Confessions of a Wee Tim'rous Bushi

Jun 28 2024 144 ep. 41 mins 21
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Menion (AKA Rob) joins the discussion and lays bare his thoughts on life and role-playing games.

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Guerrilla Review: Cults of RuneQuest

Jun 28 2024 38 mins  
S6E4: Please listen to my guerrilla review of the incredible Cults of RuneQuest series from Chaosium. I focus on Mythology, but also provide a quick overview of Earth Goddesses and The Prosopaedia. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, available free of charge from Free Stock Musical, are

Curing System Jadedness with MERP

Jun 20 2024 109 mins  
S6E3: In response to my short episode on my frustrations with the system(s) I’m currently playing, I received good support and feedback from the community, including call ins from Anthony of Casting Shadows and Barry of A Song of Dice & Shadows podcasts, as well as an invitation from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast to talk about Middle-Earth Role Playing and how it might still be

System Frustration

Jun 17 2024 26 mins  
S6E2: I record some of my frustrations over systems, particularly the ubiquitous d20 ones - a directionless rant? Joe of Hindsightless calls in - we are not alone and it’s not over yet. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, available free of charge from Free Stock Musical, are as follows

“Nobinobi TRPG: Sword” Guerrilla Review

Jun 09 2024 59 mins  
S6E1: A quick review of the Japanese card-based narrative game, “Nobinobi TRPG: Sword”. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, available free of charge from Free Stock Musical, are as follows: Otogi2 by PeriTune | http://peritune.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com At

Hiatus (Season Final)

Mar 16 2024 47 mins  
S5E15: All good things (and bad ones too thankfully) must come to an end, at least until they begin again. Boomshankar! Call-ins from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast, Daniel of Bandits Keep podcast/YouTube channel, and Joe of Hindsightless podcast. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, ava

The Postie’s Been! Call-in Special from Okinawa

Feb 20 2024 49 mins  
S5E14: The Postie’s been! Call-ins from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast, Daniel of Bandits Keep podcast/YouTube channel, and GMShadow of the new A Song of Dice & Shadows podcast. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, available free of charge from Free Stock Musical, are as follows: Otogi

Laissez-faire Gods (GMs) & Meaningful Choices

Feb 15 2024 48 mins  
S5E13: I give a recap of session 3 of my Greyhawk/Pomarj campaign for AD&D. Also included is a thought-provoking call-in from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast - once again on the topic of free will. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for this podcast, available free of charge from Free Stock Musical, are

Free Will Is Player Agency

Feb 13 2024 56 mins  
S5E12: In addition to providing recaps of sessions 1 and 2 of my Greyhawk/Pomarj campaign for AD&D, I present call-ins from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast, Joe of Hindsightless podcast, and Anthony ‘Runeslinger’ of Casting Shadows podcast on topics of free will, description/theme and so on. Spencer’s first movie-Monday episode on Time Bandits can be found at https://podcasts

2024 Ambushed Me

Jan 24 2024 41 mins  
S5E11: Happy New Year! I present call-ins from Jason of Nerds RPG Variety Cast, and Mirke the Meek on skills, 3d6 vs d20 and other topics following my previous episode on Dark Sun. Finally, I go for a walk to discuss the Terry Gilliam movie Time Bandits. For BECMI Berserker’s review of the Rules Cyclopedia and discussion of the skills system (at around the 8min 2sec mark), see ht

Blessed with a Little Knowledge

Dec 02 2023 80 mins  
S5E10: Some call-ins from Daniel of Bandits Keep podcast and Jason of Nerds RPG variety, followed by my report on sessions 4-6 of the Dark Sun adventure “A Little Knowledge…” for 2nd edition AD&D rules. Finally, I add some comments on the setting and system. You can contact me at: [email protected], and Menion @OldShabbyGamer (Twitter). Cheers! Details of the music for th