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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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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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20:13

OSRIC

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/06/07

Rise up, dead RPGs, rise! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chart the origins of the Old School Revival, specifically the Old School Reference and Index Compilation, or OSRIC, the retroclone of the first edition AD&D rules that kicked it all off (sort of). We also talk a bit about Castles & Crusades, the D20 System, the Open Gaming License and more! Clarification: Gary Gygax, didn’t create Castles & Crusades, Mac Golden and Davis Chenault did. However, they smartly showed it to Gygax early

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24:55

Campfire

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/05/31

Are you afraid of the dark? You’re gonna be after you play Campfire. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Adam Vass and Will Jobst about their Kickstarter for their new storytelling horror game, featuring art by the one and only Trevor Henderson. Check it out!

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28:53

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/05/24

When we recorded this episode, I discovered my microphone was broken, so I fashioned a very large bullhorn using some bamboo poles and the sail cloth from an old schooner in the back yard. I pointed the bullhorn in the general direction of Hambone’s house and shouted very loudly into it. Meanwhile, Hambone had to scurry around with an ill-fitting baseball mitt in order to catch each individual word as it flew through the air. Once caught, he deposited the words into a disused aquarium for

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23:22

Delta Green (1997)

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/05/17

This week on the Vintage RPG podcast we enter a world of conspiracy, spycraft and cosmic horror with a look at the original Delta Green (Arc Dream’s stand alone Delta Green RPG and Pelgrane Press’ The Fall of Delta Green will each get their own episodes in the near future). We check the issue of The Unspeakable Oath where [redacted], the Pagan Publishing sourcebooks that lay out [redacted] and chat a bit about [redacted]. Have a listen, if your security clearance is high enough!

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25:07

Book of Vile Darkness

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/05/10

This week on the Vintage RPG podcast we check out Book of Vile Darkness (2002), D&D 3E’s super edgy overcorrection of the family friendly 90s era. It’s kinda weird! You’d think after decades of criticism about how D&D was a tool of the devil, you wouldn’t go and put out a book that A. is of limited utility to most games and B. makes the critics’ case for them. It’s still pretty cool, if you dig demons and devils, and can look past all the torture and stuff.

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39:04

Nick Tofani and Gradient Descent

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/05/03

Artist Nick Tofani joins us this week on the Vintage RPG podcast to talk about horror in RPGs, particularly the Mothership adventure he illustrated, the unpleasant-in-the-best-way Gradient Descent. It’s dark outside, something is howling in the wind and pale shapes with dead eyes are shambling nearer, so make sure the doors are locked and turn up the volume on this one. We’re sure you’ll make it till morning.

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23:31

Timeship

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/04/26

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking time travel and that’s sure to result in a headache. Specifically, we’re looking at Yaquinto Publications’ Timeship (1983), but we also chat about a couple other time travel RPGs like Timemaster (1984) and Doctor Who (1985). Let’s get timey-wimey!

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21:30

Nightlife

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/04/19

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about a gritty, street level horror RPG in which you play creatures of the night making their way in the big city. Vampire: The Masquerade? Nope! Beating White Wolf to the punch by a full year is Stellar Games’ Nightlife (1990). We talk about the appeal of being the monster, the many similarities between the two games and the delightful way in which Nightlife captures the nightlife of New York City in the early 90s. Content warning, though: around the

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29:28

David Hoskins Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/04/12

This week, join us in welcoming the amazing David Hoskins to the show. You’ve seen his pen work in Acid Death Fantasy, The Isle of the Plangent Mage and, soon, in Through Ultan’s Door. We talk about how he got into RPG illustration, matters of style, some pretty fantastic black knights that have been creeping onto his Instagram and more! * * * You can see more of David’s work on his website, his Instagram and his Twitter!

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32:35

What's in the Warehouse?

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/04/05

Back in November, in our holiday gift guide episode, we talked briefly with Jess Carrier from Noble Knight Games about the weird stuff people trade in. Over the next couple months, we kept thinking about it: they must get strange stuff constantly! So we invited Jess and Noble Knight’s RPG tsar Andrew Branstad to come on and tell us all about the bazaar of the bizarre that is their warehouse.

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18:41

Black Angel

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/03/29

This week, we check out the famous lost (and found) short film by Roger Christian, Black Angel. This gorgeous little jam occupies a neat place in Star Wars history and also happens to be a mighty fine bit of early '80s sword and sorcery cinema in its own right. And after you listen to our takes on it, you can check it out for yourself on YouTube for free (with a brief intro by Christian).

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