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Nov 18, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to the Rick Meints, president of Chaosium! He doesn’t just run the company, he’s its biggest fan, with a collection of Chaosium games, art, documents and ephemera that likely dwarfs all others. We talk about collecting, RuneQuest (Rick’s primary RPG passion, as he penned the wonderful Meints Index to Glorantha), the company’s history and its plans for the future for some of its key lines going into their 50th anniversary in 2025.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to our very own editor, R. Alex Murray about a little off-Broadway show he’s in called Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern. Part actual play, part interactive theater, all rowdy-as-heck adventure, Alex and his colleagues are trailblazing a whole new (boozy) way to play with 499 friends. * * *Instagram? Old news.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at Eat the Reich, a beautiful game about reveling in the messiest annihilation of nazis imaginable. Become an anti-fascist vampire. Get air-dropped into Paris. Drink all the nazi blood. A one-shot(ish) of fun for adults of all ages, tuned to variable levels of experience, gorgeously illustrated. A glorious, utterly uncontroversial piece of gaming. * * *Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! Buy it!Patreon? Discord?
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we drag out West End Games’ weird universal system, MasterBook, and its bizarre licenses. Why would you refurbish the shuttered RPG Torg into your universal game when the D6 system was right there? Why would you think the movie Species was ripe for RPG adaptation? Or Tales from the Crypt? Mysteries abound. * * *Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! Buy it!Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy?
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with Josh McCrowell, the evil mastermind behind His Majesty the Worm. Grab your tarot deck and prepare yourself and your kit bag for the endless dungeon underneath the city. Venture deep enough and survive the darkness long enough and you might come across the Worm himself!* * *Physical copies of His Majesty the Worm will be back in stock soon at Exalted Funeral.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG podcast, we talk with Brian Shutter, the radioactive brain behind Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland. He’s got a pair of massive goodies coming to a BackerKit: Deities & Demi-Bros, a guide to the gods of the squared circle, and Deadly Dudez/Toxic Creeps, a massive monster manual! Plus some more surprises.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look back at Paul M. Sammon’s coverage of the making of Conan the Barbarian in the April 1982 issue of Cinefantastique. The double issue has three features by Sammon — a lengthy piece of reportage on the filming and interviews with designer Ron Cobb and director John Milius — and lots of behind-the-scenes photos. It’s a charming bit of work that contrasts in surprising ways with Sammon’s later coverage of Conan the Destroyer, which we also discuss.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
wsls.com | Paul Riley |John McGuire |Gloria Tinsley Witt |Garry L. Terry
Published: June 17, 2024, 8:30 AMTags: Election Results, Decision 2024, June Primary, VirginiaSign up for our NewslettersScroll down to see the election results Published: June 17, 2024, 8:30 AMTags: Election Results, Decision 2024, June Primary, VirginiaIf you’re interested in finding results for the U.S. House of Representatives District 5 race for the 2024 June Primary, you can do so here. In this election, Gloria Tinsley Witt (D-Lynchburg), Paul A. Riley (D-Crozet), Garry L.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
Stu was tied up with lots of crap this week, so have a re-run!Original show notes: Make ours Marvel! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we take a look at TSR’s massive, 8-volume compendium of Marvel comics lore, The Gamer’s Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1988-1992). They’re like a monster manual of superheroes and villains, some awesome, some doofy, some downright perplexing.
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May 20, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire
This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at Shadowgate (1987, 1989), the point-and-click fantasy adventure videogame. Explore a mysterious castle while trying to find a way to stop the Warlock Lord from destroying the world! Tremble in fear as your torch burns low! Get eaten by every monster! Have a soundtrack-induced panic attack! All this and more awaits you in Castle Shadowgate. * * *Stu’s book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! Buy it!Patreon? Discord?
