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The Vintage RPG Podcast

Feb 24, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we brave the unknown to explore the legendary Dungeons & Dragons hexcrawl, X1 – The Isle of Dread. We discuss the allure of empty maps, dinosaurs, volcanoes, King Kong and more. We also touch on some parallels between X1 and Chaosium’s Griffin Mountain for RuneQuest and the 5e...


Feb 17, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we crack the cover of Bruce Galloway’s Fantasy Wargaming (1981), one of several games of the period attempting to make a more realistic (and therefore more complicated) version of Dungeons & Dragons. We chat about the mysterious, never released Leigh Cliffs adventure scenario...


Feb 10, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at Gavin Norman and Necrotic Gnome’s Old-School Essentials, a modular restatement of the 1981 Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons rules. This is about as perfect a set of old school rules as we’ve encountered – light, fast, streamlined, concise and polished...


Feb 3, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out the super weird, super niche RPG sourcebook from the Melsonian Arts Council, Fungi of the Far Realms, by Alex Clements and illustrated by Shuyi Zhang. This gorgeously illustrated guide to over 200 types of strange and magical fungi is 100% delightful and might be, if...