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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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23:33

Fiend Folio

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/03/22

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, minds are blown! Somehow, we haven’t done a Fiend Folio episode yet and this week is it. We talk about how the book’s difficult birth, the mixed reception on release and the quiet disavowal it got from TSR. We get cartoon hearts in our eyes talking about Russ Nicholson’s art, as usual. We make fun of flumphs and adherers. And that’s just scratching the surface!

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19:34

Traveller

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/03/15

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re in outer space, paying off our starship mortgage and exploring the Third Imperium. That’s right, we’re finally cracking open the little black Traveller box. We talk a bit about what makes Game Designer’s Workshop’s classic science fiction RPG, well, a classic. It must be something special, because it forged a heck of a legacy despite there being all of two illustrations in the whole box set!

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24:49

Dark Tower

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/03/08

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we journey to Jennell Jaquays’ Dark Tower, one of the best books Judges Guild’s produced and often considered one of the very best D&D adventures of all time. We chat a bit about why that is, touch on Caverns of Thracia (which will be getting its own episode shortly) and generally discuss the state of dungeon design in the late 70s. There’s also DUCKS! This episode also includes our second Indie RPG Elevator Pitch, brought to you by Exalted Funeral, in which we

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33:19

Goblinville and Rebel Crown

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/03/01

We are joined this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast by the fine fellows from Narrative Dynamics, Michael Dunn-O’Connor and Eric Swanson. They are the folks behind the Goblinville RPG zines and Rebel Crown – two very different but equally awesome games. We discuss them both, what it is like switching tones, the difference between designing your own game and using an existing engine (Rebel Crown is a Forged in the Dark game), the appeal of box sets and much more! * * * You can

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35:54

Appendix N

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/02/22

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we are joined by Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Strange Frequencies), editor of Appendix N, a brand new anthology from Strange Attractor Press that explores the fantasy fiction that influenced the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. We have a far ranging, philosophical discussion about the stories Gygax overlooked, the ways literature does (and doesn’t) influence RPGs, other recommended reading lists and more! * * * Grab Appendix N direct from Strange

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21:59

Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/02/15

It was bound to happen eventually: this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we discuss the disaster that was Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game. How did SPI screw up a game based on a license of a TV show at the height of its powers? A game that launched during an unprecedented eight month media frenzy about the show? The world just wasn’t ready. Which is a shame, because the character and narrative based system was actually unlike just about anything else available at the time.

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26:57

Alice is Missing

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/02/08

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out what is possibly the first ever silent roleplaying game. A silent RPG? Seems impossible, but that’s what Alice is Missing aims to be, with all the investigation, narrative and social interaction playing out over text messages. The game is also timed, has a custom soundtrack and designed to be played only once by a given group, adding to the intrigue and the feeling that this is an event as much as it is a game. This episode, we also launch our new

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36:15

Exalted Funeral Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/02/01

This week, we chat with our pal Matt Kelley, the fellow behind Exalted Funeral, indie RPG publisher and distributor extraordinaire. We talk about how he got into the biz, where its going and some of the fantastic creators he’s met along the way. We also announce a new monthly segment that will showcase rad indie RPG creators who will be working with Exalted Funeral in the future. All good things to come!

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21:31

Cyberpunk

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/01/25

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we get chromed up and check out the two earliest iterations of R. Talsorian’s premier RPG, Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020. We talk a bit about cyberpunk as a genre, look at the particular (and surprising) inspirations for the RPG and dig into the fast and deadly system. There’s the obvious comparisons to make between Cyberpunk and Shadowrun, so you bet we make them, too!

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19:59

Gamma World

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/01/18

As promised, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we visit James M. Ward’s Gamma World, a mutant-filled romp through the post-apocalypse! We talk about how Gamma World builds off Ward’s earlier game, Metamorphosis Alpha, the clever way it handles characters unearthing tech the players probably know about, the approach to world creation and the cryptic alliances that make me like there is a strong connection between GW and West End Games’ Paranoia a few years later. The secret ingredient is

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19:03

Metamorphosis Alpha

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/01/11

Mutants in space! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we dig into James M. Ward's Metamorphosis Alpha, the first sci-fi RPG people care about! Halfway through the massive colony ship's journey, it passed through a cloud of radiation, leading to waves of mutation and a breakdown of society. Now, centuries later, the human population of the ship have lost the knowledge of how to use the ship's technology, heck, they don't even know they're on a ship in space! Explore the world, crawl through the

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27:11

Joe DeSimone Interview

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2021/01/04

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Joe DeSimone of The Academy of Games! We talk about RPGs as a learning tool, Townes Van Zandt, sobriety mechanics and much more!

