This Ol’ Dungeon Podcast

Well folks, I couldn’t let a month pass without getting out some sort of content on this channel, now could I?  So, I sent up some smoke signals and a great many of our gaming friends responded! Hopefully we will get several of them in for a show over the next season.  -But, first to reply was an awesome guy who’s out to bring the RPG world a little closer, Dave Townsend of “Games with Dave.” I’ve been on his interview show and hav...

I (Luau Lou) always enjoy these one shot episodes, where I get to talk with creators about their brand-spankin' new creations and lean a little bit about how other folks go through that process.  This episode is doubly fun because it features the hot new publishing duo "Guts 'N Glory" a partnership of former guest host Ryan Howard and RPG art ninja, The Wonkee (Keelan Halvorsen).  They already did a great job on their Christmas-the...

In this episode we go the distance on a couple great "letters from the homeowners association" dealing with all sorts of things like GMs altering player characters through encounter results, variable weapon damage, and the origin of the word "grok."  The center piece is the 1983 Star Frontiers adventure, "Sundown on Starmist." I want to warn you that I accidentally call the Sathar aliens the "Sraath" for the first half of the discu...

We have a a bit of dissent over the 2nd Edition Ravenloft module, "Dark of the Moon." This werewolf-infested adventure has all the drama of daytime television with the thrill of spending a week vacationing in a gulag. On top of this discussion we cover both Snow Con and the brand new PAGE Con.  At the end of the episode we talk about a situation friend of the show J.E. Shields is going through with the loss of his son.  If you woul...

In this episode Bill, Edwin, and Lou talk about the element of “Gonzo” in a RPG game, read some listener mail, and give the “This Ol’ Dungeon” treatment to one of the most famous Shadowrun adventure supplements, “Harlequin” from 1990. We discuss what works and what seems to need renovated within this grandiose set of 8 linked missions meant to tell a tale of revenge and subterfuge spanning what might be over a year of play. Written...

Due to flight delays, Edwin and Luau Lou are left without Bill to record this fun episode featuring a James Ward article from Polyhedron #15, called "Mass Day at New Hope." This Gamma World article is tentatively called an "adventure" but, in true This Ol' Dungeon style, we take turns trying to make this very simple encounter into a full-blown night of gaming - which is what you want for a holiday-themed piece like this.  Robotic S...

In this one shot episode I get a chance to hang with Friend of the show and fellow podcaster, Matt Gullet.  Fresh from Texas's Long Con RPG convention Matt has brought his long-running adventure, "Caverns of the Dead God" to publication and is Kickstarting it RIGHT NOW! This is quite the quintessential starting adventure: a well-sketched out village, a neighboring cavern steeped in rumors, and a menacing cult that is operating in t...

It's that time of year again!  Every year, host Luau Lou sits down with artist and friend of the show, Christopher Tupa (http://ctupa.com/Art_by_Ctupa/Home.html, https://www.youtube.com/@artbytupa3222) to talk Halloweens-past and present.  THIS IS NOT A GAMING EPISODE! No, this is just an excuse for two old friends to get together and talk about their favorite holiday, Halloween.  This year the theme is "What would you have going o...

Happy Halloween! For this month of the macabre we went diving for a good October RPG product and turned up, "All Hallow's Eve" a starting adventure from the Mage: The Ascension RPG rule book.  Come to find out, the adventure was expanded upon for the campaign-length 1993 product, "Loom of Fate." So we all took a good walk outside of our usual gaming systems to check out this tale of the weird from the hottest RPG producers of the 9...

We got the jump on this one!  David Matalon (screenwriter of the up-coming Totally Killer movie) has used his down time from the writers' strike to work on a project within his beloved hobby, and on October 3rd he will be releasing the all-new DCC adventure "Prisoners of the Secret Overlords." This adventure pays homage to many of the great lettered-series of the early days of gaming while just doing an absolute mic-drop on keeping...

In this episode we take a swing at solo play modules with one of the classics, BSOLO "Ghost of Lion Castle." Solo play modules are making a big resurgence right now and it was a blast to look at how the process was done in 1984 and talk about how that experience could have been improved.  Speaking of new solo plays, Bill's company Pacesetter Games and Simulations is finishing out a Kickstarter featuring their take on solo plays wit...

With our full, regular September episode just around the corner, I wanted to sneak one extra One Shot Episode in while my buddy and all around "RPG Idea Wizard," Jonathan Sullivan still has his Kickstarter going.  However, we actually spend the majority of this episode talking about his early gaming experiences and what it takes to make an 3PP adventure worthy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics label.

But we do get around to talking abo...

Friend of the show Ben Burns is back to talk about all the projects going on over at New Comet Games including the recently released "Horrors at El Dorado Royale" for Call of Cthulhu and his current Kickstarter for D&D 5e as well as Swords & Wizardry, OSE, and B/X! Check out the campaign here: Adventures of Black Ridge Island. We talk about a bit about campaign and setting book production as well as a bit of a discussion of...

In this episode we have Erik Tenkar and Bad Mike Badolato -the dynamic duo themselves- straight from the "Talking Crit" livestream among their other OSR contributions such as the Tavern blog, The North Texas RPG Con, RPG auctions, Swords and Wizardry Light, and many others.

We get to talk with them all about these endeavors as well as the classic B1: In Search of the Unknown, which is getting a non-canon sequel for NTX this coming ...

Jeff Jones of the RPG Ramblings podcast stops by for a discussion about game design, what it means to create something within the space of of the 1st Edition DMG, and whatever else floats across my mind while were talking. We also get a chance to discuss his Gary's Appendix series - with Issue 3 Kickstarting RIGHT NOW! Give it a listen and go check out the project, its a great one! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1580058713/ga...

In this episode Bill, Edwin, and Lou discuss the classic Top Secret module, TS003: "Lady in Distress."  This GenCon XIV tournament module features a cruise ship taken over by terrorists who are after a secret bio weapon smuggled on board by a rogue Spanish scientist.  BUT FIRST: Mike Carr - TSR legend and co-writer of this adventure - spends some of his afternoon with us answering a few questions about the module.  Bill is in the h...

Edwin, Bill and Lou are back from the North Texas RPG Convention!  We answer questions about whether we would want to be full-time game developers and what our favorite dungeons and traps are.  Then, we get into the feature segment talking about "Day of the Destroyer" - a Champions superhero adventure. 

Stay tune after the closing to hear an interview with Stefan Surrat about his latest Kickstarter bundle, "The Technomancer of Cand...

In this episode Luau Lou gets a chance to sit down with friend of the show, Skeeter Green who's about to launch his new Kickstarter project, "Underland" - an amazing adventure/system that builds a "connective" tissue between all your game worlds while introducing some great concepts and rules of underground exploration -this ain't just your daddy's dungeon, folks!  There's also a decent amount of banter about Kickstarter complicati...

Now presenting Episode 31: an interview with EXTREME Dungeon Master, Paladin Reizo, who’s about to attempt another world-record of gaming by running through the megadungeon Rappan Athuk for 30 days straight!  You can sign up to help play or GM below, the event starts in June and is going to be continuously streamed for posterity’s sake.

We also handle some listener mail, discuss this epic dungeon for the main portion of the show, a...