This Ol’ Dungeon Podcast

Author, Publisher, Booksmith, and all around great guy, Trevor Stamper, sits down one-on-one with Luau Lou to talk about publishing Tales from the Smoking Wyrm, and the freedom of having your own means of book production/finishing.  Come with us and get an inside look at how Trevor and Blind Visionary Publications are working to evolve the publication of game materials into formats that are conducive to ACTUAL game play.  If you yourself are a small publisher, Trevor's analysis of how and why we need to shift the way games are written will make ya' think!  Last we talk about Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #6 Kickstarting NOW!!!

Get in on Issue 6 of the Tales from the Smoking Wyrm-but do it quick the KS is about to end!

On this episode we talk with RPG creator Stefan Surrat about his MANY past endeavors as well as his upcoming Kickstarter, "Elfland: Beyond the Fields We Know."  You can learn more about it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brimstonecradle/the-brimstone-cradle-and-the-hills-that-hunger/posts/3689811 OR just go help fund the thing (starting Jan 17th 2023) here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brimstonecradle/elfland-beyond-the-fields-we-know-dcc-rpg?ref=9ffw7v

During the meat and potatoes of the episode we cover a much-loved Gygax classic, "The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth!"  I think despite its wild menagerie of dungeon encounters we all found a lot of things we like about this module and a few changes that can help it along at the table...

Levi Combs Sits down with Luau Lou (known for his belief in the bizarre and gnostic) and discuss events that happened around the Howling Crater UFO crash site.  You can learn more about this event in the newest edition of Levi's book "An Occurrence at Howling Crater" live on Kickstarter right now (December 2022)  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetxgames/an-occurrence-at-howling-crater-compatible-for-dcc-mcc-and-5e?ref=user_menu .

In this episode we tackle one of the great Call of Cthulhu adventures, one bite at a time.  We are looking at Masks of Nyarlathotep-the New York chapter.  We talk about whether this award-winning adventure set is really deserving of all the praise it gets and what we would do to make it...better?  Meanwhile, there's some great letter to the homeowners giving us discussion on treasure and some return to talk about meta plot and holiday gaming.  Happy Holidays folks!

In this episode we sit-down with Ian McCarty of Silver Bullette Publishing.  He tells about many of their cool products such as "The Creeping Cold", Fantastic Geographic, and the upcoming MCC adventure, "Fire in the MOHLE!"  We ponder a great listener question about meta plots in RPG worlds and then get into the meat n' potatoes of the show, a talk about "X2: Castle Amber."  -Oh and we put Ian through the ringer on another episode of Geek Credit!  Don't forget to check out Ian's Kickstarter and send us your letters to enter in for a chance to be an at-home winner of Geek Credit (send emails to thisoldungeon@gmail.com)

This one is WAY off the beaten path folks! Since the show's inception I have always sat down each Halloween season with my old friend and favorite artist, Christopher Tupa to just wax nostalgic.  This year we decided to talk about "scary toys" from our childhoods (and beyond-we're both big kids at heart).  Be warned, this has almost NO GAMING CONTENT-though some of these old toy lines could sure inspire a session or two.  You can see why I love having Christopher work on my RPG books by visiting his art page here: C. Tupa Art.  We'll catch you with a regular episode very soon...

In this fairly raw/unedited episode the three of us talk about GameHole Con while Edwin and Bill are live on the spot.  In honor of the Con's sponsor who is well known for his great collection of all things D&D, we also give the This Ol' Dungeon treatment to one of the most valuable adventures from the old days of TSR-"The Jade Hare."  This is a quick one (for us) folks!  We'll be back soon with another full-length episode!

What happens when Levi Combs comes back on This Ol' Dungeon while all 3 hosts are there to jibber-jabber?  Well, not much talking about Planescape -that's for sure!  Still, we got to learn a lot about what's going on at Planet X Games (https://www.facebook.com/planetxgamecompany/) and some great discussion about lots of design-side stuff, AND got through a pretty nice chunk of listener mail INCLUDING AN AUDIO MESSAGE of a mysterious origin!  We also got some fun bumpers from Banjo Destructo at The Heavy Metal RPG Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs01Fh2P77XDNzKWIA4_46A).  Planescape is mentioned, but we have to pledge to come back to it to give it its fair due in a future episode...

Had a lot of fun on this episode getting educated by James Holloway, the Monster Man, himself!  We talk a lot about the importance of the original Monster Manual in setting the stage for these sorts of books and have an interesting debate on whether The Fiend Folio is or isn’t a big departure from what that book had set us up for back in the 1e days.  You can catch James’s podcast “Monster Man” at: https://monsterman.libsyn.com/, and you’ll want to sign up for his Patreon feed which has all sorts of great bonuses (like picking episode topics and getting access to the “Patron Deities” show) at: https://www.patreon.com/monsterman.  You can enjoy some of his published game content like the “Pamphlet of Pantheons,” and the “Magonium Mine Murders” and more here: https://james-holloway.itch.io/ or at Exalted Funeral in the US: and https://iglootree.com/ in the UK

 

You might also notice the fun little bumper sent to us by listener Banjo Destructo of the Heavy Metal RPG podcast (https://rumble.com/v1c3ux3-heavy-metal-rpg-podcast-episode-0000-dcc-rpg-and-level-0-funnels.html) who has done lots of cool bits (here’s one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR1O_l03gc).  Give him a listen, the guy’s a hoot!

This is a side quest for our podcast, where Ben Burns was kind enough to come on again and talk about his new Kickstarter, "The Zeta Complex" -a product I've been antsy for him to release since playing an early version at North Texas in 2020.  As a bonus, Bill Barsh talks about gearing up to launch his Kickstarter for "Tome of Quests" a remastered anthology of his company's early hits.  We talk (in general) about Kickstarting, trying to get product out, and the pitfalls of shipping.  If you are a small publisher or longing to be, there are plenty of gems of advice thrown out in this discussion.  Otherwise, you get to hear about some great RPG products you're not going to want to miss out on!