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16:17

Mörk Borg

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/12/28

The world is dying. Will you rage hopelessly against the end or cower in robbed graves in your final days? That’s the central question of Mörk Borg, the heaviest metal RPG we have encountered thus far (which says something, considering the connection between Bolt Thrower and Warhammer). This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about the outlandish design of the Mörk Borg book, the grimmest of grim dark trappings and the surprising sense of humor at the center of it all.

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14:18

A Visitor's Guide to the Rainy City

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/12/21

This week we take a look at a thoroughly modern zine: A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City, by Rich Forest, illustrated by Bill Spytma and published by Superhero Necromancer. A product of ZineQuest 2, it is an entirely system agnostic setting book that details the strange and wondrous city where the rain never stops (and also a floating pirate stronghold island thing and some more rural areas surrounding the city). It is all caps GREAT, brimming with personality, overflowing with whimsy and drowning

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19:49

Hârn

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/12/14

Building off our recent episode on Chivalry & Sorcery, this week we look at another realistic medieval RPG world, N. Robin Crossby’s Hârn. Unlike C&S, though, Hârn was originally created as a system agnostic setting. That’d change later, with the HârnMaster system, but with or without the rules, the Hârn remains one of the the most ambitious and stunningly detailed ever created. Let’s take a look around, eh?

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21:54

Palace of the Vampire Queen

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/12/07

Most folks would say Steading of the Hill Giant Chief was the first published adventure for Dungeons & Dragons. And they’d be wrong! While Steading was the first D&D adventure published by TSR, it was Palace of the Vampire Queen from Wee Warriors that was actually the first adventure module. A bit thin by modern standards and definitely more gonzo, we take a look at this often overlooked piece of history on the new episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast. * * * You can find the reprint of Palace of the

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13:59

Chivalry & Sorcery

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/11/30

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at Chivalry & Sorcery. One of the earliest RPGs, it is another example of D&D players feeling like D&D failed in some way and making their own game to correct it. In C&S’s case, Ed Simbalist and Wilf Backhaus felt D&D wasn’t realistic enough, so they set about making a game that reaaaaally leans into simulation and is pretty tedious, even for its time. However! They also created not one, but three extremely detailed campaign settings, which no one

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29:58

Holiday Gift Guide 2020

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/11/23

This year, instead of digging up gift suggestions ourselves, we’ve turned to the professionals. First up, we talk to Matt Kelley about the strange sights you can see at Exalted Funeral (as ever, they’re gonna have a big Black Friday sale). Jess Carrier fills us in on a small slice of the stuff you can find at Noble Knight Games (they’ve got it all, for real, and their sale is going on right now). Finally, Josh Look from the It Came From the Tabletop Podcast suggests some notable board games to

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22:49

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/11/16

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! Grab your axe, smear some mud on your clothes, strap on some desperation and delve with us into the grim and perilous Old World. Stu laments having avoided WFRP all these years (don’t hold your breath for 40k though). Then he delights in the game’s systems and world building and art. In addition to the main rules, we also chat, broadly, about The Enemy Within campaign. This is some grade-A roleplayin’ right here. * * * Gonna drop some truth here: Tzeentch is the best and

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19:09

Miskatonic

The Vintage RPG Podcast ·

2020/11/09

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with our pal Mark Sable about his imminent comic series Miskatonic, which takes on Lovecraft, cosmic horror, racism, the Red Scare and more. We chat with Mark about all that, plus the Call of Cthulhu RPG, the symbiotic relationship between playing RPGs and being a writer and plenty more! Miskatonic #1 is on sale digitally and in comic stores on Wednesday, November 11. * * * For more on Mark’s work, check out his author pages

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