Podcast Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/category/podcast/ The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs Sat, 16 May 2026 17:49:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.vintagerpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Icon-1-90x90.jpg Podcast Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/category/podcast/ 32 32 Abattoir Hymnal https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/05/abattoir-hymnal/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/05/abattoir-hymnal/#respond Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/?p=61356 Yes, meat sorcery!

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re theoretically talking to Tiger Wizard about Abattoir Hymnal, his collaboration with Donn Stroud for Demon Month. In practice, we wind up talking about a lot of other stuff too!

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking local news, Daniel Cohen books, new phones and more, pretty much everything but RPGs. Sometimes that happens!

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Edited by the one and only R. Alex Murray.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re going back in time to 1887 to check out J.W. Buel’s unhinged tome of natural history, Sea and Land. 800 pages, with 300 illustrations depicting the natural world at its hungriest. A glorious thing.

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]]> https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/04/sea-and-land/feed/ 0 Night of the Ninja (and More!) https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/04/night-of-the-ninja-and-more/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/04/night-of-the-ninja-and-more/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/?p=61080 Ninjas, ninjas, ninjas, they're all Stu wants to talk about these days.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re dodging shuriken in order to keep talk about shinobi, both generally and somewhat specifically regarding the Night of the Ninja RPG. Also a follow-up on the Worlds of TSR art book and a plug for Graham Barey’s excellent graphic novel/Troika supplement Black Orb.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we pull the TSR art books off the shelf. That’s The Art of Dragon Magazine, The Art of the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Game, The Art of Dragonlance and The Art of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Game. That’s a lot of art! And one more to come!

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out Trollpak, Chaosium’s boxset that explores the nature of RuneQuest’s trolls. It’s a thoughtful approach to a “monstrous” species that sharply contrasts with most games of the period, and a lot of games now, even.

Plus: An update on Spellbinders!

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we explore Castle Thrax and the Spellbinders’ treasure. That is, Spellbinders Games, a shop in Akron that published Castle Thrax, also had a lot of interesting titles in their stock list that don’t seem to exist. Or do they? We’d like to know!

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]]> https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/03/castle-thrax/feed/ 0 The Privilege of Play and Other Topics https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/03/the-privilege-of-play-and-other-topics/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/03/the-privilege-of-play-and-other-topics/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/?p=60570 Another collection of chit-chats.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we rummage through the grab bag again. We discuss Lite-Brite, Tony Bath’s 1975 article “Fantasy Gaming,” Aaron Trammell’s The Privilege of Play, Dungeon Crawler Carl and doanes, among other things.

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Check out Stu’s essay on the inevitability of RPGs. Or skip right to the PDF of Tony Bath’s “Fantasy Gaming” article.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we venture to Mythic Britain & Ireland, a Vaesen sourcebook by Graeme Davis. A labor of love, the book presents all you need to run a game of Vaesen in the British Isles, including scenarios, monsters and mystery seeds. But in addition to being an RPG book, it also works as an introduction to the landscape of folklore that’s so unique to Britain and Ireland. Fantastic stuff, and gorgeous illustrations to boot.

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Graeme Davis has a Patreon dedicated to monsters, their lore and resources for their use in RPG, appropriately called The Monster of the Month Club. You should join!

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Edited by the one and only R. Alex Murray.

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This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out Shadowdark, a recent hack that brings the old school feel to 5E. Pack extra torches! [I think it was Epidiah Ravachol who I saw recently saying “D&D and its shadows]

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