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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Get in the Van
04/15/2024
Get in the Van
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to John Patrick Cooper about Get in the Van, his live music-themed Troika hack. Form a band (hardcore, hair or thrash) in the year 198X, hit the road, do battle with the audience, rock their faces off and get to the next gig. A tight, fun little ode to the road dog life. Also, surprise, Cooper designed Dead Mall, our favorite Tunnel Goons hack about exploring monster-filled abandoned malls, so we talked about that some too! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Dragon's Lair
04/08/2024
Dragon's Lair
There may be a million ways to die, but you’re probably only going to see the first two or three. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re remembering the classic coin-eating arcade game, Dragon’s Lair (1983). That’s the one that features the cell-shaded, professionally animated (by Don frickin’ Bluth!) adventure of Dirk the Daring that was hidden behind an endless series of near-impossible reflex tests. An exercise in beautiful frustration that nevertheless contributed much to the visual language of fantasy in the ‘80s and beyond! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Arkham
04/01/2024
Arkham
If the Colour is out of Space it should maybe consider weeding some of its shelves, amirite? This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re going back to witch-haunted Arkham, Massachusetts by way of Chaosium’s latest edition of the Arkham sourcebook (previously known as Arkham Unveiled, H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham and The Compact Arkham Unveiled). This is a ground-up renovation of Keith Herber’s original text by Mike Mason and it is everything you’d want from such a project. The old stuff feels new, the new stuff blends in, the whole package feels fresh and exciting. A new street map! A genuine newspaper! A social reputation system! Ghouls! What more could you want? A better lead-in joke? Hambone doesn’t have a monopoly on bad jokes, sorry. * * * Stu's pretty sure that at one point in the show, he says The Lurker at the Threshold when he meant "The Thing on the Doorstep." His confusion is understandable. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Caverns of Thracia
03/25/2024
Caverns of Thracia
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re checking out Caverns of Thracia (1979)! Considered by some to be the late Jennell Jaquays’ finest work, we talk about some of the ways it differs from her previous Judges Guild module, Dark Tower, the cool way it handles random encounters and its place in the high trinity of ’70s adventure design. Fun Fact: while folks, particularly in the OSR, think Caverns is top, Jennell considered neither that nor Dark Tower as the best examples of her work — and there are plenty of other gems in that bibliography. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Mystic Punks, Part Two
03/18/2024
Mystic Punks, Part Two
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re continuing our talk with Anthony Meloro about Mystic Punks! This is Part the Second, so be sure to check out last week’s jam to get the full experience. On tap: the imminent Kickstarter for the multiplayer Mystic Punks RPG, the majestic art of Benjamin Marra, trash culture, the healing power of reefer and so much more! * * * Mystic Punks is ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Mystic Punks, Part One
03/11/2024
Mystic Punks, Part One
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking to Anthony Meloro about Mystic Punks! This is Part One, because we got to gabbing so long that we got two episodes worth of chat. Within, we talk about the original Mystic Punks solo game, the imminent Kickstarter for the multiplayer Mystic Punks RPG, the majestic art of Benjamin Marra, trash culture, the healing power of reefer and so much more! * * * Mystic Punks is ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Jack of Shadows
03/04/2024
Jack of Shadows
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking about Roger Zelazny’s 1971 novel Jack of Shadows. Gygax included the novel — a high-concept blend of fantasy and science fiction — in Appendix N, but it isn’t one that gets talked about all that often. Perhaps because it is such an unrelentingly ugly book, featuring a protagonist who embraces his dark side and never lets go, to the sorrow of everyone around him, and even unto the end of the world as he knows it. This one is DARK. And yet, because it is Zelazny, still incredibly readable and entertaining. That dude could write. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Teenage Odyssey
02/26/2024
Teenage Odyssey
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Chuck Kranz and Adam Rose about their forthcoming RPG, Teenage Odyssey. Set in a small town in the early '90s, the game casts players as teens navigating humdrum lives that are periodically thrown into chaos by bizarre supernatural events. Featuring art by Marie Enger and a light and flexible system based on Chris McDowall's Into the Odd, the game is ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Price of Freedom
02/19/2024
The Price of Freedom
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at the Cold War curiosity The Price of Freedom (1986). Basically Red Dawn (or Red Scare) the RPG, it seems like a serious attempt at creating a game in the mode of similar military-focused, conservatively minded box sets that were coming out at the same time. On the other hand, it’s by Greg Costikyan (Star Wars, Paranoia, Violence, Toon) and because of his work on those games, I feel like it is very much taking the piss. Just look at that gloriously ridiculous cover! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Swyvers
