00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.23: Thank you to our new patron: Ewan Dougall 00.06.33: World of Gaming: Building Better Worlds nominated for two Ennies; Black Madonna and Hostile Waters for T2K hitting doormats, Moria available for pre-oder; Dave likes Coriolis (duh!); Eldritch Automata crowdfunding on Backerkit 00.19.21: Old West News 00.27.10: Int…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.08: Thank you to our new patrons: Uhtred43; Sol Franklin and Andy B 00.06.07: World of Gaming: Uk Games Expo report (Frank's vid of the tournament); Neil Kingham's Tower of the Lich Lord, a Symbaroum chose your fighting fantasy adventure; Kickstarters: The Dark Age of Theer from Starfleet Captain Liam Sharp(!); AniMort…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.45: Round 1 - Mutant Year Zero 00.07.10: Round 2 - Coriolis 00.10.55: Round 3 - Vaesen 00.14.42: Round 4 - Alien 00.20.02: Round 5 - Best of the Rest 00.26.20: Round 6 - Woah - new style year zero goes beyond 6?! 00.32.03: Round 7 - What is this madness? D20? (Symbaroum) 00.36.42: Final Round - Taking us up to 20 00.40.…

It's the big one! The announcement of our free QuickDraw. In this episode Dave and I talk about some of the Westerns, TV, Film and novels that have inspired or influenced the game. - 00.00.40: Introduction 00.01.58: Thank you to our new Patron, Richard Upton Pickman 00.03.35: World of Gaming - Fall of the Imperium out from Modipheus for Dune; Pilgr…

Its a weird one - 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.40: Old West News 00.09.45: World of Gaming - Path of Glory, a campaign for Dragonbane; Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland 2nd (non-AI) edition, only a few hours left on the kickstarter; Mothership arriving in print; d20 fantasy 2nd edition kickstarting 00.15.23: Interview - Millie the GM on her work …

Its a Dragonbane (Drakar Och Demoner) Special! - 00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.58: Thank you to our new patrons: Pontus Sjögren; Jimmy Skoglund; and Josh Leape 00.04.11: Old West News 00.14.25: Listener Feedback: email from Marcus Bone 00.17.58 : World of Gaming: Dragonbane adventure from hmmm.... Marcus Bone; Black Powder and Brimstone Kickstarter…

Which is the deadliest Year Zero game? The answer will amaze you! - 00.00.40: Introductions 00.03.28: Old West News 00.13.40: World of Gaming: Planet of the Apes; The Laundry 2nd Edition; Lex Arcana - Rome the Eternal City kickstarter ending soon; Savage World of Solomon Kane from Monolith; Elder Mythos Kickstarter 00.40.42: Essay - Year Zero Engin…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.01.58: News for Stationary patrons 00.06.15: Old West News 00.18.18: World of Gaming: Agent Provocateur, YZE spy game ; Rapscallion; Knights of Dust and Neon; Our Brilliant Ruin 00.43.25: Book Club - Coriolis: The Great Dark 01.47.12: Next time and Goodbye Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit and RPG Gods. Music is by …

00.00.40: Introductions 00.01.18: Old West News 00.11.40: World of Gaming: New Coriolis kickstarts Tuesday; Household (5e and reprint) kickstarts; Reign hard copies arriving; Dragonbane monster standees!; Chaosium’s design challenge 00.31.40: Coriolis - The Pantheon of the Icons including the CALENDAR (and the blog post, oh I see you used my (Jon's…

In a change to our planned programming we released the interview with Nils and Kosta in a bonus episode last week. This week, we discuss the news and the interview with our great friend Millie the Gm, who is running her own online play through of Mercy of the Icons on YouTube and our Cairo correspondent Mohamed El Dakak 00.00.40: Introductions 00.0…

