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Fan of old school D&D, fell in love with T&T and ran a four to five year campaign. Found that it was easier/faster the more I went backwards in editions/lower dice. Earlier T&T is best T&T, I found, is what I mean. Also, what I learned and enjoyed enabled me to put forth some of that knowledge towards OD&D or B/X D&D games as well….so it’s well worth exploring even if one doesn’t stay with it. Cheers, everyone!

You had me at hot coffee.

Not sure if you read these but congratulations on your 5 years! I love CtB but had no idea of the depth and, without a bit of irony, I am also surprised by the depth of PTaA... I only recently learned about some of the footage floating around, that it's getting into a published version is really great to hear. Whenever you see one of those etched in stone classics in a new light it is endlessly fascinating

The Green Knight has some of the best "intro to GMing" of traditional play I've ever seen.

I'm very late to discovering your podcast, but I'm loving the reviews! TMNT was the first game I got into outside of D&D and Marvel Super Heroes. I remember, at the time, the things that stood out was that you did have different martial arts you could take, stats could improve with training, and that it was possible to block or parry, things which D&D didn't mechanically do. That said, fights took a super long time because once you moved outside of "baseline human" most of the mutant animals were pretty thick in SDC and HP. These days I would just grab Mutants in the Now / Mutants in the Next since it's effectively the spiritual love letter game with modern mechanics (albeit, the nod to the love of charts from Palladium systems).

Warlock was apparently played around CalTech to at-least the early 2000's. One Mike Riley published a revision in-use online from 1998 to 2000, generally referred to as Warlock 2000. It was also specifically mentioned in Cavalier (the proto-Chivalry & Sorcery) as an inspiration alongside Empire of the Petal Throne. And perhaps more notably, before making Basic, J. Eric Holmes started playing D&D with Warlock (since he didn't understand the combat tables in the white box). Even in the published Basic the order of combat is apparently based on the one from Warlock, and Holmes initially tried to get Gygax to allow him to use a spell-point spoint system in Basic, like in Warlock, (although it obviously didn't work). A version of Warlock was published in 1975, in issues of the Spartan Simulation Gaming Journal, that's why the first published book is called "The Complete Warlock". Also there was a fourth book, Instant Bad Guys!, but it is just a long list of statblocks for generic human NPCs/enemies for the DM to quickly pull from.

Thanks for doing a video on this module it is one I find very interesting. I do have to say I much prefer the BX/OSE unpredictability as opposed to preplanned, I fill it makes the game/world feel more alive. Also am I really the first comment? I feel so special.

I recently picked up 2 boxes from a charity shop containing issues 1-52 of this in their binders in near mint condition. They cost me a total of £20. :)

I'm grateful for this conversation. I only learned about UVG in 2024 so this interview was a welcome influx of cool shit I didn't know about before… mostly because my music intake was severely curtailed as a kid. ಠ_ಠ Thanks for expanding my RPG universe.

How do I join a west marches campaign like yours I wanna play dnd but I don’t have the time or money to play with a group consistently

The Broken Sword is one of the best thing I've ever read.

Nice. I wanna ask the GM of the west march - how has the open table format been for you? I've found running my own open tables that I'm SO GLAD i get to play so frequently, but I hate the necessary evil that is sessions are self-contained, return to town, stuff. The constaints of time often poison some really cool moments and choices, but those are choices I never woulda gotten had it been the same folks the whole time. Ever had times when the format of the sessions sucked?

A lot of people on RUclips have respiratory problems at the moment. E.g. Ali Abunimah (of Electronic Intifada), Lee Camp, and now you, Stu…. Cold, flu or COVID19? Please be more careful to be #COVIDsafe, with N95 masks, HEPA filters, adequate ventilation, physical distancing, distance communication instead of face-to-face, etc..

Disrespectful

Dying alone in a bed covered in books in a shabby apartment is the fate of many devoted rpg players/GMs! Lol😂

One of my all-time favorite NES games.

ruclips.net/video/UXqNeUCtnRk/видео.html -remake is ok, even today. :)

The minute I heard the knee bend, I closed out of the video

The end of this didn't age wel.😅 Great episode.

Gygax always insisted, even said it in the DMG, that D&D was not trying to be realistic or a simulation. And that was always one of the biggest complaints. As popular and playable as it is, it's not the system for everyone. If you don't like it, chances are you either want a lot more or a lot less. I didn't play Harn, but I played RoleMaster, which was a similarly uber-crunchy game, and while it had a lot to offer, it was just too much for me. But I had a copy of Harn, and many other games, and they were great inspiration and good reading in general.

