We take a break from Hommlet with a jaunt underground in Harley Stroh's level 3 DCC adventure. It's only six pages long! How hard can it be?

On a rare evening that we have a full complement of players, the party once more ventures into the bowels of the moat house, to investigate what lies beyond the two secret doors.

Having made their blood sacrifice, our intrepid party of inept rabble venture deep into the horror-filled corridors of the Temple of Herlezzect (yeah, we can't pronounce it either) in the concluding part of our playthrough of Nick Baran's "The Precipice of Corruption" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

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"The victim always returns to the scene of the crime"

Our penultimate foray into the existentially put-upon college town of Towson, Ohio continues with murderous deeds, sinister cults, and a crash course in boiler repair.  And you can win a sticker...or something.

"Betty White is the bacon of celebrities!"

AKA Three Investigators and a Baby!  A home cleaning crew takes on a job that's too good to be true, in the first part of our playthrough of Lynne Hardy's "Scritch Scratch".  What we may lack in production values, we make up for in infants!

"This property faces certain real estate challenges.  I would rather list it than love it."

"Well...um...I am suddenly of the opinion that this place is haunted."

We take on the classic introductory scenario to Call of Cthulhu the only way we know how...shambolically.

Ruh Roh Cave AKA shotungmanx 300% flat tire skull & crossbones.   

It's guns-a-blazin against future sonic terminator dudes and evil bowling balls in the conclusion of our second Towson mystery in Evil Hat's "Monster of the Week".  

Using the 2015 Revised Edition rules, written by Michael Sands & Steve Hickey  

Published by and available from Evil Hat Productions

https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/

"I'll pull out an infinite number of handkerchiefs to help wipe her face down".  

Our intrepid investigators are called back to Arkham to attend to an old dying friend.  Along the way they pick up a stranded stage magician.  What can possibly go wrong?  The answer is, of course, everything...  

As always, expect mistakes-a-plenty, profanity, stumbles, mumbles, and monsters.  

Using 7th edition Call of Cthulhu rules by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis & Mike Mason, and the scenario "Dead Light" by Alan Bligh.  

Both published by and available from Chaosium.

https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/

"No, cats!  No!  I'm typing!"  

Things take a bizarre and violent turn in the second part of our continuing play of Evil Hat's "Monster of the Week".  

Using the 2015 Revised Edition rules, written by Michael Sands & Steve Hickey  

Published by and available from Evil Hat Productions

https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/

"You know cloven-hoofed boots went out of fashion decades ago?"  

We're off to glorious Michigan for a short Call of Cthulhu intro scenario.    

As always, expect mistakes-a-plenty, profanity, stumbles, mumbles, and monsters.  

Using 7th edition Call of Cthulhu rules by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis & Mike Mason, and the scenario "Paper Chase" by John Sullivan & Mike Mason, published in "The Call of Cthulhu Starter Set".  

Both published by and available from Chaosium.

https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/

"This is not my beautiful Towson!"  

Time loops?  A sinister cult?  An ancient civilization of cave dwellers?  A humdinger of a lightning storm?  Gravy with everything?  

We're back in the hills of southern Ohio in the first of a three-part tale from Evil Hat's Monster of the Week.  

Using the 2015 Revised Edition rules, written by Michael Sands & Steve Hickey  

Published by and available from Evil Hat Productions 

https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/

Lordy, lummy!  It's the mummy!  

Murderously cursed deeds are run amok in the  college town of Towson, Ohio.  

Cultists.  Crooked cops.  Several thrilling pursuits.  And a monster that just won't get back in its box.  

The thrilling conclusion to our first sojourn in Evil Hat's Monster of the Week.  

Using the 2015 Revised Edition rules, written by Michael Sands & Steve Hickey  

Published by and available from Evil Hat Productions https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/

What misadventures will a ruthless "Forestry Dept." agent, a hired assassin laying low, a drifter with some dubious magazine subscriptions, a guy who might be an angel, and a thousand year old Irish goat get into?  

Strange things are afoot in the sleepy college town of Towson, Ohio, so let's find out in part 1 of a MotW two-parter.

