanda’s got a big old pile of exciting projects to chat about, from a zine about vacationing vampires (Vampire Cruise!) to another about exploring a mysterious domed habitat (Mouth Brood!). And that’s just the start!

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17:59

The Dungeon Alphabet

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/09/27

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re taking a look at Goodman Games’ series of alphabet sourcebooks: The Dungeon Alphabet, The Monster Alphabet and The Cthulhu Alphabet. These are system agnostic design tools, full to brimming with random tables and amazing art, all aimed at helping you stoke your imagination to make cool things for your players. A must for every GM’s shelf.

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23:40

Alien

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/09/20

Space is a place that wants to kill us, be it with the vacuum, the cold, the hostile exo-environments, the hubris of humanity or a good old fashioned xenomorph. That’s right, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at the Alien RPG. The latest permutation of Free League’s Year Zero Engine is refined to be even deadlier. It boasts frameworks for both traditional campaign play and more directed cinematic play. There’s a pretty excellent stress and panic system. It all comes together as a

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21:11

Black Magic

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/09/13

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble!” This week, we’re doing a bit of black magic and calling up demons. Specifically the demons in the Ars Goetia, the 72 kings, dukes, presidents and barons of Hell. We run down the history of this notorious book of demonology, its unlikely origins and its connections to pop culture and roleplaying games.

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27:49

Horror on the Orient Express Post-Mortem

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/09/06

Choo-choo! Stu recently wrapped up running the Call of Cthulhu campaign Horror on the Orient Express after about a year and a quarter of weekly sessions. A momentous occasion! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we thought it would be cool to chat about it. Who survived? What was left of them? Just how on rails was it? Were the flashback scenarios as good as advertised? We discuss, and manage to do it relatively spoiler free. We also check in with Tony Vasinda from Plus One Exp about Down We Go, a

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27:25

Thousand Year Old Vampire

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/08/30

They say forever is a long, long time and, if Thousand Year Old Vampire is an indication, forever sure does suck. Is that a pun? That might be a pun. Sorry. Anyway, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at Tim Hutchings’ solo journaling game about memory, tragedy and confronting things you’d rather ignore. It is maybe the most intense solo games ever published. Also, Drew Cochran gives us the Indie Elevator Pitch for his forthcoming RPG, Epic of Dreams!

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33:55

Erol Otus Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/08/23

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to legendary RPG artist Erol Otus! What more can I say?

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20:32

Cities

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/08/16

“I will find a city, find myself a city to live in.” That’s the chorus of the Talking Heads song “Cities,” and it kind of speaks to how RPG designers approached city design in the early days of the hobby. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking about Midkemia Press and their signature approach to cities, called, appropriately, Cities! They were interested in finding ways to create the bustle of city streets and do so largely through piles of random tables — the method was so compelling

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19:38

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/08/09

Echoing the success of Chaosium’s recent Call of Cthulhu Classic collection Kickstarter, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast we take a look at the first Call of Cthulhu campaign: Shadows of Yog-Sothoth. Which has very little to do with good ol’ Yoggy and much more to do with waking up Cthulhu well before the alarm. As the first, it’s now really what you’d expect from a CoC campaign, but it still has charm to spare. Let’s plumb the depths of madness, yea?

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23:11

Deities & Demigods

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/08/02

What happened to Cthulhu? Was it a curse? Did TSR finally go to far? Did Chaosium steal the fire of the gods? Was it banned? Was it burned? On this week’s Vintage RPG Podcast, we reveal the shocking true story behind Deities & Demigods and the removal of the Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythologies. Actually, we don’t, because it was never a big secret and most of the details have been floating around the internet for decades, but there are lots of misconceptions about this book and its history and it

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17:16

All the Worlds' Monsters

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/07/26

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at the first book of monsters for D&D. The Monster Manual? Oh, no, not that — the first D&D monster book was All the Worlds’ Monsters (1977), from Chaosium! We talk about how salty that made TSR. More interesting, All the Worlds’ Monsters is sort of the first step in a long legacy of collaboration in the RPG industry on Chaosium’s part, so we talk about that a bit too. Also on tap: Alarums & Excursions and the Perrin Conventions.

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20:45

Delta Green (2016)

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/07/19

A few weeks back, we talked about the Pagan Publishing Delta Green sourcebooks for Call of Cthulhu. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re chatting about the standalone Delta Green RPG from Arc Dream (2016). Based on Call of Cthulhu sixth edition, the game makes some key modification to the sanity system. It also finds ways to reinvent the mythos while keeping the focus of the horror human — in a lot of ways, Delta Green is about alienation and trauma. Mulder and Scully this is not

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19:07

Encyclopedia Magica

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/07/12

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about the Encyclopedia Magica, a four volume collection of every magic item created for Dungeons & Dragons, from 1974 to 1993. It is a massive and intricate undertaking, pulling from every TSR publication — including the magazines! In the days before the internet and searchable digital databases, the fact that this exists (and missed just one magic item) is astonishing. Easily one of the best things TSR ever produced, an epic imagination stoker and one

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22:16

Stu Wrote a Book

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/07/05

On this episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about the book. In its current, unedited form, it is 165 chapters long, each chapter focusing on a specific book or product, and spans five decades of RPGs. The focus is on how RPGs have developed and changed over the years, so while D&D is in there a lot, the hope is to introduce folks to the wild and crazy world that waits beyond the world’s oldest RPG. Plenty of books out there on D&D already, right? Oh, and Stu’s not entirely sold on the

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28:26

The Throne of Bloodstone

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/06/28

Get to level 100, fight 10,000 zombies, beat up Orcus, steal his stuff and murder Tiamat in H4 — The Throne of Bloodstone, one of the most ridiculous D&D adventures ever published. Is it good? Is it bad? YES! Join us as we check it out. Plus, something a little different and a lot charming: in our Indie Elevator Pitch this week, we chat with Jonathan Sacha about his Goblins & Gardens tarot card set. He (gasp) cuts up and collages art from old D&D books and old gardening reference books to create

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30:43

Andrew Walter Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/06/21

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with Andrew Walter, one of the key artists defining the look of RPGs for the contemporary era. You’ve seen his art on the covers Old School Essentials and Troika. He wrote and illustrated Fronds of Benevolence, co-designed Slipgate Chokepoint. He’s all over the place! We talk about all those things, melty art, the glory of Russ Nicholson, death metal and more! You can see more of Andrew’s work on Instagram and buy prints on his Big Cartel store.

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26:08

ARC

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/06/14

These are the end times, my friends. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with Momatoes about her forthcoming RPG ARC, a game played at the edge of the apocalypse. We chat a bit about the synthesis of OSR and storygame philosophies present in ARC, countdown timers and why so many games lately seem to be about the end of the world. And more! ARC is on Kickstarter right now (it funded in less than 23 minutes, so its all about those stretch goals)! You can read more about the game on

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