This Ol’ Dungeon Podcast

Nov 23 2024 75 ep. 101 mins 17

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A podcast that takes classic Role Playing Game adventures and rules sets and looks at renovating them for a ”modern” game design perspective.

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Episode 48 Caverns of Thracia

Nov 23 2024 84 mins

Episode 48 might be one of the most personally satisfying episodes for Lou, as he, Bill, and Edwin tackle the Judge’s Guild classic, “Caverns of Thracia.” There’s a lot of gushing over many of its fine qualities and a bit of suggestion as to what might make it more endearing to players and other ways this product might be used. We have our usual opening banter, much of whic

Halloween 2024 with Luau Lou and Christopher Tupa

Oct 31 2024 94 mins

This is that once-a-year, oddball episode where Luau Lou sits down with his old buddy and artist friend, Christopher Tupa and they blather on and on about Halloween-themed topics. This episode gets a bit morbid at one point, as they discuss real life death scenes, but otherwise they try and tell some spooky stories but mostly just go down the river of nostalgia without a paddle to

Episode 47 House on Gryphon HIll with Stephen Clements

Oct 25 2024 135 mins

We have a great October Episode for you all! We have Stephen Clements of the Langhorne Creative Group (https://rumble.com/c/StephenClements) on. If you aren't already following his channel on Rumble or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@stephenclements6158) he is one of the Internet's BEST RPG adventure reviewers-and we're going to need his help on this episode as we take on the cri

Episode 46: Star Wars D6 Strike Force Shantipole with Chris Holmes!

Sep 26 2024 127 mins

While Edwin is off gallivanting in France, Bill and Lou are joined by former guest host, Chris Holmes! We get caught up with Bill after his big (three month) hiatus from the program, then dig in to the classic Star Wars adventure, 'Strike Force Shantipole." This is one of those "right over the plate" adventures that West End was doing so well when they first launched the line. Meet

Episode 45 Almost in Time for August...AD&D Fast Play 1

Sep 02 2024 31 mins

Feeling bad about not getting an official episode together for the month of August, Luau Lou quickly sat down to record this episode, hoping it would appease the gods of podcasting. In this episode you get a quick run through of the AD&D 2nd edition product "Fast Play #1." This was a free handout that included the basic rules to play AD&D 2nd Ed. and a 4-room dungeon to sta

Episode 44 Pendragon's Beast Quest

Jul 18 2024 95 mins

In this episode, Edwin and Lou talk about solving the problem of gaming at small cons, whether "tangents" hurt or help RPG module writing, the 1000th episode of Skype of Cthulhu (listen here), and how useful the program/podcast "The Why Files?" could be to creating modern RPG adventure content..oh yeah, we also talk about this episode's feature, "Beast Quest" for the Pendragon RPG

One Shot Episode 22: Matt De Micco and Massacre Grounds for Weird Frontiers

Jul 06 2024 111 mins

Howdy Pard'ners! Have we got a treat for you! With us for this one-shot episode is an awesome new adventure writer, Matt De Micco talking about his experiences gaming, growing up with true-in-the-saddle cowboys out on the Arizona trails and how all that worked its way into his adventure and campaign setting "Massacre Grounds" -currently live on Kickstarter (Kickstarter Link). You c

Episode 43 Cyberpunk 2020 With Jame Pozenel

Jun 20 2024 144 mins

In this episode Lou, Edwin, and special guest, famed DCC/MCC writer James Pozenel pour through the Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. rule book, discuss the major D&D villains, hear about James's writings, including his up-coming DCC compatible "NetCrawl" project -AND we see a return of Geek Credit! For those concerned listeners, Bill is alive and well (despite rumors of his death), but had a

Episode 42 Car Wars Convoy

May 12 2024 87 mins

On this Episode of This Ol' Dungeon, Edwin and Lou talk about their first D&D characters then get into the 1984 Car Wars adventure path "Convoy!" -This game bridges solo with group play and role playing with miniature war gaming!

Episode 41 DL Dragons of Despair

Apr 07 2024 106 mins

The episode starts with a nice mail segment that gets us discussing creating variations on standard fantasy RPG settings and face the dilemma of what to do with horses stirred to commotion by a pursing owl bear! The feature of the month is the first Dragonlance module, DL1: Dragons of Despair. We find this module has a lot more to offer than our memories suggested. A couple tweaks