Using the 2015 Revised Edition rules, written by Michael Sands & Steve Hickey  

Published by and available from Evil Hat Productions https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/

The town of Stennard finds itself in desperate need. The crops have failed and famine is imminent. In a bold effort to save the town, the constable sends their best hunters in search of game, treading into the forbidden lands to the west. But when they fail to return, only an unseemly mob of cutthroats and fortune seekers are willing to take on the task. Come with us to the Mangled Hills as we take on Nick Baran's "The Precipice of Corruption" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

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The thrilling, inexorable conclusion of our little jaunt to the island of Al Amarja.  

The heist!  Ultraviolence!  Some very weird science!  The Over the Edge "bullshit" clicks into place!  Fights, fights, more fights, and an unusual amount of penis-driven innuendo (probably from all of the fight-induced testosterone).  

Using 3rd edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Chris Lites, and the scenario "Seversen's Mysterious Estate" by Jonathan Tweet and Justin Alexander , published in "Welcome to the Island".  

Both published by and available from Atlas Games.  https://www.atlas-games.com/overtheedge

A note on audio - one of our players had mic issues that made him sound like a chipmunk.  Unfortunately we lost the individual tracks for this episode, so were unable to fix his audio in post. 

"Is there any reason to believe we are in danger?  Please say yes"   

We journey back to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt in 1924 for a short CoC intro scenario.   

As always, expect mistakes-a-plenty, a lot of profanity, stumbles, and some very bad acting.  

98 minutes of pure terror, punctuated by bouts of quiet typing. 

Using 7th edition Call of Cthulhu rules by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis & Mike Mason, and the scenario "The Necropolis" by Leigh Carr, published in "Gateways into Terror". 

Both published by and available from Chaosium.

https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/

Kidnapping!  Intrigue!  Fascists!  Energy Vampires!  A maze a third the size of Uzbekistan!  Lanyards!  A run-in with the government, and a daring heist that may or may not get off the ground!  

Our third foray to the island nation of Al Amarja finds our daring party try to case the joint, while our GM bumbles his way through a mountain of esoteric quasi-scientific technobabble and exotic names.  "Do, Seversen's" said Tweet "That's a good introduction."  Soooo many NPCs.  Soooo much weirdness. 

Using 3rd edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Chris Lites, and the scenario "Seversen's Mysterious Estate" by Jonathan Tweet and Justin Alexander , published in "Welcome to the Island".  

Both published by and available from Atlas Games.  https://www.atlas-games.com/overtheedge

Part Two of our trip to the Ultimate Democratic Republic of Al Amarja finds us all a bit overwhelmed by all of the weirdness.  

As always, expect mistakes-a-plenty, a lot of profanity, stumbles, and some very bad acting.  There's more dancing too!  

It's a bit of a train wreck, but it's only 90 minutes.  

Using 3rd edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Chris Lites, and the scenario "Seversen's Mysterious Estate" by Jonathan Tweet and Justin Alexander , published in "Welcome to the Island".  

Both published by and available from Atlas Games.  https://www.atlas-games.com/overtheedge

"So, who's gonna go get Tony out of the sex rooms?"  

Part One of the audio car crash that was our trip to the Ultimate Democratic Republic of Al Amarja.  

As always, expect mistakes-a-plenty, some profanity, and some very bad acting.  

This time around you can also expect baboons, copious amounts of profanity, drug-dealing grandmas, ultraviolence, and lots and lots of dancing!  Did we mention the sex rooms?  

Using 3rd edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Chris Lites.  

Published by and available from Atlas Games. https://www.atlas-games.com/overtheedge

The conclusion of John Nephew's "The Ghoul of St. Lazare".   Presented here in all of its unedited, warts-and-all, improperly-played, mispronounced glory. Expect mistakes-a-plenty, some profanity, and some very bad acting.   

As usual, using (loosely) Ars Magica 5th edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, and the text of "The Ghoul of St. Lazare" from the 1998 ArM4 edition of "The Festival of the Damned".   

All published by and available from Atlas Games. https://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica  

The Craig bot on Discord dropped our Friar Amoureux player's audio from the mix somewhere around the 1:12:00 minute mark, so you sadly won't get to hear Cam go full church.  Fortunately you can still follow the action, but there are gaps of silence.