02/12/2024
Swyvers
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Luke Gearing and David Hoskins, the creative team behind the new RPG Swyvers, from Melsonian Arts Council. In a fictionalized, horrible sort of fantasy London full of corruption and wild magic, the only way to get yours is to take it from somebody else. Rules light, with a focus on collaborative play fueled by novel mechanics and decorated in an amazing portfolio of art by Hoskins, Swyvers is gonna knock your socks off (and steal your wallet while you’re lying there). . Or else. * * * You can grab the art-lite . * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco
02/05/2024
Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with Joey Royale about the new adventure in Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco, for DCC. A new drug is hitting the streets and turning people into demons — can you and your ninja pals save the city? Can you do it while busting out the best breakdancing moves? Find out on Kickstarter, now! We also chat a little bit about all of Get Haunted Industries projects, including Weird Heroes of Public Access. * * * Back the ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Temple of Apshai Trilogy
01/29/2024
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re looking back through videogame history at The Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1985), the classic remake of the original 1979 game and its two expansions. Apshai is maybe (depending on the criteria) the first dungeoncrawler videogame and one of the earliest videogame interpretations of Dungeons & Dragons. The Trilogy also has a rad instruction manual full of great art that, all these years later, is still worth the price of admission on its own. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Teaching Adventure Design
01/22/2024
Teaching Adventure Design
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast we welcome back friend of the show Mark Sable, who is about to start teaching a class called Writing Adventures for Tabletop RPGs. Seems like something y'all might be interested in. We talk a bit about game design, about teaching games and the nebulous ways we've approached how-to in RPGs. Marks class is eight sessions starting February 6 and is part of the School of Visual Arts' continuing education program, ! * * * Mark's comic book/adventure module Chaotic Neutral is also out now. ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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MIG3: The Meints Index to Glorantha
01/15/2024
MIG3: The Meints Index to Glorantha
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Stu's crowing about one of his Christmas gifts, The Meints Guide to Glorantha, by Chaosium president Rick Meints. The books amounts to the definitive guide to all publications to include material on Glorantha in existence (well, all the ones Rick knows about, which is certainly most of them, if not all of them). Entries consist of product photos as well as notes on production and design. He even has entries for Glorantha books that don't exist. How's that for exhaustive? There should be a book like this for every RPG line. * * * ! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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How to Write Adventure Modules that Don't Suck
01/08/2024
How to Write Adventure Modules that Don't Suck
And we're back! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Hambone's got the reins and talking about two books from Goodman Games: the Dungeon Crawl Classics Reference Booklet and How to Write Adventure Modules that Don't Suck. Spoiler: he loves them both! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Black Angel (Remastered)
01/01/2024
Black Angel (Remastered)
Hello friends! We're running remastered repeats for the holidays. I can't tell you why I thought Black Angel worked for the holidays beyond being similar to that vague, dreamy vibe of The Green Knight (itself a Christmas movie of a sort). Maybe it's just because I got my first Pendragon books for Christmas circa 1991, who knows? Anyway, happy New Year! Original notes: This week, we check out the famous lost (and found) 1980 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 take on it, you can (with a brief intro by Christian). * * * This episode was supposed to be an interview with our pal Levi Combs, whose , is live now. GET IT. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Official AD&D Coloring Album (Remastered)
12/25/2023
The Official AD&D Coloring Album (Remastered)
Hello friends! We're running remastered repeats for the holidays. I thought the Coloring Album would, in some way, speak to warm memories of childhood Christmas gifts. Whether or not that's apt, we hope your holidays are rad! Original notes: This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we flip through the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album (1979), written by Gary Gygax and illustrated by underground comic artist Greg Irons. Not only is this a gorgeous coloring book (with some content of questionable suitability for kids) but it also comes with a rules lite dungeon crawl game baked in, penned by Gygax himself [Note: Stu has since learned that Gygax wrote the storybook portion of the album, but Lawrence "White Plume Mountain" Schick designed the game]. We hadn’t ever heard of this until a few months ago, but it instantly became one of our favorite Dungeons & Dragons books of all time. Bonus Fact: The map for the game portion is a modified version of the Tower of Zenopus dungeon from John Eric Holmes D&D Basic Set (1979). * * * This episode was supposed to be an interview with our pal Levi Combs, whose , is live now. GET IT. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Thieves' World (Remastered)
12/18/2023
Thieves' World (Remastered)
