This week's hosts - Scarr, Hida-O-Win, Dave & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone... Mayday, Mayday ... we are under attack... main drive is gone... turrent number one not responding... Mayday... losing cabin pressure fast... calling anyone... please help... This is Free Trader Beowulf... Mayday... This week th…

This week's hosts - Hida-O-Win, Dave & ScarrEditor - SavageMick "We begin bombing in five minutes" Ronald Regan Sometimes you are handed the scenario, sometimes you wrote it, sometimes it's a one-off, sometimes it's your weekly game. But the question is always the same... Are you running with notes or running from them... --------------------------…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 812 This week's Party: Shane and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party discuss whether some mechanics in RPGs are more about setting expectations for a game than actually seeing use. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use a clip of your …

Episode 811 This week's hosts - Liam, Dave & ScarrEditor - SavageMick "It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as …

The Adventuring Party - Episode 810 This week's Party: Shane, Liam and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party respond to more shenanigans from WotC, as they attempt to control the D&D experience and turn it digital. Please note that since recording this episode, some of the issues which inspired it have been walked back by WotC: https://x.com/DnD…

Episode 809 This week's hosts - Hida-O-WinEditor - SavageMick Who keeps on kickin' when everyone else stops tickin'? Hida-O-Win, that's who! It's a truely solo episode this week and the System Slayer himself takes a look at the Kickstarter campaign for the Brandon Sanderson RPG, Cosmere. A Jack of all trades or a random grab-bag. Can the huge popul…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 808 This week's Party: Eoin and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party take a look at the CCG marketplace, and how one particular way of playing Magic has, according to some, completely taken over the game. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We mi…

Episode 807 This week's hosts - Hida-O-Win & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick The week we take two bites out of the new DC20 system recently funded on KickStarter - promising to bring the D20 system to new heights but is it trying to carry too much on it's shoulders. We are playing with the format this week. Hida-O-Win will give us his thoughts first,…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 806 This week's Party: Eoin and Dave Editor – Shane This week, the Party discuss NPCs in RPGs, and whether they deserve the same loving mechanical attention as a PC, or if its better for everyone if a few corners are cut on their sheet. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell u…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 805 This week's Party: Scarr and Dave Editor – Shane This week, we discuss the parts of RPG combat that most often lead to bad feelings, and how a GM can work to get through it to the next high point. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you really feel. We might use …

Episode 804 This week's hosts - Dave, Warlord Scarr, Hida-O-Win & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick Give a GM a scenario and they will run the game for a night. Give a GM a plot hook and they will spend the night before trying to flesh it out! This week the party dig into the pros and cons of supplying scenario outlines and plot hooks in published mate…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 803 This week's Party: Savage and Scarr Editor – Shane This week, yet more D&D spells with too many Ds to them. How many different ways to mind control different creatures does one game need? And is an underwritten spell a blessing or a curse? Covered this week: Divine Favor Divine Word Dominate Beast/Monster/Person …

Episode 802 This week's hosts - Hida-O-Win & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick Okay, we promise this is the last one... for a while. Grab a Stormer friend and strap in for even more psychotic splatterpunk shenanigins with the recently launched SLA Industries - Threat Analysis 2: Cults by Nightfall Games. Hida and Savage spitball about what we can expec…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 801 This week's Party: Shane and Dave Editor – Shane This week, The Party return to the topic of SLA Industries, how the recent revival has been going, and suggest ways it should go in the future. For context, see our last episode on the game here. ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPip…

Episode 800 This week's hosts - Dave, Hida-O-Win, Warlord Scarr & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick Another milestone. This time, instead of looking back or inwards, we instead ask some of your questions and ponder what could have been, what might yet be... What If? ----------------------------------------------------------------- We have a Discord Ser…

The Adventuring Party - Episode 799 This week's Party: Shane and Dave Editor – Shane This week, The Party discuss some of the quirks of magic items in RPGs: How do you figure them out? Should they have horrible curses? And how many should you have, anyway? ------------------------ Want to actually shout at us? Go to SpeakPipe and tell us how you re…

Episode 798 This week's hosts - Warlord Scarr & SavageMickEditor - SavageMick It's Cullin' Time! We are deep in the D's and there is just no stopping these Dangerous Dudes! On the chopping block this week: 04:05 - Detect Evil and Good - Detect Magic - Detect Poison and Disease 14:55 - Detect Thoughts 23:00 - Dimension Door 30:50 - Disguise Self 35:…