"Yeah, but I'm a knight.  Whatever!"  After a late start, our intrepid (and under the weather) housebound group, and first-time story guide, enter the "difficult third act" of John Nephew's "The Ghoul of St. Lazare". Presented here in all of its warts-and-all, improperly-played, mispronounced glory. Expect mistakes-a-plenty, some profanity, and some very bad acting. 

As usual, using (loosely) Ars Magica 5th edition rules by Jonathan Tweet, Mark Rein-Hagen and David Chart, and the text of "The Ghoul of St. Lazare" from the 1998 ArM4 edition of "The Festival of the Damned".   

All published by and available from Atlas Games. https://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica

Our (mostly) first-time ArM group and fresh-faced middle-aged story guide shelter from the Coronavirus, and tread once again into John Nephew's "The Ghoul of St. Lazare". Presented here in all of its warts-and-all, improperly-played, mispronounced glory. Expect mistakes-a-plenty, some profanity, and some very bad acting. 

As usual, using (loosely) Ars Magica 5th edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, and the text of "The Ghoul of St. Lazare" from the 1998 ArM4 edition of "The Festival of the Damned".  

All published by and available from Atlas Games. https://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica 

I butchered the pronunciation of the Confrérie des Charitables de Saint-Éloi, which I learned about last week in the Guardian newspaper and just had to add.  You can read more about them here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/the-charitables-french-brotherhood-burying-dead-since-1188

Our first foray into Ars Magica proper, and played part one of John Nephew's "The Ghoul of St. Lazare". Presented here in all of its warts-and-all, improperly-played, mispronounced 90 minute glory. Expect mistakes-a-plenty, some profanity, and some very bad acting. Also, this was the first time I've GM'd in 40 years, so be gentle.  Using (loosely) Ars Magica 5th edition rules by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, and the text of "The Ghoul of St. Lazare" from the 1998 ArM4 edition of "The Festival of the Damned".  

All published by Atlas Games.   https://www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica

Something is amiss in the town of Fairhaven. It's the night before the regional roller derby championship, and our beloved local team are acting decidedly out of character. Can cable access hosts Jake Tooley, Link Thickneck, Erasmus Polk, and Captain Puddles get to the bottom of things and save the day before it's too late? Of course they can, for these are no ordinary tv hosts - they are the Weird Heroes of Public Access!

Back it here:

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The operatives undertake a somewhat legal contract for the Bloodcutters - transporting a body containing valuable experimental organs across the Wash. But there's a slight snag. It appears somebody else also wants those organs, and will stop at nothing to get them, as we continue our playthrough of "Cities Without Number".

A saxaboom plays a forlorn space jazz tune as the sun fails to rise yet again over the sprawling technopolis known as the Wash. Our band of operatives undertake their first heist, stealing a cult guarded processor from a shadowy corporation, in our continuing playthrough of Cities Without Number.

Harold the Forest Druid, the thief Tomi Tynglefingers, aided once more by Timothy the Immolator, and their new friend Growly Pete, are hired on by a high priestess of the Iron King to breach a mysterious stone demon head atop a hill overlooking a village and retrieve an artifact she apparently can't just get herself. What could go wrong?

Download the free rulebook and form-fillable character sheet (https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/449873/Cities-Without-Number-Free-Version), and follow along as Rob guides us through character creation in Kevin Crawford's sandbox cyberpunk TTRPG "Cities Without Number".

After almost half a century has Gary Gygax's legendary demilich Acererak finally met his match at the hands of the fearless and cunning Thankless Roll Players? What do you think?

The party honor Gary Gygax by making some spectacularly bad decisions in the second episode of our three part (so far...) playthrough of "Tomb of Horrors".

For our 100th episode, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, we tackle Gary Gygax's classic 1975 dungeon crawl "Tomb of Horrors". But why tackle this notoriously unbeatable dungeon as high level D&D characters, when you can send in a bunch of Dungeon Crawl Classics zeroes? Will our heroes survive? Of course not. But we guarantee a rollicking good time while they do!

Our 5e playthrough of the Gygax classic continues.