Hello friends! We weren't planning to go to reruns this soon, but events conspired to prevent the recording of a new episode for this week. We're sorry about that, but also we're sure you'll enjoy revisiting this classic episode. We've got remastered reruns coming on December 25 and January 1 as well, because, well, holidays. We'll be back with a new show on January 8. Until then, stay safe, stay warm, enjoy your holidays and cram in as many games as you can with your downtime! Original notes: In the latest episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast this week, we look at Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey’s gritty, shared-world fantasy anthology series, the Tim Sale graphic novel adaptations and the magical moment in roleplaying history when Chaosium convinced the designers behind all the major RPGs (including Traveller!?) to collaborate on their Thieves’ World box set. It was a glorious moment, and all too brief. * * * This episode was supposed to be an interview with our pal Levi Combs, whose , is live now. GET IT. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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First Quest: The Music
12/11/2023
First Quest: The Music
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at (and listen to) First Quest: The Music, a double LP record of electronic music and narration for an officially licensed (and totally ridiculous) Dungeons & Dragons adventure printed on the sleeves. Is it a precursor to dungeonsynth? Sort of? Is it a precursor to the 1994 First Quest box set for D&D, which included an audio CD full of mortifying sound cues for the included introductory adventures? Probably? Is it way a better listen than it has any business being? Absolutely, yes. * * * You can . The main source of information on First Quest: The Music is on . If you scroll down into the comments, you'll find a lengthy one by David Miller, one of the key folks responsible for the creation of the album. has some additional information as well. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
12/04/2023
The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Momatoes is back to chat with us about her new RPG, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri. It’s a worldmaking game that spans generations, has a splash of hidden traitor mechanics for flavor and involves a culture living in symbiosis with a gigantic creature/entity that they also call home — that’s the world that the players make and that the characters must safeguard (unless they’re a traitor, in which case they want Inang-Uri dead). As with ARC, a game that plays with both the idea of looming doom and also the embrace of hope in the face of it. It’s gorgeously illustrated and laid out, too! And best of all, its available NOW! * * * Until December 12, . You can follow Momatoes on or keep up with her projects on her . * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Good Books 2023, Part 2
11/27/2023
Good Books 2023, Part 2
A couple weeks back, Stu talked about some books that came out in 2023 that he thought were notable. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Hambone’s got his own picks for books that are well worth your time. On tap we have the ; ; ; ; ; and . * * * When this drops on Monday, you'll still have all day to take advantage of 's Black Friday sale! If you're picking up Attack of the New B Movies, be sure to use code HOLIDAY23 for 40% off through November 27, after which it drops to 25% off. Get it! You can snag . Washington Irving doesn't need your money, he's dead. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Russ Nicholson Interview (Remastered)
11/20/2023
Russ Nicholson Interview (Remastered)
We lost a real legend in Russ Nicholson this year. I can honestly say that Russ and his work sneak into my mind in short order whenever I talk about fantasy art at length, no matter the period. When we recorded this interview back in 2019, it was apparently his first appearance on a podcast, which seems bizarre considering how large his work looms over the hobby, then and now. I’ll never not be bummed about a lack of Russ Nicholson in the world. Anyway, we couldn’t record last week, so we thought it would be cool to bring this one out from the vault, a little in memoriam for his passing earlier this year. Original Show Notes: This week, we talk to the incomparable artist Russ Nicholson. Russ has created countless iconic illustrations for tabletop RPGs - you probably best know his work from the original Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio or from countless fantasy gamebooks, like the Fighting Fantasy series. We chat about his work, his career, Ouija boards, Scottish accents and more in what, as far as Russ can recall, is his first podcast interview ever! A few notes directly from Russ after the fact: "Sorry about my memory and going off at side tangents so often but I enjoyed that...funny I have never talked in regards to the source of my artwork about the 'happenings' at our old house when I was growing up before. At least as I age, these awarenesses are rare and our present bungalow is so new there is nothing directly 'there.' Now artists - there are a few I especially rate (although I made a point of never copying) - Albrecht Durer, the Brueghals, Rembrandt, El Greco, Hals, Velazquez, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Mucha, Klimt, Toulouse Lautrec, Doré, Beardsley and Rackham, to name a few. Also pulps - Sax Rohmer, Howard, The Shadow, Weird Tales, Black Mask stories, Poe, Edgar Wallace, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Merrit, Hamilton, Jules Verne, Rider Haggard and the old pulp serials I saw at Saturday morning children's cinema - loved it all. From age ten on, when I left the countryside life for life in the city, I read a lot (up until then my mother thought I didn't read anything except comics). And that silent film I was trying to talk about - it had something similar, where a man is sitting by a rock pool (?) and these squidgy tentacled things (similar to the Grell toy Stu sent me) come out of the water and drag him to his doom. Scared me as a lad but I was in my teens so no screaming attacks (laf) and am still not fond." * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Good Books 2023