Had no idea of its Traveller lineage. I played more of that than actual Traveller, apparently. I don't remember too much of it, though. I thought the carousing skill was weird, but I guess it fits TOS. There was also some meta rule about no obstacle should be undefeatable by the Federation which may just be a way to curb bad GMs but it stuck with me

Was expecting the Last Unicorn game. Forgot about the FASA one

I grew up in North Arlington. I still have a shrink wrapped copy of Price of Freedom I got in 1986 from Schillers Books at the Garden State Plaza. All this time I never knew the map had 1&9 on it. Hilarious.

Just read 4e Tunnels and Trolls, and the only thing I didn't understand is mass combat.

I read a guide for it and it was the driest read-- look for flashes I guess. Came at a good moment though, historically I remember the cartoon! You made decisions before each commercial break and saw how things turned out I guess a movie would have to amp up the satire and silliness. Those Giddy Goons are just a blip in the whole thing. Those repeated sequences are wearying, I pity anybody getting that far and having to repeat obstacles like that as their eyes begin to water

Yes the are the Washington Generals of DND.

I hate that modern roleplaying has eliminated all the funky dice. It was fun to roll a 1d4 or a 1d8 etc etc... now D&D is roll d20 and thats it. No fun.

Extremely bad podcast

I love this episode. Got me into T&T.

Just the PDF is $30 on DTRPG. I'm attempting to find a physical copy

A physical copy of this book is just as difficult to find & obtain as The DCC RPG Annual Vol. 1 is.

good show boys

Evil Tide Trilogy, high high school graduating year!

HeroQuest is great.

If dungeons and dragons didn’t happen. Tunnels and trolls could’ve had a cartoon in the 80s.

“I’m not into comedy” strangely, sounds hilarious.

Running this campaign in 2024!

"Funyuns and Moxie in the basement, burning the Nag Champa," is a truly wonderful line.

Great vid guys. Do an episode on DRAGONBANE

Not really an RPG. It's got more in common with Illuminati than with the RPG tradition - except that the negotiation under hidden conflicting victory conditions made it a failure as a competitive design. This was a failure as a game design, that was rolled out without sufficient development work - although the failures go deep into the core concepts of the game. I'd be amazed to see anyone make this stinker work. As to SPI, they were making horrible business decisions left and right. For example, their very popular folio games lost money on every sale.

Role-playing games would be very different today if Runequest became the most famous RPG instead of D&D.

All joking aside. The vampire the masquerade bloodline video game saves the series from the decline caused by Emo culture.

"Hail Tzeentch!" Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah. All hail the Changer of Ways. For the record, the idea of Chaos being rooted in human passions is basically still true in modern 40K. The idea that the Imperium being largely ignorant of the Warp's connection to Chaos WAS pretty true. Mostly due to extreme censorship and cover-ups by Imperium authorities. Not so much in the latest period, since Cadia got blown up and the Eye of Terror expanded into a tear that bisects the galaxy. Kind of hard to keep a lid on all the demons when they keep coming out of the evil magenta storm you can see from space that stretches across the sky. Things have advanced a pace since Realms of Chaos, to put it mildly.

Apparently, pig-faced orcs survive very handily in Japanese fantasy stories. They acquired them through D&D (or, perhaps more accurately, through Record of the Lodoss War, which was a published actual play of Basic D&D back in the day, that spun off into its own franchise). The orcs then went on to be found in all those RPGs like Dragon Quest and Zelda, who in turn became fixtures in Japanese fantasy. It's an interesting example of a cultural artifact surviving in relative isolation, like an animal species that persists on an island when it went largely extinct elsewhere.

My reading of Tolkien is that Orcs ARE Goblins in his setting. The one is just another name for the other. It's only post-Tolkien works, that latched on to his use of the word "Orc" that rendered them as distinct creatures.

Yeah, I read The Alexandrian posts recently that bemoan the loss of institutional knowledge about how adventures can be made. It's nice to see it being explored in an academic context.

Oddly. I don’t think Redwall ever had an official RPG. Tabletop or video game.

If Dallas the role-playing game was successful. We could’ve had an ALF RPG or Mad Men RPG.

Rocky and Bullwinkle walk for vampire the masquerade can fly.

I wanted to say the 3.5 Expanded Psionics handbook was done very well. The 3.0 version was not as good as the 3.5 but much better than the AD&D versions. I had little experience with the 4\th edition but it was ok. Paizo did not actually do psionics rules themselves but they do write in their campaign setting that Psionics do exist in their world of Golarion. There is a third party version of psionics for pathfinder written by dream scarred press and their work is well done.