We interviewed Nils and Kosta on our YouTube Channel last week. We were going to include the recording in our episode next week, but so many people have already seen it on YouTube it might be old news for you loyal listeners by then. So instead we are going to have a reaction panel feature, and for those of you who prefer podcasting over YT, here i…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.36: World of Gaming: Enworld has the lowdown on Evil Genius; CMOM exclusive deal with Gamefound; Between Clouds landing on doormat; Clare's 24 hr gaming marathon fro charity; Star Trek Adventures: The Federation Klingon War; Dune: Fall of the Imperium has Dave words in; This Blighted Isle: Darkened Hill and Dale KS; Al…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.03.28: World of Gaming: Finally! Ad Astra for MYZ; Dragonbane Bestiary; Eldritch Automata KS failed, will restart; We have a busy UKGE planned - Dave’s writing workshop, Effekt's Free League quiz and Free League's National Dragonbane Championships! 0032.40: Rocks Fall Everyone Dies - Masters of the Air in War Stories 01.0…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.01.57: Thank you to our new patron: Calle Nyberg 00.02.52: World of Gaming - Electric State beaten into second most anticipated game by Shadow of the Weird Wizard (with a diversion into Dave's Dune writing); kill engn mechs for Cy-borg ; 00.19.16: Interview - Garry Harper When We Die 01.17.39: Next time and Goodbye Effekt…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.01.48: Thank you to our new patrons: brockenwitch and Kevin Campion 00.06.00: World of Gaming - Evil Genius lays off staff, folding; Nightfall Games in Terminator AI battle; Cyan Starlight KS; 5e Ruins of Symbaroum books; Role VTT loses its heart; is the Golden Age over ? 00.52.39: Patrons in the Hamam - The Year in Revie…

Happy Christmas! There is no normal episode this week, because it's Christmas Eve today and we are with our families, rather than arguing over our mics. To make up for our absence on your feeds, here is a bonus show. People enjoyed the peek into our deign process that we released a month ago and asked if there was more. There is - this second hour …

00.00.40: Introductions 00.03.00: Thank you to our new patron: Jeppe Mulich 00.05.12: World of Gaming - Electric State on Kickstarter; Matt Colville's Monster Fighting game MCDM RPG; R Talsorian's multi dimensional game Shadow Scar; Doug gets a staring fooled in Outgunned, Dave is guesting on Raldanash's Walking Dead Universe discusion 00.45.20: Dr…

Sorry, chapter markers wrong in this episode, use these timing instead 00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.13: Thank you to our new patron: Andrew Rackley 00.05.12: World of Gaming - Four Borg! Even simpler than Mork Borg, New Free League website with proactive advice for starting to play; oh no! The Adventure Time RPG dumps its Yes And system for a 5e r…

Not only are some people building worlds with the hardcopy of the latest Alien supplement that has arrived on at least a few doorstep, but we speak to a woman who had a brilliant idea for building your game's world (better) with magnetic modular terrain. Plus loads of news from Free League and the world of gaming! . 00.00.40: Introductions 00.01.54…

We are sorry we missed our usual episode last week. Our intention had been to record an episode during MCM Comic Con London, but we ended up working too hard to make too few sales to do anything other than eat and sleep of an evening. Normal service will be resumed next weekend, and will include some Comic Con related content. To make up for our ab…

00.00.40: Introductions - You're Dead to Me 00.09.36: World of Gaming - Building Better Worlds PDFs are here; new Dragonbane announcements; The Lost Mountain saga coming out for Halloween; Cohors Cthulhu kickstarting; New Edition of BRP out in print; ; Essen and MCM Comicon 00.54.47: Article - Women in Historical TTRPG - Dr Emma Southron's History …

00.00.40: Introductions - Put it on a plate 00.03.55: World of Gaming - Evil Genius sue Netflix over Rebel Moon RPG; Mutant Ad Astra finally makes an appearance; NeoClassscal Geek Revival imported into the UK; Household is brilliant; Essen and MCM Comicon 00.39.55: Article - Community content by the word (Steve Weick's blog posts) 01.09.36: Next ti…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.06.01: World of Gaming: Dukk Borg; Pirate Borg; Deathmatch Island on Backerkit 17th October; and Cohors Cthulhu coming to KS 3rd October; D&D part work; the art in They Grow Up So Fast. 00.41.30: Article - Writing Market Garden for War Stories 01.07.18: Upcoming episodes and Goodbye Effekt is brought to you by Fictionsuit…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.03.47: Thank you to our new patron, Keith Rossellini 00.04.50: World of Gaming: Dreams and Machines pre-order; Free League will be demoing Zone Wars at Essen; Assassin’s Creed RPG announced; Shadow of the Weird Wizard Kickstarter almost done; Moria Kickstarter 00.27.02: Interview - Interview, Gareth Ryder-Hannrahan 01.12.…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.06.50: World of Gaming: Modern Vaesen is out; Slaughterville re-thought and relaunched; Coriolis, Wake of the Icons finally in stores; Eat the Riech! Kickstarter 00.29.06: Interview - Andreas Lundstrom talks about Windheim and the Horn of Dawn, 01.15.12: Goodbye, and Sagan om Drakar ock Demoner from the forthcoming Dragon…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.04.04: World of Gaming: It’s Gen Con as we record; Ennie Results full list of nominees and winners; Diana Jones award won by Coyote and Crow; Free League announce a Moria campaign for both Ring games; Badgequest, girl-guide/scouts game on Kickstarter; friend of the Show Andreas kickstarts Windheim for DoD/Dragonbane; Slau…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.02.50: World of Gaming: Pendragon starter set out in the UK; Pendragon fiction coming from my mate Chris November; Cubicle 7 coming out with a second edition of the Laundry Files; Gary’s Appendix kickstarts a third issue with some more words from renowned OSR expert Dave; now Critical Role have found out we are going to M…

