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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Folly of the Forgemaster by Russel Holley and look at some questions from /r/OSR that no one asked us to answer.

• What would you do with a water wheel in a magical academy?
• How can you estimate the number of sessions a module will take to complete?

11:52 Who Asked?
28:28 Main Review
57:42 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 40: Folly of the Forgemaster
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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Einfühlung by Goblin Archives and Josh Domanski, and answer a mailbag question.

• How do you feel about false rumors?

08:28 Brad's Jokes
17:50 Mailbag
31:56 Main Review 59:18 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 39: Einfühlung
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Yochai & Brad review The Eye of the Aeons by James Barker, talk about what they've been playing, and answer a mootsack question.

• Hero's Journey Home
• Analog Pocket
• Lunar Legend
• Limitations with gold for XP

14:00 What are you playing?
31:26 Mootsack
38:29 Main Review
1:03:26 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 38: The Eye of the Aeons
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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review B5: Horror on the Hill by Douglas Niles, and answer a mootsack question.

• How do we feel about skills in OSR games?

0:10:15 Mootsack
0:23:42 Main Review
0:52:55 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 37: B5 Horror on the Hill
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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Amanda P. to review Johnson Squared by Joshua Luke Cable and Samuel T. McNally, and answer a mailbag question.

• Do you use props at the table?

09:26 Mootsack
0:24:45 Main Review
1:08:00 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 36: Johnson Squared
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Sam, Brad, and Yochai review The Ground Shakes Beneath Poxblood Parish by Mucilage., and answer a mailbag question.

• How do you encourage risky behavior in players?
• SKA. So much SKA.

05:00 Mootsack
17:35 Ska: So Hot, or So Not?
34:34 Main Review
54:13 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 35: The Ground Shakes Beneath Poxblood Parish
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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Doom of the Dark by Patrick Stuart, discuss Tunnels & Trolls in our System Matters segment, and answer a mailbag question.

• Brad's video on mapmaking
• Is the 10ft pole example in the "Quick Primer for Old School Gaming" any good?

13:03 Mootsack
34:22 Main Review
39:06 System Matters
48:46 Main Review
1:07:18 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 34: The Doom of the Dark
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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Chris McDowall to discuss Cabinet of Curiosities by Andre Novoa, and answer a mailbag question.

11:30 Mootsack

26:12 So Hot or So Not?

39:14 Main Review

56:58 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 33: Cabinet of Curiosities

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Cave of the Sleeping Sage by Ben Swinden, answer a mailbag question, and discuss what they've been playing.

• How long do you track monsters in the dungeon?
• Brad played 8 hours of D&D 5.5e
• Sam played Trophy Dark
• Yochai & Sam play Big Walk

08:15 Mootsack

16:45 What Are You Playing?

51:04 Main Review

Season 5, Episode 32: Cave of the Sleeping Sage

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by A. G. Cook to review S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax. Also we play America's favorite game: So Hot, or So Not?

28:40 So Hot or So Not?

38:42 Main Review + Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 31: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review two pamphlet adventures: Praise Be, God of Filth by Wuggy & Operation Bad Luau by Glue Trap Games, and discuss what we've been playing.

04:57 What are you playing?

30:21 Zine Talk

37:16 Main Review

Season 5, Episode 30: Praise Be, God of Filth & Operation Bad Luau

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Leo Hunt (Mr Vaults of Vaarn himself) to review Into The Fog by Alan Gerding, answer a question from the mootsack, and discuss whether system matters (Fatherfog edition).

• How do you handle real-world languages in your games?

0:18:10 Mootsack

0:29:01 System Matters

0:56:34 Main Review

1:21:37 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 29: Into The Fog

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This Bonus Episode was originally released to backers on 9/17/2025.

Yochai & Brad discuss the adventure Tannic with its author, Amanda P.

Season 4, Bonus Episode 3: The Story of Tannic

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Live from Between Two Cons: an actual play performance of "Betwixt Two Piles," recorded on June 26, 2026. Betwixt Two Piles is the Unofficial Official Between Two Cairns "Podcast Simulation Game."

Join Tony Vasinda, Directsun, Ryan Lynch, and Dan Phipps as they roleplay an RPG review podcast and review "Weird Little Freaks" by Brad Kerr and Sam Mameli.

06:36 Show Start

14:10 Question Sack

19:25 Main Review

35:40 Plumbing the Depths

Season 5, Episode 27: Weird Little Freaks

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Brad runs a furniture-based adventure for Yochai and Sam, who are joined by a very special guest! Recorded live at Between Two Cons in Portland Oregon. The hosts also answer questions from the mootsack.

02:32 Mootsack

13:01 Actual Play

0:30 A newcomer joins the Party

Season 5, Bonus Episode 13: An Actual Play (Live at Between Two Cons)

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In a very special episode, Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Quagmire! by Merle M. Rasmussen and answer a few mailbag questions LIVE at Between Two Cons!

• Between Two Cons
• Pickup Weird Little Freaks right now!

04:21 Mootsack

13:50 So Hot or So Not?

