Flagons and Dragons

I this interview I chat with illustrator and game designer Jeff Dee. You’ll recognize his artwork from numerous games and magazines, including TSR’s Deities and Demigods, as well as many AD&D modules and other early TSR products, as well as adventures for the Star Wars RPG from West End Games. He co-designed Villains & Vigilantes, [...]

Jon Hook is a podcaster and contributing writer to some of Chaosium’s contest adventure monographs. He co-hosts the new Miskatonic University Podcast; a podcast dedicated to the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. He’s author of a Cthulhu adventure soon-to-be-released by Goodman Games, and he’s currently working with Timeless Adventures on a Basic Roleplaying project [...]

Brett Pisinski is co-founder of Wicked North Games. They produce games using their Cinema6 engine, such as the fantasy roleplaying game Azamar, and the future release of Westward, a steampunk western roleplaying game. He’s also a homebrewer. We chat about the history of D6 from West End Games, the Star Wars roleplaying game, Ghostbusters, Paranoia, [...]

In this episode I discuss the pulp era with Fred Hicks. He runs Evil Hat Productions, an award-winning publisher of games and fiction. Among the games in its stables are The Dresden Files RPG, Spirit of the Century, and Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies. The magazines of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s were full of [...]

We continue our discussion of various genres with Eddy Webb.  In this episode, it’s all about supernatural horror! Eddy is an ENie award winning game designer and publisher and in 2011 he won the Robin D. Laws Innovation Award. He currently writes for the World of Darkness MMO, he contributed the 20th Anniversary Edition of [...]

In episode 13 of our podcast we talked about a variety of genres, why we like what we like, can we overlook genre in favor of good rules, and can we overlook subpar rules in favor of genre. In the next few interviews, I and my guests are going to be digging deeper into specific [...]

In this regular episode we discuss genres of role-playing games, why we like particular genres and why certain certain don’t appeal to us.Can we overlook subpar game mechanics if we love the genre, and can we overlook genre if the game mechanics are solid? Hosts: Carl, Brandon, Andrew, Jason and Todd Note: We tried something [...]

            This part 2 of 2 of the pilot, now with 100% more Flagons! We take a moment to taste and discuss Stone Brewing’s Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout. The acolytes have found Bulagor Thrungg, who appears to be in possession of what may be a demonic claw. He orders [...]

When we last left our heroes that had just narrowly escaped a nuclear explosion at one of the Cognitive Advanced Research Laboratories. Melvin, an alien from another world, helped them flee the doomed site inside his flying saucer. Unfortunatley, their prized jeep, U2 the urban surveillance droid, and Hank’s horse didn’t make it. Hurtling at [...]

              This is our first episode and our first attempt at recording an actual play of a Dark Heresy game. Consider this part 1 of 2 of the pilot. In this episode we give some introductions to the characters and play through a bit of the adventure titled Black [...]