We descend one last time into the stench-filled caverns beneath the Curwen Homestead to find out once and for all the fate that has befallen the family, in our fumble-filled final fling of Daniel J. Bishop's "The Arwich Grinder" for Dungeon Crawl Classics TTRPG.

The party decides to explore the Curwen House in our second of our three episode playthrough of Daniel J. Bishop's "The Arwich Grinder" for Dungeon Crawl Classics. NOTE: This episode is not for the squeamish.

Better bring a sick bag, as the party heads deep into the pines to come to the aid of a family in peril, in the first part of our playthrough of Daniel J. Bishop's genuinely unnerving zero level funnel, "The Arwich Grinder".

Up to their necks in beastmen, the party slash their way onwards and upwards through the mysterious obelisk threatening the village of Hirot. Unlucky dips, a showdown with the bizarre Lantern Master, and wedding bells are in the air, as we conclude our playthrough of Harley Stroh's level 1 adventure "Shadow of the Beakmen".

We kick off our FIFTH season fashionably late and up to our necks in the blood of our enemies, as our heroes return victorious to Hirot with the head of the monstrous Hound in hand, only to find the village ablaze and overrun with giant lizard mounted knights and hideously deformed humanoids, as we play Harley Stroh's level one adventure "Shadow of the Beakmen".

For our final episode of 2023 we leave you with our double length Holiday Thumptacular - Marzio Muscedere's Christmas cracker, "The Doom That Came To Christmas Town" for Dungeon Crawl Classics. Hope to see you all in 2024. Bring your friends!

Armed with the fabled wolf spear, the party returns to the village of Hirot to face down the Hound, in the conclusion of our playthrough of Harley Stroh's "Doom of the Savage Kings" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

Our thief - and consequently our good listeners - learns a valuable lesson about luck, and our elf and cleric get quite salty in our swearingest, most hair raising (literally) installment so far, as we play part 4 of our "Doom of the Savage Kings" 5 parter.

Come celebrate Thanksgiving with us as our flock of turkeys descend into the Serpent Tomb of the Ulfheonar and discover the magic of the season...or something...in part three of our playthrough of Harley Stroh's "Doom of the Savage Kings" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

More than a little worse for wear after their misguided attempt to follow the Hound into the Sunken Fens, our heroes seek aid at the village of Hirot. Much intrigue, and more singing than should be allowed, ensues. The mystery deepens, in episode two of our playthrough of Harley Stroh's "Doom of the Savage Kings" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

We take a quick look at what's in Breaker Press Games' Stennard setting for the Dungeon Crawl Classics TTRPG. https://breakerpress.storenvy.com/ https://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/breaker-press-games/?srsltid=AfmBOooUdLa8EixVJoec0apWpBuMQVX0rwz0b8tMMvKhQ5b-cD3ZV1iT

The Hound of the Baskervilles meets Beowulf meets a group of big dumb nerds, as we delve into Harley Stroh's classic level 1 adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics, "Doom of the Savage Kings".

Join us as we go everywhere except the safety of the village, and gasp as we bungle our way incorrectly through the DCC "recover the body" rules (spoiler alert - there will be casualties).

Our hopeless band of peasants continue to press their luck in "The Hole in the Sky". It's episode 13. What can go wrong?

The swift and unexpected finale of our playthrough of Goodman Games' classic murder dungeon "Crypt of the Devil Lich" for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

Having survived the first chamber, our valiant party ventures even deeper into the Crypt of the Devil Lich. Spinning rooms, pressure plates, confused ghosts, and more traps than you could shake a ten foot pole at. We continue our second of three playthroughs (spoiler alert) of Goodman Games' classic murder dungeon for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

We recklessly plunge into Goodman Games' notorious murder dungeon, "Crypt of the Devil Lich" with little to no preparation. The inevitable ensues. Part one of three. Our GM was battling the effects of Canadian wildfire smoke, so apologies for the occasional hoarseness and lozenge sucking.

Finally the finale of the grand finale. Unedited, so apologies in advance for dead air, mumbles, tangents and cusses.

Befitting the trend of splitting all series finales in two (and not at all due to lack of time to do any editing), and making the audience wait an unduly long time for those parts, we present the first part of the final installment of our playthrough of "Court of Blades". It's probably worth the wait.