00.00.40: Introductions 00.06.17: World of Gaming: Ennie Nominations (our names in lights!); Cohors Cthulhu free Quickstart out; Modiphious sending out Dreams and Machines pendants to streamers (the creator doc Dave mentioned is here); Chaosium are about to crowdfund a Call of Cthulhu actual play; Pendragon starter set is out (except UK); Adventure…

We talk to Fiona Howat, MU/TH/UR of the Alien competition at UK Games Expo, and learn her shocking dark secret! 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.34: World of Gaming - Pirate Borg on pre-order, and coming to retail on International Talk Like a Pirate Day; Renegade Game Studios put their foot in it; Diana Jones awards nominees announced; FreeRPG day happ…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.06.11: Thank you to our new Patron: David Morrison, live! 00.15.01: Roving reporter Duffy 0019.23: Reporter Pete talks about Camden Games' Shape Invaders coming to a kickstarter near you, and asks a pertinent question about the pitfalls of creating a new system from scratch 00.24.53: Reporter Clint talks about Alien and as…

We offer you three new careers for Alien, and get excited about UK Games Expo, 00.00.40: Introduction 00.04.36: Thank you to our new Patron: grey-nimlet 00.08.52: UKGE; Live recording (Sixth birthday spectacular!); 10 tips for better Game design 0020.21: Critical Role's Candela Obscura mashes together Blades in the Dark and Vaesen; simultaneous pre…

It's a War Stories special with Matthew talking about his experience playing a campaign, and Dave talking about his philosophy when writing that very campaign. Plus lots of news from the World of Gaming 00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.14: Thank you to our new Patrons: Verminlord, Sebastian Schmitt, and Christph Kleschke AKA Laoin 00.06.30: World of Ga…

Not one, but three essays! A new Talent of the Episode; Drugs in the Forbidden Lands and GMs don't want you to know this simple Stronghold Hack! 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.50: World of Gaming: Dave's Building Better Worlds on pre-order; Dave spills the beans on Dreams and Machines; Alchemy VTT kickstarts with Free League headlining; FREE Ukrainia…

We go DnD crazy! And build bases, and talk Star Trek; Picard 00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.42: Thank you to our new Patrons: Brokenwitch, Ian Stronach, Peter John Newbold (with a sidebar about Picard) 00.13.07: World of Gaming: DandD movie review, Lord of the Rings (5th ed variant) released 9th May, LOTR RPG Live Play, Chaosium taking a hybrid appro…

In this episode Matthew bores Dave rigid talking about the two different dice systems in Year Zero Engine 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.02: Thank you to our new Patrons: Richard Turnbull, Gordon Thomas Jehu and Martin Cookson 00.09.18: World of Gaming: Walking Dead update; both YZE and Dragon plane licenses officially released; Chaosium are bringing…

In this episode we talk to Mattias Jonsson Haake, head honchos the Walking Dead Universe 00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.27: Thank you to our new Patron, Manuel 00.04.36: World of Gaming: We are going to UKGE, Dragonmeet (not) moving? Terminator T2, Tales from the Lone Lands for The One Ring, 00.27.39: Interview - Mattias Jonsson Haake, head honchos t…

In this episode we talk to Oz Mills, creator of the Tales from the Loop campaign They Grow Up so Fast 00.00.40: Introduction 00.16.10: World of Gaming: Chaosium ban AI art from community content; Paizo make a statement against AI art (but not, so far against its use in community content), ikhon finally released; Launch of Walking Dead Universe on K…

