I talk about tabletop RPGs and fiction:, D&D, OSR, Dungeon World, TTRPG, analog games, story games, minimalist rule sets, Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Science Fantasy, Fantasy, Myth, REH, HPL, ERB, CAS, alternate history, Bronze Age Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Arion finds what he has been seeking --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

The continuing adventures of Arion and our play test of Barbaric! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Solo play test driving Barbaric! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

A review of Last Stand at Outpost 3 from Dungeon Magazine 110. For simple rule set to run Dark Sun adventures, check out Crimson Sun: https://minnonartor.itch.io/crimson-sun --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

A scene-by-scene review of the 2e Dark Sun adventure module the Forest Maker plus some of the changes I made to the adventure to better fit my own Dark Sun campaign. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Where I introduce Dark Sun to those who are not familiar with it. I describe some unique aspects of the setting, discuss its origins, some controversies in its history and my own tweaks to the setting (YDSWV). https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DarkSun www.athas.org https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Sun_Wiki www.patreon.com/redram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Frank from episode 18 sent out a survey to some of his students. I share with you their responses. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

The Goodman Games version of Before the Lost City is delayed at the printers. Once it comes in, I will review it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Just learned the 'true' origin of the cleric by listening to Dave Aldridge's DPercentile podcast, Ep 202. Maybe it's old news to others but for me, mind blown. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Just an update on what I’ve been up to since the end of the last season. Also I’ve passed 1000 lessons! Thanks to everyone who made that possible :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaoseslimb/support

Cynidicea Below The Garden of Orpheus The Fungal Forest The Isle of Death The Lower Catacombs --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

What darkness lurks at the heart of the Ziggurat...? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

The gateway to theunderworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. Peter Ackroyd --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Overview of Tier 5 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Children of Nun Rebel Priest Followers of the Formless One Haunted Residence of the Animator --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

This sounds like the title to a bawdy tale by Chaucer --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

“Dine with the masters and forget the slaves.” ― Pierce Brown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Though Slith had an experience of twenty years of theft, yet he said little; only if one of the others made a stone roll with his foot, or, later on in the forest, if one of them stepped on a twig, he whispered sharply to them always the same words: “That is not business.” --Lord Dunsany --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow. R. G. Moon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

From rat's nest to zombie rat's nest to necrotic ooze --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ― Voltaire --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

I start reading Jon Peterson's Playing At the World --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

What may this mean. That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Making night hideous ; and we, fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? --Hamlet The more enlightened our houses are, the more the walls ooze ghosts --Italo Calvino --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

The Guard Captain keeps lonely vigil... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Ghouls gettin the munchies --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

The priest's on the boat and hell is on its way --Portugal the Man --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Comedy, horror and treasure --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

A simple buffoon or the mastermind behind it all? You decide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Burial chambers of Cynidicean nobility in the time of Zenobia and Alexander. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Followers of the Old Gods factions and their bases of operations . --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Beachheads for the MiGo and Shoggoth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

The area of Tier 2 controlled by the Sons of Marduk --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

of Fire Beetles and Mechanical Parts... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Ladders and their signifiers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Three bronze columns elaborately carved... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

An overview of B4 The Lost City --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Call ins for Approaching the Ziggurat --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Lost in the desert, food and water gone, mounts dead ... then, rising from the sands, the cyclopean blocks of a lost city... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

In Season 3 I plan to do an in depth exploration of the OSR module B4: The Lost CIty. Join me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

If you give a mouse a cookie... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Call in on weapon damage in CL0e sparks a discussion --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

initial reaction on my retro edition of Chaoses Limb --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

What happens if we apply reverse evolution to Chaoses Limb? all sorts of craziness. Trigger warning: those easily disturbed by hearing rules being mangled, spindled and mutilated may experience increases in blood pressure listening to this episode. Note: no actual rules were harmed in the making of this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

The latest in my series of interviews with my brothers and former players. Apologies for the sound quality on this one. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

A call in from Mr. Spike Pit about playbooks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

More call ins for season 2 Iron and magic, arms and armor for magic users. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Call ins from: Tim Shorts - Gothridge Manor - discovering new things in old rules Colin Green - SpikePit - the joys of game design Rob C - Down in a Heap - question on magic Spencer - Keep off the Borderlands - the Cleric --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Inspirations for the Chaoses Limb Retro Clone http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Robert Burton --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support

Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rui-lourenco/support