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The Vintage RPG Podcast

Feb 28, 2022

I recently came into possession of like five feet of Traveller and it made me realize, holy crap, there is a lot of Traveller! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at the span of the Traveller RPG through the 20th century. That’s a quick look at both versions of Classic Traveller (1977...


Feb 21, 2022

You know what kind of sucks? Awards. Oscars, Grammys, whatever. RPG awards are no exception. But Joe DeSimone doesn’t think they need to be that way. So he’s starting his own awards for RPGs called The Awards. And you know what? They might suck, too! He’s upfront about that. But if they do, they’ll suck in a...


Feb 14, 2022

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we barely scratch the surface of RuneQuest (1978), Chaosium’s classic first foray into RPGs. We talk about the games origins in the earlier wargame, White Bear & Red Moon (1975), the skill-based RPG, the limitations of class as a concept, the different sorts of magic and,...


Feb 7, 2022

Ever buy an old RPG box set and find some maps or a character sheet inside? For me, it conjures up a specific sort of warm feeling. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at some of Tim Hutchings’ efforts to preserve that sort gaming ephemera in The Habitation of the Stone Giant Lord, a book collecting...