11/13/2023
Good Books 2023
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re looking at some cool books that came out in 2023. Perhaps in a novel twist on frequency bias, Stu noticed a bunch of books hitting shelves that, like steak and red wine, seem to pair well with his own Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground in a variety of ways. So here we are, chatting about Adam Rowe’s Worlds Beyond Time, Astral Eyes’ Spell Bound, Aaron A. Reed’s 50 Years of Text Games, the two-volume Talking Miniatures from Shaggy Dog Publishing and the truly astounding Arik Roper retrospective, Vision of the Hawk. Call it a holiday gift guide - if you like our work, we bet you’ll like theirs! * * * Worlds Beyond Time is available via (and Amazon, but ugh). Your best bet for getting Spell Bound is to follow on Instagram - they regularly post stock and shop links in their stories. The offset printed edition of 50 Years of Text Games is sold out, but you can still get . The best bet for , in the US at least, is probably Amazon (sign). In the US, you can get Vision of the Hawk through . In the UK, buy direct from . * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo
11/06/2023
Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo
In January, the Vintage RPG Podcast is going to the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo (PAGE) to sell some books and play some games, so we thought we’d talk to the expo organizer, Ron Meischker, to see what to expect. Stu’s never been to a game expo! New things are fun and exciting! * * * . When buying your pass, be sure to use coupon code VintageRPG to take $15 off the price! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Abyss of Hallucinations
10/30/2023
The Abyss of Hallucinations
In the tradition of Ozzy Osbourne asking the long-dead Aleister Crowley what went on in his head, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we ask the very much alive Max Moon what’s going on in his. As it turns out, he’s working on a third volume of The Abyss of Hallucinations, his RPG setting that merges MÖRK BORG with themes pulled from Crowley’s Book of Lies. The first two volumes, as well as a reprint of Book of Lies were produced as gorgeous zines, but the third will be a frankly stunning hardcover that also collects the contents of those first two volumes. How do you get such a beguiling bauble? in partnership with Exalted Funeral. Happy day! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Ancestral Trail
10/23/2023
The Ancestral Trail
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at The Ancestral Trail (1993), a serialized fantasy fiction released in fortnightly intervals in the UK. Every issue a new environment and a new, monstrous foe. It’s a pretty standard, if sometimes surprisingly gruesome, story, but the real draw is the art by Julek Heller. Amazing stuff! * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Beyond the Supernatural
10/16/2023
Beyond the Supernatural
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at Beyond the Supernatural (1987), Palladium’s horror RPG that anticipates a bunch of mechanics and lore that would be important for Rifts and the Megaversal system. Richard Corben on the cover, Steve Bissette doing tons of interiors, this books is worth it for the art alone. * * * Rest easy, Shane. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Halls of Horror
10/09/2023
Halls of Horror
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about dungeon tiles, specifically Halls of Horror (1986), the set of haunted mansion tiles produced by Games Workshop. We also talk briefly about the board game Mystery Mansion and the fact that Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is pretty much IN STORES NOW. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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Don't Play This Game
10/02/2023
Don't Play This Game
It’s just a game, right? This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, Hambone talks to Charlie Menzies about the found footage solo RPG Don’t Play This Game. I was busy with book stuff so I couldn't be on this show, and weirdly, I haven’t seen nor heard from Hambone since. It’s weird. I’m sure he’s fine. Anyway, . What’s the worst that could happen? * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is up for pre-order now! ! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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The Dare
09/25/2023
The Dare
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re getting into the spooky season a little early with The Dare (2020), a scenario for Call of Cthulhu that pits some costumed kids against a haunted house and the thoroughly horrific witch that lives there. Originally written by Kevin A. Ross as a somewhat legendary tournament module in the late ‘80s, this modern renovation featuring kid-sized Call of Cthulhu rules brings the game to modern audiences for the first time. It’s notable for being one of the very first RPG scenarios to cast players as kids (though it is emphatically not for children) and it will surely be a welcome addition to your Halloween one-shot arsenal. * * * Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is up for pre-order now! with code READMIT15 for 15% off! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need ! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!
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