Synopsis
A daily chat with your Old School Gaming Bartender
Episodes
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Is The Gary Gygax Estate Dispute Coming to a Negotiated Settlement?
21/11/2021 Duration: 07minThere is a potential deal in the making between Gail Gygax and Luke Gygax, re: the EGG Revocable Trust (Gary Gygax's Estate) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Inconvenient Truth - RPGs pay poorly, but people who create RPGs don't deserve to be poor - Wrong!
21/11/2021 Duration: 10minI read this in a thread at ENWorld, announcing the recruitment by WotC of a Senior Game Designer position. It is a painful truth. https://www.enworld.org/threads/wizards-is-hiring-a-senior-game-designer-for-dungeons-dragons.684230/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit Live! - Special Guest Douglas Cole (Gaming Ballistic) Wednesday, 11/17/2022)
20/11/2021 Duration: 01h48minBad Mike & Tenkar are joined by Douglas Cole (Gaming Ballistic, Dungeon Grappling, Dragon Heresy, and much more. Nordland Bestiary and Enemies Book launched 11/18/21 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingballistic/nordlond-bestiary-and-enemies-book?ref=39cpby&token=7308c8b7 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Arduin, The First Fantasy Campaign and More - Some Thoughts Going Forward
20/11/2021 Duration: 08minAs I've been delving into Arduin, I've been treating it almost like an archeological dig. I've been more interested in essays than crunch, and I've been focused on finding how the earlier works have influenced later and current game design. Is this the path the viewers want me to walk? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Arduin - Space Aliens & Other Aliens in Fantasy RPGs
20/11/2021 Duration: 10minContinuing my perusal of Arduin, I take a look at Space Aliens & Other Aliens in Fantasy RPGs. Dave's words are likely more inciteful than he had envisioned, and I'm glad to have found them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Arduin - Notes on Alignment and Playability (with commentary by your's truly)
20/11/2021 Duration: 12minReturning to Arduin, I take a look at Dave's article Notes on Alignment and Playability. While I don't agree with everything Dave writes in this piece, it does encourage one to think "outside the box" in terms of alignment. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Arduin on My Mind
20/11/2021 Duration: 10minI spoke earlier today with George DeRosa, VP at Emperors Choice. Emperors Choice owns the TM and Copyright to Arduin and a ton of unpublished works by David Hargrave. There are large plans for Arduin in 2022. Also, orders are now being taken at https://empcho.com/about-arduin/ Huge thanks to George DeRosa for taking the time out of his day to talk with me. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Arduin - Dave Hargrave on DM's Versus Angry Players
20/11/2021 Duration: 17minI've started to delve deeply into The Arduin Trilogy. Although I own the books in print in their original digest size, I find them easier to read in the nicely laid out and formatted PDF. Today I was struck by Dave's article on DM's Vs Angry Players, and thus I remark on it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Why The Tavern is a Neutral Ground?
10/09/2021 Duration: 11minThere is a current discussion going on in the gaming community at large about where certain publishers and others in the community stand politically. The Tavern, and by extension, your bartender, is very much apolitical. That apparently is a political stance detested by both extremes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Where in the World is the LotFP Referee Book? (Funded October 2013)
10/09/2021 Duration: 14minWe were promised the LotFP Referee Book in January of 2019, and even that date was supposed to be a joke, as it was so far in the future it would be completed far in advance. Here we are in September of 2021, and the Indiegogo page hasn't had an update since Feb 28th, 2020. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lotfp-hardcover-referee-book#/updates/all --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Tenkar, Why Do You Hate TSR3 So Much?
10/09/2021 Duration: 16minJustin LaNassa was nice enough to post a meme about me on Facebook. I put it into context. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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There Were Five Editions of the D&D Basic Set
10/09/2021 Duration: 08minWhen we think Basic D&D, we usually think of Holmes, Moldvay, and Mentzer. We don't usually include Troy Denning and Doug Stewart to the Basic Set Masters List, but they do belong. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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What is With the Current Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarter Trend?
03/09/2021 Duration: 10minAs mentioned on ENWorld, there have been 9 TTRPG Kickstarters that have surpassed 1 million dollars in backers' money. What is going on? https://www.enworld.org/threads/as-one-million-dollar-kickstarter-ends-another-appears.682458/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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When Your Gaming Group Opts for a Bonding Session Over a Game Session...
03/09/2021 Duration: 10minWhat is more important, the game or the connections we make as gamers? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Iron Rations LiveStream - With JoetheLawyer & Tenkar August 27th, 2021
03/09/2021 Duration: 02h03minJon JoetheLawyer & Tenkar, as they talk all things gaming related, and touch upon the new playtest of Joe's Bonze Age Heartbreaker. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit with Bad Mike & Tenkar w Special Guests Zach Glazar & Joe Bingaman
03/09/2021 Duration: 02h05minMike & Tenkar are joined by Zach Glazar (Frog God Games) and Joe Bingaman, currently Kickstarting The World of Durmin: A campaign setting for Old-School Roleplaying Games --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit Live with Special Guest Alyssa Faden
03/09/2021 Duration: 02h27minBad Mike & Tenkar are joined by Alyssa Faden, mapper extraordinaire. You have been warned... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit - Special Friday LiveStream - August 20th, 2021
29/08/2021 Duration: 01h58minJoin Bad Mike & Tenkar for a special Friday Night Talking Crit LiveStream. Dungeons, Dragons & Discourse will return in two weeks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit Livestream with Bad Mike & Tenkar - August 18, 2021
29/08/2021 Duration: 01h53minBad Mike & Tenkar are back with their weekly Talking Crit Livestream. News, events, This Week in Gaming Stupid - its all here. The GoFundMe for Steve Perrin's Wife's medical expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-the-phoenix Mystara Player's Guide Download Pages: https://rpgmp3.com/mystara-players-guide/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support
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Talking Crit LiveStream with Special Guest Mark Greenberg (Necropolis KS) - 8 PM EDT Tonight
29/08/2021 Duration: 02h12minBad Mike & Tenkar will be joined by Mark Greenberg (Necropolis Kickstarter - Necromancer Games/Frog God Games). The second half of the livestream will be covering This Week in RPG Stupid. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tavernchat/support