Stu Horvath

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.

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.

Oct 14, 2024 | unwinnable.com | Stu Horvath |John McGuire

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we look at Lords of Creation, my pick for the weirdest RPG ever made. Maybe. Designed by Tom “B/X” Moldvay, it’s one of the first multi-genre RPGs and it marked Avalon Hill’s (failed) first foray into RPGs. And, best of all, it is full of decisions that are just absolutely perplexing. A real testament to how easy it is from RPGs to get to the outer reaches of the bizarre. * * *Instagram? Old news.

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?

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?