19:31 Main Review

42:58 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 26: Quagmire! (Live at Between Two Cons)

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FREE BONUS EPISODE TO NON-PATRONS!

As we are all gone this week at Between Two Cons, we thought it would be nice to release our most recent bonus episode to the main feed.

Yochai, Brad, and Sam discuss The Issues: Digital RPG Platforms. Also, we answer a question from the "question bag."

• How many interactive elements do you add to a given room/encounter?

04:30 Question Bag

23:53 The Issues

Season 5, Bonus Episode 12: The Issues: Digital RPG Platforms

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Cult of the Bloodfather by Marty Walker, and answer a mailbag question.

• Mootsack: How do you make "bigger" dungeons?
• Back the first "Double Feature" from Cairn Press on Kickstarter!

09:45 Mailbag

24:33 Main Review

43:40 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 25: Cult of the Bloodfather

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Curse of the Hatman by Tim Obermueller, and answer a question about a DMPCs.

• What's to be done about Pig-Face?

09:58 Mootsack

21:00 Main Review

48:21 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 24: Curse of the Hatman

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Tragedy at Zaya's Theater by Munkao, and answer a mootsack question.

• Does "patching" a module or adventure make it less great?

14:28 Mootsack

21:9 Main Review

49:18 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 23: Tragedy at Zaya's Theater

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Secret of the Night Market by Sean Foer, answer a mootsack question, and go deep on Perils & Princesses.

• Mootsack: When creating an adventure should you compromise on what system you write it for?

09:22 Mootsack

17:57 System Matters

38:32 Main Review

1:04:16 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 22: The Secret of the Night Market

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Tree of Life by Bruce Heard, and talk about what they've been playing.

06:17 What are you playing?

21:21 Main Review

50:01 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 21: The Tree of Life

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Demon Month is LIVE! Back the Illustrated Guide to Demons and the Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire now!

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Manic at the Monastery by Inverted Castle Press, and answer a mailbag question.

• Do you let your players destroy the dungeon?

14:32 Mootsack

20:38 Main Review

57:57 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 20: Manic at the Monastery

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam tout their current crowdfunding projects. Back them! Please! Or don't.

• Skullboy's Illustrated Guide to Demons
• Brad (and co)'s Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire
• Cairn Press's Adventure Double Feature

Yes, this episode has been released to non-patreon backers (for obvious reasons).

Season 5, Bonus Episode 10: Support our Crowdfunding Efforts, Or Else!

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Knight Errant by IsaacIsAfraid, and answer a mootsack question:

• Do we have enough adventures?

7:19 Mootsack

21:19 Main Review

57:40 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 19: The Knight Errant

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Rook & the Crook by Taron Pounds, and answer a few mailbag questions.

• What techniques do you use when a session/campaign has to end early?
• How do you keep track of non-mechanical stuff in a game?

10:48 Mootsack 1

14:53 Mootsack 2

27:10 Main Review

01:06:03 Deep Dive

Season 5, Bonus Episode 18: The Rook & the Crook

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Troubled Troll Grotto by Dougal Cochrane, and answer a mootsack question.

• Do you portray NPCs in the first person, or the third person?

10:16 Mailbag

26:49 Main Review

52:44 Deep Dive

Season 5, Bonus Episode 17: Troubled Troll Grotto

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Ryan Lynch to review Red Gwen's Bandit Hideout by stonedrunkwizard. We also answer a mailbag question and make a ruling.

• Perils & Princesses

15:52 Mootsack

31:20 Make a Ruling

48:57 Main Review

Season 5, Bonus Episode 16: Red Gwen's Bandit Hideout

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Tragic Curse of Grimhill Fort by Reverse Ettin Games, and discuss what they've been playing.

• <u>The Great Morel</u>
• <u>Mushrooms in China</u>
• <u>Death Howl</u>
• <u>ARC Raiders</u>
• <u>Isley Brothers</u>
• <u>Gorillaz video</u>

20:43 What Are You Playing?

35:24 Main Review

53:28 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 15: The Tragic Curse of Grimhill Fort

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor by William Toporek, and answer a mailbag question.

• How do you handle PCs going rogue with a Faction?

15:46 Mailbag

24:08 Main Review

42:33 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 14: Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review D3: Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax in another Gamer Blast from the Past! Recorded live at Gary Con XVIII!

• Where do you want to see adventure design going ten years from now?
• Do you follow any particular writing process?
• What was the adventure that swerved you head-on into the OSR?

3:53 Mootsack

28:46 Main Review

1:02:48 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 13: Live at Gary Con XVIII: Vault of the Drow

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by WatcherDM to review The Belle of the Bog by Tom Lagier.

24:09 Main Review

54:32 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 12: The Belle of the Bog

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Leviathan by Christian Eichhorn, and answer a Mootsack question.

• How important is Number Appearing?

06:30 Mootsack

21:37 Main Review

51:29 Deep Dive 

Season 5, Episode 11: Leviathan

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline? by Matthew Morris, and answer a question from the mootsack.

• Mootsack: How do modern OSR games handle a vacuum after PC death?