In this episode we take another delve into the treasure of the Free League Workshop 00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.32: World of Gaming: Free League release a daft of the FTL (free tabletop license); They Grow Up so Fast - new UK based campaign for Tales from the Loop; The One Ring wins Best Role Playing game from OnTabletop 00.31.06: Free League Work…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.08: Thank you to everyone who voted to make us the 5th most popular TTRPG talk podcast on Enworld. 00.07.08: World of Gaming: Zinequest 5 starts - projects include Treasure Hunting from RPG Stories, Hopes and Dreams of the Orbital Bound from our own whodo Craig and many more; The OGL Saga ends (apparently) but wither Wo…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.06.41: World of Gaming: Ken Hite gets shot; WotC shoot themselves in the foot; Paizo et al create ORC open licence; Free League announce a new OGL for Year Zero Engine and branded open licence for Drakar och Demoner/Dragonbane; Osprey announce slate of new RPGs; Modiphious announce 2d20 DTRPG programme 00.35.04: On the Cas…

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Are we one of your favourite TTRPG talk podcasts? Then show your love by voting for us! 00.00.40: Introduction 00.06.01: Welcome to our new patrons: Peter Johnsson and Timm Woods 00.07.30: World of Gaming: Gen X are the best at games; Are we one of your favourite TTRPG talk podcasts? Then show your love by voting for us!; Most Anticipated game of 2…

It's Christmas Day! We thought about not releasing an episode today, but given that not all of our international audience don't celebrate Christmas, and still more might be spending the day alone, so we thought a special episode was in order. Join Matthew, Dave, and patrons: Paul; Douglas; Robin; Niclas; Thomas, Aaron, Andrew, Andy, Bruce, Toby and…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.02.08: Welcome to our new patrons: Michael Gurley and reluctantartsy 00.04.20: World of Gaming: Bladerunner is being delivered to backers in the UK (with some Dragonmeet chat); Space 1889 gets another new version (this time with 5E); and more Dragonmeet. 00.36.20: The Cost of Pushing 01.06.13: Next time, and goodbye Effekt…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.04.20: World of Gaming: Bladerunner is being delivered to backers in the US; Free League have announced another game - Walking Dead Universe, to be kickstarted in the Spring; Chaosium are releasing the Rivers of London RPG in PDF on 30th November; Vaesen: Seasons of Mystery hits retail on the 6th Dec. Modiphius has release…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.00: Thank you to our returning Patron: Bill Paine 00.04.20: World of Gaming: Coriolis: Mercy of the Icons 3 is up for pre-order; amazing success of Monty Python RPG KS; Paranoia is kickstarting, again (yawn); gutter_PVNKS supplement for Cy_borg (not by Exalted Funeral as I incorrectly said); we are excited by Dragonmeet…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.18: Thank you to our new Patron: Rikard Aspholm 00.04.43: World of Gaming: Iranian games cafes; Touched by the Gods didn't make its target; Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars announced; Cowboy BeBop RPG; Fearsome Wilderness Kickstarter 00.29.31: Coriolis: How they play Carrom in the Third Horizon 00.49.16: Interview - Matt Cro…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.04.13: World of Gaming: Mercy of the Icons 3 should go on pre order before next episode; War Stories PDFs are coming out; T2K Urban Warfare pre-order comes with PDFs too; Heart of Darkness physical is arriving; Japanese Vaesen goes Electrum; and... 00.18.29: Interview - Kuba Polkowski talks about Touched by the Gods and Dr…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.06.53: World of Gaming: Cy-Borg hitting doormats, with reprinted Mörk Borg Ikhon books; reprinted TOR dice coming though, with Ruins of The Lost Realm; Pirate Borg comes home; Stockholm Kartell coming to Dragonmeet 00.35.25: Interview - Millie "the GM" Lavell talks about Pocket Quest, Psi Camp on DTRPG, Essen and more 01.2…

00.00.40: Introduction 00.6.35: World of Gaming: Exalted Funeral and Crowbar announce Monty Python RPG; WoTC apologise for their slave race in Spelljammer; Kingmaker is coming!; 00.27.31: Interview - We remind Tomas Härenstam that he said Drakar och Demoner would never be translated into English 01.01.50: We talk about our experience of the Quickst…