19:00 Mootsack

36:00 Main Review

Season 5, Episode 10: What Lies Within the Pools Which Lie Upon the Shoreline?

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review DA2: Temple of the Frog by Dave Arneson and David J. Ritchie, and answer a mootsack question (and then some!).

• How do you telegraph traps to monsters?
• What are examples of adventures that inspired your work?

13:23 Mootsack

22:55 Mailbag

31:07 Main Review

1:11:36 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 9: DA2: Temple of the Frog

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review On The Hill by M. Allen Hall, and answer a mootsack question.

• Mootsack: When do you stop adding or changing stuff in a system?

13:14 Mootsack

29:15 Main Review

54:54 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 8: On The Hill

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Ooze Nun by Joey Royale and Tiger Wizard, and answer a question from the mootsack.

• Mootsack: How do you balance searching for or telegraphing traps?

10:11 Mootsack

27:47 Main Review

56:38 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 7: Ooze Nun

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Directsun to review Dinoplex: Cataclysm by Ian Yusem and CRYO-SIQ by WACO. We also answer a mootsack question... but the call was coming from inside the house!

• Mootsack: How do you handle the existential dread of changing careers?

13:32 Mootsack

30:18 Main Review

Season 5, Episode 6: Dinoplex: Cataclysm & CRYO-SIQ

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Tiny Fables by Josiah Moore, and answer a mootsack question.

• Mootsack: How do you know what levels to design for?
• Weird stranger things ephemera

19:58 Mootsack

35:25 Main Review

1:07:26 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 5: Tiny Fables

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam are joined by Liam Pádraig Ó Cuilleanáin to review Pollute the Elfen Memory Water by Michael Raston, and to answer a mailbag question.

• How do you do notes for prep and during play?

23:18 Mootsack

39:52 Main Review

1:13:24 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 4: Pollute the Elfen Memory Water

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Downward Spiral of the Lost by Pablo Dapena, and answer a mootsack question.

• How do you handle large amounts of gold in a dungeon?

12:34 Mootsack

29:02 Main Review

59:40 Deep Dive

Season 5, Episode 3: Downward Spiral of the Lost

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review B8: Journey to the Rock by Michael Malone in another Gamer Blast from the Past! Also, we answer a mailbag question.

• Should I bend the story to serve the narrative?

10:37 Mootsack

25:53 Main Review

Deep Dive 51:19

Season 5, Episode 2: B8: Journey to the Rock

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review A Haunting in Glass by Jesse Winter, and answer a rulings-related question.

• How do you handle hidden information (like a character that will die after X days)?

8:14 Make a Ruling

33:48 Main Review

Season 5, Episode 1: A Haunting in Glass

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It's that time of year again! Brad, Sam, and Yochai count down their five favorite modules they reviewed this year. There is also a mootsack question in there somewhere.

7:45 Mootsack

23:22 The Cairnies

Spoilers Below!

Yochai

5 Ex Inferis

4 Frozen Ascent

3 Grotto of the Golden Gargoyle

2 Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh

1 The Smoking Pillar of Lan Yu

Brad

5 Buried in the Bahamas

4 Kidnap the Archpriest

3 ARKOS

2 Frozen Ascent

1 Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh

Sam

5 Evils of Illmire

4 Fragments of the Floating City

3 Frozen Ascent

2 Grotto of the Golden Gargoyle

1 The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain

Season 4, Episode 17: The Cairnies 2025

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Yochai, Sam, and Brad review Seven Sealed Spirits by WatcherDM, and answer a question from the mailbag.

• Do you adjust your game to fit whom you're playing with?

16:30 Mootsack

24:25 Main Review

49:53 Deep Dive

Season 4, Episode 16: Seven Sealed Spirits

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Into the Wilds by Harley Stroh, and answer a mootsack question.

• Mootsack: Are there artistic style "studies" of RPG modules?
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6:56 Mootsack

15:40 Main Review

59:38 Deep Dive

Season 4, Episode 15: Into the Wilds

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review Fragments of the Floating City by Will Jarvis, and answer a Mootsack question.

• Mootsack: How do you introduce a new player in a single session?

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8:24 Mootsack

15:52 Main Review

41:03 Deep Dive

Season 4, Episode 14: Fragments of the Floating City

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We review Mana Meltdown by Lazy Litch, and answer a mootsack question.

• Mootsack: How do you convey a sense of place, or awe in an adventure?

5:46 Mootsack

14:24 Main Review

50:43 Deep Dive

Season 4, Episode 13: Mana Meltdown

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam (aka Skullboy, aka Better Legends) review Beneath the Muckfort by Bo Ryan Crumb, and answer a question from the Mootsack.

• Mootsack: Tips for introverts when dealing with challenging issues?

13:20 Mailbag

30:45 Main Review

58:41 Deep Dive

Season 4, Episode 12: Beneath the Muckfort

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Yochai, Brad, and Sam review BSOLO Ghost of Lion Castle, and answer a mailbag question.

• Mailbag: Should I run older editions of D&D?

9:44 Mootsack

27:00 Main Review

Season 4, Episode 11: BSOLO Ghost of Lion Castle

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